Academia Oamenilor de Stiinta din Romania - Filiala USA

Academy of Romanian Scientists - USA Branch

XXIst Ecumenical Theological and Interdisciplinary Symposium

 


 

Vivat Academia!

How Post-Modern Rhetoric Shapes Our Understanding of Modern and Pre-Modern Values

         

Saturday, December 7th, 2013

10:00 AM

 

Metropolitan College of New York

431 Canal Street (at Varick Ave.)

New York, NY 10013

11th Floor - Conference Room   11 N

Subway 1, 9, A, C, E stop at Canal Street

 

 

PROGRAM:

Theodor Damian, PhD

Professor of Philosophy and Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York; President of the Romanian Institute of Orthodox Theology and Spirituality:

How Can Transcendence Help Reinvent Ourselves?

 

Richard Grallo, PhD

Professor of Applied Psychology, Metropolitan College of New York:

On Seeking Understanding

 

Louis Tietje, PhD

Professor of Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York, and

Steven Cresap, PhD

Associate Professor of Modern European Intellectual History, Metropolitan College of New York:

The Parable of the Laboreres in the Vineyard in Matthew 20: 1-16: A Story about Justice of Mercy?

 

Steven Cresap, PhD

Associate Professor of Modern European Intellectual History, Metropolitan College of New York:

Advocacy in the Mission Statement: What Academics Should Do about Institutional Partisanship

 

Doru Tsaganea, PhD

Associate Professor of Mathematics, Metropolitan College of New York:

Industrialization - The Defining Economic Element of Modernization        

 

Constantin Virgil Negoita, PhD

Professor of Computer Science, Hunter College, City University of New York:

Postmodern Logic

 

Elvin Ramos,

Assistant Dean, Metropolitan College of New York:

The Rethoric of Hope: Illuminating the Reality of the World’s Poor and the Role of Religious Charity

 

Paul J. LaChance, PhD

Associate Professor, Philosophy/Theology Department, College of St. Elisabeth, New Jersey:

Process and Insight: Sounding in Gendlin and Lonergan Toward a Future Dialectic

 

Bert Breiner, PhD

Adjunct Professor of Religion, Hunter College, City University of New York

Al-Ghazali, Certitude and Postmodernism

 

         

 

MODERATOR:

Humphrey Crookendale, JD

Dean, School of Management, Metropolitan College of New York

 

 

GUESTS  OF HONOR:

His Eminence Dr. Nicolae Condrea, Archbishop, The Romanian Orthodox Archdiocese in the Americas

 

Vinton Thompson, PhD

President of the Metropolitan College of New York

 

Ruth Lugo, PhD

Dean of the Audrey Cohen School for Human Services and Education, Metropolitan College of New York

 

 

DISCUSSANTS:

David Rosner, PhD

Assistant Professor of Values and Ethics, Metropolitan College of New York

 

Clyde Griffin, EdD

Assistant Professor of Human Services, Metropolitan College of New York

 

 

 

 

GALERIA SPIRITUS

Director: Viorica Colpacci, MA

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