Past Events

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Seminars
Conferences
Lectures

Past Seminars	Date
Prof. Janet Soskice: How to Think about God the Creator Today	November 19, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Will Simonson: The Trees our Teachers – Lessons from Biblical History and Modern Landscapes	November 5, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Zachary Ardern: Are there Underlying Principles of Protein Evolution? Reconsidering Law and Purpose in Biology	October 22, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Thilo Stadelmann: Artificial Intelligence – A Tale of Two Meanings	October 8, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Marius Dorobantu – The Quest for Human-Level AI and its Implications for Theological Anthropology	May 21, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Graeme Finlay – Why Biological Evolution Should Inspire Worship	May 7, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Paul Rimmer – The Origin of Life: Chance, Necessity or Design?	April 23, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Nathan Bossoh – Science, Religion and the Material Turn: Exploring New Global Potentials through Colonial Museum African Collections	March 12, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Pete Jordan – Rescuing Religion from Obsolescence? John Templeton on Science and Religion	February 27, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Martin Barlow – Kepler, Galileo and Aliens	February 13, 2024 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Jon Thompson – Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives	January 30, 2024
Dr Andrew Jackson – The Divine Logic of Evolution: Reading Evolutionary Biology Through the Lens of Maximus the Confessor’s Logoi Cosmology	November 28, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Mary Woolley – Early Career Teacher Experiences of Science-Religion Encounters in the Classroom: Towards a Shared Understanding of Purpose?	November 14, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Maria Ubiali – Effective Field Theories in Particle Physics: a Mathematical Bridge to the Unknown	October 31, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Benjamin R. Doolittle – Cancer, Immortality, and Christology: The Theological Resonance of Henrietta Lacks	October 17, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Revd Prof Michael J Reiss – Learning to teach controversial topics in school science education	May 23, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst – The Many Worries of Many Worlds: Exploring Some Implications of Everettian Quantum Mechanics	May 9, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Mari van Emmerik – The Anatomy of Unbelief: Rethinking the Scientific Approaches to Nonreligion	April 25, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Lydia Jaeger – Why Theology Needs Science – and Why Science Needs Theology	March 7, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Rope Kojonen – Evolution by Design? Re-Evaluating the Darwin-Gray Exchange on the Compatibility of Purpose and Evolution	February 21, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Rupert Shortt – Science, Spirituality and the Problem of Evil	February 7, 2023 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Nick Spencer – From NOMA to POMA: the case for overlapping magisteria	November 29, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Mehdi Nassaji – The Quranic Notion of the Soul and Its Place in Science and Psychology	Tuesday 22nd November 2022
Dr Hannah Waite – Science and Religion: Is Gender an issue?	November 15, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Chris Oldfield – Naturalism Without Content: Where Plantinga’s Conflict Actually Lies	November 1, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Yves Gaspar – Randomness in Philosophy and Theology	May 24, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Revd Dr Andrew Moore & Prof. Paul Ewart – What’s The Use Of Natural Theology?	May 10, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Brandon Vaidyanathan – A Beautiful Quest: The Promise and Peril of Aesthetics in Science	April 26, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Robot Will See You Now	March 31, 1:00 pm, Cambridge Festival 2022
