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Frankfurt am Main, 2016

JESPHIL 2016
Thursday 1st September – Monday 5st September 201
Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

SECULARISATION, SECULARITY, SECULARISM.
THE PROSPECTS OF BELIEF/ UNBELIEF IN A SECULAR AGE

Conference Programme

THURSDAY 1st September 2016
14.00-19.00 Arrival
17.00-20.30 Registration and payment
19.00 Supper
20.30 Welcoming speech + Introducing each other + social

FRIDAY 2nd September 2016
7.00-09.00 Breakfast
09.00-10.30 Jacek Poznanski, Krakow: Naturalism: help or obstacle in the human quest for understanding
Respondent: N.N.
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 Paul Valadier, Paris: De quelques sources de l'athéisme contemporain. Nihilisme contre humanisme.
Respondent: N.N.
12.45 Lunch

15.30-17.00 Workshops
Workshop 1: Reading/debating Charles Taylor A Secular Age; Manuel Reus, Bilbao
Workshop 2: Theories of secularisation in contemporary sociology; Michael Hainz, Leipzig
17.00 Coffee
17.30 Supplementary Session on the role of philosophy in Jesuit formation
18.30 Eucharist
19.30 Supper and Informal session, recreation

SATURDAY 3rd September 2016
Breakfast
9.00-10.30 Dominik Finkelde, München: Dialectical Materialism and The Fragile Absolute. On Badiou and Žižek
Respondent: N.N.
10.30-10.50 Coffee
10.50-12.20 Michael Kirwan, London: Is there, or can there be, a distinctive Jesuit reading of secularity?
Respondent: N.N.
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Excursion
Eucharist presided by N.N.
Supper

SUNDAY 4th September 2016
Breakfast
9.00-10.30 Lubos Rojka, Rome: The crisis of Theodicy
Respondent: Bruno Niederbacher
10.30-11.00 Coffee

11.00-12.30 Workshops
Workshop 3: Urbanization, urbanity, and the prospects of faith in a highly globalized world; Michael Sievernich, Frankfurt
Workshop 4: Reading Stathis Gourgouris, Lessons in Secular Criticism; Heinrich Watzka, Frankfurt
1245 Lunch
15.00-17.00 Evaluation & planning
18.00 Eucharist
Supper
Informal session

MONDAY 5th September 2016
Breakfast
Departure

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