Dr Bethan Willis hosts conversations with world-leading theologians who have written 'Theology Briefs'; briefings which open up a key theme in Christian theology to encourage dialogue amongst academics in research universities world-wide. Episodes bring leading interdisciplinary scholars into these thematic conversations exploring how these theologies engage with the innovative frontiers of their own research and writing. Conversations range across the arts, sciences, business and professions; and together show how theology can enrich university and academic life in all dimensions.
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Dr Bethan Willis hosts conversations with world-leading theologians who have written 'Theology Briefs'; briefings which open up a key theme in Christian theology to encourage dialogue amongst academics in research universities world-wide. Episodes bring leading interdisciplinary scholars into these thematic conversations exploring how these theologies engage with the innovative frontiers of their own research and writing. Conversations range across the arts, sciences, business and professions; and together show how theology can enrich university and academic life in all dimensions.
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September 5, 2023
Dinesha Samararatne on Justice
<p>In this episode, Dr Bethan Willis speaks to Professor Dinesha Samararatne. They discuss the need to prioritise questions of injustice in constitutional law-making; the lack of equity in resources and publications for academics in the global south; the cost of pursuing justice as an academic in a country facing instability and uncertainty; and the priorities academics need to attend to if they wish to pursue truth with justice. </p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/contributor/78">Dinesha Samararatne</a> (GFI Biography)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/content_item/230">Justice & Rights</a> (Preview Response)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/content_item/165">Justice in Academic Publishing and the Academic Calling: A Perspective from the Global South</a> (Disciplinary Brief)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/content_item/99">Nicholas Wolterstorff: Justice & Rights </a>(Theology Brief)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/mission">Further information about the Global Faculty Initiative.</a></p> <p> </p>
August 31, 2023
Peter Sloman on Justice
<p>In this episode Dr Bethan Willis speaks to political historian, Dr Peter Sloman about his <a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/content_item/175">Disciplinary Brief on Justice. </a>They discuss the biblical imperative to seek economic justice on a societal level - as well as an individual level; the shift in the way we have understood economic rights over time; and the link between economic rights and broader human flourishing.</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/contributor/80">Peter Sloman</a> (GFI Biography)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/content_item/250">Justice / Social Sciences</a> (Preview Response)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/content_item/175">Economic justice and the politics of redistribution</a> (Disciplinary Brief)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/content_item/99">Nicholas Wolterstorff: Justice & Rights </a>(Theology Brief)</p> <p><a href="https://www.facultyinitiative.net/mission">Further information about the Global Faculty Initiative.</a></p> <p> </p> <p><br></p>
August 21, 2023
Cecilia Jacob on Justice
<p>In this episode Dr Bethan Willis talks to Professor Cecilia Jacob about her disciplinary brief on justice. They discuss her research in the field of international relations including questions of accountability in international justice; the importance of a relational perspective on rights; and how we might balance pragmatism and idealism in seeking justice for vulnerable communities.</p>
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