Conference Program
Thematic Description
A human community
is obviously and inevitably about human beings who live
together in time and space and share something in common,
e.g., cultures, traditions, religions, etc. Although human
communities vary in sizes, locations, formations…, they are
all based on certain principles. Gradually human
civilizations emerged through historical processes.
Civilizations engage sets of cultures which are founded on
major religions. This indicates that cultures and cultural
traditions consist of sets of values and virtues developed
by people of communities regarding how to cultivate their
life in their particular geographical and historical
circumstances. Such sets of values and virtues are developed
through long-term experiences and struggles according to
which each people have their own preferences.
A community can be as small as a group of people or as large
as the entire humanity. But people in each community
undertakes their own history and lifeworld unfolded in
different kinds of relationships. All communities are formed
by their members who are interconnected yet different from
one another. What bring them all together are shared common
values. The word "common" itself presupposes the connotation
of a community in which a vision of shared common values are
produced by its members. However, each community has its own
value preferences due to each one’s own circumstances. Today
in our complex and pluralist 21st century, in order to live
together peacefully among different cultural traditions,
civilizations, religions and to construct a human community
in its best form, it seems rather urgent and necessary to
look for common values that can be shared by all. Is
this possible?
This conference will focus the
following issues:
- Is it possible to pursue
common values among diverse communities?
- What are the common values
that can be shared by all?
- How to achieve diversity in
unity or unity in diversity?
- What are fundamental
principles for forming human communities?
- How to achieve mutual
recognition among different communities?
- How to implement
cross-cultural and cross-religious dialogues and
communications in order to find consensus?
- What are traditional value systems? Can they still
function in the 21st century?
- What are new values that
should be produced in the new challenging world?
Logistics
Conference participants will cover the costs of their own
travel, the conference organizer will provide room and board
during the conference. Detailed abstract should be sent to katiaho@hotmail.com and cua-rvp@cua.edu by
March 20, 2023 and full paper by June 20, 2023. The
conference will be conducted in English.
Contact
Katia Lenehan
Fujen Catholic University
katiaho@hotmail.com
