NTR 1, Macau, China, 2013

April 12-14, 2013

 

 

April 12

9:30 Opening Ceremony and Welcoming Remarks

 

Chinese Orchestra Performance

 

Hiroshi Abe, Matthias Fritsch, Mario Wenning (Organizing Committee)

Shizhou Wang (Professor of Law, Peking University, Ambassador Scientist and Humboldt Prize Recipient)

 

Haydn Chen (Vice Rector, University of Macau, and Humboldt Prize Recipient)

 

Group Photo

 

10:00-13:00 Dimensions of Responsibility (moderator: William Franke)

 

Ryosuke Ohashi (Hannover)

Anti-Nature In Nature Itself: On the Basic Conditions of Responsibility

 

Mario Wenning (Macau)

Natural Responsiveness: A Daoist Alternative to Environmentalism

 

Thomas Buchheim (Munich)

Two Concepts of Human Responsibility and Their Common Prerequisites

 

13:00 Cantonese Lunch (Hotel Regency)

 

15:00-18:00 Responsible Action and the Future (moderator: Hiroshi Abe)

 

David Wood (Vanderbilt)

Only Connect: Is A Cyber-noosphere the Last Best Hope?

Changfu Xu, presented by Yuchuan Lin (Guangzhou)

Ecological Tension: Between Minimum and Maximum Changes

 

Kazunobu Nemu (Kyoto)

The Goodness of Nature in Leibniz ― Can “Things” Lead to the Divine City?

 

 

April 13

9:00-12:00 Responsibility and Intergenerational Relationships (moderator: Shizhou Wang)

 

Matthias Fritsch (Montreal)

The Intergenerational Time of Inhabiting the Biosphere

 

Kristóf Fenyvesi (Jyväskylä)

Dionysian Biopolitics: Nature, Time, Responsibility and Karl Kerényi’s Concept of Indestructible Life

 

Janna Thompson (Melbourne)

Moral Motivations and Intergenerational Relationships

 

12:00 Portuguese Lunch (Bus trip to Pousade de Coloane)

 

15:00–18:00 Western Perspectives (moderator: Matthias Fritsch)

 

Phil Lynes (Montreal)

Living-On as Econstruction: Derrida and the Bio-Temporality of Environmental Ethics

 

Alexei Procyshyn (Macau)

The Nature of Nature- and World-Making

 

Kwok-Kui Wong (Hong Kong)

Schelling on Time and Nature

 

 

April 14

9:45 Taijiquan Performance

10:00–13:00 Eastern Perspectives (moderator: Mario Wenning)

 

Hiroshi Abe (Kyoto)

The Groundwork for Protecting Nature – From a Japanese Point of View

 

William Franke (Macau & Vanderbilt)

All or Nothing? Nature in Chinese Thought and the Apophatic Occident

 

Trish Glazebrook (Denton)

Responsibility and Climate Change: Temporality and Community Voice in India’s Energy Policy

 

15:00 City Tour of Macau (meeting point in front of Regency Hotel)

 

18:30 International Dinner (Macau Tower)

 

 

April 15 Departure