Events
Smart Globalisation: The case for a robust and creative distributive justice
You are warmly invited to the 2012 Las Casas Lecture Smart Globalisation:The case for a robust and creative distributive justice to be given by Fr Albino Barrera OP on Friday 24th February at Blackfriars Hall. The lecture will start at 5pm, and will be followed by a reception. If you would like to attend the [...]
2012 PORTSMOUTH INSTITUTE ON MODERN SCIENCE/ANCIENT FAITH
PORTSMOUTH ABBEY SCHOOL ANNOUNCES THE 2012 PORTSMOUTH INSTITUTE ON MODERN SCIENCE/ANCIENT FAITH www.portsmouthinstitute.org January 24, 2012 Portsmouth, RI Dear Friends, The Portsmouth Institute has announced an expanded list of speakers for its June 22-24 conference on Modern Science/Ancient Faith. Speakers include Abbot James Wiseman, O.S.B. of Catholic University of America and St. Anselm’s Abbey, Washington, [...]
TELOS in Europe: The L’Aquila Conference
TELOS IN EUROPE: THE L’AQUILA CONFERENCE The West: Its Legacy and Future September 7–10, 2012 L’Aquila, Italy DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: MARCH 15, 2012 (see details below) Conference Theme Recent developments appear to end the “end of history” and foreshadow instead the end of the West. After 1989, many expected a gradual convergence toward Western [...]
Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar 2012 News
The Regent of Blackfriars Hall, Oxford very much regrets to inform you that we were today notified by Professor Jean-Luc Marion that, on medical grounds, he is unable to deliver the Aquinas Lecture in Oxford and Cambridge at the end of this month as planned. We will be in contact with you again shortly with [...]
Dept of Theology & Religious Studies Spring Seminar Programme
Department of Theology and Religious Studies Seminar Programme 2011-12 SPRING SEMESTER 22 February 2012 Adam Lipszyc (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Science) The Time of the Poem: Poetry as Messianic Action in Paul Celan’s Meridian Speech 4pm Staff Club Room B7 14 & 15 February 2012 Firth Lectures Terry Eagleton Culture and [...]
Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar 2012 Schedule
The Blackfriars Aquinas Seminar Hilary 2012 Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Culture [Cancelled] Fri 27 Jan Jean-Luc Marion (Universities of Paris and Chicago) “The Ontological Argument Again: Thomas Aquinas and Kant, Anselm and Descartes” Thurs 2 Feb David Albert Jones (Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford) “Aquinas as an Advocate of Abortion? The Appeal to Thomas Aquinas in Contemporary [...]
Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse
Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse (18-20 July 2012) A conference organised by the Department of Foreign Languages at the University of Bergen, Norway; funded by the Bergen Research Foundation through the ‘Modernism and Christianity’ research project. The modernist imperative ‘Make it new!’ posits a break with traditional artistic forms, but also with the entire mould of [...]
Conference: ‘A celebration of living theology: Engaging with the work of Andrew Louth’
Durham University in conjunction with the Department of Theology and Religion will be hosting the conference ‘A celebration of living theology: Engaging with the work of Andrew Louth’ on 9-12 July 2012 at Durham University. The conference aims to celebrate the work of Prof. Andrew Louth in the areas of Patristics, both Western and Eastern, Modern Theology [...]
8th Annual Historical Materialism Conference: Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle
Spaces of Capital, Moments of Struggle Eighth Annual Historical Materialism Conference Central London 10–13 November 2011 http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual To register in advance and benefit from a reduction: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/register Advanced booking will stop on Monday 7 November All queries: historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk The themes discussed will include: the Aesthetics of Marxism; Alternative Histories of Marxism; Althusser; Anti-Imperialist Struggles and [...]
