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Mohammad Abu-Hamdiyyah
Retired, Former Professor of Chemistry, University of Kuwait
England
Paper Title: Phenomenology and the Structure of Knowledge in the Qur'an
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Tamás Agócs
Director, East-West Research Institute
Local Society: 3 Cultures Group
Budapest, Hungary
Paper Title: The Mystery of Meaning (Bohm and Buddhism)
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Peter C. Aichelburg
Professor of Physics, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Vienna
Local Society: Complimentarity of Science and Theology
Vienna, Austria
Paper Title: On the evolution of the concept of time and its implication for modern cosmology
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Edward Alam
Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Notre Dame University, Lebanon
Local Society: Notre Dame University, Lebanon Communio Study Circle
Zouk Mikael, Lebanon
Paper Title: Einstein, Beauty, and Natural Theology: Elementary Reflections!
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Paul Allen
Assistant Professor, Department of Theological Studies, Concordia University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paper Title: What is a Theological Explanation?
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Hall of Flags
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D. Brian Austin
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Philosophy, Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City, Tennessee, USA
Paper Title: The Nature of the Supernatural: Possible Routes through the Conceptual Conundrums of the Natural/Supernatural Distinction
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Robert R. Barth
Director, Office of Prayer Research
Unity Village, Missouri, USA
Paper Title: The Office of Prayer ResearchSM: A Bridge of Information and Understanding between Science and Religion on the Scientific Study of Prayer
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Mario Beauregard
Associate Professor, Departments of Radiology and Psychology, Universite de Montreal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Paper Title: The Neurobiology of the Mystical Experience
Monday, June 5 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Stephen Bellamy
Ph.D student at the Centre for Religion and the Biosciences, University College, Chester, UK and Vicar of St James's Church
Local Society: Centre for Religion and the Biosciences
Birkdale, Southport, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Born to Save? : The Ethics of Tissue Typing
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Barrett P. Brenton
Associate Professor of Anthropology, St. John's University
Queens, NY, USA
Paper Title: HIV/AIDS, Food Insecurity, and Genetically Modified Food Aid in Southern Africa: Seeking Common Ground Soolutions through a Commitment to Peace, Justice, and Sustainability
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Emmanuel M. Carreira
Professor (retired), Philosophy Department, Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Local Society: Science, Culture, Theology Group, Associacion Espanola Ciencia y Cultura (AECyC)
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Finality in Science and Human Life
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Joanne M. Carroll
Associate Professor, St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
Local Society: The Rosalie Rendu Roundtable on Religion and Science
Jamaica, New York, USA
Paper Title: Conservative religious ideology, U.S. policy on reproductive services and the impact on women's health
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Class of '49 Room
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Jaime Castillo and Arturo Villanueva
Professor, IT Dept; Professor, Humanities Dept, Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla, CECIR Center for Science and Religion Studies
Local Society: Centro de Estudios de Ciencia y Religion (CECIR)
Puebla, Mexico
Paper Title: The Mayans: Religion and Science
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Gang Chen
Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Local Society: Center for the Study of Science and Human Spirituality
Wuhan, Hubei, China
Paper Title: On Mind-Body Problem: From a Natural Point of View
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Adam Kiplangat arap Chepkwony
Chairperson, DRS Group and Associate Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Moi University
Local Society: Dialogue on Religion and Science Group
Eldoret, Kenya
Paper Title: Religion and Science: Living 'Double' Lives in Africa
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Ronald Cole-Turner
Professor of Theology and Ethics, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Design and Destiny: Philosophical and Religious Perspectives on Human Germline Modification
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Larry J. Crockett
Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Honors Program, Augsburg College, and Priest, Episcopal Diocese of Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Paper Title: Radical Heterodoxy in Science and Radical Orthodoxy in Christianity: The Implications of Wolfram's Revolt in Science for Radical Orthodoxy in Theology
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Hall of Flags
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Tulshiram Hari Date
Indian Institute of Industrial and Applicable Mathematics
Pune, India
Paper Title: The Relevance of Scientific Conclusions to Religion
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Dana David
Independent Researcher
New York, New York, USA
Paper Title: A Vernacular Healing System: Reinventing the Circle with Cadien Treaters
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Gregory N. Derry
Professor, Physics Department, Loyola College in Maryland
