Monday, May 23rd, 2022

Theoretical Problems in Religion of Reason

3:00 PM	Welcome Remarks & Coffee Michael Zank, Professor of Religion and Director of the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies
4:00 PM	Ideal and Idealization: The Modality of the Religion of Reason in Cohen’s *Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism* Roy Amir, Postdoctoral fellow at the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
5:00 PM	*So muss schon der Versuch gewagt, die Grundlegung versucht werden (in German*) Pierfrancesco Fiorato**, Professor of Philosophy at Università degli Studi di Parma
6:00 – 8:00 PM	*Dinner*
8:00 PM	Festive Evening Lecture & Reception A Conversation with Robert Schine & Eugene Sheppard Dr. Schine and Dr. Sheppard will discuss and share readings from their volume titled Hermann Cohen: Writings on Neo-Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy, a newly translated collection of Hermann Cohen’s writings. They will share their hopes to illuminate Cohen’s achievements and correct lapses in his intellectual reception by previous generations. Robert S. Schine, Professor of Religion at Middlebury College Eugene R. Sheppard, Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought at Brandeis University

9:00 AM	Psychosomatic Dimensions in Psalm Prayer: Cohen and Steinthal Hartwig Wiedebach, Privatdozent, Uni Kassel; formerly Director of the Hermann Cohen Archiv, University of Zurich / ETH Zürich
10:00 AM	Hermann Cohen and the Ritschlian School on Atonement Daniel M. Herskowitz, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford
11:00 – 11:30 AM	*Break*
11:30 AM	Hermann Cohen’s Biblical Hermeneutic Alexandra Zirkle, Assistant Professor; Director of Undergraduate Studies; and Affiliate of the Gender Institute at the University at Buffalo
12:30 PM	Cohen as the Climax of Jewish Reform Theology (*Remote Session) George Yaakov Kohler*, Faculty Member at the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Lunch break & coffee

2:30 PM	The Law: Problemgeschichte and Taamei Hamitzvot Mark A. Kaplowitz, Assistant Professor at Southwest Tennessee Community College
3:30 PM	Hermann Cohen’s Ethical Critique of Capitalism: A Functionalist Account Elisabeth Widmer, Universität Wien, Austria; Visiting Scholar at the Philosophy Department at Boston University
4:30 PM	The Unity of the Virtues in Herman Cohen’s Jewish Philosophy: Between Epistemology, Ethics, and Politics Shira Billet, Postdoctoral Associate at the Judaic Studies Program at Yale University
5:30 PM	The emergence of theocracy in Hermann Cohen’s theory of virtues: social policy out of the sources of Judaism Christoph Kasten, Ph.D. Candidate at the Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main and the Selma Stern Center Center for Jewish Studies Berlin-Brandenburg
7:00 PM	*Dinner*

9:00 AM	*Jacob Gordin on Hermann Cohen’s neo-Maimonidean account of creation (Remote Session*) Ori Werdiger**, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto
10:00 AM	*RRJS and Philosophical System: Continuity and Difference in the Views of Jacob Gordin (Remote Session*) Iveta Leitane,** Bonn University, Germany; University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
11:00 – 11:30 AM	*Break*
11:30 AM	Ethics and Messianism: Comparing Walter Benjamin and Hermann Cohen (*Remote Session) Tamara Tagliacozzo*, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at Roma Tre University
12:30 PM	In Spinoza’s Shadow: Cohen on Revelation, Prophecy, and Messianism Michael A. Rosenthal, Grafstein Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto

1:30 – 2:30 PM

Lunch break

2:30 PM

The Long Shadow of Cohen’s Religion of Reason Out of the Sources of Judaism: Correlation and Rosenzweig’s “New Thinking”

Jacob Levi, Visiting Lecturer at the French and Francophone Department at Connecticut College

3:30 PM

General Discussion

6:00 – 8:00 PM

Dinner