I’m delighted to formally announce that I have accepted an offer to take up the position of J. S. Woodsworth Chair in the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, beginning next year. (Simon Fraser recently, once again, took the top spot among comprehensive universities in Macleans’ Canadian university rankings.) The chair is named after J. S. Woodsworth (1874-1942), […]
Posts Tagged ‘eugenics’
Woodsworth Chair: Three challenges
Posted in Academe, Manifestos & auguries, tagged eco-humanities, environmental humanities, eugenics, humanities, J. S. Woodsworth, post-human, posthumanism, posthumanities, Simon Fraser University, Woodsworth Chair on November 22, 2023 | 6 Comments »
Pointing to Omega?
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged anti-racism, Christianity, cosmology, Eucocentrism, eugenics, evolution, evolutionary theory, Peirce, racism, spiritual evolution, Teilhard de Chardin, theology, Thomas Berry, Whitehead on May 22, 2018 | 3 Comments »
Okay, so I watched Harry and Meghan’s royal wedding (not so much intentionally as to enjoy the loving company of my co-habitants) and was impressed by the tension between Bishop Michael Curry’s sermonizing on love and the dour and perplexed faces of many of the royal-loving Brits in the audience. Diana Evans’ Guardian piece gets […]