LOCAL SOCIETIES INITIATIVE PAPER PRESENTERS*
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Wolfgang Achtner
Justus Liebig Universtiaet Giessen
Local Society: Arbeitskreis Naturwissenschaft-Theology
Giessen, Germany
Paper Title: Infinity in Science and Religion: The Creative Role of Thinking about Infinity
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in G17
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Brian K. Akers
St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Local Society: Religion and Science Roundtable
Laurinburg , North Carolina, USA
Paper Title: “Fish Wars” and the Science/Religion Dialogue
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Edward Alam
Notre Dame University Lebanon
Local Society: Notre Dame University Communio Study Circle
Zouk Makael, Lebanon
Paper Title: Philosophy: The Bridge between Religion and Science
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in G17
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Evgeny Arinin
Pomor State University
Department of Cultural and Religious Studies
Local Society: Pomor Dialogue
Arkhangelsk, Russia
Paper Title: Essence of Organic Life In Russian Orthodox and Modern Philosophical Tradition: Beyond Functionalism and Elementarism.
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Gallery
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Whitney Bauman
Graduate Theological Union
Local Society: Theological Roundtable on Ecological Ethics and Spirituality
Berkeley, California, USA
Paper Title: Contextual Methodology in the Science and Religion Dialogue
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in G17
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Mikulas Blazek, Ladislav Csontos, and Miroslav Karaba
Trnava University
Local Society: Towards Reconciliation of Religion with Science
Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Paper Title: To the Relation between Religion and Science at the Dawn of the 21st Century
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in Terrace
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Mathew Chandrankunnel
Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram
Department of Philosophy
Local Society: Bangalore Forum for Science and Religion
Bangalore, India
Paper Title: From Warpath to Wholeness: The Condemnation and Rehabilitation of Galileo Galilei
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Gallery
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Alexei Chernyakov and Natalia Pecherskaya
St. Petersburg School of Religion and Philosophy
Local Society: SPECRS Workshops for Academic and Civic Groups
St. Petersburg, Russia
Paper Title: The Nature of the Science and Religion Dialogue in Russia and Its Basic Ground
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in G17
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John Chirban
Hellenic College / Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Institute of Medicine, Psychology and Religion (IMPR)
Local Society: The Healing Intiative
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
Paper Title: Holistic Healing in Byzantium Epistemologies and Methodologies
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Gallery
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Allan Combs
The Graduate Institute
Local Society: Learned Society for Spirituality and Complexity (LSSC)
Milford, Connecticut, USA
Paper Title: Multiple Levels of the Science-Religion Dialogue
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in G17
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Thomas Dailey and Peter Leonard
DeSales University
Local Society: The Baranzano Society
Center Valley, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Do You Mind? The Anthropological Question Underlying Bioethical Discussions
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Gallery
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Edward Davis
Messiah College
Local Society: Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science at Messiah College
Grantham, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Protestant Modernism, the Warfare Thesis, and the Religion of Science
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Gallery
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Kathleen Duffy
Chestnut Hill College
Local Societies Initiative Steering Committee
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: The Cellular Automaton and the Cosmic Tapestry
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Terrace
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Lucio Florio
Universidad Santo Tomas de Aquino
Local Society: The Science-Theology Society of La Plata
La Plata, Argentina
Paper Title: Religion and Science in Argentina
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in G17
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Kim Hauenstein
United Protestant Campus Ministries in Cleveland
Local Society: Religion and Reason: Unifying Rationality and Spirituality
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Paper Title: The Cultural role of Respectful Interfaith Dialogue in the Search for Religious Peace and World Peace
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in G17
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Manuk Hergnyan
Vem Radio Station and Gandzasar Theological Center
Local Society: Recognize the Wisdom Project
Yervan, Armenia
Paper Title: Ethical Antinomies of Economics
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in Gallery
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Noreen Herzfeld
St. John’s University
Local Society: Science & Religion: Faculty, Students, and Benedictines in Conversation
Collegeville, Minnesota, USA
Paper Title: LSI and the Media: Obstacles and Opportunities
Tuesday, June 8 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in G17
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Peter Hess
St. Mary’s College
Local Societies Intiative Steering Committee
Moraga, California, USA
Paper Title: Nature and the Word of God in Inter-religious Dialogue
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in G17
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Gennady Kalyabin
Samara Academy of Humanities
Local Society: Through Faith We Understand
Samara, Russia
Paper Title: An Orthodox Christian's View on Exact Sciences of the 20th Century
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Terrace
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Paper Title: Science-Religion Dialogue on the Middle Volga East Bank
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in G17
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Regine Kather
University of Freiburg
Local Society: Forum Boundary Questions
Stuttgart, Germany
Paper Title: The Definition of Life: An Essay in an Interdisciplinary Dialogue between Biology and Religion
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Terrace
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Eric Klein
Representing Penn Hillel, University of Pennsylvania
Local Society: Tradition Confronts Innovation
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: The Effectiveness of Student-Led Local Societies
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in G17
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Tomas Kodacsy
Debrecen University of Reformed Theology
Local Society: Science and Theology Centre in Debrecen
Debrecen, Hungary
Paper Title: Theological Aspects of the Cosmological Anthropic Principles
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in Terrace
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Jean Kristeller and Carolyn Speranza
Indiana State University and independent artist
Local Society: Center for the Study of Health, Religion, and Spirituality
Terre Haute, Indiana, USA and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Meditation – Creating Wisdom: Images, Experience, and Research Evidence
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in Terrace
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Anne Kull
University of Tartu
Local Society: Collegium of Science and Religion at the University of Tartu
Tallinn, Estonia
