Community & Critique | October 2–5, 2023 | University of Virginia
Theme 1: Sources of Community
9:30 AM: Conference Welcome
Asher Biemann, Nichole Flores, Oludamini Ogunnaike
9:45–11:15 AM: Opening Keynotes, Bond House 116/118 | 600 Brandon Ave
Moderator: Stephan Steiner (Katholische Akademie Berlin)
Marcia Pally (New York University): “Covenant as Source of Community: Biblical Tenets, Early America, and Points of Fracture.”
Moshe Halbertal (Hebrew University): “The Crisis of Trust and the Concept of the Sacred.”
Moderator: Stephan Steiner (Katholische Akademie Berlin)
11:30 AM–1:00 PM: Concurrent Panel 1, New Cabell Hall 236 | 1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Moderator: Ansgar Martins (Rosenzweig Center Jerusalem)
Amna Tarar (UVA),“O Mother Let Us Play”: Playfulness as a relational mode in the legacy of Madholal Husain.
Bri Schröder (Humboldt University of Berlin): “Magazines as Community: The women´s magazine Al-ʿĀʾila and the Nahda.”
Moderator: Ansgar Martins (Rosenzweig Center Jerusalem)
11:30 AM–1:00 PM: Concurrent Panel 2, Wilson Hall 142 (117 backup)
Moderator: Noah Salomon (UVA)
Annette Langner-Pitschmann (University of Frankfurt): “The Other in Ourselves. Thoughts on Alterity and Community in Reference to Marcel Gauchet.”
Max Stange "Religion without God(s)? Rousseau’s Critical Theory of Religion in Du contrat social"
Moderator: Noah Salomon (UVA)
2:30 PM–4:30 PM: Text Study 1, New Cabell Hall 236 | 1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Alina Pokhrel (UVA): “(Un)bounded ‘Self’ and ‘Community’ in the Practice of Mettā.”
2:30 PM–4:30 PM: Text Study 2, Wilson Hall 142 (117 backup)
Lucila Crena (UVA): Sebastián Politi’s “The Option for the Poor in the ‘Theology of the People.’”
6:00 PM–7:30 PM: Evening Keynote, Bond House 116/118, 600 Brandon Ave
Supriya Gandhi (Yale University): "Secularism and Universal Truth: Readings from South Asian History."
Introduction: Oludamini Ogunnaike (UVA)
Theme 2: Contestation & Negotiation
9:30–11:00 AM: Opening Keynotes, Bond House 116/118 | 600 Brandon Ave
Moderator: Asher Biemann (UVA)
Sarah Hammerschlag (University of Chicago): "Homeopathy or Apotropaeon: Two Models of Postwar Jewish Identification."
Miguel Vatter (Deakin University): “Trust and Community with Other Than Human Beings.”
Moderator: Asher Biemann (UVA)
11:15 AM–12:45 PM: Concurrent Panel 3, New Cabell Hall 236 | 1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Moderator: Johanna Merz (University of Munich)
Charles Mathewes (UVA): “Toward an Alliance for Joy.”
Patrick Zoll SJ (Munich School of Philosophy): “Beyond Consensus: A Convergence Model of Public Reasoning for a Plurality of Communities.”
Moderator: Johanna Merz (University of Munich)
11:15 AM–12:45 PM: Concurrent Panel 4, Wilson Hall 142 (117 backup)
Moderator: Christoph Kasten (University of Frankfurt)
Jennifer Geddes (UVA): "Holocaust Unlearning: Testimony as Necessary Critique"
Ansgar Martins (Rosenzweig Center Jerusalem): “The Smallest Difference. Adorno on the Sources of Democratic Consciousness.”
Moderator: Christoph Kasten (University of Frankfurt)
3:30 PM–5:30 PM: Text Study 3, New Cabell Hall 236 | 1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Tulku Sangye Tenzin (UVA): “The Just King.”
3:30 PM–5:30 PM: Text Study 4, Wilson Hall 142 (117 backup)
Johanna Merz (University of Munich): “Simone Weil’s ‘Human Personality’ (La personne et le sacré).”