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Paper Title: Apprehending Nature Within a Generalized Framework of Complementarity
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Fernando di Mieri
Professore Incaricato di Filosofia della Conoscenza presso lo Studio Filosofico Interprovinciale dei Domenicani d’Italia "San Tommaso d’Aquino"
Local Society: Studio Filosofico Interprovinciale "San Tommaso d’Aquino"
Naples, Italy
Paper Title: Roman Church, Philosophy and Science in front of the Concepti
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Franklin Room
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Kathleen Duffy
Professor of Physics, Chestnut Hill College and President, Metanexus Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Teilhard and the Texture of the Evolutionary Cosmos
Sunday, June 5 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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George F. R. Ellis
Mathematics Department, University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Paper Title: Physics and the Real World
Sunday, June 5 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Valery N. Finoghentov
Professor, Chief of Department of Philosophy, Ufa State Institute of Service
Local Society: Quest for Modern Worldviews
Ufa, Russia
Paper Title: Interplay between Science and Religion: Methodologist's Reflections
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Michael Firmin
Chair, Department of Psychology, Cedarville University
Cedarville, Ohio, USA
Paper Title: Collision of Epistemological Frameworks: Religion and Social Science's Unshared Understanding of Ethics
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Lucio Florio
High Seminary of La Plata and Catholic University of Argentina and the Santo Tomás de Aquino University, Buenos Aires
Local Society: The Science-Theology Society of La Plata
La Plata, Argentina
Paper Title: Points to establish the epistemological criteria to build a global university
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Thomas B. Fowler
President, Xavier Zubiri Foundation of North America and Associate of Fundación Xavier Zubiri, Madrid
Local Society: Fundacion Xavier Zubiri LSI
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Paper Title: Xavier Zubiri: Sentient Intelligence and the Relationship of Science and Philosophy
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Gao Huizhu
Professor, College of Law and Politics, Shanghai Normal University
Local Society: Workshop of Religion and Science
Shanghai, China
Paper Title:
Religion and the Modern Metropolitan City
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Don George
Professor Emeritus, Speech Communication Department, University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
Paper Title: The Semiotic Foundation
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Rick Goldberg
President, Binah Yitzrit Foundation
Austin, Texas, USA
Paper Title: Judaism’s Yetzer as a Bio-Theological Construct
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Julio A. Gonzalo
Departamento de Física de Marteriales, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Local Society: Ciencia, Cultura, Teología
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Implications of a Finite Universe
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Golkin Room
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William Grassie
Executive Director, Metanexus Institute on Religion and Science
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Where the Rubber Hits the Road: A Call for Thought and Action
Monday, June 6 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Niels Henrik Gregersen
Professor and Chair of Systematic Theology at the University of Copenhagen
Local Society: Copenhagen Network on Science & Religion
Copenhagen, Denmark
Paper Title: Evolutionary Biology and the Complexification of Nature: Supplementing the Neo-Darwinian Paradigm
Sunday, June 5 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Jose M. Guibert
Vice-rector, University of Deusto
Local Society: Grupo Deusto de Etica y Tecnologia (GDET)
Bilbao, Spain
Paper Title: Value formation strategies in a Technical School of a Catholic University
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Brenda G. Hackett
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operations Officer, Metanexus Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Ask the CFO
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Golkin Room
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Craig Hamilton
Managing Editor, What Is Enlightenment? Magazine
Local Society: Voices from the Edge
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
Paper Title: Neuroscience, Consciousness, and the Soul
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Sara Fletcher Harding
Associate Professor of Religion, Florida Southern College
Local Society: Florida Center for Science and Religion
Lakeland, Florida, USA
Paper Title: Interpretation and the Biblical Tradition in the Religio-Scientifica Dialogue: A Redefinition
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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John Haught
Thomas Healey Professor of Theology, Georgetown University
Washington, DC, USA
Paper Title: Teilhard de Chardin and the Suffering of Sentient Life
Sunday, June 5 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Eric S. Hintz
PhD Student, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania and intern, Metanexus Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Examining Religion and Technology: Nuclear Weapons and the Roman Catholic Church
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Class of '49 Room
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Yahya Oyewole Imam
Senior Lecturer, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Maiduguri
Maiduguri, Nigeria
Paper Title: Islam and Reproductive Health
