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October 21, 2007
Event: Public Reason and the Harmonious Society: The Future of Political Theory in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
[Editor's Note: One generally find oneself yawning at academic conferences, but this one has provocative potential.]
DATE: October 25 - 28
TIME: see below
PLACE:Third Floor, Main Building, Tsinghua University)
COST: FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Sponsors: Department of Philosophy, Tsinghua University, Guangdong Province Philosophy & Social Sciences Association
Thursday, October 25
Arrival and Check-In (Tsinghua Ziguang International Exchange Center, “TZIEC”):
12:00 pm – 17:30 pm
6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Opening Dinner (TZIZC Dinning Hall)
Friday, October 26
7:30 am – 8:45 am
Breakfast (TZIEC Dinning Hall)
8:45 am
Meeting point for conference participants (TZIEC)
9:00 am - 10:15 am
Chair: Wan Junren (Tsinghua University)
Keynote Lecture by Michael Walzer (Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton): The Design of Democratic Discussions; Commentator: Cui Zhiyuan (Tsinghua University)
10:15 am – 10:30 am
Tea/Coffee break
10:30 am – 1:00 pm
Panel: Economic Growth, Rights, and Social Justice in China
Chair: Li Qiang (Peking University)
Thomas Pogge (Columbia): Growth Is Good! – But What Growth?
Li Weisen (Fudan University): The Deepening of the Marketization Process and China’s Future Road to a Rechtsstatt
Yao Dazhi (Jilin University): Social Justice
1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Lunch (TZIEC) (extra time for our international guests to take a short nap to help recover from jetlag)
3:00 pm – 4:40 pm
Panel: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Political Philosophy
Chair: Stephen Macedo (Princeton University)
Bashir Bashir (Jerusalem University) and Avner de-Shalit (Jerusalem University): Teaching Political Philosophy in a Conflict Zone: The Case of Palestine/Israel
Tatsuo Inoue (Tokyo University): The Ambivalence of Globalization: A Cross-Cultural Challenge to Political Theory
4:40 pm – 5:00 pm
Tea/Coffee Break
5:00 pm – 5:50 pm (continued)
Sebastiano Maffetone (LUISS University): Human Rights and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
6:00 pm – 7: 00 pm
Free time
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Dinner (TZIEC)
Saturday, October 27
7:30 am – 8:45 am
Breakfast (TZIEC)
8:45 am
Meeting point for conference participants (TZIEC)
9:00 am – 10:40 am
Panel: Democracy and Pluralism
Chair: Daniel Bell (Tsinghua University)
Philip Pettit (Princeton University): From Republic to Democracy
Gu Su (Nanjing University): Overlapping Consensus and Public Reason in a Plural Democratic Society
10:40 am – 11:10 am
Tea/Coffee Break and Picture Taking
11:10 am – 12:30 pm
Panel: Chinese Debates on International Justice and Global Ethics
Chair: Sebastiano Maffetone (LUISS University)
Lu Feng (Tsinghua University): Is International Justice Possible?
Wei Zhengxiang (Tsinghua University): The Rise of China: Geopolitical Strategy and a Framework for a Roundtable Mode of Global Ethics
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
Lunch (TZIEC)
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm
Panel: Public Reason and John Rawls
Chair: Avner de-Shalit (Jerusalem University)
Stephen Macedo (Princeton University): What Is Public Reason and Why Is it Controversial? Two Claims and Three Objections
Liu Xin (Sichuan University): The Implication of Rawls’s Approach to Public Reason
Gong Qun (China Renmin University): The Public of Reason and Public Reason
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Tea/Coffee Break
5:00 pm – 6:40 pm
Panel: Respect and Rationality
Chair: Thomas Pogge (Columbia University)
Ian Carter (University of Rome): Respect and the Basis of Equality
Po Chung CHOW (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Rationality, Teleology, and Congruence
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Dinner (TZIEC)
Sunday, October 28
7:30 am – 8:45 am
Breakfast (TZIEC)
8:45 am
Meeting point for conference participants (TZIEC)
9:00 am – 10:40 am
Panel: Confucian Perspectives on Politics, Democracy, and Justice
Chair: Neera Chandhoke (University of New Dehli)
Jiang Yi-Huah (National University of Taiwan): The Political in the Confucian Tradition: An Analysis of the Four Books
Stephen Angle (Wesleyan University): The Necessity of Participation: Toward a Modern Confucian Politics
10:40 am – 11:00 am
Tea/Coffee Break
11 am – 11: 50 am (continued)
Joseph Chan (University of Hong Kong): Is There a Confucian Theory of Distributive Justice?
11:50 am – 1:30 pm
Lunch (TZIEC)
1:30 pm – 3:30 pm
Panel: Ethics, Morality, Feminism and Ritual in Politics
Chair: Philip Pettit (Princeton University)
Wan Junren (Tsinghua University): Why Politics Needs Ethics
Xiao Wei (Tsinghua University): The Three Goods of Women’s Struggle for Citizenship Qualification: From Gender Equality and Gender Difference to Fair Gender Distinction
Daniel Bell (Tsinghua University): Hierarchical Rituals for Egalitarian Societies
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
Tea/Coffee Break
3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Panel: Justice, Just War, and Human Rights
Chair: Tatsuo Inoue (Tokyo University)
Neera Chandhoke (University of New Dehli): The Quest for Justice: The Ghandhian Perspective
Lian Cheng (Peking University): On the Making of a Moral Distinction in the Conduct of War
Luigi Caranti (LUISS University): Kant’s Theory of Human Rights
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Banquet and closing ceremony (Quanjude Peking Roasted Duck Restaurant)
Monday, October 29
Breakfast and check-out (8:00-12:00 pm)
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