2013 Annual Conference
For the details visit the conference website
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In partnership with IRNRD:
Transcendence in Political Philosophy
University College Dublin
The School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, held a workshop “Transcendence in Political Philosophy” on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 November 2013 in the Iveagh Room, Newman House, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Presenters were: Maeve Cooke (UCD), Carmen Dege (Yale), William Desmond (Leuven) Peter Dews (Essex), Alessandro Ferrara (Rome), Maria Pia Lara (Universidad Autònoma Metropolitana), Peter Losonzci (Leuven), Brian O’Connor (UCD), Thomas Rentsch (Dresden), Camil Ungureanu (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).
This workshop was a twin-project of another workshop that will take place at the Centre of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (April 2014).
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Fundamentalism, Radicalism, Extremism:
Clarifying Concepts, Addressing Challenges in Religion and Politics
Design by Katalin Füri / Benedek and Sons Co.
For the detailed program visit the website of the event
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For more details visit: irnrdelhi2012.blogspot.com
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2011 Annual Conference
Politics and Evil: Interdisciplinary and Postsecular Perspectives,
University of Lapland, 8-10 Annual Conference December 2011
Design by Katalin Füri / Benedek and Sons Co.
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For the details visit the conference website
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In partnership with IRNRD:
Transcendence in Political Philosophy
University College Dublin
The School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, held a workshop “Transcendence in Political Philosophy” on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 November 2013 in the Iveagh Room, Newman House, St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Presenters were: Maeve Cooke (UCD), Carmen Dege (Yale), William Desmond (Leuven) Peter Dews (Essex), Alessandro Ferrara (Rome), Maria Pia Lara (Universidad Autònoma Metropolitana), Peter Losonzci (Leuven), Brian O’Connor (UCD), Thomas Rentsch (Dresden), Camil Ungureanu (Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona).
This workshop was a twin-project of another workshop that will take place at the Centre of Metaphysics and Philosophy of Culture, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven (April 2014).
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Fundamentalism, Radicalism, Extremism:
Clarifying Concepts, Addressing Challenges in Religion and Politics
Design by Katalin Füri / Benedek and Sons Co.
For the detailed program visit the website of the event
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Religion and Democracy:
Local Questions, Global Perspectives
As the 5th Annual Conference of the IRNRD, 10-14 December 2012, we organised a complex series of scholarly events in New Delhi.
One of these was be a conference The Arab Spring: Local, Regional and Global Perspectives, hosted and generously sponsored by the Indian Council of World Affairs.
The conference week also included a workshop on Torkel Brekke's recent book on fundamentalism: Fundamentalism: Prophecy and Protest in an Age of Globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
As
a third element of this event, we created a conference with a focus on
the conception(s) of and the various problems concerning the
'postsecular'
A workshop with Rotledge India also was the part of the program.
For more details visit: irnrdelhi2012.blogspot.com
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2011 Annual Conference
Politics and Evil: Interdisciplinary and Postsecular Perspectives,
University of Lapland, 8-10 Annual Conference December 2011
Design by Katalin Füri / Benedek and Sons Co.
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The Relevance of Rawls
Workshop,
Workshop,
India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi,
January 12, 2011
January 12, 2011
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Religion and Politics: Inter-Contextual Approaches on India and Europe,
Centre Pieter Gillis, Antwerp University, December 7, 2010
(sponsored by UCSIA and UA Indian Fund)
Religion and Politics
Inter-Contextual Approaches on
India and Europe
Workshop at University of Antwerp
Centrum Pieter Gillis
December 7, 2010
University of Antwerp & UCSIA
in cooperation with
IRNRD-International Research Network on Religion and
Democracy
Generously sponsored by the India Fund - UA
VENUE: Hof van Liere, University of Antwerp,
Prinsstraat 13
10.00-10.10: Welcome
Walter
Van Herck (Department of Philosophy/Centrum Pieter Gillis,
University of Antwerp)
10.10-10.40: Keynote
Address
Prof
Dr. em. Winand Callewaert (Centre for Advanced India-EU
Studies, KU Leuven)
10.40-11.40 Session 1 /
Chair: Aakash Singh
10.40-11.20:
Lecture
Jakob
De Roover (Research Centre for Comparative Science of
Cultures, Ghent University)
Liberalism,
Secularism and the Cultural Migration of Ideas
11.20-11.30:
Respondent: Walter Van Herck
Discussion
Coffee Break
11.40-12.40
Session 2 / Chair: Guy Vanheeswijck
11.40-12.20:
Lecture
Valentina
Gentile (LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome)
Secularism,
Modernity and Democracy in Post-Colonial India: the Idea of
Political Society
12.20-12.30:
Respondent: Sarah Claerhout (Research Centre for
Comparative Science of Cultures, Ghent University)
Discussion
Between Rawls and Religion: Liberalism in a Postsecular World, LUISS and John Cabot University, Rome, December 16-18, 2010
LUNCH
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14.00-15.00 Session 3 /
Chair: Walter Van Herck
14.00-14.40:
Lecture
Aakash
Singh (Developing Countries Research Centre, University of
Delhi)
Versions
of Modernity? Public Religion in India and Europe
14.40-14.50:
Respondent: Guy Vanheeswijck (Department of
Philosophy/Centrum Pieter Gillis, University of Antwerp)
Discussion
Coffee Break
15.20-16.20 Session / Chair
Sarah Claerhout
15.20-16.00: Lecture
Péter
Losonczi (University of West Hungary, Szombathely / UCSIA
Visiting Fellow, CPG-UA)
The
Return of the Political and the Return of Religion: Reflections on
Mouffe and Bilgrami
16.00-16.10:
Respondent: Leni Franken (Centrum Pieter Gillis, University of
Antwerp)
Discussion
The
workshop will be followed by an UCSIA Public Lecture, presented by
Péter Losonczi
18.30-19.30:
Postsecular Democracies? Europe and India in Context
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2010 Annual Conference
Between Rawls and Religion: Liberalism in a Postsecular World,
LUISS and John Cabot University, Rome, December 16-18, 2010
LUISS and John Cabot University, Rome, December 16-18, 2010
Design by Katalin Füri / Benedek and Sons Co.
