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                            Opening Ceremony of the 2015 Congress of International Institute of Philosophy 

Date:  10:00- 10:45,  September 16, 2015

Location: Yang guang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker:  President of Peking University: LIN jianhua

President of Chinese Organizing Committee&Member of  Institute of International Philosophy : Professor TU weiming 

President of Institute of International Philosophy: Professor Ioanna   Kuçuradi

Secretary General of Institute of International Philosphy: Professor Bernard Bourgeois

                                            2015 Congress of the International Institute of Philosophy 

Session 1: History and Geography of Humanism

Date: 11:00-13:00,  16 September, 2015

Location: Yangguang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker and Theme: 

Bhuvan Chandel: Humanism in Indian and Western

Perspectives   Nkolo Foé: Africa Facing History and Geography of Reason

Session 2: Human Dignity and Human Rights

Date: 15:00-17:00, 16 September, 2015

Location: Yangguang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker and Theme: Simo Knuuttila: Virtues, Duties, and Dignities Wilhelm Essler: Virtue Within Dignity

Session 3: Dimensions of the Human in the Light of Human Sciences

Date: 9:30-11:30, 17 September, 2015

Location: Yangguang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker and Theme: 

QIU Renzong：Dimensions of the Human in Bioethical Context  and Beyond;

Jure Zovko：The Relevance of the Judgment in the Humanities;

Session 4: From the Inhuman to the Superhuman

Date: 14:30-16:30, 17 September, 2015

Location: Yangguang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker and Theme:  

Jean Gayon: Eugenics and Human Improvement；

Ali Chenoufi: Forgetting the Human or the Murderous Jump from Inhuman to Superhuman; 

Session 5: Chinese Philosophy

Date: 9:30-11:30, 17 September,  2015

Location: Yangguang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker and Theme: 

Jesús Mosterín: The Human Ideal of the Scholarly Bureaucrat;

CHEN Lai: Human in Confucianism ;

YANG Guorong: The Existence of Human and Practical Wisdom- from the Perspective of Chinese Philosophy.  

Session 6:The Future of Humanism and the Transhuman

Date: 09:30-11:30, 19 September, 2015

Location: Yangguang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker and Theme:

Ali Benmakhlouf：Transhuman: A Human Enhancement?

G. Hottois：Is Transhumanism Humanism?

Closing Ceremony of the 2015 Congress of International Institute of Philosophy 

Date: 12:00-12:30,  September 19, 2015

Location: Yangguang Ting of Yingjie Overseas Exchange Center in Peking University

Speaker: Professor Tu weiming