*/ ?>

Programme

Day 1, 23 November 2010

08.00 – 08.30Registration
08.30 – 09.00Opening ceremony

Session 1: Preservation and Studies of Endangered Buddhist Archives and Manuscripts

09.00 – 09.30Speaker 1 (Keynote 1)
Nun Vimuttiya (Associate Professor Dr. Supaphan Na Bangchang)
(The International Tipitaka Hall, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: The King Chulalongkorn Edition of the Pāli Tipitaka: its History and Prominent Features
09.30 – 10.00 Speaker 2 (Keynote 2)
Dr. Peter Skilling
(Maître de Conférences, École française d'Extrême-Orient, based at the Centre de Bangkok, Thailand and Pali Text society)
Title: Rich and Diverse: The Thai Buddhist Literary Heritage
10.00 – 10.30Speaker 3 (Keynote)
Professor Dr. Jens-Uwe Hartmann
(Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
Title: Unity in Diversity: The Formation of Canonical Collections in Buddhism
[Represented by Dr. Chanwit Tudkeao]
10.30 – 10.40Q & A
10.40 – 11.00Coffee break
11.00 – 11.30Speaker 4
Hans Georg Berger
(The Buddhist Archive of Photography, Luang Prabang)
Title: The Buddhist Archive of Photography, Luang Phrabang/Laos. 120 years of monastic Theravada photography
11.30 – 12.00Speaker 5
Professor Dr. Catherine Choron-Baix
(Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Urbaine Paris, Centre national de la recherche scientifique – CNRS, France)
Title: Hans Georg Berger’s Photographs in Luang Prabang: Between Art and Anthropology
[Represented by Mr. William Cater Handrich]
12.00 – 12.10Q & A
12.10 – 13.30Lunch
13.30 – 14.00Speaker 6
Dr. Chanwit Tudkeao
(Pali and Sanskrit Section, Department of Eastern Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Book Cult in Mahayana Buddhism as seen in Ratnaketuparivarta
14.00 – 14.30Speaker 7
Bunchar Pongpanich, M.D.
(Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives Foundation, Thailand)
Title: In Our Heart Helping the World at Buddhadasa Indapanno Archives (BIA) Bangkok
14.30 – 15.00Speaker 8
Dr. Sirivan Chulakorn
(French Section, Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Research on Buddha's Biography in France
15.00 - 15.30Speaker 9
Associate Professor Dr. Sathaporn Tippayasak
(Spanish Section, Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: In Search of the King Chulalongkorn’s Edition of the Pāli Tipitaka in Spain
15.30 – 15.40Q & A
15.40 – 16.00Coffee break
16.00 – 16.30Visit to the International Tipitaka Hall and the exhibition "Sacred Dust From the Buddha's Feet": Platinum-Palladium Photographs by Hans Georg Berger (a series of photographs on the preservation of Lao Manuscripts and Monastic Libraries) at Maha Chulalongkorn Building

Day 2, 24 November 2010

Session 2: Cross Culture in the Time of King Chulalongkorn

08.00 – 08.30Registration
08.30 – 09.00Speaker 1 (Keynote)
Professor Elena Tamagno
(Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Title: Education and Training of Italian Engineers, Architects, Artists Working in Siam at the Beginning of XX Century
[Represented by Mr. Luca De Mori]
09.00 – 09.30

Speaker 2
Assistant Professor Dr. Neungreudee Lohapon
(Italian Section, Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Artistic Cross-Culture in the Time of King Chulalongkorn: Siam-Italy
09.30 – 10.00Speaker 3
Professor Dr. Pornsan Watanangura
(German Section, Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: The Beginning of a New Era in Thai-European Relations: King Chulalongkorn, the First “Honorary European”
10.00 – 10.10Q & A
10.10 – 10.30Coffee break
10.30 – 11.00Speaker 4
Professor Emeritus Surapone Virulrak Ph.D
(Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
Fellow in Theatre Arts, The Royal Institute.)
Title: The King and the Theatre: King Chulalongkorn and His Contribution to Thai Theatre
11.00 – 11.30Speaker 5
Associate Professor Dr. Suchitra Chongstitvatana
(Director of Institute of Thai Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: The ‘Marriage’ of ‘Sufism’ and ‘Buddhist Philosophy’ in King Rama V’s Adaptation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
11.30 – 12.00Speaker 6
Dr. Aratee Kaewsumrit
(German Section, Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Karl Döhring's In the Path of Buddha: A Critique of Imperialism
12.00 – 12.10Q & A
12.10 – 13.30Lunch

