The Future is at Hand: Theological and Philosophical Perspectives on the Global Pandemic

Speaker
Dr Emmanuel Nathan
Event date
Event time
20:00 - 21:00
Venue
The Laudato Si' Research Institute, Campion Hall - Online via Zoom
Event type
Lectures and seminars
Event cost
Free
Disabled access?
Yes
Booking required
Required

In this online lecture, Dr Emmanuel Nathan will analyse how and why the COVID crisis has managed to galvanise us, as a species, into immediate and sometimes radical action. He will argue that this difference is related to human conceptualisations of the future. By exploring resources from the theological tradition, as well as recent philosophical work on themes such as memory and forgetting, Dr Nathan will present a radical new interpretation of the shift that has been wrought by the global pandemic.