A major Lecture Series is organised under the auspices of the STOQ project helping us reflect on key, emerging and sometimes crucial issues in the area of Faith, Science and Theology.

The 2016 STOQ Lecture is by Prof. Robert Berwick, Professor of Computer Science and Computational Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on the theme “Why only us”.

The Lecture takes place Monday 18 July 2016 at 10.30am in the Auditorium Pio X, via della Conciliazione, 5. 

On Saturday 25 January, Noam Chomsky gave the STOQ Lecture on the theme "Neurosciences, Human Nature and Language".

The occasion, at the curial building Pio X on via della Conciliazione, 5 (entrance via dell'Ospedale), was a fascinating conversation involving His Eminence Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi and Prof Andrea Moro.

THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE: WHAT MODERN COSMOLOGY TELLS US ABOUT OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE

Friday, 10 December 2010 - 06.00 p.m.

STOQ LECTURE  2010 

John David Barrow
Cambridge University

The idea of the expanding universe and its consequences for the development of life. The inflationary universe theory and the evidence for it, and see why it has forced us to think in new ways about our place in a 'Multiverse' of universes and to rethink what we mean by the origin of the Universe and whether we should expect our universe to have had a beginning in time.

Presided by Card. Gianfranco Ravasi
President of the Pontifical Council for Culture

Response:
José G. Funes S.J.
Vatican Observatory

Moderator:
Piero Benvenuti
Italian Space Agency - ASI