8.30 - 10.00 - Parallel Sessions A
Moderator: Michael Le Chevallier (Lumen Christi Institute)
Lecture:
“The Aporia of Metaphor and Narrative: Ricoeur and Eucharistic Theology”
Richard Rosengarten (University of Chicago)
10.30-12.00 - Parallel Sessions B
Moderator: Sarah Hammerschlag (University of Chicago)
Book Panel: Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur
Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur, edited by Joseph A. Edelheit, James F. Moore, and Mark I. Wallace (Lexington Press, 2024)
Joseph Edelheit (St. Cloud State University) [in-person]
James Moore (Valparaiso University) [in-person]
Mark Wallace (Swarthmore College) [in-person]
Stephanie Arel (Fordham University) [in-person]
Steven Kepnes (Colgate University) [in-person]
Dan Stiver (Jesse C. Fletcher Seminary) [in-person]
George Taylor (University of Pittsburgh) [in-person]
Timo Helenius (University of Turku, Finland) [online]
13.30-15.00 - Parallel Sessions C
Moderator: Michael Deckard (Lenoir-Rhyne University)
Octavia Butler’s Earthseed and Paul Ricoeur’s “Religion, Atheism, and Faith”: An Elective Affinity
Jeff Keuss (Seattle Pacific University) [in person]
Imagination as (Science) Fiction: Technological Metaphors and the Self in Transhumanist Literature
Kevin Chaves (Santa Clara University) [in person]
The Role of Imagination in Intercultural Hospitality: Silent City and the Call for Justice
Mehrenegar Rostami (University of Tennessee) [online]
15.30-17.00 - Parallel Sessions D
Moderator: Stephanie Arel (Fordham University)
The Detour between Narrating and Timing—
A Method of Healing after Reading Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative
Cristal Huang (Soochow University, Taiwan)
On Using Ricoeur's Hermeneutical Phenomenology to Challenge Hybris in Mental Health Counselor Education and Practice
Cristina Bucur (Independent scholar)
Toward a Poetics of Illness: Neurobiology, the Imagination, and the Metaphoricity of the Body
Brad Deford (Independent Scholar)
17.30-19.00 (Live Stream)
The 2024 Nuveen Lecture
“Against the Hegelian Temptation: Global History Without Teleology”
Hans Joas
Ernst Troeltsch Professor
Humboldt University, Berlin
Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
Chair: James Robinson
Dean, University of Chicago Divinity School