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The Greatness of the Gloaming: Divinity in the Dark for the guest lecture series In the Dark of the Royal College of Art.

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Forthcoming

August 2009

Keeping the Faith: Christian Philosophy as a Square circle and a Wooden Iron for the conference Initium Sapientiae: Theology and the Humanities, King’s College, University of Aberdeen

To date

May 2009	Martin Heidegger’s Judgement on his Rektoratsrede: ‘the speech would be just as much spoken into the wind today as it was then’ for the research group Heidegger’s ‘Movement of Nihilism’ as Political and Metaphysical Critique Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University.
April 2009	“The Whole World as Negative Theology Without the Christian God”: Heidegger’s Judgement of Nietzsche’s Eternal Return for the day conference of the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, Æsthetic Theories of Catastrophe in Fin-de-Siècle, Goldsmith's College, University of London.
February 2009	The View From Everywhere for the guest lecture series Point of View and its Enemies at the Royal College of Art
January 2009	Heidegger’s ‘Movement of Nihilism’ as Political and Metaphysical Critique: Introduction for the Research Group of the same title, Institute of Advanced Studies, Lancaster University.
November 2008	Melchisedek in the Liturgy of the Western Church for the Temple Studies Group day conference Melchisedek in Scripture, Tradition and Liturgy, St. Stephen’s House, Oxford.
October 2008	Fatedness of Being-Historical: The Entanglements of Heidegger’s Dasein for the University of London Institute of Historical Research Seminar in the Philosophy of History.
October 2008	Jünger’s Nietzsche, Heidegger’s Nietzsche and their Nationalist Critique of Marx for the Human Sciences Seminar of the Department of Politics and Philosophy, Manchester Metropolitan University.
August 2008	I Saw the New Jerusalem’: On Time in the Sacred Liturgy for the conference Pope Benedict XVI and the Sacred Liturgy organised by the St. Augustine Liturgical Atelier of Hungary, Budapest.
May 2008	Beginning Again, Beyond Ontotheology: Martin Heidegger and ‘Der neue Anfang’ for the Oxford University Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought.
March 2008	The Late Heidegger’s God for the Oxford University Centre for Theology and Modern European Thought.
March 2008	Heidegger’s ‘Last God’ for a research group of the same name organised in the School of Management, Lancaster University.
March 2008	Doing The Right Thing Is No Way To Be Holy: The Relationship between Liturgy and Ethics for the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics Postgraduate Forum, Brasenose College Oxford.
February 2008	The Greatness of the Gloaming: Divinity in the Dark for the guest lecture series In the Dark of the Royal College of Art.
February 2008	Dissolving Zeno’s Paradox: A Whole Lot More Than A Game Of Two Halves for the Birbeck College, University of London Philosophy Society.
January 2008	Work as Total Reason for Being: Heidegger’s Nietzsche and Jünger’s ‘Der Arbeiter’ for the graduate seminar of the School of Management, Lancaster University.
2007	Benedict XVI's Vision of the Sacred Liturgy for the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham.
2007	Sacramental Causality for the Society of St. Catherine of Siena Research Group on the Sacred Liturgy.
2007	Subjectivity and Musicality: The Closure of the Pythagorean in Understanding Song for a symposium in Budapest at the Ference Lizst Academy of Music.
2007	Messianic Deposition: Representation and the Flight of the Uncanny for the conference The Messianic Now organised by the department of Religious Studies of Lancaster University.
2007	The Future of Catholic Liturgy as the annual Pentecost Lectures at Pluscarden Abbey (four lectures).
2007	Melodically Divine: The Origins of Christian Anagogy for the graduate seminar of the Research Institute in Systematic Theology, King's College, University of London.
2006	Pope John Paul II’s Call for a Renewed Theology of Being: Just What Did He Mean, and How Can We Respond? for the conference John Paul II as Philosopher, Gresham College and the Forum for European Philosophy, November 2006.
2006	Theological Questions in the Current Liturgical Situation in the Catholic Church for the 11th International Colloquium of CIEL (Centre International D’études Liturgiques), Merton College Oxford, September 2006.
2006	Barth’s Objection to the Analogia Entis Is Fundamentally Correct: A Catholic Response to Recent Scholarship for the Divinity Faculty Research Seminar in Systematic Theology of the University of St. Andrews, May 2006.
2006	Heidegger’s Gods: Do They Challenge Monotheism? for the colloquium Heidegger and Theism: Islam and Christianity, Heythrop College, May 2006.
2006	Giving a Good Account of God: Is Theology Ever Mathematical for the ‘D’ Society of the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, March 2006.
2005	Worshipping: The Subject for the Durham University Faculty of Theology and Religion Seminar in Theology, November 2005.
2005	The Impossibility of Incarnation: The Limits of Human Subjectivity for the fifth Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology (LEST) conference ‘Godhead here in Hiding’: Incarnation and the History of Human Suffering, KU Leuven, November 2005.
2005	Liturgy and Phenomenology: The Subject of Divine Worship for the conference Ever directed toward the Lord . . . The Love of God in the Liturgy of the Eucharist past, present, and hoped for, Merton College and Blackfriars, Oxford, October 2005.
2005	Reflections on the Other and the Same in the Context of the Postmodern Metropolis after Terrorism for the Heythrop Staff Research Seminar, October 2005.
2005	Philosophy, Theology and Liturgy: Some Remarks on a Liturgical Theology Adequate to the Name for the Heythrop Theology Research Seminar, October 2005.
2005	Recuperating the Sense of ‘Tradition’ as a Substantive Factor of the Christian Experience, in Practice and in Theology: Tradition and Discipline for the conference Meetings for a New Beginning organised by the Archdiocese of Granada, Spain, under the direction of His Excellency Mgr. Javier Martínez, Archbishop of Granada, September 2005.
