Summer SeminarThe Center for the Philosophy of Religion and The John Templeton Foundation are pleased to announce the “Templeton Summer Seminar on Evil and Early Modern Philosophy of Religion and Theology” for June 7-11, 2010. The seminar offers generous funding for up to 12 graduate students interested in the problem of evil in early modern philosophy and/or theology.
The 5 day seminar, conducted by Robert Sleigh (UMass) and Sean Greenberg (UC-Irvine), with additional faculty support by Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore) and Samuel Newlands (Notre Dame), will explore the ways in which the nature and reality of evil were treated in the distinctive intellectual culture of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The seminar will take place on the idyllic campus of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY.
We invite graduate students who have not yet advanced to candidacy with interests in early modern philosophy and/or theology to apply for fully funded participation in this seminar. More details are available here.
The application deadline is January 15, 2010. The seminar will run June 7-11, 2010.
Seminar Scholars:
Robert Sleigh (UMass)
Sean Greenberg (UC-Irvine)
Larry Jorgensen (Skidmore)
Samuel Newlands, Associate Director of the Center for Philosophy of Religion (Notre Dame)
