30. oktober 2009, kl. 14-16: Gæsteforelæsning af Bruno Latour på CBS Professor Bruno Latour, Director of Research at Sciences Po in Paris.
Professor Latour’s lecture entitled ‘Organizing Uncertainties; the mapping controversies project’ will take place on 30th October from 2-4pm at Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, SPs01 BG Fond Auditorium .
Læs mere her.
fredag den 25. september 2009
Biological Explanation – Systems, Levels and Causes
Conference: Biological Explanation - Systems, Levels and Causes
Call for abstracts
The three-day conference “Biological Explanation – Systems, Levels and Causes" will take place in Oslo, December 10.-12., 2009. The conference is a collaboration between the new Nordic project PSBio (Philosophical Foundations for Systems Biology) and the Seminar in Science Studies at the University of Oslo.
One focus will be “Perspectives on Systems Biology” under which we aim to bring philosophical, historical, and biological perspectives together in understanding the emergence of system approaches in biology.
A second focus will be “Levels, Reduction and Causes” where we plan for a discussion on levels of explanation, and how different understandings of levels relate to questions of scientific reduction and causation in biology.
Some slots are open for contributed papers, and we welcome submissions from philosophers, biologists, statisticians and others on the above themes. If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract of max 500 words to gry.oftedal@ifikk.uio.no by Oct 12,2009.
For contributed talks we will be able to reimburse up to 3000 NOK approximately 345 Euro) for travel and accommodation expenses against receipts.
More information: PSBio
Call for abstracts
The three-day conference “Biological Explanation – Systems, Levels and Causes" will take place in Oslo, December 10.-12., 2009. The conference is a collaboration between the new Nordic project PSBio (Philosophical Foundations for Systems Biology) and the Seminar in Science Studies at the University of Oslo.
One focus will be “Perspectives on Systems Biology” under which we aim to bring philosophical, historical, and biological perspectives together in understanding the emergence of system approaches in biology.
A second focus will be “Levels, Reduction and Causes” where we plan for a discussion on levels of explanation, and how different understandings of levels relate to questions of scientific reduction and causation in biology.
Some slots are open for contributed papers, and we welcome submissions from philosophers, biologists, statisticians and others on the above themes. If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract of max 500 words to gry.oftedal@ifikk.uio.no by Oct 12,2009.
For contributed talks we will be able to reimburse up to 3000 NOK approximately 345 Euro) for travel and accommodation expenses against receipts.
More information: PSBio
torsdag den 13. august 2009
Matematikfilosofisk foredrag
Center for Naturfilosofi og Videnskabsstudier præsenterer
et foredrag med
Mary Leng,
Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool
Why do philosophers worry about mathematical knowledge?
We all know lots of mathematical truths: that 2 + 2 = 4; that there are infinitely many prime numbers; that π is irrational ... . Indeed, unlike most interesting truths about empirical matters of fact, most of these mathematical truths are known, or at least are knowable, with certainty. That, at least, is what most of us would assume. Why is it, then, that some philosophers persist in worrying not just that our mathematical knowledge may not be certain, but that we may have no mathematical knowledge at all? This talk will consider the reasons why philosophers do, and indeed should, worry about mathematical knowledge (while reassuring mathematicians that these worries need not stop them from doing what they do best - proving theorems).
Foredraget er henvendt til et bredt publikum. Det finder sted torsdag den 24. september kl. 16.15 til 17.00 i auditorium A, Niels Bohr Instituttet, Blegdamsvej 17. Der vil være mulighed for at stille spørgsmål efter foredraget. Foredraget er gratis og alle er velkomne.
Kontaktperson: Mikkel Willum Johansen, willum [snabel-a] nbi.dk
mandag den 10. august 2009
Samfundsvidenskaberne og teknologisk ansvarlighed
Project SS-ERC: information on final workshop
From: Technological Responsibility, Rome, July 27th, 2009
We are glad to inform you that on June 26th in Brussels took place the Workshop ”The Socialisation of the European research in the perspective of the Knowledge Society. Interpretations and policies with the contribution of social sciences”, as final event of the project “Social sciences and European Research Capacities - SS-ERC”. The workshop was focused on the presentation and discussion of the Handbook of the socialisation of scientific and technological research.
