The schedule of the conference can be found below. A link to a Google form, where all ideas, questions and comments for the final panel discussion can be handed in, can be found after the schedule.
All the plenary sessions will take place in the main room for the conference. This is room T3-20, located at the 3rd floor of the Mandeville Building. The A-sessions will be there too. The B-sessions will take place in room T3-29.
Schedule of the conference "Human Nature and Community"
Thursday 19th of June
Chair: Gordon Menzies
09:00 Devotional (Kees van der Kooi)
09:15 Welcome & Opening
09:30 Keynote - What is a Community? - Mapping the Terrain in Theology and Economics (Arttu Makipaa)
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 Keynote - Can Game Theory Properly Understand Human Community? Towards a Brunnerian Hermeneutic of Suspicion (Gordon Menzies)
11:30
| 1A: Room T3-20 | 1B: Room T3-29 |
|---|---|
| Chair: Arttu Makipaa | Chair: Ard Jan Biemond |
| Relativizing the Value of Economic Growth (Robert Tatum) | Catholic Social Teaching: An Integrative Framework for Theology and Economics (Bruno Petrusic) |
| How Can the Community Mechanism Work among People with Different Religions and Worldviews? (Masao Ogaki) | On the metaphysics and economics of the Trinity (Michaël Bauwens) |
12:30 Lunch
14:00
| 2A: Room T3-20 | 2B: Room T3-29 |
|---|---|
| Chair: Joost Hengstmengel | Chair: Mark Joosse |
| Theotic Governance and the Ecumenical Administration of the Commons: A Theological Framework for Collective Stewardship (Alonso de Llanes) | Become What You Are: Helmut Thielicke’s Relational Imago Dei as a Response to Existential Anxiety and Germany’s Postwar Economic Miracle (Mark Lack) |
| Ownership as stewardship: Goudzwaard and beyond (Anke Teeuw) | The contribution of Caritas in Veritate to the theory of relational goods (Maria E. Barreto) |
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30
| 3A: Room T3-20 | 3B: Room T3-29 |
|---|---|
| Chair: Gordon Menzies | Chair: Steven van den Heuvel |
| Altruism, Prayer and Transformation of Social Preferences: A Dialogue Between Theology and Economics (Gherardo Girardi) | Special Session on Aesthetics and Community - From Sacred Art to Market Commodity: Music, Consumerism, and the Theology of Waste (Daniela Petrusic) |
16:00 Keynote - Towards a Community Economics: A Mennonite Perspective (Irene van Staveren)
16:45 Plenary summary & discussion
17:30 Break & aperitive
19:00 Conference dinner
Friday 20th of June
Chair: Steven van den Heuvel
08:00 Meeting of the Economic Humanists (special session) (Van der Goot Building, room M5-02)
09:00 Devotional (Wilco de Vries)
09:15 Opening & Retrospective
09:30 Keynote - Community and Creation: a Reformed Perspective on Embedding the Economy (Roel Jongeneel)
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45
| 4A: Room T3-20 | 4B: Room T3-29 |
|---|---|
| Chair: Pim Boven | Chair: Cees Tulp |
| Theology and Economics on Love and Justice (Wilco de Vries, Lans Bovenberg, Johan Graafland) | Exploring the Intersection of Bonhoeffer's Responsibility and Genovesi's Economics (Emilio di Somma) |
| Without Community, Ideals like Freedom, Equality, and Justice are out of reach (Arjo Klamer) | Work, self-esteem and vocation. Beyond an economy of the gift (Jan van der Stoep) |
| Charity and beneficence as pillars of the community (Ard Jan Biemond) | Contextual Theology of Money Among Pentecostal Groups in Ghana and its Economic Implications (Jeremiah Agbeshie) |
12:15 Lunch
14:00
| 5A: Room T3-20 | 5B: Room T3-29 |
|---|---|
| Chair: Anke Teeuw | Chair: Kees van der Kooi |
| Humbling the omniscient Homo economicus with proleptic reason (Agnieszka Wincewicz) | The indispensable return of a public Sabbath: A conversation between economics and theology on community building in the midst of radical uncertainty (Jan Jorrit Hasselaar) |
| Finance and the Formation of Persons: Governance Structures as Moral Ecology (Geoffrey Friesen) | The Catallactic Tradition in Economics: A Theological Analysis (Joost Hengstmengel) |
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 Panel Discussion
16:30 Closing
17:00 Aperitive
Panel discussion
We will conclude the conference in a panel discussion, in which we will bring together the insights and integrative questions we have come across.
Through the link below, you can provide input (ideas, questions, remarks) for the panel discussion. Thanks in advance!