Paper Title: A Rumour of the Scandal of Naturecultures in Science and Theology
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in Gallery
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L, M
Abdul Majid
Government Postgraduate College, Mansehra
Local Society: Hazara Society of Science-Religion Dialogue (HSSRD)
Mansehra, Pakistan
Paper Title: The Problem of Origin and Evolution of Life: Scientific and Religious Perspectives
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Terrace
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Robert Mann
University of Waterloo,
Local Society: Canadian Scientific and Christian Affliliation National Lecture Series
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Paper Title: Inconstant Multiverse
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in Terrace
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Paper Title: Staging a National Lecture Series: Challenges, Blessings, and Opportunities
Tuesday, June 8 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in G17
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Natalia Markova
Vladimir State University
Local Society: Vladimir Dialogue
Vladimir, Russia
Paper Title: Vladimir Soloviev and Interpretation of Catholicism by Russian Authors in the Context of Cultural Dialogue
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in G17
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Gordon McPhate
Chester Cathedral
Local Society: Center for Religion and the Biosciences
Chester, United Kingdom
Paper Title: Dying to Live: Biology and Faith
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Terrace
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Ted Metzler, Amanda Beyers, and John Goulden
Oklahoma City University
Local Society: GOOD STAR: Growing Open Oklahoma Dialogue in Science, Technology and Religion
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Paper Title: Overcoming Obstacles in Religion-and-Science Dialogue with an Agent-Based Computer Simulation Tool
Tuesday, June 8 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in G17
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Stephen Modell
University of Michigan
Local Society: Genetic Frontiers: Challenge to Humanity and our Religious Traditions
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Paper Title: Genetic and Reproductive Technologies in the Light of Religious Dialogue
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Gallery
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David Montalvo
Upper Merion Area High School in King of Prussia
Local Society: Society for Philosophical Study of Religion, Science, and Asian Thought (SPSRSAT)
West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: Two Worlds or One: Complementarity in the Dialogue between Religion and Science
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in G17
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Paper Title: The Use of Web-based Argument in the Religion-Science Dialogue
Tuesday, June 8 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in G17
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Clay Farris Naff
Center for the Advancement of Rational Solutions
Local Society: Lincoln Forum on Science and Religion
Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
Paper Title: A House of Many Mansions: How Science Can Make Room for Religion
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in G17
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Marie Vejrup Nielsen
University of Aarhus
Local Society: Forum Teologi Naturvidenskab (The Danish Science-Theology Forum)
Aarhus, Denmark
Paper Title: Making a Vision Available – Christian Teachings on Sin in Dialogue with Evolutionary Biology
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Terrace
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Kuruvilla Pandikattu
Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth
Local Society: Jnanam Discussion Group
Pune, India
Paper Title: LSI as Social Web of Committed Entrepreneurs
Tuesday, June 8 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in G17
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Adam Pave
West Chester University
Local Society: Society for Philosophical Study of Religion, Science, and Asian Thought (SPSRSAT)
West Chester, Pennsylvania, USA
Paper Title: A Proposal of Process Theology and its Implications for Science and Religion
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in G17
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Andrey Pavlenko
Russian Academy of Sciences
Local Society: God’s Design in Human’s Presentations
Moscow, Russia
Paper Title: Has the Universe been Created from “Nothing” or from με ον?
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Terrace
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Carlos Ramos, author and Jamie Castillo, presenter
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla
Local Society: Centro de Estudios de Ciencia y Religion (CECIR)
Puebla, Mexico
Paper Title: Building Links between Science and Religion in Mexico
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in G17
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Ramakrishna Rao
Institute for Human Science and Service
Local Society: Center for Study of Science & Religion
Visakhapatnam, India
Paper Title: Towards a Spiritual Psychology: An Indian Perspective
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in G17
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Matt Rossano
Southeastern Louisiana University
Local Society: SLU Interdisciplinary Science & Religion Study Group
Hammond, Louisiana, USA
Paper Title: On Not Leaving Your Brain at the Church House Door: Religion the Devout and the Skeptic Can Agree On
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in G17
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Noel Sheth
Jnana Deepa Vidyapeeth
Local Society: Jnanam Discussion Group
Pune, India
Paper Title: Buddhism and Science
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Gallery
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T.D. Singh
Bhaktivedanta Institute / Vedanta and Science Educational Research Foundation
Local Society: Bhaktivedanta Institute’s Science and Religion Group of Kolkata
Kolkata, India
Paper Title: The Science and Religion Dialogue: Issues, Obstacles and Insights
Monday, June 7 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM in G17
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Paper Title: Life and Spiritual Evolution
Monday, June 7 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM in Terrace
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Arnold Smith
Pari Center for New Learning
Local Society: The Pari Dialogues on Religion and Science
Grosseto, Italy
Paper Title: Science, Boundaries, and Love
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in G17
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Vladislav Soskin
Ufa State Institute of Service
Local Society: Quest for Modern World Views
Ufa, Russia
Paper Title: On the Role of Philosophy in the Dialogue between Religion and Science
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Yi-Jia Tsai
Fu Jen Catholic University
Local Society: Center for the Study of Science and Religion
Taipei, Taiwan
Paper Title: Religious Healing and Science: Enemy or Friend? —Two Cases in Taiwan
Monday, June 7 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM in Gallery
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Colleen Turner
Department of the Air Force
Local Society: Awe Inspiring Experiences: Natural, Unnatural, Supernatural
Los Angeles, California, USA
Paper Title: Religion: Catalyst for War or Peace?
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in Gallery
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Allen Utke
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) East Central Synod of Wisconsin
Local Society: Synodical Task Force on Science and Religion
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, USA
Paper Title: 104.5° And 180°: Two Critical But Unsung Cosmological Constants
Monday, June 7 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM in Terrace
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