We are pleased to inform you that texts/slides of some of the papers presented at the Workshop as well as the text of Handbook and of a summary of it (Highlights) are available at the web-site.
The SS-ERC project has been carried out, under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research, by a consortium composed of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences, the Maastricht University, the Primorska University, the General Foundation of La Rioja University and the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy of the Aarhus University
From: Technological Responsibility, Rome, July 27th, 2009
We are glad to inform you that on June 26th in Brussels took place the Workshop ”The Socialisation of the European research in the perspective of the Knowledge Society. Interpretations and policies with the contribution of social sciences”, as final event of the project “Social sciences and European Research Capacities - SS-ERC”. The workshop was focused on the presentation and discussion of the Handbook of the socialisation of scientific and technological research.
We are pleased to inform you that texts/slides of some of the papers presented at the Workshop as well as the text of Handbook and of a summary of it (Highlights) are available at the web-site.
The SS-ERC project has been carried out, under the Sixth Framework Programme for Research, by a consortium composed of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Laboratory of Citizenship Sciences, the Maastricht University, the Primorska University, the General Foundation of La Rioja University and the Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy of the Aarhus University
fredag den 19. juni 2009
DET ALTERNATIVE SORØMØDE 2009
Det er mig en glæde at kunne præsentere årets program for DET ALTERNATIVE SORØMØDE 2009, som finder sted den 22.-23. august på Askov Højskole (se www.omdas.dk).
Konferencen har forskellige parter med tilknytning til folkeskolen som målgruppe: lærere, seminarielærere og lærerstuderende, lærerforeningsrepræsentanter, forskere, opinionsdannere og skolepolitikere.
Arrangementet afholdes af Huset LM i samarbejde med SOPHIA - tænketank for pædagogik og dannelse.
Konferencen har forskellige parter med tilknytning til folkeskolen som målgruppe: lærere, seminarielærere og lærerstuderende, lærerforeningsrepræsentanter, forskere, opinionsdannere og skolepolitikere.
Arrangementet afholdes af Huset LM i samarbejde med SOPHIA - tænketank for pædagogik og dannelse.
Venlig hilsen
Erik Schmidt, Konferenceleder/lærer og Præsidiet for Det Alternative Sorømøde:
Jens Raahauge, skoleinspektør og fmd. for Dansklærerforeningen
Chr. Sloth Christensen, skoledirektør
Holger Henriksen, cand. pæd. pæd.
Margrethe Vestager, MF og tidl. uv.minister
Per Kjeldsen, skolepsykolog og chefkonsulent
Erik Schmidt, Konferenceleder/lærer og Præsidiet for Det Alternative Sorømøde:
Jens Raahauge, skoleinspektør og fmd. for Dansklærerforeningen
Chr. Sloth Christensen, skoledirektør
Holger Henriksen, cand. pæd. pæd.
Margrethe Vestager, MF og tidl. uv.minister
Per Kjeldsen, skolepsykolog og chefkonsulent
fredag den 12. juni 2009
Interacting Fields - an NBA seminar
Niels Bohr Archive History of Science Seminar
Thursday 18 June 2009, 14.15 Aud. M, Niels Bohr Institute Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen
Christian Joas
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
One half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Yoichiro Nambu for his 1960 discovery of the role of spontaneous symmetry breaking in elementary-particle physics. This insight was facilitated considerably by Nambu's prior work in solid-state theory – particularly on the BCS (Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer) theory of superconductivity – where similar concepts had been introduced in the late 1950s. By transferring concepts from theories of the solid state to theories of elementary particles, Nambu succeeded in providing an ingenious point of view that would prove fruitful for many years thereafter and still today permeates all theories involving the Standard Model.
Solid-state physics and elementary-particle physics are usually viewed as being largely disconnected fields of research which share little more than their conceptual basis – quantum mechanics. In my talk, I will show that, to the contrary, the history of both fields is intertwined to a large extent. In the mid-to-late 1950s, key notions (quasiparticles, collective excitations)
and methods (diagramatic perturbation theory, renormalization) of modern condensed-matter theory emerged from the transfer of quantum field theoretical methods, which had their origins in particle physics, to the nascent field of solid-state physics.
