The Houston Centre invites you to celebrate the launch of the second edition of Jens Zimmermann’s acclaimed book, Incarnational Humanism (Regent College Publishing, 2024).

In this lecture, Professor Andrew Feenberg (Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology, Simon Fraser University) will show the ways in which the technologies we use are not neutral: their invention and use incorporate social values of all sorts.

In this lecture, philosopher Paul Nedelisky (Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia) will survey the history of attempts to find a scientific basis for morality—and explain why such attempts to root the Good in science have failed.

Join us for an evening with the Honourable Preston Manning. Mr. Manning will speak on Canada’s Political Future and the possibilities of human flourishing therein.

Bruce Pardy, Professor of Law at Queen’s University and Executive Director of Rights Probe, will delineate how broad discretion in the hands of a managerial aristocracy has replaced law as the foundation of our modern Canadian system of government.

Fr John Behr, Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen, has published the first English-language translation of Gregory of Nyssa’s classic text On the Human Image of God (AKA de hominis opificio) since the 1800s. In this public lecture, Fr John will expound St Gregory’s anthropology and its ongoing relevance for the central question of what it means to be human.

Join us for a public Q&A session with a panel of practitioners from a range of fields (palliative care, priestly ministry, disability advocacy in Indigenous communities), each of which is affected by Canada's MAID legislation. This event serves as a follow-up to our February 2 public lecture, "Euthanasia in Canada: Progress or Runaway Train?"

In this lecture, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty will describe the origin and effects of recent novel biomedical technologies and public policy changes. Dr. Douglas Farrow will offer a response to Dr. Kheriaty’s lecture.

In his lecture, Dr. Brian Bird of UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law will summarize the history of Canada’s euthanasia laws and discuss the pressing social, ethical and legal concerns raised by euthanasia for Canadians and the future of Canadian society.

Immediately following the lecture, there will be a panel discussion including representatives from communities directly impacted by the latest euthanasia policies: Dr. Will Johnston (a seasoned family physician and former chair of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition), the Rev. Dr. Andrew Bennett (Program Director for Faith Communities at Cardus), and Neil Belanger (Executive Director of the British Columbia Aboriginal Network on Disability Society).