Duquesne University Integrity of Creation

Official profile of the Duquesne University Integrity of Creation
This interdisciplinary, academic conference occurs annually to provide a scholarly forum for exploring a topic related to the Integrity of Creation. Dougherty, is an endowed academic event that celebrates the Spiritan mission of Duquesne University. The conference is interdisciplinary in the sense that presenters and participants fr

om different disciplines are invited to engage each other in civil discourse on the conference topic. The interdisciplinary committee of University faculty that plans the conference has chosen climate change as the inaugural topic. Climate change will be discussed as a substantive and worrying change of patterns in the weather and related phenomena over recent decades which negatively impact the entire planet. This academic conference explores the implications of climate change from a variety of scholarly perspectives to consider ways to improve our planet's future - safeguarding the Integrity of Creation around us. The conference has three goals:
To provide a scholarly opportunity to engage established and emerging research on the conference topic

To foster interdisciplinary discourse on each topic, such as among science, health, philosophy, religion and policy

To enlighten public awareness and discussion of the conference topic.