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 On Tuesday 21 May, Ian Buruma will speak on 'Asia as Myth: the East in the Western Imagination', Tuesday 21 May in the Promotion Hall of the University Halls (in Dutch).
To understand a different culture, simply accumulating information is not enough. An awareness of the stereotypes we use to process this information is at least of equal importance. We often only notice the things we expect to notice. Of course, the better we know a culture, the easier it is to see through the deception projected by such stereotypes: we all know that Holland is more than cloggs, windmills and tulips. When it comes to less familiar countries, however, it is often not so easy to distinguish clearly between fact and fiction. Asian cultures have evoked many different stereotypes since Herodotus. How do these western fantasies distort our view of the real China?
Ian Buruma was educated in Holland and Japan, where he studied history, Chinese literature, and Japanese cinema. He has worked in journalism and held several editorial and academic positions. In 2003 he became Luce Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, New York.
Programme
7:00 pm Word of welcome by Prof. Mark Waer, Rector
7:15 pm Lecture by Prof. Ian Buruma: 'Azië als mythe: westerse fantasieën over het oosten' (in Dutch)
8:15 pm Concluding remarks by Prof. Bart Pattyn
8:30 pm Reception offered by the city of Leuven |
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| Ethical Perspectives, March 2013 (vol 20/1) | |
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The issue of Ethical Perspectives, March 2013 (vol 20/1) contains:
- Introduction: Critical Perspectives on Global Politics and Globalization by Annelies Decat
- In The Beginning There Was and Will Have Been the World or Who's Afraid of the Nation-State? by Andréa B. Gill
- Cosmopolitan Ethics from Below by Gilbert Leung
- Care Drain as an Issue of Global Gender Justice by Anca Gheaus
- What If We Took Autonomous Recovery Seriously? A Democratic Critique of Contemporary Western Ethical Foreign Policy by Olivia Umurerwa Rutazibwa
- Obamacare and Conscientious Objection. Some Introductory Thoughts by Nir Eyal and Axel Gosseries
- Religious Liberty, Conscience, and the Affordable Care Act by Holly Fernandez Lunch
- Conscience and Health by Elizabeth Fenton
- Taxation, Conscientious Objection and Religious Freedom by Annabelle Lever
- Can Moral Integrity Warrant Opposition to Tax-Funded Healthcare? by Noam Zohar
- Conscientious Objection, Coercion, the Affordable Care Act, and US States by Glenn Cohen
- The Use and Abuse of Religious Freedom by Peter Singer
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| European SPES-Tour over bedrijfsspiritualiteit | |
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 Het European SPES Forum gaat op toer! We organiseren dit jaar voor het eerst een SPES Tour over bedrijfsspiritualiteit. De bedoeling is om voortaan jaarlijks een groep van ondernemers en leidinggevenden een jaartraject aan te bieden over de verankering van spiritualiteit in de bedrijfswereld.
De Course voor 2013 heeft als titel Eco-wisdom in Management: Lessons from Buddhism, ecological economics and natural science en bestaat uit 3 seminars in Budapest, Bodo en Pari.
Bekijk hier de folder.
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 European SPES Cahier 7: Leading with Wisdom
How wisdom and spirituality can result in a more integrated and peaceful practice of leadership.
European SPES Cahier 6: Respect and Economic Democracy
This publication is based on the hypothesis that democracy will become a growing ingredient of good business and leadership.
European SPES Cahier 5: Heroes and Anti-heroes. European Literature and the Ethics of Leadership
The firm belief that divergent (cultural) systems i.e. business ethics and literature can enrich each other is at the core of this publication.
The Palgrave Handbook of Spirituality and Business summarizes the most important issues, approaches and models in the field of spirituality in business, economics and society.
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| European SPES Tour on Business Spirituality | |
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 The European SPES Forum launches a unique SPES initiative: a Study Tour on Business Spirituality organized as a series of three seminars in different places of Europe. The aim of the program is to introduce challenging models of entrepreneurship, to share experience through group dynamic and to offer opportunities for personal spiritual growth. The organizing centers are places of high academic quality and spiritual commitment.
First Seminar June 28-30, Budapest (Hungary)
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| Politeia Conference 2012 | |
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 On 27 and 28 March 2012 Metaforum Leuven and the
Centre for Economics and Ethics was organzing the Politeia Conference 2012 "Prioritizing the Weak in Times of Crisis" by Loïc Wacquant.
Loïc Wacquant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Researcher at the Centre européen de sociologie et de science politique, Paris.
The highlight of 27 March 2012 was the 25th Celebration of the Centre for Economics and Ethics. Rooted in interdisciplinary dialogue, the Centre has endeavoured throughout its existence to integrate ethical reflection into economic research. Themes have emerged from welfare economics, the economics of healthcare, development economics, business ethics and other sub-disciplines, but the focus has always remained on the fate of the weaker members of society.
On 28 March 2012, two expert seminars were organized: ‘Theories of Justice and Concrete Poverty: Economists, Philosophers and Sociologists on Poverty’and ‘Ghettos: The Consequences of the Stigmatization of Problem Neighbourhoods in Cities such as Brussels’.
The evening lecture of the Politeia Conference 2012 ‘Urban Marginality, State Restructuring and Social Justice’ took place on Wednesday 28 March 2012 in the Promotion Hall of the University, Naamsestraat 22, Leuven.
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 Some people talk about “Wise Leadership”: What does that mean? Does that make sense? What does it take? Can it be learned? Am I concerned? These are just some of the questions we will address in our new annual cycle of conferences and seminars to be held in Brussels between October 2012 and June 2013 (starting October 11, 2012).
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| Spiritual Humanism, Economic Wisdom | |
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 Spiritual Humanism, Economic Wisdom - Essays in the honour of Luk Bouckaert
This special publication collects international essays in the honour of Luk Bouckaert. In the spirit of the European SPES forum, this volume covers issues of contemporary economics using a humanist perspective and discusses interrelated problems of business, ethics and society from spiritually based viewpoints.
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| Multatuli-lecture 2011: Frank Furedi | |
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On Wednesday 30 March 2011 Prof. Frank Furedi gave the biennial Multatuli Lecture on 'The Ambivalent Implications of Tolerance'. For an impression, visit our photo gallery.
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