Metanoia Symposium 2025

What does it mean for a person to change? Under what conditions does such change occur?What are the private and public ethical implications of personal transformation? What is thelegitimate role of the state in relation to individual and collective projects of moral transformation? The Annual Symposium of the Center for Metanoia Studies is dedicated tobringing together researchers from a broad range of disciplines as well as practitioners fromcivil society to reflect and exchange on questions such as these. This year’s symposium willfocus particularly on the continuities and discontinuities in the notion of conversion as appliedto religious and non-religious contexts.