End Date : March 29, 12:00 am
The Center for Comparative Literature and Society’s annual conference in the humanities and the social sciences, together in perspective. Participants will consider secularism and various religious traditions of the world, both within the Christian tradition and outside it.
PROGRAM
March 28
Opening remarks – Gayatri Spivak
Session One
Moderator – Andreas Huyssen
James Schmidt
Bargain Hunting at the Theological Rummage Sale: Max Horkheimer on Thought, Truth and Success
Philip Kitcher
How is parochial secularism possible?
Session Two
Moderator – Hamid Dabashi
Michael Warner
Return of Religion?
Xudong Zhang
Secularism and Cultural Politcs: Value-Plurality and the Dialectic of the Universal and Particular
Vincent Pecora
Religion as Belief, Experience, Desire, and Identity
Session Three
Moderator – Mahmood Mamdani
Romila Thapar
The inter-face between the religious and the social in early India and its possible contribution to secularizing society in modern India
Paolo Valesio
‘Laico’ versus ‘laicista’: Beyond Italian Semantics
March 29
Opening Remarks – Rosalind Morris
Session Four
Moderator – Carlos Alonso
Harry Harootunian
Persisting Residues: Religion, Emperor and Shrine in Modern Japan
Jean Franco
Secularization and State Terror
Goenawan Mohamad
The call of the secular
Session Five
Moderator – Brent Edwards
Valentin Mudimbe
On Alterity: A Genitive’s QUestion
Mark Siderits
Co-Existence, Compassion and Karma in Buddhist Tradition
Ziba Mir Hosseini
Secularism and Feminism: Politcal Islam’s Unwanted Children
