1:00-2:00 2:00-2:15 2:15-3:45 3:45-4:15 4:15-5:15 5:15-5:30 5:30-6:30 7:00 8:00-9:30 9:30-11:00 11:00-11:30 11:30-1:00 1:00-2:00 2:00-3:00 3:00-3:10 3:10-4:40 4:40-5:10 5:10-6:40 6:40-7:30 7:30 8:00-9:30 9:30-11:00 11:00-12:30 |
All sessions will be held in Academic Building 1.01 at the Bishop Otter Campus of the University of Chichester.
Friday, 9 June Registration Welcome Political Theology and the Challenges of Religion Ulrich Schmiedel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) ‘“We can do this”: Tackling the Political Theology of Populism’ Tommy Lynch (Univeristy of Chichester) ‘A Political Theology of the Citizen’ Fatima Tofighi (University of Religions and Denominations) ‘Embodied Political Theology: Rituals and the Construction of the Radical Subject’ Coffee Religion at the Edge of Theory and Philosophy Bryce Maxwell (Birkbeck, University of London) ‘Faith as a Line of Flight: An Exploration of the Theopolitical Implications of Schizoanalysis’ Ward Blanton (University of Kent) ‘On Religion Since Hegel's Coffee Jokes: From Order-Words to Dose Management in Control Societies’ Break S. Sayyid (Professor of Social Theory and Decolonial Thought, University of Leeds) ‘Liberation Theology and the Temptation of Politics’ Dinner Saturday, 10 June Breakfast Symbolization, Memory and Community Hamza Esmili (Centre Maurice Halbwachs (ENS- EHESS-CNRS) ‘The Tabligh in French Suburbs. From Establishing a Community to Criticism Towards Modernity’ Anna Vancsó (Corvinus University of Budapest) ‘Christian Symbolism in Politics as a Tool for Mobilization – The Case of the Contemporary Hungarian Political Communication’ Alana Vincent (University of Chester) ‘(Ab)uses of Holocaust Memory in the Refugee Crisis’ Coffee Torkel Brekke (Deputy Director of Peace Research Institute Oslo) ‘Radicalized Christianity and hostility against Muslims in Scandinavia’ Lunch Subversive Religion? Robert Myles (Murdoch University) ‘Fetish for a Subversive Jesus’ Len Baglow (A Progressive Christian Voice Australia) ‘Differentiating Religious Activism and Extremism: Uncertainty is Key’ Break Religion and the Limits of Politics Ori Goldberg (IDC Herzliya) ‘The Real is the Radical: Theologies of the Real in Iran and the Islamic State’ Sarah Marsden (Lancaster University) ‘Transnational Jihad: Ideology, Identity and the Pursuit of Human Goods’ James Crossley (St Mary’s University, Twickenham) 'Martyrdom, Apocalypse and the Bob Crow Brigade in Rojava' Coffee Yvonne Sherwood (Professor of Biblical Cultures and Politics, University of Kent) ‘The Politics of the “Resident Alien”’ Drinks Reception Dinner Sunday, 11 June Breakfast Øvyind Strømmen (Managing Editor, Hate Speech International) ‘The Nordic Far Right and the Use of Religious Imagery’ Concluding discussion |