4th Global Conference (2011)

4th Global Conference

Wednesday 20th July 2011 – Friday 22nd July 2011

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

Wednesday 20th July 2011
From 12.30
Registration

13:45
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Charles W. Nuckolls

14.00
Session 1: Anthropological Approaches to Forgiveness
Chair: Juliet Rohde-Brown

An Anthropological Perspective on Forgiveness: Violence, Retribution, and Healing
Sheila Bibb

Forgiveness as the Underlying Theme in Jurispurdence and Relationships with the Ancestors among the OvaHimba of Southwestern Africa
David Crandall

Forgiveness in Islam: Religious Revelation Versus Cultural Tradition
Cynthia Finlayson

Why South Indian Goddesses Never Forgive
Charles W. Nuckolls

16.00
Coffee

16.30
Session 2: Society, History, and Forgiveness
Chair: Cynthia Finlayson

Vulnerable Position as a Condition to AcceptForgiveness
Maosen Li

Forgiveness, Gift Theory, and the Play of Impurity and Inequity
Steve Lorocco

On the Possibility of a “Civil Apology”
Tugba Sevinc Yucel

18.00
Notices and Announcements

18.30
Wine Reception

Thursday 21st July 2011

09.00
Session 3: Justice and Forgiveness
Chair: Tugba Sevinc Yucel

Forgiveness and Wrongful Death: An Existence Proof for Third-Party Forgiveness
Lily Copple

Sin Taxes, Public Health and Forgiveness
John D. Blum

A Programme for Prisons that Encourages Prisoners to Explore Concepts of Forgiveness in a Framework that Fosters Greater Accountability and Responsibility
Marina Cantacuzino

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 4: Politics and Forgiveness
Chair: David Crandall

Does Forgiveness Belong to the Political Theory of Recognition?
Julie Connolly

Political Forgiveness: Why the Romanian Perpetrators of War Crimes Were Released in the 1950’s
Andrei Muraru

The Pardons of the Hamidian Era: The Petitions and the State Policy
Cigdem Oguz

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 5: Religion and Forgiveness
Chair: Andrei Muraru

Is Forgiveness a Virtue? Islamic Perspectives
Mashhad Al-Allaf

Forgiving Somali Pirates: Shariah in Practice
Ramizah Wan Muhammad

Forgiveness, Religiosity, and Family Relations in Romanian-Orthodox Religion
Petruta-Paraschiva Rusu

15:30
Coffee

16.00
Session 6: Literature and Forgiveness
Chair: M. Lorenz Moises J. Festin

Toxic Forgiveness in Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”
Heather Levy

“If I Meet [God] Anytime Soon I’m Going to Slap Him until He Tells Me Why He Done What He Done to Me and Why Do All Good Ones Die” – The Perilous Way to Forgiveness in Colum McCann’s Let the World Spin
Cecile Maudet

A Way to Liberty: The Significance of Forgiveness in The Portrait of a Lady
Kuo-Ping Claudia Tai

17.30
Announcements and Notices

Friday 22nd July 2011

09.00
Session 7: The Penal and the Prodigal
Chair: Elizabeth Wolfson

Human Dignity and Non-Redemption in Penal Thought: Perspective from Caribbean Philosophy and South African Jurisprudence
Kevin Barker

Redeeming Home: Forgiving Our Prodigal Selves in Bernhard Schlink’s Der Vorleser and Marilynne Robinson’s Home
Wiebke Omnus

10.30
Coffee

11.00
Session 8 Conceptual and Psychological Issues
Chair: Kevin Barker

Paper Title: What is Forgiveness? Four Conceptual Models
Juliet Rohde-Brown

Toward an Embellishment of the Process Model of Self Forgiveness Promoting Psychotherapy: A Case Study of the Treatment of an Easting Disordered Young Adult
Itzhak Lander

Holocaust Survivors and Gang Members: An Encounter Transforming Participants’ Attitudes Toward Vengeance and Forgiveness
Elizabeth Wolfson

12.30
Lunch

14.00
Session 9 Philosophies of Forgiveness
Chair: Julie Connolly

Forgiveness, Affect, and Cognition
Raja Bahlul

Forgiving without Forgetting
Yotam Benziman

The Rationality of Forgiveness
M. Lorenz Moises J. Festin

16.00
Coffee

16:30
Development Meeting

17.00
Closing Remarks

17.30
Conference Ends