Deus v. Machina
Graduate Conference at the Centre for Ethics
University of Toronto
April 29-30, 2016
CONFERENCE PANELS
All panels will be held in the Centre for Ethics Conference Room (rm. 200), Gerald Larkin Building, 2nd Floor, 15 Devonshire Place
Open to the public
FRIDAY, APRIL 29TH
Chair: Sara Lee
Discussant: Dr. Ronnie Beiner
Juan Pablo Aranda, "The Vatican Council II and the Political”
University of Toronto, Political Science.
Tim Berk, "Heidegger and Grant on Technological Destining and the Preparation for the Gods"
University of Toronto, Political Science.
Zak Black, "A Strange Secularism: Hobbes, Naaman, and the Harrowing of Hell"
University of Toronto, Political Science.
10:00 – 12:00 How to Hear God: the politics of religious openness
12:30 - 2:30 Symbols and Icons: the arts of revealing
Chair: Lincoln Rathnam
Discussant: Dr. Laura Rabinowitz
Judith Brunton, "The Occult of Extraction: The Spiritual Technology of Oil"
University of Toronto, Study of Religion.
Yevgeniya Kramchenkova, "Iconoclastic Controversy: A Christological Defense of Icongraphy”
Toronto School of Theology.
Clara Chang, "Virtual War and the Jouissance of the Real: Male Machismo and WWII Castration Anxiety in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity Rainbow"
University of Toronto, English.
Saturday, April 30th
10:00 - 12:00 Surpassing the Human: reason and revelation
Chair: Emma Planinc
Discussant: Dr. John Modern
Kimberly Rodda, “Examining the "possibilities of latter-day belief": Mechanized Religion in Stoker's Dracula”
University of Toronto, English.
Benjamin Groenewold, “Turning Technology Inside Out: Examining a Milieu's Religious Core”
Institute for Christian Studies.
Jay Conte, “Considering the Relationship Between Transhumanism and Cultural Posthumanism”
Carleton University, Political Science.
3:00 – 5:00 Trials of Recognition: immigration and globalization
Chair: Scott Dodds
Discussant: Dr. Hilary Evans Cameron
Sujaya Dhanvantari, “Reviving an Ethics of Hospitality for the Political Refugee”
Concordia University, The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Society and Culture.
Kelly Whitehead, “Revisiting Integrative Social Contracts Theory in the wake of Derrida’s Mondialisation: Implications of Theory over Practice”
University of Toronto, English.
1:00 – 3:00 Progress through Return: the (re)birth of spirit in the technological age
Chair: Yevgeniya Kramchenkova
Discussant: Dr. Ruth Marshall
Joud Alkorani, “Fatwā ex Machina: The Work of Fatwās in the Age of Digital (re)Production”
University of Toronto, Study of Religion and Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies.
Paul Gray, “In the end will be the conversation: Hegel on forgiveness”
York University, Political Science.
Jonathon Polce, “Not my cool: the challenges online filtering creates for self-growth and conversion”
Institute for Christian Studies.
Location of Panels: Centre for Ethics
