Date: June 30 to July 1, 2023
Location: Leuven, Belgium
The conference focuses on the dialogue between the disciplines of economics, philosophy, and Christian theology. The conference will provide an opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse group of global leading thinkers in these, and other, disciplines. Motivated by a widely documented anthropological poverty (or ignorance) of human nature in economics, the idea underlying the conference can be summarised along four principles:
1) Economics is important for human flourishing.
2) Christian theology contains relevant knowledge about humans and what is of value.
3) These anthropological insights and resources inform and shape the questions that should be answered by new economic models.
4) The models may themselves ask questions back to theology and its related disciplines.
Keynote speakers are Gordon Menzies (Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Technology Sydney), Masao Ogaki (Professor, Faculty of Economics, Keio University) and Ellen Van Stichel (Assistant Professor of Christian Social and Political Ethics at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies of the KU Leuven).
More information about the conference and submission guidelines can be found here.
