ESSTD Inaugural Meeting: The Netherlands 2007:

Theological reflections on disability: International perspectives.

The Society held its inaugural meeting in the Netherlands in August 2007. It was attended by a prestigious group of international scholars. The proceedings from this conference will be published in a special edition of the Journal of Religion, Disability and Health later in 2008. A report on the conference can be found here.

Below are some pictures from the conference:

Scorlewald is located in Schoorl, a small village at the seaside in the North-western part of The Netherlands.

The founding members of the Eusropean Society for the study of Disdablity and theology

John Swinton bores Herman Meininger!

Martina Holder-Franz in pensive mood

Hans Reinders (above) in professorial mode

Reinders (below) in Stephen Hawkings mode!