The International Conference on Ric&oelig\;ur Studies\, Throught Crisis and Conflict: Thinking Differently with Paul Ric&oelig\;ur\, originates from a broad international research framework that has already proved successful in the recent past\, through the organization and realization of other high-profile scientific conferences. For several years\, the Society for Ric&oelig\;ur Studies and Fonds Ric&oelig\;ur have been actively cooperating in organizing international meetings on most relevant cultural topics. The previous conferences\, held in Canterbury (2009)\, Lisbon (2010) and Moscow (2011)\, brought together specialists of philosophy\, sociology and anthropology from all over the world. This year\, the Conference will be held in Lecce (Italy)\, where the University of Salento\, in collaboration with the University of Verona (Verona\, Italy)\, the Institute of Philosophical Studies &ldquo\;Enrico Castelli&rdquo\; (Roma\, Italy)\, The Society for Ric&oelig\;ur Studies (Pittsburgh\, USA)\, and Fonds Ric&oelig\;ur (Paris\, France) will welcome scholars from all over the world for opening and debating new philosophical perspectives having Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s thinking as a landmark. The method of Ric&oelig\;ur and the fruitfulness of his reflection will serve as a guide to continue considering the issues of our time\, with a special focus on the paradigms of crisis and conflict. The current global economic situation is echoed in the multiple theoretical and practical forms in which these issues appear\, and makes it urgent to rethink policies and lifestyles of the Western world. However\, the same concepts of crisis and conflict must also be re-thought not only within a financial and monetary context\, but even\, and most importantly\, from an ethical\, political\, anthropological and epistemological perspective. Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;philosophy of tension&rdquo\; will\, therefore\, offer an important trace for re-thinking the many inflexions of crisis and conflict\, addressing issues such as: multiculturalism achieved through exclusion\, interaction and integration\; the economic crisis\; political communication and debating\; social justice and human dignity\; the right to develop human capabilities\; the situational moral choice\; the promise and the attestation\; the relationship between man and God in the age of secularization\; the secularism\; disorientation and the irruption of sense in religiosity\; the dialectical method\; the relationship between experience and theory in hermeneutics.
\nScientific committee
\nOlivier Abel\, President of Fonds Ric&oelig\;ur\, Institut protestant de thé\;ologie\, Ecole des hautes é\;tudes
en sciences sociales (France)
Luigi Alici\, Università\; degli Studi di Macerata (Italy)
Angelo Bruno\, Università\; del Salento (Italy)
Vinicio Busacchi\, Università\; di Cagliari (Italy)
Franç\;ois Dosse\, Université\; Paris XII (France)
Catherine Goldenstein\, vice-president of the Paul Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s Association\, member of the Scientific
Comittee of Fonds Ric&oelig\;ur (France)
Daniella Iannotta\, Università\; degli Studi di Roma Tre (Italy)
Domenico Jervolino\, Università\; degli Studi di Napoli &ldquo\;Federico II&rdquo\; (Italy)
Mario Lombardo\, Università\; di Verona (Italy)
Johann Michel\, Université\; de Poitiers\, Ecole des hautes é\;tudes en sciences sociales (France)
Roger Savage\, University of California\, Los Angeles (USA)
Alison Scott-Baumann\, Lancaster University\, University of Gloucestershire (UK)\, Fonds Ric&oelig\;ur (France)
George Taylor\, University of Pittsburgh \; (USA)
Laura Tundo Ferente\, Università\; del Salento (Italy)
Pierluigi Valenza\, Director of Istituto &ldquo\;Enrico Castelli&rdquo\;\, Università\; &ldquo\;La Sapienza&rdquo\; (Italy)
When you have any questions\, please do not hesitate to contact our organizing committee to
the following address: ricoeurlecce2012@gmail.com