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International Symposium on the Globalization of Confucianism
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- Hahm Chaibong
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- 10-10-21 15:00
The Asan Institute for Policy Studies (Asan Institute) hosted the “International Symposium on the Globalization of Confucianism” with the Organizing Committee and Dongyang University at Dongyang University on October 22, 2010.
The symposium analyzed the impact of Confucianism on the East Asian society and its resilience as demonstrated in the World Confucian Culture Festival 2010. Asan Institute Director Hahm Chaibong lectured on the topic “Confucianism and Globalization” while Yonsei University Professor Lew Seok Choon’s topic was “Confucian Ethics and Korean Capitalism – Importance of Filial Piety.” Professor Daniel Bell of Qinghua University and Professor Bin Wong of UCLA also lectured. Professor Bell’s topic was “The Meeting of Confucianism and Socialism, The Revival of China’s Tradition,” and Professor Wong’s topic was “Global, Regional, and Local Dimension of Contemporary Confucianism."
Date/Time: Friday, October 22, 2010
Place: The Asan Institute for Policy Studies
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Hahm Chaibong
President
Dr. HAHM Chaibong is the president of the Asan Institute for Policy Studies. Previously, he was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, California, professor in the School of International Relations and the Department of Political Science as well as the director of the Korean Studies Institute at the University of Southern California, Director (D-1) of the Division of Social Sciences Research & Policy at UNESCO in Paris, and a professor in the Department of Political Science at Yonsei University. Dr. Hahm is the author of numerous books and articles, including “China’s Future is South Korea’s Present,” Foreign Affairs, (Sep/Oct 2018), Hanguk Saram Mandeulgi (Becoming Korean), Vols. I, II, (Asan Academy, 2017), “Keeping Northeast Asia ‘Abnormal’: Origins of the Liberal International Order in Northeast Asia and the New Cold War,” Asan Forum (Sep., 2017), “South Korea’s Miraculous Democracy,” Journal of Democracy (Jul., 2008), “The Two South Koreas: A House Divided,” The Washington Quarterly (Jun., 2005), and Confucianism for the Modern World (co-edited with Daniel A. Bell, Cambridge University Press, 2003).