Christopher Watkin

VIDEO. Beyond the “View from Nowhere”: Gospel, Culture, and the Logic of Incarnation

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · 13d

Calling Michel Serres scholars:
Just heard about a new reading group "a small, friendly bunch", sharing an interest in theology and philosophy, who are getting together on Zoom (12th of Feb at 3 pm CET) to discuss The Natural Contract.
email Petra at ctec@ehs.se to get a Zoom link

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · 17d

Had a wonderful time recently with the faculty and students at Singapore Bible College!
Just posted the videos of 3 talks:
1️⃣Diagnosing Westernisation through Luke 15
2️⃣Subversive Fulfilment: Bridging the Divide
3️⃣Incarnation: The View from Somewhere
www.thinkingthroughthebible.com/video-beyond...

I recently had the privilege of visiting Singapore Bible College to give a series of talks about the cultural contextualisation of the gospel. I want to express my deep gratitude for the incredibly…

www.thinkingthroughthebible.com

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Jan 7

If you happen to be in Singapore on January 12,
or want to hop online,
I'll be giving an address entitled
"Beyond Western Defaults: Diagonalizing Scripture and Culture"
Singapore Bible College.
2-4pm.
English with Chinese Translation
Register: www.sbc.edu.sg/beyond-weste...

Beyond Western Defaults: Diagonalizing Scripture and Culture – Singapore Bible College

This lecture dismantles long-held theological dichotomies shaped by Western philosophy. Watkin’s biblical re-evaluation offers a unifying way forward and opens space for Asian scholars to pursue new c...

www.sbc.edu.sg

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Nov 26

Video of my Stob lecture at @calvinseminary last week:

"The Human Remains: Fragility and Fulfilment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM1oEhA8ou8

Christopher Watkin and AI | Stob Lecture 2025

YouTube video by Calvin Theological Seminary

Simone de Beauvoir and the “Adventurer”—Navigating the Return to the Common Good, with Mary Townsend

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Nov 26

Biblical Critical Theory is featured in Amazon’s Black Friday sale this year.
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It is currently 55% off but pricing may fluctuate during the sale, which ends 12/2.

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Nov 8

Whether you're an AI boomer, doomer or scoffer, we need to work out the right questions to ask about genAI while it's still in its current horseless carriage phase.
Last week I joined a team of AI industry experts, researchers and entrepreneurs in Seoul to try and figure it out.
aiandfaith.org

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Nov 5

Social Contract Research Network
🚨New Seminar🚨

Dr Mary Townsend
"Simone de Beauvoir and the 'Adventurer'—Navigating the Return to the Common Good"

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/18MU...
YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6H...

Spotify video

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Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Nov 3

Social Contract Research Network Zoom seminar Tomorrow...

Mary Townsend, "Simone de Beauvoir and the 'Adventurer'—Navigating the Return to the Common Good"

Tu 4 Nov., 8pm Melbourne time. London: 10am; NYC: 5am.

Register here for the Zoom meeting: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCRN seminar: Mary Townsend, Simone de Beauvoir and the “Adventurer”—Navigating the Return to the Common Good. After registering, you will receive a confirm...

If return to a more robust social contract has become necessary, what do we do with the individuals who willfully step outside of it? In her Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir describes five para...

Stob Lecture Series at Calvin Theological Seminary with Christopher Watkin: Tue, Nov 18 2025, 6 - 7:30pm

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Oct 24

Yesterday I had the joy of hearing graphic novelist Clément Baloup speak about his remarkable work at the Monash European Languages Annual Lecture.
Huge thanks to Dr Charlotte Mackay for organising , Dr Tess Do for coordinating, and sponsors @monashuniversity.bsky.social & @unimelb.bsky.social !

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Oct 23

In April 2026, my book "The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity" will be launched at a symposium in Sydney, with Sandra Leonie Field, Peter Harrison and Jessica Whyte speaking (thank you all!).
In-person and online attendance.
Rego page: events.nd.edu.au/state-of-nat...

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Oct 19

Next week I’ll be in Seoul for the World Evangelical Alliance General Assembly, speaking on AI, Ethics & Trust: algorithmic justice, imago Dei, vocation & creation care, and accountability. If you’re there, let’s connect. #WEAGA2025 #AI #Theology
#WEAGA2025

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Oct 7

If you're in or around Grand Rapids, MI on November 18th and fancy thinking about how Artificial Ingelligence very helpfully brings into focus what it means to be human, I'd love to see you at this event:

calvin.edu/events/stob-...

Dr. Christopher Watkin is this year's presenter at the Stob Lecture Series at Calvin Theological Seminary. His talk "The Human Remains: Fragility and Fulfilment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" ...

calvin.edu

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Oct 3

New Social Contract Research Network seminar
Sophia Rosenfeld
"Thinking About the Age of Choice"

Podcast:
open.spotify.com/episode/2gCZ...

YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd15...

