BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family - ECPv6.18.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.johnpaulii.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage & Family REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20280312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20281105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270225T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270227T123000 DTSTAMP:20260917T194937Z CREATED:20260917T194054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T194937Z UID:7682-1803582000-1803731400@www.johnpaulii.edu SUMMARY:The Difference Sex Makes: Man\, Woman\, Child DESCRIPTION:The John Paul II Institute cordially invites you to join us for a conference on “The Difference Sex Makes: Man\, Woman\, Child” on February 25-27\, 2027. \nTheme\nLuce Irigaray\, the French psychoanalyst\, once said: Sexual difference is one of the important questions of our age\, if not in fact the burning issue.  According to Heidegger\, each age is preoccupied with one thing\, and one alone.  Sexual difference is probably that issue in our own age which could be our salvation. \nThis statement made decades ago by someone who wanted more difference\, is truer today than it was then\, now that we have (almost) lost sight of the difference altogether. That it has become a “fact” that we are identities stacked arbitrarily on top of a merely biological substrate\, shows how ideological the sex-gender binary is: a highly constructed form of “self-knowledge” at the service of a revolution which aimed to abolish the natural order at its very root\, the sex distinction itself.  If that revolution aimed first at giving birth\, by detaching sex from its finality\, it would not be complete until it detached our “selves” from the evidence our own birth\, that is\, our sex and the complex of relations it implies (between the sexes and the generations). We have just seen how successful that revolution could be. \nGender ideology is a “heresy\,” in the strict sense of the term\, in that it chooses (from hairesis) one dimension of the truth at the expense of the other\, subsequently redefining each of the terms. “Person” is chosen over and against “nature\,” the former having become a disembodied self\, with no natural relation to what is now “mere” biology. The individual is chosen over and against the political\, the former having become an interchangeable “unit of life” with no natural relation to others. \nCurrently\, as many are witnessing the ruinous effects of this “heresy\,” they are beginning to question its terms. If we want “salvation\,” we will have to get out from under it. But\, as with every heresy\, “anathemas” are not enough. The recent attempt to eliminate the sex difference requires that we probe its depths and define it more clearly. \nWhat is sexual difference? What is it\, metaphysically? What is it to God\, and in the whole economy of salvation? What is it\, then\, to be a man or a woman\, a father or a mother? What is needed\, culturally\, for a girl to become a woman or a boy a man? What is the relation of sexual difference to culture and to the political order?  What is at stake when in getting these questions right or wrong? In short\, what do we “believe” about sexual difference? \nSchedule\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n\nRegistration\n\n\n \n \n Conference Registration Fee\n \n \n NameThis field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.Name\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Email\n \n Billing Address \n \n \n \n Street Address\n \n \n Address Line 2\n \n \n City\n \n AlabamaAlaskaAmerican SamoaArizonaArkansasCaliforniaColoradoConnecticutDelawareDistrict of ColumbiaFloridaGeorgiaGuamHawaiiIdahoIllinoisIndianaIowaKansasKentuckyLouisianaMaineMarylandMassachusettsMichiganMinnesotaMississippiMissouriMontanaNebraskaNevadaNew HampshireNew JerseyNew MexicoNew YorkNorth CarolinaNorth DakotaNorthern Mariana IslandsOhioOklahomaOregonPennsylvaniaPuerto RicoRhode IslandSouth CarolinaSouth DakotaTennesseeTexasUtahU.S. Virgin IslandsVermontVirginiaWashingtonWest VirginiaWisconsinWyomingArmed Forces AmericasArmed Forces EuropeArmed Forces Pacific\n State\n \n \n ZIP Code\n \n \n Registration Fee(Required)General Public: $175.00Institute Alumnus: $110.00Clergy/Religious: $65.00Student at Another Institution: $45.00Institute Student: $25.00CUA/DHS FacultySelect the appropriate registration category.Special Dietary Requests\n Submit \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nAlumni Reunion\nFollowing the close of the conference\, graduates of the John Paul II Institute are cordially invited to an alumni reunion on the evening of Saturday\, February 27. Registration for the reunion may be completed using the form on the alumni reunion event page. Please click here for details on the schedule of events. URL:https://www.johnpaulii.edu/events/the-difference-sex-makes-man-woman-child/ CATEGORIES:CONFERENCES,FEATURED EVENT ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.johnpaulii.edu/wp-content/uploads/Frederick_Morgan_-_Not_of_the_Fold-2-scaled-e1789655325650.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family":MAILTO:mrice@johnpaulii.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR