HEGEL, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND THEOLOGY
Thom Brooks works in the areas of ethics, law and public policy, with an extensive historical engagement with politicians and policy makers. He conducts regularly appearances on TV, radio and print media, including BBC News, BBC Radio 4, BBC 5 live, Sky News and newspapers such as the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Northern Echo, Scotsman,Sunday Times and the Times. As well as the author of 'Hegel's Political Philosophy' (Second Edition, 2012), Thom is Professor of Law and Government at Durham Law School and an Associate Professor with links to research Centres in Law, Philosophy and Government - including the Centre for Criminal Law and Criminal Justice, the Centre for Ethics, Law and Life Sciences, and the Centre for the History of Political Thought, Gender and Law at Durham.
Andrew Shanks has published a series of books on Hegel's theo-politics, including: 'Hegel's Political Theology' (CUP), 'Civil Society, Civil Religion' (Blackwell), 'God and Modernity' (Routledge), 'What is Truth? Towards a Theological Poetics' (Routledge), 'Hegel's Religious Faith: Divided Brain, Atoning Spirit' and most recently 'A Neo-Hegelian Theology: The God of Greatest Hospitality' . An Anglican priest, he has lectured in theology at the Universities of Leeds and Lancaster, and Manchester where he recently retired as Canon Theologian.
Friedrike Schick is Adjunct professor at Tübingen university, department of philosophy; research assistant at the faculty of protestant theology, also at Tübingen university, with the research project "Pluralität und Wahrheitsanspruch in den Religionen bei Schleiermacher, Hegel und Schelling".
Main publications: "Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik - metaphysische Letztbegründung oder Theorie logischer Formen?" (1994); "Sache und Notwendigkeit. Studien zum Zusammenhang von empirischer und begrifflicher Allgemeinheit" (2005); co-editor of "G.W.F. Hegel. Wissenschaft der Logik" (together with Anton Friedrich Koch; 2002), and of "Hegel - 200 Jahre Wissenschaft der Logik" (together with Anton Friedrich Koch, Klaus Vieweg, and Claudia Wirsing; forthcoming). Main topics of research: Hegelian logic, social philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Main publications: "Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik - metaphysische Letztbegründung oder Theorie logischer Formen?" (1994); "Sache und Notwendigkeit. Studien zum Zusammenhang von empirischer und begrifflicher Allgemeinheit" (2005); co-editor of "G.W.F. Hegel. Wissenschaft der Logik" (together with Anton Friedrich Koch; 2002), and of "Hegel - 200 Jahre Wissenschaft der Logik" (together with Anton Friedrich Koch, Klaus Vieweg, and Claudia Wirsing; forthcoming). Main topics of research: Hegelian logic, social philosophy, and philosophy of religion.
Theology and Exclusion
Anna Rowlands is a theologian working at the interface of Political, Moral and Practical Theologies and interested in bringing to bear the resources of theology for public conversations in the life of Church, academy and civil society. Her background is in both the social sciences and theology and she continues to work in an inter-disciplinary way. She has a long track record of working in partnership with community and faith-based organisations and this is an element of her work that she is particularly passionate about. Currently she works with CAFOD, Citizens UK (with whom she worked as Theologian in Residence 2011-12) and the Caritas Social Action Network. Having spent seven years working in theological education in Cambridge helping to educate students training for ministry in the Anglican, Methodist, URC and Catholic traditions she is also very interested in the approaches to education used in ministerial theological education and in gender and theological education. She has now taken up the the post of deputy Director for Catholic Studies at the University of Durham.
Joerg Rieger is Professor of Constructive Theology at SMU Perkins University, Dallas, USA. Responding to the limitations of both conservative and liberal expressions of theology in the oppresive contemporary context, Joerg's work is based on the recognition that more radical and faithful visions of Christianity are needed, and that such visions were already emerging from grassroots communities both locally and globally. Having taught at Perkins School of Theology since 1994, Rieger continues to develop this more challenging vision of Christianity in close collaboration with colleagues both nationally and internationally and with emerging grassroots movements. In Dallas, he is active in the religion and labor movement. He is the author of 'Occupy religion: Theology of the Multitude (Rowman and Littlefield, 2012), Globalization and Theology (Abingdon Press, 2010), No Rising Tide: Theology, Economics, and the Future (Fortress Press, 2009), Christ and Empire: From Paul to Postcolonial Times (Fortress Press, 2007) and God and the ERxcluded: Visions and Blindspots in Contemporary Theology (Fortress Press, 2001).