I will trace the formulation and transformation of these concepts within the context of solids, and their far-reaching heuristic and ontological consequences for the field which today is arguably the largest subdiscipline of physics. In the early 1960s, novel concepts from the quantum field theory of solids – which had flourished quite independently for several years – were able to cross-fertilize back into the field of particle physics. Even today, interactions between condensed-matter and particle physics are not uncommon, especially at the frontier of research. I will study the dynamics of these interactions and examine the topology of the conceptual borderlands between both fields of research.
Thursday 18 June 2009, 14.15 Aud. M, Niels Bohr Institute Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen
Christian Joas
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Interacting Fields –
Quantum Field Theory and the Conceptual Borderlands
between Solid-State and Particle Physics
Solid-state physics and elementary-particle physics are usually viewed as being largely disconnected fields of research which share little more than their conceptual basis – quantum mechanics. In my talk, I will show that, to the contrary, the history of both fields is intertwined to a large extent. In the mid-to-late 1950s, key notions (quasiparticles, collective excitations)
and methods (diagramatic perturbation theory, renormalization) of modern condensed-matter theory emerged from the transfer of quantum field theoretical methods, which had their origins in particle physics, to the nascent field of solid-state physics.
I will trace the formulation and transformation of these concepts within the context of solids, and their far-reaching heuristic and ontological consequences for the field which today is arguably the largest subdiscipline of physics. In the early 1960s, novel concepts from the quantum field theory of solids – which had flourished quite independently for several years – were able to cross-fertilize back into the field of particle physics. Even today, interactions between condensed-matter and particle physics are not uncommon, especially at the frontier of research. I will study the dynamics of these interactions and examine the topology of the conceptual borderlands between both fields of research.
fredag den 5. juni 2009
Ethnographies of Educational Work and Reform
EPOKE: Education, Policy and Organisation in the Knowledge Economy
Ethnographies of
Educational Work and Reform
Thursday 18 June, Room D219, DPU, Kbh.
Educational Work and Reform
Thursday 18 June, Room D219, DPU, Kbh.
Open discussion of work in progress by three guest researchers
10.00-11.15 ‘From teacher to bureaucrat: Passionate people and dead bodies, an ethnographic study of bureaucrats at work in an Australian state education bureaucracy’
Sarah Robinson, PhD student, University of Western Australia
11.30-12.45 ‘Universities, temporalities and the Research Practices of Sociologists’
Nicola Spurling, PhD student, University of Lancaster, UK
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.15-15.30 ‘The Class Character of Higher Education Reform’
Elizabeth Rata, Associate Professor, University of Auckland, New Zealand
18.00: Dinner at Restaurant Riz Raz, Kompagnistræde 20, Kbh. K
OPEN TO ALL - Buffet DKK 89,-; to book a place contact
hmiah [at] dpu.dk - Deadline Wednesday 17 June noon
Abstracts
Sarah Robinson’s paper is based on a 10-month ethnographic study of the working lives of bureaucrats in an Australian state Department of Education. Through ethnography, she brings the actors onto centre stage to speak for themselves. They appear as passionate and committed people, who struggle to find a balance between the structural constraints of the bureaucratic world and their own beliefs, values and ethics. sarah [at] sarahrobinson.dk
Nicola Spurling asks: What does the everyday research practice of sociologists entail and how is it enabled and constrained by government policies and universities? Drawing on empirical research, this paper explores the intersections and interactions of policy, universities and the careers and everyday work of some UK sociologists. The paper discusses insights offered by conceptualising sociologists’ research practices from several different socio-temporal and institutional standpoints. n.spurling [at] lancaster.ac.uk
Elizabeth Rata’s new study examines how the reform of the governance and management of knowledge creation and distribution in New Zealand, England and Italy is deeply implicated in restructuring the new middle class. e.rata [at] auckland.ac.nz
Public Seminar - All Welcome
The Danish School of Education
Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV
Tuborgvej 164, 2400 Copenhagen NV
fredag den 29. maj 2009
Forum Teologi Naturvidenskab
Forum Teologi Naturvidenskab er en tværfaglig organisation, der har til formål at fremme dialogen mellem teologi og naturvidenskaberne.
Forums Symposium Forår 2009,
Forums Symposium Forår 2009,
DARWINISME PÅ AARHUS UNIVERSITET - OM ALGORITMER, ANTIBIOTIKA-RESISTENS OG ANTI-RELIGIØSE ARGUMENTER
afholdes lørdag d. 13. juni, Studenternes Hus, Aarhus Universitet.
