THE 4th INTERNATIONAL STCS CONFERENCE ON
COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES: ISLAM, CONFUCIANISM
AND BUDDHISM
organized by the Department of Asian Studies at the Ljubljana University and the Scientific
Research Center of the Slovene Academy of Science and Art,
Novi trg 4, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 11th-13th
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11TH
15:30 – 16:00 Welcome addresses:
Jana S. Rošker, Head of the Department of Asian Studies and EACP President
Maja Veselič, Department of Asian Studies
Martina Bofulin, Slovene Academy of Science and Art
16:00 – 16:20 Cultural Program: Florence Gacoin-Marks and Nagisa Moritoki Škof
16:20 – 17:20 Inaugural Plenary Lectures:
1. Osman Bakar (Universiti Brunei Darussalam): Islam and Confucianism: Comparative
Perspectives
2. Nevad Kahteran (University of Sarajevo): Recognizing a model of postmodern
pluralism through looking at Islam from the standpoint of Far Eastern traditions: A
Dialogue between Islam, Buddhism and Confucianism
3. Jana S. Rošker (University of Ljubljana): Europe, East Asia, and the Problem of
Religions: Confucianism as an Example
17:20 – 18:00 Plenary Discussion
18:00 – 20:00 Opening Reception
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12TH
10:00 - 12:30 LECTURE HALL 1
PANEL 1: ETHICS, VIRTUES AND
VALUES (Chair: Nevad Katheran)
1. Tseng, Wei-Chieh (Asia University,
Taiwan): The Portable Tradition of
Confucianism in the Global Ethics and
Justice: About Ritual, Filial Piety and
Concealment Among Family Members
2. Maja Veselič (University of Ljubljana):
Islam as an emancipatory practice: Filial
piety and the newly religious Chinese
Muslim youth
10:00 - 12:30 LECTURE HALL 2
PANEL 2: SUFISM: CONCEPTIONS
AND TECHNIQUES (Chair: Andrej
Ule)
1. Munevver Ebru Zeren (independent, PhD
Istanbul University): Conception of God
and Universe among Buddhism and
Turkish Sufism
2. Fadlan Khaerul Anam (University of
Indonesia): Sufism as Shinpiteki
Mahometto-kyo: Shumei Okawa's
Perspective on Sufism
3. Raid
Al-Daghistani
(Westfälische
3. Eun Young Hwang
(University of
Wilhelms-Universität
Münster):
Chicago Divinity School): Discovery and
Murāqaba and muhāsaba: Spiritual
Spontaneous Virtue in Ordinary Life: A
techniques of Sufism
Comparative Ethical Analysis on Zhi Yi
and Wang Yang Ming
12:30 – 14:30 TIME FOR LUNCH (individual arrangement)
14:30 - 15:30 LECTURE HALL 1
14:30 - 15:30 LECTURE HALL 2
PANEL 3: CROSS CULTURAL
PANEL 4: LOGIC AND COGNITION
INTERACTIONS (Chair: Tamara
(Chair: Jana S. Rošker)
Ditrich)
1. Francesco Carpanini (University of
1. Hsun-Mei Chen (National Taiwan
Tartu): Interacting with China: François
University, UC Berkeley): When the
Jullien and the problematization of
Moon Is Fingers
comparison as a detachment
2. Gyan Prakash (Indian School of
2. Helena Motoh (University of Primorska):
Mines, Dhanbad): Consciousness and
Wang Daiyu’s Qingzhen Daxue and its
Concentration in Buddhism
Neo-Confucian Framework
15:30 – 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:00 LECTURE HALL 1
16:00 - 17:00 LECTURE HALL 2
PANEL 5: GENDER ISSUES (Chair:
PANEL 6: ASIAN RELIGIONS AND
Helena Motoh)
MODERN LIFE (Chair: Maja Veselič)
1. Amina Crisma (University of
1. Sami Al-Daghistani (Leiden
Bologna): Gender Trouble in
University and WWU Münster):
Contemporary Hermeneutics of
Islamic Economic thought through
Confucianism: New Resources for a
the lens of Toshihiko Izutsu
dialogic Feminism, and for a crosscultural Humanism
2. Grete Schönebeck (Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-University, Frankfurt):
2. Tamara Dietrich (Nan Tien Institute,
Temples, pagodas and chanting
University of Sydney): Identity and
flowers – manifestations of
Gender: the Buddhist Perspective
Buddhism at cemeteries in China
today
18:30 DINNER FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13TH
OPTIONAL: EXCURSION TO THE SLOVENE COAST (STARTS AT 8:00)