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Dear Colleagues, Please find below the programme of the workshop "Modernity and the Return of Religion", organised by Henk de Berg and Peter Thompson. The workshop, which will take place in the Humanities Research Institute in Sheffield on 3/4 July, is the first workshop in a series to be organised by the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies at the University of Sheffield, the purpose of which will be to analyse aspects of modernity in the 21st century. It is being funded by a three-year British Academy Research Development Award on the theme of "Ernst Bloch and the Return of Religion" made to the Centre's Director, Peter Thompson, in 2008. "Modernity and the Return of Religion" 3/4 July 2009 Humanities Research Institute, Seminar Room 34 Gell Street, Sheffield S3 7QY FRIDAY, 3 JULY 2009 9.30 - 10.00 Welcome by Professor Phil Powrie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Arts & Humanities, and Dr Peter Thompson, Director of the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies 10.00 - 12.30 Vincent Geoghegan (School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s, Belfast): What Is Post-Secularism? Johan Siebers (English Language and Linguistics, Central Lancashire & Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London): “Was Metaphysik einmal war”: Metaphysics between Modernity and Religion Johannes Hoff (Theology and Religious Studies, Lampeter): Reflexive Modernisation and the Impact of Religious Responses to Experience of Social Displacement Discussion 12.30 - 2.00 Lunch 2.00 - 4.00 James Crossley (Biblical Studies, Sheffield): New Atheism, Violence and Islam Hugh Pyper (Biblical Studies, Sheffield): Religion despite the Bible Henk de Berg (Germanic Studies, Sheffield): Religion and Modernity: On the Rationality of Faith after the Enlightenment Discussion 4.00 - 4.30 Coffee break 4.30 - 6.00 Ruth Levitas (Bristol): Post What Kind of Secular? Being and Utopia in the Work of Roberto Unger David Miller (English, John Cabot University, Rome): Melancholy, Religion and the Act: Bloch contra Žižek Discussion From 8.00 Dinner SATURDAY, 4 JULY 2009 9.00 - 11.30 Paul Bishop (German, Glasgow): “’All that is Apelike struts with the Spoils plundered from the Shattered Temple of Life’”: Ludwig Klages and the Biocentric Turn to Paganism Galin Tihanov (Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures, Manchester): From Political Romanticism to Political Theology (and back?) Christina Ujma (Politische Ideengeschichte und Moderne Politische Theorie, FU Berlin): Siegfried Kracauer and Ernst Bloch: Between Expressionism, Judaism and New Sobriety Discussion 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break 12.00 - 2.00 Douglas Davies (Theology and Religion, Durham): Deceived by Truth: Reflexive Transformations in Belief Discussion -- Henk de Berg Department of Germanic Studies University of Sheffield Jessop West, room 4.09 1 Upper Hanover Street Sheffield S3 7RA http://www.shef.ac.uk/german/staff/henkdeberg 00-44-(0)114 -222 4881 (office) 00-44-(0)114 -222 4396 (Secr.) 00-44-(0)114 -232 4043 (home)