Advanced Training Course
Secularism: 
Theory and Practice in Dialogue
19 e 20 de Novembro de 2010
CES - Coimbra
Provisional Program
November 29th, 2010
9:30–9:50 | Mathias Thaler:Course presentation
I: Theology
9h50–10h30 | Teresa Toldy:“Secularism and reason in Pope Ratzinger’s thinking”
10h30–11h20 | Debate
11h20–11h30 | Coffee break
11h30–12h10 | Silas Oliveira:“Church and State: marriages of convenience and contentious separations”
12h10–13h00 | Debate
13h–14h30 | Lunch
II: Philosophic perspectives
14h30–15h10 | João Cardoso Rosas:“How to change the basic structure?”
15h10–16h | Debate
16h–16h10 | Coffee break
16h10–16h50 | Roberto Merrill:“How can liberal neutrality and perfectionism be convergent ideals?”
16h50–17h40 | Debate
19:00–20:30 | Roundtable with Fernando Catroga
“Between God and Caesar. Secularism, Laity and Civil Religion”
Participants:
- Fernando Catroga
- AbdoolKarim Vakil
- Teresa Toldy
- Silas Oliveira
November 20th, 2010
III: Interdisciplinary approaches
10h00–10h40 | AbdoolKarim Vakil:“Europe, Islam, Secularism: Histories with Ghosts”
10h40–11h30 | Debate
11h30–11h40 | Coffee break
11h40–12h20 |:Ângelo Cardita:“Religious rites and secular rites”
12h20–13h10 | Debate
13h10–14h30 | Lunch
IV: Anthropology
14h30–15h10 | Clemens Zobel
15h10–16h | Debate