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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K
Gennady A. Kalyabin
Samara Academy of Humanities
Local Society: Through Faith We Understand
Samara, Russia
Paper Title: Atheistic Trends in Modern Education in Russia
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Paper Title: Mathematical Aspects of Freedom and Determination
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P. Douglas Kindschi
Professor of Mathematics and Philosophy, Grand Valley State University
Local Society: A Grand Dialogue in Science and Religion
Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Paper Title: The Role of Mathematics in the Science and Religion Discussion
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Hall of Flags
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Tamás Kodácsy
Scientific researcher, Károli Gáspár Reformed University, Reformed pastor and computer scientist
Local Society: Debreceni Természettudomány és Teológia Központ (Science and Theology Centre in Debrecen)
Debrecen, Hungary
Paper Title: Virtual World and Virtual Theology in Cyberspace
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Eszter Kodácsy-Simon
PhD student, Evangelical-Lutheran Theological University
Local Society: Tudomany es Hit "Jesenius" Kozpont / Jesenius Protestant Center for Science and Religion
Budapest, Hungary
Paper Title: Secondary School as a Model for the Dialogue between Science and Religion
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Anne Kull
Associate Professor, Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Tartu
Local Society: Collegium in Science and Religion at the Unversity of Tartu
Tartu, Estonia
Paper Title: Technonative Visions
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Franklin Room
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Sandra Costen Kunz
Ph.D. student, Princeton Theological Seminary
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Paper Title: Teaching Students to Embody Redemptive Social Transformation: Christian Educational Theory and Methods for Higher Education
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Javier Leach
Director of the Chair: Science, Technology and Religion, Universidad Pontificia Comilllas and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Universidad Complutense
Local Society: Catedra Ciencia Tecnologia y Religion LSI
Madrid, Spain
Paper Title: Trans-Disciplinarity and the "Transcendifying" God
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Andreas Losch
Minister of the Protestant Church of the Rhineland
Local Society: Science & Theology Discussion Group
Duisburg, Germany
Paper Title: Our World is More Than Physics – a Constructive-Critical Comment On the Current Science and Theology Debate
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Darren MacDougall
Northeastern Seminary and University of St. Michael's College
Rochester, New York, USA and Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Paper Title: The Role of Nature in Iroquois Spirituality
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Farzad Mahootian
Shepherd University
Local Society: The Nexus of Science and Spirit
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, USA
Paper Title: Self-Limitation in Science, Philosophy and Religion
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Ashok Kumar Malhotra
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Department of Philosophy, SUNY
Local Society: Yoga and Meditation Society for the Scientific Study of Spirituality
Oneonta, New York, USA
Paper Title: Yoga and Healing: Scientific Connection
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Robert Mann
Chair, Physics Department, University of Waterloo
Local Society: Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation National Lecture Series
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Paper Title: Theory and Theology of Everything
Sunday, June 5 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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James J. McCartney
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University
Villanova, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: God and the Problem of Evil in the Process Theology of W. Norman Pittenger and the Pastoral Theology of Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Jay McDaniel
Professor of Religion, Hendrix College and Steel Center at Hendrix College
Local Society: New Horizons: A Society for the Study of Science and World Religions
Conway, Arkansas, USA
Paper Title: Why It Matters - How a Dialogue between Science and Religion, with help from Higher Education, Can Help the World Religions Meet the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Hubert Meisinger
Protestant Campus Minister, Darmstadt University of Technology; Vice-President of the European Society for the Study of Science and Theology (ESSSAT)
Local Society: Science - Human Being - Religion
Darmstadt, Germany
Paper Title: The Phenomenon of "Love": The Significance of its Biblical Account and its Sociobiological Reconstruction
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Ted Metzler
Adjunct Professor in Philosophy and Religion, Oklahoma City University
Local Society: Program Coordinator, GOOD STAR (Growing Open Oklahoma Dialogue in Science, Technology, and Religion)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Paper Title: Three Educational Experiments with Potential Application in Global Network
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Svetozar Minkov
Department of Philosophy, Roosevelt University
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Paper Title: Bacon’s Modernity: The Relation between Science, Religion, and Philosophy
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Katalin Mund
Department of Sociology, Eotvos University
Local Society: 3 Cultures Group
Budapest, Hungary
Paper Title: How do biology students believe?
