From 16-17 September 2026, in St. Louis Missouri, the Lyceum Institute is hosting our first in-person event, Human Formation in the Digital Age: a conference asking how we must respond to our changed and rapidly changing technological environments in seeking to retrieve and foster a genuine formation of the human person. Here we announce our first plenary speaker:
Mariele Courtois
Mariele Courtois is the Director of the Center for Technology and Human Dignity and an Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas. Her research interests include biomedical ethics, technology ethics, disability theology, and the thought of St. Edith Stein. She earned a Ph.D. with distinction in Moral Theology & Ethics (2022) and a Master of Philosophy in Theology and Religious Studies (2021) from the Catholic University of America. Additionally, she is a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education’s AI Research Group and a contributing author of Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (2024) and Reclaiming Human Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (2026). Currently, Dr. Courtois is working on a manuscript about the ethics of genetic engineering technologies at the beginning of life.
Professor Courtois will be presenting: “Magnifica Humanitas’s Call to Build a Human Heart: Formation for Vocation in an Age of AI”.
Talks by and with Prof. Courtois
- Our Fight for Humanity (with Fr. Anselm Ramelow)
- A Catholic View of Artificial Intelligence (with Dr. Paul Scherz)
- Applying Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas
Learn more about the conference and register here!
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