a vibrant intellectual community.
Founded by faculty, alumni, students, & friends of the University of Pennsylvania, the Collegium Institute is an independent, academic community with a catholic vision: that is, it draws mainstream learning into conversation with the Catholic intellectual tradition & cultivates reflection on the catholic, or universal, questions that animate every human life.
Check out our 10th Anniversary video, in which students, faculty, and staff discuss the mission and impact of the Collegium Institute.
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“This one evening with Collegium spoke more to me, intellectually and spiritually, than any other event I’ve attended during my time at Penn.”
— Junior at the University of Pennsylvania
Partnership with Dappled Things Arts Quarterly
Dappled Things is a literary magazine dedicated to providing a space for emerging writers to engage the literary world from a Catholic perspective. The magazine is committed to quality writing that takes advantage of the religious, theological, philosophical, artistic, cultural, and literary heritage of the Catholic Church in order to inform and enrich contemporary literary culture.
Genealogies of Modernity Project
The Genealogies of Modernity Project seeks to motivate and organize a critical, cross-disciplinary inquiry into influential narratives of the origins of “modernity” in the humanities. The GenMod Project recognizes that the stories we tell ourselves about the passage to modernity are many and often conflicting even within one discipline. Attention to the complexity of the intertwined genealogies of the present opens the possibility to forge new relations to the past and discover resources for life-giving responses in the present.
Click below to explore the new website for the GenMod Project, including a blog and podcast series:
CI Partnership with PRRUCS
Collegium works closely with Penn’s Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) to host events, opportunities for fellowships and relevant publications.
