(11/13/2009)  Posted By:
bradleydpark    

A free, public two-day symposium and town-hall examining global issues of our century—Human Rights, Democracy, Women, Development & the Environment—from the perspective of four Asian traditions—Chinese, Japanese, Buddhist, and Islamic thought.

The goal of the program is to engage these critical issues from within a multicultural context in order to learn from Asia and not just about Asia. Friday, November 13, 2009 (Auerbach Auditorium / St. Mary's Hall) 7:30 PM -9:00 PM Role Ethics: A Confucian Moral Vision for the Global 21st Century Henry Rosemont, Jr (Brown University) Saturday, November 14, 2009 (Auerbach Auditorium / St. Mary's Hall) 9:00 AM - 10:30 PM Women and Politics in Indonesia: the Power to Confront or Conform. Nelly Van Doorn-Harder (Wake Forest University) 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM Bio-Lust: America's Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics William LaFleur (University of Pennsylvania) 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM Lunch Break 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Environments, Diversity and Equity: A Buddhist Perspective, Peter Hershock (East-West Center)

For more information contact, Prof. Bradley Park, bdpark@smcm.edu / (240) 895-4276

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