Creation Beyond Creativity

Laudato Si' Research Institute

The Laudato Si' Research Institute warmly invites you to this public lecture. You are welcome to join either in person or online.

The Pichette Auditorium, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

Public Lecture: Creation Beyond Creativity Speaker: Professor Tim Ingold, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and visitor at the Laudato Si' Research Institute Format: In-person / onlineAbout: For the past two millennia, debates around creation and creativity have turned around the question of whether it is possible to create something from nothing, or whether creativity necessarily involves the recombination of elements already to hand. These debates divided theologians and philosophers from classical through medieval times. Following the Renaissance, however, and in the subsequent rise of modern science, creation came to be strongly associated with the recombinant power of intelligent design. This lecture charts how, from the mid-twentieth century, this association went on to underpin the burgeoning field of creativity research in psychology, leading to an exclusive focus on the novelty of ideas and products that left no room for the creativeness of life itself, in its intrinsic potential for renewal. Drawing on the thinking of John Dewey, Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead, on questions of philosophy, religion and art, the lecture elaborates on the distinction between novelty and newness, and makes a plea for the restoration of the idea of creation not as the proliferation of ends but as the promise of perpetual beginning.How to Attend: This talk is held in the Pichette Auditorium at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, and will be livestreamed. Please indicate which option you prefer when you register. The livestream link will be sent out on the day before the event takes place. There will be a free drinks reception for in-person attendees following the event. Update: Please note that in-person tickets for this event have now sold out. However, online tickets remain available and you are most welcome to attend online.TIME CHANGE: update 09.03.23. Please note that as a result of an unavoidable last minute change of travel arrangements due to weather, this lecture will take place 30 minutes later than planned, from 18.00 – 19.00 GMT this evening, Thursday 9th March. Please accept my apologies for this change in arrangements, and we hope it will still be possible for you to join us today. In-person attendees are still welcome to arrive at 17.30 at Pembroke College: the drinks reception envisaged as following the lecture will now take place before the lecture, from 17.30 to 17.55. Online attendees should join the livestream before 18.00 for Professor Ingold's lecture. You will receive a link via email.Thank you for your attention to this update, and please accept our apologies for this unavoidable late change of plans. Registration for the online event has now closed. If you have not yet registered and would like to receive a link to the livestream, please email lsri.administrator@campion.ox.ac.uk

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