Program
Program
WEDNESDAY JUNE 17 2009
| 09.00-09.30 | registration |
| 09.30-09.45 | conference opening by Nel Grillaert and Danny Praet |
| 09.45-10.45 | Keynote lecture Prof. dr. Louis Dupré (Yale University) |
| "Negative theology and the affirmation of God in mystical thought from Plotinus to Nicolas of Cusa" |
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| 10.45-11.15 | coffee break |
| 11.15-12.15 | Keynote lecture Prof. dr. George Pattison (University of Oxford) |
| "Analogy, apophasis and the mystery of the Word" |
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| 12.15-13.30 | lunch |
| 13.30-14.00 | Prof. dr. Rolf Hellebust (University of Nottingham) |
| "Dostoevsky and anti-literature" |
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| 14.00-14.30 | dr. Nel Grillaert (Ghent University) |
| "The final word cannot be said: a rhetorical via negativa in Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov" |
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| 14.30-15.00 | Prof. dr. Martine Van Goubergen (HUBrussel) |
| "Lev Shestov: an attentive ear" |
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| 15.00-15.30 | coffee break |
| 15.30-16.00 | Prof. dr. Benjamin Biebuyck (Ghent University) |
| "Echoes of the apophatic tradition in Friedrich Nietzsche" |
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| 16.00-16.30 | Prof. dr. Johannes Zachhuber (University of Oxford) |
| "Jean-Luc Marion and the tradition of negative theology" |
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| 19.00 | conference dinner |
THURSDAY JUNE 18 2009
| 09.30-10.30 | Keynote lecture Prof. dr. Denys Turner (Yale University) |
| "Theology, Poetry and the Apophatic in Dante's Commedia" |
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| 10.30-11.00 | coffee break |
| 11.00-12.00 | Keynote lecture Prof. dr. Henny Fiska Hägg (University of Agder) |
| "Apophatic theology in the Orthodox tradition from Clement of Alexandria to Gregory Palamas" |
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| 12.00-13.00 | lunch |
| 13.00-13.30 | Prof. dr. Danny Praet (Ghent University) |
| "Apophaticism in ancient mystery cults and ancient novels" |
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| 13.30-14.00 | dr. Lara Sels (Ghent University) |
| "Embracing the limits of language. Apophatic theology in Gregory of Nyssa" |
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| 14.00-14.30 | dr. Julia Konstantinovsky (University of Oxford) |
| "Beyond unknowing and light - negative theology in Pseudo-Dionysius: an eastern approach" |
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| 14.30-15.00 | coffee break |
| 15.00-15.30 | Prof. dr. Rob Faesen (KULeuven) |
| "The apophatic tradition in the Low Countries: Willem van Saint-Thierry, Hadewijch en Ruusbroec" |
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| 15.30-16.00 | dr. Inigo Bocken (Radboud University Nijmegen) |
| "Apophaticism in Nicolas of Cusa" |
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| 16.00-16.30 | Prof. dr. Peter De Mey (KULeuven) |
| "Apophatic and Kataphatic Theology in Dumitru Staniloae (1903-1993) |
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| 16.30-18.00 | closing reception |