The Conference will take place at Hinsley Hall, 62 Headingley Lane, Leeds, LS6 2BX, beginning at 09:30 on Tuesday 6th September and finish at 18:00 on Wednesday 7th September 2016.
Eighth British Wittgenstein Society Annual Conference
Wittgenstein, Ethics and Religion
6th – 7th September 2016
Hinsley Hall
62 Headingley Lane, Leeds, UK
Conference organiser: Dr Mik Burley ()
Tuesday, 6th September
9:00 – 9:30
Arrivals and registration
9:30 – 9:45
Welcome from Mik Burley (Leeds) and Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (Hertfordshire, BWS President)
9:45 – 10:55
Chon Tejedor (Hertfordshire)
The Early Wittgenstein on Religion as a Dispositional Attitude
Chair: Danièle Moyal-Sharrock
10:55 – 11:15
Coffee
11:15 – 12:25
Michael Scott (Manchester)
Wittgenstein and the Distinctiveness of Religious Language
Chair: Constantine Sandis
12:25 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:10
Genia Schönbaumsfeld (Southampton)
On the Very Idea of a Theodicy
Chair: Ian Ground
15:10 – 15:30
Coffee
15:30 – 16:40
Gabriel Citron (Toronto)
Moving towards Religion from the Outside In: Wittgenstein’s Later Approaches to ‘the Problem of Life’
Chair: Michael Scott
16:40 – 16:50
Short break
16:50 – 18:00
John Milbank (Nottingham)
Wittgenstein, Cantor, Number and God
Chair: Mik Burley
18:10 – 18:40
Optional guided viewing of Wittgenstein-related art exhibition in the John Wesley Room (at Hinsley Hall), with poetry reading by Mike Rose-Steel and friends. Places limited; please sign up in advance at the conference using the sign-up sheet on the door of the John Wesley Room.
19:00
Conference dinner at Hinsley Hall
Wednesday, 7th September
9:30 – 10:40
Stephen Mulhall (Oxford)
Riddles, Nonsense and Religious Language
Chair: Chon Tejedor
10:40 – 11:10
Coffee
11:10 – 12:20
Rowan Williams (Cambridge)
Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and the Gospels
Chair: Rachel Muers
12:20 – 14:00
Lunch
14:00 – 15:10
Wayne Proudfoot (Columbia)
Wittgenstein, Analogy, and Religion in Mulhall’s ‘The Great Riddle’
Chair: Gabriel Citron
15:10 – 15:30
Coffee
15:30 – 16:40
Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University)
Love and Knowledge
Chair: Mark Wynn
16:40 – 16:50
Short break
16:50 – 18:00
Duncan Richter (Virginia Military Institute)
Wittgenstein and the Anti-Reductive Spirit
Chair: Mik Burley
18:00 – 18:10
Announcements and words of thanks
18:10
Conference ends
For further details please visit the conference page or contact Dr. Mikel Burley (Leeds).
