Theological Foundations for Integral Ecology
Key Details
Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City and the Laudato Si' Research Institute are delighted to invite you to a lecture to be delivered by LSRI Director Dr Celia Deane-Drummond on Theological Foundations for Integral Ecology. The lecture will also include contributions from LSRI team member Dr Peter Rožič SJ, Director of the Integral Ecology Research Network.
This lecture will take place as part of the Forum of Integral Ecology: Sustainability and Common Good in Latin America / Foro Ecología Integral: Sustentabilidad y Bien Común en América Latina, due to be held on 12th November 2024 at Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City. This event will be hosted in collaboration by the LSRI and Universidad Iberoamericana.
The lecture will take place from 09.15-10.30 Mexico City time / 15.15-16.30 Oxford time. It will be live-streamed, with simultaneous Spanish-English interpretation available. You can watch with interpretation via Zoom: please click here to register. Spanish-English interpretation will be available throughout.
You can also watch the livestream of the lecture in Spanish, and other other livestreamed events in the IBERO Common Good Week, directly on either of these links (with no need to register):
www.youtube.com/@SeminarioThizyporelBienComun
The Forum of Integral Ecology will be held as part of the wider IBERO Semana del Bien Común / IBERO Common Good Week, which will be held by Universidad Iberoamericana Mexico City from 11th to 14th November. This is a series of events dedicated to exploring the common good and integral ecology as solutions to the global socio-ecological crisis. Registration through the link above will also give you access to .
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Speaker Biography
Dr Celia Deane-Drummond is Director of the Laudato Si’ Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow at Campion Hall, University of Oxford. She also is Visiting Professor in Theology and Science at the Centre for Catholic Studies, Durham University, and was Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame from 2011 to 2019.
Celia began her career in the natural sciences, graduating with a BA (Hons) and MA in Botany from the University of Cambridge as well as receiving a PhD in Plant Physiology from the University of Reading in 1980. The global and ethical challenges of the use of GMOs encouraged her to retrain in theology, education, and environmental ethics. After a year of Christian studies at Regent College, Vancouver, Celia gained another BA (Hons) in Theology from Trinity College, Bristol, and a PGCE in Religious Studies and Science from Manchester Metropolitan University before completing a second PhD in Systematic Theology at the University of Manchester.
Her main research interests are in theological and ethical engagement with the natural and social sciences on questions related to ecology, genetics, animal studies, and anthropology. Drawing on a wide variety of sources ranging from Catholic thinkers such as Sergius Bulgakov and Hans Urs von Balthasar to contemporary evolutionary science and psychology, Celia addresses multiple topics raised from disciplines as diverse as systematic theology, global development, and transhumanism. Present research projects include the evolution of gratitude as well as morality and pneumatology.
Celia has published hundreds of academic articles and book chapters, and edited or published as single author over twenty scholarly books. A recent publication is In Solidarity with the Earth: A Multi-Disciplinary Theological Engagement with Gender, Mining and Toxic Contamination, edited with Hilda P. Koster (2023). Before that, Celia led a large scale collaborative research project on the evolution of wisdom and human distinctiveness that nourished Theological Ethics Through a Multispecies Lens: The Evolution of Wisdom - Volume I (2019) and Shadow Sophia: The Evolution of Wisdom - Volume II (2021). Other recent publications include Theology and Ecology Across the Disciplines: On Care for Our Common Home, edited with Rebecca Artinian Kaiser (2018), Religion in the Anthropocene, edited with Sigurd Bergmann and Markus Vogt (2017), as well as a 2nd edition of Ecology in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology (2016).
Celia serves as Vice President of the Science and Religion Forum of Great Britain as well as trustee of the International Society for Science and Religion. Celia also co-edited the international journal Philosophy, Theology, and the Sciences until 2023 and chaired the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment from 2011 to 2018.