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

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 Saturday, April 21: Afternoon

Sessions: Hannon Library

Session 7: 1:30 to 2:45

  • Tom Carlson

Sessions 8 and 9: 3:00 to 4:15

Session 8:

  • Matt Halteman
  • T. Wilson Dickinson

Session 9:

  • Joanna Demers
  • Benjamin Stern

Session 10: 4:30 to 6:00

  • Bruce Folz, Keynote
Conference Banquet: 6:45 to 9:00
Custom Hotel, Hangar X

Keynote Speaker: Bruce V. Folz

Keynote Address:  “Face of Nature, Gift of Creation.”

Biographical Notes: Professor of Philosophy, Eckerd College

Web site: http://www.eckerd.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/foltz.php

Select Publications:

Tom Carlson

Presentation: “Theophany and the Chiaroscuro of Nature: Remarks on Creation and Unknowing from John Scotus Eriugena to post-Heideggerian Thought.”

Biographical Notes: Professor , Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Select Publications:

Matt Halteman

Presentation:  “Eating Animals and Ecological Crisis: Continental Epiphanies for Revaluing Omnivorism.”

Biographical Notes: Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Calvin College

Selected Publications:

T. Wilson Dickinson

Presentation:  “Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburb.”

Biographical Notes:Visiting Assistant Professor, Transylvania University

Publications:

Joanna T. Demers

Presentation:  “Ethics of Ecological Apocalypse.”

Biographical Notes: Associate Professor of Musicology, University of Southern California

Publications:

Benjamin Stern

Presentation:  “Overcoming Idolatry in Creation Spirituality.”

Biographical Notes:  Pastor, St. Bonaventure Parish, Evansville, Illinois, and Our Lady of Divine Maternity Parish, Ellis Grove, Illinois
Doctoral student, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
 
Publications in progress include:
"My God is Weaker than Your God."
"Icons or Idols: Applying Marion's Categories to Sacraments, Mary, and the Episcopacy."
"Josiah Royce and the Religious Paradox."

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