INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE

Topic: Meaning,Culture and Values
Dates: January 5 - 7, 2012

Place: Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
(In colleboration with Davis & Elkins College, West Virginia, USA and
several other Indian and US institutions)
Abstract: 150 words

Email: rrahmanjnu@gmail.com

Date of proposal: on or before 15 Sept 2011

Subtopics:

CognitiveMeaning, Emotive Meaning, Suggestive Meaning, Myth and Metaphor,Meaning as Universal, Meaning as Form, Universal and
Particular,Structure and Identity, Personal Identity, Reductionist view, EthnicIdentity and Culture, Society, Culture and Consumption,
PoliticizingConsumer Society and Culture, Social Identification,Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries, Constructing andDeconstructing Ethnic Identity, Evolution of Society, EncounteringDifferent Cultures, Indian Civilization and Society, Cultural shock,Society and Effect of Colonization, Media and Society, Moralityand Society, Rules of conduct, Taoist view on Morality, EnlightenedAnarchy, Values in Confucius Ethics, Perfectionist and SituationalEthics, Spirituality and Modern age, Humanism and Positivism,Reductionist Approach to Moral Responsibility, Ethnic
Identity andCulture, Cultural Anthropology, Society, Culture and Consumption,Politicizing Consumer Culture Archaeological Approaches to
Society,Social Identification, Dynamics of Group Culture, Ethnic Boundaries,Constructing and Deconstructing Ethnic Identity, Evolution
of Society,Asian Society and Culture, Cultural shock, Civilization and Effect ofColonization in Social Structure, Cultural Transformation,
Role ofCulture and Religion, Cultural Meaning, Buddhism and Post modernity:Buddhist Ethics, Buddhism and Philosophy of Deconstruction, Ethics o fModernity, Islam and Modernity, Islam and Ethics, Islam and modern changes, Islamic Culture etc.

Advisory BoardMembers: Michael Allen(USA),Kisor Chakrabarti (USA), Chandana Chakrabarti (USA), Linda B.Elder(USA), Gordon Haist(USA), Elizabeth Koldzak(Poland), MariaMarczewska(Poland), JoAnne Myers(USA)Eve Mullen(USA), RizwanurRahman(India), Ming Shao(China), Nancy Snow(USA),TommiLehtonen(Finland) Andrew Ward(UK), Mark Wood(USA)

Papersfrom the Conference will be published subject to editorial review(Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Studies/Journal of Indian Philosophy & Religion).


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Dr. Rizwanur Rahman
Centre of Arabic and African Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi - 110067
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Former Editor, Thaqafatul Hind (ثقافة الهند), Quarterly Arabic journal, ICCR, New Delhi