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Girard scholars meet in Mexico City

13 Aug 2024

Girard scholars meet in Mexico City

Girard Scholars Meet in Mexico City CRES theologian, Professor Scott Cowdell, joined over a hundred scholars from around the world in June for the annual conference of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Held at a seventeenth-century Jesuit college in Mexico City, the conference theme was “Desire Among the Ruins: Mimesis and the Crisis of Representation”. Professor Cowdell presented a paper entitled “Barthes and Girard on Mythical (Mis)Representation”, and there.....

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Recent publications

08 May 2024

Recent publications

Congratulations to all CRES scholars on their recent publications: Cadwallader, Alan. “Moneyed women in Phrygia,” Numismatic Chronicle 183 (2023): 43–78 + Plates. Cadwallader, Alan. “Value-adding a Slave, or, How Much Is an Onesimus worth?” In Everyday Life in New Testament Times: Essays in Honor of Peter Arzt-Grabner, edited by Christina Kreinecker, John Kloppenborg and James R. Harrison, 165-89. Leiden: Brill, 2024. [https://researchoutput.csu.edu.au/en/publications/value-adding-a-slave-or-how-much-is-an-onesimus-worth] Erickson, Amy. “Surveillance and Sabbath: Alternative Powers, Alternative.....

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Publication news: Prof Alan Cadwallader co-edits "The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity"

08 May 2024

Publication news: Prof Alan Cadwallader co-edits

Congratulations to Professor Alan Cadwallader, who co-edited the book, The Village in Antiquity and the Rise of Early Christianity, along with James Hardison (Sydney College of Divinity), Angela Standhartinger (University of Marburg) and Larry Welborn (Fordham, New York). The book challenges the dominant thesis that cities are the key to early Christianity. The volume begins with a “state-of-question” introduction by Thomas Robinson, assessing the interrelation of the village and city.....

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The AI Revolution - lecture by Dr Jonathan Cole

07 May 2024

The AI Revolution - lecture by Dr Jonathan Cole

On 23 April, Interim Executive Director of the ACC&C, Dr Jonathan Cole, gave a talk on ‘๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—”๐—œ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐—น๐˜‚๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป: ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€, ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—บ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ต๐˜‚๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ฒ’ as part of the Christians for an Ethical Society (CES) forum series. Dr Cole used two examples of GPT-4 and self-driving cars to illustrate how AI is impacting our lives and what its impact might be in the future. The lecture was well-attended.....

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