Se program og tilmelding her:
www.teo.au.dk/teonat/program/symposiumforaar2009
Se program og tilmelding her:
www.teo.au.dk/teonat/program/symposiumforaar2009
lørdag den 23. maj 2009
Virkeligheder på spil
Christopher Gad forsvarer ph.d.-afhandling
Christopher Gad forsvarer afhandlingen Virkeligheder på spil - studier i empirisk filosofi, fiskerikontrol og ontologisk arbejde. Forsvaret finder sted mandag d. 8.6, kl. 13-16, IT-byen Katrinebjerg, lille auditorium, åbogade 19, 8200 Århus N.
Christopher Gad forsvarer afhandlingen Virkeligheder på spil - studier i empirisk filosofi, fiskerikontrol og ontologisk arbejde. Forsvaret finder sted mandag d. 8.6, kl. 13-16, IT-byen Katrinebjerg, lille auditorium, åbogade 19, 8200 Århus N.
Efter forsvaret afholdes reception i frokoststuen på IMV. Find afhandlingen her.
Akademisering i filosofisk perspektiv
Sommerskole 2009: Som noget nyt udbyder Danmarks Pædagogiske Universitetsskole i august 2009 forskningsbaseret efteruddannelse i form af sommerskolekurser. Fagmiljø for Pædagogisk Filosofi og Idéhistorie udbyder i den forbindelse blandt andet kurset:
Akademisering i filosofisk perspektiv
Formål: At give deltagerne indsigt i centrale faktorer i akademiseringsprocessen såvel historisk som aktuelt-politisk og udvikle deres kompetence til at reflektere over og deltage i diskussionen af emner som
- begrundelser for og konsekvenser af Bologna-processen
- akademiseringen af mellemlange videregående uddannelser og professioner
- filosofien bag nye begreber som videnssamfund og vidensdeling
- konsekvenser af pædagogisering af viden og kompetenceudvikling
Akademisering i filosofisk perspektiv
Formål: At give deltagerne indsigt i centrale faktorer i akademiseringsprocessen såvel historisk som aktuelt-politisk og udvikle deres kompetence til at reflektere over og deltage i diskussionen af emner som
- begrundelser for og konsekvenser af Bologna-processen
- akademiseringen af mellemlange videregående uddannelser og professioner
- filosofien bag nye begreber som videnssamfund og vidensdeling
- konsekvenser af pædagogisering af viden og kompetenceudvikling
Undervisere: Mag.art. & ph.d. Anne-Marie Eggert Olsen og mag.art. & ph.d. Sune Frølund, lektorer i filosofi ved Institut for Pædagogik.
Kursusansvarlig: Anne-Marie Eggert Olsen, leder af forskningsenheden Akademisering.
Mere om kurset på DPUs sider her: www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?tab=o&siteman=1&p=13444
Kursusansvarlig: Anne-Marie Eggert Olsen, leder af forskningsenheden Akademisering.
Mere om kurset på DPUs sider her: www.dpu.dk/site.aspx?tab=o&siteman=1&p=13444
Indkaldelse til ordinær generalforsamling i DASTS
Hermed indkaldes til ordinær generalforsamling i DASTS, fredag d.12 juni på IT-universitetet i København.
Generalforsamlingen afholdes i umiddelbar forlængelse af den årlige DASTS konference. Det præcise tidspunkt og mødelokalet vil fremgå af konferenceprogrammet, som offentliggøres senere. Dagsordenen og et beslutningsforslag fra bestyrelsen kan læses her (pdf). Medlemmer af foreningen er velkomne til at fremsende yderligere forslag. Se:
Indkaldelse til ordinær generalforsamling i DASTS
OBS: DASTS konference:
This year’s annual conference will be hosted by the ITU-university of Copenhagen june 11-12 and we hope to see many of you. We will do our best to create an inspiring and nice environment for exchange of ideas. Abstract deadline April 1. For further information see the call for papers.
