XXV CONFERENCE OF THE ACADEMY OF LATINITY
HUMANITY AND DIFFERENCE IN THE GLOBAL AGE
Beijing, China
May 23 - 25, 2012
In cooperation with Tsinghua University
Venue: Wenjin Hotel
Tuesday, May 22
10:00 am—9:00 pm, registration at the lobby of Wenjin Hotel
Wednesday, May 23
9:00 am, coach will take the participants to the Main Building of Tsinghua University
9:30 am: Opening Ceremony
§ Jorge Sampaio – United Nations High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations (video)
§ Federico Mayor – President of the Academy of Latinity (video)
§ Xie Weihe – Vice President for the Humanities and Social Sciences / Tsinghua University
§ Candido Mendes – Secretary-General of the Academy of Latinity
10:10 Interval
10:30 am – First Session: Occidentalism and Post-Occidentalism
§ Wang Ning – Cultural Translation and Multicentric Modernities
§ Walter Mignolo – The Role of BRICS Countries in the Becoming World Order: “Humanity,” Colonial/Imperial Differences, and the Racial Distribution of Capital and Knowledge
§ Helena Barroco – The UN Alliance of Civilizations’ perspective in our age of diversity
12:30 am – Buffet lunch in Jia Suo Hotel on the campus (coach will take all the participants to Jia Suo and take them to Wenjin Hotel Meeting room after lunch at 2:00 pm)
02:30 pm – Second Session: Technology and World Civilization
§ Gianni Vattimo – The Question Concerning Technology Today
§ Lydia H. Liu – The Freudian Robot: Rethinking the Human and the Machine
§ He Xirong – A Contemporary Significance on Chinese Traditional Mode of Thinking
§ Jianying Chen – East and West after the Linguistic Turn (TBC)
06:00 Dinner
Thursday, May 24
9:00 am – Third Session: Reinventions and Interactions
§ Candido Mendes – A Humanism for our Time
§ Tong Shijun – A Whole New Hope: A Discussion 90 Years after Bertrand Russell’s The Problem of China
§ Daniel Innerarity – Politics after Indignation
§ Santiago Zabala – The Only Emergency is the Lack of Events
12:00 Lunch
02:30 pm – Fourth Session: Spaces of Difference
§ François L’Yvonnet – The European “Self-Closure”
§ Jérôme Bindé – Identity and Difference Beyond Fundamentalism and Globalization
§ Maria Isabel Mendes de Almeida. Contemporary Creativity and the Redesigning of the Relationship between Author and Work: the exhaustion of the creative outburst
§ Yang Huilin – The Verbal Logic of Identity
05:00 pm – Fifth Session: Spaces of Difference – Part II
§ Susan Buck-Morss – Seeing Global
§ Si Han - Meeting of Cultures in Images and Art
§ Mario Lúcio Souza – Creole Humanism in Africa
06:30 Dinner
Friday, May 25
9:00 am – Sixth Session: Mapping the Global Age – Part I
§ Enrique Larreta – The Present Point in History: Reflections on a Transitional Age.
§ Renato Janine Ribeiro – Brazil and the Emergence of the South
§ Gilbert Hottois – Science and Technology: from Modern to Post-Modern Representations
§ Javier Sanjinés – Mariátegui and the Andean Revolutionarism
12:00 Lunch
02:30 pm – Seventh Session: Mapping the Global Age – Part 2
§ Zhang Longxi – Lessons from Mont Lu: China and Cross-Cultural Understanding
§ Gerardo Caetano. “Small” Countries and “Large” Countries: the case of Uruguay in Mercosur and Unasur
§ Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães – The South and the World
§ Yang Guorong. Virtue in Human Practice: A Comparative Perspective
06:00 pm Banquet at Wenjin Hotel
Saturday, May 26 – Touring the Great Wall and Ming Dynasty Tombs
§ Coach will take the participants to the Great Wall and Ming Tombs at 8:00 am in front of Wenjin Hotel. |
