The Divinity School of the University of Chicago is hosting a public lecture from Peter Harrison on April 25 at 4:30 p.m.
Harrison, a science and religion scholar, is currently a professorial research fellow and the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Queensland. Previously, he was the Idreos Professor of Science and Religion and Director of the Ian Ramsey Centre at the University of Oxford.
His interests center on the area of intellectual history, in the early modern period, secularization, and the relations between science and religion. He is also a founding member of the International Society for Science and Religion and a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science.
In 2011, Harrison delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, and in 2019 gave the Bampton Lectures at the University of Oxford. He is also the author of The Territories of Science and Religion (Chicago, 2015) and After Science and Religion (Cambridge, 2022), co-edited by John Milbank.
The topic of his lecture has not been released, but more information can be found at: https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/public-lecture-peter-harrison.
