“The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion” – The Conference

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Syracuse University

April 7-9, 2011

Postmodernism, Culture and Religion 4

“The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion”

Conference Program

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Thursday

3:30-5:30              CONCURRENT SESSION 1

Panel A:               Focus on Harvey Cox
Moderator:  TBA

Affirmations, Negations, Counter-Reformations: The S-Word in the Theologians’ Pit

Lissa McCullough, Independent Scholar
Does the Religious Intellectual have a Future?  Harvey Cox, Post-Secular Spirituality, and Living Religiously in Public

G. Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University

Respondent:
Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School

Panel B:               Engaging Malabou
Moderator:

On Reading: Catherine Malabou

Randall Johnson
Future Blindness

William Robert, Syracuse University
Plasticity in Contemporary Islamic Subject

John Tibdeau, University of Colorado, Boulder

Panel C:               Kierkegaard on God, Faith, and the Eschatological
Moderator:

The Broken Binary & Interstitial God: Finding Faith in the Margin of the Text

Jensen Suther
Speculating about Kierkegaard’s God: (Pseudonymous) Authorship and Authority

Dave Mesing
The Humility of Faith as Eschatological Trust in the Unhoped For: Chretien and Kierkegaard

Mark Tazelaar, Dordt College

Panel D:                Vattimo and Transformative Temporality
Moderator:

Continental Drift: Flaneuring with Vattimo

Mike Grimshaw, University of Canterbury
Alternative Futures: Secularizing Messianic Time from Benjamin to Dupoy Sophie Fuggle, King’s College, London
Time and Transformation: Beyond the Postmodern

David Newheiser, University of Chicago

Panel E:                Bridging the Two Cultures: Scientific and Religious Paradigms
Moderator:

Posthuman Age: Intelligence Machinery as Immanent Becoming

Ting Guo, University of Edinburgh
Object Oriented Religion

Michael Ardoline, West Chester University
Resurrecting the Subject: Philosophy of Religion as Trauma

Tamsin Jones, Harvard Divinity School

5:30-7:00              Dinner

7:00-8:00              KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  Catherine Malabou
Moderator: Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas

The Future of Derrida

8:00-10:00           Reception

Friday

9:00-11:00           CONCURRENT SESSION 2

Panel A:               Focus on Peter Rollins
Moderator:

The Cosmic Double-Cross: The Psycho-Christ Event

Creston Davis, Rollins University
Peter Rollins and the Deconstructed Church: How Pub Churches, Continental Philosophy, and Provocative Preaching is Shaping the Future of Emerging Christianity

Gerardo Marti, Davidson College

Respondent:
Peter Rollins

Panel B:               Engaging Deleuze and Immanence
Moderator:

Deleuze’s Christology:  Or, Deleuze, “Please Meet Irenaeus”

Francis Sanzaro, Syracuse University
Love and Time:  Possibility of Immanent Enchantment in Augustine, Woolf, and Joyce

Jeffrey McMurry, Duquesne University
Divine Folds of Bifurcation: When Chaos and Tehom Fold into Each Other

An Yountae, Drew University

Panel C:               Religious Politics and/or Political Religion
Moderator:

Of Religion & Politics: Refusing the Space-Between

Geraldine Finn, Carleton University
Complementary Learning for the Critique of Empire

Joseph Bartlett, Eden Theological Seminary
Radical Theology & the Dangerous Memory of Jesus

Cameron Freeman

Panel D:          Liturgy, Futurity, and the Apocalypse

Moderator:

Overwhelming Abundance & Everyday Liturgical Practices: For a Less Excessive Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Christina Gschwandther, University of Scranton
The Future of ‘Theological’ Phenomenology is . . . Phenomenology and the Future

Neal DeRoo, Dordt College
Postmodern Apocalypse:  Placing Levinas & Derrida in Line with Transcendental Methodology

Ronald Mercer, Oakland City University

Panel E:                Why Can’t We Be Friends? Analytic and Continental Philosophies of Religion
Moderator:

Trying to Understand How Barbarian I Am: Challenging Moreland’s Invectives Against All Things Postmodern

Carlos Bovell, Institute for Christian Studies
Exposures & Acknowledgements: Philosophy of Religion the Day After Tomorrow

Tyler Roberts, Grinnell College
Continental Philosophy of Religion:  A Future

J. Aaron Simmons, Hendrix College

11:15-1:15           CONCURRENT SESSION 3

Panel A:               Focus on Caputo and Westphal
Moderated by Sharon Baker, Messiah College

