Future ISSR conferences

Details of forthcoming conferences organized by bodies other than ISSR may be found on the International Science and Religion News page.

Future conferences are being actively planned for 2009 and 2010.

In July 2009, an ISSR-sponsored event, organized by John Hedley Brooke on the topic of "The Reception of Darwin in Different Faith Traditions" will, it is hoped, be part of a number of Science and Religion additions to a conference on Darwin (not organized by ISSR) to be held in Cambridge, England. A further conference in Oxford, England, will, it is hoped, be hosted by ISSR and a local organization in 2010, to mark the 350th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Society. Looking further ahead, the possibility of a conference in Alexandria, Egypt, is being actively explored.

Cambridge Conference 2006 - Understanding Humans in a Scientific Age

The 2006 conference focused on one of the prime issues of the current dialogue of science and theology, and some of its main contributions are to be incorporated in a book at present being edited by Martinez Hewlett, Christopher Knight, and Wentzel van Huyssteen.

Boston Conference 2004 - Creation: Probability and Law

In 2004, with its second conference in Boston, ISSR consolidated its presence in the science-religion field, the event culminating in a highly publicized public lecture by three Templeton Prize-winning ISSR members (John Polkinghorne, George Ellis and the 'father of environmental ethics' Holmes Rolston III) on the topic of: The Science and Religion Dialogue: Why It Matters.

A book arising from the conference, entitled "Why the Science and Religion Dialogue Matters", has been edited by Fraser Watts and Kevin Dutton and published by the Templeton Foundation Press. Details may be found at:

www.templetonpress.org/book.asp?book_id=95

Granada Conference 2002

In 2002, ISSR held the first of its bi-annual conferences in Granada, Spain. Here, ISSR met as a learned Society in an academic environment for the first time and in so doing clearly established itself on the 'Science and Religion map'.

Full Transcriptions of Plenary Talks