FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
***Deadline of submission of abstracts (no more than 1,000 words): September 30, 2007***
The Third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference
November 2-4, 2007
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Website: http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/APCAP2007/
The Third Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference will again take place at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. The conference is being held in succession to the successful Second Asia- Pacific Conference in January 2005 (http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/CAP/AP-CAP.html).
AP-CAP2007 is part of the series of conferences organized by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (http://www.ia-cap.org). The conferences have been in held in various regions of the world. As of now there are three major regions where these conferences are held, namely in North America (NA-CAP), Europe (ECAP) and Asia- Pacific.
As with the other CAP conferences, AP-CAP2007 will also deal with all aspects of the "computational turn" that is occurring through the interaction of the disciplines of philosophy and computing. And in continuation from the second conference, papers dealing with 'cultural' aspects of computing and philosophy would be specially emphasized, though papers in other areas will of course be welcome. The conference is interdisciplinary: We invite papers from philosophy, computer science, social science and related disciplines.
INVITED SPEAKER
Rafael Capurro
SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS
Please send an extended abstract of not more than 1,000 words to Dr. Soraj Hongladarom. Files in .DOC, .RTF, .TXT, or .PDF formats are acceptable. Deadline for submission: 30 September 2007. Authors will be notified of the committee's decision before October 15th.
PhD and master students are especially encouraged to submit. Student speakers will not have to pay a conference fee.
Abstracts should be sent to Soraj Hongladarom at s.hongladarom@gmail.com
PUBLICATION
Papers presented at the Second Asia-Pacific Conference were successfully placed in a variety of publications, including Computing and Philosophy in Asia (Cambridge Scholars Press) and a number of academic journals. It is foreseen that papers at the Third AP-CAP will be published in the same way.
REGISTRATION
Due to the foreseen subsidy by the Commission on Higher Education, we are pleased to announce that registration fees for the conference are very much reduced. We have a flat fee of 4,500 Thai Baht for non-members of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, and members pay only 3,000 Baht. (See this link for currency exchange information). Students don't have to pay registration fees. (Please show your current ID.) The fees for non-members already include membership fees, so everybody becomes a member of the IACAP upon registration to the conference.
Due to the low registration fees, we are not in a position to process international transfer of any kind. So if you come to Thailand from abroad, please pay for your registration in cash in Thai Baht and in person at the site of the conference. Thai participants can wire their payment to the following account:
Name: Center for Ethics of Science and Technology
Number: 038-4-02757-0
Bank: Siam Commercial Bank, Siam Square Branch
Important - international participants please don't wire your fees to this account. You have to come to the conference and pay your fees in cash only.
In order to register in advance, please send an email to Dr. Soraj Hongladarom (s.hongladarom@gmail.com) stating your name, affiliation, paper title, contact address and email address. Advance registration is available until the last day before the conference (November 1, 2007). Fees for advance and normal registration are the same.
AP-CAP conferences are organized under the supervision of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP). Website: http://www.ia-cap.org/.
CONTACT
Dr. Soraj Hongladarom, Center for Ethics of Science and Technology, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
Tel. +66(0)2218-4756; Fax +66(0)2218-4755
Monday, September 24, 2007
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Global Warming and Disparity in Energy Consumption
"Global Warming and Disparity in Energy Consumption between North and South: The Need for Global Justice Principles to Take Care of the Environment"
(This paper is going to be presented at the UNESCO Conference on Ethics of Energy Technologies in Asia and the Pacific.)
Soraj Hongladarom
Center for Ethics of Science and Technology and Department of Philosophy
Chulalongkorn University
Global warming is a serious phenomenon that is threatening to change the way human beings live in the world forever. Yet effort to combat it has met with lukewarm responses, not least among which is the refusal of the US government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. While scientific experts continue to debate on the exact causes and theories about global warming, we are seeing real changes in the world's climate, ranging from the alarming reduction of the ice cap in the Arctic to changes in weather patterns worldwide. Something really needs to be done.
A key provision of the Kyoto Protocol is that ratifying countries agree to lower their emission of greenhouse gas to below the 1990 levels. A pattern of argument has emerged where the developed North argue that the developing countries should do more to help combat global warming through their reduction in destruction of forests and other natural resources. The South, on the other hand, argue that as the major energy consumer the North should do more in terms of cutting emission.
It is clear that both the North and the South are preserving their interests. Either reducing greenhouse gas emissions or reducing the areas where tropical rain forests are turned to farmland would seem to have an adverse impact on the economies of the North and the South respectively. Here patterns of power are clearly in place. Disparity in energy consumption is a clear symptom of the disparity in power between the rich North and the poor South. In order to begin to combat the divide, a principle of global justice is proposed. After all both North and South inhabit one and same world, and so far as the current technology is feasible for the foreseeable future, this is the only world where humans can live. Hence both North and South have their destinies interlinked.
(This paper is going to be presented at the UNESCO Conference on Ethics of Energy Technologies in Asia and the Pacific.)
Soraj Hongladarom
Center for Ethics of Science and Technology and Department of Philosophy
Chulalongkorn University
Global warming is a serious phenomenon that is threatening to change the way human beings live in the world forever. Yet effort to combat it has met with lukewarm responses, not least among which is the refusal of the US government to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. While scientific experts continue to debate on the exact causes and theories about global warming, we are seeing real changes in the world's climate, ranging from the alarming reduction of the ice cap in the Arctic to changes in weather patterns worldwide. Something really needs to be done.
A key provision of the Kyoto Protocol is that ratifying countries agree to lower their emission of greenhouse gas to below the 1990 levels. A pattern of argument has emerged where the developed North argue that the developing countries should do more to help combat global warming through their reduction in destruction of forests and other natural resources. The South, on the other hand, argue that as the major energy consumer the North should do more in terms of cutting emission.
