April 4th (Friday)
Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Session 1 • 9:00 am–11:30 am
Welcome & Introduction
Akeel Bilgrami, Columbia University
“Disenchantment: Its History and Consequences”
William Connolly, Johns Hopkins University
“Belief, Spirituality and Time”
commentator: Philip S. Gorski, Yale University
Session 2 • 1:00 pm–3:30 pm
Jon Butler, Yale University
“People, Historians, and the Philosophy Problem”
Colin Jager, Rutgers University
“Charles Taylor’s Romanticism”
commentator: Craig Calhoun, SSRC & New York University
Session 3 • 4:00 pm–6:00 pm
Rajeev Bhargava, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
“Religious and Secular Identities in a Secular Age”
Simon During, Johns Hopkins University
“Completing Secularism: Mundane Life under Neo-Liberalism”
commentator: Michael Warner, Yale University
April 5th (Saturday)
Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street
Session 4 • 9:00 am–11:00 am
José Casanova, Georgetown University
“Secular Age: Dawn or Twilight?”
John Milbank, University of Nottingham
“What is Ordinary Life? Taylor, Catholicism and Modernity”
commentator: Jonathan VanAntwerpen, SSRC & UC Berkeley
Session 5 • 1:00 pm–3:00 pm
Nilüfer Göle, L’École des hautes études en sciences sociales
“Secular Spaces of the Republic”
Courtney Bender, Columbia University
“’…And Every Meaning Shall Have Its Homecoming Festival’: Enchanted Immanence in a Secular Age”
commentator: Seyla Benhabib, Yale University
Keynote Address • 3:30 pm
Charles Taylor, Northwestern University
Sponsored by the MacMillan Center Initiative on Religion, Politics, and Society, the Social Science Research Council, the Department of English, and the Office of the Provost.
*Image courtesy of Harvard University Press.