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You are warmly invited to Forming a Christian Mind's first ever Study Day which will take place on Saturday 16 November 2024 at the Old Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge.The day will include talks, Q&As and discipline-specific discussions on the topic of 'Exploring the Human', as we mark the 35 years anniversary of Charles Taylor's Sources of the Self and explore its relevance today. This event is for anyone doing postgraduate study or postdoctoral research.
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Topic:
In 2024 it is 35 years since the publication of Charles Taylor’s Sources of the Self. This Study Day will take this anniversary as a prompt to think about the importance of maintaining a robustly Christian account of the human, as both the foundation of good scholarship and the means by which we might meaningfully engage with some of the most pressing academic and cultural discussions about the individual in modernity. We will also consider how, in light of the present challenges, we might go about retrieving, or resourcing, Protestant theological anthropology, and consider how to do so across the different academic disciplines.
The Study Day will feature talks on understanding (and possibly critiquing) modern influential accounts of ‘the human’, and how Scripture speaks into them. These will be complemented by discipline-specific group discussions, in which we will think about what this means for our own area of scholarship. To prepare for these group sessions, participants will be asked to read and reflect on two extracts in advance, one from Sources of the Self and one from their chosen discipline-specific track.
Speakers:
Dr Kirsten Birkett (Independent Scholar and Author, former Philosophy and Ethics Tutor at Oak Hill College)
Prof James Eglinton (Meldrum Lecturer in Reformed Theology, University of Edinburgh)
Aden Cotterill (PhD Student in Theology, focusing on Charles Taylor’s work, University of Cambridge)
Programme:
09:00 - Arrival and registration
09:30 - Welcome
09:45 - Plenary (Dr Kirsten Birkett)
10:15 - Plenary (Prof James Eglinton)
11:00 - Q&A session
11:15 - Tea & coffee
11:45 - Group discussion
12:45 - Lunch (provided)
14:00 - Plenary (Aden Cotterill)
14:30 - Discipline-specific group discussion
15:30 - Break
15:45 - Plenary and Q&A (Prof James Eglinton)
16:30 - Close and optional pub trip
Please note: To allow for more peer-to-peer discussion between delegates, and time to meet with and learn from fellow Christians in academia, the Study Day will be smaller in size than regular Forming a Christian Mind conferences. We therefore ask that only current postgraduate students, post-doctoral researchers or other early career academics register for this event. The spring conference on 'Exploring the Human: As Colleagues and Teachers' on 22 February 2025 will also be open to other students, academics and those in university ministries.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Old Divinity School, St John's College, 15 St Johns Street, Cambridge, CB2 1, United Kingdom,Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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