Conference Program
Wir wissen auch jetzt noch nichts von Gott. Transcendence and Revelation on the centenary of Franz Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption.
Date: December 16th-17th, 2021.
Place: Amphitheater III, 4th floor of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities (University of Coimbra).
Thursday, 16. Day 1
8:30 - 9:00 - Opening session
Welcoming words from the Academic Authorities. Greeting words from Ephraim Meir (President of the Internationale Rosenzweig-Gesellschaft), Christian Wiese (Martin Buber-Professur für Jüdische Religionsphilosophie) and the Organizing Committee.
9:00 - 9:55
(P) Myriam Bienenstock (Université François Rabelais) - Revelation and Dialogue in Franz Rosenzweig.
10:00 - 11:20
(O) Emeline Durand (Université de Bourgogne) - Erfahrende Philosophie. Philosopher après L’Étoile.
(O) Gabriella Caponigro (Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara) - As fontes do conceito de revelação. Os Paralipomena na gênese da Estrela.
(O) Evyatar Varman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) - From Creation to Revelation: Language in the Star of Redemption.
11:20 - Coffee break
11:40 – 12:35
(P) Roberto Navarrete Alonso (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - Crítica de la violencia y filosofía de la historia en Franz Rosenzweig y Walter Benjamin, 100 años después.
(O) Leopoldo Sandonà (Theological Faculty of Triveneto) - Rosenzweig, philosophy of history and eschatology.
12:35-13:25
(P) Pierfrancesco Fiorato (Università degli Studi di Parma) - Vorwegnahme und Aufschub als Gestalten der Neutralisierung. Über Scholems Auseinandersetzung mit Rosenzweigs Theorie der Erlösung.
(O) Ido Ben Harush (Yale University) - The Miracle: Franz Rosenzweig and Isaac Breuer.
13:25 - Lunch
14:30 - 15:25
(O) Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – “Gewähr der Ewigkeit”: The Systematic Function of Judaism and Christianity in The Star of Redemption.
15:30 - 16:50
(P) Edmundo Balsemão Pires (Universidade de Coimbra), Transcendence as Sociability – from Rosenzweig to Levinas.
(O) Karl Sengupta (University of Texas At Dallas) - Levinas, Rosenzweig, and Antitheodicy. Kenotic Resonances in Levinas and Rosenzweig.
(P) Jacob Levi (Connecticut College) - Immanence, Transcendence, and Exceedance in Rosenzweig’s Star of Redemption and Levinas’ Totality and Infinity.
16:50 - Coffee break
17:10 - 17:50
Coimbra Philosophical Lectures
(P) Ephraim Meir (Bar Ilan University) - Pluralizing Theology. Revisiting Rosenzweig's Star in Light of a Dialogical Theology
17:50 - 19:35
Special Panel on The Inter-religious Theology of Prof. Ephraim Meir in light of the Star of Redemption
(P) Hanoch Ben Pazi (Bar Ilan University) - The Revolutionary Aspects of Ephraim Meir's Theology – Rosenzweigian Thoughts.
(P) Monika D. Kaminska (Universität Hamburg) - Some reflection on the concept of interreligious dialogue and “trans-different thinking” by Ephraim Meir in the light of Rosenzweig's “new thinking” in his book Star of Redemption.
(P) Miriam Feldmann Kaye (Bar Ilan University) - The Existentialist Figure of Abraham in Ephraim Meir’s Dialogical Interpretation of Franz Rosenzweig.
(P) Édouard Robberechts (Aix Marseille Université) - Un dialogue des cultures religieuses dans L’Etoile de la Rédemption de Franz Rosenzweig?
21:00 - Conference Dinner
Friday, 17. Day 2.
9:00 - 9:55
(O) Danielle Cohen-Levinas (Sorbonne Université) – “Et Dieu vit que c’était bon".
10:00 - 11:20
(P) Francesco Ciglia (Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti - Pescara) - Bien plus que de la “religion”. Le projet spéculatif de Franz Rosenzweig.
(O) Olga Belmonte García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - F. Rosenzweig y E. Levinas: la resistencia ética a la totalidad.
(P) Hilan Bensusan (Universidade de Brasília) - The cost of integrating Rosenzweig’s path into philosophy.
11:20 - Coffee break
11:40 – 13:00
(P) Naomi Tanaka (Minami Kyusyu University) - Messianism and the Direction of Education.
(P) Monika D. Kaminska (Universität Hamburg) - Dialogical education and the Importance of Time (of the Moment) in Franz Rosenzweig's writings: The Star of Redemption and “Of Bildung there is no end".
(P) Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho (Universidade do Porto) - “Eine Strophe, die nur von zwei einzelnen Stimmen gesungen wird”. Therapy as a form of Rosenzweig’s category of redemption.
13:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 15:20
(O) Gesine Palmer (Katholische Akademie Berlin) - Othering Himself – On Rosenzweig’s Letters and the Star.
(O) Eugenio Muinelo Paz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) - El diálogo de los sexos. Eros y trascendencia en La estrella de la redención.
(O) Ángel Garrido Maturano (Universität Freiburg) - El estrechamiento del mundo. Observaciones acerca de la determinación del concepto de mundo en La Estrella de la Redención de F. Rosenzweig.
15:25 - Farewell
P: In-person participation.
O: Online participation.
