Empires and Humankind: China and the West Compared - Dresden, June 12 to June 15, 2008
Sonderforschungsbereich 537
TU Dresden
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut des
Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Empires and Humankind
China and the West Compared
Dresden
Thursday, June 12, to Sunday, June 15, 2008
| Thursday, June 12 | |
| Opening | |
| 20:15 | Begrüßung: Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (Dresden) Einführung: Hans Vorländer (Dresden) Herfried Münkler (Berlin) Imperien: Die Logik der Weltherrschaft Reception |
| Friday, June 13 | |
| China and Greece (Chair: Jürgen Gebhardt, Erlangen) | |
| 09:00 | Heiner Roetz (Bochum) Traditionalism and Universalism in Confucian Thought |
| 09:50 | Huang Yang (Shanghai) The Invention of the Barbarian and the Emergence of Orientalism in Classical Greece |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Ernst August Schmidt (Tübingen) Greeks, Barbarians and Mankind after Alexander |
| 11:40 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| China and Rome (Chair: Ye Min, Tianjin) | |
| Early Empire: Historical and Political Thinking | |
| 15:00 | Achim Mittag (Tübingen) / Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (Dresden) "Imperial Universalism" in Historical and Political Thinking: China and Rome Compared |
| 16:00 | Discussion |
| 16:30 | Coffee Break |
| Early Empire: Language | |
| 17:00 | Wolfgang Behr (Bochum) Whacky Neighbors, Twisted Talk. Some Backgrounds and Consequences of the Early Imperial Petrification of Chinese Language and Writing |
| 17:30 | Jürgen Leonhardt (Tübingen) Did the Romans Speak Latin? Language, Power and Literature in the Roman Empire |
| 18:00 | Discussion |
| Saturday, June 14 | |
| China and Rome (continued) (Chair: Achim Mittag, Tübingen) | |
| Early Empire: Law | |
| 09:00 | Ulrich Lau (Heidelberg) Prinzipien der Strafzumessung und Rekonstruktion des Strafprozesses zu Beginn der Chinesischen Kaiserzeit im Lichte neuer Textfunde |
| 09:30 | Dietmar Schanbacher (Dresden) Römische Jurisprudenz und griechische Philosophie |
| 10:00 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| Late Antiquity / Early Medieval Period: Religion | |
| 11:00 | Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (Wolfenbüttel) Universality of Buddhist Religion from Han to Tang. The Idea of a Buddhist Empire |
| 11:30 | Gerard O'Daly (London/Asnieres) Creating Christian Identity in the Later Roman Empire |
| 12:00 | Discussion |
| 13:00 | Lunch |
| China and the West in the Modern Period (Chair: Hans Vorländer, Dresden) | |
| 15:00 | Zhu Weizheng (Shanghai) Ideas of Nation and Humankind in Chinese Thought from Emperor Qianlong to Chairman Mao |
| 16:00 | Charles F. Maier (Harvard) Characteristics of the American Empire |
| 16:45 | Coffee Break |
| 17:15 | Discussion |
| 19:30 | Dinner |
| Sunday, June 15 | |
| Empires of the 21st Century: Europe, USA, China? | |
| 10:00 | Begrüßung: Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (Dresden) Round Table Discussion (Chair: Hans Vorländer, Dresden) |
| Vittorio Hösle (Notre Dame, Indiana) The European Union and the USA: Two Contemporary Versions of Western 'Empires'? |
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| Cheng Chung-ying (Hawaii) Confucian Political Leadership with Vision and Mission of a Humane World |
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| Jürgen Gebhardt (Erlangen) Democratic Principle and Empire Building in the 21st Century |
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| Jörn Rüsen (Essen) The Project of 'New' Humanism |
Organization:
Fritz-Heiner Mutschler (Dresden) in cooperation with Achim Mittag (Tübingen) and Hans Vorländer (Dresden)
With kind support of Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, Stiftung Mercator, Gesellschaft von Freunden und Förderern der TU Dresden, Zentrum für Verfassungs- und Demokratieforschung (ZVD) an der TU Dresden
Venues:
Thursday to Saturday: Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek (SLUB), Auditory (Vortragssal), upper floor, Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden
Sunday: Rektorat der TU Dresden, Auditory (Festsaal), 1st floor, Mommsenstraße 11, 01069 Dresden
Contact:
Prof. Dr. Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
TU Dresden
Institut für Klassische Philologie
phone: ++49-(0)351-46 33 29 61
fax: ++49-(0)351-46 33 72 45
e-mail: Fritz-Heiner Mutschler
Prof. Dr. Hans Vorländer
TU Dresden
Institut für Politikwissenschaft
Zentrum für Verfassungs- und Demokratieforschung (ZVD)
phone: ++49-(0)351-46 33 58 11
fax: ++49-(0)351-46 33 72 33
e-mail: Hans Vorländer
Accomodation:
Gästehaus am Weberplatz
Weberplatz 3, 01217 Dresden
phone: ++49-(0)351-467 9300
fax: ++49-(0)351-467 9394
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