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Conference Director

Roger T. Ames

Dr. Roger T. Ames is a leading scholar in the fields of Chinese Philosophy and comparative philosophy. Roger T. Ames is Professor of Philosophy and editor of Philosophy East & West. His recent publications include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) and Tracing Dao to its Source (1997) (both with D.C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (with H. Rosemont) (1998), Focusing the Familiar: A Translation and Philosophical Interpretation of the Zhongyong, and A Philosophical Translation of the Daodejing: Making This Life Significant (with D.L. Hall) (2001).  He has also authored many interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987), Anticipating China: Thinking Through the Narratives of Chinese and Western Culture (1995), and Thinking From the Han: Self, Truth, and Transcendence in Chinese and Western Culture (1997) (all with D.L. Hall).  Recently he has undertaken several projects that entail the intersection of contemporary issues and cultural understanding.  His Democracy of the Dead: Dewey, Confucius, and the Hope for Democracy in China (with D.L. Hall) (1999) is a product of this effort.

International Advisory Committee

  Marietta Stepaniants, Chair (Russia)

Dr. Marietta Stepaniants is the Director of the Center for Oriental Philosophies Studies at the Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences.  Dr. Stepaniants is the author of more than 10 books and editor of more than 20 volumes, and a corresponding member of the editorial board of Philosophy East and West.  Her specialty is Muslim philosophy of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and Sufism.  Dr. Stepaniants was the first Soviet participant to the Sixth East-West Philosophers’ Conference in Honolulu , in 1989.  She was Director of the Seventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference in 1995 and Co-Director of the Eighth East-West Philosophers’ Conference in 2000. Most recently, she was Director of the First Moscow International Conference of Comparative Philosophy on "Moral Philosophy in the Multicultural Word" in 2002. In 2002 she was awarded the honor of “Distinguished Scholar of the Russian Federation.”  She has been decorated with the State Order of “Sharaf” by the president of Tajikistan.

Khaled Abou El Fadl (U.S.A)  

Zhores Alferov, Nobel Laureate (Russia)  

Chen Lai (China)  

Ashis Nandy (India)  

Richard Rorty (U.S.A.)  

Gayatri Spivak (India)  

Tu Wei-Ming (China)  

Desmond Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus (Africa)  

Federico Mayor (Spain)

Program Officer

Helen Griffin

Conference Assistant

Benjamin Lukey

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