Events
Green as a Leaf: Renewing a Theology of Creation
Green as a Leaf: Renewing a Theology of Creation Seeing the world afresh through the eyes of theologians, scientists, and artists 16 – 19 September 2010 an invitation to an international conference based at the School of Animal, Rural & Environmental Sciences at Brackenhurst Campus and at Southwell Minster Organized by Southwell Minster, the Diocese [...]
The Fourth Annual TELOS Conference
Rituals of Exchange and States of Exception: Continuity and Crisis in Politics and Economics January 15-16, 2011 New York City Whether they allow the circulation of ambassadors or of capital, exchange networks provide the basis for global cross-cultural relationships. Though liberal democratic governments pride themselves on the rationality of their procedures, diplomatic protocols and the [...]
Stanley Hauerwas Event
cordially invite you to the following event: Stanley Hauerwas in Conversation with John Milbank & Luke Bretherton to mark the publication of: Hannah’s Child: A Theologian’s Memoir BY STANLEY HAUERWAS on Monday 18th October 2010 from 5.30-7.00pm at the Great Hall, Strand Campus, King’s College London Get directions here Demand is sure to be high [...]
Alberto Toscano at the Institute of Contemporary Arts London
From Verso: Alberto Toscano will be launching ‘Fanaticism’ on Thursday 8 July, 6.45pm, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH. Toscano will address the key issues at the heart of his new book, and welcome discussion from attendees. For more information and to book tickets, please call +44 (0)20 7930 3647, or visit the [...]
The Aquinas Institute at Blackfriars, Oxford: Special Lecture
Monday 17 May 2010, 5.00pm Blackfriars, 64 St Giles’. ‘The Summa Theologiae as Mystagogy? Thomas Aquinas and the Discipline of the Secret’ Speaker: Professor Peter M. Candler Jr., Professor Peter M. Candler Jr. is Associate Professor of Theology at Baylor University and author of Theology, Rhetoric, Manuduction or, Reading Scripture Together on the Path to [...]
Call for Papers: Theology of Creation Conference
Green as a Leaf: Renewing a Theology of Creation Southwell Minster, Nottinghamshire, 16-19 September 2010 Keynote speakers: Simon Conway Morris, Michael Northcott, John Rodwell, John Milbank, Simon Oliver, Alison Milbank, Margaret Barker Call for Papers Often today debates about our policy towards the environment are purely reactive to events or to the current perceived risk [...]
“Did Darwin Kill God?” Guest Lecture at Swansea University
Theology Public Lecture “Did Darwin Kill God?” by Dr Conor Cunningham Assistant Director of the Centre for Theology and Philosophy at Nottingham University At 7.00pm on Tuesday, 9th March 2010 Faraday Lecture Theatre A, Faraday Building, Swansea University Everyone is welcome and admission is free. Download the flyer here and please distribute.
Philosophical Day School on ‘Power’ at Nottingham Trent University
Philosophy Day School Power: Philosophical Approaches in European Thought Dr Ruth Griffin, Dr Patrick O’Connor, Dr Neil Turnbull. Thursday 18th of February Nottingham Trent University George Eliot 219, Clifton Campus 10:00 – 16:15 All welcome The purpose of the school is to examine and explore the place of Power in recent European Thought. While the [...]
Laruelle One-day Conference
Information on the one-day conference with François Laruelle has been updated with complete details on the day. From the Event Description: This one-day conference is orientated around introducing Laruelle’s non-philosophy. It includes an accessible introduction to the project, a roundtable discussion with theologians and philosophers, and a keynote address by Laruelle that will detail the [...]
Keynote Lecture by François Laruelle
Note: Please see this post for the finalized information on this event, including full conference programme, and details on registration. François Laruelle’s Non-Philosophy: Theology,Gnosticism, and Theory A One-day Workshop ‘Principles of a Generic Ethics’ – François Laruelle (Université de Paris X, Nanterre) An Introduction to Non-Philosophy — Anthony Paul Smith (translator of Laruelle’s Future Christ: [...]
