Summer Newsletter: What’s on at CRASSH, 13 August – 2 September 2018

CRASSH News

What's on at CRASSH this August? 

Posted: Monday 13 August 2018

Meet the Researcher: Adrian Currie

Adrian Currie

Adrian Currie is a Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER). At the Centre he has been looking at the relationship between the culture of science, and our capacity to understand, predict and mitigate low probability, high impact events.

Posted: Thursday 9 August 2018

Why We Disagree About Human Nature: 5 Questions to Tim Lewens

Tim Lewens

Imke van Heerden

Is human nature something that the natural and social sciences aim to describe, or is it a pernicious fiction?

Posted: Thursday 26 July 2018

Day 10: Religious Diversity and the Secular University

Sami Everett

How do we realise the ideal of religious diversity in relation to Islam within the contemporary University in the UK and what are the roles of institutions themselves in this process?

Posted: Wednesday 18 July 2018

Day 9 (Afternoon II): Religious Diversity and the Secular University

Mariëtta D.C. van der Tol

'Redefining the Secular, Religion, and the Public Square': On Day 9 of the CRASSH Summer School, Pablo Muñoz Iturrieta directs the group into a provocative discussion on the meaning of public space in relation to the integrity and unity of mind and action.

Posted: Wednesday 18 July 2018

Day 9 (Afternoon I): Religious Diversity and the Secular University

Pablo Munoz Iturrieta

From toleration to inequality? On Day 9 of the CRASSH Summer School, Mariëtta van der Tol discusses constitutional formations of religious freedom in nineteenth-century France, Germany and the Netherlands.

Posted: Wednesday 18 July 2018

Day 8 (Afternoon II): Religious Diversity and the Secular University

Bruce Pass

On Day 8 of the CRASSH Summer School, Ruth Jackson presents an overview of her forthcoming monograph, The Veiled God: Schleiermacher’s Theology of Finitude.  

Posted: Tuesday 17 July 2018

Day 8 (Afternoon I): Religious Diversity and the Secular University

Omer Michaelis

'Loading the Empty Wagon': On Day 8 of the CRASSH Summer School, Jeremy Fogel addresses the question of values in the Secular University.

Posted: Monday 16 July 2018

Day 7 (Afternoon II): Religious Diversity and the Secular University

Gustavo Rodrigues Rocha

'The Personal is Political is Spiritual': On Day 7 of the CRASSH Summer School, Ruth Lindley speaks about the fascinating trajectory of the Swedish writer, painter, activist, and anarcho-eco-feminist, Monica Sjöö.

Posted: Monday 16 July 2018

Day 6 (Afternoon II): Religious Diversity and the Secular University

Ruth Jackson

On Day 6 of the CRASSH Summer School, Bruce Pass offers a historical perspective on the debate surrounding theology’s place and status in the modern European university.

Posted: Monday 16 July 2018