A crucial topic concerning migration is its many causes. In what ways is climate change and crisis factoring in human displacement? Who is expected to respond to the climate crisis?<\/span><\/p>\n From the apocalyptical to the hopeful? Is it possible to unite the forces or making a unified position across disciplines to address the crisis? What could be a meaningful religious response?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n This event is part of an ecumenical and international webinar series will foster critical perspectives on migration in Europe. The series facilitates an ongoing conversation on these issues among theologians and migration scholars, refugees and migrants, activists, and church and civic leaders. The initiative has the potential to enhance the promotion of the human dignity, the protection of migrants\u2019 and refugees\u2019 rights regardless of their origin. And first and last:<\/p>\n Can theology and churches represent serious challenges to the present European politics and societies, often dominated by issues of security, immigration restrictions, and populist initiatives?<\/span><\/p>\n Which are the positions, reflections of Christian churches in the current European migration context?\u00a0 How is theology responding to the permanent mobility of people trying to enter \u201cFortress Europe\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n The webinar series will foster networks amongst scholars and Christian based organizations from different countries with the purpose of enhancing how theology can contribute to migration understanding. Concretely, the initiative aims to provide a platform for dialogues and exchange of experiences of good practices and lessons learned among Christian communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The seminar will be held digitally. If you wish to attend a lecture, you need to register in advance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n https:\/\/uio.zoom.us\/meeting\/register\/u5UtdOGsqjgtG9NT3BDltfu0GEzIUDBBHUMk#\/registration<\/a><\/p>\n A zoom link will be sent to you before the event.<\/p>\n Speakers:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Moderator: <\/span>Veronica De Sanctis<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Rev. Dr. Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam is Chair of Philosophy of Science and Director of the Institute of Social and Political Sciences at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome. He was the Coordinator of the Sector of \u201cEcology\u201d at the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development from 2017-2023, where he continues to serve, while attending to numerous academic commitments. His publications include Creation in Crisis: Science, Ethics and Theology<\/i> (Orbis Books, 2014), The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis<\/i> (Cambridge Scholars, 2017), The Ten Green Commandments of Laudato Si\u2019<\/i>(Liturgical Press, 2019); Laudato Si\u2019 Reader<\/i> (ed.) (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2021), Per Una Conversione Ecologica<\/i> (Castelvecchi, 2023).<\/p>\n Arne Johan Vetlesen is professor of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. His research interests are tied to the conditions of moral \u2013 individually, culturally and socially, as well as topics related to freedom, market and professional ethics. Lately he has focused on environmental philosophy, particularly the question of the value of nature in light of the debate between the Anthropocene and biocentric perspectives.<\/p>\n Some of his latest publications include Hva skal vi svare v\u00e5re barn? (How will we answer our children?)<\/i> (with Rasmus Willig, 2018); Cosmologies of the Anthropocene: Panpsychism, Animism, and the Limits of Posthumanism<\/i> (2019), Smerte i v\u00e5r tid (Pain in our time)<\/i> (2020), Etikk i klimakrisens tid (Ethics in a time of climate crisis)<\/i> (with \u00a0Jan-Olav Henriksen, 2022) and Animal Lives and Why they Matter<\/i> (2023).<\/p>\n Gioacchino Campese, is a member of the Scalabrinians, a Roman Catholic religious order, currently serving as professor of theology of human mobility at the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome (Italy) and working with the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI). He is also president of the Agenzia Scalabriniana per la Cooperazione allo Sviluppo (ASCS), an NGO that operates in the areas of integral welcoming, intercultural engagement and development cooperation in Europe and Africa. He has studied theology in Manila (Philippines), Chicago (USA) and Rome, where he earned a PhD in theology of mission. He has been ministering with migrants and refugees in Mexico, USA and Italy. He has authored and edited several books and articles on the theology of migration and the pastoral care with migrants and refugees.<\/p>\n Cecilia Nahnfeldt is professor in practical theology at \u00c5bo Academy University. Her research connects theology with gender studies. Nahnfelt has long experience of research related to theological perspectives on migration and social inclusion in churches and civil society with a focus on Sweden and the Nordic countries.<\/p>\n The Migration, Ethics and Theology webinar series is developed in a cooperation between the Scalabrini International Migration Institute (SIMI) in Rome and scholars in the research project Nordhost \u2013 Migration and Hospitality in a Nordic context. The partners hosted an international conference in Rome in 2019, published in the edited volume Contemporary Christian-Cultural Values (C. Nahnfeldt\/K. R\u00f8nsdal, ed.)\u00a0 (Routledge 2021), and the volume Contested Hospitalities in the time of Migration (S. Bendixsen\/T. Wyller, ed).\u00a0 The SIMI Institute publish ed in 2021:\u00a0 \u2018Migrants and Pilgrims as our Ancestors\u2019 (1 Chr 29:15). Theology of Human Mobility in the 21st Century (E. Chaves Dias \/A. Skoda\/V. De Sanctis, ed.)<\/p>\n Currently, the partners behind the series are Kaia R\u00f8nsdal and Trygve Wyller, University of Oslo \u2013 Faculty of Theology (Norway). Aldo Skoda and Gioacchino Campese, Scalabrini International Migration Institute; Pontificia Universit\u00e0 Urbaniana \u2013 Faculty of Theology (Italy), Cecilia Nahnfeldt, \u00c5bo Akademi University \u2013 Faculty of Theology (Finland); Uppsala University, Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society (Sweden).<\/p>\n<\/div>\nDigital event – how to participate<\/span><\/h2>\n
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About <\/span>Joshtrom Isaac Kureethadam<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
Arne Johan Vetlesen<\/strong> <\/span><\/h4>\n
About Gioacchino Campese<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
About<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Cecilia Nahnfeldt<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n
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