Curriculam Vitae
Curriculam Vitae
Roland Faber
MA (Vienna), PhD (Vienna), Habilitation (Vienna). My Fields of research and publication are in Whitehead's philosophy, Process Philosophy and Process Theology; (De)Constructive Theology; Poststructuralism (Gilles Deleuze); Transreligious Discourse (epistemology of Religious Relativity and Unity) and interreligious applications (e.g., Christianity, Buddhism, Baha'i Faith); Comparative Philosophy and Mysticism (Meister Eckhart, Nicolas of Cusa, Ibn 'Arabi), Theopoetics (an approach to post-structuralist and process theology, which addresses the liberating necessity of multiplicity).
2022
- Published the book Divine Appearances (Kalimat, 2022).
2021
- Published the book The Cosmic Spirit (Cascade, 2021).
2020
- Move to Salem, Oregon.
- Published the book Depths As Yet Unspoken (Pickwick, 2020).
- Published the book Propositions in the Making (Lexington, 2020).
2019
- Published the book The Ocean of God (Anthem, 2019).
2018
- Published the book The Garden of Reality (Lexington, 2018).
2017
- Published the book The Becoming of God (Wipf & Stock, 2017).
- Published the book Rethinking Whitehead’s Symbolism: Thought, Language, Culture, Roland Faber, Jeffrey A. Bell, and Joseph Petek, eds. (Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
- Chair of IRB, CST
2016
- Published the book: Living Traditions and Universal Conviviality: Prospects and Challenges for Peace in Multireligious Communities, Roland Faber and Santiago Slabodsky, eds. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016).
- Organization of the Eighth International Conference of the Whitehead Research Project Conference “A Whiteheadian Laboratory: Featuring Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, and the SenseLab,” Claremont, CA, December 2016.
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2015
- Chair of Faculty Policy Committee, CST.
2014
- Published the book The Divine Manifold (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2014) [Purchase]
- Organization of the Seventh International Conference of the Whitehead Research Project Conference "Whitehead and Symbolism," Claremont, CA, December 2014. [visit website]
- Received the Fisher Faculty Teacher Award.
2013
- Awarded prize from the International Process Network for Creative Work on Whitehead.
- Delivered keynote address on "Process, Progress and Excess: Whitehead and the Peace of Society" at the Ninth International Whitehead Conference at Krakow, Poland, September 2013.
2012
- Organization of the Conference "Conviviality in a Multireligious Community," Claremont, CA, February 2012.
- Named Chair of the Baha'i Advisory Committee of Claremont Lincoln University.
2011
- Delivered the keynote address at a symposium on Alfred North Whitehead at the Library of Congress. [read announcement | view presentation]
- Organization of the Fifth International Conference of The Whitehead Research Project, Claremont, CA, "Whitehead: The Next Generation." [visit website]
2010
- Organization of the Fourth International Conference of The Whitehead Research Project, Claremont, CA, "Metaphysics and Things: New Forms of Speculative Thought." [visit website]
- Named the inaugural Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb, Jr., Professor of Process Studies. » Read Announcement
2009
- Executive Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies, Claremont
- Organization of the Third International Conference of The Whitehead Research Project, Claremont, CA, "Becomings, Misplacements, Departures: Butler and Whitehead as Catalysts of Contemporary Thought." [visit website]
- Co-Editor of Contemporary Whitehead Series [visit website]
- Associate Editor of the New Whitehead Edition [visit website]
2008
- Organization of the Second International Conference of The Whitehead Research Project, Claremont, CA, "Beyond Metaphysics? Transcontinental Explorations in Alfred North Whitehead's Late Thought." [visit website]
- God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (Louisville: WJK, 2008)
- Taught graduate course at the University of Chicago Divinity School (May-June 2008) on the topic Religion and Excess: Interrogating Whitehead with Bataille
- Member of the Society for the Study of Difference
- Member of the Whitehead Metaphysical Society (Poland)
2007
- Organization of the First International Conference of The Whitehead Research Project, Claremont, CA, "Event & Decision: Ontology & Politics in Badiou, Deleuze, and Whitehead." [visit website]
- Announce tenured Full Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology (March 2008)
2006
- Initiator and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project, Claremont
- Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies, Claremont
- Announced Faculty at the Department of Philosophy of the School of Humanities at the Claremont Graduate University
- AAR Panel and Talk on John Caputo’s book The Weakness of God
- Section Director at the 2006 Whitehead Conference at Salzburg, Austria:
- “Poststructuralism” (with Catherine Keller)
- “Christian Theology” (with Helmut Maassen)
2005
- Announced Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology
- Announced Professor of Religion at the Claremont Graduate University
2004
- Second edition: Gott als Poet der Welt. Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie, Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
2003
- Book: Gott als Poet der Welt. Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie, Darmstadt (Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft)
2002
- Editing Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures 1925/1926 from the notes of Charles Hartshorne, published in Process Studies 30/2 (2002) 301-373
2001
- Co-Teaching a Class on Christian Eschatology in US/European Dialogue at the Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, with Prof. Joseph Bracken
- Member of the Advisory Board of the European Studies in Process Thought (ESPT)
2000
- Prize of excellence in theology of the Kardinal-Innitzer-Fonds, Austria, for the Habilitation on process theology
- Vice-Chair of the Institute of Dogmatic Theology, University of Vienna
1999
- Appointment “Extraordinary University Professor”
1998
- Post-doctoral degree of “Dozent” at the catholic theological faculty, University of Vienna
- Roman venia legendi in Dogmatic Theology and the History of Christian Doctrine
- Appointment as assistant professor at the Institut of Dogmatic Theology
1997
- Habilitation: Prozeß, Relativität und Transzendenz. Zur Kritik prozeßtheologischer Theoriegestalt (520 pp.)
- Membership at the Center for Process Studies
1996
- Membership of the American Academy of Religion
- Erwin Schrödinger-international Research Fellowship (for 1 ½ years)
- Stay at Claremont (CST, CGU, CPS)
1995
- Book: Der Selbsteinsatz Gottes. Zur Grundlegung einer Theologie des Leidens und der Veränderlichkeit Gottes, Würzburg
- Erwin Schrödinger-international research fellowship (for 1 ½ years)
- Stay at Claremont
1994
- Working grant of the City of Vienna for composers
1993
- Prize of the State of Lower Austria for composers
- Membership at the International Franz Schubert Institute (IFSI)
1992
- PhD in (systematic) theology
- Dissertation: Der Selbst-Einsatz Gottes (620 pp)
- Book: Freiheit, Theologie und Lehramt, Innsbruck
- Prize of the State of Lower Austria for composers
- Project "Zeit.Schnitte" Sound/text-installation in Vienna and Salzburg with the Austrian writer Christoph Janacs
1991
- Grant of the Federal Republic of Austria for composers
1990
- Prize of the Adolf Schaerf Fonds for composers
- Prize of the State of Lower Austria for composers
- Working grant of the City of Vienna for composers
1989
- International prize for composition of the trio basso, Colon
- Membership at the International Society for New Music (IGSM)
1988
- Appointment to university assistant
1986
- Membership of the Austrian Society of Philosophy of Religion
1985
- Master in Theologie
- Master thesis: Die Neue Zukunft Gottes (273 pp)
- Appointment to scientific assistant at the University of Vienna
1981
- Appointment as studying assistant at the University of Vienna
1979
- Studies in Theology and Philosophy at the University of Vienna
1960
- Born in Korneuburg, Austria