Creation and Crisis: Reopening the Scandinavian Creation Theology
January Friday 14 – Sunday 16 2022
Aarhus University, Denmark
Conference fee:
950 DKK
Registration deadline:
15 December 2021
Call for Papers deadline for short papers:
1 November 2021
Subthemes:
Creation theology and Climate change
Creation and Vulnerability
Vulnerability and Climate Justice
A World with Corona – historical, ethical, and epistomological perspectives
About the keynotes:
Niels Henrik Gregersen is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen, after having taught 17 years at Aarhus University. Within the field of science-and-theology, he focused on and is well known for developing theories of self-organization and information. Within the field of systematic theology, he developed the concept of Deep Incarnation in the context of a theology of creation. He is the author of seven monographs, three co-authored books, and numerous articles. His work is translated into ten languages.
Simone Kotva is Postdoc in Systematic Theology at the University of Oslo. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge and has taught at the universities of Gothenburg and Cambridge. She works at the intersection of religion, philosophy and geopolitics, and has a special interest in French spiritualism and the relationship between mysticism’s technologies of the self and the science of techno-fixing the earth. She is the author of Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2020) and is currently working on a second monograph, An Enquiry Concerning Nonhuman Understanding: God/s, Species, Crossings.
Serafim Seppälä is Professor of Systematic Theology and Patristics at the University of Eastern Finland, and a hieromonk in the Orthodox Church of Finland. In addition to a number of monographs and translations in Finnish, he is the author of multiple articles in the areas of patristic studies, Byzantine aesthetics, Syriac literature, Jewish-Christian encounter, early Islamic-Christian encounter, and the cultural heritage of Armenian genocide.
For further information, please contact the planning committee:
Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, University of Aarhus (chairperson) teoewp@cas.au.dk
Christine Svinth-Værge Põder, University of Copenhagen: cpo@teol.ku.dk
Anni Maria Laato, Åbo Akademi University: Anni-Maria.Laato@abo.fi
Marius Timmann Mjaaland, University of Oslo: m.t.mjaaland@teologi.uio.no
Petra Carlsson, Stockholm School of Theology: petra.carlsson@ehs.se
Sólveig Anna Bóasdóttir, University of Iceland: solanna@hi.is