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(2008-11-25)

Draft (new) PCTS web-site; unstable; changeable.

The Old Web-page (still the most complete and bug-free).

(2009-03-06)

What will become a Wiki for the PCTS.

(2010 Spring Meeting)

The Spring Meeting will be Friday and Saturday April 9 and 10, and present plans are to meet at CDSP in the Tucson Common Room. More details later.

Joan Roughgarden: Animal Behavior papers and God, Science, Sex, Gender
Respondents will be Oliver Putz and Tony Battaglia

Braden Molhoek, ``Undermining Determinism: Stuck Between a Rock and a Sandy Place.'' Respondent TBA.

The Saturday Morning session will be a discussion of Mark Graves' book, Mind, Brain and the Elusive Soul (Ashgate Science and Religion Series). Copies of the book are available from Vick Copy at 1879 Euclid, Berkeley (at Hearst, close to GTU campus). Cost is $12.20. Their contact info is: www.vickcopy.com 510-549-2679.

Respondents will be Alejandro Garcia-Rivera, Michael Dodds, and Andrew Porter.

Location and particulars:

General information

Program Notes

A map of CDSP, showing the Tucson Common Room, where we will meet. More CDSP maps.

(2009 Fall Meeting)

We meet in the Badé Museum both Friday (2:00 pm until 8:00pm) and Saturday (9:30 am untill noon). Friday, discussion of papers from 2:00 to 5:00 pm, followed by business meeting, happy hour, dinner, and autobiography; Saturday, Continental breakfast at 9:30, with papers from 10:00 am until noon.

The autobiographer will be Norman Gottwald.

Papers for the 2009 Fall Meeting, October 23-24:

Friday, October 23:

Oliver Putz, ``Do Apes Pray? The problem of Human Theological Uniqueness''; respondent is Tony Battaglia. (This paper has recently appeared in Zygon.)

Brian Green, ``Cognitive Science and Aristotelian Virtue: Nature and Telos''; respondent is Michael Dodds, OP.

Saturday, October 24:

Sheila Taylor, ``Original Sin and Narrative Orientation''; respondent is Herman Waetjen.

Jennifer Veninga, ``Imagination as an Instrument of Social Change: Soren Kierkegaard and Percy Bysshe Shelley in Dialogue''; respondent is Norman Gottwald.

Order of papers and respondents TBA

(Recent Losses to the Society)

We have received word of the recent deaths of Lewis Mudge and Delwin Brown. The news is on the GTU website, though it is likely to change.

Jack Crossley writes,

        Dear Sharon and Drew,
 
        I take no pleasure in reporting the following information, but I think
        the PCTS members should know about Henry's death.
 
        Henry Clark, Professor Emeritus of Religion at the University of
        Southern California, died Friday, July 24, 2009, while vacationing
        in Nova Scotia.  Cause of death was a massive heart attack.  Henry's
        home was in Sacramento, CA.  His wife, Lyn, died last year.

	Jack

It is an understatement that we shall miss him, 
and we are much lessened by his passing.

--- Andrew Porter

(2009 Spring Business Documents)

Treasurer's report: .doc, .pdf .

The PCTS Endowment at the GTU: .doc, .pdf .

Contribution and Pledge form: .doc, .pdf .

Proposal for revisioning the Society: .pdf, .doc.

(2009 Spring Meeting)

The Spring 2009 meeting will be Friday and Saturday April 17-18, the weekend after Western Easter.

Friday afternoon from 2 pm to 8+ pm, we meet in the Bade Museum.

Saturday morning, from 9:30 am to noon, we meet again in the Bade Museum; THIS IS A CHANGE: we had originally planned to meet in Mudd.

Friday papers will be by Henry Clark and Tony Battaglia, on Charles Taylor's A Secular Age, with Jack Crossley responding to both papers.

The autobiographer after dinner will be Jack Elliott.

Saturday, papers by Chris Ocker, "A modern marriage of convenience: Renaissance and Reformation," and Owen Thomas, "The Origins of Modernity: An Alternate Interpretation of Western Cultural History." Anselm Ramelow and Malcolm Young are the respondents.

Papers were posted here, for the meeting. At this point, those interest should contact the authors for copies.

The Meeting Announcement, in .pdf format.

(2008-11-25)

Future Meeting Dates

The meeting dates are NORMALLY the Friday and Saturday after Western Easter and the first Friday and Saturday in November. We would prefer not to deviate from the rule, but must for the Fall 2009 meeting, because it coincides with the national AAR meeting. The date for it has not been set yet, but it will PROBABLY be OCTOBER 23-24.

Here are the NORMAL dates:

year    Easter date             PCTS Spring             PCTS Fall 
2008       3-23                 March 28-29             November 7-8
2009       4-12                 April 17-18             October  23-24  EARLY, this year 
2010       4-4                  April  9-10             November 5-6
2011       4-24                 April 29-30             November 4-5
2012       4-8                  April 13-14             November 2-3
2013       3-31                 April  5-6              November 1-2

How to calculate Easter and PCTS meeting dates.

(2008-11-25)

Contact Information

Correspondence address of last resort:

Pacific Coast Theological Society,
c/o Graduate Theological Union,
2400 Ridge Road, Berkeley, CA 94709

The Secretary is Andrew Porter, app -at- jedp -dot- com.
The Treasurer is Sharon P. Burch, spburch -at- rcn -dot- com.



Andrew Porter is the maintainer of this web page for the time being.
He can be reached by email at app -at- jedp -dot- com.
774 Joyce Street
Livermore, CA 94550
(925) 443-4041
Email doesn't always make it through the spam filter, alas; the GTU may or may not know what to do with mail for the PCTS, and the secretary may or may not remember to pick up the mail. Telephone is often best.

This page is hosted by The Diamond Lane, in Hayward, CA, www.tdl.com.


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