What's coming up

Monday 7 November 7pm: 

'God is not a thing!': Science and religion debates among young Catholics today.
19:00, Mon 7th Nov, 2016
The Garden Room, St Albert's Catholic Chaplaincy, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD. Entrance via George Square Lane.
Free.

To celebrate 800 years since the bull of foundation of the Dominican Order by Pope Honorius III, the Albertus Institute will be offering a series of three talks this autumn on Dominican influence on the teaching of the sciences. Lectures will be chaired by Dr Sara Parvis, Senior Lecturer in Early Church History at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh.

The lecture by Michael O'Duffin on "God is not a thing!": Science and religion debates among young Catholics today' will be the third talk in this series. Michael is a schoolmaster and a Glasgow Lay Dominican.

Whilst lectures are free, we suggest a donation of a £5 for each lecture to cover costs. Tea and coffee will be available after the talk and questions.

Saturday 26 November

Conference on 'Modern Security and Human Values: The Changing Face of Conflict' - Saturday 26th November 2016

 Explore how modern security, conflict, the use of emerging technologies to counteract terrorism impacts on the state, civil liberties and the individual.


Speakers will include Hon Richard Stearns, a US Federal Judge; Dr Laura Cleary, Head of the Centre for International Security & Resilience, Cranfield University; General Zoltan Szenes, a retired military officer in the Hungarian Army; Richard Hoskins, retired senior official in the US FBI and Andrew Dolan, a consultant in training simulation exercises in various aspects of security. The Conference will be chaired by Professor Juliet Kaarbo, co-director of the Centre for Security Research, The University of Edinburgh and the Revd. Dr David G Coulter, CB, QHC, Chaplain General to HM Land Forces.

This day conference will be held at the Appleton Tower, University of Edinburgh, Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE. For further information and booking details visit the conference details on our main website here.