Revd Dr Joanna Collicutt – Psychosis and Religious Experience	March 8, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Neil Messer – Cognitive Science and Religious Faith: What (If Anything) Should Christian Theology Learn from the Cognitive Science of Religion?	February 22, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Steve Furber – Brains, Minds and AI – Implications for faith and ethics	February 8, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Sharon Dirckx – Neuroscience & Free Will: Are we just driven by our brains?	January 25, 2022 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Stephen Williams – Thinking Machines? A Christian Perspective	November 23, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Jeff Hardin – Self-Made People: The Emerging Embryo, Biology, and Belief	November 9, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Joanna Leidenhag – The Place of Science Among the Sources of Theology	October 26, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Sibel Erduran – Teaching and learning of science and religion in schools: Perspectives from research on argumentation	October 12, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Wonder, Wisdom and Worship: Opportunities and challenges for using science in preaching – Public Seminar	June 9, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Revd Dr Chris Wright – The Goodness, the Glory and the Goal of Creation	May 25, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Praveen Sethupathy – Common Ground Between Science and Faith: what it means to be human	May 11, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Emily Reed Burdett – Exploring the Foundations of Religious Behaviour	April 27, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Plagues and Pandemics: Perspectives from Science and Faith	March 26, 2021 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Dr Miriam Schilling – From Biology to Theology: How viruses challenge our perception of good and evil.	March 9, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Bethany Sollereder – Theology Past the Tipping Point: God’s Goodness in a World of Rapid Change	February 23, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Robert Koons – How the Quantum Revolution Vindicates Aristotle’s Metaphysics	February 9, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Stuart Mathieson – An Evangelical Philosophy of Science? From Bacon and Paley to Stokes	January 26, 2021 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Christian List – The Naturalistic Case for Free Will	November 24, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Dr Jonathan Jong – Experimental Psychology of Religion	November 10, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Religion, Evolution and the Social Brain	October 27, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Prof. Maria Rosa Antognazza – Physics and Metaphysics in Leibniz	October 13, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Abraham Kuyper on Science and Religion: An Introduction To His Texts and Contexts – Dr Jordan Ballor	September 24, 2020 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Christian Perspectives On The Covid-19 Pandemic	May 26, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Divine Lawmaker: Nomological Arguments For God’s Existence	May 12, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Observation, Superstition and Mysticism in Modern Science	May 5, 2020 10:00 am - 11:00 am
Faith and Feathers: Human Rights, Conservation and Mission	March 3, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Consciousness, Causality, Intention, Final Causality and Motivations for Research	February 18, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Materials, Membranes and Motivations for Research	February 4, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Can Nature Be Red In Tooth And Claw? Augustine And The Christian Traditions	January 21, 2020 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Past Conferences	Date
Kuyper, Science, and Philosophy: A Centenary Celebration	2nd - 4th September 2021 15:00 - 21:00 (UK time)
Interaction of Science and Faith in a Challenging World: Summer Course 2021	4th - 9th July 2021
Climate Change and Religion: Politics, Perceptions and Radical Potentials	November 19 & November 26, 2020
Summer Course No. 2 – Units 1 and 2	July 20 - Aug 2, 2007
Summer Course no. 2 – Unit 1: Science, Humanity and Religion	July 20-26, 2007
Summer Course no. 2 – Unit 2: The Origins of Science and the Science of Origins	July 27 - Aug 2, 2007
Summer Course no. 3 – From the Big Bang to the Brain: Current Issues in Science and Religion	July 20-26, 2008
Summer Course no. 5: Science and Faith: Past and Present Perspectives	July 11-17, 2010
Summer Course no. 6: Science and Religion in Dialogue in 2011	July 17-23, 2011
Summer Course no. 7: Science and Religion – the View Both Ways	July 8-14, 2012
Summer Course No. 1 – Unit 2: Science, Philosophy and Theology	July 23-29, 2006
Summer Course no. 8: Science and Religion – Two Paths to Truth?	July 7-13, 2013
Faraday Institute Summer Course No 9: Science and Religion – Engaging in Constructive Dialogue	July 6-11, 2014
Faraday Institute Summer Course No 10: Science or Religion: Do We Have to Choose?	July 5-10, 2015
