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KEY-NOTE SPEAKERS
Michel Cazenave
France
1963: entrée à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (Rue d'Ulm, section lettres).
1977: entrée à France Culture, comme conseiller auprès du directeur.
1984: co-fondateur et vice-président du CIRET. 2005: fondateur et
président du CEFRI-Jung (Cercle Francophone de Recherche et
d'Information Carl Gustav Jung). Sélection de livres: La Science et
l'âme du monde, Albin Michel, 1996, 4e éd., La synchronicité, l'âme et
la science, Albin Michel, "Espaces libres", 1994, La science et les
figures de l'âme, Le Rocher, "Transdisciplinarité", 1996.
Site Internet : http://www.michelcazenave.fr/
Rev. Ioan Chirilă
Romania
Ph.D. in Theology – Old Testament and Hebrew Language. Areas of
competence: Old Testament theology, exegesis and hermeneutics, Jewish
literature, biblical archaeology and biblical Hebrew. Dean of the
Faculty of Orthodox Theology in Cluj-Napoca, where Father Chirilă
teaches Old Testament, Biblical Archaeology and Hebrew Language as Full
Professor. Father Chirilă is Visiting Professor of UMF „Iuliu Hatieganu”
in Cluj-Napoca, Director of the Center of Bioethics of UBB in
Cluj-Napoca, Corresponding member of ETRF, EURESIS coordinator of Cluj
research team, President of ADSTR Pole in Cluj-Napoca, founding member
of IASSO, TRES member and representative of the Romanian Orthodox Church
within WCC.
Predrag Cicovacki
USA
Predrag Cicovacki was born in 1960 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. After
receiving a B.A. in philosophy at the University of Belgrade, he came to
the United States in 1986 to study Kant with Lewis White Beck, at the
University of Rochester. Since 1991, he has taught philosophy at the
College of the Holy Cross, where he served as Director of Peace and
Conflict Studies (2000-2003) and was the Editor-in-Chief of Diotima: A
Philosophical Review. Cicovacki was a visiting professor at the
University of Freiburg (1998-1999) and a guest professor at The
Advancement of University Education in Ethics, The Center for Applied
and Professional Ethics, University of Moscow, Russia (June-July 2005).
He has guest lectured in the US, China, Germany, India, Japan, Serbia,
Taiwan, Montenegro and Russia.
Cicovacki is the author of the following books: Anamorphosis: Kant on
Knowledge and Ignorance (1997), The World We Live In: A Philosophical
Crossword Puzzle (2002), and Between Truth and Illusion: Kant at the
Crossroads of Modernity (2002), and Dostoevsky and the Affirmation of
Life (2009). He is the editor of Essays by Lewis White Beck: Fifty Years
as a Philosopher (1998) and Kant's Legacy: Essays in Honor of Lewis
White Beck (2001). He is the author of over fifty philosophy papers
published in English, Serbian, German, Russian, Chinese and Slovenian.
He is editor to The Ethics of Reverence for Life: Albert Schweitzer’s
Philosophical Writings (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
2009).
Ronald Cole-Turner
USA
Since 1996, Ronald Cole-Turner has held the H. Parker Sharp Chair in
Theology and Ethics at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He was educated
at Princeton Theological Seminary and is the author of The New Genesis:
Theology and the Genetic Revolution, co-author of Pastoral Genetics:
Theology and Care at the Beginning of Life, and editor of several
volumes, including most recently Design and Destiny: Jewish and
Christian Perspectives on Human Germline Modification (2007). He has
served on the Executive Committee of the International Society for
Science and Religion and has lectured across the United States and in
Korea, India, France, Romania, Germany, Italy, England, Russia, and
elsewhere. He is currently at work on a theological assessment of the
use of technology for human enhancement, including transhumanism.
Rev. Doru Costache
Australia
PhD. Clergyman of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia. Lecturer
in Patristics at St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College (Sydney
College of Divinity). Co-founder of the Association for the Dialogue
Between Science and Theology in Romania (ADSTR). Chairman of the
Research Committee of the Sydney College of Divinity. Vice-President of
the New South Wales Ecumenical Council. Publications in Patristics and
Science & Religion. Interested in exploring the place of tradition
within contemporary culture.
