The STOQ’07 Conference will be focused on the topic of the ontogeny and development of human life.

November 15-17, 2007 

Doyen of School of Philosophy and Director of Master Science and Faith

Prof. P. Rafael Pascual, L.C. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Info STO'Q07:

Guido Traversa  tel 06 66527872 - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

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Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190
00163 Roma - Tel 06 66527800
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The STOQ’07 Conference will be focused on the topic of the ontogeny and development of human life.

November 15-17, 2007

It is well known that in the last decades this topic, and in particular the question of the identity and status of the human embryo, has stirred hot and endless bioethical debates, with notable repercussions on the social and political life of many countries.

Obviously, such an item must be tackled from various and variously intermingling viewpoints, from biology to law, or from medicine to anthropology, dealing with questions like: is human ontogenesis a continuous process, or is it marked by biological and ontological discontinuities? If so, when and where to place such discontinuities, and what ethical and juridical conclusions to draw? Is there a clear cut between embryos and pseudo-embryos, or there is a continuum between perfect normality and total abnormality? How to deal with situations challenging the concepts of individual and organism, as with conjoined twins or developmental chimaeras?

In a more general framework, the concept of ontogenesis also reminds us of a bio-philosophical theme that seems today largely underestimated, that is biological genesis, from epigenesis to the origin of life, or from genetics to phylogeny.

Thus, the next STOQ Conference will provide a unique opportunity to rigorously deal with, and serenely discuss, the numerous aspects of human development and ontogenesis, in the context of a high-level academic board and in the beautiful setting of the town of Rome.

The Conference will be accordingly divided in four Sections:
a) Biological Aspects
b) Biomedical Aspects
c) Philosophical and Theological Aspects
d) Bioethical and Juridical Aspects

Concluding each day of the Conference, Panel Sessions will give all the participants an opportunity to intervene in open debate on these topics.

English and Italian are the official languages of the Conference, with simultaneous translation in both languages.

Presentation and Program (English)   

Presentazione e programma (italiano) 

E´ possibile scaricare il modulo di adesione al congresso.

Comunicato stampa (Italiano, Español)

´Sala stampa´ (links)

Agenzia Fides

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Direttore Master in Scienza e Fede  Prof. Rafael Pascual, L.C. This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Per informazioni:
Guido Traversa
tel 06 66527872 - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Luigi Sammarco
tel 06 66527854 - This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
Via degli Aldobrandeschi, 190
00163 Roma - Tel 06 66527800
www.upra.org - www.stoqnet.org
e-mail:
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