Subjectivity, Universality and the Event 

An international colloquium of philosophers, theologians and historians of early Christianity, who will explore the resources of St. Paul, one of the West’s great anti-philosophers, for a philosophical conception of the engaged subject, political action, the universality of truth and the singularity of the event.

All Sessions will be held in the Syracuse University Sheraton Conference Center

Thursday, April 14

7:30 pm   Welcome and Opening Remarks

Dr. Cathryn R. Newton

Dean, The College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University.

Speaker: Slavoj Žižek

Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Topic: St. Paul With Kierkegaard, Or, The Comedy of Christianity

9:15 RECEPTION

Upper Lobby , Sheraton Conference Center

 9:00 am

Speaker:   Alain Badiou

École Normale Supérieure, Paris

Topic: We Have No Power Against the Truth (II Cor., 13:8)

10:30  COFFEE

10:45

Speaker:   Daniel Boyarin

University of California, Berkeley

Topic: Saul Among the Sophists

12:15 pm  LUNCH

2:00

Speaker:  E. P. Sanders

Duke University

Topic: Paul Between Judaism and Hellenism

3:30  COFFEE

4:00

Speaker:   Karen Armstrong

Independent Author

Topic: Paul and the God of the Philosophers

9:00 am

Speaker: Dale B. Martin

Yale University

Topic: The Promise of Teleology, the Constraints of Epistemology, and the Universal Vision in Paul

10:30  COFFEE

10:45

Speaker:   Paula Fredriksen

Boston University

Topic: Historical Integrity vs. Interpretive Freedom: The Philosopher's Paul and the Problem of Anachronism

12:15 pm  LUNCH

2:00

Speaker:   Richard Kearney

Boston College

Topic: St. Paul on dynamis: Between Power and Possibility

3:30  COFFEE

3:45-5:30

Concluding Roundtable with Participants