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The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion
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The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion is an interdisciplinary research enterprise based at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge. In addition to academic research, the Institute engages in the public understanding of science and religion by means of Courses, Conferences, Lectures, Seminars and the Media. The current talks can be found here. If you have a question about this list, please contact: Gail Pilkington. If you have a question about a specific talk, click on that talk to find its organiser. 0 upcoming talks and 21 talks in the archive. Comets and Asteroids, Moon and Mars, Science and Faith - and Life and DeathYou are invited to a free, light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30pm onwards, with the seminar beginning at 1.00 pm and ending at 2.00 pm. Prof. Monica Grady, Open University. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 23 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 My meandering path within the lands of science and faithYou are invited to a free, light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30pm onwards, with the seminar beginning at 1.00 pm and ending at 2.00 pm. Prof. Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 09 February 2016, 13:00-14:00 Young WallaceYou are invited to a free, light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30pm onwards, with the seminar beginning at 1.00 pm and ending at 2.00 pm. Dr James Moore, Open University. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 26 January 2016, 13:00-14:00 Imaging Belief States in Pain and ReligionCiS - Faraday Public Lecture Prof. Irene Tracey. Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF. Friday 27 November 2015, 17:30-19:00 Randomness and God in the Biochemical ContextResearch Seminars are held on alternate Tuesdays. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12:30 onwards Prof. Keith Fox. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 17 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 Science and Special Divine ActionResearch Seminars are held on alternate Tuesdays. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12:30 onwards Dr Andrew Pinsent. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 03 November 2015, 13:00-14:00 The Power of the Media in the Science - Religion DebatePart of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas Speaker to be confirmed. Debating Chamber, Cambridge Union Society, Bridge St.. Saturday 31 October 2015, 14:00-16:00 Science and Natural TheologyResearch Seminars are held on alternate Tuesdays. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12:30 onwards Revd Dr Rodney Holder. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 20 October 2015, 13:00-14:00 Jesus, Darwin and Ashley MontaguProf. Gregory Radick, University of Leeds. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00 The Emergence of Human Persons: Bewteen the Scylla of Dualism and the Charybdis of ReductionismProf. Tim O'Connor, Indiana University. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 Does Cognitive Psychology Subvert Religious Belief?Prof. James Jones, Rutgers University. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 14 May 2013, 13:00-14:00 Emergence, Top Down Causation and ReductionismProf. George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 30 April 2013, 13:00-14:00 The Religious Beliefs of Scientists - a Sociological AnalysisProf. Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, USA. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 06 March 2012, 13:00-14:00 Pluripotent Stem Cells: Medical Dream or Ethical Nightmare?Prof. Paul Fairchild, Oxford University. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 Creation and Contemporary Science: The Legacy of Thomas AquinasDr William Carroll, Oxford University. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 07 February 2012, 13:00-14:00 Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein met TagoreDr David Gosling, University of Cambridge. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00 A Destiny Beyond Death?Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 The Evolution of MoralityDr David Lahti, Assistant Professor of Biology and the Undergraduate Research Coordinator at Queens College, City University of New York. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Oceans, Climate Change and Christianity: The Earth's Story and God's StoryProf Meric Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 01 November 2011, 13:00-14:00 Science and religion: friends or foes?Speaker to be confirmed. McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Bene't Street (next to the Eagle pub). Saturday 29 October 2011, 14:30-16:00 Mind and Matter: The World as "Representation" in Quantum TheoryProfessor Richard Bell, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham. Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College. Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:00 Please see above for contact details for this list. |
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