6:00 PM–7:30 PM: Evening Keynote, Bond House 116/118, 600 Brandon Ave
Winnifred Sullivan (Indiana University): “Church State Corporation: How the Church- in-Law Limits Religious Freedom.”
Introduction: Kathleen Flake (UVA)
Theme 3: Exclusion & Fragmentation
9:30–11:00 AM: Opening Keynotes, Bond House 116/118 | 600 Brandon Ave
Zareena Grewal (Yale University): “TBA”
Lewis Gordon (University of Connecticut): “The Sacredness and Power of Others: A Plea for Public Globalism.”
TJ Winter (University of Cambridge): “Openness and Closure in Islamic Ethics.”
Zareena Grewal (Yale University): “TBA”
Moderator: Oludamini Ogunnaike (UVA)
1:00 PM–2:30 PM: Concurrent Panel 5, New Cabell Hall 236 | 1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Moderator: Matthew Hedstrom (UVA)
Adam Lawrence Dyer (UVA: “Liberal Religion, Legacies of Whiteness and the Institutional Racial Contract”
Creighton Coleman (UVA): “Constructing Contempt: Pentecostal Political Theology and the Boundaries of Democracy.”
Moderator: Matthew Hedstrom (UVA)
1:00 PM–2:30 PM: Concurrent Panel 6, Wilson Hall 142 (117 backup)
Moderator: Katrin König (University of Heidelberg)
José Casanova (Georgetown University): “Religious Dynamics in the War on Ukraine: Religious Pluralism Enhancing Democratic Civil Society vs State Church Sacralizing an Imperial War.”
C. K. Martin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University): “Religions in a Conflict Situation: Experiences from Christian Churches in Hong Kong and Northern Ireland.”
Moderator: Katrin König (University of Heidelberg)
3:00 PM–5:00 PM: Text Study 5, New Cabell Hall 236 | 1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Tom Sojer (University of Erfurt): “The Promise, Power, and Politics of Poetry in Threatened Democracies.”
3:00 PM–5:00 PM: Text Study 6, Wilson Hall 142 (117 backup)
Wanja Kirchhoff (University of Trier): “On Jacob Taubes "Community – After the Apocalypse."
6:00 PM–7:30 PM: Evening Keynote, Bond House 116/118, 600 Brandon Ave
David Campbell (University of Notre Dame): “America's Secular Surge: What The Growing Secular Population Means For American Democracy.”
Introduction: Jennifer Geddes (UVA).
Theme 4: Equality & Solidarity
9:30 AM–10:45 AM: Concurrent Panel 7, New Cabell Hall 236 | 1605 Jefferson Park Ave
Moderator: Bri Schröder (Humboldt University of Berlin)
Denise Marie Walsh (UVA): “An Alternative to Culture versus Women’s Rights.”
Christoph Kasten (University of Frankfurt): “The Emergence of Social Consciousness. Hermann Cohen on the Politics of Jewish Prophecy.”
Moderator: Bri Schröder (Humboldt University of Berlin)
9:30 AM–10:45 AM: Concurrent Panel 8, Wilson Hall 142 (117 backup)
Moderator: Tom Sojer (University of Erfurt)
Arie M. Dubnov (George Washington University): “Fear of Liberalism or Back to the Liberalism of Fear?”
Katrin König (University of Heidelberg): “Communal Values. Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers and Paul Tillich on the Public Roles of Religions.”
Moderator: Tom Sojer (University of Erfurt)
11:00 AM–12:30 PM: Closing Keynotes, Bond House 116/118, 600 Brandon Ave
Moderator: Nichole Flores (UVA)
Molly Farneth (Haverford College): “Ritual, Recognition, and the Making of Solidarity."
Teresa Forcades i Vila OSB (Monestir Montserrat): “One Earth, One Health and the Tower of Babel.”
Moderator: Nichole Flores (UVA)
6:00 PM: Closing Reception, South Lawn (Outside Nau and Gibson Hall)
Al Firdaus Ensemble Concert