Third International Conference
Daoism and the Contemporary World. May 25-28, 2006
Frauenwörth Monastery, near Munich, Germany
Role
First conference in Europe in a series of international conferences to be held every year or two alternately in China, Europe, and North America, first in Boston 2003 and second in Chengdu (PR China) 2004.
Organizers
Department of Asian Studies, Institute of Sinology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Medical Association for Qigong Yangsheng, Bonn
Societas Medicinae Sinensis (International Society for Chinese Medicine), Munich
Keynote Speakers
Catherine Despeux, Paris
Chen Yaoting, Shanghai
Presentations on
- Daoism and Yangsheng practices
- Daoism and medicine
- Daoist concepts of body and self
- Daoism in China today
- Health practices and modern science
- Comparative monastic cultivation
- Daoist cultivation in history
- Daoism and health politics
- Daoism and ecology
- New visions of life and health
- Daoism and Art, Literature and Music
- Daoism and political thought
- Workshops on yangsheng-practices
- Papers and panels on further topics are welcome
Presentation format
Individual papers or complete panels, with three papers plus chair, discussant.
Languages
English, German, Chinese (abstracts will be translated)
Schedule
The conference will begin on Thursday, May 25, at 2 pm, with a plenary session (welcome, keynote speaker). Then panels will be open Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, Friday afternoon, Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon. A plenary session with concluding remarks will take place Saturday, at 4:00 p.m. The conference will end around 5:00 p.m. on Saturday. An excursion to monasteries and mountains will take place on Sunday.
Registration
Conference Fee: €60
To register e-mail:info@daoism-conference.de
Mail: Medical Association for Qigong Yangsheng, Colmantstr. 9, D 53115 Bonn, Germany
Please supply the following
- Name,
- Institution
- Email address
- Mailing Address
- Phone/fax
- Paper title (if presenting)
- Double occupancy accommodation at €50 per day (double occupancy, all meals included) OR
- Single occupancy accommodation at €80 per day (single room with private bath, all meals included)
Deadlines
- Registration for housing: January 1, 2006.
- Abstracts for papers: email by February 15, 2006.
- The abstracts and further information will be put at the homepage www.daoism-conference.de which will be available soon.
- Registration also possible through homepage www.daoism-conference.de
Final schedule to be emailed around April 1, 2006.