Sister Society: Association Internationale Jacques Ellul
Sister Society: Association Internationale Jacques Ellul
In partnership with the Association Internationale Jacques Ellul, the IJES will be helping to sponsor its first European conference at the University of Strasbourg on July 9-11, 2020 (Thursday through Saturday). This blended conference in French and English will put out a call for papers this coming July. Registration will open online this coming August. We are very excited for the theme of this conference to widen its scope by including presentations on Bernard Charbonneau.
Stay tuned for more information this summer.
For more information, ellulsociety@gmail.com
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On June 28-30, 2018, IJES members and associates convened for our bi-annual IJES Ellul conference on the beautiful campus of Regent College, situated just one mile from the coastline in the northwest tip of Vancouver, British Columbia. We had 25 presenters in total, and a paper by Walter Brueggemann was read at the Banquet by his son John.
Jacques Ellul is best known as one of the premier voices of the 20th century analyzing the emergence, characteristics, and challenges of the “technological society” — the growing and seemingly irresistible dominance of technological tools, processes, and values over the whole of life and the whole of the world. But the Bordeaux sociologist simultaneously produced almost as many works of biblical study and reflection as he did regarding works of sociology. In these studies Ellul delivered brilliantly creative insights as well as provocative challenges to traditional theology. All serious students of Ellul, whether part of faith communities like Ellul (in the French Reformed Church) or not (like his colleague and best friend Bernard Charbonneau), have found interaction with his theological writings an essential complement to the study of his great sociological works. This conference will seek a multi-perspectival hearing of Scripture stimulated by Ellul’s works.
“Politics without Illusion, Revolution without Violence: Reviewing the Contributions of Jacques Ellul“
“Communicating Humanly in an Age of Technology and Spin” (with a special focus on propaganda)
“Prophet in the Technological Wilderness: A Centenary Celebration & Critical Review of Jacques Ellul (1912 – 1994)”