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12th EWPC – 2024
“Trauma and Healing” May 24-31, 2024Imin Conference Center For eighty-five years, the East-West Philosophers’ Conference series has convened some of the world’s most prominent philosophers to engage in impactful dialogues on themes of global significance. The dialogue began in 1939 when three University of Hawai‘i visionaries—Professors Charles A. Moore, Wing-tsit Chan, and Gregg Sinclair—initiated the…
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11th EWPC – 2016
More than 300 thinkers from 40 countries gathered at the 2016 East-West Philosophers’ Conference, held at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawai’i May 24-31. This 11th meeting of the prestigious conference that began in 1939 examined the theme of “Place.”
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10th EWPC – 2011
May 2011 saw the convergence of great minds during the University of Hawaiʻi and East West Center’s 10th East-West Philosophers’ Conference. This international gathering has a rich and colorful history dating back to the 1930’s.
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9th EWPC – 2005
The Ninth East-West Philosophers’ Conference will be dedicated to the singular importance of “educations” — purposely plural — in the shaping of a pluralistic world. Education is the point of departure for the cultivation of human culture in all of its different forms. While there are many contested conceptions of what the curriculum of education…
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8th EWPC – 2000
January 9-21, 2000 “Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium.” The past century has witnessed a veritable explosion in the growth of technologies affective every aspect of the human experience—education, health, economics, environment, communication, politics, and security.
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7th EWPC – 1995
“Justice and Democracy: A Philosophical Exploration.” In accord with the tradition of having the Conferences be an academic forum for addressing vital problems facing humanity, the theme “Justice and Democracy” has been chosen for this Seventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference. As a sign of the times, the directorship has been conferred on a scholar who is…
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6th EWPC – 1989
“Culture and Modernity: The Authority of the Past.” Within this broad theme the Conference will focus primarily on the “Authority of the Past,” examining such basic concepts as appropriation and interpretation, canon and creativity, tradition and progress. These concepts will be examined within three general areas of cultural interest: art and religion; morality and political…
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5th EWPC – 1969
The Alienation of Modern Man — Covering the topics of The Psychology of Alienation, The Sociology of Alienation, The Politics of Alienation, The Metaphysics of Alienation, and The Philosophy of Alienation
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4th EWPC – 1964
This collection was organized by Richard J. DeMartino during his tenure as one of the “historian advisors” to the International Military Tribunal for the Far East between 1946-1948.
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3rd EWPC – 1959
The purpose of this third conference was to develop greater mutual understanding of the peoples of Asia and the peoples of the West in these special practical areas both directly and by reference to their bases in the fundamental philosophical systems, concepts, and methods of the respective traditions. In line with this purpose, the over-all…
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2nd EWPC – 1949
“To study the possibility of a world philosophy through a synthesis of the ideas and ideals of the East and the West.” June 20 – July 29, 1949
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1st EWPC – 1939
A report on the East-West philosophers’ conference, University of Hawaii, June 26 – August 4, 1939 List of Participants
