updated 2010 05 14

Religion, Philosophy, and the Question of a Clash of Cultures / La religion, la philosophie, et la question d'un conflit de cultures 

Symposium / Colloque  
a symposium sponsored by Canadian Jacques Maritain Association 
un colloque international co-parainé par l'association canadienne Jacques Maritain
in association with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities  
en collaboration avec le Congrès des sciences sociales et humaines
and with the support of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
grâce à une subvention du Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada

 May 31 - June 1 // 2010 // 31 mai au 1 juin  
Concordia University / Université Concordia 
MB Building [John Molson School of Business]
Sir George Williams (downtown) campus.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

For information on accommodation, click here or ici
For information on the programme of the Canadian Philosophical Association, which meets nearby, click here
For general information on the Congress, click here.
Pour des informations générales sur le congrès, cliquetez ici.

Tentative programme: 

 

Monday / lundi, 31 mai/May 31
MB Building, S2-285
9.00 am – 12.30

Tuesday / mardi, 1 juin /June 1
MB Building, S2-285
9.00 am – 12.30

 

 

9-12.30


Session I: Understanding Cultural Clash
Président et rapporteur / Chair - Commentator:
Walter J. Schultz (President, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association)

> David Lea (AU Sharjah) - Liberalism and Communitarianism and the Divide Between the West and the Islamic World

> David J. Klassen (Corpus Christi College, UBC) - Integral Humanism or Exclusive Humanism?

> Louis Perron (Saint-Paul) - La raison comme espace transcendantal de médiation

9-12.30

Session III: Cultural Clash and the Role of Religion
Chair - Commentator / Président et rapporteur:
William Drischler (PhD student, Dominican University College)


> Walter Schultz (President, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association) – Authenticity and Community: An Inquiry Concerning the Future of Christianity

 >   Mario D’Souza (Univ of Toronto) – Philosophical Transformation of the Self and Cultural Unity

> Richard Schaefer (SUNY, Plattsburgh) - Religion, Culture, and the Intellectuals

12.30 – 14h   LUNCH 

12.30 – 14h   LUNCH

 

 

14h – 15.00 h


Solange Lefebvre (Univ. de Montréal) - John Rawls, Charles Taylor et la laïcité de l'état

14h – 15.00 h

Martha Lee (Univ of Windsor) - The Clash of Cultures in Canada: Apocalyptic Faith and Politics

 
15.15 – 17.45

Session II: Examples of Cultural Clash in History
Chair - Commentator / Président et rapporteur:
Therese Tisseverasinghe (PhD student, Philosophy, University of Ottawa)

> Jennifer Weed (Univ of New Brunswick) – Thomas Aquinas on Communication between Christians and Jews: A Clash of Religious Cultures

> Gyongi Hegedus (King’s, UWO) - Two Cultures: Clash or Confluence?


>  Cecil Chabot (Univ. d’Ottawa) - Wihtiko Killings and Cross-Cultural Conflict: Quests for Unity versus Uniformity of Understanding

15.15 – 17.45

 
Session IV: Addressing Cultural Clash
Président et rapporteur / Chair - Commentator:
William Sweet (St Francis Xavier)

> Leslie Armour (Dominican University, Ottawa) - The Idea of Religion and the Clash of Cultures

> Jean-Nil Chabot (independent scholar) – La vérité rassemble


> Jason West (Newman, Edmonton) – The Irrelevance of Public Reason for Resolving Clashing Cultures

 

  


June 1, 17h - 19h  President's Reception 

Conference dinner : TBA
 
 

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For more information, please contact:

Professor William Sweet,
Department of Philosophy, St Francis Xavier University,
Antigonish, NS B2G 2W5;
fax 902-867-3243; tel 902-867-2341; Internet: wsweet@stfx.ca