CFP: Reconstruction of Values and Morality in Global Times

In order to promote academic research on issues related to ethics and
values, to enhance cultural exchanges, and broaden the international
perspective of Chinese scholars, especially the young scholars, the
Yangzhou University will hold an international conference
"Reconstruction of Values and Morality in Global Times”, December
18-19, 2014, Yangzhou, P.R. China.

Theme

Ethics and values are core components of development of cultural
traditions and the nation's heritage. It is significant to carry on
and reconstruct these important components according to our changing
times and circumstances. In the era of globalization, one
indisputable inevitable fact is that different cultures and
civilizations must interact, learn from each other in order to enrich
and to be enriched through mutual understanding. This can bring
mutual recognition and mutual knowledge on ethics and values.

It requires open dialogue among scholars from different backgrounds
and different countries to explore how to build a common search and
understanding based on mutual respect and consensus among different
nations and cultures and peoples on the issue of ethics and values.
Particularly, in the situation of today’s growing global crisis it
needs us to think together the meaning of ethics and values, the
reconstruction of new ethics and new values based on common concerns
for our human destiny and mutual cares and respects for our entire
human community by overcoming the cultural arrogance and superiority,
so that we can search new meaning and aspiration for the future.
Thus, it would be possible to find a way to the solution of the
global crisis of ethics and values and to reconstruction and
reproduction of multicultural dialogue.

This conference aims at clarifying fundamental issues related to
ethics and values in different cultures and circumstances; to study
the main challenges facing the era of globalization; to learn the
latest achievements of international academic research; to promote
cultural exchanges and cooperation among scholars from different
disciplines; and to encourage young scholars’ to go deeper into these
central issues in order to improve academic standards and
capabilities.

Subthemes

(1) The main challenge of ethics and values in the age of
    globalization
(2) Basic problems of different cultures in ethics and values
(3) Globalization and anti-globalization: two different ethics and
    values
(4) Business Ethics in the era of globalization
(5) Political values in the era of globalization
(6) Ecological Morality in the era of globalization
(7) Freedom and democracy: universal values or special examples
(8) Chinese traditional culture: how to reconstruct it in the era of
    globalization?

Application

There is no registration fee. Participants will cover their own
travel costs.

The application should include:
1) a vitae that specifies the applicants educational background,
   professional positions and affiliations, and publications;
2) a letter of intent; and
3) the abstract of the paper by October 30, 2014; full paper by
   December 10, 2014.

Please send all the information to Liu Yong [email protected]> and
RVP [email protected]>.