Faraday Institute for Science and Religion

Tuesday 03 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Volcanoes: Reflections of Heaven or Hell?

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room. Please be seated by 12:50 so that the seminar can start promptly.

User Prof. Bob White.

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Evolution, Algorithms, and Convergence

The lecture will be followed by a short drinks reception. All attendees are kindly requested to be seated by 5:45pm. This event is held in partnership with Christians in Science.

User Prof. Ard Louis, University of Oxford.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 18:00-19:00

Are Doctrines Empirically Verifiable? Theology, Theory, and the Human Sciences

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room. Please be seated by 12:50 so that the seminar can start promptly.

User Prof. Simeon Zahl.

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Following the Science? Trust and Truth in a Post-Truth World

Although the live event is only open to in-person attendees, a recording will be made and published online shortly afterwards.

User Prof. Penny Endersby.

Thursday 27 March 2025, 18:00-19:00

Origins of Life Research: A New Nexus for Natural Theology?

User Dr Frederick Simmons.

House Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 11 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Enhancing Diversity in Clinical Trials: A Touch of Humanity

User Dr Bridget Bannerman.

House Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 25 February 2025, 13:00-14:00

Natural Law: God's Law in our Hearts

User Dr Peter Bussey.

House Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 28 January 2025, 13:00-14:00

How to Think about God the Creator Today

User Prof. Janet Soskice.

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 19 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

‘The End of Humanity’ Film Screening and Panel Discussion

User Graham Budd, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion; Rt Revd Steven Croft, Bishop of Oxford; Dr Claire Benn, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence; Dr Nick Spencer, Theos; Rabbi Dr Harris Bor, London School of Jewish Studies.

Thursday 14 November 2024, 18:00-19:35

The Trees our Teachers – Lessons from Biblical History and Modern Landscapes

User Dr Will Simonson.

Tuesday 05 November 2024, 13:00-14:00

Are there Underlying Principles of Protein Evolution? Reconsidering Law and Purpose in Biology

User Dr Zachary Ardern.

House Assembly Room, Westminster College.

Tuesday 22 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Artificial Intelligence – A Tale of Two Meanings

User Prof. Thilo Stadelmann.

Tuesday 08 October 2024, 13:00-14:00

Bioethics: Are Biologists Opening Pandora’s Box?

The lecture will be followed by a short drinks reception. All attendees are kindly requested to be seated by 5:45pm. This event is in partnership with Christians in Science and is part of the Cambridge Festival.

User Prof. Keith Fox.

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 18:00-19:00

Science, Religion and the Material Turn: Exploring New Global Potentials through Colonial Museum African Collections

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge.

User Dr Nathan Bossoh.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 13:00-14:00

Rescuing Religion from Obsolescence? John Templeton on Science and Religion

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge.

User Dr Pete Jordan.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Kepler, Galileo and Aliens

A light sandwich lunch will be provided from 12:30 in the Healey Room, Westminster College, Madingley Road Cambridge.

User Prof. Martin Barlow.

House Online only via Zoom (link to be made available on the day).

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives

User Dr Jon Thompson.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 13:00-14:00

The Divine Logic of Evolution: Reading Evolutionary Biology Through the Lens of Maximus the Confessor’s Logoi Cosmology

User Dr Andrew Jackson.

House Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

Early Career Teacher Experiences of Science-Religion Encounters in the Classroom: Towards a Shared Understanding of Purpose?

User Dr Mary Woolley.

House Shasha Suite, Woolf Building, Westminster College.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Persistence of Faith: Scientific and Theological Perspectives

User Prof. David Fergusson.

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 09 November 2023, 18:00-19:00

Learning to teach controversial topics in school science education

User Revd Dr Michael Reiss, UCL.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Beginning of All Things: Modern Perspectives from Lemaitre to Hawking

User Prof. Paul Shellard, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 18:00-19:00

The Many Worries of Many Worlds: Exploring Some Implications of Everettian Quantum Mechanics

User Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst, University Of Oxford .

Tuesday 09 May 2023, 13:00-14:00

The Anatomy of Unbelief: Rethinking the Scientific Approaches to Nonreligion

User Dr Mari van Emmerik, University of Cambridge .

Tuesday 25 April 2023, 13:00-14:00

Why Theology Needs Science – and Why Science Needs Theology

User Dr Lydia Jaeger, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 13:00-14:00

Evolution by Design? Re-Evaluating the Darwin-Gray Exchange on the Compatibility of Purpose and Evolution

User Dr Rope Kojonen, The Faraday Institute for Science and Religion.

House Queen's Building Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 13:00-14:00

CANCELLED - The Beginning of All Things: Modern Perspectives from Lemaître to Hawking

User Professor Paul Shellard [University of Cambridge].

Tuesday 17 March 2020, 18:00-19:00

Faith and Feathers: Human Rights, Conservation and Mission

User Dr Andrew Gosler [Oxford University].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:00-14:00

Consciousness, Intention, Final Causality and the Desire for God

User Professor Simon Oliver [Durham University].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Materials, Membranes and Motivations for Research

User Professor Peter Budd [Manchester University].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 13:00-14:00

Can Nature Be Red In Tooth and Claw? Augustine and the Christian Traditions.

User Dr Stan Rosenberg [University of Oxford].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:00-14:00

From Ecosystem Services to Extinction Rebellion: why and how should we value wildlife?

User Revd Dr Dave Bookless [A Rocha International].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

With God in Mind?: Integrated Physicality, (Un)belief, and Spiritual Technologies.

User Dr Sarah Lane Ritchie [University of St Andrews].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Square Kilometre Array Telescope: Engineering To Reveal Cosmic Origins.