Sophia Rosenfeld, Thinking About the Age of Choice

YouTube video by Social Contract Research Network

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCRN seminar: Sophia Rosenfeld, Thinking about the Age of Choice. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Sep 28

Social Contract Research Network Zoom seminar🚨Monday/Tuesday🚨

Sophia Rosenfeld (University of Pennsylvania)

"Thinking about the Age of Choice"

Tu 30 Sep. 11am Melbourne
Mon 29 Sep. 6pm LA, 9pm NYC

Info and free registration:
monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Contracts always have a complex relationship to choice. On the one hand, partners to a legitimate contract have to agree to its terms voluntarily. On the other, the contract binds the parties once i...

Timothy Jackson, Diverse relations to alterity: from relational physics to the transindividual

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Sep 19

New Social Contract Research Network seminar
Timothy Jackson
"Diverse relations to alterity: from relational physics to the transindividual"

Podcast:
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=2gwsxX1KxqI

YouTube video by Social Contract Research Network

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Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Sep 15

SCRN Zoom seminar🚨tomorrow🚨

Timothy Jackson (Melbourne Uni)

"Diverse relations to alterity: collective individuation and subject groups in Simondon, Guattari, and chemical ecology"

16 Sep. 9am Melbourne.
15 Sep. 4pm LA, 7pm NYC.

Rego: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@aussoccontiphil.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCRN seminar: Timothy Jackson, Diverse relations to alterity: collective individuation and subject groups in Simondon, Guattari, and chemical ecology. After...

If the individual is an ephemeral phase in being and the subject is always in relation with something more than “its self”, then who or what pre-exists “a social contract” and is capable of entering i...

Children’s Periodicals and the Common Good: The Charitable Child, with Kristine Moruzi

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Sep 8

New New SCRN seminar:

Kristine Moruzi on children’s periodicals & the common good.

🎧Podcast version: open.spotify.com/episode/6WG4...
🎥Watch now on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYem...

Spotify video

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Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Sep 7

⏰Last-minute reminder:
8pm Monday AEST (6am New York, 11am London)
Social Contract Research Network Zoom seminar
Kristine Moruzi
"Children’s Periodicals and the Common Good: The Charitable Child"
Register here: monash.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCRN seminar: Kristine Moruzi, Children’s Periodicals and the Common Good: The Charitable Child. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...

This paper explores how children’s magazines encouraged children to help other children, defining a philanthropic role for young people that is reinforced through the press. It uses children’s print c...

What makes us human in the age of AI? A philosophical deep dive

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Sep 5

Jason Ramasami from @crosslands has made this lovely animation inspired by the Babel chapter of my book Biblical Critical Theory.
It dramatises the "Babelian quest" of striving to make a name for ourselves, and the libereating peace of receiving a name from a divine lover.

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Sep 3

New video: In the age of AI, what makes us human?

AI copies our wit, memory, even empathy. But is that all we are? What makes us human when machines mirror our “borrowed qualities”?

Fearuting: Pascal Descartes Montaigne Hobbes Adendt Heidegger Augustine Kafka
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_OIsLN-iVE

AI, proofing, and the meaning of what we do — Crooked Timber

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Aug 21

The telos of scholarly labor, namely truth told in charity, requires institutional forms that make virtue easier, not harder

"AI, proofing, and the meaning of what we do", by Lisa Herzog
crookedtimber.org/2025/08/19/a...

crookedtimber.org

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Aug 21

New video:
Should We Care About AI Welfare? 🤖💔
From medieval pig trials to Anthropic’s “model welfare” via Hobbes, Foucault, Augustine and Ricoeur.
An exploration of AI, ethics, imagination & love.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJU...

Should We Care About AI Welfare?

Infinite Efficiency and Human Value w/ Dr. Christopher Watkin, ARC Future Fellow & Associate Professor @ Monash University

Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Aug 18

"Infinite Efficiency and Human Value"
•we're living through AI's "horseless carriage" moment
•mutuality and reciprocity in relating to AI
•why AI is simulacral, and how that shapes how we relate to it
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
open.spotify.com/episode/5EZD...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN3Y...

Podcast Episode · Artificial Insights: How To Do AI Right · 08/15/2025 · 49m

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Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Aug 14

In November I'll be giving the Stob lecture at Calvin University, Grand Rapids, MI.

My provisional title: "The Human Remains: Fragility and Fulfilment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence".

Come along and say hello on Nov 18 if you're in the area! www.thebanner.org/our-shared-m...

The Stob Lecture Series: A Continuing Legacy of Thought Leadership

The Official Magazine of the Christian Reformed Church

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Christopher Watkin @drchriswatkin.bsky.social · Aug 13

If your AI could analyse your chats, what would it reveal about you? 🤖
In this video I take a philosophical look at the question of how we relate to AI, and give you a DIY AI Relational Audit to unearth hidden patterns in how you interact with your LLM.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN62...

The AI Mirror: What Does Your Chat History Say About You? A Philosophical Deep Dive and DIY Audit