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Programme

Tuesday, 3rd July 2018
09:30 – 10:00 Registration
10:00 – 10:55 Mikel Burley (University of Leeds), Opening Address
10:55 – 11:10 Refreshment break
11:10 – 12:20 Kevin Schilbrack (Appalachian State University), The Ethics of Religious Diversity (chaired by Mik Burley)
12:20 – 13:40 Lunch
13:40 – 14:50 Ian James Kidd (University of Nottingham), Daoism, Humanity, and the Way of Heaven (chaired by Tasia Scrutton)
14:50 – 16:00 Victoria Harrison (University of Macau), The Promises and Perils of Global Philosophy of Religions (chaired by Tasia Scrutton)
16:00 – 16:20 Refreshment break
16:20 – 17:30 David Cheetham (University of Birmingham), Philosophy of Religion and ‘Immanence’: A New Space for Multi-Faith Thinking (chaired by Mark Wynn)
19:00 Conference dinner at Hansa’s Gujarati Restaurant, 72–74 North Street, Leeds
Wednesday, 4th July 2018
09:00 – 09:20 Tea and coffee
09:20 – 10:30 Richard Amesbury (Clemson University), ‘Religion’ and Secularity in the Philosophy of Religion (chaired by Victoria Harrison)
10:30 – 10:45 Refreshment break
10:45 – 11:55 Timothy Knepper (Drake University), Philosophy of Religion as Journey: Using the Journey Metaphor to Restructure the Philosophy of Religion (chaired by Mik Burley)
11:55 – 13:05 Arif Ahmed (University of Cambridge), Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Religion: A Critical Perspective (chaired by Mik Burley)
13:05 – 14:25 Lunch
14:25 – 15:35 Tasia Scrutton (University of Leeds), Can Only a Suffering God Help? Towards a Contextual and Pragmatic Approach to Philosophy of Religion (chaired by Esther McIntosh)
15:35 – 15:50 Refreshment break
15:50 – 17:00 Jessica Frazier (Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies), The View from Above: What If Multiple Approaches to Multiple Themes Gives Us a New Understanding of the FieldA View from Above? (chaired by Tasia Scrutton)
17:00 – 17:10 Mikel Burley (University of Leeds), Closing Remarks