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 (v.1.3b)

Friday 7th March 2008
from 12.30
Registration

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

14:00
Session 1: Philosophical and Theological Issues
Chair: Rob Fisher

Tim Burns
Blessing Those that Curse You: On Lonergan, Forgiveness and the Problem of Evil

Jeremy Watkins
The Conditional Case for Unconditional Forgiveness

Trudy Govier
Invitational Forgiveness as a Peace Initiative? The Case of Suicide Bombings

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 2: Forgiveness and Justice
Chair: David White

Bas van Stokkom
Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Restorative Justice Conferences

Neelke Doorn
Forgiveness and Reconciliation in Transitional Justice Practices

Anne Macduff
The Legal Status of Apologies and the 'Blame Game': Do 'Sorry' Statements make you Liable?

17:30
Announcements
Wine Reception (with delegates from Evil, Law and the State)

 

Saturday 8th March 2008
09:00
Session 3: Forgiveness, Children and Education
Chair: Margaret Smith

Tomoko Yamaguchi
Exploring Origins of Forgiveness in Children: An Analogue Experimental Study

Martina Waltman
Art as a Vehicle to Enhance the Moral Virtue of Forgiveness

10:15
Coffee Break

10:45
Session 4: Third-Party Forgiveness
Chair: Barbara Flood

Kathryn Norlock
Why Self-forgiveness Needs Third-Party Forgiveness

Alice MacLachlan
Forgiveness and Moral Solidarity

Justin Jeffrey
Financial and Moral Forgiveness

12:30
Lunch

14:00 Concurrent Sessions
Session 5a: Arendt and Ricoeur
Chair: Bas van Stokkom

Stephen Schulman
The Necessity of Forgiveness for the Public Realm: On Hannah Arendt's Public Conception of Forgiveness

Verena Rauen
No Freedom Without Forgiveness? Hannah Arendt and Paul Ricoeur on the Philosophical Problem of Recommencement

Rachel Waterstradt
Forgive and not Forget: The Delicate Balance in Ricoeur's Memory, History, Forgetting

Session 5b: Forgiveness and Political Violence
Chair: Karl Tomm

Trangdai Glassey-Tranguyen
(Women) Civilians After Wars: Any Nation State Asking for their Forgiveness?

Adriana Mica
Forgiveness and Disclosure Scandals in Romania

Betul Celik and Riva Kantowitz
Trauma and Forgiveness: Comparing Experiences from Turkey and Guatemala

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 6a: Derrida and the Possibility of Forgiveness
Chair: Dag Helge Moldenhagen

Michael Strawser
Between Terrorism and Forgiveness: Exploring Derrida's Meta-Secular Thinking

Niva Arav
To Exceed the Scene of Economy: Derrida's Forgiveness and Responsibility

Paul van Tongeren
'Impossible' Forgiveness

Session 6b: Repentance and Reconciliation
Chair: Christina Tomacic-Niaros

Karolina Wigura
Declarations of Repentance and Forgiveness in Politics: Between Morality and Politics

David Lipschitz
Ginn Fourie and Letlapa Mphahlele - two remarkable South Africans on a journey of forgiveness: A view through a Transpersonal Lens.

Máiréad Collins
Forgiveness in the Post-conflict Environment: Liberation or Imprisonment?

17:30
Sessions End

 

Sunday 9th March 2008
09:00
Session 7: Forgiveness and Emotional Experiences
Chair: Michael Strawser

Francesca-Giorgia Paleari and Camillo Regalia
Effects of Perceived Inequity in Marital Forgiveness

Rhonda Stoertebecker
Differentiating Anger and Resentment: Implications for Forgiveness and Psychological Distress

Margaret Smith
Forgiveness as Empowerment

10:30
Coffee Break

11:00
Session 8: Forgiveness and Personal Violence
Chair: Kathryn J. Norlock

Yael Maurer
'Women can be surprisingly forgiving': Coetzee's Disgrace

Gabi Mihalache
Transformative Forgiveness: From Self-healing to Others-healing

Christina Tomacic-Niaros and Barbara Flood
The Spiritual and Psychological Impact of Forgiveness on Victims of Violent Crime

12:30
Lunch

14:00
Session 9: Forgiveness, Literature and Film
Chair: Jeremy Watkins

Cornelia Caseau
Günter Grass; The Forgiveness of Danzig

Daphne Seemann
Forgiveness: Performing the Boundaries. An Investigation Of Staged Acts Of Forgiveness In Maxim Biller's Harlem Holocaust And Die Tochter

Sherry Sabbarwal
Redefining Heroism: Return of the Forgiving Hero

15:30
Coffee Break

16:00
Session 10: Historical Perspectives
Chair: Rachel Waterstradt

Mattias Roick
The King, His Barons and the Virtue of Magnanimity: Forgiveness as a Political Strategy in Aragonese Naples (1442-1495)

Qaiser Shazad
To Forgive or not to Forgive: Ibn 'Arabi and the Qur'anic Hermeneutic of Forgiveness

17:00
Development Meeting

17:30
Conference Ends