The Faculty of Theology at the University of Malta in collaboration with the Theology Students’ Association is organising its annual academic evening in honour of St Thomas Aquinas on Tuesday, March 16, at 6pm. The lecture will take place online due to current restrictions in place to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The speaker invited to give this year’s talk is Prof. Karlheinz Ruhstorfer from the University of Freiburg who will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Identity reloaded: Philosophy, religion and politics facing new challenges’. The lecture will tackle aspects related to our present age in human history and will delve into some of the challenges we face as a result of this. The abstract for the lecture describes humanity as currently standing “at a certain epochal threshold [where] the old is coming to an end and the new is beginning at a dramatic rate. It is therefore crucial to rethink the identities that unite us and that determine who we are.” Ruhstorfer will go on to note in his lecture that the only possible way to rethink these unifying identities is “if we do not fall behind the achievements and insights of our history. “The theological,...