Friends and Strangers/Poets and Rabbis: Negotiating a ‘Capuphalian’ Philosophy of Religion

B. Keith Putt, Samford University

Respondents:

John D. Caputo, Syracuse University

Merold Westphal, Fordham University

Panel B:                Agamben and Ecstatic Speech: Reflections on The Irreparable and The Reject
Moderator:

I Speak in Tongues More Than All of You: Badiou and Agamben on Glossolalia Joseph Spencer, University of New Mexico
Religion, The Irreparable & Substitution in the Thought of Giorgio Agamben Chris Fox, Newman University
Prolegomenon to Thinking The Reject for the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Irving Goh, Cornell University

Panel C:               Constructing, Consuming, and Deconstructing
Moderator:

Reassembling the Sacred: Bruno Latour’s Philosophy of Religion

Michael Norton, Villanova University
Philosophy is What it Eats

Adam Miller, Collin College
Blessed, Precious Mistakes: Deconstruction, Evolution and the New Atheism Donovan Schaefer, Syracuse University

Panel D:               Faith, Truth, and Primal Scenes
Moderator:

Philosophy’s Critical Spirituality: Three Primal Scenes

J. Heath Atchley, Five College Consortium
Truth, or The Futures of Philosophy of Religion

Nick Trakakis, Monash University
Auto-da-Fé

Nancy Billias, St. Joseph College

Panel E:                Incarnation Within the Limits of the Maternal and the Aesthetic
Moderator:

Mother & Matrix: DeSilentio Delivers Derrida & Kristeva

Edward Mooney, Syracuse University
Beyond the Post-Secular: The Aesthetic Validity of Kant’s Religion

Eric Bugyis, Yale University
The Incarnate God:  Merleau-Ponty’s Response to Kierkegaard’s Philosophy of a Dead God

Timothy Jassaume, Villanova University

1:15-2:45              Lunch

2:45-4:45              CONCURRENT SESSION 4

Panel A:               Spectral Materialisms: Deconstruction, Speculative Realism and the Void:  A

Panel Convened by the Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion (UK)

Nothing Lasts Forever: Desire, Finitude & the Vast Abrupt

Charlie Blake, Liverpool Hope University

“Eating Well” in Church: Towards an A/Theological Materialism

Katharine Moody, independent Scholar

The Persistence of the Trace: Interrogating the Gods of Speculative Realism Steven Shakespeare, Liverpool Hope University

Chair and Respondent:
Daniel Whistler, Liverpool University

Panel B:               On Goodchild, Economy, and Ecology
Moderator:

Slippery Slopes, Common Grounds, and Uncharted Territories: A Nomadic Understanding of Religion and Ecology

Whitney Bauman, Florida International University

Theological Money and Monetized Philosophy: Uneasy Linkages and the Future of a Discourse

Devin Singh, Yale University
Crisis & Critique: A Commentary on Goodchild’s Capitalism & Religion

Daniel Whistler, University of Liverpool

Panel C:               Revisioning Radical Theology
Moderator:

The Passing of Peace: The Ascension and the Death of God

Christopher Rodkey, Lebanon Valley College
An Unknown Voice for an Unknown God: Christos Yannaras and the Death of God

Mark Westmoreland, Villanova University
Counter-Currents: Theology & the Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion Noëlle Vahanian, Lebanon Valley College

Panel D:               Ethics and the Affirmation of Alterity
Moderator:

Ethics, Empathy, and the Divine: the one-for-the-other is the encounter with God

Karen Kolamo, Duquesne University
Faith Beyond Optimism: An Ancient Invocation for Postmodern Times

Sarah MacMillen, Duquesne University
What Will We Think About if We Think About Creation? A Synthesis of Kant, Arendt, Levinas, and Nancy

Mark Cauchi, York University

Panel E:                Transreligious Transformations: Schelling, Secularism, and St. Paul Moderator:

Body, Breath & Spirit: On Schelling and Irigiray

Lenart Skof, University of Primorska
“Islamic” Secularity sans Secularism in a Democracy à-venir

Badredine Arfi, University of Florida
Taking Things out of Context: Down the Post-Colonial Rabbithole with Alain Badiou, St. Paul and Wendy Doniger

Brian Collins, North Carolina State University

5:00-6:00              KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  Philip Goodchild
Moderator:  Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College

