The New Library, Llantwit Major, Wales in association with Bath Spa University, Cardiff University and the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism
Conference Programme 12th – 14th October 2022
Full Conference Tickets available:
- Attend on Thursday: £40.00 (includes concert ticket at 6.00pm) – Register and buy ticket here
- Attend Friday: £40.00 – Register and buy ticket here
- Attend both days: £60 Register and buy ticket here
- Conference dinner: (8.00pm Thursday) All attendees – £20.00 – Register and buy ticket here
Wednesday 12th October
2.00pm – PUBLIC EVENT: Justice in Faith and Being Human details and tickets here
Thursday 13th October
Conference Opening and Session 1
10.30am – Registration
11.00am – Welcome and conference opening, Two Roots : The Offer of Tillich Today
11.30am – PUBLIC TALK: Paul Tillich On The Boundary Between Politics & Faith given by Prof. John Heywood Thomas
12.15yp – LANSIAD LLYFR: Cyfieithwyd y cyhoeddiad hwn o hunangofiant deallusol Tillich, Ar y Ffin, gan gydweithiwr i Tillich, yr athronydd John Heywood Thomas.
12.15pm – BOOK LAUNCH: the launch of Ar y Ffin – for the first time Paul Tillich is available in Welsh language in a translation by John Heywood Thomas. Buy copies here.
12.30pm – Lunch
Conference Session 2
1.10yp – Cymru yn yr 1960au a’r argyfwng gwacter ystyr. Sesiwn dan arweiniad Dr. Huw Williams, Prifygol Caerdydd gyda Cynog Dafis a Owain Lewis.
1.10pm – Wales in the 1960’s and the crisis of meaninglessness. Session led by Dr Huw Williams, Cardiff University with Cynog Dafis and Owain Lewis.
2.55pm – Peter Brooke – Hirsch-Tillich-Heidegger-Dugin. Political theology in crisis ridden Germany and Russia
3.50pm – Tea / Coffee
4.05pm – The Two Roots of Political Thinking: A Deep Dive – seminar exploring Tillich’s 1933 text led by Dr Russell Re Manning
5.50pm – Refreshments
6.00pm – PUBLIC EVENT: Performance of Trinidadian street music: Six Aunties and a Grandma (details and tickets here)
7.00pm – PUBLIC EVENT: Director of the New Library Richard Parry in conversation with Turner Prize nominated artist Mary-Anne Roberts (details and tickets here)
8.00pm – Conference Dinner & talk by Prof. Douglas Hedley, Cambridge University: Theology and Contemporary Culture
Friday 14th October
Conference Session 3
8.45am – Richard Parry – The New Library – TALK: Two Roots: Justice as a Motive Power in Ruskin’s 19th Century Political Proclamation of 1860
9.10am – two papers:
- Dr Samuel Shearn – Rostock University – Tillich’s Political Development Up To 1933
- Gerrit Mauritz – Vienna University – Paul Tillich’s Religious Socialism. A Model for Today?
11.00am – Tea / Coffee
11.15am – Dr Russell Re Manning – Bath Spa University – Tillich and beyond
12.30 – PUBLIC WORSHIP: the weekly Friday service in St Illtud’s Church led by Canon Edwin Counsell
1.15pm – Lunch
2.00pm – PUBLIC CROSS-PARTY POLITICAL EVENT: Welsh Public Life and the Power of Justice – details and tickets here . The event includes a contribution from the internationally acclaimed Welsh musicians Bragod.
4.00pm – Conference review – closing remarks
4.20pm – Launch of British Society for the Public Understanding of Paul Tillich and announcement of the next conference Paul Tillich Today: The Two Roots of Political Thinking (Justice & Wales)
4.30pm – Conference Close
