2nd Global Conference (2009)

2nd Global Conference

Friday 13th March – Monday 16th March 2009
Salzburg, Austria

Conference Programme, Abstracts and Papers

13:30
Welcome and Opening Words
Rob Fisher and David White

14:00
Session 1: What is Forgiveness?
Chair: David White

Steven Larocco
Forgiveness: A Quiet Assault on the Malicious

Crystal L’Hote
Forgiving is Not Forgetting, but What Does it Mean to Remember?

Lynne Tirrell & Alisa Carse
Forgiveness and Normative Repair

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: The Aftermath of Colonialism
Chair: Avihay Dorfman

Anél Terblanche
Forgiveness Through Land Reform: The South African Experience

Francesca Dominello
When Saying Sorry Just Isn’t Enough

Angelie Multani
Forgiveness is the only Final Solution: A Reading of the play Final Solutions by Mahesh Dattani

17:30
Announcements
Wine Reception

Saturday 14th March 2009
09:00
Session 3: Contemporary European Political Dimensions
Chair: Verena Rauen

Cornelia Caseau
Peter Handke: ‘The Morawian Night’; or the Request for Forgiveness

Bernhard Forchtner
Probing the Shady Side of Forgiveness; The Judge-Penitent Discourse as a Conceptualisation of the Misuse of Confessions of Guilt

Milica Vasiljevic
Reconciliation in the Former Yugoslavia; Do Cross-Community Contact and Intergroup Threats Predict Trust and Forgiveness in the Aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars?

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 4: Philosophical Issues
Chair: Thomas Riegler

Glen Pettigrove
Forgiveness and Grace

Maria Adamos
Is Forgiveness a Good Thing?

Cynthia Townley
Forgiveness and Betrayal

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 5: Jankélévitch and Derrida
Chair: Marieke Smit

Karolina Wigura
Does Unforgivable exist? On Jankélévitch’s and Derrida’s Theory of Forgiveness and Unforgivable

Mohsen Ghasemi
Aporia of Forgiveness

15:15
Sessions End
Free afternoon for exploring Salzburg

Sunday 15th March 2009
09:00
Session 6: Religious Dimensions
Chair: Regan Reitsma

Danielle Celermajer
Political Apologies: Re-covenanting the Nation

Fergus Hogan
In Search of Forgiveness: Men and Abortion, Managing Sin, Guilt and Shame in post Catholic Ireland

Boniface Nkem Anusiem
The African Model Of Forgiveness: A Contribution To Social Reconstruction and World Peace

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 7: Forgiveness and Law
Chair: Steven Larocco

Carla Ross
Reconciling Irreconcilable Differences Through Forgiveness

Avihay Dorfman
Reasons for Forgiveness and the Law of Torts

Richard Weisman
Coupling and Decoupling Remorse and Forgiveness in Legal Discourse

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 8: Arendt and Levinas
Chair: Francesca Dominello

Lucy Tatman
Tikkun Olam through Forgiveness and Promise: Renewing the World in the thought of Hannah Arendt

Christopher Allers
Undoing What Has Been Done: Arendt and Levinas on Forgiveness

Verena Rauen
The Unatonable Guilt and the Force of Time. The Problem of Forgiveness in the Works of Emmanuel Levinas

15:30
Sessions End

Monday 16th March 2009
09:00
Session 9: Psychological Perspectives
Chair: Daniel Angualia

Thomas Riegler
Forgiveness in the scripts of Guillermo Arriaga

Lee Cho-rong, Loren Toussaint, Hyun Myoung-ho & Sun Young Yoon
The Mediating Role of Rumination in the Association Between Forgiveness and Depression in South Koreans: A Study of Cultural Generalizability

Sung-Yi Cha, Young-Sun Ra & Hyun Myoung-ho
Forgiveness and Overt-Covert Narcissism: The Mediating Effects of Attribution Style

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 10: Victims, Perpetrators, and Bystanders
Chair: Cynthia Townley

Yoona Lee
How Victims and Offenders Use Forgiveness and Apology: Relation of Self and Other Responses

Linda Radzik
Moral Bystanders and the Virtue of Forgiveness

Marieke Smit
Prisoners and Forgiveness

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 11: Victims of Violence
Chair: Karolina Wigura

Christina Tomacic-Niaros & Barbara Flood
The Community Response To Violence: Do Rituals Of Healing Support Forgiveness?

Geoffrey Karabin
Islamic Suicide Bombing & the Question of Reconciliation

Diana Medlicott
Forgiveness After Torture: Narratives of Grief and Grace

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 12: Russian Literature, Russian Culture
Chair: Cornelia Caseau

Ritoo Jerath
Why Can Russia No Longer Forgive?

Regan Reitsma
Does God Have the Right to Forgive?

17:00 – Development Meeting – Conference Close