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)