“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 notion of power has [...]

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 current [...]

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: A Lesson in Heresy)
Round-table discussion: Philip Goodchild, [...]

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 the flyer here.

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 journals. The [...]

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 Wars. At once fairy tale, societal critique, [...]

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 [...]

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 options, as well as our [...]

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 full details see: www.returningtothechurch.org.uk
Conference poster may be downloaded [...]

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, November [...]

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 December 4:00pm

For more information, [...]

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, “The Ethical [...]

Two Screenings of ‘Did Darwin Kill God?’ with Q&A with Conor Cunningham

On the 3rd and 4th of November, Conor Cunningham will be at St. Edward’s University and Baylor University, respectively, to screen the documentary “Did Darwin Kill God?” which he wrote and presented for BBC2. The Viewings will be accompanied by a Questions & Answers session afterward.
Please click on the thumbnails below to view [...]

Darwin Festival in Cambridge: Did Darwin Kill God? Q & A

The Faraday Institute for Science & Religion and The Darwin Festival in Cambridge present:

Did Darwin Kill God? The BBC2 Documentary
Introduced by the presenter Conor Cunningham
Followed by questions and discussion
5.45pm, 7th July 2009
Full information available on the event poster here.

Slavoj Žižek with John Milbank – the Return of Christ

On the occasion of the publication of The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? (by John Milbank & Slavoj Žižek; Creston Davis, ed.) comes a public debate between John Milbank and Slavoj Žižek, which took place on 18 June 2009, chaired by Giles Fraser, vicar of Putney..
Some photographs, as well as an entire audio recording [...]

Conference: Christian Social Teaching and the Politics of Money

Christian Social Teaching and the Politics of Money:
An International Conference on Religion and the Recession
9 and 10 July 2009
Senate Chamber
University of Nottingham

The working hypothesis of the conference is that there is there is a ‘middle’ position between an exclusively religious and a strictly secular perspective: faith can lead to a strong notion of the common [...]

Conference: Insistence of the Theologico-Political

INSISTENCE OF THE THEOLOGICO-POLITICAL
How and Why Did Modern Political Philosophy and Theory Become Engaged with the Theological?
Time and place:
June 11th – 13th 2009
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki
Finland
Today it seems that Max Weber’s thesis of the ‘disenchantment of the world’ was too premature. Far from being in decline in the modern [...]

Conference: ‘A Secular Age’: Tracing the Contours of Religion and Belief

‘A Secular Age’: Tracing the Contours of Religion and Belief
Date: Monday 8th – Thursday 11th June 2009
Location: Mater Dei Institute of Education

The conference will explore the way in which theology and philosophy, when placed in dialogue with the social sciences, can reinvigorate public discourse. Some of the themes which will be discussed include:

Assessment of [...]