Lille (France)
March 31-April 2, 2008
Presenters
André Comte-Sponville
Atheist philosopher.
André Comte-Sponville is a prominent philosopher and proponent of atheism and materialism. He studied in the École Normale Supérieure, and was a professor at the Sorbonne.
Dr. Comte-Sponville has written several prominent philisophical books including:Traité du désespoir et de la béatitude (Treatise of Despair and Happiness) (2 volumes, 1984-1988); Une éducation philosophique (A Philosophical Education) (1989); L'amour la solitude (Love, Lonliness) (1992); Petit Traité des Grandes Vertus (A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues) (1995); Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary); La sagesse des Modernes, written with Luc Ferry (Modern Wisdom); Le Gai Désespoir (The Happy Despair); Présentation de la philosophie; Le Bonheur, désespérément (Presentation of Philosophy: Happiness, Despair) (2000); Le capitalisme est-il moral? (Capitalism: Is it Moral?) (2004); L'Esprit de l'athéisme (The Spirit of Atheism) (2006); Le Miel et l'Absinthe (Honey and Absinthe) (2008).
Dr. Comte-Sponville has written several prominent philisophical books including:Traité du désespoir et de la béatitude (Treatise of Despair and Happiness) (2 volumes, 1984-1988); Une éducation philosophique (A Philosophical Education) (1989); L'amour la solitude (Love, Lonliness) (1992); Petit Traité des Grandes Vertus (A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues) (1995); Dictionnaire philosophique (Philosophical Dictionary); La sagesse des Modernes, written with Luc Ferry (Modern Wisdom); Le Gai Désespoir (The Happy Despair); Présentation de la philosophie; Le Bonheur, désespérément (Presentation of Philosophy: Happiness, Despair) (2000); Le capitalisme est-il moral? (Capitalism: Is it Moral?) (2004); L'Esprit de l'athéisme (The Spirit of Atheism) (2006); Le Miel et l'Absinthe (Honey and Absinthe) (2008).
Georgina Dufoix
Former President of the Red Cross in France.
Georgina Dufoix was previously a minister of Health and Social Services in Francoise Mitterand's government.
Alain Nisus
Evangelical theologian.
Alain Nisus is professor at the Free Faculty of Evangelical Theology in Vaux-sur-Seine, Paris.
Jacques Poujol
Christian psychotherapist.
Jacques Poujol holds a degree in counseling, couples and family and is trained in transactional analysis and assisting victims of sexual abuse. He is a professor of helping relationship in various French institutes and faculties of Biblical Theology. He is Vice-president of ACC (Association of Christian Counselors) France and ACC Europe. He has co-authored several books with wife Claire (who is also a Christian therapist).