Science and Religion Forum

Past Conferences

Our annual conference brings together leading academics and practitioners in the scientific, technological, religious and theological fields. Contributors have included many of the world's leading scientists, theologians, philosophers and historians. As can be seen from the list of past conferences below, we have considered many topics. We meet at various venues around the United Kingdom and our Conferences attract around 100 people.

A report on each of the conferences from 2003 onwards is available by clicking on the year in the list below.

Year	Place	Title
1976	Windsor	Man's responsibility for nature
1977	Leeds	Science and Religion, partners in education
1978	Bristol	God's action in the world
1979	Cambridge	Technology was made for man - and man for?
1980	Manchester	New perspectives on man
1981	Oxford	The theologians take account of developments in science
1982	Guildford	Cosmos and Creation - the physicists' view
1983	Durham	The challenge of socio-biology to ethics and theology
1984	Canterbury	From artificial intelligence to human consciousness
1985	Oxford	In the beginning: the science and pseudo-science of creation
1986	Nottingham	Science & religion: philosophical and historical aspects of the dialogue
1987	Winchester	Wholeness and holiness: Freud, Jung and God
1988	Liverpool	Tradition and authority in science and religion
1989	Hoddesdon	"Could do better" Educational perspectives on Science and Religion
1990	Hoddesdon	God, Time and the New Physics
1991	Durham	God's Action in the World
1992	Durham	Science and Religion: from feud to reconciliation
1993	Hoddesdon	Questions about Ecology
1994	Hoddesdon	What goes wrong? The public perception of Science and Religion
1995	Chester	Objections to Christian Belief and how to counter them
1996	Hoddesdon	Contours of Ecology: religious faith and issues in ecology today (joint meeting with the British Ecological Society)
1997	Leeds	Religion in an age of Science (John Mason Conference at the British Association Festival of Science)
1998	Chester	Genetics - Technology and Theology
1999	Durham	Human Significance and Modern Cosmology
2000	Cambridge	What is means to be human: theological and scientific voices in conversation
2001	London	The Public Understanding of Science and Religion (Held in conjunction with the British Association Annual Meeting)
2002	Chester	Good God? Science, Evil, and Religion
2003	Birmingham	The Place of Humans in the Universe; World Faiths Perspectives
2004	Exeter	Faith, Values, and the Scientific Enterprise
2005	Oxford	Einstein, God and Time. Jointly organised by the Science and Religion Forum, the Ian Ramsey Centre (Faculty of Theology) and the Clarendon laboratory (Dept of Physics).
2006	Manchester	Creation and the Abrahamic Faiths.
2007	Canterbury	Theology, Evolution, and the Mind