POST-SECULAR DIALOGUES: RELIGIOUS AND CIVILIZATIONAL TRADITIONS FOR PEACE
Сo-moderators:
Father Antony Ilin, Acting Representative of the Moscow Patriarchate to the European Institutions (Russia/Belgium)
Fabio Petito, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Sussex (UK)
Primary topics of discussion:
- The role of religious communities in conditions of public turmoil
- Social awakening and religious tradition
- Social anomy and mainstream religious conscience
- Secularism in the contemporary world
More information (detailed program and list of key-speakers)
View the preliminary list of participants
Ni Peimin (USA) – PhD, Professor in the Department of Philosophy, President of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Grand Valley State University – read the report "Recent Revival of Confucianism and Post-Secular Politics"
Wehbe Father Boulos (Marwan) – Professor, Religion and Cultural and Social Studies, Notre Dame University, Archpriest, Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut, Senior Lecturer, Social and Behavioral Sciences Department Faculty of Humanities – read the report "The Role of Religion in Post-Secularism: the Partial Arab Perspective"
Walter Mignolo (USA), William H. Wannamaker Professor and Director, Center for Global studies and the Humanities, Duke University - read the report "De-secularization as a condition for the dialogue of civilizations"
Akeel Bilgrami (India-USA), Columbia University, Committee on Global Thought, Founding Member Heyman Center for the Humanities,Director; Journal of Philosophy, President, Board of Trustees – read the report "Identity, Secularism, and the clash within civilizations"
Metropolitan Athanasios of Achaia (Chatzopoulos), Director of the Representative Office of the Church of Greece to the European Union – read the report “The need for a vision of peace in post-secular Dialogues"
Assaad Fawzia (Geneva/Egypt), Author, essayist, novelist, PhD. in Philosophy, Paris, Sorbonne - read the report "The Nile Nourishes Two Civilizations"