International
Congress on Hermeneutics
at
St. Bonaventure University
St.
Bonaventure, NY
May
5-10, 2002
Between
the Human and the Divine:
Philosophical
and Theological Hermeneutics
Sunday,
May 5, 2002
Afternoon
2:00-4:00
Registration
4:00
Welcome Address
Dr. R. J. Wickenheiser, President
of St. Bonaventure University
4:15
Welcome and Inaugural Address: The Hermeneutic Retrieval of a
Theological Insight: Verbum Interius
Andrzej Wiercinski, International
Institute for Hermeneutics
6:00
Opening banquet
Monday,
May 6, 2002
Philosophical
Hermeneutics
Morning
7:30‑9:00
Breakfast
9:00-9.30
Philosophical Hermeneutics: Origins, Tenets, Implications
Gary
Madison, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
9.30-10:00
Hermeneutical Finitude from Schleiermacher to Derrida
Merold
Westphal, Fordham University, USA
10.00-10.30
Husserl and the ‘Infinite Task’ of Hermeneutics
R.
Philip Buckley, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
10.30-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-11.15
The Experience of Truth in Heidegger and Gadamer
Graeme
Nicholson, University of Toronto, Canada
11.15-11.45 Between
the Human and the Divine: On the Question of the In-Between
Nicholas
Davey, University of Dundee, UK
11.45-12.30
Podium discussion
Moderator
Graeme Nicholson
12-30-1.30
Lunch
Afternoon
2.00‑2.30
The New Proximity Between Theology and Philosophy
Jean
Grondin, Université de Montréal, Canada
2.30-3.00
The Anti-foundationalism of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical
Hermeneutics
Andrzej
Bronk, Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Lublin, Poland
3.00-3.15
Coffee break
3.15-3.45
Heideggerian Ontology and Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics
Richard
E. Palmer, MacMurray College, USA
3.45-4.15
Between Philosophy and Theology: Ricoeur’s Testimony of the Self
John
van den Hengel, Université Saint-Paul, Ottawa, Canada
4.15-4.45
The Remembrance of Art
Daniel
Tate, St. Bonaventure University, USA
4.45-5.15
Ethics, Representation, Iconoclasm
James
DiCenso, University of Toronto, Canada
5.15-6.00
Podium discussion
Moderator:
Jean Grondin
6.00-7.00
Dinner
Evening
8:00 The
Age of Interpretation
Lecture
by Gianni Vattimo, Università di Torino, Italy
Tuesday
May 7, 2002
Theological
Hermeneutics
Morning
7:30‑9:00
Breakfast
9.00-9.30
The Basic Hermeneutic Question in Theology: Can Man Hear a Wordly
Self-Revelation
of God?
Gerhard
Ludwig Müller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
9.30 -10.00
Inspiration as the Basis of Biblical Interpretation: Karl Barth on
Case Specific Hermeneutics
David
Demson, University of Toronto, Canada
10.00-10.30
Hermeneutics and the Word of the Cross: A Protestant Contribution
John
C. Robertson, Jr., McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
10.30-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-11.15
Basic Principles of Philosophical and Theological Hermeneutics in Hans
Urs von Balthasar’s Theo-Logic
Markus
Enders, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
11.15-11.45
A Philosophical and Systematic Approach to Original Sin
Michael
Schulz, Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano, Switzerland
11.45 -12.30
Podium discussion (in German)
Moderator:
Gerhard Ludwig Müller
12-30-1.30
Lunch
Afternoon
2.00-2.30
On Not Submitting to God’s Righteousness: Jacob’s “Reading” of
God
Samuel
Ajzenstat, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
2.30‑3.00
Why Read? Jewish Thought and Biblical Narrative
Robert
Gibbs, University of Toronto, Canada
3.00-3.15
Coffee break
3.15-3.45
The Rule of Love and the Testimony of the Spirit in Contemporary
Biblical Hermeneutics
Mark
I. Wallace, Swarthmore College, USA
3.45-4.15
A Hermeneutics of Law: Kristeva, Zizek, and the Case for Hypocrisy
Jeffrey
W. Robbins, St. Bonaventure University, USA
4.15-4.45
Understanding in Christian Faith and Obedience: Oliver O’Donovan’s
Evangelical Ethics and the Foundations of Christian Hermeneutics
