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“The contribution of Christians to the European integration process”

ufficiostampa — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:58:21 +0000

“The contribution of Christians to the European integration process” is the subject of the Conference due to take place in Cracow on September 10th and 11th. Promoted by Cracow’s Pontificia Università Giovanni Paolo II, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland and the Robert Schuman Foundation in Luxembourg, with the support of the Commission of European Union’s Bishops Conferences (Comece), the Polish delegation of the euro-Parliamentary group of the European People’s Party (Epp) and the publishing house “Wokol Nas”.

Conference program:

THE CHRISTIANS’ CONTRIBUTION TO THE EUROPEAN INTEGRATION PROCESS

Cracow, September 10-11, 2010

10.09.2010 Friday

from 10:00AM Registration

11:00 AM Welcome

Bishop prof. Tadeusz Pieronek, PhD., President of the Organizing Committee, Kraków

Card. Stanislaw Dziwisz, Ph.D., Metropolitan Archbishop of Kraków

Speeches:

Bronislaw KOMOROWSKI, President of the Republic of Poland

Tadeusz MAZOWIECKI, former Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland

Jean-Claude JUNCKER, Prime Minister of Luxemburg

Introductory statements:

Card. Angelo SCOLA, Patriarch of Venice

Hans-Gert PÖTTER ING, President of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation

13:00PM Discussion

Moderator: Jacques SANTER, President of the Robert Schuman Foundation in Luxemburg

15:15 PM I Session

Who is responsible for the presence of the Christianity in the public sphere?

Introductory lecture

Othmar KARAS, Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Austria

Andrzej GRAJEWSKI, Journalist, the “Gosc Niedzielny”

Prof. Fr. Tomasz HALÍK, The Karol University, Prague

Mario MAURO, Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Italy

Jan OLBRYCHT Ph.D., Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Poland

Katarzyna WIS NIEWSKA, Journalist, the ”Gazeta Wyborcza”

Joachim ZELLER, EPP Fraction in the European Parliament, Germany

Moderator: Andrzej GRAJEWSKI, PhD., Journalist, the “Gosc Niedzielny”

16:45PM Discussion

17:30PM Departure

18:00PM Holy Mass, the Church of St. Anne, Sermon: Archbishop Józef KOWALCZYK, Primate of Poland

19:30PM Dinner at the invitation of Marek NAWARA, Marshall of the Malopolska Voivodship, the National Museum – the Gallery of the Polish XIX Century Art in Sukiennice, the Main Market Square, No 1-3

11.09.2010 Saturday

9:00AM II Session

Co-operation between the EU and the Churches – mutual benefits of the structural dialogue

Introductory lecture

Mons. Dominik DUKA O.P, Metr opolitan Archbishop of Prague

György Hölvényi, Adviser to the EPP (Christian Democrats) for interreligious Dialogue, Secretary General of the Robert Schuman Foundation

Prof. Fr. Piotr Mazurkiewicz, Secretary General of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community (COMECE), Brussel

Mons. Celestino MIGLIORE, Apostolic Nuncio to the Republic of Poland

Róza THUN, Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Poland

Moderator: Horst LANGES, Honorary President of the Robert Schuman Foundation in Luxembourg

10:30 AM Discussion

11:00 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM III Session

What are the Christian politicians’ tasks in building of the New Europe ?

Introductory lecture

Maria FLACHSBARTH, PhD., Plenipotentiary of CDU/CSU in the Bundestag for contacts with Churches, Germany

Elmar BROK, Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Germany

Jaroslaw GOWIN, Ph.D., MP (Citizen Platform- PO), Rector of the Tischner European University in Kraków

Werner LANGEN, Ph.D., Member of the European Parliament, EPP (tbc) (Christian Democrats), Germany

Ria OOMAN-RUIJTEN, Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Nederland

Jacek SARYUSZ-WOLSKI, PhD., Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Director of the PO-PSL fraction in the European Parliament, Poland

Moderator: Stephan R AABE, Dir ector of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland

13:00PM Discussion

13:30PM Conference Summary:

Filip KACZMAREK, PhD., Member of the European Parliament, EPP (Christian Democrats), Poland

14:00PM Closing Remarks: Rev.prof. Wladysl aw ZUZIAK, Rector of the Pontifical University of John Paul II in Cracow

Asset: the new School of Advanced Studies Society Economy Theology within Studium Generale Marcianum aims to be an asset for the comprehension of the plural society

ufficiostampa — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:44:42 +0000

The School of Advanced Studies Society Economy Theology (ASSET), created within the Studium Generale Marcianum of the Patriachate of Venice, aims to be an asset for the comprehension of the plural society. ASSET is an academic and cultural proposal responding to a twofold urgency: on one side the necessity for the social sciences to take account, in a complex post-modern society, of all the dimensions of human experience and human need, avoiding any a priori exclusion of interpretative hypotheses, even those deriving from the religious traditions; on the other side the need for both theology and the social doctrine of the Church to become part of the public debate and to contribute to the common good, confronting topics, paradigms and methodologies typical of diverse disciplines.

