Past Conferences/Workshops


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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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, 
India Islamic Cultural Centre, New Delhi, 
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
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

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
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
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)