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Engaging the Contemporary 2019: THE PHILOSOPHICAL TURN TOWARDS RELIGION

7-8 November 2019

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Conference Programme um.edu.mt/events/etc2019 #EtC2019UM

Day 1: Thursday 7 November 2019 8:00 – 8:30 Registration 8:30 – 8:35 Welcome Address: Jean-Paul De Lucca (Head, Department of Philosophy, University of Malta) 8:35 – 8:40 Welcome Address: Joseph M. Cacciottolo (Pro- for Academic Affairs, University of Malta) 8:40 – 8:45 Welcome Address: Claude Mangion (Conference Convenor, Engaging the Contemporary) Keynote: Speculate to Disintegrate: The ’New’ Idealism in Philosophy of Religion 8:45 – 9:45 (Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University) Room: Aula Prima Venue: Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Panel 1.2 Spirituality & Religious 10:00 – 12:00 Panel 1.1 Messianism Panel 1.3 Reason & Post-Secularism Identity Chair: Nebojsa Kujundzic Chair: Mark Sultana Chair: Keith Pisani An Exposition of Meillassoux’s Concept of the Messianic To Personalise or not to Personalise: Paul Kahn’s Political Theology and its Simone Weil’s Struggle in her Role in the Task of Redefining the (Claude Mangion, University of Malta) Understanding of God Boundaries of Secularism (Tyrone Grima, University of Malta) (Vaida Baranovė, )

Messianism and Subjectivity: The Habermas and the Presupposition of Case of Giorgio Agamben Intentionalism and God’s Fiction Reasonableness

(Piotr Sawczyński, (Noel E. Boulting, Noboss, Kent) (Karim Barakat, in Krakow) American University of Beirut) Posthuman Realities – Moving Jankélévitch and the Philosophy of The Ratzinger-Habermas Conversation: Towards a Techno-messianic Vision Jewish Religion Epistemological Dead End and Practical

of the Future (Francois Zammit, (Lorenzo De Donato, Hope (Aaron Abdilla, University of Malta) Milan State University) University of Malta) The Concept of Forgiveness in Walter Religious Dimensions in Transhumanist “To Imagine Nothing”: Georges Benjamin’s «The Meaning of Time in and Posthumanist Philosophies of Bataille’s Challenge to Materialist and the Moral World» (1921) Science Atheistic Spirituality (Yorgos Prodromou, (Evaldas Juozelis, (Lieven De Maeyer, Katholieke of Social and Institute of Humanities, Mykolas Universiteit Leuven) Political Sciences) Romeris University) 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break Panel 2.3 Society, Secularism & 13:30 – 15:30 Panel 2.1 Radical Phenomenology Panel 2.2 Religion & the Historical Post-Secularism Chair: Kurt Borg Chair: Aaron Abdilla Chair: Francois Zammit The Prepositions of Participation: An Translation between Religious Truth Movements and Forms of Life Examination of the Doctrine of and Secular Society (Zuzana Svobodová, Participation through an Analysis of its (Esther Hudson, Charles University, Prague) Correspondent Prepositions The School of Philosophy – (Lara Zammit, University of Malta) The Catholic University of America) Pursuing the Truth and Confronting Interiority and Economy in Michel the Post-Truth – A Fruitful Lesson Caritas Takes Precedence over Veritas Henry’s Phenomenology of Life Taken from the Regensburg Religious (Rogi Thomas, (Robert Farrugia, Colloquy of 1601 Pontificio Collegio Scozzese, Roma) University of Malta) (Lukáš Kotala, Palacký University, Olomouc) The Concept of Imago Dei as a Symbol of Religious Inclusion and Human Phenomenological Spirituality and its Dreaming Descartes: Subjectivity and Dignity Relationship to Religion the Imaginal in the Postmodern (Wojciech Szczerba, Evangelical (Neal DeRoo, (Bettina Borg Cardona, School of Theology, Wroclaw/Von The King’s University, Edmonton) Canterbury Christ Church) Hugel Institute at St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge) «Antaios»: a Mythical and Symbolic Post-Secular Politics? The Political and Hope and Necessity Hermeneutics the Turn to Religion in Contemporary (Sarah Pawlett Jackson, (Luca Siniscalco, Political Theory

The Open University and the eCampus University/ (Spyridon Kaltsas, University of London) Università degli Studi di Milano) National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Coffee Break 15:30 – 16:00

Panel 3.1 Culture, Aesthetics & Panel 3.3 Religion, Politics & 16:00 – 17:30 Panel 3.2 Islam & Post-Secularism Neurotheology Post-Truth

Chair: Niki Young Chair: Mary Ann Cassar Chair: Luca Siniscalco The Complex Relationship between Alternative Epistemologies in the Sacred and Beauty: When Religion Postsecular Challenges to the Context of ‘Post-Truth’: Enlightenment becomes Aesthetics and Aesthetics Unification of Islamic Discourses Philosophy, Constructed Validity, and

becomes Religion (Emi Goto, the Case Study of Astrology (Samanta Viziale, The University of Tokyo) (Abigail Klinkenberg, University of Torino) Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) The Conflict in Ukraine as a Religious Neurotheology as the New Creating a Muslim Space in and Cultural War in Aleksandr G. Hermeneutics of Body Postsecular Settings Dugin’s Political Theology