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Andrew Newberg
Director of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Director of NeuroPET Research, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Neurophysiology of Religious Experiences
Sunday, June 5 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Basarab Nicolescu
President,
International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies
Paris, France
Paper Title: Towards Transdisciplinary Education and Learning
Monday, June 6 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Hall of Flags
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Marie Vejrup Nielsen
PhD-student, Department of Systematic Theology, Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus
Local Society: The Danish Science-Theology Forum
Aarhus, Denmark
Paper Title: "Narrative Tone" in the Discussion of the Christian Doctrine of Sin in Dialogue with Evolutionary Science – Finding a Way Between Demonization and Trivialization
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Franklin Room
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David Nikkel
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Local Society: Science and Religion Roundtable at St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Pembroke, North Carolina, USA
Paper Title: Humanity and Divinity as Radically Embodied
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Raymond Ogunade
Coordinator of Programmes, LSI and Department of Religions, University of Ilorin
Local Society: Exploring Contemporary Issues in Science, Religion and the Environment in an African Context
Ilorin, Nigeria
Paper Title: Environmental Issues in Yoruba Religion: Implications for Leadership and Society in Nigeria
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Thomas Jay Oord
Department of Philosophy and Theology, Northwest Nazarene University
Local Society: Treasure Valley Science-Religion Institute
Nampa, Idaho, USA
Paper Title: Social Science Contributions to the Love-and-Science Symbiosis
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Franklin Room
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F. David Peat
Director, Pari Center for New Learning
Local Society: The Pari Dialogues on Religion and Science
Pari, Italy
Paper Title: Spiritual Capital and Globalization
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Class of '49 Room
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Paper Title: A Global Academy?
Monday, June 6 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Hall of Flags
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Natalia Pecherskaya and Alexei Chernyakov
St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy
Local Society: The St. Petersburg Educational Center for Religion and Science, Russia
St. Petersburg, Russia
Paper Title: The Religious Basis of Contemporary Problems in the Natural Sciences and Humanities
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Rodney L. Petersen, Courtland S. Randall, Mugur Roz, and Frank Villa
Petersen: Executive Director, Boston Theological Institute;
Randall: Director of the William G. Pollard Project, University of the South, Sewanee;
Roz: Research Fellow in Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard University and MIT;
Villa: Director of InterFASE, and Science and Religion Program, Boston Theological Institute;
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Paper Title: A New Center for Science, Religion and Ethics in Boston
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Silvana Procacci and Lodovico Galleni
University of Perugia; University of Pisa
Local Society: Etruscan Local Group
Perugia, Italy
Paper Title: Science-&-Theology and the dialogue among cultures: Hans Jonas, Teilhard de Chardin, biology and environmental ethics
Monday, June 5 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Jeffrey C. Pugh
Professor of Religious Studies, Elon University
Local Society: Elon University Local Society Initiative
Elon, North Carolina, USA
Paper Title: The Space Between: Ancient Wisdom for a Scientific World
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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R
Varadaraja V. Raman
Emeritus Professor, Physics and Humanities, Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, New York, USA
Paper Title: Reductionism and Holism: Two sides of the perception of reality
Sunday, June 5 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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K. Helmut Reich
School of Consciousness Studies and Sacred Traditions, Rutherford University
Richmond, British Columbia, Canada
Paper Title: Relating Science to Religion / Theology: Which Approach?
