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Theology Program presents:

Can War Be Just?

A Conference Organized by the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard College

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 – Thursday, April 26, 2012
Campus Center, Multipurpose Room
1:00 pm – 9:00 pm

This event occurred on:  Tue. April 24, 1 pm – Thu. April 26 – 9 pm


Tuesday, April 24
 

1:00 pm–1:30 pm
Words of Welcome
Jonathan Becker, Vice President and Dean of International Affairs and Civic Engagement


1:30 pm–2:30 pm 
Keynote Address: "Should We Justify War?"
Roger Berkowitz, Bard College Associate Professor of Political Studies and Human Rights


JUST WAR IN THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Justice and Justifications: War Theory among the Ancient Greeks
Carolyn Dewald, Bard College Professor of Classical and Historical Studies


3:30 pm–4:30 pm
Religion, Ritual and War in the Late Roman Republic
Robert M. Berchman, Dowling College Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies


4:30 pm–5:30 pm
The Wars of Yahweh: Biblical Views of Just War
Baruch A. Levine, New York University Skirball Professor Emeritus of Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies


5:30 pm–7:00 pm
Dinner


7:00 pm–9:00 pm
A debate: This House Believes That War Can Be Just

From Bard College
Christine  O’Donovan-Zavada,
Tekendra Parmar
Violeta Borilora
Jesse Barlow

From United States Military Academy, West Point
Micah Ables
Taylor Kensy
Gina Rotondo
Brett Schuck

Moderator: William Mullen, Bard College Professor of Classics
* * *


Wednesday, April 25


9:00 am–9:45 am
Just War in Classical Judaism
Jacob Neusner, Bard College Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism


9:45 am–10:30 am 
Christianity in War
Bruce Chilton, Bard College Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion


Break


11:00 am–11:45 am
Jihad in Classical Islamic Thought
Mairaj Syed, Bard College Assistant Professor of Religion


Lunch


1:00 pm–1:45 pm
Just War in Buddhism
Kristen Scheible, Bard College Assistant Professor of Religion


1:45 pm–2:30 pm  
Hinduism
Richard Davis, Bard College Professor of Religion


JUST WAR IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS


3:00 pm–3:45 pm
Fighting the Good Fight
R. E. Tully, United States Military Academy, West Point, Professor of Philosophy 


3:45 pm–4:30 pm
Jus ad Bellum and the Islamic Reformation
Mark David Welton, United States Military Academy, West Point, Professor of Law


5:00 pm–7:00 pm
Dinner


7:00 pm–8:00 pm
Fighting Wars Justly: The Legal and Moral Concerns and Consequences of Private Military and Security Contractors in Modern Times
David A. Wallace, United States Military Academy, West Point, Academy Professor and Deputy Head of Department of Law


8:00 pm–9:00 pm
Moral Diligence: An Epistemological Approach to the Issue of Selective Conscientious Objection
Brian J. Imiola, United States Military Academy, West Point, Academy Professor of English and Philosophy
* * *

 
Thursday, April 26

 
9:00 am–10:00 am
Just War Theory, Choice and Necessity and Israel’s Responses to Genocidal Threats:  An Evidence-Based Approach
Elihu D Richter, Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Professor Emeritus
 

10:00 am–11:00 am
Anticipation in Walzer’s Just War Theory: The Example of Israel’s 1967 First Strike in the Light of Historical Evidence                        
Joel Perlmann, Bard College, Levy Institute Research Professor

 
11:00 am–12:00 pm 
Conclusion
William Scott Green, University of Miami, Professor of Religious Studies and Senior Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education
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