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Presentation and Program

In celebrating 150 years of Edmund Husserl´s birth, and 55 years of the complete publication of The Crisis of European Sciences, the Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein and the International Academy of Philosophy are organizing an International Conference in Granada under the title "The Roots of Europe"

The conference aims to join specialists in Husserl's work, in phenomenology and in European studies to reflect on the cultural, moral and spiritual roots of Europe.
We would like to invite anyone interested in the subject to visit Granada to take part in the conference.
The conference will take place at main building of the Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein Granada, Spain (Paseo de Cartuja, 49), from June 30 to July 3, 2009.

PROGRAM (Download PDF)

Juny 29, 2009
Pre-congress:
18:00 Presentation of the “Sociedad de Pensamiento Edith Stein (SPES)”
18:30 Presentation of the book: “Edith Stein: un prólogo filosófico”, Nuevo Inicio
19:00 Presentation of the book: “Para comprender a Edith Stein”, Palabra

   -Artur Mrowczynski-Van Allen. Director of “Nuevo Inicio” (Publisher)
   -Juan Manuel Burgos, Director of “Palabra” (Publisher)
   -Dra Dª. Feliciana Merino Escalera. Secretary of the SPES, Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein
   -Fernando Fernández. President of the “Asociación para el Estudio de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia (AEDOS)”
   -Dr. D. Urbano Ferrer, University of Murcia (Spain)
   -Dr. D. José Luis Caballero Bono, Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein
   -Dr. D. Francisco Javier Sancho, OCD, specialist in the figure of Edith Stein
   -Dr. D. Fernando Haya, Philosopher, specialist in the figure of Edith Stein

Juny 30, 2009
10:00 Welcome Address and Inauguration

Carlos Carnero González, Advisor to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
José Torres Hurtado, Mayor of Granada
Josef Seifert, Rector of the International Academy of Philosophy
Monsignor Javier Martínez, Archbishop of Granada

11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Session: "The Moral and Spiritual Roots of Europe"
11:30 Rocco Buttiglione (Philosopher, Member of the Italian Senate) “A philosophical and spiritual concept of Europe”
12:30 Round-table discussion:
Alfred Wierzbicki (Catholic University of Lublin, Poland) “Reason, Faith and Art in search of first and ultimate things“
Jaroslaw Merecki (Pontifical Lateran University, Italy) “Europa y el cristianismo”
Carlos Casanova (IAP, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) "The influence of Christianity on the Spanish conquest of America and on the organization of the American empire"

16:00 Session: “Europe and European sciences in Husserl´s thought”
16:00 Luis Flores (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) “La idea filosófica inmanente a la idea de Europa en La Crisis de las Ciencias Europeas y la Fenomenología Trascendental de Edmund Husserl”
17:00 Czesìaw Poŗebski (Jozef Tischner University, Poland) “The value of culture in Husserl and Ingarden”
18:00 Coffee break
18:30 Mesa redonda:
César Moreno (University of Sevilla, Spain) En un apartado rincón del universo…Esbozos sobre la dignidad fenomenológica”
Maria Michaela Seifert (University of Steubenville, Ohio, U.S.A.) “Husserl’s Epoche. A New Crisis? The Loss of Mistery in the Lifeworld”
Rogelio Rovira (Complutense University of Madrid) “El valor se dice de muchas maneras. Consideraciones sobre la axiología de Dietrich von Hildenbrand”

July, 1, 2009
9:00 Papers
Mesa A
9:00 Elisabeth Disley (Bilkent University, Turquía): “Husserl, love and and Self-Understanding”
9:15 Federico Rodríguez Gómez (University of Sevilla): “Husserl/Derrida: ¿una idea para Europa?
9:30 Javier Cumpa (Complutense University of Madrid): “Una defensa del realismo: la deconstrucción fisicalista del mundo”

Mesa B
9:00 Javier Maldonado (Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein): "Razón y Vida en la literatura europea: el mito del Fausto y El árbol de la ciencia"
9:15 Ignacio de los Reyes Melero (Complutense University of Madrid): “¿En qué terreno nace la fenomenología”
9:30 Enrique Anrubia Aparici (Cardenal Herrera-CEU University): “Razón, libertad y cultural”

Mesa C
9:00 Fernando Pérez-Borbujo Álvarez (Pompeu Fabra University): “El espíritu quijotesco en La crisis de las ciencias europeas de E. Husserl”
9:15 Mª de los Ángeles Corpas Aguirre (UNED): “Los desafíos de la neutralidad. Europa y el vacío ético en la «religión civil»”

