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January 2019
Training “Countering Mission Drift in Faith-based Organizations”
Countering Mission Drift in Faith-based Organizations: A One-day Training Event for Leaders Are you a board member or trustee of a Christian organization, committed to advising, warning and encouraging the Executive? Or are you responsible for leadership, strategic planning and organizational development in a faith-based NGO? Many Christian organizations and NGO’s experience a shift of focus over time, away from their founding mission, core purpose and identity. This is a well-known challenge facing faith-based organizations called Mission Drift. The Institute…
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Conference “Being Human in a Technological Age: Rethinking Theological Anthropology”
Being Human in a Technological Age: Rethinking Theological Anthropology 22-23 February 2019 | Leuven Belgium Invitation to an international academic conference On February 22-23, 2019, the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics (ILSE), part of the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (Belgium) will organize an international, academic conference, addressing the theme Being Human in a Technological Age: Rethinking Theological Anthropology, focusing 1) on the challenge posed by technological developments to the traditional Christian understanding of the human being, and 2) on…
Find out more »May 2019
Study Day Artificial Intelligence
If you have missed the conference but would still like to further explore the subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with us, we would like to draw your attention to the study day (in Dutch) on “Artificiële intelligentie: bedreigend of hoopgevend?” which will take place at ETF Leuven on 11 May 2019. During this study day we want to delve deeper into the challenges that AI poses to humans. If you run into questions about current developments in this area within…
Find out more »June 2019
Conference “Homo Amans: Towards a Relational Anthropology Fostering an Economics of Human Flourishing”
Amidst the many environmental and societal problems that our world is facing today, there is growing awareness and recognition in both academia and society that economics should aim to foster human well-being. But if so, why is the dominant approach to human behavior in contemporary economics still that of homo economicus – an ego-driven being pursuing wealth only for his own self-interest? Funded by the Goldschmeding Foundation, a two-day international symposium is organized by the Institute of Leadership and Social…
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Rescheduled – Conference “Towards an Environmental Ethic of ‘Fittingness'”
Please take note this conference will be rescheduled. See https://www.etf-ilse.org/news/cancellation-conference-towards-an-environmental-ethic-of-fittingness-may-8-9-2020/ ************ This conference will address the notion of 'fittingness' in relation to environmental ethics. Keynote lectures will be given by Prof. Dr. Michael Northcott, Prof. Dr. Johan de Tavernier and Prof. Dr. Emily Brady. More information will follow soon. For this conference we designed a Call for Papers. We welcome contributions from multiple perspectives. This conference forms part of the research project "Towards an Environmental Ethic of 'Fittingness'," which is…
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