Milan S. Dimitrijevic
Serbia
Graduated in Astronomy and Physics, MSc 1976, PhD 1978, Research
professor (1986), Director AOB 1994-2002. On Mathematical Faculty of
Belgrade University teaches on post-graduated (doctoral) studies:
“Astronomical Spectroscopy” and “Influence of collisions with charged
particles on astrophysical plasma spectra”. Editor in Chief of “Serbian
Astronomical Journal” (and its precursor) and of Publications of the
Astronomical Observatory in Belgrade 1987-2002, President of
Astronomical Society “Rudjer Boskovic” 1982-2004, Editor in Chief of the
journal “Vasiona (Universe)” 1985-2004, Member of Editorial boards of
“Transdisciplinarity in Science and Religion” and “European Journal for
Science and Theology”, President of the Society of Astronomers of Serbia
since 2008. Federal Minister for Science, Technology and Development
1993-94. Member of the Organizing Committee of Commission 14 “Atomic and
Molecular Data” of IAU Division XI, and Co-Chairperson of its Working
Group for Line Broadening, Member of the Governing Board of Euro-Asian
Astronomical Society, Member of the Council of EAS (2008). Author of ~
200 papers in international scientific journals, more than ten books on
science but also on poetry, and a member of the Association of Writers
of Serbia (2008). Main scientific interests: Astronomical spectroscopy,
Line profiles, Line broadening, Atomic and molecular collision processes
in Stellar atmospheres, History and Philosophy of Astronomy.
Nidhal Guessoum
United Arab Emirates
Nidhal Guessoum is an Algerian astrophysicist; he received his PhD in
1988 from the University of California, San Diego. He spent two years as
a post-doctoral researcher at NASA’s GSFC and made many research visits
to various research centers and universities worldwide. He has published
over 50 papers in gamma-ray astrophysics, attended over 30 international
conferences, received many research grants and awards, and written about
100 articles on Science, Education, Religion, and Society. Prof.
Guessoum has for many years been active in the area of popularization of
science and the interface between science and religion. He has
co-authored two books (“The Determination of Lunar Crescent Months and
the Islamic Calendar”, Algiers 1993 and Beirut 1997; “The Story of the
Universe: from Early Conceptions to the Big Bang”, Algiers 1998, 2002,
2007, Beirut 2006), co-edited a proceedings volume from an international
conference on Islamic astronomy (2007), and recently published
“Réconcilier l’Islam et la Science Moderne: l’esprit d’Averroès” (Paris,
2009).
Rev. Christopher C. Knight
UK
Ph.D. in astrophysics, University of Manchester, 1977. B.Th (with
distinction) in theology, University of Southampton 1983. Ordained
priest of the Anglican Church 1982. Received into the Orthodox Church in
2002. Ordained priest of the Orthodox Church in 2009. Executive
Secretary, International Society for Science and Religion. Research
Associate of the Faraday Institute, St. Edmund's College, Cambridge, and
of the Psychology and Religion Research Group, Faculty of Divinity,
University of Cambridge, UK. Books: Wrestling With the Divine: Religion,
Science, and Revelation (Fortress Press, 2001), The God of Nature:
Incarnation and Contemporary Science (Fortress Press 2007; Romanian
translation: Curtea Veche, 2009).
Solomon Marcus
Romania
Born March 1, 1925, Bacau, Romania. Professor of Mathematics, University
of Bucharest. Academician, Romanian Academy. Research and teaching in
mathematical analysis, mathematical computer science, linguistics,
poetics, semiotics, philosophy of science; in these fields, hr published
several tens of books in Romanian, English, French, German, Italian,
Spanish, Russian, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Hungarian, Greek and several
hundreds of articles in professional journals. He is recognized as one
of the initiators of mathematical linguistics and of mathematical
poetics. In the last 15 years, he became interested in the dialogue
between science and religion and he published some papers on this
subject. One of them received a distinction from Templeton Foundation.
