ENVISIONING A NEW GLOBAL CULTURE:
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Both East and West have specialized in their thinking. Each, therefore, has the virtue of its own sincerity and its own peculiar penetration. But specialization has its value only as it leads to an ultimate integration. Is not the time ripe for bringing East and West together in this profoundest region of the life of each of them, the region, namely, of their philosophical and psychological thinking?
A. A. Bailey
LONDON
2.00 - 5.00 PM GMT
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London
2.00 pm GMT
Welcome and introductory thoughts -
Laurence Newey, for World Goodwill
2.15 pm GMT
Presentation
Kerry Brown, Guest Speaker
Kerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. He is an adjunct of the Australia New Zealand School of Government in Melbourne, and the co-editor of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, run from the German Institute for Global Affairs in Hamburg. He is President of the Kent Archaeological Society and an Affiliate of the Mongolia and Inner Asia Studies Unit at Cambridge University. He is the author of almost 20 books on modern Chinese politics, and has written for every major international news outlet, and been interviewed by every major news channel on issues relating to contemporary China.
2.35 pm GMT
Panel discussion with Kerry Brown
3.00 pm GMT
5 Minute break
3.05 pm GMT
Presentation
Christopher Hancock, Guest Speaker
Christopher Hancock is the Founding Director of Oxford House Research Ltd. Historically a theologian who taught at Cambridge and in the USA, his work has focused in the last 20 years on culture, ethics, and religion in contemporary geopolitics. As an Asia specialist, he was Dean of Bradford Cathedral and helped launch the new China Centre at King’s College, London. Having taught around the world and published across a wide range of disciplines, he is currently a Visiting Professor at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. His book Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics was published by Bloomsbury in December 2020.
3.25 pm GMT
Panel discussion with Christopher Hancock
3.50 pm GMT
10 Minute break intermission
4.00 pm GMT
Reflections on the Seminar theme
Mayte Gomez
We know that consciousness evolves through a series of processes of integration. We might consider that the unity between the East and the West is one of those processes. As humanity nourishes its will-to-good, it will move towards accepting that each part of the world is holding an integral part of the whole.
4.10 pm GMT
Break-out group discussions
Group
4.40 pm GMT
Meditation
5.00 pm GMT
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