The Legacy of Wilfred Cantwell Smith A Symposium celebrating the Sixtieth Anniversary of McGill’s Faculty of

Friday, November 6, 2009

All are Welcome, no registration required

Location: Faculty of Religious Studies, William and Henry Birks Building, 3520 University Street, McGill University

8:00 a.m. Coffee and pastries available (Senior Common Room)

8:30 a.m.–10:30 a.m. Session I (Chair: Professor Katherine Young, in the Birks Heritage Chapel)

Panel

John Braisted Carman Wilfred Smith as an Academic Architect

Thomas B. Coburn Setting the Stage for the Emergence of ‘Contemplative Studies’: Reflections on the Work of Wilfred Cantwell Smith

C. Peter Slater "Wilfred Smith's Prophetic Sense of History and Proposal Regarding Verification."

Donald Swearer Towards a World Theology Revisited

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. Coffee Break (Senior Common Room)

11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Session II (Chair: Professor Ian Henderson, in the Birks Heritage Chapel)

Panel

Purushottama Bilimoria The Meaningful End of ‘’ and ‘Scripture’

Harvey Cox Belief is Not Faith Revisited

Joseph Prabhua The Interreligious Hermeneutics of Raimon Panikkar and Cantwell Smith

Robert C. Segal The Limits of Dialogue

1:00p.m.–2:00 p.m. Lunch: Provided for conference presenters, FRS faculty, and FRS graduate students; registration requested).

2:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. Session III (Chair: TBA, in the Birks Heritage Chapel)

Panel

Thomas Faulkner The Prophet & the Enigma of War

Jonathan R. Herman Who Cares if the Qur'an is the Word of God?

K. R. Sundararajan The Study of as the Study of Persons: My Journey to

4:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m. Afternoon Tea (Senior Common Room)

4:30 p.m.–6:30 p.m. Session IV (Chair: Dr. Jim Kanaris, in the Birks Heritage Chapel)

Panel

Amir Hussain Towards a hermeneutic of humanity: Wilfred Cantwell Smith and the study of Muslims

William A. Graham "Wilfred Smith and the "Orientalist" Traditions: Some Thoughts on the Smithian Critique of Modern Scholarship"

John Stratton Hawley Enabling Antimonies: Tensions and Tensile Strength in Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Diana L. Eck Title to Come

Note: Each paper will be about 20 minutes long; the papers in a session will be presented without break, with substantial time for discussion in each session.