Baltimore 2013

Held in conjuction with the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion
This symposium pays tribute to the contributions of the late Professor Raimon Panikkar. He was a thinker and a scholar whose interests covered the issues of science, technocracy and history (or the meaning of temporality), apart from his profoud insight into the spirituality of “post-historical” humanity – the clear acknowledgement that we live in an unfamiliar world that arose following the “splitting of atoms”. While remaining rooted in Christian spirituality, he engaged in interfaith dialogue, speaking for a radically inter-traditional epistemology. The purpose of the symposium is for friends, scholars and intellectuals who are interested in Panikkar’s thought to get together and critically engage in important issues addressed by him, and assess the merit of dialogical and intercultural studies in our profession in the present world.

Presiders:

Michiko Yusa (Western Washington University)
Tribute to Scott Eastham (Massey University)
“Flight from the Antipodes: The pneumatics of text in context”
“Gender, the Feminine, and Cultural Disarmament in the thought of Raimon Panikkar;

Young-chan Ro (George Mason University & University of Notre Dame
“An Epistemological Foundation of Raimon Panikkar.

Participants:    

Milena Carrara Pavan (President of Vivarium and Editor of Opera Omnia)
“Panikkar’s Opera Omnia: the philosophical/spiritual pilgrimage of Raimon Panikkar;

Bret W. Davis (Loyola University, Maryland)
“Intertraditional Dialogue: From Gadamer’s Diachronic to Panikkar’s Diatropical Hermeneutics”;

Fred Dallmayr (University of Notre Dame)
“A Secular Age? Reflections on Taylor and Panikkar”;

Francis Clooney (Harvard University)
“Arguing Catholics: (how) Does Advaita Matter to

Roberta Cappellini (CIRPIT President)
“Panikkar’s Intra-Inter-Dialogical Philosophy: Imparative vs.  Comparative;

Purushottama Bilimoria (University of Melbourne, UC Berkeley)
“Further Reflections on Imparative Studies”;

Abraham Vélez de Cea (Eastern Kentucky University)
“The Cross-cultural Hermeneutics of Raimon Panikkar”;

John Blackman (practising lawyer, San Francisco)
“Meditation of a Mediator: Applying Panikkar’s insights to Dispute Resolution”;

Josep Prabhu (California State University, Los Angeles)
Raimon Panikkar’s Trinitarianism and his Critique of (Mono)theism.