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Conference Announcement "Dialogue and Difference: Meditations on Local/Global Values in Post-Modernity" International Multidisciplinary Conference Department of Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies, Univerisity of London London (UK) 9-11 September 2009 __________________________________________________ The SOAS Department of Study of Religions is delighted to announce an international, multidisciplinary conference on the themes of Dialogue and Difference, to be held at SOAS from the 9th to the 11th September 2009. The aim of this conference is to gather scholars from varied disciplines and traditions, to enable critical reflection upon the academic and everyday values we live by, the changing nature of these values, their strength, their flexibility, their 'power and authority'. As intellectuals, we believe in the need for theoretical reflection on the problems of dialogue and difference as a way of contributing to society. Conference Schedule and Panels: Wednesday September 9: Registration, Kalili Lecture Theatre: 16:00-17:00 (all keynotes and panels will take place in the Kalili Lecture Theatre) Keynote Address: 17:00-18:30 Professor Stephen Chan, SOAS, UK: Others as Ourselves and Ourselves as Others: Strangeness and Miscegenation at the Heart of all Civilizations and all Civil Societies Thursday September 10: Panel One: 09:30-11:30: Post-Modernity and Cosmopolitanism Chair: Dr Paul-François Tremlett Speakers: * Professor Joseph Buttigieg, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA * Professor Hans-Herbert Kögler, University of North Florida, USA * Dr Tiziano Tosolini, Nanzan University, Japan * Professor Couze Venn, Nottingham Trent University, UK Panel Two: 12:00-13:00: Minds and Bodies Chair: Professor Stephan Feuchtwang Speakers: * Dr Sîan Hawthorne, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK * Dr Paul-François Tremlett, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Panel Three: 14:00-15:30: Sacred Dialogues Chair: Dr Sîan Hawthorne Speakers: * Professor Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck College, UK * Dr (Ayatollah) Sayed G. Safavi, Iran * Professor Mineke Schipper, University of Leiden, Netherlands Panel Four: 16:00-17:30: Impossible Dialogues Chair: Professor Gordon Lynch, Birkbeck College, UK Speakers: * Professor Stephan Feuchtwang, LSE, UK * Professor John McCumber, UCLA, USA * Dr Cosimo Zene, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Friday September 11: Panel Five: 09:30-11:00: Gramsci Chair: Dr Cosimo Zene Speakers: * Professor Mauro Pala, University of Cagliari, Italy * Professor Anne Sassoon, Birkbeck College, UK * Professor Birgit Wagner, University of Vienna, Austria Panel Six: 11:30-13:00: Works in Progress Chair: Dr James Kapalo Speakers * Mr Hussam Al-Mallak, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK * Mr Tullio Lobetti, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK * Ms Ania Ostrowska, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK Panel Seven: 14:30-16:00: Round Table Keynote Address: 16:30-18:00 Professor Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University, USA: Belief Contacts: Dr Cosimo Zene: [email protected] Dr Paul-F Tremlett: [email protected] Conference website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event52740.html __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://cal.polylog.org