2005	Always Willing to Make an Appearance: Just What Might Judith Butler and St. Thomas Aquinas Have in Common for the Religion and Literature Programme of the University of Notre Dame, April 2005.
2005	Lévinas as Jew: Lévinas as Christian for the conference The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Lévinas between Jews and Christians organised by the University of Notre Dame, April 2005.
2005	The Nature of Rationality: Does Love Trump Reason? for the conference ‘Love Alone is Credible’: Hans Urs Cardinal von Balthasar as Interpreter of the Catholic Tradition organised by Communio International Review, Washington DC, April 2005.
2004	A Transcendental Hangover: The Ethics of Alterity in the visiting lecturer’s series for the Philosophy Department of University College, Dublin, November 2004.
2004	On Being Insufficiently Theological: How to Devalue God for the annual series The Horizons Lecture, Birkbeck College, University of London, November 2004.
2004	A Singular Question: Mitsein, sunousiva, and u{yo" for the symposium on Devaluing God: Postmodernity’s Transcending, Faculty of Theology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, October 2004.
2004	Locating the Sacred: Some Resolutely Unsystematic Observations in a History of Place for the Social/Spatial Theory Seminar of the Department of Geography, University of Durham, October 2004.
2004	A Christian Contradiction: Considering Daphne Hampson’s ‘Christian Contradictions’ for the Graduate Seminar in Systematic Theology of King’s College, University of London, February 2004.
2003	Are We Still in Time For God? Apocalyptic, Sempiternity, and the Purposes of Experience at the fourth Conference of Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, KU Leuven, November 2003.
2003	What is Hidden in the Hidden? for the conference The Hidden City: A Reflection on Theology and the Polis, Trinity College, Oxford, September 2003.
2003	Heidegger’s Contributions to the Question of God for the Summer Conference of the British Society for Phenomenology, University of Greenwich, July 2003.
2003	What Catholic Theologians have to Learn from Radical Orthodoxy: What Radical Orthodoxy has to Learn from Catholic Theology at the CTSA Annual Conference, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, June 2003.
2003	Redeeming Truth for the conference Redeeming Truth: Considering Faith and Reason, Heythrop College, University of London, June 2003.
2003	Analogia non Entis sed Entitatis: The Ontological Consequences of the Doctrine of Analogy for the Graduate Seminar in Modern Doctrine of the Theology Department of the University of Oxford, May 2003.
2003	Saving My Place: How Unnatural Can the Acts of Redemption Be? for the Colloquium Authorizing Marriage? in the Conference Sex, Marriage and Family and the Religions of the Book, Emory University, Atlanta, May 2003.
2002	In Matters of Truth: Heidegger and Aquinas for the staff research seminar of the Thomas Instituut, Catholic University of Utrecht, December 2002.
2002	The Experience of God: Aquinas on the Identity and Difference of Divine and Human Knowledge in the series Issues in Contemporary Dogmatic Theology: Religious Experience for the Faculty of Theology, Catholic University of Leuven, November 2002.
2002	Being Made to Agree is the Wrong Approach to Heidegger and Aquinas at the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain Annual Conference, August 2002.
2002	The Doors of Night and Day: Parmenides Goddess ‘Truth’ and her Mésalliance with the God of Negative Theology at the Illuminations conference, Oxford, July 2002.
2002	Forgetting the Questions: The Euphoria of Everyday Life for the conference Freedom’s Threat: Faith, Terror, and Globalisation, Heythrop College, University of London, June 2002.
2002	The Being of God: The Limits of Theological Thinking After Heidegger at the conference Fondements et Fondamentalismes, Pontifical University of the Lateran, Rome, April 2002.
2002	Transubstantiating Ourselves at Ite Missa Est! Transubstantiation, Holiness and Living Eucharist conference organised at the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge by the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, February 2002.
2001	Talking to You is not Being with You: Martin Heidegger, Intersubjectivity, and Prayer at Third International Conference of Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, Postmodernity and Sacramental Theology, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, November 2001.
2001	A Different Vision of Anselm: Anselm’s Biographer and the Question of the Meaning of the Supposedly Ontological Argument for the Systematic Theology Research Seminar, King’s College, University of London, June 2001.
2001	Why Radical Orthodoxy is Neither One Thing nor the Other, for the Philosophy of Religion Research Seminar, King’s College, University of London, May 2001.
2001	On Having No Use For God: The Ethical Imperative for Life to Mean Something for the Hope Theological Society, Liverpool Hope University, April 2001.
2000	Theology in the British Context: The Awkward Trinity of Culture, State and Church at Institut Catholique, Paris, December 2000.
2000	How did God get into Philosophy? For the conference Across The Traditions: The Future of Theology and Philosophy of Religion, Heythrop College, University of London, November 2000.
2000	The Subject of Supermarkets for the Colloquium Consensus and Dissent in Political and Economic Activity at Heythrop College, University of London, October 2000.
2000	More than Just a Ticklish Subject: Postmodernity, History and God at Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain Annual Conference, August 2000.
2000	The Language of Liturgical Performance for the conference Gesù Cristo: Unico Salvatore Del Mondo, Pane Per La Nuova Vita, Pontifical University of the Lateran, Rome, April 2000.
1999	After Heidegger — Transubstantiation at Second International Conference of Leuven Encounters in Systematic Theology, Postmodernity and Sacramental Theology, Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, November 1999.
1999	Quod Impossibile Est! – Radical Orthodoxy’s Reading of St. Thomas Aquinas for the conference Radical Orthodoxy – A Catholic Enquiry? Heythrop College, University of London, June 1999.
1999	On the Nature of Nature: Is Sexual Difference Really Necessary? For the conference Challenging Women’s Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith, Heythrop College, University of London, May 1999.

