The 2024 Online Conference Series is inspired by Key Themes from Arthur Peacocke's Work in what would have been his 100th year. Delegates are invited to critically re-engage with these themes from multi-faith perspectives and examine how they interact with the scientific, technological, and environmental challenges and opportunities posed by the 21st Century.

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Each 24-hour conference will run approximately lunchtime to lunchtime (GMT).

Discounts will be available for delegates attending the full series and for the first time the conference series will be available FREE of charge to SRF Student Members. Book your Place below.

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​​Details of confirmed speakers (and topic areas). Conference programmes, speaker dates and exact titles will be updated as they become available. 

 

13th-14th June Continuous and co-creation: Emergence in a Scientific Age

Confirmed Speakers:

(13th June) Prof. Sarah Lumbreras Sancho, Universidad Pontificia Comillas -  Anthropological Implications of Artificial Intelligence 

(13th June) Prof. Mark Harris, Director of Ian Ramsey Centre University of Oxford - Arthur Peacocke's Emergent Theology: Implications for a Theology of Condensed Matter Physics

 

(14th June) Dr. Renny Thomas, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) - Science and Religion in India: Beyond Disenchantment 

(14th June) Dr. Carissa Sharp, University of Birmingham - Religious Diversity in Science: Insights from Psychological Research on Science and Belief in Society

 

 

 

28th-29th October Science, Causality and God: Divine Action in a Scientific Age

Confirmed Speakers:​

(28th October) Dr. Emily Qureshi-Hurst, Oriel College University of Oxford - Does God Act in the Quantum World?

(28th October) Prof. Ignacio Silva, Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad Austral - Emergence and Divine Action. Testing some Criteria for Providence in the World

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(29th October) Dr. Adis Duderija, Griffith University  -  Divine Action in the Thought of Two Progressive Muslim Thinkers: Reconciling Revelation with Scientific Causality

(29th October) Prof. Lisanne Winslow, University of NorthWestern St Paul - A Biotheology of God’s Divine Action in the Present Global Ecological Precipice

 

Forum AGM: 29th October 2:15pm-3:15pm Joining instructions will be circulated to members nearer the time.

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27th-28th November Filling and Surrounding the World: Pan(en)theism in a Scientific Age​

Confirmed Speakers:

Gowland Lecture (& Response): 6:30-8:30pm 28th November: Lecturer Joanna Leidenhag on Panentheism (respondent Mariusz Tabaczek)

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(27th November) Dr. Taylor Ott, KU Leuven - Becoming Friends with the Earth: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Finding the Divine in the World

(27th November) Dr Lina Langby, Uppsala University - Panentheism, classical theism, & special divine action

 

 *NEW SPEAKER* (28th November) Dr Jack Symes, University of Durham - Multiverse Panentheism

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​SRF Annual General Meeting: ​The SRF Annual General Meeting for SRF Members will take place as part of the October Conference. Date: 29th October 2:15-3:15pm. 

The Gowland Lecture: The Annual Gowland Lecture will take place as part of November conference on 28th November 6:30pm-8:30pm

The Peacocke Essay Prize: The Peacocke Prize will be awarded at the November Conference. Details to follow. to submit to the Peacocke prize visit the page.