Imaginary Worlds and Imperial Power: The Case of China

Organized by the Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research

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09:00 Welcome Address
*Ondřej ŠEVEČEK (Director of the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)
*Ondřej LÁNSKÝ (Head of the Department of Political Philosophy and Globalization Research,Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

09:15 Opening Words
* Ľubomír DUNAJ (Czech Academy of Sciences)
* Geir SIGURÐSSON (University of Iceland)

09:30 Johann P. ARNASON (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
* The Chinese Challenge to Historical Sociology

11:00 Coffee break

11:15 Jana S. ROŠKER (University of Ljubljana)
* The Modernization of Chinese Tradition: Li Zehou and the Modern New Confucianism

12:15 Georg STENGER (University of Vienna)
* Social Imaginaries, Arnason and Zhao Tingyang‘s concept of ‚Tianxia‘

13:30 Lunch

15:00 Ting-mien LEE (University of Macau)
* Rethinking Chinese Propaganda: The Continuity of the Ancient Art of Governance

16:00 Geir SIGURÐSSON (University of Iceland)
* Chinese Philosophy’s Benign Problem with Modernity: Max Weber’s Analysis Revisited

17:00 Coffee break

17:15 Zdeněk VOPAT (Charles University in Prague / Czech Academy of Sciences)
* Learning Human Rights in Age of Modernity. The Case of China

18:15 Ľubomír DUNAJ (Czech Academy of Sciences)
* Do We Really Need to Take the History of (Chinese) Philosophy so Seriously Today?

19:00 Dinner