User Dr Althea Wilkinson [University of Manchester].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Uncertainty, Nature, and God: A Transcendental Approach to Science, Religion, and Public Policy

User Professor Arthur Petersen [UCL].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 13:00-14:00

Our Fragile Planet - A Christian Perspective: Are We Breaking The Rainbow?

User Professor Euan Nisbet [Royal Holloway, University of London].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Public Lecture - Christians, Climate and Our Culture

User Professor Katharine Hayhoe [Texas Tech University].

House Main Lecture Theatre, Old Divinity School, St John's College.

Wednesday 15 May 2019, 18:00-19:00

Openness and Deference: The Role of Awe in Scientific and Religious Practice

User Dr Helen De Cruz [Oxford Brooks University].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 13:00-14:00

Can Machines Be Moral Agents?

User Professor Nigel Crook [Oxford Brookes University].

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 13:00-14:00

Hearing Voices: Theology, Psychiatry and the Lived Experience of Hearing Voices

User Professor John Swinton (University of Aberdeen).

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 13:00-14:00

Humility, Hope and Holiness: Exploration in the Psychology of Character Strengths

User Dr Roger Bretherton (Lincoln University).

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

Exoplanets, Aliens and God

User Revd Prof. David Wilkinson (University of Durham).

House Queens Lecture Theatre, Emmanuel College.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 18:00-19:00

It Keeps Me Seeking: The Invitation from Science, Philosophy and Religion

User Prof. Andrew Briggs (University of Oxford).

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 13:00-14:00

The Earliest Life on Earth

User Professor Hugh Rollinson (University of Derby).

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Comets and Asteroids, Moon and Mars, Science and Faith - and Life and Death

You are invited to a free, light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30pm onwards, with the seminar beginning at 1.00 pm and ending at 2.00 pm.

User Prof. Monica Grady, Open University.

Tuesday 23 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

My meandering path within the lands of science and faith

You are invited to a free, light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30pm onwards, with the seminar beginning at 1.00 pm and ending at 2.00 pm.

User Prof. Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology.

Tuesday 09 February 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Young Wallace

You are invited to a free, light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12.30pm onwards, with the seminar beginning at 1.00 pm and ending at 2.00 pm.

User Dr James Moore, Open University.

Tuesday 26 January 2016, 13:00-14:00

House Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DF.

Imaging Belief States in Pain and Religion

CiS - Faraday Public Lecture

User Prof. Irene Tracey.

Friday 27 November 2015, 17:30-19:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Randomness and God in the Biochemical Context

Research Seminars are held on alternate Tuesdays. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12:30 onwards

User Prof. Keith Fox.

Tuesday 17 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Science and Special Divine Action

Research Seminars are held on alternate Tuesdays. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12:30 onwards

User Dr Andrew Pinsent.

Tuesday 03 November 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Debating Chamber, Cambridge Union Society, Bridge St..

The Power of the Media in the Science - Religion Debate

Part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Saturday 31 October 2015, 14:00-16:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Science and Natural Theology

Research Seminars are held on alternate Tuesdays. A free light buffet lunch and drinks are served from 12:30 onwards

User Revd Dr Rodney Holder.

Tuesday 20 October 2015, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Jesus, Darwin and Ashley Montagu

User Prof. Gregory Radick, University of Leeds.

Tuesday 11 June 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

The Emergence of Human Persons: Bewteen the Scylla of Dualism and the Charybdis of Reductionism

User Prof. Tim O'Connor, Indiana University.

Tuesday 28 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Does Cognitive Psychology Subvert Religious Belief?

User Prof. James Jones, Rutgers University.

Tuesday 14 May 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Emergence, Top Down Causation and Reductionism

User Prof. George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town.

Tuesday 30 April 2013, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

The Religious Beliefs of Scientists - a Sociological Analysis

User Prof. Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, USA.

Tuesday 06 March 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Pluripotent Stem Cells: Medical Dream or Ethical Nightmare?

User Prof. Paul Fairchild, Oxford University.

Tuesday 21 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Creation and Contemporary Science: The Legacy of Thomas Aquinas

User Dr William Carroll, Oxford University.

Tuesday 07 February 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein met Tagore

User Dr David Gosling, University of Cambridge.

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

A Destiny Beyond Death?

User Revd Dr John Polkinghorne KBE FRS.

Tuesday 29 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

The Evolution of Morality

User Dr David Lahti, Assistant Professor of Biology and the Undergraduate Research Coordinator at Queens College, City University of New York.

Tuesday 15 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Oceans, Climate Change and Christianity: The Earth's Story and God's Story

User Prof Meric Srokosz, National Oceanography Centre (NOC), Southampton.

Tuesday 01 November 2011, 13:00-14:00

House McCrum Lecture Theatre, Corpus Christi College, Bene't Street (next to the Eagle pub).

Science and religion: friends or foes?

User Speaker to be confirmed.

Saturday 29 October 2011, 14:30-16:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St. Edmund’s College.

Mind and Matter: The World as "Representation" in Quantum Theory

User Professor Richard Bell, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Nottingham.

Tuesday 18 October 2011, 13:00-14:00

House Garden Room, Library Building, St Edmund's College.

Faraday Lunchtime Research Seminar

User Prof. Alister McGrath [Professor of Historical Theology, Oxford University].

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 12:30-14:00

House Howard Theatre, Downing College.

Faraday-CiS Puclic Lecture

User Prof. John Wyatt.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:00

House Howard Theatre, Downing College.

Faraday-CiS Puclic Lecture

User Prof. John Wyatt.

Thursday 21 February 2008, 17:30-19:00

House Garden Room, Library Building St Edmund's College.

Faraday Lunchtime Research Seminar

User Prof. John Wood [Principal of the Faculty of Engineering, Imperial College, London University].

Tuesday 19 February 2008, 12:30-14:00