Michael Murray
USA
Michael Murray is the Arthur and Katherine Shadek Professor in the
Humanities and Philosophy at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster,
PA). He received his B.A. at Franklin & Marshall College, and his M.A,
and Ph.D at the University of Notre Dame. He has held fellowships from
the Institute for Research in the Humanities (Madison, Wisconsin), the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical
Society, the Notre Dame Center for Philosophy of Religion. In addition
to a variety of articles in the history of philosophy and the philosophy
of religion, he has recently published Philosophy of Religion
(Cambridge, with Michael Rea) and Nature Red in Tooth and Claw: Theism
and the Problem of Animal Suffering (Oxford), The Believing Primate:
Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of
Religion (Oxford, with Jeffrey Schloss). He has two books forthcoming:
Predestination and Election (Yale) and Divine Evil? (Oxford, with
Michael Rea and Michael Bergmann).
Alexei V. Nesteruk
UK and Russia
Research lecturer at the University of Portsmouth as well as a visiting
professor of St. Andrew’s Biblical Theological College in Moscow. His
research is in philosophical cosmology and theological appropriation
science in Eastern Orthodoxy. PhD, he is author of 90 papers and two
monographs. The recent one The Universe as Communion. Towards a
Neo-Patristic Synthesis of Theology and Science was published by T&T
Clark in 2008 and it will be published soon in Romanian translation (Curtea
Veche Publishing House, Bucharest, Series “Science and Religion”).
Basarab Nicolescu
France and Romania
Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. Professor at the Babeş-Bolyai
University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Member of the Romanian Academy.
Founding member of ISSR. President-Founder of the International Center
for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET). Founder and Director
of the Transdisciplinarity Series, Rocher Editions, Monaco, of the
Romanians in Paris Series, Oxus Editions, Paris and of the Science and
Religion Series, Curtea Veche Publishing House, Bucharest (in
collaboration with Magda Stavinschi). A specialist in the theory of
elementary particles, Basarab Nicolescu is a major advocate of the
transdisciplinary reconciliation between Science and the Humanities. His
books include: Manifesto of Transdisciplinarity, State University of New
York (SUNY) Press, New York, 2002; Nous, la particule et le monde,
Rocher, Monaco, 2002 (2nd edition) ; Science, Meaning and Evolution -
The Cosmology of Jacob Boehme, Parabola Books, New York, 1991. He edited
recently Transdisciplinarity - Theory and Practice, Hampton Press,
Cresskill, New Jersey, 2008. A complete biobibliography of Basarab
Nicolescu can be found on the page
http://basarab.nicolescu.perso.sfr.fr/Basarab/index.html
María Cristina Núñez
Mexico
María Cristina Núñez Madrazo is Ph. D. in Anthropology. Researcher at
the EcoDialogue Station in the Institute of Biology. Professor and
Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Transdisciplinary Studies for
Sustainability at the University of Veracruz, Mexico. Founder of the
EcoDialogue Station in the University of Veracruz (since 2005), an
academic place where several transdisciplinarity projects for
sustainability were performed. Professor in the Sociology School of the
University of Veracruz, since 1985, where she coordinated the
Methodology and Research Academy. She promotes the academic dialogue
between science and other forms of knowledge into the University and she
organized and was active participant of a multidisciplinary Seminar in
Complexity Theory. Author of books and papers about Mexican Peasantry
Culture. The most outstanding books are: Ejido, caña y café. Política y
cultura campesina en el centro de Veracruz (Ejido, cane and coffee.
Peasant politics and culture in Center of Veracruz), 2005 and Migración
internacional: crisis agrícola y transformaciones culturales en la
region central de Veracruz (International Migration: Agricultural Crisis
and Cultural Changes in Central Veracruz), 2008.
Alexandru Popescu
UK
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychologist of science and religion.
Born in Ploiesti, Romania, and educated in Bucharest, London, Los
Angeles, and Oxford, he completed a post-graduate diploma in
psychotherapy at the Tavistock Clinic in London and a doctorate in the
psychology of religion at Oxford University. He is an Honorary Research
Associate of Balliol College, Oxford, and works as a Child and
Adolescent Psychiatrist in the Oxford Deanery. He chairs the “Theology
and Mental Health” sub-committee of the “Faith Communities and Mental
Health” Reference Group, based at the World Council of Churches in
Geneva. He is the author of Petre Tutea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide (Ashgate,
2004) and a contributor to The Cambridge History of Christianity,
Eastern Christianity, edited by Michael Angold (Cambridge University
Press, 2006).
