Tianxia Conference 2022: Formulating a Minimalist Morality for a Planetary Order: Alternative Cultural Perspectives
- Date: August 11, 2022
Location: Zoom
Language: English
Registration: Please click here to register. Registration deadline is August 15, 2022.
I. Keynote Session: 8:00-10:30
8:00 – 10:30 Aug 18, 2022 (UTC+8)
Chair: Roger T. AMES
Peking University
Keynote: The Moral Minimum (8:00-9:30)
Michael WALZER
Institute for Advanced Study
An Ethical and Social Epistemology for Meeting Global Crises (9:30-10:00)
David B. WONG
Duke University
From Epistemology to Justice: Thinking through a Cross-Cultural Exemplar (10:00-10:30)
Vrinda DALMIYA
University of Hawaii
II. On the Possibility of a Minimalist Ethic
15:00-17:00 Aug 18, 2022 (UTC+8)
Chair: WEN Haiming
Renmin University of China
Against Order: Interregnum and Ethics of Disorder (15:00-15:30)
LV Xiaoyu
Peking University
Maximalist and Minimalist Justice in a Scalable Tianxia World Order (15:30-16:00)
ZHANG Feng
South China University of Technology
Minimalist Amorality: A Contemporary Daoist Perspective (16:00-16:30)
Hans-Georg MOELLER
University of Macau
Qinqin: Between the Same and the Other (16:30-17:00)
SUN Xiangchen
Fudan University
III. An Ethical and Social Epistemology for a Minimalist Ethic
20:30-22:30 Aug 18, 2022 (UTC+8)
Chair: James BEHUNIAK
Colby College
The Topos of Mu and the Predicative Self (20:30-21:00)
Baird CALLICOTT
University of North Texas
The United Nations and Minimalist Morality (21:00-21:30)
Owen FLANAGAN
Duke University
May No One Suffer: More than a Minimalist Ethic (21:30-22:00)
Amita CHATTERJEE
Jadavpur University
Minimalist Morality among Civilizational Dyarchies (22:00-22:30)
James HANKINS
Harvard University
IV. Liberalism and the Alternatives for a Minimalist Ethic
10:30-13:00 Aug 19, 2022 (UTC+8)
Chair: PENG Feng
Peking University
Tianxia with Liberal Democratic Characteristics? (10:30-11:00)
Albert WELTER
University of Arizona
Tianxia as a Trans-systemic Society (11:00-11:30)
WANG Hui
Tsinghua University
Beyond the Polarised Human Rights Politics in the United Nations Human Rights Council (11:30-12:00)
HE Baogang
Deakin University
Wisdom and Engaged Global Citizenship (12:00-12:30)
Jin Y. PARK
American University
Remapping Global Realities: The Need for Building a More Sustainable and Inclusive World (12:30-13:00)
Workineh KELBESSA
Addis Ababa University
V. Life Forms, Social Justice, and a Minimalist Ethic
21:00-23:00 Aug 19, 2022 (UTC+8)
Chair: Karl-Heinz POHL
University of Trier
Ritual and Geopolitics: The Case of Judaism (21:00-21:30)
Oliver LEAMAN
University of Kentucky
Confucians and Daoists: On Minimal Morality (21:30-22:00)
May SIM
College of the Holy Cross
The Confucian Concept of the Political and ‘Family Feeling’ (xiao 孝) as its Minimalist Morality (22:00-22:30)
Roger T. AMES
Peking University
Will to Control, Will to Power, Will to Strength, Will to biantong (22:30-23:00)
Brook ZIPORYN
University of Chicago