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)