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  • Nov 13
    Annual CSPT Trip to the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture Fall Conference

    November 13, 2025 (all day) - November 16, 2025 (all day)

  • Nov 10
    Philosophy of the Abortion Debate

    Angela Knobel

    November 10, 2025 @ 6:00 pm CST - 7:00 pm CST 1131 Humanities

    Join the Thomistic Institute & the CSLD for a lecture, “The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate,” by University of Dallas Professor Angela Knobel

  • Oct 4
    From Leo XIII to Leo XIV: Social Thought in the Modern Papacy

    October 4, 2025 @ 12:00 pm CST - 1:00 pm CST UW Law School, Room 7200

    Curious about the first American pope? Come learn more about the name Pope Leo chose and the intellectual tradition behind it! Free half-day seminar includes catered lunch, dinner, and readings. Open to all undergraduate students. Learn more and apply here.

  • Sep 27
    Space & Meaning: Southeastern Wisconsin Church Architecture Tour

    September 27, 2025 @ 9:00 am CST - 5:30 pm CST

    A one-day exploration of the social history and architecture of some of Southeastern Wisconsin’s most stunning churches. Co-facilitated by local and subject matter experts, this one-day tour will provide participants with knowledge about local history and the ways in which belief and culture are reflected through architectural design. Click here for more information and to register. …

  • Sep 22
    Adam Szetela, “That Book Is Dangerous: How Moral Panic, Social Media, and the Culture Wars Are Remaking Publishing”

    September 22, 2025 @ 12:00 pm CST - 1:00 pm CST UW Law School, Room 7200

    Join author Adam Szetela for a talk on his newly-released expose of censorship in the publishing industry. In That Book Is Dangerous, Szetela investigates how well-intended efforts to diversify American literature have also produced serious problems for literary freedom. Drawing from interviews with presidents and vice presidents at the Big Five publishers, literary agents at …

  • Sep 17
    Constitution Day Celebration with Prof. Lee Strang: Can Originalism “Get With the Times”? How Originalism Meets the Challenge of a Changing World

    September 17, 2025 @ 5:00 pm CST - 7:00 pm CST

  • Sep 16
    Fall CSPT Reading Group: Augustine’s Political Thought

    September 16, 2025 @ 6:30 pm CST - 8:00 pm CST 7200 Law School

    Group meets every other Tuesday evening 9/16 through 11/25.

  • Jun 16
    Civic Literacy and Citizenship Symposium

    June 16, 2025 (all day) - June 17, 2025 (all day) Great Wolf Lodge, Wisconsin Dells

  • Apr 3
    Book Talk

    April 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm CST - 1:00 pm CST 5240, UW Law School

    Ilya Shapiro (The Manhattan Institute) UW Law School, Room 5240 April 3, 2025 @ 12:00 pm Talk on Lawless: The Miseducation of America’s Elites. Open to all. Co-sponsored by the UW Law School Federalist Society. Lunch will be provided.

  • Apr 3
    Disinvited Dinner

    April 3, 2025 (all day)

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