Faith, Reason, Doubt
a colloquium, sponsored by the Center for Humanities and the Arts
University of Colorado at Boulder
March 3-7, 2008
The colloquium will be held in the Center for British and Irish Studies (5th floor of Norlin Library), unless otherwise noted. All events are free and open to the public.
MONDAY, MARCH 3
5:30pm, Imig Music Building, Room C-199
Olivier Messiaen Centennial: “Faith inside the Music”
Performed by Hsing-ay Hsu, concert pianist, www.hsingayhsu.com
French composer Olivier Messiaen expressed his devout Catholic faith through his musical art. Among his numerous sacred works is the masterpiece Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant Jesus, or “Twenty Contemplations on the Baby Jesus,” written in 1944. Hsu explains basic compositional devices that represent the theological ideas behind this grand work, and performs Premiere Communion de la Vierge and Regard de l’Eglise d’amour.
TUESDAY, MARCH 4
7:00pm, Fleming Law, Room 155
Public lecture by Lita Albuquerque, eco-artist, www.litaalbuquerque.com
"Stellar Axis: Antarctica Symbolic Network and Earth's Place in the Universe"
Ms. Albuquerque is one of the rare artists and humanists who are responsible for thoughtfully and imaginatively placing the elemental concepts for a living, functional cosmology of 21st century culture within public consciousness. Her most recent earth art work, The Pole Project, consists of a star map of blue spheres installed on the North and South Poles. This lecture is co-sponsored with Visiting Artist Program, Department of Art and Art History, University of Colorado at Boulder.
THURSDAY, MARCH 6
8:45 Opening of the Colloquium: Michael E. Zimmerman, Director, CHA
Welcome: Stein Sture, Dean of the Graduate School and Vice Chancellor for Research
9:00 Chair: John Fisher (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Bradley Monton (University of Colorado at Boulder), What is Intelligent Design, and Why Might an Atheist Believe in It?
Evan Fales (University of Iowa), Faith and Moral Understanding: What the Word of God Reveals
10:45 Chair: Brian Vick (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Edward Holland (University of Colorado at Boulder), Constructing Faith: Islam, Orthodoxy, and the Creation of Difference along the Russia-Kazakhstan Border
Gabriel Finkelstein (University of Colorado Denver), Faith in Reason? Du Bois-Reymond’s Historiography
2:00 Chair: Mary Beth Rose (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Maria O’Malley (University of Colorado at Boulder), The Tyranny of Reason: Emily Dickinson on Faith and Science
Sue Zemka (University of Colorado at Boulder), George Eliot and the Redemption of Time
4:00 Keynote Address: Wendy Brown (University of California at Berkeley), Secularism, Idealism, and Materialism: Charles Taylor and Karl Marx
Introduction: Michaele Ferguson (University of Colorado at Boulder)
FRIDAY, MARCH 7
9:00 Chair: Ralph Mann (University of Colorado at Boulder)
David Gross (University of Colorado at Boulder), The Religious Critique of Culture
Paul Harvey (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs), Religion, Race, and the Right in the American South
10:45
Chair: Karen Jacobs (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Ann Emmons (University of Colorado at Boulder), ‘It happened. We know it happened.’: The Almo Massacre in Cultural Memory
Emmanuel David (University of Colorado at Boulder), Social Movements and Ritual Following Disaster
2:00
Chair: David Mapel (University of Colorado at Boulder)
Michaele Ferguson (University of Colorado at Boulder), Contingent Convictions: Truth and Politics in J.S. Mill’s On Liberty
Lloyd Burton (University of Denver), Faith, Doubt, and Belief in Theravada Buddhism
4:00 Keynote Address: Carl Ernst (University of North Carolina), ‘The West and Islam’? Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism
Introduction: Ruth Mas (University of Colorado at Boulder)
