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FALL 2023 EVENTS

  • Understanding Totalitarianism: Del Noce's Prophecies on the Modern West
    Understanding Totalitarianism: Del Noce's Prophecies on the Modern West
    Nov 16, 2023, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
    Rowling Hall (Room 4.314), 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705, USA
    Among the Catholic political thinkers of the 20th century, Augusto Del Noce stood out for his ability to trace the deep theological and philosophical roots of modern politics. In this talk, his English translator will discuss Del Noce's analysis of the rise of modern totalitarian movements...
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  • 10th Year Anniversary Special: The Future of Human Relationships
    10th Year Anniversary Special: The Future of Human Relationships
    Oct 19, 2023, 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM
    Texas Public Policy Foundation, 901 Congress Ave., Austin, TX 78701, USA
    For the past 10 years, the Austin institute and its fellows have answered the same questions and relentlessly and bravely defended the eternal truths of human nature and of the family from the attacks of modern culture. Join us and our fellows in discussing the next 10 years!
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  • What's Wrong With Divorce?
    What's Wrong With Divorce?
    Oct 09, 2023, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
    Stumberg Hall, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
    What's the big deal about divorce? Why should we read and talk about it when everyone around us seems to be fine with it? The truth is: no matter what our family background, our age, or our state in life is, we all need to rediscover the immense impact that family life has on us and on our culture.
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  • The Road to Integrity: A Men's Group
    The Road to Integrity: A Men's Group
    Oct 04, 2023, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
    Stumberg Hall, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
    Bagels, coffee, and male-only discussions on what matters most. Once a month, attendees will have the chance to read and talk about issues and challenges that the men of today are facing and that too often remain undisclosed: for fear of judgment or misunderstanding.
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  • Graduate Dialogues
    Graduate Dialogues
    Multiple Dates
    Sep 27, 2023, 7:00 PM – Dec 31, 2023, 9:00 PM
    Stumberg Hall, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
    This program is reserved for UT graduate students (and spouses) and is structured as a series of conversations around a dinner table. Dinner is provided, but prior registration is required. One or two short articles --our conversations starters--will be sent beforehand.
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  • The Good Life + (Level 2)
    The Good Life + (Level 2)
    Sep 21, 2023, 7:00 PM
    Stumberg Hall or Zoom, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA
    This coming fall, we are starting a new Good Life Reading Group + (Level 2). It will be open to all individuals above forty --or younger, but who do not feel they are "young professionals" anymore. Our first meeting will be in September and then continue every other week.
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Fri, Mar 22

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Stumberg Hall

Movie Night, "Les Misérables:" An evening on the power of forgiveness and how individual choices shape the world

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Movie Night, "Les Misérables:" An evening on the power of forgiveness and how individual choices shape the world
Movie Night, "Les Misérables:" An evening on the power of forgiveness and how individual choices shape the world

Time & Location

Mar 22, 2024, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM

Stumberg Hall, 3206 Fairfax Walk, Austin, TX 78705, USA

About The Event

At the Austin Institute, we often talk about virtue ethics: the need for all of us to become virtuous men and women, and to do so by starting to act virtuously in our daily, ordinary lives. We stress the role of individual responsibility just as often as we talk about the need to change our current culture and society: the one where nothing but one's individual desires matter, and where goodness never seems to triumph. The great classic Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo, seems to make the same argument. For society to change, it is individuals who must first be transformed. What the French author seems to further suggest is that a powerful instrument to bring that change about is hidden in the opposite of today's anger, divisiveness, and contempt. The secret seems to lie in that very humble and harmless act of forgiveness.

While we cannot commit to reading the whole (gigantic) book together, we invite you to join us for a great screening of its 1998 cinematic rendition, a free dinner, and a rich conversation to follow. We only ask you that you RSVP!

6:00 p.m. Doors open _ Dinner Provided by AI. 

6:30 p.m. Screening of the movie "Les Misérables"

8-9:00 p.m. Ending of the movie

9-10:00 p.m. Discussion over ice cream

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