IPS Co-sponsors Rome Conference with the Hildebrand Project
 
The Institute for the Psychological Sciences (IPS), a Catholic graduate school of psychology, has the distinctive honor of co-sponsoring the first major international conference on Dietrich von Hildebrand's writings on love.

The Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project is convening in Rome for the purpose of initiating the critical reception of Dietrich von Hildebrand's great work, The Nature of Love, published in 2009 for the first time in English translation.

Although the conference is dedicated to the whole of von Hildebrand's Christian personalism -- his philosophy of human nature -- the two-day event will explore von Hildebrand's compelling understanding of love, particularly the love between man and woman.  

The conference will take place from May 27-29, 2010 at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome.

Renowned philosophers, theologians, political figures, and religious will be speaking. Confirmed speakers include Alice von Hildebrand, Michael Waldstein, John Zizioulas, Michael Novak, and Josef Seifert. To view the complete list of speakers, please click here.

IPS Senior Scholar Dr. Paul Vitz will also present a paper entitled Applying von Hildebrand's Concept of Love in Psychotherapy
 
A number of IPS students are competing in the essay contest entitled The Nature of Love, to be held in conjunction with the conference. Up to five contestants will be invited to present their papers and will receive an award that covers all of their meals,lodging, and travel expenses. 
 
Please visit www.hildebrandlegacy.org for more information. For those unable to attend, the conference will be broadcast live via the Hildebrand Project website. To obtain the necessary login information, please visit the conference website.