Roger T. Ames, Director, Ninth East-West Philosophers’ Conference

Patricia Lee, Chairperson, University of Hawai ‘i Board of Regents

Buses depart Jefferson Hall for 

President's Reception (Invitation only)

"Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Teaching and the Problem of

Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University

"Hearing, Thinking, Contemplating: A Classical Indian Model of Transformative Education"  

"Oral Traditions, African Philosophical Methods and Their Contributions to Education 

and Our Global Knowledge"

"Teaching in the 21^st Century: 

Lessons from the Confucian Analects"

Henry Rosemont, Jr., Brown University, Moderator  

Peimin Ni, Grand Valley State University  

"Learning To Be Human"

Paul Kjellberg, Whittier College

"Intellectual and Ethical Development in the Analects"

Franklin Perkins, De Paul University  

"The Love of Learning in the Lun Yu"

“The Analects and the Teaching of Ritual Propriety”

"Education and Alternative Epistemologies"  

Asanga Tilakaratne, University of Kelaniya  

"Early Buddhism and the Limits of Knowledge"

Douglas Allen, University of Maine

"Mahatma Gandhi on Peace Education:  The Struggle against Violence and Terror"   

"Krishnamurti’s Epistemological Approach (‘Awareness,’ ‘Insight,’ ‘Perception’) as an Alternative to the (Chan) Buddhist Enlightenment and Its Educational Significance"

"Indigenous Knowledge and Practices as Sites of

  Challenge"

Margaret J. Maaka, University of Hawai'i, Moderator and Discussant

Hunter McEwan, University of Hawai'i

Introduction

Jonathan K.K. Osorio, University of Hawai'i  

"Claiming Indigenous Identities"

Kimo A. Cashman, University of Hawai'i

"Claiming Indigenous Research"  

Herman Pi'ikea Clark, Massey University

"Claiming Indigenous Knowledge"

K. Laiana Wong, University of Hawai'i  

"Claiming Indigenous Language"  

G. Kalehua Krug, University of Hawai'i

"Claiming Indigenous Schooling"

Graham H. Smith, University of Auckland  

 "Claiming Indigenous Systems"

"Paideia Revisited: Can Virtue Be Taught?" 

Leroy Rouner, Boston University, Moderator  

Anna Lannstrom, Stonehill College

"I'm a Coach, Not a Bartender: Education in Plato's Meno"

Linda E. Patrik, Union College  

"Raucous Dharma Education"

Pravarajika Vrajaprana, Vedanta Society of Southern California  

"To Be or To Become?  Vedanta's Approach to the Study and Practice of Virtues"

"Education and Alternative Literacies"

Kwesi Yankah, University of Ghana

"Proverbs and Practice: Celebrating Wisdom by the Streetside"

Marietta Stepaniants, Russian Academy of Sciences  

"Multicultural Education: The Russian Story"  

Tze-wan Kwan, Chinese University of Hong Kong  

Mereana Taki and Audrey Waiora Palalagi, University of Auckland  

"Kaupapa Maori: Indigenous Knowledge as the Foundation for Transformation"

"Education in Yijing: Import and Prospect"

Chung-ying Cheng, University of Hawai'i, Moderator  

Bent Nielsen, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul

"In Times of Peace Prepare for Danger: Teaching Modern Management Theory Based on the Yijing"

Richard Smith, Rice University

"Knowing the Self and Knowing the 'Other': The Pedagogical and Epistemological Value of the Yijing"

Rolf Elberfeld, University of Wuppertal

"Reduction and Transformation: 'Transformative Phenomenology' as an Approach for Education"

"Education for Global Citizenship Values"

Jay Garfield, Smith College, Moderator

Anna Alomes, University of Tasmania  

"Resolving Difference, Removing Boundaries through Nonviolence"

Nalini Bhushan, Smith College

"The Challenge of Global Citizenship: Jiddu Krishnamurti on Education and the Possibility of Genuine Freedom"

Cynthia Townley, Macquarie University

"Global Citizenship and Local Homelessness"

"Monotheism: The Unsurpassed Scourge and Scandal"

"Chinese Philosophy and Western Education"

Victor Kobayashi, University of Hawai'i, Moderator

"The Body Makes the Mind: Ritual as Education"

Ruth Hayhoe and Julia Pan, University of Toronto  

"Building a Bridge Between Chinese Philosophy and Western Education"

Roger Cheng, Chinese University of Hong Kong  

"Education for Human Qualities: Learning from Aristotelian and Mencian Philosophies of Well-Being" 

"Multiculturalism and Teaching Philosophy"

S.S. Rama Rao Pappu, Miami University, Moderator  

"Philosophy in India: Problems of Teaching in a Multi-Linguistic Context"

Keya Maitra, University of North Carolina, Asheville

"Meanings of 'Multiculturalism': Can Philosophy Be Taught from a Truly Multiculturalist Perspective?"

Elizabeth Schiltz, College of Wooster

"Teaching Philosophy Integrating Diverse Methodologies" 

Jeffrey Long, Elizabethtown College  

"Teaching Philosophy across Religious Boundaries"

Norbert Hintersteiner, Catholic University of America  

"Translating God(s): Comparative Theology and Interreligious Education"

An Evening with Richard Rorty (Stanford) and Gianni Vattimo  

(University of Turin and European Parliament)  

"Educating Whole Persons for Whole Lives: The Educated Body"

Peter Hershock, East-West Center  

"Relating Freely: The Meaning of Educating for Equity and Diversity"

Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University  

"Somaesthetics and Education: Between East and West"

Tu Wei-ming, Harvard University  

"Education as Embodying Humanity"

"Virtue, Self and Education"

Vincent Shen, University of Toronto, Moderator

Xinyan Jiang, University of Redlands  

"The Power of Moral Virtue: A Dialogue among Shang Yang, Confucius and Laozi"

Bo Mou, San Jose State University

"The Methodological Framework for Constructive Cross-Cultural Understanding and its Explanatory Functions"

Yang Xiao, Kenyon University  

"Moral Education and Virtue Ethics in Aristotle and Early Confucianism"

Scott R. Stroud, Temple University