Past Conferences and Special Events
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Presidential Commission on Bioethics on Campus Nov. 5-6
Two-day meeting at the University will bring together the nation's leaders in science, medicine, ethics, engineering and law. - Public Events at Divinity with Randal Jelks
October 2012 -
Theological Reflection and the Limits of Politics
October 4-5, 2012
The third of four conferences in the series "The Engaged Mind," reflecting on themes drawn from the work of Jean Bethke Elshtain. The series is underwritten by the McDonald Agape Foundation. - Archetype and Adaptation: Passover Haggadot from the Stephen P. Durchslag Collection
Spring 2012
Join us on campus this spring for an exhibition, a lecture series, and a Wednesday Luncheon, all on the theme of haggadot. -
Responding to the Call of the Sick: Religious Traditions and Health Professions Today
Inaugural National Conference on Medicine and Religion
May 23 - 25, 2012 - Before Authority: Renegotiating Power and Religion
May 11-12, 2012
- On the Edge of Glory: Making Disciples in a "Secular" AgeThe Eighth Annual Divinity School Ministry Conference
Friday, April 13th, 2012
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The Matter of Israelite Religion
This four-part lecture series in 2011-12 highlighted material finds relevant to, and theoretical advances in, the study of ancient Israelite religion, with implications for biblical literature and ideas.
- The Trials of Desire and the Possibility of Faith
Yale University, 22-24 March 2012
Cosponsored by the Martin Marty Center at the University of Chicago Divinity School
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The State of American Jewish Belief Revisited
At the Edge of a Crisis or at a New Threshold?
Sunday, March 4, 2012 - 12:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School, in collaboration with Spertus. -
Eriugena and Creation
November 9-12, 2011 - Democracy on Trial: Religion, Civil Society, and Democratic Theory
Part II of the Engaged Mind conference series
October 13-14, 2011 - International Association of Black Religions and Spiritualities 2011 Meeting
May 22 to May 28, 2011 - Writing Religion: Representation, Difference, and Authority in American Culture
Conference to honor W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret E. Burton Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Christianity and Theology in the Divinity School
May 19-20, 2011 - Theological Reflection & The Pursuit of Ideals
May 8-10, 2011 - 2011 Ministry Conference:
Ministry: Left, Right, and In-Between
April 15, 2011
Exploring the question: How do we engage in authentic ministry in the context of a polarizing political climate?
Email ministryconference@gmail.com for questions
The Seventh Annual Student Ministry Conference - Irish & Jewish Identities: Links & Parallels Conference
February 22, 2011
Details and full schedule (pdf)
Cosponsored by the Chicago Center for Jewish Studies; please see their website for more details. - The Future of Philosophical Theology: Conversations in Honor of Franklin I. Gamwell
Conference to honor Franklin I. Gamwell, Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of Religious Ethics, the Philosophy of Religions, and Theology
February 4, 2011 - Spiritual Exercises: From Antiquity to the Present
January 27-8, 2011 - Comparing Religions: On Theory and Method
A Conference in honor of Martin Riesebrodt, Professor of the Sociology of Religion
January 14, 2011 - Politics as a Moral Question: A Conference on Process Philosophy and Political Theory
Oct 14-16, 2010
Sponsored by the Martin E. Marty Center of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, in coordination with the Center for Process Studies in Claremont, CA, this conference is designed to be a discussion between political thinkers who work within the tradition of process philosophy and thinkers who pursue political theory within other philosophical contexts. This is a working conference. Nonparticipants may sit in as observers. For more information, email Matt Petrusek at petrusek@uchicago.edu. - The Augustinian Moment: Reflection at the Limits of Selfhood
May 26, 2010 - Hindus in India and America: Hinduizing America; Globalizing India
May 17-19, 2010 - Worship in Crisis
The Sixth Annual Divinity School Ministry Conference