Faggruppe 68 - information om den bibliometriske forskningsindikator
Planerne om en såkaldt "bibliometrisk forskningsindikator" til at måle universiteternes forskningsproduktion og lade dette mål indgå som faktor i fordelingen af basismidler ("konkurrenceudsættelse") til universiteterne, har fra starten været mødt med skarp kritik – ikke blot pga. selve ideen om at konkurrence mellem universiteter efter mål og vægt skulle øge forskningskvaliteten, og pga. det forhold at mål og pointgivning uværgerligt skaber andre rammer for ledelsen og de enkelte forskeres handlinger (en ny incitamentstruktur). Kritikken drejede sig også om den måde Videnskabsministeriet greb ideen an på, herunder den lukkethed, der prægede arbejdet med de nye mål. Siden har ministeriets styrelse for forskning fået en hjemmeside med bedre information om projektet, men kritikken af dets ide og konsekvenser er ikke forstummet. De over 360 videnskabelige repræsentanter i de 68 forskellige faggrupper har fra begyndelsen kritiseret uheldige konsekvenser af projektet. Websitet faggruppe 68 er oprettet for
- at bidrage til at øge synlighed, gennemskuelighed og tilgængeliggøre materiale til kritisk diskussion af Forsknings-og Innovationsstyrelsens arbejde med "den bibliometriske forskningsindikator",
- at lette faggruppe 68's kommunikation med gruppens faglige bagland (med at dele dokumenter m.v. ). Faggruppe nr. 68 dækker fagområdet Videnskabsstudier og Forskningsanalyse.
Andre faggrupper og almindeligt nysgerrige er mere end velkommen til at kigge projektet over skuldrene her. Se mere på faggruppe68.pbworks.com
onsdag den 8. april 2009
Forsvar af afhandling om hybridlogik og dets bevisteori
Defence of doctoral thesis by Torben Braüner
Torben Braüner defends his thesis ”Hybrid Logic and Its Proof-Theory” in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree doctor scientiarum (dr.scient.).
The defence takes place at Roskilde University in Biografen/The Cinema, Building 41, on Thursday April 23rd 2009, at 1.00 pm.
Assessment committee:
Abstract of the thesis:
Hybrid logics are obtained by adding further expressive power to ordinary modal and temporal logic. The history of hybrid logics goes back to the philosopher Arthur Prior's work on temporal logic in the 1960s. The extra expressive power of hybrid logics is often useful. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to formulate a series of statements about what happens at specific times, and ordinary modal logic simply does not allow this. The addition of hybrid-logical machinery increases the expressive power, but often decidability is retained, which is important for computational applications. Now, proof-theory is the branch of logic dealing with the notion of proof and formal systems for representing proofs. There is little consensus about proof-theory for ordinary modal logic, and many modal-logical proof systems lack important proof-theoretic properties. By giving a spectrum of well-behaved proof systems (natural deduction, Gentzen, tableau, and axiom systems) for a spectrum of hybrid logics (propositional, first-order, intensional first-order, and intuitionistic), this thesis demonstrates that the deficiencies of ordinary modal logic are remedied when hybrid-logical machinery is added. Besides remedying these deficiencies, the hybrid-logical proof-systems have independent computational as well as philosophical and mathematical motivations.
Copies of the thesis are available from the author (torben [at] ruc . dk).
Torben Braüner defends his thesis ”Hybrid Logic and Its Proof-Theory” in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree doctor scientiarum (dr.scient.).
The defence takes place at Roskilde University in Biografen/The Cinema, Building 41, on Thursday April 23rd 2009, at 1.00 pm.
Assessment committee:
- Stig Andur Pedersen, Professor of philosophy, Roskilde University,
- Patrick Blackburn, Director of Research, INRIA, France’s national organisation for research in computer science,
- Melving Fitting, Professor of computer science, philosophy, and mathematics, City University of New York.
Abstract of the thesis:
Hybrid logics are obtained by adding further expressive power to ordinary modal and temporal logic. The history of hybrid logics goes back to the philosopher Arthur Prior's work on temporal logic in the 1960s. The extra expressive power of hybrid logics is often useful. For example, when reasoning about time one often wants to formulate a series of statements about what happens at specific times, and ordinary modal logic simply does not allow this. The addition of hybrid-logical machinery increases the expressive power, but often decidability is retained, which is important for computational applications. Now, proof-theory is the branch of logic dealing with the notion of proof and formal systems for representing proofs. There is little consensus about proof-theory for ordinary modal logic, and many modal-logical proof systems lack important proof-theoretic properties. By giving a spectrum of well-behaved proof systems (natural deduction, Gentzen, tableau, and axiom systems) for a spectrum of hybrid logics (propositional, first-order, intensional first-order, and intuitionistic), this thesis demonstrates that the deficiencies of ordinary modal logic are remedied when hybrid-logical machinery is added. Besides remedying these deficiencies, the hybrid-logical proof-systems have independent computational as well as philosophical and mathematical motivations.
