Conference Program

Wednesday - October 7th

Moderator: Cristina Vendra (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

La confiance dans le souci de Dieu chez Paul Ricœur, une lecture de Vivant jusqu’à la mort – Tomoaki Yamada (EHESS-Paris / Rennes 2)

Reconfigurations spirituelles par temps de confinement – Elisabeth de Bourqueney (Protestant Institute of Theology Paris-Montpellier, Union of Thettesting Churches of Alsace-Lorraine)


Moderator: John Arthos (Indiana University-Bloomington)

The Eikon and the Phantasma: Some Platonic Roots of Ricoeur’s Notion of the Social Imaginary – Michael Johnson (Concordia College)

Tradition, Authority and Critique: Reconsidering Paul Ricœur’s Mediation in the Gadamer-Habermas Debate – Cristina Vendra (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

Hermeneutic, Comparative and Syncretic Philosophy, or On Paul Ricoeur and Aztec Philosophy – Sebastian Purcell (State University of New York at Cortland)


Moderator: Geoffrey Dierckxsens (Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague)

A Terrible Beauty: Rethinking “Social Distancing” Through the Lens of Ricoeur’s Productive Distanciation – Jim Sisson (Middle Georgia State University)

Between Science and Wisdom: The Case of Digital Tracking Apps – Fernando Nascimento (Bowdoin College)


Moderator: Morny Joy (University of Calgary)

Ricoeur’s Two “Difficulties”: The Forgiving Roots of Religious Tolerance and Dialogue – Andrew Tebbutt (Institute for Christian Studies)



Moderator: Celia Edell (McGill University)

Recognizing the Other as an Equal Subject of Rights: The Self Becoming Capable through the Law – Guido Gorgoni (University of Padua)

Subjectivity, Mystery, and Justice: Ricœur and Critical Legal Hermeneutics – J. Reese Faust (University of Memphis)

Only the Good Gathers Together – Roger Savage (UCLA)


Moderator: Stephanie Arel (Fordham University)

The Miracle of Memory – Michael Deckard (Lenoir-Rhyne University)

The Fallible Man’s Possibility to Build Trust – Barna Kovács (Hungarian University of Transylvania)

The Shame of Cain: Rethinking the Significance of Cain & Abel, Suicide and Forgiveness in Ricoeur – Brad DeFord (Marian University)


Moderators: Jeff Keuss (Seattle Pacific University) and Daniel Boscaljon (Independent Scholar)

Panelists: Nathan Eric Dickman (University of the Ozarks), Howard Pickett (William and Lee University), Charles Gillespie (Sacred Heart University), Vero Smith (Independent Scholar), Laura Roberts (Fresno Pacific University)


Moderator: Greg McKinzie (Fuller Theological Seminary)

Responding to a Call: Productive Imagination and Scriptural Interpretation in Latin America's Ecclesial Base Communities – Hector A. Acero Ferrer (Institute for Christian Studies)


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