Design by Katalin Füri / Benedek and Sons Co.
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2009 Annual Conference
Political Theology for the 21st Century? Trends and Tasks,
2009 Annual Conference
Political Theology for the 21st Century? Trends and Tasks,
Corvinus University, Budapest, December 14-15, 2009
Design by Katalin Füri / Benedek and Sons Co.
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2008: First Conference of IRNRD
Religion and Democracy: Challenges and Prospects,
Religion and Democracy: Challenges and Prospects,
Lutheran Theological University, Budapest, December 15-16, 2008
Religion
and Democracy: Challenges and Prospects
15-16
December 2008
Lutheran
Theological University (Budapest)
(H-1141 Budapest, Rózsavölgyi köz 3)
Co-organized
by the Center for Ethics and Global Politics (LUISS
University, Rome) in cooperation with the Institute for
Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Budapest)
Monday,
15 December 08
10:00-10:15
Welcome addresses
Zoltán
Csepregi (Dean of the Lutheran Theological University)
Péter
Losonczi (West Hungarian University, Szombathely & Institute
for Philosophical
Research-HAS, Budapest)
2009 Annual Conference
Political Theory and Philosophy
Session 1
/ Political Philosophy (Chair: Maeve Cooke)
10:15-10:45:
Theo de Wit (Tilburg University)
Politics
without dénouement, religion without guarantee
10:45-11.15:
Gábor Gángó (Institute for Philosophical Research-HAS,
Budapest)
Hannah
Arendt and the problem of public religion
11:15-11.45:
Patrick Loobuyck (University of Antwerp)
How far
can we go beyond secularization? Notes on Habermas’s view on the
post-secular society
Discussion
LUNCH/Reception
Session 2
/ Political Theory 1 (Chair: Gábor Gángó)
13:00-13:30:
Sebastiano Maffettone (LUISS University, Rome)
Public
Reason and Post-Secular Reason
13:30-14:00:
András Lánczi (Corvinus University, Budapest)
Democracy
and moral relativism
SHORT BREAK
Session 2
/ Political Theory 2
14:10-14:40:
Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin)
Do
religious arguments threaten democratic legitimacy? A critical
discussion of Habermas’ views on religion and democratic
deliberation
14:40-15:10:
Eszter Kollár (LUISS University, Rome)
Accommodating
pluralism through public justification: moral vs. pragmatic
considerations
Discussion
COFFEE
BREAK
Session 3
/ Philosophy of Religion (Chair: Péter Losonczi)
15:45-16:15:
Walter Van Herck (University of Antwerp)
Community
and symbols
16:15-16:45:
Balázs M. Mezei (Péter Pázmány Catholic University,
Piliscsaba)
Religion
after Auschwitz: Jonas, Metz, and the place of religion in liberal
democracy
16:45-17:15:
Peter Jonkers (Tilburg University)
Can
freedom of religion replace the virtue of tolerance?
Discussion
Tuesday,
16 December 08
Religion, Theology, Democratic politics
Session 4
/ Religion, Politics and Theology (Chair: Eszter Kollár)
9:30-10:00:
Daniela Kalkandjieva (University of Sofia)
Eastern
Orthodox Christianity and democracy
10:00-10.30:
András Csepregi (Lutheran Theological University, Budapest)
Genuine
democracy or elitist democracy? Christianity and democracy in the
thought of István Bibó and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with respect to the
process towards mature democracy in Hungary.
Discussion
COFFEE
BREAK
Session 5
/ Political Theology and the Problem of Democracy (Chair: Walter Van
Herck)
11:00-11:30:
Aakash Singh (LUISS University, Rome)
The
varieties of political theology: Carl Schmitt, Mullah Omar, B.R.
Ambedkar
11:30-12:00:
Péter Losonczi (West Hungarian University, Szombathely &
Institute
for Philosophical Research-HAS, Budapest)
Politics,
idolatry and “the sacred”: democratic and prophetic politics
Discussion
COFFEE
BREAK
12:30-13:30:
Panel discussion / Closing remarks
Moderator:
Daniele
Santoro (Luiss University, Rome)
Panel:
Ágnes
Heller (New School of Social Research, New York)
Sebastiano
Maffettone (Luiss University, Rome)
Maeve
Cooke (University College Dublin)
András
Lánczi (Corvinus University, Budapest)
Peter
Jonkers (Tilburg University)
Closing
remarks:
Daniele
Santoro (Luiss University, Rome)
