Speaking Schedule

Talks 2019 - 2023

2023

  • March 2-4, speaking at New College, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

    March 5, Public seminar, the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland.

    March 8, the 2020 James Gregory lecture, University of St Andrews.

    March 9, the 2020 James Gregory lecture, The University of Edinburgh.

    March 10, speaking at New College, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

    September: keynote speaker with Catherine Keller, Process Philosophy and the Environmental Crisis, Drew University, 2-day conference.

2022

  • February: “Ecological Civilization and Science,“ online conference in China, rebroadcast by Peking University.

  • April: “Ecological Civilization Internationally and in the Korean Context,” Hanshin University, Seoul, South Korea (teleconference)

  • May: “Science, Philosophy, and the World Religions: Implications for the Flourishing of Life in the Post-Covid19 Era,“ Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea (teleconference)

  • May: “Digital Communities and Ecology,“ 15th annual EcoForum (Korea, USA, China. 13m downloads of excerpts form the conference in China by July 1).

  • June: keynote lectures, Cosmos and Creation annual conference, Loyola University Maryland: “The Climate Sciences that Every Human Being Needs to Know,” and “Ecotheology as Religious Belief and Practice for the 21st Century”

2021

  • March 2-4, speaking at New College, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

  • March 5, Public seminar, the University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Scotland.

  • March 8, the 2020 James Gregory lecture, University of St Andrews. 

  • March 9, the 2020 James Gregory lecture, The University of Edinburgh.

  • March 10, speaking at New College, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

2020

  • Feb. 16, “Unlikely Allies: Why Religion and Science are Both Needed for Us to Respond Adequately to the Climate Crisis,” And “Spirituality with and without God?,“ San Diego Sunday Assembly.

  • March 4, “Addressing Root Causes and Promoting the Common Good: Rethinking the Role of Philosophy, Indigenous Traditions and Religion in Environmental Studies,” Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference, Eugene, OR. 

  • March 9-10, Ecotheology lecture, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, Canada.

  • April 24-25,  Talk on “Ecological Civilization and Organic Communitarianism,” 14th International Forum on Ecological Civilization, Benson Auditorium, Pitzer College, 1050 N. Mills Avenue, Claremont, CA; http://postmodernchina.org/14_IF.htm

  • May 18-20, Co-organizer and speaker, The Inaugural W12 Congress: The First International Meeting of Cities facing Water Challenges, Cape Town International Convention Center, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • June 4-5, “Science and Process Philosophy,” Claremont School of Theology summer course, Claremont, CA.

  • June 12-14, keynote speaker for the Cosmos & Creation annual conference, Loyola University Maryland, Baltimore, MD. 

  • June 27-28, speaker at the John Templeton Foundation annual board meeting, Wicklow, Ireland. 

  • Sept. 8-10, meeting of the boards of the three Templeton philanthropies.

  • Sept. 22-26, helping to organize and speaking at the third annual “Transition City Seoul” week-long series of conferences, sponsored by Mayor Park, Seoul, Korea.

  • November 20-24, American Academy of Religion annual meetings, Boston, MA

  • December 1-4, presenting at the “Water, Megacities and Global Change” International Conference, UNESCO World Headquarters, Paris, France.

2019

  • March 23, presentation on “Science and Spirituality” at the Interfaith Forum “For the
    Love of Tomorrow” organized by the Los Angeles Muslim community, The
    Shakespeare Club, Pasadena, CA

  • April 20, “Ecological Civilization and Holistic Human Development,” Pitzer College,
    Claremont, CA.

  • May 3, “Emergentist Panpsychism,” The Pacific Coast Theological Society, Graduate
    Theological Union, Berkeley, CA.

  • June 17-18, Co-led Process Philosophy and Ecological Civilization mini-conference, Willamette University, Salem, OR.

  • July 5, Bi-yearly national Jain convention (“JAINA”): gave a keynote address to conference participants (2,000 people were at the convention), and also spoke on Jainism in American education.

  • August 3, “God? An Evening of Story, Science, Philosophy and Conversation,” an “Emergent” (post institutional religion) event in downtown Santa Barbara, CA.

  • Sept 15, co-led a one-day seminar at Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus, ““Vermont
    2050: Roadmap to the Future, a Bio-Regional Approach.

  • Sept. 28, “Toward a Theology of Radical Freedom,” Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

  • Sept. 30, “Redefining the Relationship of Nature and Science,” conference on “Ecological Transition: from Philosophy to Policy,” co-sponsored by the Prime Minister’s Office, Seoul Museum of History, Yajuge Hall, Seoul, Korea.

  • Oct. 3, “The Religions of Non-violence and Ecological Civilization,” dinner keynote at the Yeoju Eco-Forum on Interfaith Dialogue and Ecological Civilization, Daejin University, Yeoju, Korea.

For the full list of past speaking engagements, see my CV.