Ebor Lectures: Business as Usual? The Global Economic Crisis and the Future of Capitalism

Date:  Six lectures over the coming year

Timetable:  
14 October 2009 at York Minster
Mr Andreas Whittam Smith, CBE, co-founder and first editor of The Independent, First Estates Commissioner for the Church of England
'Is it back to business as usual after all?'

25 November 2009 at York St John University
Dr Ann Pettifor, Executive Director Advocacy International, co-founder of Jubilee 2000 campaign
'Credit, usury and political power; chasing the moneylenders from the temple that is our democracy'

10 February 2010 at York Minster                
Mr Robert Peston, BBC business editor
'What have we learned from the worst financial and economic crisis since the 1930s?'    
 
24 March 2010  at York Minster
Rt Hon Tony Benn, President of the Stop the War Coalition, former Chairman of the Labour Party
'The Kings and the Prophets'

28 April 2010 at York St John University
Prof Elaine Graham, Samuel Ferguson Professor of Social and Pastoral Theology, University of Manchester
'Crisis or opportunity? Doing public theology after the crunch'

26 May 2009 at York St John University 
Canon Dr John Atherton, William Temple Foundation 
'Beyond capitalism; religious contributions to greater wellbeing'

 

Location: See Contact us for directions to York Minster and York St John University.

Description:

The Ebor Lectures are a response to the growing need for theology to interact with public issues in contemporary society. Public theology is about engaging in dialogue with a range of communities on issues wider than narrowly defined religious matters. This series of lectures aims to promote public conversation and to contribute to the formation of personal decisions and collective policy-making in economic, political and social spheres. It is also an ecumenical project that seeks to exchange insights between academic and religious traditions and to build bridges between church and other religious groups. The lectures relate faith to public concerns including politics, economics, contemporary culture, religion and spirituality, society and globalisation, local and global Christianity.

 

Themes

Each year a relevant theme is chosen. The theme for 2006-07 was ‘Liberating Text? Revelation, Identity and Public Life’ and the second series focused on 'Globalisation and Identity'. The third series was entitled 'The Challenge of Climate Change: Eco-crisis, Sustainable Living and the Future of the Planet'. The current series focuses on the global economic crisis which has affected millions of lives and has been met by unprecedented measures by governments and international economic organisations across the world. It has also raised calls for reform of the current capitalist market systems, especially from religious and moral considerations. The Ebor Lectures for 2009-10 examine the root causes of the economic crisis, analyse its local and global implications, evaluate the current theory and practice of the capitalist market, and suggest directions for the future of capitalism.

Further information

The series of Lectures is jointly organised by York Minster, York St John University, York Institute for Community Theology, The Order of Carmelites and the Churches' Regional Commission. Further information can be obtained by emailing s.parkes@yorksj.ac.uk

Tickets to any of the lectures can be requested here.

To make them available to a wider audience, the Lectures are published in book form each year.

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