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Conference Agenda

NOTE: This agenda is subject to change.

Sunday, 13 July, 2008 | Monday, 14 July, 2008 | Tuesday, 15 July, 2008 | Wednesday, 16 July, 2008
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SUNDAY, 13 JULY, 2008
9:00 - 10:00AM

Bus to Toledo

10:30 AM - 12:00 AM

Synagogue

Maria Rosa Menocal, Yale University
How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain

Interfaith Prayer directed by Representatives of Jewish, Evangelical, Catholic, and Muslim Faiths

12:00 - 5:30 PM

Free Time in Toledo

5:30 - 7:30 PM

Jesuit Church

George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town

Interfaith Panel in Response to George Ellis Talk
8:00 - 10:00 PM

Tapas Reception

10:30 - 11:30 PM

Return Bus to Madrid

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MONDAY, 14 JULY, 2008
9:00 - 10:45 AM

Welcoming Remarks
Rector of Comillas
Edward Devinney, President of Metanexus Institute
George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town
10:45-11:15 AM

Coffee Break

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM

Introduction to Mini-Conference on "Exploring Non-Reduction and Levels of Reality"
Basarab Nicolescu, International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies
The Idea of Levels of Reality and its Relevance for Non-Reduction and Personhood

Roy Clouser, The College of New Jersey
The Nature & Ground of Religious Belief

1:00-3:00 PM

Lunch

3:00 - 4:45 PM

RELATIONALITY & THE SELF I

  1. Gangle
  2. Teske
  3. Toronchuk, Ellis

MATHEMATICS & RELIGION

  1. Povilus, Obojska
  2. Leach
  3. Kindschi

ON THE PERSON (Spanish)

  1. Florio
  2. Corcó, Puig
  3. Ciria
  4. Garcia

MINI-CONFERENCE: NON-REDUCTION AND THE HUMAN SCIENCES

  1. Skillen
  2. Sienra
  3. Schuurman
4:45 - 5:15

Coffee Break

5:15 - 7:00 PM

FEATURED SESSION with Kathy Duffy & V. V. Raman

  1. Duffy
  2. Raman

THE SELF & NOW

  1. Jaki
  2. Carreira
  3. Gonzalo
  4. Menendez

FEATURED SESSION with Hermann Häring

  1. Häring

MINI-CONFERENCE: NON-REDUCTION, LEVELS, & TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

  1. van Breda & Swilling
  2. Dockendorff
  3. Lemos
  4. Puhalo
7:00 - 7:15

Coffee Break

7:15 - 9:00 PM

RELATIONALITY & THE SELF II

  1. Wouters & Sie
  2. Dinis

PROBLEMS OF THE SELF

  1. Rocher
  2. Dozier-Henry
  3. Klimowicz

CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY & ISSUES OF SELF

  1. Hu
  2. Lin
  3. Famisaran

9:00 PM

Dinner

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TUESDAY, 15 JULY, 2008
9:00 - 10:45 AM

SOPHIA IBERIA SESSION

  1. Heller
  2. Albert
  3. Monserrat

MINI-CONFERENCE: UNDERSTANDING LEVELS

  1. Mathews
  2. Staune
  3. Scognamiglio
10:45 - 11:15 AM

Coffee Break

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM

FEATURED SESSION - ON WISDOM
(Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM)

  1. Deane-Drummond
  2. Kane

FEATURED SESSION - ON COMPASSION
(Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM)

  1. Shults

MINI-CONFERENCE: MATTER & LIFE

  1. Strauss
  2. Manzotti
  3. Schmid-Tannwald
1:00-3:00 PM

Lunch

3:00 - 4:45 PM

LOVE & TRANSDISCIPLINARITY

  1. Alonso
  2. Nicolaidis
  3. Chirila

PSYCHOANALYSIS, THE GOOD, & THE UNCONSCIOUS

  1. Baker & Jones
  2. Kelcourse
  3. Kheriaty

POLANYI & DOOYEWEERD

  1. Broom
  2. Yang
  3. Fathulla & Jost
  4. Katzenstein

MINI-CONFERENCE: MIND & SPIRIT

  1. Albertazzi
  2. Horst
  3. Bolognesi, Caporali, Cordelli, Gallenui, Procacci, Rizzacasa
4:45 - 5:15 PM

Coffee Break

5:15 - 7:00 PM

Transhumanism & Technology

  1. Achtner
  2. Cole-Turner
  3. Govorounova

Recourse to Ricoeur

  1. Grassie
  2. Fernandes
  3. Wong

Wisdom & Virtue: Discernment, Problem-Solving, and Expertise

  1. Day
  2. Boelhower
  3. Jordan

MINI-CONFERENCE: WHAT NEXT?

  1. Poli

Debate with all Participants

7:00 - 7:15 PM

Break

7:15 - 9:00 PM

Plenary Session with Norbert Samuelson

Norbert Samuelson, Metanexus Senior Fellow

9:00 PM

Dinner

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WEDNESDAY, 16 JULY, 2008
9:00 - 10:45 AM

Postmodern Metaphysics

  1. Ong
  2. Bracken
  3. Fowler

Integrating Self & Health

  1. Dowson & Devenish
  2. Bennett
  3. Derry

Self & Soul I

  1. Marinkovic
  2. Quitterer
  3. Derry
  4. Spiri

Bioethics and the Person

  1. Miller
  2. Wang
  3. Solies
  4. Wang
10:45 - 11:15 AM

Coffee Break

11:15 AM - 1:00 PM

Featured Session - Soul and Free Will
(Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM)

  1. Murphy
  2. Kane

Featured Session with Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and William Chittick
(Will run an extra half-hour until 1:30 PM)

  1. Tirosh-Samuelson
  2. Chittick
1:00 - 3:00 PM

Lunch

3:00 - 4:45 PM

Metaphysics of the Soul

  1. Delfino
  2. Flaman
  3. Gasser, Stefan, Wehinger

Evolution

  1. Croce
  2. Morgan
  3. Seidel

Self & Soul II

  1. Sellés
  2. Moreno-Dávila
  3. Sidiropoulou

Philosophy/ Theology/ Anthropology

  1. Ong
  2. González
  3. Alam
4:45 - 5:15 PM

Coffee Break

5:15 - 7:00 PM

Neurobiology & Spirituality

  1. Grashin
  2. Hollingsworth
  3. Runehov

Islamic Considerations of the Self

  1. Khalili
  2. Majid
  3. Qorbani
  4. Asadipour

Self & Soul III

  1. McSweeney
  2. Weidenbaum
  3. Snaevarr

Self or No-Self?

  1. Bauberger
  2. Arseculeratne
  3. Durante
7:00 - 7:15 PM

Break

7:15 - 9:00 PM

Plenary Session with Tariq Ramadan and Antje Jackelen

Tariq Ramadan, Faculty of Theology at Oxford
Antje Jackelen, Bishop of Lund, Sweden
9:00 PM

Closing Banquet

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