About the Speaker

Celia Deane-Drummond is professor in Theology at the University of Notre Dame, IN. From 2000-11 she held a chair in theology and the biological sciences at the University of Chester, UK and was director of the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences that she founded in 2002. In May 2011 she was elected chair of the European Forum for the Study of Religion and Environment. She was editor of the international journal Ecotheology for six years from 2000-06. From July 2009 to July 2010, she was seconded to the spirituality team at the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD), working explicitly in the area of environmental justice and climate change.

Her more recent books include:

• Creation through Wisdom (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000),
• ReOrdering Nature (London: Continuum 2003),
• The Ethics of Nature (Oxford:Blackwells, 2004),
• Wonder and Wisdom: Conversations in Science, Spirituality and Theology (London: DLT, 2006),
• Ecotheology (DLT/Novalis/St Mary’s Press, 2008),
• Christ and Evolution: Wonder and Wisdom (Minneapolis: Fortress/London:SCM Press, 2009),
• Creaturely Theology: On God, Humans and Other Animals, edited with David Clough (London: SCM Press, 2009);
• Seeds of Hope: Facing the Challenge of Climate Justice (London: CAFOD, 2010),
• Religion and Ecology in the Public Sphere, edited with Heinrich Bedford Strohm (London: Continuum, 2011),
• Rising to Life, ed. (London: CAFOD, 2011).

Planning ahead for 2013, we are happy to announce that Martin A. Nowak will be our guest speaker next year. Nowak is professor of biology and of mathematics at Harvard University and director of Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Nowak works on the mathematical description of evolutionary processes including the evolution of cooperation and human language, the dynamics of virus infections and human cancer.