Copies of the thesis are available from the author (torben [at] ruc . dk).
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Update: For nyligt er en video med hele forsvaret lagt på nettet:
søndag den 1. marts 2009
Forum for Eksistens og Videnskab: Darwin
Forum for Eksistens og Videnskab præsenterer hermed forårets program
Som i mange andre sammenhænge er forårsprogrammet præget af Darwins dobbelte jubilæum.
17. Marts 2009 kl. 20.00 (OBS)
Darwin i dag
Oplæg ved
Lektor, cand. scient: Jes Søe Pedersen, Professor, lic.theol. Niels Henrik Gregersen
og Professor, dr.phil. Frederik Stjernfelt.
De tre debattører vil komme med et oplæg om evolutionsteorien og dens status i dag set fra deres respektive fagområder: biologi, teologi og humaniora. Derefter vil der være diskussion.
Sted: Den teologiske kældercafé, Købemagergade 44 over gården
Entre 20 kr.
29. april 2009 kl. 19.00
Theology Celebrating Darwin’s Legacy?
Lecture by professor Lluis Oviedo
It may seem a provocation to invite theologians to recognize the merits of Darwin, whose second centenary we celebrate this year. Darwinism has been rather in the past cause of struggle and hard contrast for theology, as it challenged several assumptions of traditional Christian faith. Even if some scientists still embrace Darwin’s ideas as a weapon against religion, a different attitude arises in the last years both, by theologians and scientists, claiming Darwin’s legacy as a good basis for fruitful exchange between science and theology. Theologians even discover now that the new framework provided by the evolutionary theory helps to better tackle former intractable problems, like making sense of the suffering in the world, despite the expected divine goodness.
Lluis Oviedo is born near Valencia in Spain (1958), is full professor of Theological Anthropology at the Antonianum University; and invited professor in Gregoriana University – both in Rome – for questions of religion, society and science.
Has published the following books: Secularization as a Problem; Altruism and Charity; The Christian Faith and the New Social Challenges.
Currently researches in the field of cognitive science of religion and its theological impact, and issues about secularization process and religious social dynamics.
Sted: Det teologiske fakultet, Købmagergade 44, AUD 1. ( gården)
Entre 20 kr.
4 Juni 2009 kl. 19.00
The impact of Darwinism on Christian theology
Lecture by Ma, ph.d. Christopher Southgate
There are four aspects to this subject, as usually considered. The lecture will consider briefly the challenge to literal readings of Genesis 1, and to the argument from design in natural theology. Both of these were under threat from other lines of argument before the development of Darwinism. The third challenge posed by Darwinism, historically, was to the status of human beings. I will show that, once the ‘Copernican shift’ away from utter human distinctiveness is made, evolutionary theory offers positive ways of thinking about the material world, and about incarnation. I will draw briefly on new work on the semiotics of incarnation, and on the concept of deification. Finally the lecture will turn to the principal challenge posed by Darwinism to Christian theology, namely the problem of suffering within evolution, and here I will develop thinking published in my recent monograph The Groaning of Creation (2008), acknowledging the depth of the problem, and indicating lines of argument by which to begin to address it.
Chris Southgate trained originally as a research biochemist. He has taught for the Dept on the science-religion debate (and related areas such as environmental ethics) since 1993. He is currently a Research Fellow on the project 'The Use of the Bible in Environmental Ethics', funded by the AHRC, and Principal Investigator on the project 'Information and the Origin of Life', collaborating with the Dept's Honorary University Fellow Dr Andrew Robinson. This latter project is funded by the Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series.
Chris teaches the undergraduate modules 'Evolution, God and Gaia' and 'God and the Physicists', and is offering the new MA module 'The human animal: evolution, ensoulment, extinction?' in 2008-9. He has two research students at present and welcomes enquiries from others interested in his areas of expertise.
