Dr. Wes Ely is acritical care pulmonologist, Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and author of the award-winning book Every Deep Drawn Breath: A Critical Care Doctor on Healing, Recovery, and Transforming Medicine. He cares for patients with critical illness in the intensive care unit and researches the physchological, cognitive, and functional consequences of delirium and its intersection with Alzheimer's discease and related dimentias. The event is hosted by the HMS Student Chapter of the Hippocratic Society in collaboration with the American Association of Medicine and the Person at the MGH Ether Dome. 

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Boston College Visitng Fellow Mario R. P. León will be presenting at Harvard later this month. His presentation proposes a heuristic framework for exploring these differences and making our internal experiential “geography” intelligible to others and to ourselves. As a complement to quantitative research on well-being and flourishing, he will introduce a taxonomy of their phenomenological sources: a functional and tentative classification of the ways in which something comes to be experienced as a source of well-being and the meanings it takes on for each person. Through examples and case studies, the talk will explore how this framework might contribute to our understanding of experience and to the development of more sensitive, tailored, and personalized interventions.

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Kate Crawford is a leading scholar of artificial intelligence. She is a Professor at USC, a Senior Principal Researcher at MSR, and founder of the Knowing Machines Group. Her award-winning book Atlas of AI was named a best book of the year by The Financial Times, won three international prizes, and has been translated into fourteen languages. Beyond her scholarly work, she is an award-winning artist whose work explores the themes of technology, history, and power. She has had exhibitions in over 100 museums worldwide and has works in the permanent collections of MoMA, the V&A, Rijksmuseum Twenthe, and the Design Museum. Her latest work with Vladan Joler, Calculating Empires, won the Silver Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 and the European Commission's grand prize for art and technology. TIME 100 named Crawford as one of the world’s most influential people in AI.

Her talk, Atlas of AI, is a part of the Lowell Humnaities Series cosponsored by the University Core Curriculum, the Boston College Center for Psychological Humanities & Ethics, and the Gerson Family Lecture Fund.

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Chiara Palazzolo is a Professor at the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria in Spain. On Friday, November 6, at noon, Chiara will be presenting  "Forgiveness as a Moral Virtue in Restorative Justice" to the CPHE Lab (Psychological Humanities Lab: Ethical Research and Clinical Practices).

This event is open exclusively to Lab members. Learn more about our lab here.

Dr. Emmy Waldman is an Assistant Professor of English at the Unviersity of Miami. On Friday, November 13, at noon, Dr. Waldman will be presenting  "Filial Lines: Comics and Psychoanalysis" to the CPHE Lab (Psychological Humanities Lab: Ethical Research and Clinical Practices).

This event is open exclusively to Lab members. Learn more about our lab here.

We envision a grace-filled gathering where filmmakers, mentors, producers, and supporters encounter the deep well of Catholic artistic tradition together, strengthen one another in their vocations, and forge relationships that will sustain the renewal of film culture. Here we reclaim filmmaking as a vocation and a gift—a way of building community and offering the fruits of our art to a world in need of mercy and truth.

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We are delighted to partner with the Faculty of Psychology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile, as co-hosts of the 2027 Psychology and the Other conference. Rooted in the Jesuit tradition of its namesake, Saint Alberto Hurtado, who himself earned a doctorate in psychology and pedagogy, the Faculty of Psychology at Universidad Alberto Hurtado cultivates an ethically grounded, psychosocial approach that speaks directly to themes of responsibility toward the Other. Its programs and acclaimed doctoral research lines emphasize human rights, political violence and psychosocial reparation, relational learning, subjective dynamics in social institutions, and community transformation, all within Chile’s living context of memory, resistance, and epistemic justice.

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Named in honor of St. Dymphna, the patron saint of mental health professionals, The Lily of Éire Art and Culture Festival is a three-day event held at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture in Manhattan. We invite artists, filmmakers, writers, performers, scholars, and mental health professionals to submit proposals that engage with the intersections of art, culture, psychology, and the human condition. We welcome contributions that explore how artistic expression can illuminate the complexities of human experience, foster meaningful dialogue across disciplines, and open new possibilities for understanding psychological life.

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Bringing together artists, scholars, psychotherapists, and practitioners from around the world, the 2027 Art & Character Conference at the University of Navarra's Madrid campus seeks to examine the undertheorized relationship between art, character education, and the flourishing of individuals and communities. Convening on the University’s Madrid campus but including programming that will take participants to artistic and cultural venues throughout the city, the Conference is intent on bridging the divide between the theoretical and the experiential, demonstrating that character is as much about how we live as what we think.

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