Don Cupitt

Don Cupitt and the Sea of Faith
2024-07-01 12:00 - 2024-07-02 16:00 UTC
Day 1: Monday 1st July
2:00-2:15pm – Welcome and Introduction
Elaine Graham, Graeme Smith, Catherine Pickstock, Jeremy Caddick and Jeremy Carrette
2:15-3:45pm – Opening Keynote:
Chair: Elaine Graham
Steven Shakespeare
3:45-4:15pm – Tea
4:15-6:00pm – Short Papers on the different episodes of Sea of Faith:
Chair: Catherine Pickstock

Episode 1, The Mechanical Universe – Copernican revolution. Blaise Pascal and René Descartes. John Cottingham
Episode 2, The Human Animal – Charles Darwin, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Jeremy Carrette
Episode 3, Going by the Book – Martin Luther, David Strauss, and Albert Schweitzer. James Carleton Paget

7:00-8:30pm – Dinner
(Hall) 8:30-9:30pm – After dinner personal responses
(Chapel) Personal appreciations of Don Cupitt:
Chair: Graeme Smith

Catherine Pickstock
George Pattison
Clare Carlisle
Alison Webster

Day 2: Tuesday 2nd July
9:30-11:00am
Chair: Graeme Smith/Jeremy Carrette

Episode 4, Prometheus Unbound – Karl Marx and Søren Kierkegaard. Clare Carlisle/George Pattison
Episode 5, Religion Shock – Arthur Schopenhauer and Eastern religions. Vivekananda, Hindu missionary. Annie Besant and anthroposophist. Jessica Frazier
Episode 6, The New World – Friedrich Nietzsche and the death of God. Ludwig Wittgenstein. Gavin Hyman

11:00-11:30am – Coffee
11:30am-12:45pm – Religion and Media : the making of the Sea of Faith
Chair: Elaine Graham

Rosie Dawson
Peter Armstrong

12:45-1:30pm – Lunch
1:30-2:30pm – Session on Don Cupitt archive:
Chair: Catherine Pickstock
Elaine Graham and Graeme Smith
2:30-3:00pm – Tea
Chair: Jeremy Carrette
3:00-4:30pm – Final Keynote: Linda Woodhead
4:30pm – Tea and departure
Keynote Speakers

Steven Shakespeare
Linda Woodhead

Speakers

Peter Armstrong
Clare Carlisle
James Carleton Paget
John Cottingham
Jeremy Carrette
Rosie Dawson
Jessica Frazier
Elaine Graham
Gavin Hyman
George Pattison
Catherine Pickstock
Graeme Smith

Sea of Faith 40th Anniversary Events
2024-09-20 10:00 - 2024-09-22 14:00 | Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, United Kingdom
2024 will see the fortieth anniversary of the first broadcast of the BBC TV series, The Sea of Faith in September 1984.
Two special events are being planned to mark this milestone.
July 1-2 2024: Conference evaluating Cupitt’s work and legacy, University of Cambridge, UK.
September 20-21 2024: Special symposium to mark 40th anniversary, Gladstone’s Library, Hawarden, North Wales. Featuring public lectures, archival exhibition, workshops and talks.
