Rome:Between Rawls and Religion: Liberalism in a Postsecular World and Under the auspices of the International Research Network on Religion and Democracy (16-18 december 2010)

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LUISS ‘Guido Carli’
JOHN CABOT UNIVERSITY, ROME

Between Rawls and Religion:
Liberalism in a Postsecular World  and  Under the auspices of the International Research Network on Religion and Democracy

December 16-18, 2010

 

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PROGRAMME:

Thursday December 16, LUISS ‘Guido Carli’, Viale Romania 12
8:45 Registration
9:30 Welcome
Aula Toti, Raffaele De Mucci (Chair of Social, Political and Historical Sciences, LUISS), Sebastiano Maffettone (Dean of Political Science, LUISS) and Péter Losonczi (West Hungary and Antwerp)

10:00 Plenary
Aula Toti, Christopher Eberle (US Naval Academy), Religion, Respect and War
Chair: Peter Jonkers (Tilburg)

11:00 Coffee break

11:20 Plenary Aula Toti
David Rasmussen (Boston College)
Accommodating Pluralism: Maffettone on the Later Rawls
Chair: Peter Jonkers (Tilburg)

12:20 Lunch Mensa (Shuttle service to Mensa Viale Pola)

14:30 Panels 7
Andrew Lister (Queen’s, Canada), Public Reason and Religious Freedom
Mark Rosen (Chicago-Kent College), Why (and to What Extent) Political Liberalism Should Accommodate Perfectionist Religious Groups
Chair: Mika Luoma-aho (Lapland)
Domenico Melidoro (LUISS) Principles of Secularism
Patrick Loobuyck (Antwerp) Religious Arguments in the Public Sphere: Comparing Habermas with Rawls
Chair: Alessandro Ferrara (Tor Vergata, Rome)

15:40 Coffee break

16:00 Panels 7 Richard North (Birmingham, UK) Public Reason, Religious Restraint and Respect
Robert Talisse (Vanderbilt), Justificatory Liberalism and Eberle’s Agapic Pacifist
Chair: Mark Rosen (Chicago-Kent College)

Mohamad Al-Hakim (York, Canada) A Non-Public Defense of Public Reason
Michele Bocchiola (Witwatersrand) Rawls and Religion: Une Liaison Dangereuse
Chair: Gianfranco Pellegrino (LUISS)

17:20 Plenary Aula Magna Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin) Violating Neutrality? Religious Validity Claims and Democratic Legitimacy
Chair: Péter Losonczi (West Hungary and Antwerp)

20:00 Conference dinner Hotel Fenix, Viale Gorizia 5

Friday December 17, LUISS ‘Guido Carli’, Viale Romania 12

9:00 Registration

9:30 Plenary Aula Toti Andrew March (Yale) Speech and the Sacred: Is Religious Injury a Problem for Secularism?
Chair: Francesca Corrao (L’Orientale, Naples, and LUISS)

10:30 Coffee break

10:50 Plenary Aula Toti Zaid Eyadat (Jordan), Islamic Theorizing on Politics
Chair: Francesca Corrao (L’Orientale, Naples, and LUISS)

11:50 Break

12:10 Panels 303 Emanuela Ceva (Pavia) An Ex Post Legem Approach to the Reconciliation of Minority Issues in Contemporary Democracies
James Gledhill (London School of Economics) E Pluribus Unum: Overlapping Consensus and Transcendence
Chair: Maeve Cooke (University College Dublin)
Dara Salam (LUISS) The Limitations of Rawlsian Public Reason
Jack Weinstein (North Dakota) Overlapping Consensus or Marketplace of Religions: Adam Smith on Rawls and Vice Versa
Chair: Theo de Wit (Tilburg)

13:20 Lunch Mensa

14:30 Panels 303 Samuele Sangalli (Gregoriana, Rome) Defining Justice: The Dignity of the Person and the Common Good
Theo de Wit (Tilburg) The Two Faces of Liberalism: Gray vs Rawls on Religious Toleration
Chair: Zaid Eyadat (Jordan)
Hans Ingvar Roth (Stockholm) Models of Religious Coexistence
Kevin Gray (American University of Sharjah) Rawls and Honor
Chair: Carmela Decaro (LUISS)

15:40 Coffee break

16:00 Panels 303 Valentina Gentile (LUISS) Religion and Stability in Divided Societies
Péter Losonczi (West Hungary and Antwerp) Bilgrami as a Critic of Rawls: On the Strategy of Emergent Secularism
Chair: Roberta Sala (San Raffaele, Milan)
Roberto Frega (Bologna) Expressive Pragmatism, Public Reason and the Place of Religion
Terrence Johnson (Haverford) Deliberating in the Dark: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problem of Epistemic Diversity within Rawlsian Liberalism
Chair: Michele Bocchiola (Witwatersrand)

17:10 Break

17:30 Book presentation Aula Toti Presentation of Sebastiano Maffettone, John Rawls: An Introduction (Polity, 2010)
Ian Carter (Pavia), Darrel Moellendorf (San Diego), David Rasmussen (Boston College) and Paul Weithman (Notre Dame)
Chair: Gianfranco Pellegrino (LUISS)

Saturday December 18 John Cabot University, Via della Lungara 233

9:00 Registration

9:30 Welcome Aula Magna Franco Pavoncello (President, John Cabot University) and Tom Bailey (John Cabot University)

10:00 Plenary Aula Magna Paul Weithman (Notre Dame) Religion, Citizenship and Obligation
Chair: Tom Bailey (John Cabot University)

11:00 Coffee break

11:20 Plenary Aula Magna Johannes van der Ven (Radboud, Nijmegen) In Due Time: Rawls on Religion in the Public Arena
Chair: Tom Bailey (John Cabot University)

12:20 Break

12:40 Panels Aula Magna Micah Schwartzman (Virginia) Reasoning From Conjecture
Mats Volberg (Tartu) The Argument from Toleration: An Alternative to Rawls’ Idea of Public Reason
Chair: Pam Harris (John Cabot University)
Arianne Conty (John Cabot University) From Rome to Washington and Back Again: Empire, Democracy and the ‘Return’ of Religion
Benjamin Hertzberg (Duke) Prophetic Witness in the Liberal Public Sphere
Chair: Giancarlo Bosetti (Reset)

13:50 Lunch Tiber campus cafeteria, Lungotevere Raffaello Sanzio 12

15:00 Panels Aula Magna Peter Jonkers (Tilburg) Religion and Rawls: A Catholic Perspective on Rawls’ Ideas of Public Reason and Truth
Bjørn Thomassen (American University of Rome) Religion and Politics in a Postsecular World: The Relevance of Eric Voegelin
Chair: Arianne Conty (John Cabot University)
Enzo Rossi (Wales) Legitimacy and Public Justification: Gaus’ Justificatory Liberalism vs Rawls’ Political Liberalism
Daniel Weyerman (Turku) In Defense of Impartial Public Reason
Chair: Terrence Johnson (Haverford)

16:10 Coffee break

16:30 Round-table discussion Aula Magna The Place of Religion in Liberal Democracies
Giancarlo Bosetti (Reset), Alessandro Ferrara (Tor Vergata, Rome), Peter Jonkers (Tilburg), Péter Losonczi (West Hungary and Antwerp), Mika Luoma-aho (Lapland), Claudia Mancina (Sapienza, Rome) and Samuele Sangalli (Gregoriana, Rome)
Chair: Sebastiano Maffetone (LUISS)