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Life and Work of Charles Taylor:
A Tribute
November 9, 2024
9am – 6pm
McGill University
SCHEDULE
9:00–9:20am
Welcoming Remarks
- Lisa Shapiro (Philosophy and the Dean of Faculty of Arts, McGill University)
- Ian Gold (Philosophy, McGill University)
9:20–9:30am
Opening Remarks
- Dilip Gaonkar (Rhetoric, Media, and Publics, Northwestern University/ Director, Center for Transcultural Studies)
9:30–10:30am
A Secular Age (2007)
- José Casanova (Sociology and Religion, Georgetown University)
- Nilüfer Göle (Sociology, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris)
- Rajeev Bhargava (Political Theory, Center for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi)
10:30–11:30am
Faith and Belief: Towards a Catholic Modernity
- William A. Barbieri (Theology and Religious Studies, The Catholic University of America)
- Daniel Cere (Religious Studies, McGill University)
- Lindsay Waters (Executive Editor for the Humanities, Harvard University Press, Emeritus)
11:30am–12:30pm
Sources of the Self (1989)
- Nigel DeSouza (Philosophy, University of Ottawa)
- Natalie Stoljar (Philosophy, McGill University)
- Benjamin Lee (Philosophy and Anthropology, The New School)
12:30–1:30pm
Lunch
1:30–2:30pm
Democratic Errands: Pursuit of Citizen Efficacy and Deep Diversity in Complex Societies
- Dominique Leydet (Philosophy, Université du Québec à Montréal)
- Liam Mayes (Politics, Law and Social Thought, Rice University)
- Keith Topper (Political Science, University of California, Irvine)
2:30–4:00pm
Expressivity, Subjectivity, and Language
- Claude Romano (Philosophy, Paris-Sorbonne and Australian Catholic University, Sydney)
- Michael Steinberg (History, Music, and German Studies, Brown University)
- Jens Beljan (Education and Culture, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena)
- Aude Bandini (Philosophy, Université de Montréal)
- Jocelyn Maclure (Philosophy, McGill University)
4:00–4:30pm
Coffee Break
4:30–5:30pm
Cosmic Connections (2024)
- Paolo Costa (Religious Studies, Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento)
- Michael Warner (English, Yale University)
- Craig Calhoun (Sociology, Politics, and Global Studies, Arizona State University and Princeton University)
5:30–6:00pm
Concluding Remarks
- Charles Taylor (Philosophy, McGill University, Emeritus)
6:00–7:00pm
Public Reception
