International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary Issues, UCU
Pôle de Recherche du Collège des Bernardins (Société Liberté Paix)
Lviv Business School, UCU
International Conference
Politics, Ethics, and Theology
The Challenges for Ukraine and Europe
October 9, 2014
Collège des Bernardins, 20 rue de Poissy, 75005 Paris
In association with
L’Association des Étudiants Ukrainiens en France
L’Association des Cadres Ukrainiens en France
Forum Europeen pour l’Ukraine
The Thomas More Institute
Media Partners
Le Pèlerin
Perspectives Ukrainiennes
PROGRAM
Thursday, October 9
09.00-10.30 Opening & Panel 1
The Maidan: In Defense of Dignity and Freedom/La révolution de la dignité sur Maidan
Language: English/French
Site: Collège des Bernardins
Moderator: Antoine Arjakovskyj, Co-director SLP, Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France
- •Mgr. Borys Gudziak, Bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Volodymyr the Great in Paris for Ukrainian Greek Catholics in France, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxemburg and Switzerland; President of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine
- •Jose Casanova, Professor, Department of Sociology and Senior Fellow, Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA
- •Mykhailo Minakov, Professor, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-13.30 Panel 2
What Are the Solutions for Crimea?/Quelles solutions pour la Crimée?
Language: English/French
Site: Collège des Bernardins
Moderator: Marie Mendras, FNCSR, Paris, France
- •Iryna Dmytryshyn, Professor, National Institute of Languages and Eastern Civilizations, Paris, France
- •Philippe de Suremain, Chair of the French Association for Ukrainian Studies, Former French Ambassador to Ukraine (2002-2005), Paris, France
- •Hans–Jürgen Heimsoeth, Ambassador of Germany to the OECD, Former German Ambassador to Ukraine (2008-2012), Paris, France
- •Oleh Kobzystyy, Charge d’ Affaires of the Ukraine in France, Paris, France
12.30 – 14.00 Break
14.00 – 15.30 Panel 3
La guerre russo-ukrainienne, les démocraties et les réseaux de pouvoir/Russian-Ukrainian War, Democracies and Networks of Power
Language: French
Site: Collège des Bernardins
Moderator: Jean-Sylvestre Mongrenier, Research Fellow, Thomas More Institute, Paris, France
- •Galia Ackerman, Writer, Historian, Director of the European Forum for Ukraine, Paris, France
- •Chantal Delsol, Professor, University of Marne-La-Vallye, Marne la Vallée, France
- •Philippe Capelle Dumont, Professor, University of Strasbourg; President, Catholic Academy of France, Paris, France
- •Joanna Nowicki, Professor, University of Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
15.45–17.15 Panel 4
A European Future: Recovering the Power of Moral Vision/Retrouver une vision éthique de la construction européenne
Language: English
Site: Collège des Bernardins
Moderator: Volodymyr Turchynovskyy, Director, IIECI, Lviv, Ukraine
- •Peter McCormick, Permanent Member, L’Institut international de philosophie, Paris, France Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- •Czeslaw Porebski, Professor, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
- •Dr. Aloys Buch, Professor of Moral Theology, Dean, St. Lambert Interdiocesan, Major Seminary, Lantershofen, Germany
- •Edward J. Alam, Professor, Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon
- •John Conbere, Professor, Co-Director, SEAM International Institute College of Education, Leadership and Counseling University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, USA
- •Dr. Alla Heorhiadi, Co-Director, SEAM International Institute College of Education, Leadership and Counseling University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, USA
17.15-17.30 Break
17.30-19.00 Roundtable
Political Decisions, Business Interests, and the Future of Global Organizations/ Décisions politiques et Іntérêts commerciaux
Moderator: Julia Lev, Representative of L’Association des Cadres Ukrainiens en France, Paris, France
- •Sophia Opatska, Dean, Lviv Business School, UCU, Lviv, Ukraine
- •Luc Derieppe, French entrepreneur in Ukraine, Societe Gaelys Export, France
- •Volodymyr Yermolenko, Philosopher and essayist, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine
19.00 Closing