Varieties of Reenchantment in a Disenchanted World - Programme
Thursday 6 December
Room K.201
Kleine Kauwenberg 14, 2000 Antwerp - Stadscampus
- 09:15 - Welcome & registration
- 09:45 - Introduction
Herbert De Vriese, University of Antwerp
- 10:00 - The Experience of Enchantment
Patrick Curry, independent scholar
- 10:50 - Coffee break
- 11:20 - Detachment and Attention
Rob Compaijen, Protestant Theological University
- 12:00 - Reenchantment in Ethics: Representational or Hermeneutical?
Michiel Meijer, University of Antwerp
- 12:40 - Panel discussion on ethics and reenchantment
- 13:00 - Lunchtime
- 14:00 - KEYNOTE LECTURE - A.N. Whitehead and the ‘Reenchantment’ of Science
André Cloots, KU Leuven
- 15:00 - Panel discussion on science and reenchantment
- 15:30 - Coffee break
- 16:00 - Hugo Ball: Dada as Reenchantment, Reenchantment as Dada
Marc De Kesel, Radboud University
- 16:30 - Reenchantment and Jamesian Thinking
Kris Goffin, University of Geneva
- 17:00 - Normative Reenchantment and Liberal Naturalism
Thomas Spiegel, University of Potsdam
- 17:30 - Q&A
- 18:00 - Conference Dinner at Agora (included in registration fee)
Room R.007
- 19:30 - ANTWERP PHILOSOPHY LECTURE - Liberalism’s Problem With Identity: Some Philosophical Reflections
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
- 20:45 Reception
Friday 7 December
Room R.006 (parallel session)
- 9:00 - The Redemptive Paradigm: Reenchanted Politics in a Disenchanted World
Allegra Reinalda, KU Leuven
- 9:30 - Political Theology and Reenchantment. Odo Marquard and Jacob Taubes in the Context of a Politicized Secularization Debate
Sjoerd Griffioen, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- 10:00 - Reenchantment of the Individual Life. How Arendt and Ricoeur Can Make Us Jump Across the Heideggerian Abyss
Evelien Van Beeck, Radboud University
- 10:30 - Coffee break at R.212
Room R.212 (parallel session)
- 09:00 - Under the Spell of Technology’s Disenchantment
Jonne Hoek, University of Twente
- 9:30 - Reenchanting Enquiry in a Disenchanted Scientistic World
Paul Giladi, Manchester Metropolitan University
- 10:00 - Scientism vs. the Integrity of the Manifest Image
Filip Buekens, KU Leuven/Tilburg University
- 10:30 - Coffee break
Room R.212
- 11:00 - KEYNOTE SEMINAR - Value, Agency and Alienation
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
- 13:00 - Lunchtime
- 14:00 - Dangerous Concepts of Process: Hans Joas and the Grand Narrative of Disenchantment
Paolo Costa, University of Trento
- 14:40 - Reenchantment: A Revival of Romanticism’s Problem
Janneke van der Leest, Radboud University
- 15:20 - Coffee break
- 15:40 - KEYNOTE LECTURE - Religion Without Magic: Responding to the Natural World
John Cottingham, University of Roehampton
- 16:40 - Panel discussion on religion and reenchantment
- 18:00 - Farewell Dinner at Restaurant De Lokeend (presubscription via registration form)