Interdisciplinary & Crosscultural
Annual Seminars
| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| August–September, 2026 | Self, Solidarity, and Civility: Foundation for Social Life | |
| August–September, 2025 | Rethinking the Human Condition in the Age of the Anthropocene | |
| August–September, 2024 | Modernity or Multiple Modernities? The Tension between the Universal and the Particular | |
| August–September, 2023 | Social Imaginaries and Social Transformation: Discerning the Dynamics of Reality | |
| August–September, 2022 | Political Order and the Ethics of Peace | |
| August–September, 2021 | Nations, States, the Transformation of Boundaries (online) |
Philosophy and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Council for Research in Values and Philosophy · Washington, D.C.| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| January, 2020 | Happiness and Good Life: Philosophical Reflections through Cultures | |
| August–September, 2019 | The Meaning of Democracy: Foundations and Contemporary Challenges | |
| August–September, 2018 | Power, Truth and Trust: In Search of More Human Governance | |
| August–September, 2017 | Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: Understanding the Meaning of Being Human across Cultures and Civilizations | |
| August–September, 2016 | Re-Learning to be Human for Global Times: The Role and Structure of Mercy and Compassion | |
| August–September, 2015 | Religion, Reconciliation and Peace: Philosophical Perspectives |
Interdisciplinary Dialogue across Cultures and Traditions
Annual Seminar Program · Visiting Scholars & Interns| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| August, 2015 | The Role of Spirituality in Promoting Reconciliation | |
| August, 2014 | Education in a Global Context: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural, and Interreligious Approaches | |
| August–September, 2014 | Religion: Key to Understanding Violence and Promoting Peace in Global Times | |
| September–October, 2013 | Justice and Responsibility: Cultural and Philosophical Considerations | |
| October, 2012 | The Value of Compassion and Forgiveness in the World Philosophical Traditions | |
| September–October, 2012 | Building Community in a Mobile/Global Age |
Scholars from Six Continents, One Conversation
Global Academic Exchange · CRVP International Seminars| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| March–April, 2012 | Role of Religion in Public Discourse: Recent Development in the Thought of Jürgen Habermas | |
| August–September, 2011 | Responsibility Personal and Social: Foundations for Life in a Global Age | |
| May, 2011 | Philosophy and Mysticism between Europe and Asia: The Cosmopolitan Dimension of Islamic Thought and Spirituality | |
| October–November, 2010 | Human Nature: Stable and/or Changing? | |
| September–October, 2009 | The Sacred and the Secular: Complementary and/or Conflictual (II) | |
| September–October, 2008 | Sacred and Secular: Complementary and/or Conflictual (I) |
Ancient Questions, Contemporary Answers
Philosophy Rooted in History, Open to the World| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| March, 2008 | Faith and Reason in Our Day | |
| September–November, 2007 | Philosophy Emerging from Culture | |
| September–November, 2006 | History and Cultural Identity | |
| September–November, 2005 | Symbols in Cultures and Identities: The Role of the Symbolic in Cultural Traditions, Identities and Transitions in a Time of Global Interaction | |
| September–November, 2004 | Reasoning in Faith: Cultural Foundations for Civil Society and Globalization | |
| September–November, 2003 | Communication across Cultures: The Hermeneutics of Culture in a Global Age |
Building Bridges of Understanding across Faiths and Philosophies
Crosscultural & Interreligious Dialogue · Since 1984| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| September–November, 2002 | Globalization and Identity | |
| September–November, 2001 | Models of Thinking about Reality: Individual, Communitarian, Global, Virtual, and Religious | |
| September–November, 2000 | Cultural Identity, Pluralism and Globalization | |
| September–November, 1998 | Restorying the ‘Polis’: Civil Society as Narrative Reconstruction | |
| September–November, 1997 | Civil Society as Democratic Practice: Solidarity and Subsidiarity | |
| September–November, 1996 | Civil Society: Who Belongs? |
Philosophy Lives Where People Meet
Seminar Sessions on Four Continents| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| September–November, 1995 | Civil Society and Social Reconstruction | |
| September–November, 1994 | Diversity in Unity | |
| September–November, 1993 | Evangelization and Culture & Inculturation; Religion in Public Life | |
| September–November, 1992 | Freedom and Choice in a Democracy | |
| September–November, 1991 | Democracy, Culture and Values | |
| September–November, 1990 | The Humanization of Social Life |
Four Decades of Crosscultural Philosophical Inquiry
Council for Research in Values and Philosophy · Est. 1983| Time | Theme | Participants & Gallery |
|---|---|---|
| September–November, 1989 | Moral Imagination and Character Development | |
| September–November, 1988 | The Place of the Person in Social Life | |
| September–November, 1987 | Urbanization and Values | |
| September–November, 1986 | Relations between Cultures | |
| September–November, 1985 | Culture, Human Rights and Peace in Central America | |
| September–November, 1984 | Social Context of Values |
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