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Science, Consciousness and Ultimate Reality Leech Hall, St. John’s College, Durham Saturday 16th March 2002 PROGRAMME Chair: Professor Ann Loades CBE 10:00 Introductions 10:15 Lord John Habgood PC: 11:15 Coffee 11:45 Dr. Peter Fenwick: Brain, Mind and Beyond: Towards a Wider Science of Consciousness 1:00 Lunch 2:15 Dialogue between Speakers 3:00 Dialogue with Audience 4:15 Tea Rt Hon. Lord John Habgood MA, PhD, DD, PC Lord John Habgood did postgraduate research and teaching in physiology in the University of Cambridge from 1948-53. He was ordained priest in the Church of England in 1955. He was Principal of Queen’s College, Birmingham from 1967-73 and Bishop of Durham from 1973-83. He was then Archbishop of York from 1983-95 and was created a life peer in 1995. He is currently Chairman of the UK Xenotransplantation Interim Regulatory Authority. John Habgood is author of eight books on science, religion, ethics and public affairs. His most recent, Varieties of Unbelief formed the Bampton Lectures in the University of Oxford. He is currently Gifford Lecturer in the University of Aberdeen on ‘The Concept of Nature. His 1997 Riddle Lectures in the University of Newcastle were published under the title of Being a Person. Dr. Peter Fenwick MB BChir (Cantab) DPM FRCPsych Emeritus Consultant, Maudsley Hospital, Neuropsychiatry, Epilepsy Unit, Neuropsychiatrist to Radcliffe Infirmary Oxford Epilepsy Surgery Programme, Honorary Research Neurophysiologist to Broadmoor Hospital. Honorary Consultant Neurophysiologist at St. Thomas’s Hospital. He lectures internationally on automatism and the law and has frequently appeared as a medical Expert Witness at the Old Bailey and the Appeal Court. He has researched for many years into altered states of consciousness, meditation and transcendent experience. He is a Vice President of the Scientific and Medical Network and President of The Horizon Foundation (formerly IANDS UK). He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and a number of popular books with his wife Elizabeth. These include The Truth in the Light, The Hidden Door and Past Life Memories. Prof. Ann Loades, CBE, BA, MA, PhD Prof. Ann Loades has been Professor of Divinity in the University of Durham since 1995 and has been a lecturer in the University since 1975. She is currently panel convener for Philosophy, Religious Studies and the Law, Arts and Humanities Research Board and a member of the AHRB Postgraduate Committee. She has given many lectures at international conferences around the world and teaches a module on science and religion in her undergraduate course ‘God and the World’. She is a Church of England Inspector of Theological Colleges and Courses, is a member of the Church of England Doctrine Commission and on the standing committee for the appointment of the Regius Chair of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. She was editor of Theology from 1991-1997. Her books include: Searching for Lost Coins: Explorations in Christianity and Feminism, Contemporary Classics in the Philosophy of Religion, (ed, with Loyal Rue), Dorothy L. Sayers: Spiritual Writings (editor and compiler), The Sense of the Sacramental: Movement and Measure in Art and Music, Place and Time, (ed. With D.W. Brown), Evelyn Underhill. Places can be reserved in advance from the conference office in St. John’s College, price £3 to include coffee and tea, payable on the door. Address: St. John’s College, Durham DH1 3RJ. Tel: 0191 374 3500, email [log in to unmask] ************************************************** M. D. Eddy Editor-in-Chief, Philosophical Writings HPSM Director University of Durham, Department of Philosophy, 50 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HN UK; Tel: (44) 191 374 7641 St. John's College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3HN UK; Voicemail: (44) 191 374 3575; http://www.dur.ac.uk/m.d.eddy/ ***************************************************