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Hall of Flags
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Patricia Rife
Graduate Department of Technology and Management, University of Maryland
College Park, Maryland, USA
Paper Title: N/A
Monday, June 6 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Martin Rogers
Co-Director of the Templeton Science and Religion
in
Schools Project
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Science and Religion in Schools World Wide
Monday, June 6 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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José M. Romero-Baró
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Barcelona
Local Society: STIC of Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Paper Title: God's Mark on Nature: A Trinitarian Approach
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Matt J. Rossano
Professor, Department of Psychology, Southeastern Louisiana University
Local Society: SLU Interdisciplinary Science and Religion Study Group
Hammond, Louisiana, USA
Paper Title: The Religious Mind and the Evolution of Religious Forms
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Franklin Room
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G. Parker Rossman
Independent Researcher
Columbia, Missouri, USA
Paper Title: Metanexus Courses Online for the World-Ethical Issues
Monday, June 6 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Pauline Rudd
University Research Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow in the Glycobiology Institute, University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Functional Complexity in Biology and Religion
Sunday, June 5 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Giovanni Russo
Ordinary Professor of Bioethics, Institute of Theology "St. Thomas," Pontifical Salesian University and Director of The School of Specialization in Bioethics and Sexology
Local Society: The Biosciences and Religion Network (BNR)
Messina, Italy
Paper Title: Cloning and "Playing God": New elements in the dialogue science-religion
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Yasmin Hanani Mohd Safian
Faculty of Shariah and Law, Islamic University College of Malaysia
Paper Title: Islam and Biotechnology: With Special Reference to Genetically Modified Foods
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Doumit Salameh
Chairperson, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Notre Dame University
Local Society: Notre Dame University, Lebanon Communio Study Circle
Zouk Mikael, Lebanon
Paper Title: Ghazali’s Doubt And The Redemption Of The Correlation Between Faith and Reason
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Gerald Schroeder
Instructor, Aish HaTorah College of Jewish Studies
Jerusalem, Israel
Paper Title: Evolution? Looking at the Bigger Picture of Life's Development
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Adam Shapiro
Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science, University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Paper Title: A Plea for Greater Historicism in the Science and Religion Conversation
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Avtar Singh
Independent Consultant, Research & Development
San Jose, California, USA
Paper Title: In Search of the Universal Reality and Purpose - A Scientific Investigation
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Golkin Room
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T. D. Singh
Director, Bhaktivedanta Institute; President, Vedanta and Science Educational Research Foundation
Local Society: Bhaktivedanta Institute's Science and Religion Group of Kolkata
Kolkata, India
Paper Title: Hinduism and Science
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Glenn Statile
Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, St. John's University
Local Society: The Rosalie Rendu Roundtable on Religion and Science
Jamaica, New York, USA
Paper Title: Sociobiology and Christian Virtue
Tuesday, June 7 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Franklin Room
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Jean Staune
General Secretary, Université Interdiciplinare de Paris
Local Society: Project Nouveau Regard – New Outlook Project
Paris, France
Paper Title: Darwinism Design and Purpose: A European Perspective
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Esther M. Sternberg
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, USA
Paper Title: Brain Immune Connections: The Brain’s Stress Response in Health and Disease
Sunday, June 5 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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John M. Sweeney
Managing Director, Center for Process Studies, Claremont, School of Theology
Local Society: Dialogues Concerning Science and Natural Religion
Claremont, California, USA
Paper Title: Transforming Foundations--Philosophical, Theological, and Scientific
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Muzaffer M. Tabanli
Southeastern Illinois College
Harrisburg, Illinois, USA
Paper Title: Nursi's and Gulen's Method of Reflection Towards a God Conscious Science Education
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti
Professor of Fundamental Theology, Department of Dogmatic Theology, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross
Local Society: DISF Working Group
Rome, Italy
Paper Title: In Search for the Unity of Knowledge: Building Unity inside the Subject
Monday, June 6 9:00 am - 10:30 am in Hall of Flags
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John A. Teske
Professor of Psychology, Elizabethtown College
Local Society: Elizabethtown College Center for Science and Religion
Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Neuromythology: Brains and Stories
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Stefan Trausan-Matu
Computer Science Department, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest, and Math Forum at Drexel University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Human Language and the Limits of Artificial Intelligence: A New Religion-Science Relation
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Ivan Tsekhmistro
Head of Theory, Culture and Philosophy of Science Department, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Local Society: East Ukrainian Center of Science and Religion
Kharkiv, Ukraine
Paper Title: Scientific Picture of the Word in the Last 25 Years: Basic Change of Spiritual Prospect
Tuesday, June 7 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Nikolaos A. Tsiopinis
Research Associate, Heyendaal Institute Nijmegen, Interdisciplinary institute for theology, sciences and culture; and Candidate, Radboud University Nijmegen
Local Society: The Heyendaal Open Circle on Science and Religion
Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Paper Title: Definitions of Truth as Cultural Paradigms and a Rubric to Foster Communication within the Science and Religion Dialogue
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Amelia J. Uelmen and Judith M. Povilus
Uelmen: Director, Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work, Fordham University Law
Povilus: Associate Director, Focolare Movement's Association for Cultural Studies & the Sophia Summer School for a Culture of Unity (Rome, Italy);
Local Society: "Sophia" Association for Cultural Studies
Rome, Italy and New York, NewYork, USA
Paper Title: Seeds of a Global University: The "Sophia Summer School for a Culture of Unity"
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Allen R. Utke
Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Local Society: Synodical Task Force of Science and Religion
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
Paper Title: Science And Religion Through A Cloudy Crystal Ball
Monday, June 6 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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James A. Van Slyke
Ph.D. candidate, Fuller Theological Seminary
Pasadena, California, USA
Paper Title: Religion and Cognitive Science: Cognitive Constraints and Top-down Causation
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Michael Ventimiglia
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Sacred Heart University
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Paper Title: The Science and Religion Dialogue: Are Philosophical Foundations Necessary?
