A panel discussion exploring how technological innovation, including blockchain and mobile devices, can help migrants, internally displaced people, and refugees navigate the obstacles they face on a daily basis.

A conversation with Renee DiResta, Head of Policy at Data for Democracy, about disinformation and misinformation on digital platforms and how it influences personal and communal discernment.

AI applications in communications, transportation, medicine, business, law, and other areas are raising new questions about human self-understanding, agency, and responsibility, posing a challenge for religious and secular philosophical traditions in China and the West.

A conversation with Michael Bess, Chancellor’s Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, on how new developments in anthropology, psychology, and economics help us understand human flourishing and how technology can support our flourishing if we ask the right questions.

Because the Internet has changed and is changing the ways in which we think and act, it must also be changing the ways in which we think faith. Fr. Antonio Spadaro will question how technologies redefine not only the ways in which we do things but also our being and therefore the way we perceive reality, the world, others, and God.

How does an understanding of divine providence relate to the increasing public belief that technology drives history and drives it for the better? Dr. Burdett will explore how technology has become implicated in how we understand the shape, direction or purpose of history, society and nature.

A conversation with Diana Walsh Pasulka, Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Dept. of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, examining new forms of religion that focus on technology as the sacred.

A panel discussion moderated by Jennifer Lynn Woolley, 2019-20 Bannan Fellow & Leavey School of Business Assoicate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, on spirituality, business leadership, and Jesuit education.

Maggi Van Dorn, host of Deliver Us, will lead a discussion for those struggling with feelings of disappointment, betrayal, and uncertainty as a result of the abuse crisis, and what we can do in response.

Dr. Ahmed Amer, Associate Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and Bannan faculty fellow, discusses human myths, machine mortality and the connections between code and creation.