International Conference
RESPONSIBILITY, GOD AND SOCIETY
Theological Ethics in Dialogue
Leuven, May 07-10, 2008
Program Pre-Conference Wednesday, May 7
Parallel Session I (14.00-15.30)
Panel 1 MTC 00.59
Panel chair: Melanie van Oort
Amalanathan Leema Ravi Don Bosco, Beyond the Impasse Between Radical Orthodoxy and Liberation Theology on Church’s Responsibility in the World: A Possible Contribution of Levinas’ Concept of Responsibility?
Capili April, Levinas on Creation, Subjectivity and Responsibility
McLachlan James, Eschatology in and Out of the World: Levinas, Process Theology, and Social Action
Panel 2 MTC 02.07
Panel chair: Jerry Farmer
Liégeois Axel, Dialogical Responsibility in Health Care
McArdle Patrick, Health Care, Levinas and Responsibility for the Other: A Practical Theological Analysis of the Cases of Nancy Crick and Terri Schiavo
Wolf Torben, Levinas and the Ethical Problem of Euthanasia
Panel 3 MTC 00.12
Panel chair: Marianne Moyaert
Cardita Ângelo, The Withdrawal of Theology and the Responsibility of Theologians –
Le repliement de la théologie et la responsabilité des théologiens
(Paper presentation in French, discussion in English)
Lambert Nieme, Responsibility in the Ethics of the Visibility in the Invisible – La responsabilité dans l’éthique de la visibilité dans l’invisible
(Paper presentation in French, discussion in English)
Folens Tomas, The Relevance of the Dialogue Between P. Ricoeur and E. Levinas on Thinking Capability and Responsibility
Panel 4 MTC 02.13
Panel chair: Raymond Aina
Kassa Feleke Mezgebu, Responsibility vs. Ethical Egoism
Kirchoffer David, Altruism, Responsibility, and Dignity: The Concept of Human Dignity in Stephen J. Pope’s Understanding of the Thomistic Ordering of Love
Maes Jan, Can “I” Be Held Morally Responsible for the Preconscious Decisions My Brain Takes and Makes “Me” Act Some Way? A Plea for the Integration of a Physicalist “NeuroScience-Based Theory of Ethics” in Theology
Panel 5 MTC 00.64
Panel chair: Ellen Van Stichel
Devoldere Hannelore, Long-lasting Marital Relationships and the ‘Extra’ Dimension: Responsibility by Society and Church
Kallely Augustine, Marital Love: Socially Responsible Through Spouses or/and Children?
Sanders Henk, Cohabitation, Family and Feminization of Poverty
Panel 6 BIGO 01.03
Panel chair: Edward Obi
Dantis Helen, Eschatology and Social Responsibility
Meylahn Johann-Albrecht, The Cry of the Other in the Sacred Texts as Challenge Towards Responsible Global Citizenship
Unaegby Patrick, Metz and Schillebeeckx on Responsible Human Living: Mysticism and Political Holiness as Evangelical Imperatives for Christians in a Post-Christian Context
Parallel Session II (16.00-17.30)
Panel 1 BIGO 92.03
Panel chair: David Kirchoffer
Di Pede Robert, Institutions, Friendship, and Social Responsibility in Emmanuel Levinas and Luigi Giussani
Eggemeier Matthew, Subjectivity for Another: Emmanuel Lévinas and Johann Baptist Metz on the Defense of the Subject
Fagge Michael, Traces of Otherness Ethics, Old and New
Panel 2 MTC 00.64
Panel chair: Augustine Kallely
Crasta John, The Face of the Frail Vulnerable Elderly: The Significance of Emmanuel Levinas in the Context of Population Ageing
Jeevaraj Lourdhu, Responsibility of the Catholic Church Towards Spousal Abuse (Wife Abuse): A Methodological Ethical Development in the Teachings of the Catholic Church
Umunna Gregory, Responsibility and the Care of HIV/AIDS Patients in Africa
Panel 3 MTC 00.12
Panel chair: Edward Obi
Aina Raymond, Post-Holocaust Levinasian Responsibility Ethic and Post-Colonial Emancipatory Discourse: Challenging Ecclesial Mission Today
Lepers Philippe, Nietzsche’s Concept of ‘Gerechtigkeit’: A Possible Help to Clarify and/or Enrich the Biblical Sense of Justice?
Pratt David, “We Are Responsible for Everyone and Everything!” Duties of Material Aid or Ontology of Mercy? Nussbaum and Dostoevsky
Panel 4 MTC 00.59
Panel chair: Melanie van Oort
Kadaplackal Francis, Configuring the Horizons of Human Responsibility: The Need to Develop an Adequate Theological Anthropology to Care for Nature
Miller Daniel, Human Responsibility Toward Animal Neighbours: An Investigation in Thomistic Theology
Panel 5 MTC 02.07
Panel chair: Jerry Farmer
De Cock Bernard, Embodied Theology and Homosexuality in Social Perspective
Holderied-Milis, Victoria Responsibility in Internet-Chatrooms: Challenge and Chance
Hübel Szilvia, In Her Shoes. Fertility Treatment Online Groups as Sites of Shared Responsibility
Panel 6 BIGO 01.03
Panel chair: Marianne Moyaert
Irrazábal Gustavo, Preferential Option for the Poor and Development
Senander Angela, To Vote or Not to Vote: Catholic Political Responsibility at Election Time in the United States
Van Stichel Ellen, Catholic Social Teaching and Global Justice: On Responsibilities Towards the Distant Poor
