Venues
Thursday, June 7 and Saturday, June 9
Giorgio Cini Foundation
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore
Venezia
Friday, June 8
Auditorium Santa Margherita
Dorsoduro 3689, Campo Santa Margherita,
Venezia
Registration
The Seminars are free and open to All.
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PROGRAM
Thursday, 7 June
9.30 am – 10.00 am
Introduction
Tiziana Lippiello, Vice Rector Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Pasquale Gagliardi, Secretary-General Giorgio Cini Foundation
Shaul Bassi, Director Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Giancarlo Bosetti, Director Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations
10.00 am – 11.00 am
Opening Lecture
José Casanova: From Imperial Toleration of Religious Groups to Religious Freedom as an Individual Human Right
11.15 am – 1.00 pm
Ida Zilio Grandi: The Virtue of Tolerance. Notes on the Root S-M-H in the Islamic Tradition
Nayla Tabbara: What Does it Take to Spread an Islamic Pluralist Theology of Other Religions?
Cengiz Aktar: Turkey, Failure of Islam or Failure of Political Islam?
2.00 pm – 2.45 pm
Jacqueline Bhabha: Global Migration Policy: Can it Ensure Just, Safe and Regular Human Mobility?
Chair: Enrico Biale
2.45 pm – 4.00 pm
Federico Squarcini: To Tolerate, or Not to Tolerate, that is the Question. On Aśoka’s Edicts, Empire and the Rhetoric of Tolerance in South Asia
Antonio Rigopoulos: Tolerance in Swami Vivekananda’s Neo-Hinduism
Chair: José Casanova
4.15 pm – 5.15 pm
Seyla Benhabib: The Rise of Intolerance in the Post-Secular Age: A Dilemma
Chair: Marina Calloni
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Friday, 8 June
10.00 pm – 11.00 pm
Homi Bhabha: The Barbed Wire Labyrinth: Thoughts on the Culture of Migration
Chair: Shaul Bassi
11.15 am – 1.00 am
Pei Wang: Zhong and Shu as Ancient Virtues. The Ethical Foundation of the Repeated Unifications in Chinese History and Lessons for Today
Massimo Raveri: Buddhist Esoteric Hermeneutics of the Plurality of Truths in Contemporary Japanese Spirituality
Francesca Tarocco: Religion and the Secular State: A View from China
Chair: Tiziana Lippiello
2.15 pm – 4.00 pm
Ahmet İnsel: Tolerance is not the Acceptance of Equality
Tatjana Sekulić: Nationalism and Language. The Curious Case of the ‘Western Balkans’
Liav Orgad: Illiberal Liberalism: The Limits of European Tolerance
Chair: Pasquale Ferrara
4.15 pm – 5.45 pm
ROUNDTABLE: Overcoming Intolerance in Different Cultural and Social Contexts
Speakers: Giuliano Amato, Seyla Benhabib, Homi Bhabha, David Rasmussen, Pei Wang
Chair: Jonathan Laurence
6.00 pm – 6.45 pm
Karen Barkey: Forms of Pluralism in Empire: The Narratives of Religious Forbearance
Chair: Patrizio Fondi
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Saturday, 9 June
9.30 am – 11.15 am
Diego von Vacano: El Presidente Trump: Understanding the Decline of Toleration due to Populism through Latin American Thought
Alessandro Ferrara: Sideways at the Entrance of the Cave: Plato and Pluralism
Simon Goldhill: Infrastructures of Toleration and Pluralism
Chair: David Rasmussen
11.30 am – 12.15 pm
Presentations of the Summer School Workshops: (1) Justice, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Toleration: When and Why Should we Respect Illiberal Communities?, (2) Toleration: an Instrumental or an Intrinsic Value?, (3) To What Extent are Cultural and Religious Identities Sources of Toleration?
12.15 pm – 1.15 pm
Closing Lecture
Stephen Macedo: Toleration, Inclusion, and Solidarity
Chair: Volker Kaul
1.15 pm
Closing Remarks
Shaul Bassi, Director Center for the Humanities and Social Change, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Giancarlo Bosetti, Director Reset-Dialogues on Civilizations
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Workshops are conducted by Stephen Macedo (Justice, Legitimacy, and the Limits of Toleration: When and Why Should we Respect Illiberal Communities?), Ogan Yumlu (Toleration: an Instrumental or an Intrinsic Value? and Volker Kaul (To What Extent are Cultural and Religious Identities Sources of Toleration?)
The program may be subject to change