The 2012 Meeting of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology (SCPT)

Creation, Creatureliness, and Creativity:

The Human Place in the Natural World

April 20-21, 2012

Loyola Marymount University

William H. Hannon Library

Keynote Speakers:

Bruce Foltz (Eckerd College)

Janet Martin Soskice (Cambridge University)

Norman Wirzba (Duke Divinity School)

The Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology seeks to promote inquiry at the intersection of philosophy and theology. The 2012 conference of the SCPT takes today’s ecological crisis as its point of departure, with presentations from philosophical and theological perspectives informed by continental traditions such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, eco-feminism, post-structuralism, post-colonial studies, deconstruction, and social and deep ecology. The conference will take place in the facilities of LMU’s new William H. Hannon Library. Those wishing to participate or attend the banquet can visit https://bellarmine.lmu.edu/scpt for registration information.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

*Session moderators are still being arranged. Contact btreanor@lmu.edu for more information.

FRIDAY, APRIL 20: 

Opening Remarks: 12:40

David W. Burcham, President of Loyola Marymount University and Professor of Law at Loyola Law School

Joe Hellige, Chief Academic Officer, Loyola Marymount University and Professor of Psychology

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts and Presidential Professor of African American Studies and History, Loyola Marymount University

Session 1: 1:00 to 2:30

Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

Keynote Address

Norman Wirzba, “The Art of Creaturely Life: Considering Human Propriety”

Sessions 2 and 3: 3:00 to 4:15

Session 2:

Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

1. “Creativity as Call to Care for Creation? Between John Zizioulas and Jean-Louis Chrétien,” Christina M. Gschwandtner

2. “Rowan Williams and Ecological Rationality,” Jarrod Longbons

Session 3:

Room 117, William H. Hannon Library

1. “Creation, Evolution, Irreduction: An Object-Oriented Approach to the Difference between Science and Religion,” Adam Miller

2. “The Theological Hermeneutics of Capital and the Implications for Ecology,” Dan Olson

Reception: 5:00 to 7:00

Marymount Institute for Faith, Culture, and the Arts (University Hall 3000)

Dinner: Dinner on Friday is unscheduled; participants can make their way to local restaurants.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21:

Session 4: 9:00 to 10:15

Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

Keynote Address

Janet Martin Soskice, “Creation, Presence and Place”

Sessions 5 and 6: 10:30 to 11:45

Session 5:

Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

1. “What Would Thoreau Write Today?,” Ed Mooney

2. “Levinas’ Account of Creation Ex Nihilo,” Jeffrey Hanson

Session 6:

Room 117, William H. Hannon Library

1. “The Face of the Turtle: A Phenomenological Exploration of the Face of Nature through Steinbeck’s Turtle in The Grapes of Wrath,” Amy E. Antoninka

2.“Dream Writing Beyond a Wounded World: Topographies of the Eco-Divine,” Susan Pyke

Lunch: 11:45 to 1:15

Session 7: 1:30 to 2:45

Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

Session 7: “Theophany and the Chiaroscuro of Nature: Remarks on Creation and Unknowing from John Scotus Eriugena to post-Heideggerian Thought,” Tom Carlson

Sessions 8 and 9: 3:00 to 4:15

Session 8:

Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

1. “Eating Animals and Ecological Crisis: Continental Epiphanies for Revaluing Omnivorism,” Matt Halteman

2. “Care of the Soil, Care of the Self: Creation and Creativity in the American Suburb,” Wilson Dickinson

Session 9:

Room 117, William H. Hannon Library

1. “Ethics of Ecological Apocalypse,” Joanna Demers

2. “Overcoming Idolatry in Creation Spirituality,” Benjamin Stern

Session 10: 4:30 to 6:00

Von der Ahe Family Suite, William H. Hannon Library

Keynote Address

Bruce Foltz, “Face of Nature, Gift of Creation”

Conference Banquet: 6:45 to 9:00

Hanger 39, Custom Hotel