Topic:  TBA

Saturday

9:00-11:00           CONCURRENT SESSION 5

Panel A:               Focus on François Laruelle’s Future Christ
Moderator:

“We are, each-and-everyone, a Christ or Messiah”: The Generic and Non-Philosophy’s Secularity

Anthony Paul Smith, University of Nottingham
Laruelle, Diaspora and Non-Philosophy of Religion

Daniel Colucciello Barber, Marymount Manhattan College
Non-philosophy and Meaning-use Analysis: Explicating Laruelle with Brandom Rocco Gangle, Endicott College

Panel B:               Reb  Žižek on Justice and the End of Days
Moderator:

Between Justice and My Mother

Gavin Hyman, University of Lancaster
The Patient Political Gesture:  Spacing Law, Liberalism & Talmud

Zachary Braiterman, Syracuse University
Ruses of the End Times:  Žižek on the Apocalypse and Emancipatory Politics

Ian Pattenden

Panel C:               Countersigning Derrida
Moderator:

Thinking God Otherwise: Sovereignty without Sovereignty

Jim Olthuis, Institute for Christian Studies
Dreaming the Monstrous Future of Continental Philosophy, or What Derrida Was Really Up to

Carl Raschke, University of Denver
Jacques Derrida on the Secular as Theologico-Political

Andrew Cassatella, University of Toronto

Panel D:               Interdisciplinarity, Fantasy, and Critical Theory
Moderator:

Transformative Exercises: Foucault and the Discipline of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Wilson Dickinson, Syracuse University
Why Philosophy of Religion? On Interdisciplinarity and Indisciplinarity in the Study of Religion

Joseph Ballan, University of Chicago Divinity School
The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion: A Return to Fantasy

Zachary Simpson, University of Science/Arts of Oklahoma

Panel E:                Poetics of Salvation: Telling Stories of Hope in the Desert
Moderated by John Burkey, Siena College

After Continental God-Talk: Richard Rorty’s Poetics of Romantic Polytheism and Social Salvation

Scott Holland, Bethany Theological Seminary
Philosophy, Theology and the Narrative of Hope

Geoffrey Dargan, Oxford University
Khora: Gift or Threat?

Jeffrey Hocking, Institute for Christian Studies

11:15-1:15           CONCURRENT SESSION 6

Panel A:               Focus on The New Materialism
Moderator: Alan Jay Richard, Realistic Living

Necessity as Virtue: On Religious Materialism from Feuerbach to Žižek

Jeffrey W. Robbins, Lebanon Valley College
Dying to be Free: Extinction and the Liberation of Praxis in Ray Brassier’s Nihil Unbound

Danny Finer, Syracuse University
Entropy

Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas

Panel B:               Continental Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies
Moderator:

Spiritual Friendship & Inter-Religious Dialogue

Patricia Johnson, University of Dayton
Continental Philosophy of Religion & Religious Studies

Timothy Knepper, Drake University
The Harp is the Hunter’s Qur’an

Joseph Helweg, Florida State University

Panel C:               Prophesying, Proclaiming, and Projecting: A Saturated Gaze at Marion
Moderator:

Jean-Luc Marion as Prophet:  Fetishism of the “Future”…

Jason Alvis
How to Speak of God Speaking

Ian Rottenberg, Fordham University
A Feuerbachian Turn in Marion’s Phenomenology of Love

Rico Monge, University of California, Santa Barbara

Panel D:               On Meillassoux and Hegel
Moderator:

The Future of God in Continental Philosophy of Religion: A Hegelian Perspective

Kirill Chepurin, State University of Moscow
Hegel’s God and Transcendence

Harris Bechtol, Loyola Marymount University
Descartes’ Revenge: Meillassoux

Joshua Ramey, Haverford College

Panel E:                Faith in the Death of God as the Resurrection of Doubt
Moderator:

The Death of God as the Death of the World

Myroslav Hryshko, University of Ljubljana
Giving up God for Lent: Resurrecting the Death of God

G. Michael Zbaraschuk, Pacific Lutheran University
Faith in Doubt in the End

Robert Gall, West Liberty University

1:15-2:45              Lunch

2:45-3:45              KEYNOTE ADDRESS:  John D. Caputo
Moderator:  B. Keith Putt, Sanford University

God, Perhaps: The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

4:00-5:30              CONCLUDING ROUNDTABLE (Malabou, Goodchild, and Caputo)
Moderator: Richard Kearney, Boston College