Second international symposium

 

organized by

 

Center for ecological research and education in Svatý Jan pod Skalou

&

St. John’s College

 

New Questions on the Old Master 2011:

 

Laozi on Sustainability

 

Nové otázky nad Starým mistrem 2011:

Lao-c‘ a trvalá udržitelnost

 December 28 – 30, 2011

 

Svatý Jan pod Skalou (St. John Under the Rock) near Prague,

Czech Republic

 

Working languages: English - Czech

 

Submission Deadline Postponed: November 30, 2011

 

 

 

SECOND  CIRCULAR

Second specialized symposium on the text of Laozi (Dao De Jing) will take place in St. John under the Rock near Prague, the Czech Republic December 28-30^th, 2011. It will concern archaeological, historical, philosophical, and religious contexts of Dao De Jing on the one hand, and the textual analysis and hermeneutics of chapters 4-9 and the possibilities of their alternative translation on the other.

The organizing committee has an intention to organize a similar symposium every year as a space for sharing interpretative results from “case studies” of particular chapters of Dao De Jing.

 

The organizing committee of the symposium:

Dr. Rostislav Fellner
St Johns’ College, Svaty Jan pod Skalou 1, 266 01 p.o. Beroun, Czech Republic

Dr. Daniel D. Novotny
Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague, Faculty of Economics and Management, Kamýcká 129, 165 21, Praha 6 – Suchdol, Czech Republic

Dr. Jan Slavik
University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Univerzitni 8, 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic

 

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