Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

1st Global Conference

Sunday 18th March – Tuesday 20th March 2012
Prague, Czech Republic

The programme for the conference is available below. Delegates are listed according to the session in which they appear. Clicking on the Session Title will take you to the abstracts (where available) for that session. Each delegate is listed according to their affiliation.

Final Conference Programme

Sunday 18th March 2012
From 12.30
Conference Registration

13.30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Katarzyna Bronk

14.00
Session 1: Perspectives on Sins and Virtues
Chair: Katarzyna Bronk

Sin and Virtue in Peter Martyr Vermigli
Simon J.  Burton

Conceptions of Malice and Vice in Ancient Greek Thought
Apostolos N. Stavelas

Aristotle on the Virtue of Phronesis: Practical Wisdom
Mary Stefanazzi

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 2: Understanding Sin(s)
Chair: Simon Bacon

The Christian God and the Mystery of Evil
Fáinche Ryan

Hamartiology: Medieval and Modern
Richard Newhauser

Original Sin and Creationist Souls
Joshua Ryan Farris

17.30
Notices and Announcements

17.40
Wine Reception

Monday 19th March 2012
09.00
Session 3: Sins and Virtues: Cultural Perspectives
Chair: Simon J. Burton

Prohibiting Sins and Promoting Virtues in Contemporary Islam: The Case Study of Shari’a Zones in London and Lessons From Further a Field
Zacharias P. Pieri

Sins Type and Their Punishments in Ardāvirāznāmag
Maryam Dara and Kamyar Abdi

Loathe to Call it Sloth: The Plus Side of Pereza
Hilaire Kallendorf

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Ethics and Nature
Chair: Eva Bujalka

Beyond Nso ani: Other ‘Sins’ against Mother Earth
Wole Adejayan

Primate Ethics: The Virtue of Empathy in (Non-)Human Animals
Rosa Slegers

The Ecological Sin: An Offence against Transcendence
Andrzej Dańczak

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Perspectives on Virtue(s)
Chair: Rosa Slegers

Self-Deception, Globalization and Magnanimity
José M. Garrido Bermúdez

What’s So Small about Tolerance?
Regan Lance Reitsma

Towards an Architecture for the Teaching of Virtues, Values and Ethics
Berise Heasly

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Round Table: Sins, Transgressions and Virtues in/of the 21st Century
Chair: Stephen Morris

Tuesday 20th March 2012
09.00
Session 7: Sinners in Literature and Films
Chair: Richard Newhauser

Sin&Sin: On the Relativity of the Fifteenth-Century Concept of Sin in William Caxton’s Translation of the Life Saint Pelage of Antioch (1495), and Sir Gowther (ca. 1470)
Joanna Ludwikowska-Leniec

The Hidden Half: Studying the Shadow in Edgar Allan Poe
Rouhollah Zarei

Natural Born Sinner: The Making of the Antichrist in the Omen Trilogy of Films
Simon Bacon

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8: Sins and Suffering
Chair: Hilaire Kallendorf

“Omologeo and Martireo, I Acknowledge and I Bear Witness”: The Transfigurative Powers of Suffering in Djuna Barnes
Ery Shin

The Deadly Sin of Lust and the Impossible Penitential Book of the 19th Century
Moreno Bonda

Felix Culpa: The Crucifixion as the Greatest Sin and the Greatest Good in Georges Bataille
Eva Bujalka

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9: Sins /Virtues and Society
Chair: Berise Heasly

Performing Virtue – The Troublesome Virginity of the Virgin Mary in Medieval Cycle Plays in England
Katarzyna Bronk

“These Men Deceive Themselves”: Sin, Society and The Scarlet Letter
Danny Robinson

15.30
Coffee

16.00
Development meeting and closing remarks

16.45
Conference Ends