Violence and the Sacred in a Postsecular Age

Challenges and Future Perspectives of Historical Theory Poznan, March 8, 2013

 

Program

9.00-9:20
Ewa Domanska (Poznan University / Stanford University)
Historical Theory in a Post-Secular Age. Introductory Remarks

9:20-9:50
Hayden White (Professor Emeritus, University of California at Santa Cruz)
Reconsidering “Violence and the Sacred”

9:50-10:10
Katarzyna Bojarska (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
Violence and / against Memory.
Non-Sacred Images and (the possibility of) Secular Critique

10:10-11:00 discussion
11:00-11:15 coffee break

11:15-11:45
Antonis Liakos (University of Athens)
Violence and Historicity

11:45-12:05
Piotr Filipkowski (Warsaw University)
Testimonies of Violence and Postsecular Memory Studies

12:05-12:25
Malgorzata Wosinska (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Violence and the Sacred in Rwanda:
Re-traumatisation vs. Possession in the Local Church Practice

12.25-13:30 discussion
13:30-15:00 lunch

15:00-15:30
Edoardo Tortarolo (University of Turin, Italy)
Enlightenment > Disenchantment? / Religion > Violence?

15:30-16:00
Masayuki Sato (University of Yamanashi, Japan)
The secular turn and the post secular turn in our cognitive frames of counting years: Is the current Christian chronology a theological chronology?

16:00-16:30
Jiang Peng, Chen Qineng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
Humanist Thought in Indian Buddhism

16:30-16:45 coffee break
16:45-17.30 discussion

17:30-17:45
Stefan Berger (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
Chris Lorenz (Free University, Amsterdam)
Comments

17:45 – general discussion