Conferences organised (Back to top)

2009	Organiser for “Alter ad Alterum: The Seraphic Voice in the Liturgy”: A Colloquium on the Possibilities for Chant, London, June 2009.
2009	Organiser and Coordinator for the research group Heidegger’s ‘Movement of Nihilism’ as Political and Metaphysical Critique sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies Lancaster University. A series of five meetings between January and June 2009.
2008	Organiser and Coordinator for the research group Heidegger's Last God: The Politics of Divine Absence: and the Question ‘Who Can Now Still Save Us?’ A Research Group sponsored by the Institute of Advanced Studies and Department of Organisation, Work and Technology at Lancaster University, May and June 2008.
2008	Co-organiser for the ecumenical colloquium to celebrate the publication of Margaret Barker’s book Temple Themes in Christian Worship (London, Continuum, 2007) held at the London campus of the University of Notre Dame.
2007	Co-organiser for the Colloquium Henri de Lubac SJ and the Reception of the Book Corpus Mysticum, Heythrop College, January 2007.
2006	Member of the Academic Organising Committee for the eleventh CIEL conference The Genius Of The Roman Liturgy: Historical Diversity And Spiritual Reach, Merton College Oxford, September 2006.
2005	Co-organiser for Ever directed toward the Lord . . . The Love of God in the Liturgy of the Eucharist past, present, and hoped for, International Colloquium and Public Conference, at Merton College, Oxford and Blackfriars Oxford, October 2005.
2004	Co-organiser for Considering Ecclesia de Eucharistia, an international symposium on the recent Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II, Heythrop College, University of London, February 2004.
2004	I Think: I Believe, graduate research conference, Heythrop College, University of London, January 2004.
2003	Redeeming Truth: Considering Faith and Reason, Heythrop College, University of London, June 2003.
2002	Ite Missa Est! Transubstantiation, Holiness and Living Eucharist conference at the Divinity Faculty, University of Cambridge by the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, February 2002.
2001	Contemplating Aquinas: On the Varieties of Interpretation, Heythrop College, University of London, June 2001.
2000	Across The Traditions: The Future of Theology and Philosophy of Religion, graduate research conference, Heythrop College, University of London, November 2000.
1999 – 2001	Consensus and Dissent in Political and Economic Activity, joint Heythrop College / Liverpool Hope University colloquium.
1999	Radical Orthodoxy – A Catholic Enquiry? Heythrop College, University of London, June 1999.
1999	Challenging Women’s Orthodoxies in the Context of Faith: The Current State of British Feminist Theology (co-organiser), Heythrop College, University of London, May 1999.