Fountainheads of Toleration – Forms of Pluralism in Empires, Republics, Democracies
Ca' Foscari University and Giorgio Cini Foundation

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