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Public Event:
29-30 September -

Faith, Justice and the Earth:
An InterFaith Conference

Schedule

SATURDAY, October 1
Seminary Hall

8:30-
8:50am
Breakfast
8:50-
9:30am
Introductions
9:30-
10:35am
Anne Primavesi, Birkbeck College, University of London
The Original Gift--and Our Response to It.
Respondent: Rosemary Radford Ruether
10:35-
11:40am
David Wood, Vanderbilt University
Econstruction: The Greening of Postmodernity.
Respondent: Mark Wallace
11:50am-
12:55pm
Dan Spencer, University of Montana
"Only Connect!" Exploring the Praxis of Ecological Restoration for Insights into Postmodern Understandings of Nature and Humanity-Nature Relationships.
Respondent: Jay McDaniel
1:00-
2:00pm
Lunch
2:00-
3:05pm
Mark Wallace, Swarthmore College
Sacred Land Theology: Green Spirit, Deconstruction, and the Question of Idolatry in Contemporary Earthen Christianity.
Respondent: Chris Boesel
3:05-
4:10pm
Anna L. Peterson, University of Florida
Talking the Walk: A Practice-Based Environmental Ethic as Grounds for Hope.
Respondent: Dan Spencer
  Break
4:25-
5:30pm
Catherine Keller, Drew University
The Genesis Collective: Grounds vs. Foundations of Ecotheology.
Respondent: Anne Primavesi
7:45-
8:45pm
Private Prayers/Public Rituals: Singing Mask Ceremony
[Open to the Public]

 

SUNDAY, October 2
Seminary Hall

8:30-
9:00am
Breakfast
9:00-
10:05am
Kate Rigby, Monash University
Contra Constructivism: Apprehending Earth's Agency in the Topography of the Sacred.
Respondent: David Wood
10:10-
11:15am
Glen Mazis, Penn State Harrisburg
Lessons for Ecotheology? The Blurred Boundaries of Humans, Animals and Machines.
Respondent: Marion Grau
  Break
11:30am-
12:35pm
Laurel Kearns, Drew University
Cooking the Truth: Faith, the Market, and the Science of Global Warming.
Respondent: Anna Peterson
12:35-
2:00pm
Lunch and Announcements
2:00-
3:15pm
Closing Discussion

 

MONDAY, October 3
Mead Hall, Wendel Room

8:30-
9:00am
Breakfast
9:00-
10:30am
Session 1:
Luke Higgins, Drew University. Redirecting the Gaze of Eco-Theology: Towards A Deleuze-Guattarian Micro-Pneumatology of Spirit-Dust.
Barbara Muraca, University of Greifswald. Healing Bifurcations Throughout the Modern Ontology of Nature.
Antonia Gorman, Drew University. Surrogate Suffering: Paradigms of Sin, Salvation, and Sacrifice within the Vivisection Movement.
11:00am-
12:30pm

Session 2:
Matthew Bersagel Braley, Emory University. Towards the Sources in Our Midst: Exploring the Use of Ethical Sources in the Commitment to Ecological and Economic Justice.
Kevin J. O'Brien, Emory University. The Natures of Biodiversity: Theological Naturalism at the Intersection of Science and Ethics.
Michael Llewellyn Humphreys, Drew University. Elaborating the notion of non-human agency.

12:30-
1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-
3:00pm
Session 3:
Whitney A. Bauman, Graduate Theological Union.  A Social Ecofeminist Evaluation of The Universe Story.
Benjamin Stewart, Emory University. “See Good Itself if You Can:”Augustine on Seeing God in Creation.
Cecil Marshall, Drew University. Scandinavian Immanentalism.
3:30-
5:00pm
Session 4:
Richard Bohannon, Drew University. The Politics of Being Human.
Matthew Immergut, Drew University. Overcoming Alienation: Connecting to and Constructing Natures.
David B. Wright, Drew University. Feral Philosophy?: Towards a Relational Phenomenology of Human/Nature.

 

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