Friday Aug 22
Friday, August 22
Theme 4: Conflict and Culture
Theme 5: Conflict and Religion
Morning Sessions 9:00-12:30, Lecture Hall 1
Plenary 7, Theme 4: Marc Ross, Professor of Political Science and Peace and Conflict Studies, Department for Peace and Conflict Studies, Bryn Mawr College, USA
“Cultural Contestation: Explaining the Role of Culture in Conflict Escalation and Mitigation”
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Plenary 8, Theme 4: Douglas Fry, Professor in the Faculty of Social and Caring Sciences at Abo Akademi University, Finland, and Adjunct to the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology at the University of Arizona, USA.
“Conflict and Its Resolution in Peaceful Societies: Lessons from Anthropology”
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Plenary 9, Theme 5: Marc Gopin, Director of the Center for World Religions, Diplomacy and Conflict Resolution, George Mason University, USA.
“The State of Religion, Conflict, and Peace: Strategic Foundations for Building Community in a Militant Time”
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Friday August 22, Lecture Halls 3-7, 14:00-14:45
Session plenaries for themes 4 and 5
Lecture hall 3, session plenary 8, themes 4 & 5: Sohail Hashmi, Department for international Relations, Mount Holyoke College, USA
“The War over Jihad”
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Lecture hall 4, session plenary 9, theme 5: Augustine Shutte, Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town, South Africa
“Religious Diversity and Dialogue: A Philosophical Approach”
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Lecture hall 5, session plenary 10, themes 4 & 5: Michiaki Okuyama, Department for Religion and Culture, Nanzan Institute, Japan
"Conflicts and Mitigations Surrounding Documentary Films on the Yasukuni Shrine"
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Lecture hall 6, session plenary 11, themes 4 & 5: Herman Beck, Department of Religious Studies and theology, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
“Religious Diversity as a Source of Conflict in Europe: The Netherlands as Case Study”
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Lecture hall 7, session plenary 12, Theme 5: Reinhold Bernhardt, Department of Theology, University of Bern, Switzerland
“Does the claim of absoluteness lead into interreligious conflicts?"
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Breakout Sessions for Theme 4
Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 5, 15:00-17:15
Session 4.1 Conflict Changing Political Culture
Audra Mitchell, Department of Political Science, Queens University Belfast, Ireland
“Processing Peace: Normativity, Conflict and the Culture of Transformation”
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Michael Hammer, One World Trust, UK
“Changing Democratic Cultures: Parliamentary Oversight of Conflict Related Policies in the UK”
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Dagmar Borchers, Department of Philosophy, University of Bremen, Germany
“Exit as a Consequence of Cross-Cultural-Conflicts”
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Kristin Loftsdóttir, Helga Björnsdóttir, Department of Anthropology, University of Iceland, Iceland
“Un-Political Wars: Representations of Conflict in Development and Foreign Policy Discourse in Iceland”
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Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 6, 15:00-17:15
Session 4.2 Intercultural Conflict Intervention in the Public Domain
Sachiyo Shearman, School of Communications, East Carolina University, USA
“Power Imbalance and Conflict Communication”
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Kang Ouyang, Huazhon University, China
“Surmounting the Cultural "Wei Cheng (Fortress Besieged)" Phenomenon -The Intercultural Barrier, Misunderstanding and Their Overcoming”
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Bettina Robotka, Institute of Business Administration Karachi, Pakistan
“The Policy of Peace Agreements in the Tribal Belt of Pakistan: Pashtun versus Western Culture of Peacemaking”
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Keehyeung Lee , Jangwhan Lee , Sunmin Lee , Sunghon Koh, School of Journalism and Communication, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
“On Lived Multiculturalism and the Politics of Diversity and Race: Olympic Games, Nationalism and the 'Politics of Torch'”
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Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 8, 15:00-17:15
Session 4.3 Conflict, Religious Identity and Cultural Change
Levent Tezcan, Babylon Centre for the Study of Multicultural Societies, University of Tilburg, Netherlands
“Religion and the Making of Cultural Subjects”