Theology and Social Activism
Over the past two decades Jane Wills research has been on: (1) The changing geo-political-economy of work, employment, labour supply and labour politics; (2) New forms of urban political alliances with a particular interest in community organising and, more recently; (3) The politics and practice of localism in the UK.
These concerns can be seen in her book Global cities at work: New migrant divisions of labour (Pluto, 2010), which builds on themes she has explored in her previous texts Threads of labour: Garment industry supply chains from the workers’ perspective (Blackwell, 2005), Place, space and the new labour internationalisms (Blackwell, 2001), Union Futures: Building networked trade unionism in the UK (Fabian Ideas, 2002) and Dissident geographies: An introduction to radical ideas and practice (Pearson, 2000).
These concerns can be seen in her book Global cities at work: New migrant divisions of labour (Pluto, 2010), which builds on themes she has explored in her previous texts Threads of labour: Garment industry supply chains from the workers’ perspective (Blackwell, 2005), Place, space and the new labour internationalisms (Blackwell, 2001), Union Futures: Building networked trade unionism in the UK (Fabian Ideas, 2002) and Dissident geographies: An introduction to radical ideas and practice (Pearson, 2000).
Stephen Timms is the Member of Parliament for East Ham and the Shadow Minister for Employment. He is also the Labour Party Faith Envoy and Chair of Christians on the Left.
Stephen entered Parliament as Labour MP for Newham North East through a by-election on 9th June 1994, and was re-elected to the new constituency of East Ham in May 1997. In the 2010 General Election he secured the biggest majority in the House of Commons. He was a Minister from 1998 until 2010, serving for example as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Minister for Digital Britain and Minister for Pensions. He was in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2006-7. After Ed Milliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Employment.
Having grown up in Hampshire and studied mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Steven moved to East Ham in 1978 and married Hui-Leng in 1986. Before entering parliament he worked for eight years for the software company Logica, and then for another eight years for a small firm, Ovum, started up by former colleagues at Logica. He am a keen cyclist, and a member of the Ramblers Association.
Stephen entered Parliament as Labour MP for Newham North East through a by-election on 9th June 1994, and was re-elected to the new constituency of East Ham in May 1997. In the 2010 General Election he secured the biggest majority in the House of Commons. He was a Minister from 1998 until 2010, serving for example as Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Minister for Digital Britain and Minister for Pensions. He was in the Cabinet as Chief Secretary to the Treasury in 2006-7. After Ed Milliband's election as leader of the Labour Party, he was appointed Shadow Minister for Employment.
Having grown up in Hampshire and studied mathematics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Steven moved to East Ham in 1978 and married Hui-Leng in 1986. Before entering parliament he worked for eight years for the software company Logica, and then for another eight years for a small firm, Ovum, started up by former colleagues at Logica. He am a keen cyclist, and a member of the Ramblers Association.
Adrian Pabst joined the University of Kent in Canterbury in 2009 as a lecturer in politics. Previously he gained his PhD in political thought and philosophy of religion from Cambridge (2002-06) and held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Nottingham (2007-09). His most recent book publications include a monograph entitled Metaphysics: The Creation of Hierarchy (W.B. Eerdmans, 2012) and an edited essay collection on The Crisis of Global Capitalism (Wipf & Stock, 2011). Both his teaching and research are situated at the interstice of political theory, political economy and international relations (particularly British and continental European politics). He also have a strong interest in the role of ethics and religion in politics. Currently his research focuses on contemporary post-liberal politics. This work combines a critique of economic and social liberalism with alternatives that emphasise reciprocity, mutuality and the common good.
Sophie Stephens is a Senior Organiser with North London Citizens, organising in the borough of Haringey. She has worked with South London Citizens in Wandsworth and Citizens for Sanctuary which included working with teams of leaders around the country to improve the immigration system. In 2010, Sophie was seconded to deliver the Movement for Change which included training 1,000 people during the Labour Party leadership election. Sophie grew up in south Wales and studied History at Oxford University. Having spent time working in Uganda on water sanitation projects she went on to complete a Masters in Development and Globalisation.