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10:30 am - 1:15 pm
Session I - Origins of the Secular
Noah Feldman, Professor of Law, Harvard University
George Kateb, Professor Emeritus, Politics, Princeton University
Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research
José Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow; Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University
Discussion Between Speakers, then Discussion with Audience
Session Moderator: TBD
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1:15 pm - 2:15 pm BREAK
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2:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Session II - Religious Selves, Secular Selves
David Martin, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science; Honorary Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University
Peter van der Veer, University Professor, Utrecht University
William E. Connolly, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Theory and International Relations, The Johns Hopkins University
Daniel C. Dennett, Co-Director, Center for Cognitive Studies and Austin B. Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University
Discussion Between Speakers, then Discussion with Audience
Session Moderator:TBD
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5:00 pm - 6:00 pm BREAK
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Session III - The Polysemy of the Secular
Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy, McGill University; Professor of Law and Philosophy, Northwestern University
Moderated by Bob Kerrey, President, The New School; Former Nebraska Senator
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10:00 am - 12:45 pm
Session IV - Religion, Politics, and the Democratic State
John T. Noonan, Jr., United States Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Winnifred Sullivan, Associate Professor of Law and Director, Law and Religion Program, University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY
James A. Morone, Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies, Brown University
*Stephen L. Carter, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Discussion Between Speakers, then Discussion with Audience
Session Moderator:TBD
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12:45 pm - 1:45 pm BREAK
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2:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Session V - Moral Crusades Then and Now: Religious and Secular
David L. Chappell, Professor of History, University of Oklahoma
Susan F. Harding, Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Professor of the History of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University
James Davison Hunter, LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture, and Social Theory; University of Virginia
Discussion Between Speakers, then Discussion with Audience
Session Moderator:TBD
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1:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Session VI - Contemporary Debates: The Future of Religion and the Future of Secularism, A Panel Discussion
Mark Lilla, Professor of the Humanities, Columbia University
Michael W. McConnell, Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; Presidential Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah
Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy, McGill University; Professor of Law and Philosophy, Northwestern University
Discussion Between Speakers, then Discussion with Audience
Session Moderator:
José Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow; Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University
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