April 23, 2010 - The Prophetic Interpreter:
Preaching and Teaching from Scriptural Traditions in Pluralistic Worlds
A Border Crossing Conference
February 19, 2010 - Public and Private: Feminism, Marriage and Family in Political Thought and Contemporary Life
Part of the Engaged Mind conference series
February 25-26, 2010 - Deconstructing Dialogue:
New Perspectives on Religious Encounters: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
January 21-23, 2010 - Changing Minds
A Border Crossing Conference
September 25, 2009 - Fifth Annual Ministry Conference:
From the Ends of the Earth: Christianity and the 21st Century
May 1-2, 2009 - Culturing Theologies, Theologizing Cultures: Exploring the Worlds of Religion
April 22–23, 2009 - Resisting Mission: Redefining Engagement
A Border Crossing Event
January 23, 2009 - Schleiermacher, the Study of Religion, and the Future of Theology: A Transatlantic Dialogue
The Divinity School, University of Chicago
(Wednesday October 29 to Friday October 31)
The Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion
(Saturday November 1 to Monday November 3) - Authority and Intimacy: Forming Whole Persons for the Classroom and the Congregation
A Border Crossing Event
Friday, September 26, 2008 - Fourth Annual Divinity School Ministry Conference: From Dust to Steel: Human Being as Creature and Creator
April 18, 2008 - Conference in Honor of Professor David Tracy
May 4-6, 2008 (save the date)
More info to come. - Border Crossing event: Music in American Religious Experience
Friday, January 25, 2008, Swift Lecture Hall - Conference in Honor of Professor Martin E. Marty
Feb. 5-6, 2008 (save the date) - Mourning and Religion
Oct. 26-27, Swift Lecture Hall - Border Crossing event: Advocacy in the Pulpit and in the Classroom
Sept. 19, Swift Lecture Hall - Through a Glass Darkly: The Church and Popular Culture in the Media Age
May 4, 2007 - Modernity's Other: Studies on Jewish Women
February 12-13, 2007 - The Self
January 26-27, 2007 - Physics, Philosophy, Physiology: Three Paths, One Spirited Product
January 26, 2007 - Hermeneutics in History: Mircea Eliade, Joachim Wach, and the Science of Religions
November 3�November 4, 2006 - Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology
October 14-15, 2005 (closed working group)
October 26-28, 2006 (public conference) - India: Implementing Pluralism and Democracy
November 11�November 13, 2005 - Black Theology and Womanist Theology in Dialogue: Which Way Forward for the Church and the Academy?
October 31�November 4, 2005 - Commemorating the Dead: Texts and Artifacts in Context
May 22-24, 2005 - Religion and the Democratic Prospect
May 12-13, 2005 - 2005 Ethics Club Lecture Series — Politics, Virtue, and Theology: Limits and Horizons
April 14, 2005 (and subsequent Thursdays) - Fearfully and Wonderfully Made: Contemporary Reflections on the Body
April 8, 2005, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Swift Hall - Religion and the Democratic Prospect Book Discussion
February 10–11, 2005
Jeffrey Stout, Democracy and Tradition (Princeton University Press, 2004). - Religion and the Democratic Prospect
May 6-7, 2004 - Religion and the Democratic Prospect Book Discussion
February 12–13, 2004
W.A.R. Shadid, ed., Religious Freedom and the Neutrality of the State: The Position of Islam in the European Union (Peeters, 2002). - The Poetic Imagination and Mysticism: The Poetry and Scholarship of Gershom Scholem
February 1-2, 2004 - Religion and the Democratic Prospect
November 6-7, 2003 - Humanity before God: Contemporary Faces of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Ethics
The 2003 D. R. Sharpe Lectures on Social Ethics
October 21-23, 2003 - Women and American Religion: Reimagining the Past
October 8-10, 2003 - Pew Forum Conference on Theology, Morality, and Public Life
February 26-27, 2003 - Doing Justice to Mercy: Contemporary Problems and Prospects for Criminal Justice
April 12-13, 2002 - Ethics in a Time of Turmoil
April 5-6, 2002 - A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty
January 25, 2002 - Marriage: Is it Just a Piece of Paper? (A project of the Religion, Culture, and Family Project)
Winter 2001 - Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life
October 26-27, 2000 - The Sacred and the Sovereign: Human Rights, the Use of Force, and Religious Pluralism at Century's Dawn
October 20, 2000
