The conference will be held at the University of Groningen, on 12-14 January 2011.
The conference is co-sponsored by the Endowed Chair of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, the Groningen Research Institute for the Study of Culture, and the Stichting Groninger Universiteitsfonds.
Registration
Please fill out for registration for the conference this form.
Payment
Please transfer the registration fee to account nr. 40.17.18.468, Fac. Letteren, RU Groningen, adding "pc111.101-conf.fee Stuckrad". You may also pay cash during the conference. Please note, however, that we cannot accept payment by Credit Card.
You may also contact Ms. Marijke Wubbolts (M.R.B.Wubbolts@rug.nl) if you have further questions.
Program
(Please check this website regularly for possible changes)
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
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16.00
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Arrival and registration, plus coffee/tea, Faculty Building |
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17.00
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Opening of the conference |
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17.15
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Panel of PhD students and staff members, University of Groningen
Panelists: Brenda Bartelink, Menno Kamminga, Kim Knibbe and Simon Polinder
Religion and Secularity as Contested Notions in International Relations
(4x15 minutes presentation, 30 minutes discussion)
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19.30
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Public Plenary Lecture, Senate’s Room, Academy Building
Jeffrey J. Kripal (Rice University, Houston)
Authors of the Impossible: Reading the Paranormal Writing Us
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Thursday, 13 January 2011
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9.00
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Christoph Jedan (University of Groningen)
Metaphors of Closeness: Stoic Ethics and homoiôseis theôi in Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy
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9.45
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Lautaro Roig Lanzillotta (University of Groningen)
The Homoiosis theo in the Nag Hammadi Library
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10.30
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Coffee/tea break |
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11.00
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Anders Klostergaard Petersen (University of Aarhus)
Attaining Divine Perfection through Different Forms of Imitation
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11.45
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Mathilde van Dijk (University of Groningen)
Becoming like God in the Devotio Moderna
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12.45
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Lunch (Bruinszaal, Academy Building)
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14.30
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Jan N. Bremmer (University of Cologne/University of Groningen)
Imitatio Deae: An Itinerary from Ancient Greece to Modern California and the Netherlands
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15.15
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Martin Riexinger (University of Aarhus)
Rendering Mu
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ammad Human again? Mu
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ammad b. ‘Abd al-Wahhāb’s (1703–1792) Biography of the Prophet
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16.00
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Coffee/tea break |
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16.30
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Robert Segal (University of Aberdeen)
The Artificiality of the Divide between Gods and Humans
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17.15
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Jeppe Sinding Jensen (University of Aarhus)
Normative Cognition and the Religious Imagination: Why Gods are Like Us (Ludwig Feuerbach meets the Cognitive Science of Religion)
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Friday, 14 January 2011
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9.00
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Linda Woodhead (University of Lancaster)
Relations with Gods of Form and Formlessness
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9.45
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Kocku von Stuckrad (University of Groningen)
“What I Cannot Build I Cannot Understand”: Transgressive Discourses in Life Sciences and Synthetic Biology
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10.30
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Coffee/tea break |
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11.00
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Bron Taylor (University of Florida, Gainesville)
Gaian Earth Religion: Vanishing Divine Being(s) and the Mod-God of Nature
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Concluding session |
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12.30
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Lunch (Bruinszaal, Academy Building) |
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14.00
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End of conference |
