BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250621T211021EDT-9390tnRxVZ@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250622T011021Z DESCRIPTION:Birks Forum\n\nFaith & Public Discourse in Troubled Times\n\nA Public Conversation with Charles Taylor\, José Casanova\, Hans Joas\n\nJos é Casanova is professor emeritus at Georgetown University and senior fello w at the Berkley Center. He has published works on a broad range on religi on and globalization\, politics and religion\, and transnational religions and migration. His works include\, Public Religions in the Modern World ( 1994)\, Islam\, Gender\, and Democracy in Comparative Perspective\, (with J. Cesari\, 2017)\, Religious and Secular Dynamics in Our Global Age (2017 ). Jesuits and Globalization\, (with T. Banchoff\, 2016)\, and Asian Pacif ic Catholicism and Globalization (with P. Phan\, 2023). In 2012\, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in rec ognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology.\n\nCharles Taylor is professor emeritus at 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and former Chichele Pro fessor of Social and Political Theory in the University of Oxford. Interna tionally acclaimed as a leading intellectual in our time\, his work has im pacted an array of fields in philosophy\, the social science and humanitie s. Some of the landmark books in his evolving corpus of work include\, Heg el (1975)\, Sources of the Self (1989)\, The Malaise of Modernity (1991)\, A Secular Age (2007)\, and Cosmic Connections (2024). Prof. Taylor is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the Kyoto Prize\, the Templeton Prize\; the John W. Kluge Prize\; and the. Inaugural Berggruen P rize for Philosophy.\n\nHans Joas is Ernst Troeltsch Professor of Sociolog y of Religion at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Visiting Professor of Sociology and in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of C hicago. His numerous publications include\, Under the Spell of Freedom. Th eory of Religion after Hegel and Nietzsche (2024)\, The Power of the Sacre d: An Alternative to the Narrative of Disenchantment (2021)\, War in Socia l Thought: Hobbes to the Present (2013)\, The Sacredness of the Person: A New Genealogy of Human Rights\, (2013). Among his numerous prizes are the Niklas Luhmann Prize in 2010\; the Max Planck Research Award in 2015\; the Prix Paul Ricoeur in 2017 and the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Awar d of the German Sociological Association in 2022.\n\n \n DTSTART:20250318T193000Z DTEND:20250318T213000Z LOCATION:Birks Heritage Chapel\, 2nd Floor\, Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Mon treal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue University SUMMARY:Birks Forum: Faith & Public Discourse in Troubled Times URL:/religiousstudies/channels/event/birks-forum-faith -public-discourse-troubled-times-363921 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR