A Dialogue with Phillip Sheldrake, Inaugural Visiting Fellow, Georgetown Global Cities Initiative
How can the humanities help us make sense of trends associated with urbanization around the world? How might scholars in the sciences, social sciences and humanities use interdisciplinary research to better understand the human condition in cities? As cities, metropolitan areas and mega-regions grow to unprecedented size around the world, the humanities can provide fresh ways to navigate the new seas of urban data and reveal new meaning and insight.
Speaker: Phillip Sheldrake, Visiting Fellow, Georgetown Global Cities Initiative
Moderator: Uwe Brandes, Associate Professor of the Practice, Faculty Director, Georgetown Global Cities Initiative
Respondent: Bryan McCann, Professor and Chair, History Department
Respondent: Shareen Joshi, Assistant Professor, School of Foreign Service
Speaker Bio:
Philip Sheldrake is the inaugural visiting fellow of the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative. He is Senior Research Fellow at Westcott House and the Cambridge Theological Federation and also Professor & Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Spirituality, Oblate School of Theology, San Antonio, Texas (2013-). Additionally, he is Moulsdale Fellow of St Chad's College, Durham University. Philip was educated at Heythrop Pontifical Athenaeum, University of Oxford and University of London. Degrees in philosophy & modern history, Postgraduate Diploma in Pastoral Theology, MTh in Reformation theology and history, Oxford research BD on historical theory and the study of spirituality, Oxford DD in 2015.
He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Philip was previously Lecturer in Pastoral Theology & Director of the Institute of Spirituality, Heythrop College University of London (1984-92), Tutor in Church History and Director of Pastoral Studies, Westcott House (1992-97), Vice-Principal/Academic Director Sarum College (1998-2002), Leech Professor of Applied Theology Durham University (2003-2008) and Joseph Visiting Professor Boston College MA. He was also Honorary Professor and Research Supervisor, University of Wales, 1998-2013. He was Hulsean Lecturer at Cambridge 1999-2000 and is a past-President of the International Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality. He has worked in editing and religious publishing since 1981 including formerly as Chair of SCM Press.
