Transvaluing regensberg

A curious invitation today:

The Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, concerned by the deep cultural divides that characterize so much of our world, has found inspiration in Pope Benedict's Regensburg Address, and has decided to devote its eighth annual Fall conference to the theme: The Dialogue of Cultures. In interdisciplinary fashion, this conference will take up a variety of questions related to both the difficulties and opportunities involved in addressing cultural conflict.

Since when was the regensberg debacle an inspiration? I admit that it was not as bad as the media firestorm made it seem, and Benny the Rat is a very sharp theologian, however much I disagree with him. But the substance of that address was to claim a priviliged place for graeco-Roman culture as the appropriate context and carrier of Christianity. Which is silly. And reactionary. Both because the earliest cultural bearers of Christianity were Syrian and Egyptian, not Greek, and because it is impossible today to claim the incarnation means god has chosen Greek culture over any other.

But more curious is the 'inspiration' Claimed for the address. Is this anything other than ND ultramontinism grasping for straws? Trying to focus on a papal cult of personality which B16 tries to avoid?