It is clear that both the North and the South are preserving their interests. Either reducing greenhouse gas emissions or reducing the areas where tropical rain forests are turned to farmland would seem to have an adverse impact on the economies of the North and the South respectively. Here patterns of power are clearly in place. Disparity in energy consumption is a clear symptom of the disparity in power between the rich North and the poor South. In order to begin to combat the divide, a principle of global justice is proposed. After all both North and South inhabit one and same world, and so far as the current technology is feasible for the foreseeable future, this is the only world where humans can live. Hence both North and South have their destinies interlinked.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Continuing Education for the Elderly
ศูนย์จริยธรรมวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี ได้รับการว่าจ้างจาก สภาที่ปรึกษาเศรษฐกิจและสังคมแห่งชาติ ให้ดำเนินการโครงการ "พัฒนาหลักสูตรการเรียนรู้ต่อเนื่องสำหรับผู้สูงวัย: ศาสตร์และศิลป์ของการสูงวัยอย่างมีคุณภาพ" และได้นำเสนอรายงานทั้งหมดให้แก่สภาที่ปรึกษาฯเรียบร้อยแล้ว รายงานทั้งหมดอยู่ในเว็บไซต์นี้
http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/Aging/index.html
http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/Aging/index.html
Thursday, September 13, 2007
สานศิลป์สู่ศานติ: พุทธศิลป์และวัฒนธรรมทิเบตและหิมาลัย
มูลนิธิพันดารา ร่วมกับ ศูนย์จริยธรรมทางวิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี คณะอักษรศาสตร์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย
ขอเชิญผู้สนใจร่วมเสวนาและแบ่งปันประสบการณ์เพื่อเป็นส่วนหนึ่งของการสรรค์สร้างสันติภาพของโลก
สานศิลป์สู่ศานติ: พุทธศิลป์และวัฒนธรรมทิเบตและหิมาลัย
วันเสาร์ที่ 13 ตุลาคม 2550
เวลา 9.00-18.00 น.
ห้อง 105 อาคารมหาจุฬาลงกรณ์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย
หัวข้อการเสวนา:
ทิเบต: ชัมพาลาที่ค้นพบ
ประสบการณ์ของช่างศิลป์ไทยในการไปวาดภาพพระบฏกับช่างศิลป์ทิเบต
สัญลักษณ์พระพุทธศาสนาในศิลปะทิเบต
ความหมายของอุปกรณ์ในการประกอบพิธีกรรม
มนตรากับศานติ
วิทยากร:
มล. สุรสวัสดิ์ ศุขสวัสดิ์ ปรัชวัลย์ เกตวัลห์ Vancelee Teng ชลทิศ ตามไท กฤษดาวรรณ หงศ์ลดารมภ์
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
Three Hundred Years of Buddhism in Russia
“Three Hundred Years of Buddhism in Russia”
A Special Lecture in Commemoration of One Hundred and Ten Years of Thai-Russian Relation
Wednesday, 12 September 2007,
Room 302, Boromrajakumari Bldg., Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University,
16.00 - 18.00 hours
The public is cordially invited to attend a public lecture by Dr. Andrey Terentyev, translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and editor of the Russian translation of the Lamrim Chemo (Graded Path to Enlightenment), a classic and foremost teaching in Tibetan Buddhism written by Tsongkhapa. The lecture will be accompanied by a number of illustrations.
Contact: Areerat Sirikhoon at areeratana@cpbequity.co.th or call 081-648-1195, or Soraj Hongladarom or call 089-686-6331.
ANNOUNCEMENT FILE (Please click).
A Special Lecture in Commemoration of One Hundred and Ten Years of Thai-Russian Relation
Wednesday, 12 September 2007,
Room 302, Boromrajakumari Bldg., Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University,
16.00 - 18.00 hours
The public is cordially invited to attend a public lecture by Dr. Andrey Terentyev, translator of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and editor of the Russian translation of the Lamrim Chemo (Graded Path to Enlightenment), a classic and foremost teaching in Tibetan Buddhism written by Tsongkhapa. The lecture will be accompanied by a number of illustrations.
Contact: Areerat Sirikhoon at areeratana@cpbequity.co.th or call 081-648-1195, or Soraj Hongladarom or call 089-686-6331.
ANNOUNCEMENT FILE (Please click).
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
สานศิลป์สู่ศานติ
การเสวนาเรื่อง "สานศิลป์สู่ศานติ: พุทธศิลป์และวัฒนธรรมทิเบต
และหิมาลัย" เลื่อนไปเป็นวันเสาร์ที่ 13 ตุลาคม 2550 ตั้งแต่เวลา 9.00 น.
นอกจากการเสวนา จะมีการแสดงนิทรรศการ การขายของที่ระลึก
และกิจกรรมที่น่าสนใจอื่นๆ
รายละเอียดจะได้แจ้งให้ทราบ สถานที่ ห้อง 105 อาคารมหาจุฬาลงกรณ์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย
Seminar on Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Arts and Culture has been postponed to Saturday 13 October 2007 at Room 105 Mahachulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University. More detial will be announced soon.
และหิมาลัย" เลื่อนไปเป็นวันเสาร์ที่ 13 ตุลาคม 2550 ตั้งแต่เวลา 9.00 น.
นอกจากการเสวนา จะมีการแสดงนิทรรศการ การขายของที่ระลึก
และกิจกรรมที่น่าสนใจอื่นๆ
รายละเอียดจะได้แจ้งให้ทราบ สถานที่ ห้อง 105 อาคารมหาจุฬาลงกรณ์ จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย
Seminar on Tibetan and Himalayan Buddhist Arts and Culture has been postponed to Saturday 13 October 2007 at Room 105 Mahachulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University. More detial will be announced soon.
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