Chris's new book 'The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution an the Problem of Evil' was released by Westminster John Knox Press in June 2008. He is also the editor of 'God, Humanity and the Cosmos' (2nd ed., Continuum, 2005), a standard text in the science-religion field.
Chris is also the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent being 'Easing the Gravity Field: poems of science and love' (Shoestring, 2006) and is working with New York University on a multimedia project based on his biographical poem on TS Eliot, 'A Love and its Sounding' (Salzburg, 1997).
Sted: Den teologiske kældercafé, Købemagergade 44 over gården
Entre 20 kr.
Som i mange andre sammenhænge er forårsprogrammet præget af Darwins dobbelte jubilæum.
17. Marts 2009 kl. 20.00 (OBS)
Darwin i dag
Oplæg ved
Lektor, cand. scient: Jes Søe Pedersen, Professor, lic.theol. Niels Henrik Gregersen
og Professor, dr.phil. Frederik Stjernfelt.
De tre debattører vil komme med et oplæg om evolutionsteorien og dens status i dag set fra deres respektive fagområder: biologi, teologi og humaniora. Derefter vil der være diskussion.
Sted: Den teologiske kældercafé, Købemagergade 44 over gården
Entre 20 kr.
29. april 2009 kl. 19.00
Theology Celebrating Darwin’s Legacy?
Lecture by professor Lluis Oviedo
It may seem a provocation to invite theologians to recognize the merits of Darwin, whose second centenary we celebrate this year. Darwinism has been rather in the past cause of struggle and hard contrast for theology, as it challenged several assumptions of traditional Christian faith. Even if some scientists still embrace Darwin’s ideas as a weapon against religion, a different attitude arises in the last years both, by theologians and scientists, claiming Darwin’s legacy as a good basis for fruitful exchange between science and theology. Theologians even discover now that the new framework provided by the evolutionary theory helps to better tackle former intractable problems, like making sense of the suffering in the world, despite the expected divine goodness.
Lluis Oviedo is born near Valencia in Spain (1958), is full professor of Theological Anthropology at the Antonianum University; and invited professor in Gregoriana University – both in Rome – for questions of religion, society and science.
Has published the following books: Secularization as a Problem; Altruism and Charity; The Christian Faith and the New Social Challenges.
Currently researches in the field of cognitive science of religion and its theological impact, and issues about secularization process and religious social dynamics.
Sted: Det teologiske fakultet, Købmagergade 44, AUD 1. ( gården)
Entre 20 kr.
4 Juni 2009 kl. 19.00
The impact of Darwinism on Christian theology
Lecture by Ma, ph.d. Christopher Southgate
There are four aspects to this subject, as usually considered. The lecture will consider briefly the challenge to literal readings of Genesis 1, and to the argument from design in natural theology. Both of these were under threat from other lines of argument before the development of Darwinism. The third challenge posed by Darwinism, historically, was to the status of human beings. I will show that, once the ‘Copernican shift’ away from utter human distinctiveness is made, evolutionary theory offers positive ways of thinking about the material world, and about incarnation. I will draw briefly on new work on the semiotics of incarnation, and on the concept of deification. Finally the lecture will turn to the principal challenge posed by Darwinism to Christian theology, namely the problem of suffering within evolution, and here I will develop thinking published in my recent monograph The Groaning of Creation (2008), acknowledging the depth of the problem, and indicating lines of argument by which to begin to address it.
Chris Southgate trained originally as a research biochemist. He has taught for the Dept on the science-religion debate (and related areas such as environmental ethics) since 1993. He is currently a Research Fellow on the project 'The Use of the Bible in Environmental Ethics', funded by the AHRC, and Principal Investigator on the project 'Information and the Origin of Life', collaborating with the Dept's Honorary University Fellow Dr Andrew Robinson. This latter project is funded by the Science and Transcendence Advanced Research Series.
Chris teaches the undergraduate modules 'Evolution, God and Gaia' and 'God and the Physicists', and is offering the new MA module 'The human animal: evolution, ensoulment, extinction?' in 2008-9. He has two research students at present and welcomes enquiries from others interested in his areas of expertise.
