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+date: 2018-11-150T16:00:00+01:00
+title: "Co-facilitator"
+host: "ECOLISE launches open online knowledge and learning meeting series"
+publishdate: 2018-11-15
+---

content/presentations/201902_mobilising_churches.md

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+date: 2019-02-250T16:00:00+01:00
+title: "Panelist"
+host: "Mobilising Churches on the Environment, Royal Foundation of St Katherine, 2 Butcher Row, London E14 8DS"
+publishdate: 2019-02-25
+---

content/presentations/201906_creationcare.md

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+date: 2019-06-220T16:00:00+01:00
+title: "Spiritual Places and Creation Care"
+host: "Chuch Mission Society, Lesslie Newbigin House, Winson Green, Birmingham"
+publishdate: 2019-06-22
+---
+

content/presentations/201906_issrnc.md

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+---
+date: 2019-06-150T16:00:00+01:00
+title: "Extinction & Religion: Disappearance, Reap- pearance, and Novel Productions"
+host: "International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture"
+publishdate: 2019-06-15
+---
+
+My introduction...
+
+The past century has been characterised by an odd oscillation between homogenisation and diversification. On one hand, we have a phenomena that George Ritzer has characterised as the "McDonaldization of Society". As the corporate entities that drive consumer capitalisism become ever more consolidated, there has emerged a ubiquitious if banal presence of the familiar. In this way we might draw a line between the presence of McDonalds in Tibet and regional "language extinction". Tangled up all together here at what Thom Van Dooren calls the "dull edge of extinction" are commensurable expressions of power - the franchise, the colony, the factory, along with multiple kinds of disappearing: of language, of indigenous cultures, of religion, of biodiversity. Yet, the modern human experience for so many people is characterised by hyper-paced, hyper-exposed, hyper-diversity, an idiosyncratic daily experience which is saturated by various forms of fragmentation and pluralism. Perhaps this is why so many persons find homogenity to be so comforting as we zoom around in what Zygmunt Bauman called "liquid modernity". Disappeared are not only forms of life, culture and liveliness, but coherence and continuity.
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+And yet, there are some reasons to forestall straight-forward lament for these disappearances. As we feel the sharp pains of lost organising principles, I want to test the limits and plumb the depths of these new alterities of loss. In particular, I want to probe our eco-cultural-abjection for traces of these aforementioned hegemonies. What I want to suggest with this chapter is that at least on some levels, the dying legacies which we are laying to rest are swaddled in Enlightenment blankets. Seen in this way, part of the ethical freight of this grappling with extinction lies in our new inexperience in dealing with non-hegemonic and novel forms of life and culture. Is there some symmetry to be found in the novel forms of religiosity which mark the post-secular return of religion to Europe and the novel forms and patterns of biological life which are appearing unexpectedly? Might "novelty" and our grappling with it provide a corridor through which we might begin to build up a new anti-extinction ethical platform? To explore these questions, I want to test out symmetries and dissymmetries of cultural and biological extinction and resurrection along three themes: living alongside novel appearances, opening up abjection and working with the "Living Dead".

content/presentations/201906_trickydesign.md

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+date: 2019-06-070T16:00:00+01:00
+title: "Panelist: Can new ecologies provide a more equitable path for design?"
+host: "Tricky Design: Design Ethics for a Complex World, Design Museum, University of Arts London"
+publishdate: 2019-06-07
+---
+

content/presentations/201910_valuing_nature.md

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+date: 2019-08-28T16:00:00+01:00
+title: "'Spiritual placemaking’ in urban landscapes."
+host: "Valuing Nature Conference, Royal Society, London"
+publishdate: 2019-10-28
+---
+
+With Christopher D. Ives, Nicole Porter and Richard Irvine
+
+Abstract: Spiritual meanings and values of ecosystems have been an integral part of human’s experience of nature across times and cultures. While spiritual values for nature were subsumed into the category of cultural ecosystem services in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and more recently conceived of as nonmaterial, intrinsic dimensions of Nature’s Contributions to People, there remains little research on how spirituality informs people’s experiences of nature and relates to other tangible landscape features. Drawing on qualitative interviews with decision-makers, activists and civil society stakeholders, we present insights into how spirituality is conceptualised and lived in the context of a bioculturally diverse greenspace in Birmingham, UK. We find a variety of spiritual interpretations in relation to this site, and that spirituality is often a vital component of place attachment. However, many interviewees find this difficult to articulate. Our research points towards key considerations that can be used to develop a planning framework.

content/publications/2019_enchantment.md

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+title: "Re-Enchanting Political Theology"
+author: Jeremy H. Kidwell
+status: Published
+type: published
+citation: "&ldquo;Re-Enchanting Political Theology&rdquo; in <em>Religions</em>, vol. 10, iss. 10, Sep 2019"
+tag: enchantment, activism, political theology
+subjects: enchantment, activism, political theology
+comments: no
+file: religions-10-00550.pdf
+date: 2019-09-26
+publishdate: 2019-09-26
+doi: 10.3390/rel10100550
+
+---
+
+For this Special Issue which confronts the ways in which the question of pluralism represents both haunting and promise within modern political theology, I explore the presence of pluralism in the context of the environmental crisis and religious responses to issues such as climate change. Following Jason Ā. Josephson-Storm, I suggest that models of disenchantment are misleading—to quote Latour, “we have never been modern.” In engagement with a range of neo-vitalist scholars of enchantment including Rosi Braidotti, Karen Barad, Isabelle Stengers, Jane Bennett and William Connolly, I explore the possibility of a kind of critical-theory cosmopolitics around the concept of “enchantment” as a possible site for multi-religious political theology collaborations and argue that this is a promising post-secular frame for the establishment of cosmopolitical collaborations across quite profound kinds of difference.

static/files/presentations/README.md

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+# Presentation to seminar on "Mobilising the Churches Around the Environment"
+## 2019 Feb 25
+
+A live version of these slides can be viewed via my website at [https://jeremykidwell.info/files/presentations/...]
+
+This presentation was built using [remark.js](https://github.com/gnab/remark). Examples of other presentations by me which have been built using other js-based platforms, includes [reveal.js](https://github.com/kidwellj/presentation-20170913-employability) and [impress.js](https://github.com/kidwellj/presentation-20170120-comm_anchors).
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+In the `images` folder:
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+* `dots.png` a transparent image of UK places of worship generated using QGIS by myself. Covered by CC BY 4.0 as below.
+
+Any other files are copyright by me, Jeremy Kidwell. But please re-use them as they are covered by [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0).