Faculty of Theology

Conferences & Colloquia

Conferences & Colloquia

The Faculty calendar features annual conferences and colloquia on various topics, including the International Theology Conference (visit separate page), the International Bioethics Conference (visit separate page), and the Engaging the Contemporary Conference organised by the Department of Philosophy (see below).

Upcoming Engaging the Contemporary Conference VII
17-18 November 2022 (University of Malta Valletta Campus).



5-8 April 2018
Science and Religion. Two views or two realities?
In collaboration with Faraday Institute, Cambridge, UK

4-7 April 2018
Youth Ministry and Identity in Times of Transformation
IASYM European Biennial Conference, in collaboration with the International Association for the Study of Youth Ministry

7-10 February 2018
1st International Conference on Catholic Religious Education in Schools
In collaboration with La Salle Academy for Faith Formation and Religious Education Australian Catholic University

6-7 December 2017
Measuring Divinity: Pavel Florenskij’s Integral Vision of the Finite and the Infinite
Inter-faculty Colloquium

18 May 2017
Religion/Multicultural Issues in Education
Inter-faculty Colloquium, with the participation of Dr Yonah Matemba (University of the West of Scotland)

16 May 2017
Religion/Spirituality of Incarcerated Adults and Youth
Inter-faculty Colloquium, with the participation of Dr Yonah Matemba (University of the West of Scotland)

12 December 2016
Thomas Aquinas after Postmodernism
Inter-departmental Colloquium, with the participation of Rev. Dr Piotr Roszak (Nicolaus Copernicus University)

6 October 2016
On the unavoidable transition towards a sustainable economy and its implied business transformation
Inter-faculty Symposium, with the participation of Prof. Luc Van Liedekerke (Antwerp Management School and University of Antwerp)

24 September 2016
An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Laudato Sì. On care for our common home.
Inter-faculty Symposium

6 June 2016
Mercy towards Immigrants: Theology and Society in Dialogue
Inter-faculty Symposium

13 April 2016
Why Malta Matters: the Invitation of Laudato si to Social and Ecological Change
Inter-faculty Colloquium

7-8 November 2019
Engaging the Contemporary Conference VI
The Philosophical Turn towards Religion

1-2 November 2018
Engaging the Contemporary Conference V
Reconfiguring the Aesthetic 

16-17 November 2017
Engaging the Contemporary Conference IV
Issues in Contemporary Political and Social Philosophy

17 November 2016
Engaging the Contemporary Conference III
Phenomenology and Speculative Realism

20 November 2015
Engaging the Contemporary Seminar II
Agamben and Ranciere

December 2014
Engaging the Contemporary Seminar I
Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida


https://www.um.edu.mt/theology/activities/conferencescolloquia/