Holger
Zaborowski, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
4.45-5.15
Hermeneutics of Evil: From Paul Ricoeur to Franz von Baader
Emmanuel
Tourpe, Center of Blondel's Archives, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
5.15-6.00
Podium discussion
Moderator:
Mark Wallace
6.00-7.00
Dinner
Evening
8:00 Analogico-Iconic
Hermeneutics and Theology
Lecture
by Mauricio Beuchot, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City,
Mexico
Wednesday
May 8, 2002
Hermeneutic
Praxis
Morning
7:30‑8:30
Breakfast
8.30-9.00
The Hermeneutic Revolution and the Future ofTheology
Frederick
Lawrence, Boston College, USA
9.00-9.30
The Forgetting of Haecceitas: Heidegger’s 1915-16
Habilitationsschrift
Sean
McGrath, University of Toronto, Canada
9.30-10.00
Religious Life, Facticity, and the Question of the Self: The Early
Heidegger’s Hermeneutics of Religious Texts
Hans-Helmuth
Gander, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg i.Br., Germany
10.00-10.15
Coffee break
10.15-10.45
A Hermeneutic Reading of Medieval Theological Sources: The Case of
John Duns Scotus’s Reportatio I-A, Dist. 27
Oleg
Bychkov, St. Bonaventure University, USA
10.45- 11.15
The Hermeneutics of Discourse and the Reconstruction of the Past
John
Mulryan, St. Bonaventure University, USA
11.15-11.45
Hermeneutics and the Just
James
Fodor, St. Bonaventure University, USA
11.45-12.30
Podium discussion
Moderator:
Frederick Lawrence
12-30-1.30
Lunch
Afternoon
2.00‑2.30
Truth in Time and History: Hermeneutics and the Truth that Strikes
Back
James
Risser, Seattle University, USA
2.30-3.00
At Arm's Length: Theology, Hermeneutics, and Ricoeur's Double Life
Boyd
Blundell, Boston College, USA
3.00-3.15
Coffee break
3.15-3.45
Simone Weil Between Paganism and the Bible: A Hermeneutic Dialogue
with Ricoeur, Lévinas, Schelling, and Pascal
Emmanuel
Gabellieri, Université Catholique de Lyon, France
3.45-4.15
Inquiring into the Primary Model: Yi Jing and Chinese Ontological
Hermeneutics
Chung-ying
Cheng,University of Hawai at Manoa, USA
4.15- 4.45
From Philosophical Hermeneutics to Depth Hermeneutics: Martin
Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Carl Gustav Jung
Jaroslav
Hroch, Masarykovy Univerzity, Brno, Czech Republic
4.45-5.15
Anselm Kiefer: The Work of Art as Performance and Transformation of
Theological Meaning
Xavier
John Seubert OFM, St. Bonaventure University, USA
5.15-6.00
Podium discussion
Moderator:
Xavier John Seubert
6.00-7.00
Dinner
Evening
8:00
Idiomatic Life: Exile, Translation, Waste
Lecture
by Félix Duque Pajuelo, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Thursday,
May 9, 2002
New
Prospects for Hermeneutics
Morning
9.00-9.30
Systematic Theology and Hermeneutics
Francis
Schüssler Fiorenza, The Divinity School, Harvard University, USA
9.30-10.00
The God of the Possible: Towards a New Hermeneutics of Religion
Richard
Kearney, Boston College, USA
10.00-10.30
Hermeneutics and the Transcendence of Understanding
Donatella
Di Cesare, Università degli Studi di Roma I, La Sapienza, Italy
10.30-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-11.15
Hermeneutics and the Politics of Identity
Morny
Joy, University of Calgary, Canada
11.15-11.45
Interpreting Practices, Sustaining Differences: Deconstruction as
Hermeneutical Praxis
Ellen
Armour, Rhodes College, USA
11.45-12.30
Podium discussion
Moderator
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
12-30-1.30
Lunch
Afternoon
2.30 - 5.00
Hermeneutics in the Academic Curriculum
Panel
Discussion
Learning,
Forgetting, and Hermeneutical Pedagogy
Donald
Lococo, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, Canada
Education
in the Humanities: Processing Data or Learning to Think
Sean
McGrath, University of Toronto, Canada
Too
Much Suspicion: Teaching Casual Relativists to Think
Boyd
Blundell, Boston College, USA
6.00 Farewell
buffet dinner
Friday,
May 10, 2001
Departure
day
7:30-9:00
Breakfast
9:00-1:00
Optional trip to the Niagara Falls