Are Doctrines Empirically Verifiable? Theology, Theory, and the Human Sciences

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room. Please be seated by 12:50 so that the seminar can start promptly.

Prof. Simeon Zahl.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Following the Science? Trust and Truth in a Post-Truth World

Although the live event is only open to in-person attendees, a recording will be made and published online shortly afterwards.

Prof. Penny Endersby.

Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Origins of Life Research: A New Nexus for Natural Theology?

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge. Please be seated by 12:50 so that the seminar can start promptly.

Dr Frederick Simmons.

Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Enhancing Diversity in Clinical Trials: A Touch of Humanity

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge. Please be seated by 12:50 so that the seminar can start promptly. Book at faradayinstitute.online/Bannerman

Dr Bridget Bannerman.

Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Natural Law: God's Law in our Hearts

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge. Please be seated by 12:50 so that the seminar can start promptly.

Dr Peter Bussey.

Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

How to Think about God the Creator Today

Prof. Janet Soskice.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

‘The End of Humanity’ Film Screening and Panel Discussion

Graham Budd, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion; Rt Revd Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford; Dr Claire Benn, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence; Dr Nick Spencer, Theos; Rabbi Dr Harris Bor, London School of Jewish Studies.

Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 18:00-19:35

The Trees our Teachers – Lessons from Biblical History and Modern Landscapes

Dr Will Simonson.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Are there Underlying Principles of Protein Evolution? Reconsidering Law and Purpose in Biology

Dr Zachary Ardern.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence – A Tale of Two Meanings

Prof. Thilo Stadelmann.

Assembly Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Bioethics: Are Biologists Opening Pandora’s Box?

The lecture will be followed by a short drinks reception. All attendees are kindly requested to be seated by 5:45pm. This event is in partnership with Christians in Science and is part of the Cambridge Festival.

Prof. Keith Fox.

Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Science, Religion and the Material Turn: Exploring New Global Potentials through Colonial Museum African Collections

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge.

Dr Nathan Bossoh.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Rescuing Religion from Obsolescence? John Templeton on Science and Religion

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge.

Dr Pete Jordan.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Kepler, Galileo and Aliens

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge.

Prof. Martin Barlow.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives

Dr Jon Thompson.

Online only via Zoom (link to be made available on the day).

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

The Divine Logic of Evolution: Reading Evolutionary Biology Through the Lens of Maximus the Confessor’s Logoi Cosmology

Dr Andrew Jackson.

Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Early Career Teacher Experiences of Science-Religion Encounters in the Classroom: Towards a Shared Understanding of Purpose?

Dr Mary Woolley.

Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Persistence of Faith: Scientific and Theological Perspectives

Prof. David Fergusson.

Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Learning to teach controversial topics in school science education

Revd Dr Michael Reiss, UCL.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Beginning of All Things: Modern Perspectives from Lemaitre to Hawking

Prof. Paul Shellard, University of Cambridge.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 18:00-19:00

The Many Worries of Many Worlds: Exploring Some Implications of Everettian Quantum Mechanics

Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst, University Of Oxford .

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Anatomy of Unbelief: Rethinking the Scientific Approaches to Nonreligion

Dr Mari van Emmerik, University of Cambridge .

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Why Theology Needs Science – and Why Science Needs Theology

Dr Lydia Jaeger, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution by Design? Re-Evaluating the Darwin-Gray Exchange on the Compatibility of Purpose and Evolution

Dr Rope Kojonen, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

Healey Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - The Beginning of All Things: Modern Perspectives from Lemaître to Hawking

Professor Paul Shellard [University of Cambridge].

Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 17 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Faith and Feathers: Human Rights, Conservation and Mission

Dr Andrew Gosler [Oxford University].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Consciousness, Intention, Final Causality and the Desire for God

Professor Simon Oliver [Durham University].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Materials, Membranes and Motivations for Research

Professor Peter Budd [Manchester University].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Can Nature Be Red In Tooth and Claw? Augustine and the Christian Traditions.

Dr Stan Rosenberg [University of Oxford].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

From Ecosystem Services to Extinction Rebellion: why and how should we value wildlife?

Revd Dr Dave Bookless [A Rocha International].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

With God in Mind?: Integrated Physicality, (Un)belief, and Spiritual Technologies.

Dr Sarah Lane Ritchie [University of St Andrews].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Square Kilometre Array Telescope: Engineering To Reveal Cosmic Origins.

Dr Althea Wilkinson [University of Manchester].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Uncertainty, Nature, and God: A Transcendental Approach to Science, Religion, and Public Policy

Professor Arthur Petersen [UCL].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Our Fragile Planet - A Christian Perspective: Are We Breaking The Rainbow?

Professor Euan Nisbet [Royal Holloway, University of London].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Public Lecture - Christians, Climate and Our Culture

Professor Katharine Hayhoe [Texas Tech University].

Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 18:00-19:00

Openness and Deference: The Role of Awe in Scientific and Religious Practice

Dr Helen De Cruz [Oxford Brooks University].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Can Machines Be Moral Agents?

Professor Nigel Crook [Oxford Brookes University].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Hearing Voices: Theology, Psychiatry and the Lived Experience of Hearing Voices

Professor John Swinton (University of Aberdeen).

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Humility, Hope and Holiness: Exploration in the Psychology of Character Strengths

Dr Roger Bretherton (Lincoln University).

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanets, Aliens and God

Revd Prof. David Wilkinson (University of Durham).

Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion

Prof. Andrew Briggs (University of Oxford).

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Earliest Life on Earth

Professor Hugh Rollinson (University of Derby).

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Comets and Asteroids, Moon and Mars, Science and Faith - and Life and Death

You 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

My meandering path within the lands of science and faith

You 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Young Wallace

You 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Imaging Belief States in Pain and Religion

CiS - 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Randomness and God in the Biochemical Context

Research 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Science and Special Divine Action

Research 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 Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

The Power of the Media in the Science - Religion Debate

Part 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Science and Natural Theology

Research 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Jesus, Darwin and Ashley Montagu

Prof. Gregory Radick, University of Leeds.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

The Emergence of Human Persons: Bewteen the Scylla of Dualism and the Charybdis of Reductionism

Prof. Tim O'Connor, Indiana University.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Emergence, Top Down Causation and Reductionism

Prof. 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 Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

The Religious Beliefs of Scientists - a Sociological Analysis

Prof. Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, USA.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Creation and Contemporary Science: The Legacy of Thomas Aquinas

Dr William Carroll, Oxford University.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein met Tagore

Dr David Gosling, University of Cambridge.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

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 Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

The Evolution of Morality

Dr 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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Oceans, Climate Change and Christianity: The Earth's Story and God's Story

Prof Meric Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton.

Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

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

The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Mind and Matter: The World as "Representation" in Quantum Theory

Professor 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

Faraday Institute

Faraday Lunchtime Research Seminar

Prof. Alister McGrath [Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University].

Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 12:30-14:00

Faraday Institute

Faraday-CiS Puclic Lecture

Prof. John Wyatt.

Howard Theatre, Downing College.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:00

Faraday Institute

Faraday-CiS Puclic Lecture

Prof. John Wyatt.

Howard Theatre, Downing College.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:00

Faraday Institute

Faraday Lunchtime Research Seminar

Prof. John Wood [Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College, London University].

Garden Room, Library Building St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 12:30-14:00

Faraday Institute

Faraday Lunchtime Research Seminar

Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS.

Garden Room, Library Building St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 05 February 2008, 12:30-14:00