ASIAN PERSPECTIVES ON 21st CENTURY ISSUES
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 Guzheng Performance (chinese zither), Alice Kan
8:00 PM Role Ethics: A Confucian Moral Vision for the Global 21st Century, Henry Rosemont
Saturday, November 14, 2009 (Auerbach Auditorium / St. Mary’s Hall)
9:00 AM Women and Politics in Indonesia: the Power to Confront or Conform, Nelly Van Doorn-Harder
11:00 AM Bio-Lust: America’s Biotech Juggernaut and its Japanese Critics, William LaFleur
2:00 PM Environments, Diversity and Equity: A Buddhist Perspective, Peter Hershock
4:00 PM Indian Folk and Sikh Devotional music, Mona Singh (vox, harmonium) & Chethan Ananth (tabla)