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Mark Sedgwick, Arab and Islamic Studies Unit, University of Aarhus, Denmark,
“Collective Memory and the Cartoons”
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Jørgen S. Nielsen, Department of Theology, Copenhagen, Denmark
“The Cartoons and the Borderlands”
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Farah Asna Ashari, University of Applied Science and Technology at Tehran, Iran
"Religious Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practice Among Female Adolescents in Tehran"
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Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 9, 15:00-17:15
Session 5.1 Religion and Conflict Transformation
Susan Margaret Robson, Quaker Peace Studies Trust, UK
“Conflict in the Peaceable Kingdom: Quaker Identity, Silence and Virtue Ethics”
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Sampson Madubochi-Reuben Nwaomah, Department of Religious Studies, Babock University, Nigeria
“Turning the other Cheek: A Contextual Study of Matthew 5: 38-42 in the Context of Religious Conflicts in Nigeria"
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Christian Early, Department for Religion, East Mennonite University, USA
“Anabaptist Ecclesiology, Radical Democracy, and Philosophy of Religion: Elements of a New Conversation”
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Nsaka Nbeke Septuf Ntepua Sesepkekiu, Department of History, University of Cambridge, UK
“Trinleela”
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Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 3, 15:00-17:15
Session 5.2 Religious Pluralism and Intercultural Thought
Dominique -Sila Khan, Institute of Rajasthan Studies, University of Jaipur, India
“Many Religions, One Faith: Jaipur’s Endangered Heritage”
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Aleksi Mati Kuokanen, Department of Theology, University of Helsinki, Finland
“Reckoning With Radical Difference. Enlightenment and the Unaccomplished Vision for Understanding Conflicts”
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Abbas Yazdani, Department of Philosophy, University of Zanjan, Iran
“Religious Pluralism in Iran's Islamic Tradition”
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Nevad Kahteran, Department of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo and University of Zagreb, Croatia.
“Rethinking Bosnian Heritage”
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Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 4, 15:00-17:15
Session 5.3 Dialogue and Certainty
Dorothee Schlenke, Department of Theology, University of Education Freiburg, Germany
“Certainty and Diversity: A Systematic Approach to Inter-Religious Learning.”
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Mark Addis, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham, UK
"Understanding Conflict Resolution: Applying Wittgenstein’s On Certainty"
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Siavosh Naderi Farsani, Mohammad Javad Abolghasemi, Jahanemosaer Research Institute for Culture and Religion
“Conflict Resolution And Paradigm Shift of Worldviews”
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John Caruana, Department of Philosophy, Ryerson University, Canada
“Stepping Back From the 'Immanent Frame': The Conflict between Religion and Secularism”
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Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 7, 15:00-17:15
Session 5.4 Religious (in) tolerance
Chaminda Kumara Weerawardhana, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Tours, France
“Non-Violent Faith as Perpetrator of Violence? Buddhism and SinHallese Nationalist Discourse in Sri Lanka”
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Muhamad Ilyas Ansari, School of Social Science, University of Management and Technology Lahore, Pakistan
“Religious Tolerance in Islam: A case study of Situation of Religious Minorities in Pakistan”
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Janet Powers, Department of Women’s Studies Gettysburg College, USA
“Kites over the Mango Tree: Building Harmony between Hindus and Muslims in Gujarat”
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Njal Hostmaelingen, Institute of Human Rights, University of Oslo, Sweden
“Law, Politics and Minorities: The Prohibition of Religious Slaughtering in Norway”
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Friday August 22, Lecture Hall 1, 17:30-18:30
Plenary 10 Theme 5: Swee-Hin Toh, Professor and Foundation Director of the Multi-Faith Centre, Griffith University, Australia
“Engaging Faith, Transcending Conflicts: Interfaith Signposts toward a Culture of Peace”
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Conference Dinner 19:30 - 21:00, AROS Art Museum
Concert 21:30-23:00, Aarhus Music Hall