University Faculty for Life Essay Contest 2017
University Faculty for Life, a multidisciplinary association of scholars speaking out for human life, is now accepting submissions from college and university students for its Scholarly Achievement Award in Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, or Research. Attached are guidelines for the contest and a one-page flyer. Please distribute these documents to students, colleagues at your institution […]
The Scholarly Achievement Award
The University Faculty for Life Scholarly Achievement Award in Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, or Research has encouraged students since 2004 to submit their best academic work for the cause of life. The five essays and literary contributions received in the Creative Writing and Research categories total 24,054 mellifluous words, 94 lugubrious footnotes, and 773 scholarly […]
2016 UFL Life and Learning Conference
The University Faculty for Life held its annual Life and Learning Conference at Marquette University in Milwaukee from June 10-11. The focus this year’s conference was on end-of-life issues. The conference featured three plenary sessions, several break-out sessions, and a panel discussion of brain death as a criterion for determining when death occurs. Plenary speakers […]
Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life
This year’s Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life, cosponsored by UFL, will be held on Saturday, January 23, the day after the March for Life, at Georgetown University in the District of Columbia. The keynote speaker this year is Reggie Littlejohn, founder and President of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. Other speakers and panelists will include: Kathleen […]
UN discusses the Right to Life
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently held a discussion on the meaning of the “right to life” on the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This link takes you to the papers.
Additional pictures from 2015 UFL Conference
Life and Learning XXV
The twenty-fifth annual University Faculty for Life Life and Learning Conference is under way at the University of St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis. In the next few days I will be posting summaries of some of the talks. In the mean time here are some photos.
2015 Life and Learning Program
Here is a sneak preview of the 2015 Life and Learning UFL Conference program to be held at St. Thomas Law School in Minneapolis May 29-30. For more information and to register for the Conference, go to the UFL web page here. Conference Program 25th Annual Conference 1991-2015 Life & Learning XXIV May 29 – […]
Staying at Doubletree for the Conference
Note that if you are planning to stay at the Doubletree for the conference, you should call them at 612-332-6800 rather than using the online registration, which seems not to be working properly. Use the group code FL5. See more about the hotels here.
More 2015 Conference information – hotels
Our 2015 Conference page now includes hotel information. Several hotels near the conference site offer special rates.