Past Conferences
Divest/Invest
The Divest/Invest Conference brought together over 120 university leaders, scholars, student activists, investment specialists, and community leaders to share the theological and ethical underpinnings of divestment and investment initiatives, strategies for engaging senior institutional leadership, financial mechanisms for divestment, and institutional responses to climate change.
Laudato Si'
HSI and Vince Miller, the Gudorf Chair in Catholic Theology and Culture, convened the Laudato Si’ conference, a first of its kind. The conference included a public keynote talk by Ottmar Edenhofer, chief economist for the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. The outcome of the conference will be the creation of a textbook for use at Catholic universities. We anticipate that this will likely be the first textbook published that directly educates around the Laudato Si' encyclical.