2010 Firth Lectures
“Reformation, Counter-Reformation and the English Nation” Wednesday 10 February 2010 5.30pm “Reformation Unravelled?: Facts & Fictions” Thursday 11th February 2010 5.30pm Professor Eamon Duffy Professor of the History of the Christian Religion, University of Cambridge Lecture given at the University of Nottingham Room A48 Sir Clive Granger University Park ADMISSION FREE NO TICKETS REQUIRED Download [...]
TELOS Essay Prize Competition
From the latest TELOS Press e-mail message: In partnership with the Telos Institute, Telos is launching a new annual essay prize competition, inviting graduate students and post-graduate researchers in the humanities to tell the world about their work. The competition offers young scholars the opportunity to be published in one of the leading international interdisciplinary [...]
The Rose on the Ash-Heap: Lectures and a Dramatization
A dramatisation with harp music of Owen Barfield’s 1929 novella: The Rose on the Ash-Heap Thursday 25th March 2010 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm St. Ethelburga’s, 78 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AG The Rose on the Ash-Heap is the epilogue from English People -Barfield’s ambitious unpublished novel of English life between the First and Second World [...]
CoTP January Lecture
Gandhi’s Economic Philosophy and Its Debt to Ruskin Professor Joseph Prabhu Monday, 25th January 4.00pm A lecture at the Staff Club on the University Park campus Download a PDF of the flyer here.
2010 TELOS Conference: From Lifeworld to Biopolitics: Empire in the Age of Obama
The 2010 TELOS Conference January 16, 2010 New York City From Lifeworld to Biopolitics: Empire in the Age of Obama In the context of a dramatic reorganization of the relationships among state, market, and society, the 2010 Telos Conference will turn its attention to competing accounts, both theoretical and empirical, of the new modalities of [...]
William Desmond to give 2010 Aquinas Lecture at the University of Dallas
“Analogy, Dialectic, and Divine Transcendence: Between St. Thomas and Hegel” William Desmond The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium Abstract: Hegel is often attacked for a philosophy of rational totality, but frequently his critics share his commitment to immanence and nothing but immanence. Speculative dialectic vis-à-vis divine transcendence has significance beyond Hegel for our contemporary philosophical [...]
Returning to the Church 2010 Conference: Valuing Theological Education
St Stephen’s House, Oxford and the Centre of Theology and Philosophy, Nottingham Returning to the Church 2010 Valuing Theological Education 4-6 January 2010 St Stephen’s House, Oxford Speakers include: John Milbank, Graham Ward, Alister McGrath, Benedict Viviano OP, Michael Northcott, Graham James, Stephen Platten. Click here for a full list of speakers. Contact andrew.davison@theology.ox.ac.uk For [...]
Upcoming Conference: The Nature of Experience
At the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at The Catholic University of America, there is a forthcoming conference entitled The Nature of Experience: Issues in Culture, Science, and Theology, which will be held December 3-5, 2009. For information about the Symposium, please call 202-526-3799 or contact information@johnpaulii.edu. Registration ends Friday, [...]
CoTP Autumn 2009 Lectures
Two forthcoming lectures put on by the Centre of Theology and Philosophy this Autumn: “How to Prove the Existence of God: Some Remarks on Anselm’s Proslogion” by Dr Lydia Schumacher Tuesday 24th November 4:00 pm “Experience and Transcendence: A basic philosophical problem after Luhmann, Kierkegaard and German Early Romanticism” by Dr Johannes Hoff Friday 11th [...]
Audio from the ‘Spinoza and Bodies’ Conference
At the “Spinoza and Bodies” conference held September 10-11 at the University of Dundee, Dr. Michael Mack and PhD candidate Anthony Paul Smith presented papers whose audio recordings may be listened to here, amongst other presenters at the conference. Michael Mack, “Spinoza and Freud, or how to be mindful of the mind” Anthony Paul Smith, [...]