(Agnieszka Laddach, (Kei Takahashi, (Marcin Skladanowski, Independent Researcher) Toyo University, Tokyo) The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin) Buddhist Activism: Boundaries Blurred Nonviolence in an Islamic Repertoire in Post-Secular America and the A Tourist Walks into a Funeral... as ‘Postsecular’ Critique Relevancy of Buddhist Ethics (Jodie Bonnici, (Mohammed Moussa, (Stacey Mitchell, University of Malta) Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University) Union Theological Seminary)

Day 2: Friday 8 November 2019 Venue: Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Panel 4.1 Ethics & the Panel 4.3 Morality, Religious 9:00 – 10:30 Panel 4.2 Religion & Science Virtuous Life Diversity & Faith Chair: Robert Farrugia Chair: John Avellino Chair: Niki Young Can there be a Conflict between The Ontological Nature of Rationalistic Value Realism as Science and Religion? The Morality: Overcoming the a Religion Without God Pragmatist’s Answer and a Ontological Divide (Stelios Virvidakis, Truth-based Response to it (Sergei Sushkov, National and Kapodistrian (Joe Friggieri, University of Central Asia/ University of Athens) University of Malta) Presidential Academy Moscow) Kabbalah and Religious Something Other than Oneself Diversity: Contemporary Same Words, Different Worlds is Real Socioeconomic Aspects (Zainab Sabra, (Robert Govus, (Rui Samarcos Lora, University of Southampton) University of Malta) /Center of Social Studies) ‘Blessed are thou amongst The Myth of the Psychological How Natural is Natural women’: Interpreting Mary’s Dependence of Morality on Selection: An Examination of blessing in light of Kierkegaard Religion Appeals to Kant’s Philosophy in and Kristeva (Andrei Zavaliy, Contemporary Biology? (Michael Grech, American University of (Andrew Jones, University of Malta Junior Kuwait) University of Exeter) College) 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break Panel 5.1 The Problem Panel 5.2 Religion & Panel 5.3 Metaphysics & 11:00 – 12:30 of Evil Modernity the Other

Chair: Michael Grech Chair: Karim Barakat Chair: Robert Farrugia

Failing to think God. Is an Unpopulated Hell Charles Taylor and Durkheimian Transformative Experience in Problematic? Dispensations Negative Theology (Alex Gillham, (Ranier Fsadni, (Rico Gutschmidt, St. Bonaventure University) University of Malta) University of Konstanz)

Heidegger, the Other and Evolution, Middle Knowledge, Sources of the Possibility of the Sameness. A Reading of Ex 3, 14 and Theodicy: A Philosophical Contemporary Turn towards in the light of Heidegger’s Reflection Religion Notion of Tautophasis (Daniel Spencer, (Antoni Torzewski, (Miriam Metze, University of St Andrews) Casmir the Great University) University of Vienna)

The Dialectic of Evil in Paul Étienne Gilson as a Critical Ricoeur: The Philosophical The Religious Foundations of Reader of Phenomenology (Tsun Value of Religious Narrations Modernity Sang Chong, (Martina Nicolai, (Mark Camilleri, The University of Jean Moulin Università degli Studi di Roma University of Malta) Lyon 3) Tor Vergata)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Room: Aula Prima Panel 6.4 Religion, Panel 6.1 The Nature & Panel 6.2 Religious Experience Panel 6.3 Political 14:00 – 16:00 Phenomenology & Existence of God & Empathy Theology Hermeneutics Chair: Jodie Bonnici Chair: John Avellino Chair: Francois Zammit Chair: Mark Sultana Until Death does not do us Part. Towards a Metaphysics of the God in the Center of Or on what the Afterlife can still Bond and a Phenomenology Philosophy: Karl Jaspers and The Religious Experience and Teach us Today (Kristof K.P. of Force: Ontology and the Panagiotis Kanellopoulos the Search for God Vanhoutte, Paris Institute for Philosophical Parameters of (Andreas Antoniou, (John Berry, Critical Thinking/Pontifical Religious Experience Aristotle University of University of Malta) University Antoniantum/ (William L. Connelly, The Thessaloniki) University of the Free State) Catholic University of Paris) How Do Religious Conversions Hermeneutical Plays with Hard God, Soft God Change our Life-world? A Is The Theology of Immanence Body and Voice: Critical (John Thorp, Phenomenological Analysis of Giorgio Agamben a Path out Encounters with Gadamer and Department of Philosophy, (Martin Nitsche, of Political Theology? Falque University of Western Institute of Philosophy at the (Kohei Nagashima, (Katerina Koci, Ontario) Czech Academy of Sciences in Keio University) Charles University, Prague) Prague) Interruptive Encounters On The Im/Possibility Of The Radical Political Theology of Exploring Badiou’s Approach between Phenomenology and Empathy John D. Caputo to Religion Theology: Case Emmanuel (Charles Nweke, (Calvin Dieter Ullrich, (Duncan Sant, Falque (Martin Koci, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Ecumenical Institute, University of Malta) University of Vienna/ Awka-Nigeria) Ruhr Universität Bochum) Institute for Philosophy) Empathy Versus Humility: Three Gadamer on the Sensus Existence and Reality Encore Religious Atheism: Assessing Ways To Deal With The Other Communis (Nebojsa Kujundzic, Critchley’s Faith of the Faithless (Elizaveta Kostrova, (Barry Stephenson, University of Prince Edward (Dennis Vanden Auweele, St Tikhon’s Orthodox Memorial University of Island) KU Leuven) University, Moscow) Newfoundland) 16:00 Closing Address (Aula Prima)