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Curriculum Vitae Michael S. Northcott, 20 January 2020 1 Curriculum Vitae (Michael S. Northcott) A. Personalia 1. Name Michael S. Northcott (born 13 May 1955) 2. Address 3. Marital status and children B. Academic career 1. Education, degrees 1983: University of Sunderland; PhD 1977: University of Durham; MA in Systematic Theology 1976: University of Durham; BA Honours Theology 2.1 2. Academic positions and teaching experience 2019-: Guest Professor, Evangelical Theological Faculty, Leuven 2019-: Visiting Professor, Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies, Graduate School, Universitas Gadjah Mada Yogyakarta 2018-: Professor Emeritus of Ethics, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh 2018: Guest Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of Heidelberg 2007-2017: Professor of Ethics, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh 1989-2007: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader in Ethics, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh 1986-1989: Associate Professor, Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology 1984-1989: Lecturer in Practical Theology and Field Education Director, Seminari Theologi Malaysia 1977-1980: Research Assistant, Division of Religion and Philosophy, Sunderland Polytechnic 3. Bibliography (see Appendix 2) 4. Supervised doctoral dissertations, either as promoter or as co-promoter a. Supervised dissertations Promotor of over 30 doctoral students 5. Membership and Offices in Learned Societies 2018-: Elected Board Member, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture Societas Ethica Society for the Study of Christian Ethics European Academy of Religion American Academy of Religion 6. Research interest and projects (see Appendix 2) 7. Editorial appointments and organization of international conferences Peer review of monographs for T. and T. Clark, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Bloomsbury, SCM Press, SPCK, Wiley-Blackwell, Westminster John Know Press, Routledge, California University Press, and Edinburgh University Press. Peer review of articles for Environmental Values, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, Journal of Anglican Studies, Environmental Humanities, Modern Theology. Curriculum Vitae Michael S. Northcott, 20 January 2020 2 8. Academic distinctions and awards 6 Research Grants awarded Appointments as external examiner for the Award of Research Degrees: Kings College London (2019), University of Aberdeen (2018), University of Nottingham (2017), Trinity College Dublin (2016), Kampen University Netherlands (2015), Sheffield University (2015) 9. Academic lectures and conference presentations "Fittingness of Biodiversity to the Divinity of Creation: Why the Conservation of Species is a Theological Moral Priority”, Online and In-Person Conference on the theme ‘Toward an Environmental Ethic of Fittingness’ hosted by Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics, ETF, Leuven, 2-4 October 2020. “Pandemic or Mediademic? Epistemic Questions in the Fog of a ‘War on Viruses’ “, Center for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia, 30 September, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6cCUMNccN4&list=FLxEC29B_1cG7MFFHLizZ mng&index=7&t=30s “Covid-19, Religion and Ethics”, Online Colloquium on Theological and Philosophical Responses to the Pandemic, University of Toronto Department of Religion, May 26 2020. “Rubbish, Recycling and Religion: Gift, Sacrifice and Waste in Contemporary Bali”, 4th International Conference of Interreligious and Intercultural Studies, Universitas Hindu (Denpasar, 15 February 2020) “From Coleridge to Conservation: The English Romantics and Modern Nature Religion”, Indonesian Association of English Studies (ICONASIA 2019), Universitas Gadjah Mada (Yogyakarta, 6-7 November 2019) “Keynote Webcast Discussion with Norman Wirzba of Duke University”, Ecology and Religion in Nineteenth Century Studies, University of Lancaster and Baylor University (Lancashire, 18-21 September 2019) “Trinity and Political Ecology”, New Trinitarian Ontologies Conference, Cambridge University (Cambridge, 13-15 September 2019) “Creaturely Ethics in the Anthropocene”, Building Bridges between Science and Religion, Templeton Summer School University of Oxford (15-17 July 2019) “Religion and the Science of Climate Destabilisation: The Case for (Re)Entanglement”, ‘After Science and Religion’ Templeton Colloquium, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, 11-13 July 2019) “Ecology and Hope”, Colloquium on Hope, Evangelical Theological Faculty (Leuven: 7- 19 June 2019) “Ethical Entanglements of Humans with Nonhumans in the Anthropocene”, Transdisciplinary Colloquium on ‘Political Theology at the Edge: Collectivities of Crisis and Possibilities’, Drew University (New Jersey, 29-31 