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
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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
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