Freedom and free will are long contested and discussed in both theology and science. This conference will feature New Zealand theologians, as well as a few speakers by zoom from the UK and Australia. The conference will feature a variety of academic approaches, which should be accessible to everyone who is interested.

Lunch, morning and afternoon tea will be provided. An optional dinner will be held on the Friday night.

Students are particularly encouraged to attend some or all of the conference.

SCHEDULE: Maclaurin Chapel and on zoom

FRIDAY 11th February

9.30 am Welcome

10.00 am John Owens

11.00 am MT

11.30 am Christa McKirland

12.30 LUNCH

1.30 pm Andy Everhart

2.30 pm Jaimee Poole

3.30 pm Afternoon tea

4.30 pm Martin Samson


BREAK & DINNER

SATURDAY 12th February

9.00 am Gray Manicom

10.0 am John McClure

11.00 am MT

11.30 am Yael Klangwisan

12.30 LUNCH

1.00 pm Margaret Bedggood

2.00 pm Nicola Hoggard

3.00 pm Conference Closes

SPEAKERS

Margaret Bedggood TSSF (Honorary Professor of Law, Waikato) Searching for 'Life In Larger Freedom': A Human Rights Perspective

Dr. Yael Cameron (Lecturer, AUT) Twists and Turns in the Antarctic: a Critical-Creative Encounter with Freedom and the Biblical Text on Behalf of the Southern Ocean

D.T. Everhart (PhD Cand., St Andrews) Freedom For the Other: On Christian Freedom and Group Ontology

Dr. Cameron Surrey (Chaplain, Newman Hall) Freedom, Fate, and the Fall

Dr. Nicola Hoggard Creegan (Co-Director, NZCIS) Three Movements of Freedom

Gray Manicom, (PhD Cand., in Mathematics, UoA) Would you listen to a talk on mathematics if you were free to do otherwise?

Prof. John McClure (Psychology, VUW) So We Don’t Have Free Will: The Argument from (Social) Psychology

Dr. Christa McKirland (Lecturer Systematic Theology, Carey) Do We Need Autonomy?

Dr. John Owens SM (Lecturer in Philosophy, Catholic Theological College) Freedom and Personal Life

Jaimee Poole (PhD Cand., Otago University) Condemned to be Free: An Existentialist Vision of the Problem of Freedom

Martin Samson (PhD Cand., Flinders University) The Evolution of Consciousness and the Evolution of Freedom, Love and Morality A Physiology of Freedom