Day 1 – Conference

Thursday – 30 May

@ Freemason Hall

9:30 AM – 9:45 Opening remarks

Giancarlo Bosetti (Chair, Reset DOC)

Jonathan Laurence (Executive Director, Reset Dialogues on Civilizations)

9:45 AM – 11:30 AM Session 1 – Globalization in the Face of the Tide of Hatred

• Marina Calloni – Polarization Through Social Media: the Digital Push to a Culture of Hate
• Mauro Magatti – The Collapse of the Universal and Homogeneous State Facing Populism, Fundamentalism and Sovereignism
• Jacob Rogozinski – The Fewer the Enemies, The More the Enemies: The Enigma of Absolute Hostility

Moderator: Giancarlo Bosetti

11:30 – 11:45 AM Coffee Break

11:45 AM – 1:30 PM Session 2 – When the Extreme Rivalry Dominates the Landscape

• Asma Afsaruddin – Justice and Non-Combatant Immunity in Islamic Military Ethics
• José Casanova – The Pluralization of Cosmopolitanisms: Religious and Secular
• Nadia Urbinati – The Decline and the Need of the Key Force of Intermediation

Moderator: Jonathan Laurence

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM- 4:15 PM Session 3 – The Ideals and Limits of International Institutions

• Mustafa Akyol – Why the World Order is not Liberal Yet (online)
• Charles Kupchan – Bringing Order to Anarchy: Taming Rivalry in the World to Come (online)
• Boyd van Dijk – The Peace-War Nexus and the Role of the Humanization of Warfare as a Step Towards Global Peace 

Moderator: Michael Driessen

4:15 PM – 4:3o PM Break

4:30 PM – 5:30 PM Student Workshops

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Day 2 – Conference

Friday – 31 May

@ Freemason Hall

9:30 AM – 11:15 AM Session 4 – The Conflicts on Minorities’ Rights: Inclusion/Exclusion

• Michael Driessen – Global Disorder, Interreligious Dialogue, and Visions of Peace
• Chandra Mallampalli – The Confusion about Conversion: Hindu Nationalism and the Politics of Religious Change in India

Moderator: Asma Afsaruddin

 11:15 – 11:30 AM Coffee Break

11:30 AM – 1:15 PM Session 5 – Polarization Across Traditions

• Franco Baldasso – The Language of Responsibility: Post-Fascism in Italy and its Challenge to Cold War Divides
• Sean Golden – Can the Confucian Dream of Peace Dialogue with Realpolitik?
• Assaf Sharon – Title to be defined.

Moderator: Rebecca Carr

1:15 PM – 2:45 PM Lunch

2:45 PM- 4:30 PM Session 6 – The Causes and Roots of Polarization, Between Politics, Ethnos, and Religion

• Rajeev Bhargava – Polarization and the Pernicious Idea of Exclusive Allegiance
• Chiara Giaccardi – Inter-Independence, Dialogue, Sustainability After Globalization 
• Brian Levy – How Inequality, Identity and Polarization Interact (online)

Moderator: Nicholas Hayes-Mota

4:30 PM – 4:45 PM Break

4:45 PM – 5:45 PM Student Workshop  

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Day 3 – Conference and Seminars

Saturday – 1 June

@ Boston College Ireland

9:30 AM – 11:30 AM Roundtable: The Friend-Enemy Polarization and Future Scenarios

11:30 – 11:45 AM Coffee Break

11:45 AM – 1:15 PM Student Presentations

Organizing Partners 

Reset Dialogues on Civilizations

Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme

The Clough Center for Constitutional Democracy at Boston College

Boston College – Ireland

This research program and related results were made possible by the support of the NOMIS Foundation.