Schedule of Activities
Unless noted otherwise, all events will be held at the UConn Humanities Institute, Homer Babbidge Library, 4th floor.
For directions to UConn, the South Parking garage, and the Humanities Institute, please click here.
| Friday | April 21, 2017 | |
| 9:00-9:30 | Breakfast | |
| Session 1 | Welcome and Introductions | |
| 9:30-10:15 |
Ruth Braunstein and Michael P. Lynch |
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| Session 2 | Experiences of Encounter with the "Other" | |
| 10:15-12:00 | Korie L. Edwards | Fortifying Communities: How Religious Leaders of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Congregations Work to Build Places of Inclusion |
| Andrew March | Explaining Disbelief: The Question of Radical Religious Pluralism in Islamic Thought | |
| Wes Markofski | American Evangelicalism, Social Reflexivity, and Intellectual Humility in Public Life | |
| 12:00-1:30 | Lunch | |
| Session 3 | The Contexts for Acting on Conviction | |
| 1:30-3:15 | Jeffrey Guhin | The Problem with "Just a Theory": Creationism, Climate Change, and the Relation between Certainty and Action |
| Grace Yukich | Peaceful Warriors: Social Status and Humility in American Buddhist Activism | |
| 3:15-4:00 | Break | |
| Keynote Address | ||
| 4:00-5:30 | José Casanova |
Religious Conviction and Intellectual Humility in Public Life: Socio-Theological Reflections |
| 5:30-6:30 | Reception |
| Saturday | April 22, 2017 | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Breakfast | |
| Session 4 | Pluralism and Religious Authority | |
| 10:00-11:45 |
Michele Dillon |
Humility Regained: Public Catholicism with Francis |
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John Hartley |
Bounded Intellectual Humility in Evangelical Struggles over Relations with Muslims and Islam | |
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Anthony Petro |
From Pluralism to Absolutism in Public Catholicism: The U.S. Catholic Bishops, LGBT Rights, and the Politics of "Religious Freedom" | |
| 12:00-1:30 |
Lunch |
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| Session 5 | Revaluing Humility | |
| 1:30-3:15 | Philip Gorski | Restoring the Fact/Value Tension: Thoughts on a Post-Positivist Ethos for the Social Sciences |
| Dawne Moon | Relationship, Humility, Justice | |
| Richard L. Wood | Passion and Virtue in Public Life, or A Sociological View of the Political Holiness the World Needs | |
| 3:15-3:45 | Break | |
| Session 6 | (Re)evaluating Religious Conviction and Humility | |
| 3:45-5:30 | Discussion led by Ruth Braunstein | |
| 5:30-6:30 | Closing Reception |