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SCPT Conference: Creation, Creatureliness, and Creativity: The Human Place in the Natural World: Friday

A guide to the people and topics of the April 20-22 Continental Philosophy and Theology Conference. Student resources for relevant ecological topics are included.

Schedule for Friday, April 20

Opening Remarks: 12:45

  • President Burcham
  • CAO/AVP Hellige
  • Dean Zeleza

Session 1: 1:00 to 2:30

  • Norman Wirzba

Sessions 2 and 3: 3:00 to 4:15

  • (2a) Christina M. Gschwandtner
  • (2b) Jarrod Longbons
  • (3a) Adam Miller
  • (3b) Dan Olson

Reception: 5:00 to 7:00:
Marymount Institute
University Hall 3000


David Burcham

David Burcham is President of Loyola Marymount University, which he served as Executive Vice-President and Provost, and as former Dean of the Law School after a career of academic achievement, clerking at both the U S Supreme Court and U S Court of Appeals, and a career in public and private legal practice.

Joseph Hellige

Dr. Hellige is the Executive Vice-President and Provost of LMU.  He served as Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, and before that as Vice-President for Research and Graduate Dean, after a distinguished academic career in psychology, and as a university administrator.

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Dr. Zeleza is Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at LMU.  He came to LMU with many accomplishments as historian of Malawi, literary critic, novelist and short-story author, as well as an academic career as faculty and administrator at the University of Illinois and Penn State.

Keynote Speaker: Norman Wirzba

Keynote Address: 'The Art of Creaturely Life: Considering Human Propriety"

Biographical Notes: Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life, Duke Divinity School

Web Site: http://www.divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/norman-wirzba

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Christina M. Gschwandtner

Presentation: “Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? Between John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien.”

Biographical Notes:  Associate Professor, Philosophy, University of Scranton

Select Publications:

Jarrod Longbons

Presentation: “Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality.”

Biographical Notes: Associate Minister, Northside Church of Christ, Bloomington, IL

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Adam Miller

Presentation: “Creation, Evolution, Irreduction: An Object-Oriented Approach to the Difference between Science and Religion.”

Biographical Notes: Professor of Philosophy, Collin College

Select Publications:

Dan Olson

Presentation: “The Theological Hermeneutics of Capital and the Implications for Ecology.”

Biographical Notes:  Graduate Student, Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University.

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