Keynote Speaker: Mircea Dumitru, University of Bucharest
Organiser: Stanisław Krajewski, University of Warsaw
The workshop “Applying Mathematics to Theology” will be devoted to the problem of mathematical models, concepts and inspirations that have influenced or can influence theology and religious studies. Also papers arguing for the impossibility of such applications or the misleading character of attempts to apply mathematics to theology are welcome.
Here are the papers by the undersigned that can introduce some of the relevant topics:
Stanislaw Krajewski, Mathematical Models in Theology. A Buber-inspired Model of God and its Application to Shema Israel, Journal of Applied Logics 6(6), 2019, 1007–1020.
Stanislaw Krajewski, Is Mathematics Connected to Religion?. In: Sriraman B. (eds) Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19071-2_77-2 - to appear
The initial appeal directed to all interested scholars asks to apply before May 30, 2023.
The event is organized by the Logic and Religion Association with support of Ian Ramsey Centre (Oxford University) and the University of Bucharest. More about the LARA association can be found at https://www.logicandreligion.com/
The Congress consists of 8 thematic workshops and a general session. Every day (except Sunday) the meetings start at 9.00 a.m. (local time).
Venue
The conference will be held in the Hotel Palace (hotelpalacesinaia.ro), one of the most famous hotels in Sinaia, Romania.
The sessions will take place in the conference halls.
Practical details
Your presentation
Every contributing speaker will have 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Please prepare your presentations in a communicative way.
To organize your trip from the airport to Sinaia and back, send your dates of arrival and departure, name of the airport and flight number and where you are coming from to Daniel Molto: D.Molto@sussex.ac.uk
Hotels
WoCoLoR 4 will take place at the Palace Hotel in Sinaia, Romania
https://hotelpalacesinaia.ro/
This is where the lectures will be presented and where keynote speakers and organisers will stay.
We encourage contributing speakers also to stay in this classy hotel. The special price for the event is 90 EUR for a single room, 96 EUR for a double room, in both cases with breakfast included.
To book your room write to Elisa Nicolaescu: office@palacesinaia.ro
putting in the subject line of your email: WoCoLoR4 - Contributing Speaker; in the body of the email specify in particular your dates of departure and arrival.
The event will start Sept 3 and will end Sept 8 in the evening. We therefore recommand arrival on Sept 3 and departure on Sept 9. The Palace Hotel is securing 80 rooms for contributing speakers until July 20. The rooms will be attributed on the first come first served basis.
Weather in Sinaia
The weather in Sinaia can be really cold even at the beginning of September. Please bring some warm clothing.
The congress is co-financed by the Ian Ramsey Centre, University of Oxford as a part of the project New Horizons for Science and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) funded by the John Templeton Foundation.