ZENO Lecture: EJ Lowe on ‘Substance Causation, Powers, & Human Agency’
The first ZENO lecture of the academic year 2011-12 will be given by Jonathan Lowe (Durham) The topic of his lecture will be Substance Causation, Powers, and Human Agency. Thursday, 24 November 2011, 16:00 – 18:00 Aula, Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, Utrecht. For details see here: http://zenolectures.phil.uu.nl/?p=271 Attendance is free and no registration is required. Abstract: [...]
Music & Transcendence Conference: Registration Open
Registration is now open for a one-day inter-disciplinary conference on Music and Transcendence to be held in Cambridge on November 29, 2011. All papers and performances will consider the ways in which music relates to infinite and ultimate meaning as well as the ways in which music enables the creation of meaning and fulfilment within [...]
Event: ‘Darwin’s Idea: Dangerous or Pious’ at Nottingham Contemporary
‘Darwin’s Idea: Dangerous or Pious’ To be held at Nottingham Contemporary [link] Presentation by Conor Cunningham Wednesday 14 December 7pm Free The Space Weber’s Shape of the Ape considers Darwin’s theory of evolution and man’s relationship to nature. In his talk Dr Conor Cunningham will trace the history of man’s humiliating relationship to nature from Copernicus [...]
Lecture: ‘Jesus and Lucifer: Rival Sons of the Father’
Dr Patrick Madigan, SJ Editor of the Heythrop Journal of Philosophy and Religion ‘Jesus and Lucifer: Rival Sons of the Father’ October 26 2011 12:00pm – 1:30pm Gainesville State College Georgia, USA CE Auditorium 108 Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, contact: Daniel Haynes Gainesville State College dhaynes@gsc.edu
German Philosophy Seminar: Laurence Hemming on Hegel, Marx, & Heidegger
The German Philosophy Seminar at the IGRS will host a guest lecture by Laurence Hemming Monday, 31 October 16:00-18:00 ‘Beside myself with Indignation: Hegel, Marx and Heidegger on Alienation’ Marx’s understanding of alienation has increasingly become a key not only for understanding his own work, but also for certain self-presentations of the work of the [...]
Oxford: Graduate Christian Union: Michaelmas 2011 Term Card
Every Monday at the Upper Room of the Mitre on High Street // 7pm for 7.30pm 01 | 10 Oct – Dr. Conor Cunningham: ‘Dawkins the Neanderthal, and Darwin’s Pious Idea’ (at University Church, High Street) 02 | 17 Oct – Fr. Richard Finn OP: ‘St. Augustine: Philosophical and Pastoral Theologian’ 03 | 24 Oct – Joel [...]
‘Philosophy & Classics’: Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lectures
Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lectures Autumn 2011 at Roehampton ‘Philosophy and Classics’ These will be held in the Autumn term at the University of Roehampton (see details below for location and maps). Lectures are free to attend and all are welcome. Refreshments will be served. Tuesday Oct 18th 2011, 5 – 6.30 pm: Dr [...]
CFP: Vatican II: 50 Years On
Leeds Trinity University College, in conjunction with the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, calls for papers for presentation at the conference Vatican II 50 Years On: The New Evangelization on 26-29 June 2012. The Second Vatican Council was a seminal event which had a profound impact on the life of the Catholic Church and [...]
2012 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology
The 2012 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology Recent PhDs and current graduate students are invited to apply to participate in the 2012 St. Thomas Summer Seminar in Philosophy of Religion and Philosophical Theology, a three-week long seminar organized by Dean Zimmerman (Rutgers) and Michael Rota (University of St. Thomas). The [...]
CFP & Conference: Religion and (In)Equalities
Sociology of Religion Study Group (SOCREL) Annual Conference: Religion and (In)Equalities University of Chester, UK 28 – 30 March 2012 Plenary Speakers: Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) Professor Elaine Graham (University of Chester) Professor Sean McCloud (University of North Carolina) Also featuring, a roundtable discussion with… Professor Linda Woodhead and Dr Rebecca Catto (Lancaster University) Professor [...]
