The International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES)
presents the
6th Bi-Annual International Conference
Edith Stein’s Legacy To The World
130 Years After Her Birth
October 12-15, 2021
Centro de Investigación Social Avanzada, (CISAV, Querétaro, Mexico)
Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP, Puebla, Mexico)
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP, San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo (UMSNH, Morelia, Mexico)
On October 12, 2021 we will celebrate the birth of one of the greatest philosophers and cultural figures of the 20th century: Edith Stein, Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. It is a good time for us to evaluate the legacy of her thinking and spirituality that has spread to practically the whole world. IASPES invites you to participate with philosophical contributions that primarily highlight Stein in relation to other traditions, philosophers, cultures and historical times. We welcome papers that discuss the different levels and registers in which Stein’s rich thought has entered, with an emphasis on the critical evaluation of how the world has received her philosophy and her person. We encourage submissions articulating the significance of the anniversary of her birth in context of the debates that traditionally emerge from her philosophical, theological and spiritual writings. Papers on ontology, philosophy of woman, philosophical anthropology, human associative forms, the philosophy of psychology, and pedagogy are also welcome.
Keynote Presentations:
Anna Maria Pezzella, “Stein’s Pedagogical Phenomenology and the Educational Emergency of Today”
Eduardo González Di Pierro, “LOS MUCHOS LEGADOS DE EDITH STEIN”
Schedule of Papers
Revised and final as of 05 October 2021
| Violet = Plenary Sessions |
| Orange = Concurrent Session, Room A |
| Green = Concurrent Session, Room B |
| Tuesday, 12 October | ||||
| 08:00 – 08:15 | Welcome & Conference Opening | Organizers & Executive Board | ||
| 08:15 – 09:00 | LOS MUCHOS LEGADOS DE EDITH STEIN | Eduardo González Di Pierro (Keynote) | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Born on Yom Kippur: the spirit of atonement as Stein`s heritage | Marièle Wulf | ||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Edith Stein’s Phenomenological Way of Facing and Mastering Crises | Joachim Feldes | ||
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break | |||
| Fenomenología de la ReligiónModerator: Eduardo González Di Pierro | Edith Stein y Tópicos ContemporáneosModerator: Antonio Calcagno | |||
| 10:15 – 10:45 | The life of the spirit and the logic of negation | Masayoshi Morioka | Edith Stein and the Agenda for the Third Millennium | Gabriel J. Costello |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Making sense of Being: Edith Stein’s Philosophy and the Dialogue between Faith and Science | Joachim Ostermann | Stein/Adorno & The Social Constitution of Identity | Paul O’Hagan |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Edith Stein y Gerda Walther: los comienzos de una auténtica fenomenología de la religión | Stefano Santasilia | Person in Community, Repentance and Historical Meaning: From an Individual to a Social Ethics in Stein’s Early Phenomenological Treatises | William Tulius |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Break | |||
| Fenomenología y OntologíaModerator: Eduardo González Di Pierro | ||||
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Lineamientos para una ontología relacional | Paulina Monjaraz | ||
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Essentialist or Existentialist: Erich Przywara on the Character of Edith Stein’s Philosophy | Thomas Gricoski, O.S.B. | ||
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Break | |||
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Honoring Sue Batzdorff, followed by Social time | |||
| Wednesday, 13 October | ||||
| Moderator: Joachim Feldes | ||||
| 08:00 – 08:30 | “Come giunsi alla santità” Edith Stein e l’esperienza religiosa (How I arrived at santliness. Edith Stein and the religious experience) | Angela Ales Bello | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | El fenómeno religioso en Edith Stein | Rubén Sánchez Muñoz | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Encountering God: Edith Stein’s existential theocentrism as a contribution to re-discovering God in ambigious times | Justin Arickal | ||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Joy, Interiority and Individuation in Edith Stein’s works | Elodie Boublil | ||
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break | |||
| Pedagogía y EducaciónModerator: Thomas Gricoski | Antropología FilosóficaModerator: Rubén Sánchez Muñoz | |||
