SSCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE 3-5th September 2010, Westcott House, University of Cambridge

PROGRAMME

rd Friday, 3 September

9:30 – 3:00 pm Postgraduate Forum Westcott Seminar Room

2 – 4:00 pm Registration Common Room

4:00 pm Cream Tea Terrace

4:30 pm Welcome: Dr Robert Song, SSCE President

Plenary Address: Prof Celia Deane-Drummond Westcott Lecture Room ‘Case for Community Conscience: Climategate, COP-15 and Climate Justice’

Prof Celia Deane-Drummond is Professor of Theology and the Biological Sciences at the University of Chester. She took her doctorate in plant physiology from Oxford University, and worked with the biophysics group at Cambridge University and as a lecturer at before taking her Ph.D. in Moltmann’s theology at Manchester University. She has published over thirty articles in science journals, and her books include A Handbook in Theology and Ecology (SCM, 1996); Creation Through Wisdom: Theology and the New Biology (T & T Clark, 2000), nominated for the Grawemeyer Award in Religion in 2006; and Genetics and (CUP, 2006).

6:00 pm Evening Prayer Westcott Chapel

6:30 pm Book Launch with Wine & Nibbles Reception Terrace

Each year we like to celebrate the publication of SSCE members’ books. This year, join us for the launch of Brian Brock’s recent book, Christian Ethics in a Technological Age (Eerdmans 2010), with a wine reception kindly sponsored by Eerdmans.

7:00 pm Dinner (Hog Roast in the Gardens) Westcott Old Court

8:00 pm Plenary Address: Prof Timothy Gorringe Westcott Lecture Room ‘On Building an Ark: The Global Emergency and the Limits of Moral Exhortation’

Professor Timothy Gorringe is the St Luke’s Professor of Theological Studies at the University of Exeter. His academic interests focus on the inter-relations of theology, culture, art, social science, criminal justice, economics, and politics, as well as the theology of Karl Barth. His books include Karl Barth: Against Hegemony (OUP, 1999); A Theology of the Built Environment (CUP, 2002); and Furthering Humanity: A Theology of Culture (Ashgate 2004), shortlisted for the Michael Ramsey Prize.

9:30 pm Bar open Westcott House Bar

th Friday, 5 September Saturday, 4th September

7:30 am Breakfast Westcott Dining Hall Note: Breakfast is served until 8:45 am.

8:15 am Morning Prayer Westcott Chapel

9:00 am Plenary Address: Prof Michael Northcott Westcott Lecture Room ‘Climate Change Ethics and the Communion of Saints’

Prof Michael Northcott is Professor of Ethics at the . He is Honorary Canon of Liverpool Cathedral and Fellow of the Centre for Human Ecology, and has been visiting professor at and the Claremont School of Theology. His book The Environment and Christian Ethics (CUP, 1996) is in its fourth printing. More recently published books include An Angel Directs the Storm: Apocalyptic Religion and American Empire (I B Tauris, 2005) and A Moral Climate: The Ethics of Global Warming (DL&T and Orbis, 2007).

10:30 am Short Papers: Session 1 Various locations

• Frederick Simmons (Yale University, USA) Wesley Old Common Room Interpreting the Goodness of Creation After Ecology

• Andrew Sibley (Exeter University, UK) Wesley Dining Hall Global Warming, The Naturalistic Fallacy and a Consequentialist Approach

• Robert Sluka (Independent Marine Conservation Consultant) Westcott Lecture Room Hope for the Ocean: Christian Theological Ethics and Marine Conservation Biology

• John Weaver (South Wales Baptist College, UK) Westcott Seminar Room Climate Change: Covenant Breaking and Restoration

11:30 am Coffee Library Cloister

12:00 pm Short Papers: Session II Various locations

• David Lea (American University of Sharjah) Wesley Old Common Room Is the Market in Carbon Credits Ethical?

• Cathriona Russell (Trinity College, Dublin) Wesley Dining Hall Burden-sharing in a Changing Climate: Which Principles and Practices Can Theologians Endorse?

• Jacaranda Turvey (Chester University, UK) Westcott Seminar Room After Copenhagen: Is Climate Justice Achievable?

• David Clough (Chester University, UK) Westcott Lecture Room For What Are We Hoping and How Will We Change? Reflection on Doing Climate Change Theology in the Context of an Ecumenical Working Group

• Scott Prather (University of Aberdeen, UK) Westcott C3 The Power of Mammon in Jacques Ellul and William Stringfellow

1:00 pm Lunch Cloisters

• Free time for exploring Cambridge • SSCE Committee Meeting — 1:30 - 3:00 pm (Westcott C3)

3:30 pm Afternoon Tea & Cake Terrace

4:00 pm Annual General Meeting Westcott Lecture Room

5:00 pm Evening Prayer Westcott Chapel

5:30 pm Plenary Address: Prof Lord Anthony Giddens Jesus College Upper Hall ‘The Politics of Climate Change’

Professor Lord Anthony Giddens is Professor Emeritus of the School of Economics, where he was Director from 1997 to 2003. Previously he was Professor of Sociology at King’s College, Cambridge. Lord Giddens was the BBC Reith Lecturer in 1999, and made a Life Peer in 2004. His numerous books have been translated into over forty languages. Giddens had a major impact upon the evolution of New Labour in the UK, taking part in the original Blair-Clinton dialogues from 1997 onwards, and his advice continues to be sought by political leaders around the world. His most recent book is The Politics of Climate Change (Polity, 2009).

7:00 pm Drinks reception Jesus College Chapel Cloisters

7:30 pm Conference dinner Jesus College Great Hall

9:30 pm Bar open Westcott House Bar

th Sunday, 5 September

7:45 am Breakfast Westcott Dining Hall Note: Breakfast is served until 9:00 am.

8:30 am Eucharist Westcott Chapel

9:30 am Short Papers: Session III Various locations

• Guido De Graaff (Oxford University, UK) Westcott C3 To Judge or Not to Judge: Engaging with Oliver O’Donovan’s Political Ethics

• Kurt Remele (Karl-Franzens-Universitaet Graz, Austria) Wesley Dining Hall Meat Matters: The Contribution of Meat Consumption to Climate Change

• Byron Smith (University of Edinburgh, UK) Wesley Old Common Room Doom, Gloom and Empty Tombs: Climate Change and Fear

• Margot Hodson (Haddenham St Mary’s, UK) Westcott Seminar Room Nehemiah and the Ethics of Climate Scepticism

• John McKeown (Chester University, UK) Westcott Lecture Room US Protestant Natalism and Climate Change

11:00 am Coffee Library Cloister

11:30 am Plenary Address: Dr Peter Scott Westcott Lecture Room ‘Thinking Like an Animal: Theological Materialism for a Changing Climate’

Dr Peter Scott is Senior Lecturer in Christian Social Thought & Director of the Lincoln Theological Institute at the University of Manchester. His research is at the intersection between theology and studies of nature, technology and society, politics and salvation. His books include A Political Theology of Nature (CUP, 2003) and Anti-human Theology: Nature, Technology and the Postnatural (SCM, 2010). He is co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Political Theology (Blackwell, 2004), and edited a recent special issue for the International Journal of Public Theology on urban theology. His current research is towards a monograph, A Theology of Postnatural Right.

Concluding Remarks: Dr Robert Song

1:00 pm Lunch Westcott Dining Hall

Departure