Science and Faith in Ecology and Human Health

Annual Symposium of Centre for Science and Faith, University of Copenhagen

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Program:

09.00-09.15: Coffee and refreshments

09.15-09.30: Prof. Per Sangild and Prof. Niels Henrik Gregersen: What We Have Done, and Plan to Do in CVT

09.30-10.15: Tor Nørretranders, cand.tech.soc. and author, Samsø: Faith, Belief, Knowledge, and Nature

10.15--10.50: Bethany Sollereder, PhD, lecturer, University of Edinburgh: A Theology for Inevitable Climate Change

10.50-11.15: Coffee break

11.15-11.50: Jan Olav Henriksen, Prof. Systematic Theology, MF, Oslo: Love, Loss, and Hope: Science and Faith in Contemporary Thinking about Nature

11.50-12.15: Steen Hjul Lybke, PhD student, University of Copenhagen: Eco-Theology and the Good Life

12.15-13.00: Lunch

13.00-13.35: Celia Deane-Drummond, director, Laudato Si' Research Inst., Oxford: Pope Francis on Science, Faith, and Ecology

13.35-14.10: Tatjana Schnell, Prof. Psychology, MF, Oslo: Existential Meaning in the Anthropocene

14.10-14.45: Tobias Anker Stripp, post doc, University of Copenhagen: Human Health Care and Spirituality in Denmark

14.45-15.15: Coffee break

15.15-15.50: Thorkild Sørensen, Prof. Public Health, University of Copenhagen: Is obesity reflecting a social-existential deprivation?

15.50-16.30: Per Sangild, Emil Børty Nielsen, Pui Him Ip, Niels Henrik Gregersen, CVT: Science, Faith and Animals (companion, production, wild, and experimental animals)