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Without Nature? A New Condition for Theology

October 14-15, 2005 (closed working group)
October 26-28, 2006 (public conference)
University of Chicago Divinity School
Swift Hall
1025 East 58th Street
Chicago, Illinois, 60637

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Conference Schedule (October 26-28, 2006)
Open to Public at No Charge; Registration Recommended

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Thursday, October 26, 2006

Without Nature?
4:30 Dean’s Welcome: Richard Rosengarten
4:40 Introduction: Wendy Doniger
4:45 Lorraine Daston, “The World in Order”
5:30 Discussion

Friday, October 27, 2006

Ecology and Nature
10:00 Introduction: Peter Crane
10:15 Peter Raven, “The Sustainability of the Earth: Our Common Responsibility”
10:45 William French, “With Radical Amazement: Ecology and the Recovery of Creation”
11:15 Cabell King, “The Space of Abundant Life”
11:45 Discussion

12:30 Lunch break (lunch not provided for attendees)

Genetics and Nature
2:00 Introduction: Mary Mahowald
2:15 Stuart Newman, “Renatured Biology: Getting Past Postmodernism in the Life Sciences”
2:45 Ronald Cole-Turner, "Synthetic Biology: Theological Questions about the Engineering of Life"
3:15 Gerald McKenny, “Nature as Given, Nature as Guide: With and Without Nature in the New Bioethics”
3:45 Discussion

4:30 Graduate Student Reception in Common Room

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Geography and Nature
9:00 Introduction: Virginia Parks
9:15 Edward Soja, “Seeing Nature Spatially”
9:45 Timothy Gorringe, “The Decline of Nature: Natural Theology, the Theology of Nature and the Built Environment”
10:15 Sallie McFague, “The Body of the World: Our Body, Ourselves”
10:45 Discussion

11:30 Lunch break (lunch provided for those registered)

Anthropology and Nature
1:00 Introduction: Karin Knorr-Cetina
1:15 Michael Fischer, “Emergent Forms of Un/Natural Life”
1:45 Lisa Sowle Cahill, “Nature, Change and Justice”
2:15 Thomas Carlson, “Without Nature Within Nature: Technological Humanity, Theological Tradition and the Birth of Possible Worlds from Martin Heidegger to Michel Serres”
2:45 Discussion

3:30 Coffee break

Theology without Nature?
3:45 Introduction: Ronald Engel
4:00 David Albertson, “The Question of Nature as Dangerous Attempt: Theses Toward a Possible Future”
4:30 Peter Scott, “The end of nature and the last human? Thinking theologically about “nature” in a postnatural context”
5:00 Kathryn Tanner, “Grace without Nature”
5:30 Discussion

People with special needs requiring assistance please contact the Divinity School in advance, at 773-702-8200.