Program

Internacional Seminar on "The Secular State and Religious Freedom”

Coordination: Justice Ives Gandra and Dr. Milton Nobre
Promoted by: National Council of Justice (Brazil)
Date: June 16, 2011 (Thursday)
Location: Convention Center Brazil 21 (Brasilia)

Purpose: To deepen the sense of secularity of the State over the religious factor as a component of the human dimension, in order to provide elements for understanding the legal issues involving the relationship between Church and State, both as regards to the legal consequences of separation between them, as well as in relation to the forms and limits of mutual cooperation and the guarantee of respect for religious freedom in a pluralistic and democratic State of law.


PROGRAM

8:00 - Delivery of Credentials

8:30 - Opening: Chief Justice Cezar Peluso, President of the Supreme Court and the National Council of Justice.

9:00 - 1st Conference: "The Religious Phenomenon as an Expression of Human Dignity"
Chair of the Board: Dr. Milton Nobre
Speaker:
Prof. Massimo Introvigne, Sociologist and Representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to combat racism, xenophobia, intolerance and religious discrimination.

9:45 - 1st Panel: "Private Consciences and Public Reasons"
Chair of the Board: Cons. Paulo Tamburini
Panelists:
Prof. Kent Greenawalt, Columbia Law School Professor and author of works Religious Convictions and Political Choice (1988), Private Conscience and Public Reasons (1995) and Does God Belong in Public Schools? (2005).
Prof. Daniel Sarmento, Republic’s Attorney and Professor of Constitutional Law at UERJ.

11:15 - Coffee Break

11:30 - 2nd Conference: "The Catholic Church and the Secular State"
Chair of the Board: Cons. Felipe Locke
Speaker: Prof. Father Rafael José de Moraes Stanziona, Ph.D. in Moral Theology from the University of Navarra and Professor of Juridical Deontology on the International Institute of Social Sciences.

12:15 - Lunch

14:15 - 2nd Session: "The Modern Democratic State and its Secularism"
Chair of the Board: Cons. José Adônis Callou de Araújo Sá
Panelists:
Dr. Jorge Hélio Chaves de Oliveira, member of National Council of Justice
Prof. Jorge Miranda, University of Lisbon Law School Professor and retired Judge of the Constitutional Court of Portugal.

15:45 - Coffee Break

16:00 - 3rd Panel: "The Agreement Brazil – Santa Sé: Relevant Aspects"
Chair of the Board: Cons. Jefferson Kravchychyn
Panelists:
Justice Ives Gandra Martins Filho, of the Superior Labor Court and member of the National Council of Justice
Dr. José Bonifácio Borges de Andrada, Republic’s Attorney and ex-Union General’s Attorney

17:30 - Closing: Chair of Justice Eliana Calmon, from the Superior Court of Justice and member of National Council of Justice

18:00 - Conclusion

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