Short Course No. 2: Science, Faith and Society	Sept 22-24, 2006
Summer Course 2016, Science and Religion: Conversations between Worldviews	July 3-8, 2016
Short Course No 3: Science and Religion for Church Leaders	Nov 7-9, 2006
Short Course No. 4: Introduction to Science and Religion	Jan 5-7, 2007
Short Course No. 5: Science and Religion in Schools	March 30 - April 1, 2007
Short Course No. 6: God and Physics	May 18-20, 2007
Short Course No. 7: God and Biology	Sept 14-16, 2007
Short Course No. 8: Science and Religion for Church Leaders	Nov 6-8, 2007
Short Course No. 9: Introduction to Science and Religion	Jan 4-6, 2008
Short Course No. 10: Ethics on the Frontiers of Science: Religion – Help or Hindrance?	April 11-13, 2008
Short Course no. 11: Science, Religion and the Environment	June 27-29, 2008
Short Course no. 12: Science and Religion for Church Leaders	Nov 4-6, 2008
CREATIVITY, CREATION, AND A BIG BANG: Science and Religion in the School Curriculum	May 19, 2012
Short Course no. 13: Science, Religion and the Environment – Course for Ordinands	Jan 12-14, 2009
Faraday Institute Short Course No 25: Science and Faith: An Introduction	November 30, 2013
Short Course no. 14 – Science and Religion in Schools	April 3-5, 2009
Faraday Course in Guatemala	June 4-7, 2015
Short Course no. 15 – Neurosciences and Religion	July 3-5, 2009
Short Course No. 16: Science, Religion and the Environment – Course for Ordinands	Jan 11-15, 2010
Short Course No. 17: Science and Religion in Schools	March 26-28, 2010
Short Course in Ireland: An Introduction to Science and Religion	June 25-27, 2010
Short Course No. 18: Science and Religion for Church Leaders	Sept 13-15, 2010
Short Course No. 19: Science, Religion and the Environment – Course for Ordinands	Jan 12-14, 2011
The Georges Lemaître Anniversary Conference	April 7-10, 2011
Short Course in Belfast: An Introduction to Science and Religion	June 24-26, 2011
Science and Religious Education in Schools: New Possibilities	June 25, 2011
Sustainability in Crisis	Sept 26-28, 2011
Short Course No. 20: An Introduction to Science and Religion	Jan 11-13, 2012
Faraday Institute Short Course no. 21: Science, Religion and Atheism	March 30 - April 1, 2012
Faraday Institute Short Course no. 22: God and Genetics	Sept 14-16, 2012
Short Course No. 23: An Introduction to Science and Religion	Jan 9-11, 2013
Short Course no. 24: An Introduction to Science and Religion	March 22-24, 2013
Faraday Institute Short Course No 26: An Introduction to Science and Religion	Jan 13-15, 2014
Greening the Gods: Ecology and Theology in the Ancient World	March 18-19, 2014
Faraday Institute Short Course No 27: Philosophy, Science and Faith	April 4-6, 2014
Short Course 29: Science and Religion in the local church	Jan 7-9, 2015
Short Course 31: Science and Religion: The Big Questions	March 20-22, 2015
Short Course 32, The Believing Brain: Neuroscience, Psychology and Faith	Nov 27-29, 2015
Short Course 33: Science and religion in the local church	Jan 6-8, 2016
Short Course 34: Biology and Belief	Feb 12-14, 2016
Short Course 36 Reality, Robots and Religion	Sept 16-18, 2016
Professional Workshop: Science and Faith in the Local Church	Jan 11-12, 2017
Short Course in Cambridge. Reading the World: Science and Sacred Texts	April 28-30, 2017

Past Lectures	Date
‘The End of Humanity’ Film Screening and Panel Discussion	November 14, 2024 6:00 pm - 7:35 pm
Prof. Keith Fox – Bioethics: Are Biologists Opening Pandora’s Box?	March 21, 2024 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. David Fergusson – The Persistence of Faith: Scientific and Theological Perspectives	November 9, 2023 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Paul Shellard – The Beginning of All Things: Modern Perspectives from Lemaître to Hawking	May 16, 2023 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dr Nick Spencer – Quintessence of Dust: Science, Religion, History and the Human	March 21, 2023 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Fire From Heaven \| Michael Faraday And The Dawn Of The Electrical Age	October 27, 2022 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Prof. Tom McLeish – Science – Beauty – Theology: A Virtuous or Vicious Trinity?	May 9, 2022 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Varieties of Atheism in Science	November 10, 2021 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Revd Prof. Alister McGrath – A Life in Science and Religion	July 4th, 2021
POSTPONED Prof. Paul Shellard – The Beginning of All Things: Modern perspectives from Lemaitre to Hawking	New date to be confirmed
