SHARED VALUES IN A WORLD OF CULTURAL PLURALISM
November 2014
Muscat – Sultanate of Oman
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23
9:30 am / 10:15 am: Opening session
Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al – Salmi – Minister of Endowments and Religious Affairs
Nassir Abdulaziz Al – Nasser – UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations
Candido Mendes – Secretary General of the Academy of Latinity
10: 30 am – 2:00 pm: 1st Session – The Quest for Identity
- Homi Bhabha (India)
- Gianni Vattimo (Italy)
- Javier Sanjinés (Bolivia)
- Abdulrahman Al-Salimi (Oman) – Omani Culture in the Profile of Pluralism and its Recognition
3:00 pm – 6:30 pm – 2nd Session – World Consciousness, Citizenship and Shared Values
- KwameAnthony Appiah (United Kingdom)
- Tu Weiming (China)
- Daniel Innerarity (Spain)
- Radhwan al Sayyid (Lebanon) – The Prospects for an Islamic Contribution to Human Rights Issues and Shared Values
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24
10:00 am – 2:00 pm – 3rd Session – Towards an International Dialogue
- Craig Calhoun (USA)
- Zhang Longxi (China) – How Dialogue is Influenced by Shared Values
- Syed Alatas (Singapore)
3:00 pm – 6:30 pm – 4th Session – The Coexistence with Difference in an Age of Pluralism and Globalization
- Alain Touraine (France)
- Candido Mendes (Brazil)
- François l’Yvonnet (France)
- Paulo Hilu (Brazil) – Prospects for Pluralism in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Its Impact on Expatriate Communities in the West and Latin America
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
10:00 am – 2:00 pm: – 5th Session: Social Inclusion and Representation
- Walter Mignolo (Argentina)
- Razali Ismail (Malaysia)
- Enrique Larreta (Uruguay)
- Renato Janine Ribeiro (Brazil)
3:00 pm – 6:30 pm – 6th Session: Looking for the Sense of “Otherness”
- Susan Buck-Morss (USA)
- Nilüfer Göle (Turkey)
- Santiago Zabala (Italy)
