The British Teilhard Association

Past EventsBritish Teilhard Association - Celebration in Hastings 25th-26th August 2011

Celebrating the Centenary of Teilhard de Chardin's Ordination in Hastings, August 1911

Thursday 25th August 2011

10.30 am Welcome and Introductions;

11.00 am Talk by David Grumett, Teilhard the Priest;

12.00 pm Catholic Mass incorporating Teilhard’s Mass on the World;

1.00 pm Buffet lunch with wine - provided free by the BTA;

2.00 pm Talk by Prof Ursula King, A Vision Transformed: Teilhard's Visionary Awakening;

3.30 pm Visit to Old Town Museum - to see a selection of the Teilhard fossils, or to visit Ore Place (Exhibition open from Tuesday 23rd to Tuesday 30th August];

5.00 pm Finish.

Venue: St Mary Star of the Sea, 1 High Street, Hastings, TH34 3EY.

Friday 26th August 2011

10.15 am Welcome and Introductions;

10 30 am Seminar: Newman's influence on Teilhard - with Gerard Donnadieu and Nicole Timbal of the French Teilhard Association;

12.30 pm Finish.

Venue: Magnet Conference Centre, 1 Christchurch Courtyard, London Road, St. Leanards on Sea, TN37 6GL www.themagnet.org.uk/home

Event FREE:

All are welcome, at either or both events which are free. It would help to know likely numbers. For further information and booking, contact: Revd Canon Alan Nugent, The Subdeanery, 18 Minster Yard, Lincoln, LN2 1PX. e-mail: subdean@lincolncathedral.com

Assisi International Colloquium on Teilhard de Chardin
Insieme costruiamo la terra nella pace e nell’amore


Thursday 14 October – Sunday 17 October 2010

Theme: Francis of Assisi and Teilhard de Chardin: a great love for Life, for Nature, for Man and for the Spirit of God.

Participation Fee for Meetings € 35 per person, to be paid to the Teilhard de Chardin Italian Association – Corso Svizzera 29 – Turin - Italy

Accommodation: at Pro Civitate Christiana needs to be booked directly from attendees to ospitalità@cittadella.org telephone number: 075/813231

COSTS
FB: € 65 for single room and € 55 for double/triple room;
HB: € 55 for single room and € 45 for double/triple room;
Hotel room, including small breakfast: € 40 for single room and € 30 for double room
Meals are served based on fixed menus, natural water included; wine and drinks excluded

For details of programme (in Italian) click on link below: www.unipg.it/difilile/Etruscan/Insieme_costr_la_terra_Assisi14_17ottob2010.pdf

[Programme - translation]

FRIDAY 15 October - 9.00 am
1. Greetings from Annamaria Tassone, President of the Teilhard Association of Italy.
2. A welcome to the conference “Building the World”: why Assisi 2010? - by Remo Vescia, President of the European Teilhard Centre (CET).
3. Greetings from His Excellency the Bishop of Assisi.
4. Teilhard's eschatology speaks to us of our own hopes, and those of humanity – by His Excellency the Bishop of Mondovi (Italy).
5. St. Francis today – by Father Orlando Todisco ofm (Italy)
FRIDAY 15 October – 3.00 pm
Evolution and the Future
1. From the big-bang to the emergence of life – Thierry Magnin (France)
2. Evolution as a natural process and as a rational process - Gianluigi Nicola (Italy)
3. Consciousness as the driving force of the biosphere – Father Henry Madelin (France)
4. From the biosphere to the noosphere and byond – Silvana Procacci (Italy)
SATURDAY 16 October – 9.00 am
Man and the World
1. Francis and Teilhard: The meeting of mysticism and ecology –
Annamaria TassoneBernardi,
2. Re-evaluation of the works of St. Paul and Teilhard de Chardin -
Luciano Benono Mazzoni, Vice-President of Italian Teilhard Association.
3. Universialism and Liberty – Canon Alan Nugent (Great Britain)
4. The echo of Teilhard in the ethical sphere of a pluralistic society -
Michel Renaud, Vice-President of the Portuguese Association
SATURDAY afternoon – 3.00 pm
The Spiritualisation of the Universe according to Teilhard
1. The material and the spiritual, or the fabric of the Universe -
Father Gustave Martelet (France)
2. The spirituality of consciousness – Mons.Carlo Molari (Italy)
3. Teilhard, prophet of the third millenium – Mons.Andre Dupleix (France)
Conclusion of the conference– Remo Vescia, with the special participation of Francois Cheng.
SUNDAY 17 October
Morning: Mass in the Basilica of St. Francis
Afternoon: A tour of Assisi and its surroundings.
The two evenings will be enlivened by a concert of medieval music and films on Franciscan themes.



British Teilhard Association / Alister Hardy Society One day Conference

Theme: Future of Humanity: A Cosmological Vision

Saturday 24th April 2010

Speakers: Prof. Ursula King,The Future Evolution of Humanity on Earth: A Gigiantic Task, a Dream or a Nightmare?; Dr. Christopher Knight, Evolution and Spiritual Experience - an Eastern Perspective; Prof. Bernard Carr, Cosmos, Creation and the Culmination of Consciousness.


28th International Teilhard Conference

Theme: Teilhard and the Politics of Globalisation

Venue: All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney, Nr St. Albans

Friday 1st May to Sunday 3rd May 2009

Speakers:

Professor Wayne Parsons
Rosemary Cattell
Canon Alan Nugent
Dr. David Grumett
Valintin Gerlier

 

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