Conference Program

9.00-10.00 Ricoeur in a Time of COVID – Part Two: Thinking the Political

Moderator: Dan Stiver (Hardin-Simmons University)

Ricoeur's Politics in a Pandemic Crisis – Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Political Paradox and Justice in the Covid-19 Crisis – Nel van den Haak (VU Medical Center Amsterdam)

10.00-11.00 Religious Perspectives in Ricoeur

Moderator: Brian Gregor (California State University, Dominguez Hills)

To Love Wisdom is to Love God: An Exploration on Paul Ricoeur’s Notion of Fides et Ratio – Blaise Ringor (University of Santo Tomas)

Ricoeur on the Poetics of Conversion and the Long Route to Religious Experience – Samuel Underwood (Memorial University)

Rhetorical Hermeneutics as Political Theology: Ricoeur, Geertz, Burke, and Fessard – Steven Mailloux (Loyola Marymount University)

11.00 – 12.00 Universels et diversité culturelle

Moderator: Azadeh Thiriez-Arjangi, Scientific Council of the Fond Ricoeur

Répondre aux demandes de justice ethnoculturelle : les ressources ricœurienne de la narrativité– Juliette Tommasi [Sorbonne University (Paris-IV)]

Herméneutique et éthique chez Paul Ricœur – Gaëlle Fiasse (McGill University)

12.00–12.30 Break (Join us for lunch and casual conversation)

12.30-1.30 Directors Meeting (Closed Meeting for SRS Directors)

1.30—2.00 Graduate Discussion Session

Moderator: Gaëlle Fiasse (McGill University)

The “Overlapping Consensus” from John Rawls to Paul Ricoeur: The Metamorphosis of a Concept – Alessandro Colleoni (Fondazione Collegio San Carlo & Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)

2.00 –3.00 Ricoeur on Society, Race, and Justice

Moderator: Michael Johnson (Concordia College)

Re-reading Nabert’s Influence: Seven Knots Tying Ricoeur To Nabert – Scott Davidson (West Virginia University)

Guilt and Redemption in Ricoeur’s The Symbolism of Evil and Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric – Linda Cox (Austin Community College)

3.00–4.00 A Roundtable Discussion on Ricoeur and the ‘Removal’ of Monuments/History

James Moore (Valparaiso University) and Joseph Edelheit (St. Cloud State University)

4.00-4.30 Graduate Discussion Session

Moderator: Todd Mei (University of Kent)

The Origin of the Cosmological Surplus of Time: On Ricœur’s Encounter with Heidegger’s “Derivation” of Ordinary Time – Renxiang Liu (McGill University)

4.30-5.00 Graduate Discussion Session

Moderator: Roger Savage (UCLA)

Narrativity, Social Values, and Social Imagination – Gašper Pirc (Institute for Philosophical Studies, ZRS Koper)

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