Chris's new book 'The Groaning of Creation: God, Evolution an the Problem of Evil' was released by Westminster John Knox Press in June 2008. He is also the editor of 'God, Humanity and the Cosmos' (2nd ed., Continuum, 2005), a standard text in the science-religion field.
Chris is also the author of five collections of poetry, the most recent being 'Easing the Gravity Field: poems of science and love' (Shoestring, 2006) and is working with New York University on a multimedia project based on his biographical poem on TS Eliot, 'A Love and its Sounding' (Salzburg, 1997).
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Brugerdrevet innovation
Frederiksberg
2. april, 30. april og 20. maj
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2. april, 30. april og 20. maj
Hermed en invitation til tre seminarer, som har til formål at opdyrke socialvidenskabelige perspektiver på de aktuelle diskussioner og satsninger vedr. brugerdrevet innovation. Temaet berører en række klassiske STS (Science and technology studies) temaer såsom innovations-sociologi, ‘Co-construction of technology and users’ og ‘Public Engagement in Science and Technology’.
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Seminarrækken omhandler sprogopfattelser hos forskellige filosoffer og skriftlighed i relation til filosofi, videnskab og 'akademisk skrivning'.
Oplægsholderne er Sune Frølund og Anne-Marie Eggert Olsen.
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Onsdag den 18. marts kl. 14-17, Lok. D165
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Heidegger og Gadamer
Onsdag den 7. april kl. 14-17, Lok. D165
Kritikken af den sprogløse dialektik
Adorno
Onsdag den 22. april kl. 14-17, Bemærk: Lok. A405
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Becker-Larsen presents his film: "The Moving Earth"
Friday 6 March 2009, 14.15
Aud. A, Niels Bohr Institute
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen
Lars Becker-Larsen presents his latest film, "The Moving Earth".
I am happy to invite you to the next seminar in our series. This time
the documentary film-maker Lars Becker-Larsen will present his latest
film "The Moving Earth", which has received excellent reviews in the
Danish news media. The synopsis below is drawn from the website
http://www.danishdoc.dk/movingearth_uk.html , which also contains
further information about the film.
After a short break, a discussion of the film from various
perspectives will be introduced by: Karin Tybjerg, historian of
science and Director of the Astronomical Unit of Kroppedal Museum;
Casper Tybjerg, Associate Professor at Film and Media Studies, the
University of Copenhagen; and Benny Lautrup, Professor of Physics at
the Niels Bohr Institute.
I am happy to be able to show Lars Becker-Larsen's film in our seminar
series and look forward to seeing you at this event.
All the best,
Finn Aaserud
Niels Bohr Archive
History of Science Seminar
Synopsis:
The Earth is not the immovable centre of the world but a planet in
orbit around the sun: this was the claim made by the astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543. To the Christian church this was a heresy
that contravened the Word of God. For centuries to come great
scientists like Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton doggedly
pursued the notion of a moving earth, and from this epoch-making
process there emerged not only a new view of the world but the modern
natural sciences.
Aud. A, Niels Bohr Institute
Blegdamsvej 17, Copenhagen
Lars Becker-Larsen presents his latest film, "The Moving Earth".
I am happy to invite you to the next seminar in our series. This time
the documentary film-maker Lars Becker-Larsen will present his latest
film "The Moving Earth", which has received excellent reviews in the
Danish news media. The synopsis below is drawn from the website
http://www.danishdoc.dk/
further information about the film.
After a short break, a discussion of the film from various
perspectives will be introduced by: Karin Tybjerg, historian of
science and Director of the Astronomical Unit of Kroppedal Museum;
Casper Tybjerg, Associate Professor at Film and Media Studies, the
University of Copenhagen; and Benny Lautrup, Professor of Physics at
the Niels Bohr Institute.
I am happy to be able to show Lars Becker-Larsen's film in our seminar
series and look forward to seeing you at this event.
All the best,
Finn Aaserud
Niels Bohr Archive
History of Science Seminar
Synopsis:
The Earth is not the immovable centre of the world but a planet in
orbit around the sun: this was the claim made by the astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus in 1543. To the Christian church this was a heresy
that contravened the Word of God. For centuries to come great
scientists like Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton doggedly
pursued the notion of a moving earth, and from this epoch-making
process there emerged not only a new view of the world but the modern
natural sciences.
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