Antonio Carlos De Azevedo Ritto
Brazil
Academic Background: Post-Doctoral studies in History of Science and
Techniques and Epistemology – COPPE – UFRJ – 2003, Doctor in Informatics
– PUC-RIO – 1994, Course of High Studies in Politics and Strategy of the
Superior School of War – Brazil – 2004, Master in Computer science –
UFPe – 1980, Specialization in Didactics of Superior Learning – UGF –
1985, Bachelor in Mathematics – UFPe – 1977.
Highlights of CV: Since 1984, University Professor of the UERJ –
University of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Since 2008, Member of the
Program of Post-Graduation in Public Politics and Human Formation of the
UERJ with the Project of Research “Social Technology − from the
globalization as only vision to the pluralist territory”. From the same
year, coordinator of the Course of Post-Graduation in the Area of Public
Politics/Social Technology in the IME/UERJ. Since 2005, he integrates
the Coordination of the Courses of Post-Graduation in the Management of
Projects of Technology in the IME/UERJ. He is studying and publishing in
the areas of Social Technology and Transdisciplinarity since 2003. He
published the book Chaordic Organizations, Modeling of Innovative
Organizations, Rio de Janeiro, Ciência Moderna Editora, 2005.
Jean Staune
France
Titulaire du DEA de Paléontologie humaine préhistoire et géologie du
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. Philosophe des sciences.
Collaborateur scientifique et chargé de cours à l'Ecole Polytechnique
Fédérale de Lausanne. Il est l'auteur de Notre existence a t elle un
sens?, Presses de la Renaissance, Paris, 2007 et Au delà de Darwin, pour
une nouvelle vision de la vie, Paris, Actes Sud / Jaqueline Chambon,
2009.
Magda Stavinschi
Romania
PhD in Astronomy, president of ADSTR – The Association for the Dialogue
between Science and Theology in Romania, of IASSO – the Institute for
Advanced Study in Science and Orthodoxy and of three national programs
under the aegis of the John Templeton Foundation.. Director of the
Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy (1990-2005), president of
the Commission "Astronomy Education and Development" of the
International Astronomical Union (2006-2009), Chair of the SEAC working
group "Astronomy and cultural heritage", redactor in chief of the
journal "Transdisciplinarity in Science and Religion".
Mihail Şora
Romania
Philosophe, ancien chercheur au CNRS (France), ancien directeur
littéraire aux Éditions d’état pour la littérature et les arts (ESPLA,
Bucarest). Membre fondateur du Groupe de Dialogue Social (GDS), de
l’Alliance Civique et du parti politique homonyme, en Roumanie. Ancien
ministre de l’enseignement dans le premier gouvernement démocratique
(1990). Il a publié de nombreux articles, éditoriaux, entretiens dans la
presse culturelle et littéraire roumaine, après 1989. A traduit en
roumain Benjamin Fondane, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jean-Paul Sartre.
Ouvrages : (en français) Du dialogue intérieur. Fragment d’une
anthropologie métaphysique (1947 ; tr. rom. 1995, 2006) ; (en roumain)
Sarea pământului. Cantată pe două voci despre rostul poetic (1978, Prix
de l’Union des écrivains) ; A fi, a face, a avea (1985) ; Eu & tu & el &
ea... sau Dialogul generalizat (1990) ; Firul ierbii (1998 ; Prix de
l’Union des écrivains) ; Câteva crochiuri şi evocări (2000) ;
Filosoficale. Filosofia ca viaţă (2000) ; Locuri comune (2004) ; Clipa &
timpul (2005), etc. Nombreux prix et distinctions nationales et
internationales, dont le Prix National de Littérature (2005). L’ensemble
de l’œuvre philosophique de Mihai Şora est édité et/ou réédité, à partir
de 2006, aux Éditions Humanitas, Bucarest. En 2007, la Société Roumaine
de Phénoménologie commence le programme «Trois philosophes roumains» de
traduction et d’édition à l’étranger des œuvres d’Alexandru Dragomir,
Constantin Noica et Mihai Şora. Site Internet : http://www.mihaisora.eu
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