updated 2010 04 03

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

[pause santé / break at 11.00]

Session I: Understanding Cultural Clash
Président et rapporteur / Chair - Commentator:

Walter J. Schultz (President, Canadian Jacques Maritain Association)


> Thomas Philbeck (New York Institute of Technology, Bahrain) - The Metaphysical Foundations of Cultural Clash

> 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

[pause santé / break at 11.00]

Session III: Cultural Clash and the Role of Religion
Chair - Commentator / Président et rapporteur:

William Dreischler (PhD student, Dominican University College)

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

> Cecil Chabot (Univ. d’Ottawa / Aberdeen) - Le conflit intercultural, l'unité et l'uniformité conceptuelle

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

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

12.30 – 14h   LUNCH 

12.30 – 14h   LUNCH

 

 

14h – 15.15h

Keynote Speaker / Discours programme:
Solange Lefebvre (Univ. de Montréal)

14h – 15.15h

Keynote Speaker / Discours programme:
Sari Nusseibeh (Al-Quds Univ., Jerusalem)

 

15.30 – 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?

> David Bellusci (Dominican University, Ottawa) – The Clash of Lutheranism and Catholicism: Gasparo Contarini at Regensburg (1541)



 

15.30 – 17.45

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Session IV: Addressing Cultural Clash
Président et rapporteur / Chair - Commentator:

William Sweet
(St Francis Xavier)

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

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

> Leslie Armour (Dominican University, Ottawa) - Philosophical Unity and Cultural Diversity: Issues in Social Psychology and Social Economics

 

 

 

 


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