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Sacred Web Conference 2014
April 26th and 27th, 2014
Segal Centre
Vancouver, British Columbia
Program
Saturday, April 26th
"Rediscovering the Sacred in our Lives and in our Times"
"Rediscovering the Sacred in our Lives and in our Times"
| 9:00 to 10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00 to 10:15 | Welcome and Musical Introduction |
| 10:15 to 10:30 | Special Introductory Message |
| 10:30 to 11:00 | M. Ali Lakhani: "'The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things': The Relevance of the Sacred in our Lives." |
| 11:00 to 12:00 | Seyyed Hossein Nasr: "Keynote Address - What is the Sacred and How can we Know and Experience it in a Secular World?" |
| 12:00 to 12:30 | Q&A with Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
| 12:30 to 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 to 2:15 | Osman Bakar: "From Secular Science to Sacred Science: The Need for a Transformation." |
| 2:15 to 3:00 | Robert Crane: "Holistic Natural Law and the Sacred Dialectic of Pluralism." |
| 3:00 to 3:30 | Coffee |
| 3:30 to 4:15 | Patrick Laude: "The Sacred and the Post-Modern: An Impossible Convergence." |
| 4:15 to 5:00 | Reza Shah-Kazemi: "Invoking Blessings upon the Prophet: Discovering the Immanence of the Sacred." |
| 5:00 to 6:00 | Q&A with Panelists |
Sunday, April 27th
"The Centrality of the Sacred in the Teachings
of Seyyed Hossein Nasr"
| 9:00 to 10:00 | Registration |
| 10:00 to 10:15 | Welcome and Musical Introduction |
| 10:15 to 11:00 | Interview with Seyyed Hossein Nasr - conducted by M. Ali Lakhani |
| 11:00 to 11:30 | Presenter #1: Patrick Laude: "Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Knowledge and the Sacred: The Spiritual Relevance of Intellectuality." |
| 11:30 to 12:00 | Presenter #2: Joseph Lumbard: [Topic to be confirmed] | 12:00 to 1:30 | Lunch (and Group Photograph of Conference Speakers) |
| 1:30 to 2:00 | Presenter #3: Osman Bakar: "Nature as a Sacred Book: A Core Element of Dr. Nasr's Philosophical Teachings." |
| 2:00 to 2:30 | Presenter #4: Mohammad Faghfoory: "A Loss of a Sense of the Sacred? The Reception of Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Views Amongst Modernist Groups in Iran and in the West." |
| 2:30 to 3:00 | Presenter #5: Laleh Bakhtiar: "Avicenna's Perennial Psychology: An Illustration of Dr. Nasr's Focus on Sacred Philosophy." |
| 3:00 to 3:30 | Coffee |
| 3:30 to 4:00 | Presenter #6: Mohammed Rustom: "The End of Islamic Philosophy." |
| 4:00 to 4:30 | Presenter #7: Jane Casewit: "The Necessity of the Sacred in Education." |
| 4:30 to 5:00 | Presenter #8: Reza Shah-Kazemi: "Seyyed Hossein Nasr's Perspective on the Sanctity of Nature: Reflections in the Light of the Holy Qur'an." |
| 5:00 to 6:00 | Response by Seyyed Hossein Nasr to Presentations, followed by Q&A with Dr. Nasr and Panelists |
| 6:00 | Closing Remarks |
[Program subject to change without notice]
