Center For Process Studies

The Center for Process Studies is excited to announce that our upcoming conference on Whitehead's legacy at Harvard is now FREE for virtual and in-person attendance! Space is limited for in-personal attendance, however, so make haste with registration! Reserve your spot: https://buff.ly/4cMPyFu We look forward to your participation in this commemorative event, which will offer a unique platform for scholarly exchange and engagement with Whitehead’s enduring ideas.

We are pleased to officially announce this call for papers for the “Is It Too Late?: Toward Ecological Civilization” conference, commemorating the centenary of eco-sage John B. Cobb Jr. This significant event will also mark a decade since our transformative 2015 “Seizing an Alternative” conference and the founding of the Institute for Ecological Civilization. Held in conjunction with the 18th International Forum on Ecological Civilization and the 7th International Youth Forum on Ecological Civilization, the conference will take place at Claremont School of Theology in Westwood, Los Angeles. We invite submissions of abstracts for papers that address various topics across six thematic tracks. Learn more & submit an abstract: https://buff.ly/40ru5OJ

Hot off the press! Our latest issue of Process Studies has just been released! Included in this issue… Personal Identity Matters by Graham Ernest Bloor On the Goodness of Whitehead's God: A Defense and Metaphysical Interpretation by Andrew M. Davis A Metaphysical Analysis of Chemical Change: Toward a Reconciliation of Whiteheadian Process Metaphysics and Aristotelian-Scholastic Substance Metaphysics by Ross Stein Invention in Bergson's Integral Empiricism: Differential Matter and Integral Memory by John Robert Bagby The Objectivity of Whitehead's Propositions: An Explication of the Truth-Relation by Benjamin E. Snyder Sacred Naturalism and Cosmic Unity: Seeking Harmony in the Midst of Chaos by Dwayne Schulz And reviews of three recent publications! Check out the full issue: https://buff.ly/4hIUrCa

Up next on John Cobb & Friends: "Relational Abrahamic Faiths " | David Rosen, Osman ?rs, and Sheri D. Kling, PhD , December 3. Learn more & RSVP: https://buff.ly/3YYMTTl Several locations around the world have taken concrete steps toward interreligious understanding and relationship by creating communities of faith that house all three Abrahamic traditions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The House of One in Berlin, Germany and the Abrahamic Family House on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi are two such communities. Each has its own unique way of approaching its mission. Seeking to learn more, Sheri Kling, director of Process & Faith, reached out to invite a representative from each community to join her in this presentation to the Cobb & Friends gathering. Rabbi David Rosen and Imam Osman ?rs readily agreed. They’ll share highlights and images from their communities and discuss the joys and challenges they’ve experienced. Dr. Kling will facilitate the conversation.

Join Flagstaff College and author Austin Frerick for a conversation on his book Barons: Money, Power, and the Corruption of America's Food Industry. Barons is the story of seven titans of the food industry, their rise to power, and the consequences for workers, eaters, and democracy itself. Barons paints a stark portrait of corporate consolidation, but it also shows that a fair, healthy, and prosperous food industry is possible—if we take back power from the barons who have robbed us of it. Join via the Flagstaff College website: https://buff.ly/3UZMXkt

From the archives: Judith Butler - 2009 Whitehead Research Project Conference

The next session of Readings on Faiths Around the World begins Monday, November 18th! In this learning circle, Terry Goddard will lead discussions on Gordon D. Kaufman’s In the Beginning… Creativity. In this little book Kaufman suggests a different way in which to conceive of God—as creativity. In some ways his claim is not unlike that of Alfred North Whitehead. Whitehead suggested creativity not as God but as the ultimate in the universe. However, in many other ways Kaufman’s thought is very different as his book reveals. Learn more & RSVP: https://buff.ly/4fkPEoo

Center for Process Studies Program Director, Dr. Andrew M. Davis, was recently a guest on the Theology Mill Podcast from Wipf and Stock! In this podcast conversation, Davis discusses the recently published anthology From Force to Persuasion: Process-Relational Perspectives on Power and the God of Love which developed out of a November 2022 conference the Center hosted on the same theme. Head to https://buff.ly/3Co1ekl or wherever you get your podcasts to listen!