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Cassandra Vieten, Tina Amorok, and Marilyn Schlitz
Institute of Noetic Sciences
Local Society: Science and Spiritual Transformation Working Group
Petaluma, California, USA
Paper Title: Many Paths, One Mountain: A Cross-Traditional Model of Spiritual Transformation
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Franklin Room
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Hardev Singh Virk
Professor Emeritus, Indian Institute of Science and Religion
Pune, India
Paper Title: Concept of Sünya (Sünn) in Aad Guru Granth Sahib (AGGS)
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Peter Volek and Pavol Labuda
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University in Ruzomberok
Local Society: Science-Religion Dialog and Critical Thinking
Ruzomberok, Slovak Republic
Paper Title: Philosophical and Theological Fundamentals of the Dialogue between Science and Religious Belief
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Gerd Weckwerth
Institute of Mineralogy and Geology, University of Cologne
Local Society: Naturwissenschaft und Glaube e.V.
Köln, Germany
Paper Title: The Religion Principle of our Cosmos – The Theory of Evolution and the Divine Action
Monday, June 6 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Jonathan Weidenbaum
Adjunct Professor, Berkeley College (New York City)
New York, New York, USA
Paper Title: From Heidegger to Whitehead: Theology, Ontology, and the Critics of Totalization
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Eric Weislogel
Director, Local Societies Initiative, Metanexus Institute
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title:
On the Idea of “University” in the Virtual Global University
Monday, June 6 9:00 am - 12:30 pm in Hall of Flags
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Joyce M. Wilding
Co-chair ENTREAT LSI, University of the South (Sewanee)
Local Society: ENTREAT
Sewanee, Tennessee, USA
Paper Title: Collaborative Science & Religion Programs in Southeast United States: Beyond Scopes Trial
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Patricia A. Williams
Philosopher and Author
Covesville, Virginia, USA
Paper Title: Transformations: A Proposal for a Global Religion that Integrates the Great Religions through Science
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Mark Wood and J. Brian Cassel
Virginia Commonwealth University
Local Society: Sciences and Religion Community Forum of Central Virginia
Richmond, Virginia, USA
Paper Title: The Science and Religion Dialogue: At the Heart of Humanistic Education and Global Development
Monday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Class of '49 Room
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Ismail Yahya
Lecturer of Sekolah Tinggi Agama Islam Negeri Surakarta (Surakarta State Islamic College)
Local Society: Indonesian Society for Religion and Civilization
Jawa Tengah, Indonesia
Paper Title: Integration of Religion and Science in the Indonesian State Islamic Universities
Tuesday, June 7 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm in Golkin Room
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Kin-Tung Yit
Center for the Study of Science and Religion, Fu Jen Catholic University
Local Society: Center for the Study of Science and Religion
Hsinchuang, Taipei, Taiwan
Paper Title: Buddhist meditation experiences and the consciousness
Tuesday, June 7 11:00 am - 12:30 pm in Franklin Room
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