CONFERENCE
Faith and the Search for Certitude: Religious, Phenomenological and Existential Perspectives
Keynote speaker:
Professor Jean-Luc Marion
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9am-5pm 16th March 2012
Yudowitz Seminar Room
Wolfson Medical Building, University Avenue, Glasgow G12 8QQ
9.00 Conference Registration
9.20 Dr Olivier Salazar-Ferrer (University of Glasgow) – Opening Address
9.40 Professor Jean-Luc Marion (Université Paris-Sorbonne/ University of Chicago) – ‘The Unconditioned – God’
10.20 Questions from the floor
10.40 Refreshments
11.00 Dr Ramona Fotiade (University of Glasgow) ‘Cur Deus homo - The Irrational Residuum of Being (Reflexions on Jean-Luc Marion & Léon Chestov)’
11.30 Javier Bassas (University of Barcelona) – ‘The Saturated Language – A Phenomeno-Linguistical Approach to Jean-Luc Marion’s Texts’
12.00 Questions from the floor
12.20 Lunch
14.00 Jean Leclercq et Joaquim Hernandez (Université catholique de Louvain): ‘Michel Henry’s Paradoxes : Christ Without Christianity’
14.30 Gregory Jean (Université catholique de Louvain): ‘Christianism and Phenomenology in a Post-Modern Context/ Michel Henry’s Philosophy of Christianism’
15.00 Questions from the floor
15.20 Refreshments
15.45 Professor Alexander Broadie (University of Glasgow) ‘Creation, conservation and modes of being’
16.15 Questions from the floor
16.30 Round table discussion and closing remarks