Prof. Susan Kimber – The Changing Face of Medicine: Stem Cells for Future Medicine – Scientific Advances and a Christian Perspective	October 24, 2019 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Katharine Hayhoe – Christians, Climate, and our Culture	May 15, 2019 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Revd Prof. David Wilkinson – Exoplanets, Aliens and God	February 14, 2019 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Most Revd Dr Rowan Williams – Human Identity in a Scientific World	November 2, 2018 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Sir Colin Humphreys – Science and the Reliability of the Bible	May 16, 2018 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. John Wyatt and Prof. Peter Robinson – God, AI and Humans – Could Robots Replace Humans Made In The Image of God?	February 15, 2018 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Henry F. Schaefer – Science and Faith: Friends or Foes?	October 9, 2017 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Roger Trigg – Science and Christianity: Conflict or Cooperation?	March 2, 2017 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Prof. Elaine Howard Ecklund – Do Scientists Believe in God? Results From An Eight-Nation Study	November 17, 2016 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Dr Graeme Finlay – Human Genetics and the Image of God	September 8, 2016 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Prof. Jeff Hardin – How We Are Made: Embryos, Biology and Belief	February 12, 2016 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Irene Tracey – Imaging Belief States in Pain and Religion	November 27, 2015 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Russell Cowburn – The God of Small Things: Nanotechnology, Creation and God	May 7, 2015 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Hans Halvorson – Does The Universe Need God?	January 29, 2015 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Glynn Harrison – Identity, Self-Esteem and the Image of God	January 13, 2015 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Justin Barrett – Are People Born To Believe?	October 21, 2014 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Revd Dr Ernest Lucas – The Bible, Science and Creation	May 28, 2014 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Stephen Freeland – Will Life On Other Planets Share Our Genetic Code?	November 21, 2013 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Peter Harrison – Biology and Worldviews: From Natural Theology to the Evolutionary Epic	September 20, 2013 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dr Denis Alexander – Genes, Determinism and God	June 6, 2013 5:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Prof. Peter Robinson – Machines In The Image of God?	March 7, 2013 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Ian Hutchinson – Scientism: How Much Faith Should We Put In Science?	October 15, 2012 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Martin Nowak – The Evolution Of Cooperation	May 28, 2012 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Elliott Sober – Naturalism and Evolutionary Theory	May 24, 2012 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Jurgen Moltmann – From Physics To Theology – A Personal Story	February 14, 2012 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Bill McKibben – Faith In A Sustainable Future	September 28, 2011 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Dr Jennifer Wiseman – Exoplanets, Life and Human Significance	March 1, 2011 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
A Public Discussion: Responses To The New Atheism	November 19, 2010 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Rosalind Picard – Playing God? Toward Machines That Deny Their Maker	November 2, 2010 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Bill Newsome – God, Brain and Mind	April 27, 2010 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Peter Harrison – Religious Influences In The Founding Of The Royal Society	February 4, 2010 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Kenneth Miller – God, Darwin, and Design	April 28, 2009 7:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Revd Prof. Keith Ward – God, Science and the New Atheism	January 27, 2009 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. Sarah Coakley – God, Providence, And The Evolutionary Phenomenon Of Cooperation	November 18, 2008 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. John Wyatt – What Is A Person? Matters of Life and Death	February 21, 2008 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Prof. George F. R. Ellis – The Multiverse, Ultimate Causation and God	November 6, 2007 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Rt Revd Dr Tom Wright – Can a Scientist Believe the Resurrection?	May 15, 2007 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

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