Program PROSPECT workshop
23-26 August 2012
Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 6UD, UK (http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/)
The third meeting of the PROSPECT group took place at the Wolfson College, University of Oxford. This workshop served as the forum of the preparation the basic conception of a planned book project on the theme of vernacularisation the secular (eds. Torkel Brekke, Nina Hoel, Chiara Letizia)
PROGRAM
Friday 24 August
8.30-8.45 Welcome Torkel Brekke
8.45-9.30 What should we mean by “vernacularization of secularism”?
Chiara Letizia and Annie Leatt
9.30-10.00 Responses and discussion Everybody
10.00-11.00 The Rana debate revisited: Understanding vernacular Norwegian
concepts of the secular Sindre Bangstad, Oslo
11.00-12.00 Missionaries of Secularism: Conversion of The Norwegian
Humanist Association and The International Humanist and Ethical
Union Lars K. Pharo, Oslo
12.00-12.45 Buffet Lunch in Hall at Wolfson College
12.45-13.45 Vernacularization of secularism: Pakistan and Muhammed Iqbal
Faisal Devji, Oxford
13.45-14.45 Vernacularization of secularism: Indian Muslims Ahmed, Hilal, Delhi
14.45-15.00 Coffee, tea, fruit, stretching of legs
15.00-16.00 Re-vernacularization and recontextualization: problems of secularism
and religion in Europe Losonczi, Peter, Leuven
16.00-17.00 Competing vernacular notions of secularism (dharma nirpekshata) in
Nepal Chiara Letizia, Milan
Saturday 25 August
07.45-8.30 Breakfast
8.30-9.30 Secularizing the Vernacular: Slavoj Zizek's Crusade Against Western
Buddhism Aakash Singh Rathore, Delhi/NY
9.30-10.30 Vernacularization of secularism: the case of Turkey
Anat Lapidot-Firilla, Jersusalem
10.30-11.30 Vernacularization of secularism: the case of Sri Lanka
Mahinda Deegalle, Bath
11.30-12.30 Vernacularization of secularism: the case of South Africa
Nina Hoel, Cape Town
12.30-13.15 Buffet lunch in Hall at Wolfson College
13.15-14.15 Vernacularization of secularism: the case of South Africa Annie Leatt, Cape Town
14.15-15.15 Vernacularization of secularism: Neo-Paganism in Europe Jone
Salomonsen, Oslo
15.15-15.30 Coffee, tea, fruit, stretching of legs
15.30-16.30 Vernacularizing secularism in the armed forces of India Torkel
Brekke
16.30-17.30 Discussion Everybody
17.30-18.30 Presentation of next book idea: Gender, religious law and secularism
Nina Hoel, Jone Salomonsen, Torkel Brekke
19.00 Pub dinner at The Anchor http://www.theanchoroxford.com/
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