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Education in a Time of Rectangles and Facelessness | Matthew Chominski | Stein’s living concern for the human experience | Piotr Janik S.J. |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Toward a Steinian Theory of Civic Education | Genevieve Frank | “Lineamenta” de una filosofía del lenguaje en Edith Stein | Miriam Ramos Gómez |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Ultimate ‘Habilitation’ for Edith Stein, A Modest Proposal | P. Dr. John Sullivan, O.C.D. | ||
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Break | |||
| Pedagogía y EducaciónModerator: Eduardo González Di Pierro | Teología, Espiritualidad y Estudios EclesíasticosModerator: Mette Lebech | |||
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Aspectos Fundamentales y metodológicos del legado pedagógico de la propuesta steiniana, en torno a la formación de la persona humana | Haddy Bello | A Mirror to Reality: Edith Stein and Religious Consciousness | Michele Kueter Petersen |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Tracing paths: Edith Stein’s pedagogical proposal as a consequence of her integral anthropology | Cecilia Giudice | A Symbolic Phenomenology of God: the significance of Dionysius the Areopagite in the Later Writings of Edith Stein | Samuel Stewart |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Break | |||
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Book Presentations | Socializing | ||
| Thursday, 14 October | ||
| Moderator: Mariéle Wulf | ||
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Stein’s Pedagogical Phenomenology and the Educational Emergency of Today | Anna Maria Pezzella (Keynote) |
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Stein’s ‘Version’ of Phenomenology | Mette Lebech |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Berufung und Behinderung- passen sie zusammen? Die auf Edith Steins Philosophie und Biographie bezogene Analyse | Anna Slebioda |
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break | |
| Moderator: Carlos Viaña Rubio | ||
| 10:15 – 10:45 | El lugar de la religión en la teoría del estado de Edith Stein | Vicenzo Cavero, Lucero Robles, Felipe Zenteno |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Weder reine Philosophin, noch Theologin? Edith Steins eigener Weg des Denkens (Neither a pure philosopher, nor a theologian? Edith Stein’s own way of thinking) | Dr. Monika Maas Enriquez |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Edith Stein: The Constitutive Role of Psyche for Action | Antonio Calcagno |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Break | |
| Moderator: Sarah Borden Sharkey | ||
| 12:00 – 12:30 | “Mother will take care of them.” The Influence of the Woman-centric World of Edith Stein’s Life on her Philosophical and Spiritual Thought | Joyce Avrech Berkman |
| 12:30 – 13:00 | The Phenomenology of Race: “Writing” and “Resistance” in the Thought of Edith Stein and Flannery O’Connor | Michael F. Andrews |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Break | |
| 13:15 – 14:00 | Book Presentations | Socializing |
| Friday, 15 October | ||||
| Moderator: Paulina Monjaraz Fuentes | ||||
| 08:00 – 08:30 | Why not female priesthood: Spiritual maternity and the question of female authority in the philosophy of Edith Stein | Laura de Gaspari | ||
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Husserl and Stein on Empathy: Paving a way toward integration | Francis B. Payo, S.Th. L. A., Ph.D. | ||
| 09:00 – 09:30 | La inefabilidad de la persona: el problema de la individuación en la antropología de Edith Stein | Jorge González | ||
| 09:30 – 10:00 | The reception of Edith Stein’s Legacy in Brazil 1948-2020 | Dro. Danilo Souza Ferreira | ||
| 10:00 – 10:15 | Break | |||
| Empatía y Comunidad – Estudios CulturalesModerator: Paulina Monjaraz Fuentes | Escolástica y FenomenologíaModerator: Rubén Sánchez Muñoz | |||
| 10:15 – 10:45 | An analysis of Stein’s phenomenology of empathy in the light of filipino community pantries | Etil Ric Daniel | Edith Stein y la manualística tomista de principios del siglo XX | Rodrigo Alvarez-Gutiérrez |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Reading Stein’s empathy through the gothic lit. | Eugene Kim | Edith Stein e Ideas II | Carlos Viaña |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Una aproximación a la empatía desde la tesis doctoral de Edith Stein y su implicancia en el autonocimiento | Gardith Cadenillas | Thinking with Stein on Transforming Oral History into Scholarly Knowledge | Lovestone Lauren |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Break | |||
| 12:00 – 13:00 | IASPES Meeting & Closing | |||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Goodbyes | |||
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