Pax Romana ICMICA/MIIC is pleased to invite you to the Colloque "Jacques Maritain and The Challanges of Democracy in The Age of Globalization" Bilbao, 20th - 21st of September, 2005).
Conference organised by:
Barandiaran Kristau Alkartea-Pax Romana ICMICA (Bilbao/Genève), the Jacques Maritain International Institute ( Rome), and The University of Deusto ( Bilbao)
Tuesday 20th September
I. SESSION
- Institutional representatives’ greetings
- Opening
- Roberto Papini (Secretary General of the Jacques Maritain Institute, LUMSA University, Rome)
- General Introduction
- Federico Mayor Zaragoza (ex Director General of UNESCO, President of the Fundación Cultura de Paz, Madrid)
II.SESSION
- Revisiting Maritain on the challenges of his times
- Jacques Maritain´s answer to the political challenges of his time Jacinto Choza (Universidad of Seville)
- Jacques Maritain between Europe and the United States Bernard Doering ( Notre Dame University, Indiana)
- Jacques Maritain and the Basque Country: public commitment and moral resistance Father Joseba Goñi
- Discussion
Wednesday 21st September
III. SESSION
- Which democracy for which globalization?
- The European Constitution and the personalist thought, Miguel Herrero and Rodríguez de Miñon (Letrado Mayor of the Council of State and Member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences)
- Maritain´s thought on human rights, Eugeni Gay Montalvo (Justice of the Spanish Constitutional High Court and President of the International Secretariat of Catholic Lawyers of PAX ROMANA-ICMICA)
- Jacques Maritain´s understanding of democracy as related to globalization, Paul Valadier s.j. ((Director of “Philosophy Archives”, Paris)
- Discussion
IV. SESSION
- Round Table: The role of Christians in the global and cultural context of globalization , Chaired by: H. E. Cardinal Roger Etchegaray ( Vatican City)
INFO & Registration
Ms Susana Mediavilla
Barandiaran Kristau Alkartea
Alda. San Mames, 43bis – 8º
E - 48010 Bilbao
Tel. +34.944.10 00 52
Fax +34.944.10 00 52
bka.euskadi@gmail.com