(Note 1: the program is organized along time slots and not according to common theme)
(Note 2: at the end of each session questions and discussions will follow)
Monday 27 May 2024
08.30-09.15
Registration
09:15-10:00
Opening and Welcoming Remarks:
- Gregory T. Papanikos, President, ATINER.
10:00-11:30 Session 1
Moderator: Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca, Associate Professor, European University Cyprus, Cyprus. |
- Patrick Downey, Professor, St. Mary’s College of California, USA.
Title: From Private Bodies to a Shareable Body Politic. A Theological Solution to a Foundational Political Problem.
- Zeev Herzog, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Title: Was Monotheism the Dominant Religion in the Kingdom of Judah? A View Through an Archaeological Lens.
- Sanaa Riaz, Associate Professor, Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA.
Title: Spirits and Social Agency.
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11:30-13:00 Session 2
Moderator: Robert Aleksander Maryks, Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. |
- Olivier Hamel, Professor, University Toulouse 3, France.
Title: Dentistry and Spirituality; A French Perspective.
- Hanna Herzog, Professor Emerita, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Title: Religious Resurgence Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Gender Perspectives of the Israeli Case.
- Eleonora Papaleontiou-Louca, Associate Professor, European University Cyprus, Cyprus.
Title: The Role of Teachers in the Development of Children’s and Adolescents’ Spirituality According to Maslow.
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13:00-14:30 Session 3
Moderator: Ori Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
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- Joseph Bush, Professor Emeritus, Wesley Theological Seminary, USA.
Title: God’s Oikos: Fifty Years of Ecumenical Thinking about Ecology and the Economic Trinity.
- Nadja Furlan Stante, Professor, Science and Research Centre Koper (ZRS Koper), Slovenia.
Title: A Call for Women’s Engagement in Environmental Interreligious Peacebuilding.
- Jonathan Milevsky, Educator, Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, Canada.
Title: Yos’l Rakover Talks to God: Seeing Zvi Kolitz’ Famous Novel through the Lens of Joseph Soloveitchik’s Philosophy.
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14:30-15:30 Lunch
15:30-17:00 Session 4
Moderator: Mohammad Ashraf Adeel, Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA. |
- Martin Peterson, Professor, Texas A&M University, USA.
Title: A Compromise Between Utilitarianism and Duty Ethics?
- Thomas B. Ellis, Professor, Appalachian State University, USA.
Title: Just Athens and Jerusalem? What about Benares? Ulysses, Abraham, and Uddhava at the Cross-cultural Roads.
- Hatice Zeynep Coskunkan, Master’s Graduate, Koç University, Türkiye.
Title: The Value of Insatiable Curiosity.
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17:00-18:30 Session 5
Moderator: Alberto Merzari, PhD Student, University of Padua, Italy.
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- Samir Roy, Professor, National Institute of Technical Teachers’ Training & Research (NITTTR), Kolkata, India.
Title: The Missing Link between the Strong AI Thesis and Searle’s Chinese Room Argument.
- Aylon Cohen, Lecturer, Freie Universität – Berlin, Germany.
Title: How does the Body Signify Meaning? Gesture, Affect and Signification in the Work of Norbert Elias.
- Johannes Wirtz, Teacher, Gymnasium (German High School), Erzbischöfliche Ursulinenschule Hersel, Germany.
Title: Is Classical Music Superior to Pop Music? On the Structure of the Evaluation of Music.
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20:30-22:30
Athenian Early Evening Symposium (includes in order of appearance: continuous academic discussions, dinner, wine/water, music)
Tuesday 28 May 2024
09:00-10:30 Session 6
Moderator: Zeev Herzog, Professor Emeritus, Tel Aviv University, Israel. |
- Robert Aleksander Maryks, Professor, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.
Title: Recovering Forgotten Religious Tumults: Crisis of Civic Values in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania.
- Ori Soltes, Teaching Professor, Georgetown University, USA.
Title: Shaping God in Modernity: From Descartes to Spinoza.
- Anthony Nderitu, Teacher, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, UK.
Title: Hallmarks of Religious Extremism in the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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10:30-12:00 Session 7
Moderator: Anthony Nderitu, Teacher, Cambridge Centre for Christianity Worldwide, UK. |
- Mohammad Ashraf Adeel, Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Title: Revelation and Virtue.
- Robert Bishop, Professor, Wheaton College, USA.
Title: Contextual Emergence and Consciousness.
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12:00-13:30 Session 8
Moderator: Montserrat Sobral Dorado, PhD Candidate, National University of Distance Education (UNED), Spain. |
- Jacek Dobrowolski, Professor, University of Warsaw, Poland.
Title: Nietzsche: Romanticism, Modernity and Modernism – A New Reading.
- Natasza Szutta, Associate Professor, University of Gdańsk, Poland.
Title: Is Phronesis an Expert Skill?
- Petros Satrazanis, PhD Candidate, University College Dublin, Ireland.
Title: Costas Axelos’ Planetary Thought: Challenging Boundaries and Embracing Enigma.
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13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Session 9
Moderator: John Lizza, Professor, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, USA. |
- Cristina Rossitto, Professor, University of Padua, Italy.
Title: The “Appetite” (Orexis) in Animals and Man According to Aristotle’s De Anima.
- James Downey, Associate Professor, Hollins University, USA.
Title: On Truth Relativism.
- Swagata Ghosh, Assistant Professor, University of North Bengal, India.
Title: Nature of Vedic Ethics and its Critique as Soteriology.
- Katherine Cooklin, Professor, Slippery Rock University, USA.
Title: Foucault on Subjugated Knowledge and Emancipatory Aims.
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17:00-20:00 Session 10
Old and New-An Educational Urban Walk |
| The urban walk ticket is not included as part of your registration fee. It includes transportation costs and the cost to enter the Parthenon and the other monuments on the Acropolis Hill. The urban walk tour includes the broader area of Athens. Among other sites, it includes: Zappion, Syntagma Square, Temple of Olympian Zeus, Ancient Roman Agora and on Acropolis Hill: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, and the Parthenon. The program of the tour may be adjusted, if there is a need beyond our control. This is a private event organized by ATINER exclusively for the conference participants. |
20:30-22:00
Dinner
Wednesday 29 May 2024
An Educational Visit to Selected Islands
or Mycenae Visit
Thursday 30 May 2024
Visiting the Oracle of Delphi
Friday 31 May 2024
Visiting the Ancient Corinth and Cape Sounion
