Draft Program Second Amsterdam Kuyper Seminar

Christianity and World Affairs: Building Blocks for an International Order

Where Justice and Peace Embrace

THURSDAY: January 23

10.30 – 12.30: Plenary Introductory Lectures and Discussion:

Dr. Scott Thomas (University of Bath, UK) Dr. Eric Patterson(Regent University & Georgetown University, USA) Dr. James Skillen (Center for Public Justice, USA) Dr. Jonathan Chaplin (Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics, UK)

12.30 – 13.30: Lunch Break

13.30 – 15.30: Session I : Nations and Building International Institutions

Sander Luitwieler (NL) - What is the nature of the EU? Robert Wolfgramm &

Bruce Wearne (S-Asia) - The South West Pacific in the 21st century Romel Bagares (Phill.) - The state in international law: reformational insights Mika Luoma-Aho (FI) - Protection, evil, obedience: the rationality of state

sovereignty Jeroen de Zeeuw (NL) - Faith in the United Nations: religious roots for IR

15.30 – 16.00: Coffee Break

16.00 – 18.00: Session II : Religion, Peace & Freedom

Dele Olowu (Nig/NL) - A new proposal for global peace promotion Theo Brinkel (NL) - The sincerity of religious arguments and the selling of

war Dennis Petri &

Frans Visscher (NL) - Revisiting sphere sovereignty to interpret restrictions on religious freedom

Rafal Milerski (GE) - Secular and sacred on a quest for religious freedom (US-Vatican relations)

19.00 – 21.30: Conference Dinner

FRIDAY: January 24

9.15 – 10.00: Plenary Keynote and Discussion

10.00 – 10.30: Coffee Break

10.30 – 12.45: Session III: Religion and International Politics: the Personal Inspiration of Statesmen

Margriet Krijtenburg (NL) - Robert Schuman Scott Thomas (UK) - William Gladstone Monica Bouman (NL) - Dag Hammarskjöld George Harink (NL) - Abraham Kuyper Judd Birdsall (UK) - Barack Obama (to be confirmed)

12.45 – 13.30: Lunch Break

13.30 – 15.00: Session IV: Global Cooperation, Hegemony and Divergence

Menno Kamminga (NL) - The religious dimension of the ethical critique of carboncommodification

Henry Kelly (IE) - The problem of hegemony: global English and international communication

Katherine Pettus (HU) - Political theologies of global drugs policy: dialectics of justiceand mercy

Matthew Rees (UK - Christian advocacy; regional and yet international? Lucas Freire (UK) - Securitisation theory: a reformational reading

15.00 – 15.20: Coffee Break

15.20 – 16.45: Session V: Perspectives on Religion and International Relations

Frederike van Oorschot (DE) - Kuyper’s teaching of common grace as an approach to globalization

Hans van der Jagt (NL) - How neutral can be neutralized Roman Gruijters (NL) - Solidarity, social justice and globalization in catholic

social thinking Simon Polinder (NL) - Religion & the study of international relations

16.45 – 17.00: Concluding Session