Fall 2024 Seminars
- Ethics Educators Workshop (September 16-20)
- Bioethics colloquium (September 23-26)
- Health care ethics – Catholic perspectives (October 22-26)
Winter 2025 Seminar
- Ethics of End-of-Life Care – Contributions from the Arts and Humanities (Rome, Italy; February 26-March 2)
- Additional 2025 seminars will be added when themes and dates become known
Location
Unless otherwise specified above, the 2023 seminars will take place at the conference center Notre Dame de Grace in Rochefort-du-Gard in the south of France.
Located 15 minutes from the city of Avignon, the Avignon TGV train station has direct high speed train connections to Paris downtown (2h30) and the Paris CDG airport (2h45 min), Lyon downtown and the Lyon Saint Exupery Airport, as well as Amsterdam, Brussels, Barcelona, Frankfurt, Geneva and Madrid. Other nearby airports include Marseille and Montpellier.
All seminars contain a mixture of presentations by invited speakers, contributions by participants, discussion sessions, time for individual meetings, and organized excursions to cultural sites with direct relevance to the seminar theme. In addition to stimulating the intellect, we also wish to nurture well-being more holistically. The historic and natural beauty of the conference site, French cuisine and patrimony, as well as time for reflection, spiritual enrichment and developing new friendships are key ingredients of the program. Seminars are held in English.
Detailed information about each of the seminars can be found by clicking on the links below. If you are interested in participating, please hold the dates: attendance is limited to 20 persons per seminar. For additional information or to hold a spot already, please email info[at]saintandre.org
Experiences from past participants
“The seminar did an exceptional job in blending formal presentations with diverse opportunities for informal discussions.“ (philosopher)
“My ethical discernment about future career and vocation began last year and continued during the teacher workshop and the end-of-life care seminar.” (geriatrician-ethicist)
“It was a particularly insightful experience for me as a medical student to learn how colleagues further ahead in their medical careers are incorporating ethics into their careers.” (medical student)
“An amazing variety of people who shared knowledge, ideas and hopes so all could learn.” (physician)
“What a tremendous week of professional growth in an international yet warmly collegial context!“ (physician-ethicist)
