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Invitation
to an
International Conference
Re-Learning to Be Human for Global Times:
Challenges and Opportunities
December 18-19, 2015,
Tewksbury, MA, USA
*Reading
Materials *
PROGRAM
December 18, 2015
I) Introduction: Globalization: challenges
and opportunities
9.00am-9.15am
George F. McLean—to
discern, to think, to be, the aesthetic
II) Re-learning
9.15am-10.30am
Charles Taylor—Resolving
tensions between 1/ the grain of the world, 2/universal
human rights, etc. and 3/ the social imaginary/process
10.30-11.00am
William A Barbieri—Response
11.00am-11.30am -- Coffee Break
11.30am-12.30pm
José Casanova—Religious
Engagement, Local and Global
12.30pm-1.30pm Lunch Break
III/ In Global Times
1.30pm-2.30pm
Tony Carroll —Spiritual,
Buddhism, Panentheist
2.30pm-3.30pm
Peter Jonkers —Reaching
out, Intercultural, Tolerance
3.30pm-4.00pm -- Coffee Break
IV/ To Be Human
4.00pm-5.00pm
William Sweet —as
Self, Community, Nature, Sacred/transcendent
5.00pm-6.00pm
Staf Hellemans—Christian
Humanism
6.30pm Dinner
December 19, 2015
IV/ To Be Human (continued)
9.00am-10.00am Common
Challenges
Philip J. Rossi —Vulnerability,
not superficial, but profound engagement with the real (as
faith)
10.00am-11.00am
Oliva Blanchette—Dehumanization,
Destablization
11.00am-11.30am -- Coffee Break
11.30am-12.30pm Ethics
João J. Vila-Chã —Gratitude
and Compassion, Communication
12.30pm-2.00pm Lunch
2.00pm-3.00pm
Jeffrey Bloechl—Suffering and
Pain, Embodiment
3.00pm-4.00pm Indian
Tradition
Intra Nath Choudhuri —Hindu,
Consciousness and Unity
4.00pm-4.30pm -- Coffee Break
4.30pm-5.30pm Confucian
Tradition
Robert Neville —Confucian
Ritual, Religious Ultimacy
5.30pm-6.30pm
General discussion and Conclusion
6.30pm Dinner
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