Conference program

1.07.2007

7.30 - 8.30 Breakfast (Optional)
9.00 - 15.00 The Auschwitz-Birkenau Tour (Optional)
15.00 - 18.00 Free time / Visiting Cracow (Optional)
Arriving at Cracow; Reception at the hotel
18.00 Official Conference Openning and Welcome Dinner at the Campanile Hotel restaurant

7.30 - 8.30 Breakfast
9.00 - 9.40 Conference openning
Welcome and Introductions from the Organising and Programme Committee
9.45 - 13.00 Session 1
Chair: Stanislaw Cichocki
Michael Howlett (Waterford): Searching for European Identity: Culture, Religion and the Irish Experience
Jonathan Culleton (Waterford): The Allure of Certainty: Identities, Religious Others, and the Ambiguity of Modernity
Coffee break
Gabriella Valera (Trieste): Post-religious Europe? The European catastrophe in the historical literature of the nineteenth-twentieth century and the status of contemporary ethics
Jerzy Perzanowski (Cracow): PL-Metaphysics Today
Questions to Speakers; Discussion of Papers
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch
15.00 - 18.00 Session 2
Chair: Margaret Yee
Thomas Moellenbeck (Paderborn): “The one who understands”. A transdisciplinary evaluation of religion, culture, science and technology?
Fintan Lyons (Glenstal, Murroe): The Future of Humanity: Science & Religion in Dialogue
Coffee break
Stefano Visintin (Rome): Catholic Theology and Scientific Culture
Fiona Dowling (Waterford): European culture and visual influences on graphic inspiration!
Questions to speakers followed by facilitated discussion led by Eamonn Conway on common themes emerging and their significance for the SECTR project.
18.30 - 19.30 Strolling along streets of the Cracow Old City
19.30 - 22.00 Conference Dinner with the Jewish music concert at the Jewish restaurant of old Cracow

7.30 - 8.30 Breakfast
9.00 - 13.00 Session 3
Chair: Stefano Visintin
Stanislaw Cichocki and Boguslawa Lewandowska (Warsaw) : On the Ethics of Capitalism
Margaret Yee (Oxford): Co-operation, Competition and Conflict – Cultures and Values in a Technological World
Coffee break
Amanda Haynes (Limerick): Making and Unmaking Prejudice: Religiosity and Public Opinion about Immigrants (co-authored with Michael Breen and Eoin Devereux)
Ryszard Kossowski (Warsaw): How to Elect
Questions to Speakers and Discussion of Papers
13.00 -15.00 Lunch
15.00 - 18.00 Session 4
Chair: Eamonn Conway
Lidia Obojska (Siedlce): Primary Relations and Dynamic Identity
Amanda Hayes (Waterford): Patenting Life – Patent Laws, Biotechnology, Morality and Order Public Exemptions
Coffee break
Angeliki Kerasidou (Oxford): Stem Cell research in Europe: One Body, Many Faces
Zbigniew Kotulski (Warsaw): Virtual Identity, our Destiny
Questions to Speakers Followed by Open Discussion on the significance of the papers from today for the SECTR project; reflections on the future of the SophiaEuropa Project; general questions.
16.30 - 19.00 Open Discussion
19.00 Closing Conference Meeting and dinner at the hotel restaurant.
Guest Speaker: Eric Weislogel.