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Cutlure Within Dialogue East-West – International Conference on Cross-Cultural Philosophy
November 11, 2016 @ 9:30 am - 5:30 pm
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International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue
www.irccd.org
Millennium Research Fund
Moore Institute, NUIG
Convener: G. Cipriani
9:30 Dr. Gerald Cipriani (Philosophy, NUI Galway)
“In Dialogue: Eastern and Western Thought”
10:15 Dr. Cosimo Zene (Religions and Philosophies, SOAS, University of London)
“The Risky Choice of Calling It World Philosophies: Beyond the Anglo-European Canon”
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Prof. Tanehisa Otabe (Institute of Aesthetics, The University of Tokyo)
“An Iroquois in Paris and a Crusoe on a Desert Island: Kant’s Aesthetics and the Process of Civilization”
12:00 Dr. Adam Loughnane (Philosophy, University College Cork)
“Poetic Language in the Philosophy of Ueda Shizuteru and Martin Heidegger”
12:45 Lunch break
14:00 Prof. Anne Cheng (Intellectual History of China, Collège de France, Paris)
“Is the Dialogue of Cultures a Contemporary Myth?”
14:45 Prof. Wangheng Chen (Philosophy, Wuhan University, China)
“On Chinese Aesthetics: Interpretative Encounter between Taoism and Confucianism”
15:30 Tea break
15:45 Dr. Fang-Long Shih (Asian Research Centre, London School of Economics)
“Religion as a Vehicle in the Construction of National Identity: Taiwan and Ireland in Dialogue”
16:30 Dr. Martin Ovens (Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
“Resemblance and Reconstitution: Samkara and Skepsis”
17:15 Closing discussion