March 2019) “Mountain Hierophanies and the Romantic Origins of Modern Nature Conservation”, ‘From the Romantics to Laudato Di: The Theological Character of Ecology’, European Academy of Religion, University of Bolgna (Bologna, 4-5 March 2019) “Creaturely Ethics in the Anthropocene”, Heidelberg Centre for the Environment (Heidelberg, 12 November 2018) “Religion and Ecology from the Romantics to Rewilding”, The Sixth Extinction: Interreligious Insights, Warnings and Questions, Dublin City University Centre for Interreligious Dialogue (Dublin, 19 September, 2018) “Gaia, Capitalism and the Climate Regime”, ‘Is the Climate Change Movement Losing its Momentum?’, Heidelberg Centre for Public Health (Heidelberg, 5 June 2018) “Guardians of the Forest: Indigenous land Rights and the Conservation of Creatures”, Colloque de la Chaire Bien Commun, Institut Catholique de Paris (Paris, 5-6 April, 2018) Curriculum Vitae Michael S. Northcott, 20 January 2020 3 “Indigenous Peoples, Land Rights and Care for Creatures”, Conference Radical Ecological Conversion After Laudato Si: Discovering the Intrinsic Value of all Creatures, Human and Nonhuman, Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome, 7-8 March 2018) “Biofuel Energy, Capital Time and the Destruction of Borneo: an Ethical Perspective”, Oxford University Centre for the Environment (Oxford, 26 January 2018) “Religio-cultural Roots of the Ecological Crises and Laudato Si”, Conference Connecting Ecologies, University of Oxford (Oxford, 6-9 December 2017) “Political Theology in the Anthropocene Epoch”, Conference The Futures of Public Theology, Centre for Theology and Public Issues, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 30 November- 1 December 2017) “Theology and Science in a ‘Post-Truth’ Society”, keynote presentation to Land and Faith Group, Winston Lodge (East Sussex, 11-13 October 2017) “Climate Change and Scotland: 2050 Vision”, Invited panel speaker at Scottish Parliament (19 September 2017) “The Ambiguity of Hope in the Epoche of the Anthropocene”, Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (Cambridge, 7-9 September 2017) “Earthly Time and Environmental Justice: Findings from the Ancestral Time”, Research Project on Scottish Eco-Congregations 2013-16 at AHRC Funded Workshop ‘Faith Communities and Environmental Activism’, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, 18-20 May 2017) “The Reformation and the Care of Creation”, Myanmar Institute of Theology (Yangon, 7 May 2017) “The Romantics =, the English Lake District, and the Sacredness of High Land: Mountains as Hierophanic Places in the Origins of Environmentalism and Nature Conservation”, Conference Mountains and Sacred Landscapes, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, India China Institute (Manhattan, 20-23 April 2017) “Brexit, Trump and the Common Good”, Interdisciplinary Seminar, Drew University (New Jersey, 17 April 2017) “Guilt and Ecology”, Birkbeck College Guilt Group Workshop, University of London (London: 22 march 2017) “Caring for Creation in a Time of Climate Change”, Public lecture at Dorchester Abbey (12 March 2017) “How Engagements with Local Nonhumans Might Connect British Environmentalism with the New Archaism and Localism of Post-Brexit British Politics”, Seminar Environmental Humanities: Doing Interdisciplinary with Depth, Bath Spa University Research Centre for Environmental Humanities (Bath, 15-16 December 2016) “The Global Common Good after Brexit and Trump: Liberalism and its Discontents”, University Centre Saint Ignatius International Workshop on Sustainable Development and the Contributions of the Churches, University of Antwerp (Antwerp, 7-9 December 2016) “Future present planet”, Staff and Student Training Day at Church Missionary Society (Oxford, 8 November 2016) “Reformation Christianity and Care for Creation”, Association for Reformational Philosophy, Evangelical Theological Faculty (Leuven, 15-19 August 2016) “Care for Creation in the Anthropocene”, Public Lecture Oxford Interdisciplinary Seminar in Science and Religion: Bridging the Two Cultures of Science and the Humanities (Oxford, 20 July 2016) “Enchantments of Earthly Time: From the Romantics to Scottish Faith-Based Ecological Activists”, International Conference Wonder and the Natural World, Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society, University of Indiana (Bloomington, 20-23 June 2016) “Re-setting the Seeds of Eden – Seeking a New Moral Economy for Sustainable Living”, conference at Hilfield Friary (Anglican Society of St Francis Mother House) (Dorset, 6-7 May 2016) Curriculum Vitae Michael S. Northcott, 20 January 2020 4 Keynote discussion ‘An evening with Michael Northcott’ at the Ecumenical World Development Conference ‘Hope in a Changing Climate’, Coventry Central Hall (15-16 April 2016) “A political theology of climate change” Lecture to Distance Learning