Dialogue in the 21st Century: A Martin Buber Memorial Conference

Conference Schedule

9:00-9:30am: Arrival and breakfast

9:30-9:45am: Opening remarks

9:45-10:45am: SESSION I: RELIGIOUS DIALOGUE

• “Martin Buber and Catholic-Atheist Dialogue”: Peter A. Huff, Director of Campus Ministry and Professor of Theology at the University of Mary
• “Martin Buber and the Existential Encounter of State and Religious Authority”: Perry Dane, Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law – Camden

Session Chair: Michele Saracino, Department Chair and Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College

11:00am-12:00pm: SESSION II: PHILOSOPHY OF DIALOGUE

• “Embodied Dialogue in Buber’s Philosophical Anthropology”: William Plevan, Ph.D. Candidate in the Religion Department at Princeton University
• “Buber’s Philosophy of Action — from Jewish Texts to Analytic Philosophy”: Asaf Ziderman, Ph.D. Candidate in the School of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University

Session Chair: Eoin O’Connell, Co-Director of the Center for Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Manhattan College

12:00-1:30pm: lunch

1:30-1:45 convening remarks

1:45-2:45 SESSION III: BUBERIAN MORAL RELATIONS

• “Imagining the Real: Almodóvar’s Talk to Her and Buber on Moral Relations”: Sarah Scott, Co-Director of the Center for Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at Manhattan College
• “Moments and Mountains: Buberian Relations and Utopian Paths in the Global Health Rights Movement”: Elliot Ratzman, Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at Temple University

Session Chair: Jordan Pascoe, Professor of Philosophy at Manhattan College

3:00-4:30 SESSION IV: POLITICAL DIALOGUE AND BINATIONALISM

• “Is the Dialogue Between Heaven and Earth an I-Thou Relation?”: Samuel Hayim Brody, Professor of Religious Studies at University of Kansas
• “Metaphysical, not Political: Martin Buber, Meron Benvenisti, and the Bi-nationalism Idea”: Zachary Braiterman, Professor of Religion at Syracuse University
• “Squaring the Circle: Buber on Zionism, Humanism, and Jewish Statehood”: Michael Zank, Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Judaic Studies and Professor of Religion at Boston University

Session Chair: Mehnaz Afridi, Director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center and Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College

4:30-5:30pm: RECEPTION