Michael N. Forster (Bonn University/University of Chicago)
Chinese Meta-ethics

Karyn Lai (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
Confucian knowledge: knowing-to in Confucius’ Analects

Guido Kreis (Aarhus University)
Is there a road from aesthetics to morality?
Chinese and Western perspectives

Amy Olberding (University of Oklakoma)
Philosophy of Funerals

Bai Tongdong (Fudan University)
The Price of Serving Meat
On a Confucian View of Human and Animal “Rights”

10:45 – 12:00

Bent Nielsen (University of Copenhagen)
On Confucianism and Sinology

13:30 – 14:45

Hans-Georg Moeller (University of Macau)
Genuine Pretending: A Daoist Mode of Existence

15:00 – 16:15  

Christian Helmut Wenzel (National Taiwan University, Taipeh)
Globalization, Values, and the Idea of a Good Life:         
Ideas from Confucius, Aristotle, Zhuangzi, and the Stoics

16:30 – 18:00

Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawaii at Manoa)
On Benti-Ethics as a Way of Living: from Creativity to Cultivated Practice

9:15 – 10:30

Erden Miray Yazgan Yalkin (Istanbul University)
The Wise Emperor vs. the Philosopher King

10:45 – 12:00  

Shuchen Xiang (King’s College London/Humboldt University, Berlin)
The Metaphysics of Harmony:
Confucianism, Leibniz, Goethe, Herder, and Ernst Cassirer

Lunch Break

13:30 – 14:45

François Thomas (Bonn University)
Voltaire and China

15:00 – 16:15

Hao Liang (Northwestern University)
Constraint, Autonomy and Self-Formation (Bildung):
A Reading of Kant’s Theory of Education

16:30 – 18:00

Tze-Wan Kwan (Chinese University of Hong Kong; currently Free University, Berlin)
Philosophia in sensu cosmico:
Kant’s notion of philosophy with echoes from Chinese antiquity