Session 3: Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy in World Literature

13.00 – 13.30Registration (for participants who did not attend Session 2)
13.30 – 14.00Speaker 1 (Keynote )
Professor Dr. Heinrich Detering
(Department of German Philology, University of Göttingen, Germany)
Title: Nietzsche's Buddha
14.00 – 14.30 Speaker 2
Associate Professor Dr. Soraj Hongladarom
(Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Nietzsche on 'The Question Mark': A Note on The Gay Science, Book Five, Section 346.
14.30 – 15.00

Speaker 3
Professor Dr. Eckart Goebel 
(Department of German, New York University, USA)
Title: The Sound of Psychoanalysis: Arthur Schopenhauer
[Represented by Mr. William Cater Handrich]

Moderator: Professor Dr. Volker Mertens
15.00 – 15.10Q & A
15.10 – 15.30Coffee break
15.30 – 16.00 Speaker 4
Professor Dr. Kathryn VanSpanckeren
(University of Tampa, Florida, USA)
Title: Spirited Land: Buddhist Influences on Northern California Nature Poetry
16.00 – 16.30

Speaker 5
Associate Professor Dr. John Whalen-Bridge
(National University of Singapore NUS)
Title: Engaged Buddhism and Engaged Aesthetics in Maxine Hong Kingston's Fifth Book of Peace

Moderator: Associate Professor Dr. Soraj Hongladarom

Day 3, 25 November 2010

Session 3: Buddhism and Buddhist Philosophy in World Literature (Continued)

  
09.00 – 09.30 Registration/ Coffee
09.30 – 10.00 Speaker 6 (Keynote)
Professor Dr. Dieter Borchmeyer
(University of Heidelberg and President of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Germany)
Title: Richard Wagner's Inspiration through Buddhism
10.00 – 10.30

Speaker 7
Professor Dr. Volker Mertens
(Free University Berlin, Germany)
Title: Hinduism and Buddhism on the 20th Century Operatic Stage (Roussel, Norgard)

Moderator: Professor Dr. Pornsan Watanangura
10.30 – 10.40 Q & A
10.40 – 11.10 Speaker 8
Professor Dr. Pornsan Watanangura
(German Section, Department of Western Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Hermann Hesse’s The Journey to the East in Search of Self Knowledge – A Buddhist Perspective
11.10 – 11.20

Q & A
11.20 – 11.50

Speaker 9
Professor Dr. Ursula Kocher
(Department of German Studies, University of Wuppertal, Germany)
Title: Redirection and New Relations. Buddhism in Berlin at the Beginning of the 20th Century.

Moderator: Professor Dr. Heinrich Detering
11.50 – 12.00 Q & A
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.00 Speaker 10
Associate Professor Surapeepan Chatraporn
(Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Place, Self and Spirit: The Convergence of Native American Beliefs and Zen Buddhist Teachings in Selected Poems by Gary Snyder
14.00 – 14.30 Speaker 11
Dr. Duantem Krisdathanont
(Japanese Section, Department of Eastern Languages, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)
Title: Buddhism in Okamoto Kanoko's Literary Works
14.30 – 15.00 Speaker 12
Professor Dr. Yoshiki Koda
(Department of German Literature, Faculty of Letters, Keio University, Japan)
Title: Japanese Philosopher Tetsuro Watsuji (1889-1960). His Cultural Anthropology and His Buddhistic Thinking
15.00 – 15.30

Speaker 13
Somayeh Ghazizadeh
(Islamic Azad University (Shahr-e-rey Branch), Iran)
Title: Persian Scent of Buddhism in Sohrab Sepehri’s Poetries

Moderator: Professor Dr. Ursula Kocher
15.30 – 15.40 Q & A
15.40 – 16.00Closing ceremony