Areas of study

Philosophy and theology

Social sciences and philosophy

Canon law, constitutional law, philosophy of law

Economy and social doctrine of the Church

Lecturers and members of the International Scientific Committee

Prof. Robert Spaemann (Universität zu München, Germany); Prof. Margaret Archer, (University of Warwick, UK); Prof. Angelika Nussberger, (Universität zu Köln, Germany); Prof. Guy Bédouelle OP, (Université Catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France); Prof. Rubio de Urquia (Universidad CEU San Pablo Madrid, Spain); Prof. Juan Manuel Blanch Nougués (Universidad CEU San Pablo Madrid, Spain); (Prof. Roberto Gatti (Università di Urbino); Prof. Giuliano Segre (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice); Prof. Simona Beretta (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)

Activities

The research project offers seminars, interdisciplinary workshops, and a summer school.

To whom is the initiative addressed?

PhDs (incl. doctoral candidates) and researchers working in university or research institutions, interested in this cultural training opportunity

Professors and researchers of the Studium Generale Marcianum

Members of associations working on the topic of pluralism in society

Staff of NGOs

Public officers at regional, national and European level

Further information

See the pages dedicated to ASSET at www.marcianum.it

Studium Generale Marcianum Foundation, Dorsoduro, 1, 30123 Venezia

tel: 39 (0)41 27.43.911 f :39 (0)41 27.43.998. Email: altascuola@marcianum.it

UK contact : Stratford Caldecott (Centre for Faith & Culture, Oxford) : s_caldecott@yahoo.co.uk

Oasis’ international network is back in Venice

ufficiostampa — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:58:03 +0000

The International Scientific Committee of the Oasis Foundation is set to meet again on 22-23 June at the Fondazione Cini in Venice. The topic of this year’s annual meeting will be Tradition, what it means to the Catholic and Islamic faiths and its impact on plural societies faced with news demands generated by the new intermixing of different cultures and religions.
What does tradition refer to? Among other things, it refers to the need to “integrate” minorities into contexts that are different from those of their home countries. And it also refers to the need for legislation governing social life that is rooted in the history and culture of a nation rather than in abstract concepts.
The Fondazione Cini will host two days of charged activities. A number of honoured guests from different places and backgrounds will attend; together they constitute Oasis’ international network of contacts and represent its heart and soul.
Previous meetings of the Committee were held in Venice (2004 and 2005), Cairo (2006), Venice (2007) and Amman (2008).

N.B.: The traditional press conference will be held at the end of the proceedings at 1.15 pm, on Tuesday 23 June.

Here you will find the programme of the two-day event and the list of participants.

Programme

Fondazione Cini – Venice

Monday, 22 June 2009

First Session

9.30 am – 9.40 am Introduction by Dr Martino Diez, director of the Fondazione Internazionale Oasis.
9.40 am – 10.00 am Address by H.E. Card Angelo Scola, Patriarch of Venice. About the inevitable cultural interpretation of faith
10.00 am – 10.20 am Dr Paolo Gomarasca, Tradition/testament/inheritance, for a hermeneutics of tradition
10.20 am – 10.40 am Fr Michel Cuypers. The role of tradition in the Islamic faith
10.40 am – 11.00 am Prof Malika Zeghal. Tradition and traditions in contemporary Islam

11.00 am – 11.30 am Break

Second Session

11.30 am – 11.50 am Prof Azzeddine Gaci, Islam in Europe, a tradition in the making.
11.50 am – 12.10 pm Prof John Milbank, Rethinking religions’ public place
12.10 pm – 13.00 pm Open discussion on the various papers presented

13.15 – 14.45 pm Lunch

Thirds and fourth sessions

15.00 – 16.30 pm Discussion
16.30 – 17.00 pm Break
17.00 – 18.45 pm Discussion

Tuesday 23 June 2009

First Session

8.45- 9.00 am Introduction by Dr Roberto Fontolan, Oasis editor
9.00- 11.00 am Open discussion

10.00 – 11.30 am Break

Second Session
11.30 am – 12.30 pm Open discussion
12.30 pm – 12.45 pm Closing address by H.E. the Patriarch

13.15 pm Press conference by Card Angelo Scola and other international guests

Speakers who will open the committee’s proceedings:

Paolo Gomarasca is a Researcher in Moral Philosophy and teaches Institutions of Anthropology in the Faculty of Sociology at the Università Cattolica in Milan His latest book is Meticciato: convivenza o confusione? (Métissage: Coexistence or Confusion) (Marcianum Press, 2008).
Michel Cuypers is a Brother of Jesus. After living in Iran he moved to Egypt in 1989 where he is a member of Dominican Institute for Eastern Studies (DIES). His focus has been on the study of the Qur‘anic test.
Malika Zeghal is Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion and Islamic Studies in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. In her work, Gardiens de l’Islam (Guardians of Islam), she analyses the influence of the ulamā of Al-Azhar University.
(Alasdair) John Milbank is a Christian theologian and Professor in Religion, Politics and Ethics at the University of Nottingham.
Azzeddine Gaci heads the Islamic Regional Council of the Rhône-Alpes Region, France

For more information about Oasis, its resources (journal, newsletter, website, books, research and events) and committee, check out its website www.oasiscenter.eu