Mesa D
9:00 Miriam Ramos Gómez (University of Salamanca): “Paul Ricoeur y Edith Stein: identidad narrativa e identidad personal”
9:15 Diego I. Rosales Meana (Center for Advanced Social Research, México): “La fenomenología como humanismo. La renovación de la razón en la apertura de la fenomenología husserliana”
9:30 Mª Pilar Ferrer Rodríguez (San Vicente Ferrer Catholic University): “Importancia del asombro en el pensamiento de Karol Wojtyla-Juan Pablo II”

 10:00 Session: “The Methods of Philosophy and the Crisis of European Sciences”
10:00 Marcelo L. Cambronero (Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein, Spain) “Los métodos de la filosofía”
11:00 Coffee break
11:30 Josef Seifert (International Academy of Philosophy) “Los métodos de una fenomenología realista y la recuperación del conocimiento de una verdad trascendente a la persona – condición de la superación de la crisis de las ciencias europeas”
12:30 Round-table discussion:
Juan Manuel Burgos (Spanish Association of Personalism. San Pablo University-CEU) “El análisis integral de la experiencia. Una propuesta de método personalista inspirada en Karol Wojtyla”
Raquel Vera (Philosopher) “La decadencia del yo personal en los métodos de algunos autores europeos: propuesta para su restablecimiento”
Fernando Haya (Philosopher. IES Machado Brothers, Sevilla) “El rendimiento del método fenomenológico: discusión en torno a Max Scheler”

16:00 Visit to the Alhambra Palace
             

July, 2, 2009
9:00 Session: “Art in the construction of Europe”
9:00 Ricardo Aldana (Institute of Theology Lumen Gentium) "Mito, filosofía y percepción de la forma. Herencia europea en la estética teológica de Hans Urs von Baltasar”
10:00 Round-table discussion:           
Jordi Pons (Philosopher) “La esencia del arte en la fenomenología de la vida de Michel Henry”
Eduardo Segura (Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein) “El mito en la configuración histórica de Europa: tradición y renovación”
Guillermo Peris (Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein) “«proferir palabras vacías y formular metáforas poéticas» (Arist., Met., 991ª 21). Metafísica y decir poético en Occidente”
11:00 Coffee break

11:30 Session: “What is Philosophy? Who is the philosopher?”

11:30 Paola Premoli de Marchi (Philosopher) “Who is the philosopher? Max Scheler's reading of Plato”

12:30 Session: “Husserl’s Phenomenology and the Gottingen Circle”
12:30 Mariano Crespo (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) The phenomenology of Husserl and the circle of Göttingen”

16:30 Session “Edith Stein and Europe”
16:30 Feliciana Merino (Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein, Spain) “Edith Stein, un nuevo modo de mirar Europa”
17:30 Round-table discussion:
Matyas Szalay (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Jose Luis Caballero (Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein, Spain) "¿Cómo se constituye la comunidad? Sobre el origen de la vivencia supraindividual en Edith Stein"


July, 3, 2009

9:00 Session: “Europe in the Construction of Peace”
9:00 Round-table discussion:
Hubertus Dessloch (Secretary General of the International Academy of Philosophy. Former Director of the Agency of the Free State of Bavaria in Brussels) “Peace in Europe generated by Christian Leaders! - What can philosphers contribute today?”
Cheick Mbacké Gueye (International Academy of Philosophy) “The Role of Philosophy in the Construction of Peace”
Rocco Buttiglione (Philosopher, Member of the Italian Senate)

10:00 Session: “Phenomenology and Christianity”
John Milbank (University of Notthingham, U.K.) “Phenomenology, Catholicism and the Third Way: From Husserl's Scientific Crisis to Roepke's Social Crisis”

10:45 Coffee break
11:00 Round-table discussion:
Rodrigo Guerra (Center for Advanced Social Research, México) “Christian Faith and a New Rationality: the Importance of Phenomenology for the Recognition of Christianity as Happening”
Daniel von Wachter (International Academy of Philosophy) “Rational religion requires metaphysical doctrine”
Urbano Ferrer (University of Murcia) “Phenomenology and Christianity: a two-way journey”

12:00 Session: “The astonishment, the source of Philosophy”
12:00 Higinio Marín (Cardenal Herrera University-Institute of Philosophy Edith Stein) “Revisiones del mundo: el asombro como origen de la Filosofía”


12:45 Session: “Europe: Faith and Reason”
Sebastián Montiel (University of Granada)
Archbishop Javier Martínez
Josef Seifert (International Academy of Philosophy)


13:45 Closing session

H.S.H. Prince Nikolaus of Liechtenstein

H.E. Archbishop Javier Martínez

Josef Seifert (International Academy of Philosophy)

              

 
   
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