INTERNATIONAL INTERDISCIPLINARY CONGRESS
CONFLICT, DIALOGUE AND CULTURE OF UNITY
3 - 4 JUNE 2016
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
PROF. JOHN RAVEN
PROF. CATHERINE BELZUNG
Eminent figure on the international scientific scene, Catherine Belzung, neuroscientist, is Professor, Head of Team 4, of the department "Imagerie et Cerveau" of the University François Rabelais of Tours (France). In 1988 she receives her doctoral degree at the University "Louis Pasteur" in Strasburgh with the supervision of prof. Renè Misslin. Between 1988 and 1989 she follows with the title of post-doctoral degree at the CNR of Rome under the supervision of Prof. Stefano Puglisi-Allegra. From 1989 to 2002 she is Assistent at the University "François Rabelais" of Tours where beginning from 2002 she is Ordinary Professor, up to present time. She is responsible for the Master "Cognition and Neurosciences" and of the Centre d'Initiation aux Mètiers de l'Enseignement Supèrieur (CIMES) of the University François Rabelais of Tours. A member of the scientific council of the University François Rabelais of Tours, she is also part of the National Council of the University (CNU) – Neuroscience Section – and is consulting member of the scientific committee of the European College of Neuropsichopharmacology (ECNP). December 11 of 2012 she received the Legion of Honour for her scientific merits, the highest honour bestowed by the French Republic.
PROF. ADAM BIELA
PROF. MAURO MAGATTI
Mauro Magatti, degree in economics, PhD in social sciences, is full professor of Sociology at the Catholic University of Milan. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Sociology at the same University from 2006 to 2012. He is the director of the Centre for the Anthropology of Relgion and Cultural Change (Arc), a research centre at the Catholic University of Milan established in 2010 in collaboration with Cork University and the Gallup Foundation. His main scientific interests are focussed on the relationship between economy and society, the role of civic society and globalization in its cultural and social implications. More recently, his focus moved on social generativity as a strategy to overcome the consumeristic society and its narcissistic individualism. His approach is informed by the deep empirical grounding of his theoretical elaboration and on a wide-ranging fieldwork experience. During his career he worked for a number of institutions and organizations, such as the European Science Foundation, the European Union, the Italian Ministry of Research. He has been member of the K. Polanyi Institute at the University of Montreal and of the Global Studies Association. In 2006-07 he was visiting professor at the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, with L. Boltanski, and in 2012-13 at the Kellog Institute at the Notre Dame University where is now permanent research fellow at the Center for Ethics and Culture
DR HAB. MAREK REMBIERZ
Date and place of birth: 21st December 1968, Siemianowice Śląskie (Poland)
Employment: research and didactic worker of the University of Silesia in Katowice (since 1997),
Faculty of Ethnology and Education in Cieszyn, assistant professor with academic habilitation
Research interests:
philosophy, axiology and ethics;
intercultural education and pedagogy of religion;
religious studies, ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.
PROF. BERNHARD CALLEBAUT
Prof. dr. Bernhard Callebaut (Bruges, 1953) studied Law, Philosophy and Sociology at the KUL (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven), Belgium. Teached at the Antwerp University (Belgium) and at the Pontificia Università S. Tommaso d'Aquino in Urbe (Rome). Today he holds the cathedra of SOCIOLOGY at SOPHIA UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE (IUS, Loppiano, ITALY). He publishes on Sociology of Cultural Processes, Sociology of Religion, Techno-Science, Europe and various other themes on the relationship between Modernity and Religion. He is a member of the International Researchgroup Group Social One and Program Director of the Research Group Religions in a global World (IUS) .
JESÚS MORÁN CEPEDANO
Father Jesús Morán was elected Co-President of the Focolare Movement during the General Assembly, on the 13th september 2014. Born in Navalperales de Piñares, close to Avila, in Spain, in 1957, he obtained his degree in Philosophy at the Autonomous University of Madrid and, afterwards, the degree in Theology and a PHD in Dogmatics, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Santiago of Chile. From 1996 to 2004 he was delegate for the Focolari in Chile and Bolivia, where, in 2002, he was ordained priest. From 2004 to 2008 he was delegate for the Movement in Mexico and Cuba. In 2009 he entered the “Abba School”, interdisciplinar study center of the Focolari, because of his competency in theological anthropology and moral theology. He published specific essays in Spain, Chile, Mexico and Italy. The Focolare Movement, founded by the Servant of God Chiara Lubich in 1943, aims to contribute to fulfill Jesus’ prayer to the Father: «that all may be one» (Jo 17: 21). It is present in 194 countries in the world, with comunities in 80 nations. Besides catholics, others christians from 350 Churchs ans ecclesial comunities belong to the Movement. Believers from different religions and persons of no religious beliefs share in various ways the spirituality and the purposes of the Movement.
PROF. BOGUSŁAW ŚLIWERSKI
PROF. STEFANO ZAMAGNI
Vice Director for Italian Affairs, SAIS Europe; Senior Adjunct Professor of International Economics
Professor of economics and former dean of the economics faculty, University of Bologna
Member of the board of LUSMA Università, Rome; member of the scientific board of the doctoral program in economics at the Catholic University of Argentina; international adviser to DISCERN (Institute for Research of the Sign of the Times); former member of the scientific committee of Ente L. Einaudi of the Bank of Italy; co-editor ofEconomia Politica, a quarterly review published by Il Mulino; member of the editorial boards of Sociologia, Migration Studies and Diritti umani e diritto internazionale; associate editor, International Review of Economics; fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences; fellow of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna and Milan; member of the academic committee of the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Center at Harvard University; Doctor honoris causa from Charles University, Prague; "Cardinal Raúl Silva Henríquez" Medal, Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, Santiago Chile (2011); 3rd annual Premio Sentinella del Creato (2011); Honorary Degree in economics, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid (2010); 18th annual Premio Internazionale per il Dialogo Fra I Popoli e Le Loro Culture; Member of the academic committee of the Human Development, Capability and Poverty International Research Center (HDCP-RC) at Harvard University; Laurea, economics, Catholic University of Milan
PROF. KRZYSZTOF WIELECKI
Krzysztof Wielecki is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski. He is head of the Department of Social Thought of the Institute of Sociology and director of doctoral studies in the same Institute. Prof. Wielecki teaches Contemporary Sociological Theory, Social Philosophy and Social Processes. He develops a theory of modern civilization changes, the theories of subjectivity and culture.
