Welcome & introduction

Palm-leaf Manuscripts: Examination, Preservation and Access

Palm-leaf Manuscripts: The Legacy of Traditional Preservation and Conservation

Manifesting the Buddha Dharma in a Secular Age

Dialogue or Communion? What Buddhists and Christians Can Contribute in Responding to the Crisis of Humankind

Otherness as a Challenge to Buddhism

The Arts of Buddhist-Christian-Encounter

Philosophical Positions, Identity Formations, and Responses to Religions Diversity in the East Asian Traditions of Mahāyāna Buddhism

Panel 1 Discussion

Experience & Epistemology of the Present Moment: The Early Buddhist Perspective

Buddhist Contributions to Contemporary Moral Reflection: Selflessness and Moral Responsiveness

Words Like Gold: Traditional Buddhism in Dialogue with Contemporary Societies

Panel 2 Discussion

Cross-cultural Communication Conflicts Between Traditional Buddhism in Asia and Modern Western Buddhism (Buddhist Cross-cultural Communications and Conflicts)

Designing Sustainable Economic Systems—a Contribution from Buddhism

Restoring a Spirit of Radical Empiricism in Science and Religion: A Buddhist View

The End of Violence is the Path of the Bodhisattvas Potential Contributions of Mahayana Buddhism to Modern Politics

Panel 3 Discussion

Reimagining Zen in a Secular Age: Zen Buddhism in Charles Taylor’s Immanent Frame

Cultivating Good Habits (śīla) and Resetting the Mindset (śamatha, vipaśyanā) in this Era of Disruptions: the Mind-life (āśraya) & Environment (ālambana) Curriculum in Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts

How to Study Buddhism: Content, Scope and Function of the Study of Buddhism at Universities in Europe

Social Dharma: How Buddhist Principles Radically Alter our Understanding of Self and Society

Panel 4 Discussion

Chinese Buddhism in Contemporary Society: Revitalization and Innovation

The art of not taking yourself too serious

All Conditioned Things are Impermanent, Except for Buddhism?

Matching Concepts, Transgressing Boundaries: Buddhist Transmission Strategies in the International Buddhist Women's Movement

Panel 5 Discussion

Questions from the audience and conclusions

Abulafia and Hillel of Verona on the Guide of the Perplexed

Inner Speech (endophasia) in the Thought of Maimonides and Abulafia

Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed II

Abulafia’s Commentaries on the Guide of the Perplexed

Naples as Mediterranean Crossroads

Phasal Negation in Zande

Phasal Polarity in Suma (Gbaya language, northern CAR)

Phasal Polarity in Isu – and beyond

Phasal polarity in Iraqw and other Tanzanian languages

Phasal Polarity items in Datooga (Nilotic): Interactions with tense, aspect, and participant expectation

Negation and the expression of Phasal Polarity in Kambaata (Cushitic)

Phasal Polarity in Omotic: Is it the verb again?

Phasal Polarity expressions in Bambara (Mande)

Phasal Polarity in Ngiemboon

Phasal Polarity particles in Kusaal

Phasal Polarity in Ewe: Diversity of constructions and dialect differences

From Phasal Polarity expression to aspectual marker: Grammaticalization of already in Colloquial Singapore English

Phasal Polarity expressions in Fulfulde of northern Cameroon: Constructional variation and grammaticalization

Phasal Polarity in Languages of the Wider Lake Chad Area – From “First” to “Yet”

The expression of Phasal Polarity in Cuwabo (Bantu P34)

Phasal Polarity in the Nguni cluster (Bantu, S.40)

Nondums in Bantu languages: types, variation and paths of change

An areal typology of clause - final negation markers in northern sub - Saharan Africa and their historical relation with phasal polarity expressions

Grammaticalized not-yet markers in Bantu languages

Welcome Address

The Maritime Silk Road and the South China Sea – Stepping Stones for China’s Regional Hegemony?

China’s Reaction to the PCA Award

Stabiliser or Destabiliser? Fish and the South China Sea Conflict

The Impact of International Law on Sino-Vietnamese Relations in the South China Sea

Contested Memories - Sino-Vietnamese Relations and the South China Sea in Vietnamese Commemoration

Historical Patterns of Vietnam-China Border Settlements

History as a Problem, History as a Solution: Could the South China Sea Disputes be Resolved?

Shifting Currents of Power in the South China Sea and a Helpful Lesson from Europe's Diplomatic History

Natalija Dimic: Forging an Ideological Alliance: Yugoslavia and German Left Socialists in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s

Hartmut Rübner: Antiautoritäre Jugend, Freidenkerwiderstand und Heimatlose Linke. Der Grenzgänger Fritz Parlow (1905 - 1983)

Michael Buckmiller: Wolfgang Abendroth - Von der "Freien Sozialistischen Jugend" zur linkssozialistischen Erneuerung in der Bundesrepublik

Philipp Kufferath: Netzwerke, Lernprozesse und Traditionsstiftung. Peter von Oertzen und die Erfahrungswelten der Weimarer Zwischengruppen nach 1945

Jens Becker: "Die Arbeiterbewegung (...) hat sich die große Aufgabe gestellt, unsere Gesellschaftsordnung zu verbessern und umzugestalten." Otto Brenners Politik- und Gewerkschaftsansatz in der frühen Bundesrepublik

Dirk Mathias Dalberg: Die tschechische "Bewegung der revolutionären Jugend" und ihre ideologischen Verbindungen zu deutschen linken Zwischengruppen

Martina Metzger: Die Kontakte der DDR-Dissidenten Robert Havemann und Wolf Biermann zu westeuropäischen linken Zwischengruppen und gleichgesinnten Exilkommunisten in den 1970er bis 1980er Jahren

Mario Keßler: Theodor Bergmann - Kommunistischer Kritiker des Sowjet- Kommunismus (1916 - 2017)

Jens Becker: Heinrich Brandler - Anmerkungen zum 50. Todestag

Michael Frey: Ideologische Brücken zwischen den dreißiger und sechziger Jahren? Trotzkistische Intellektuelle, die entstehende Neue Linke und der (geteilte) Weg in die Dritte Welt

Willy Buschak: Kontinuitäten und Brüche im europäischen Linkssozialismus nach 1945

Marcel Bois: Vergessen, verdrängt und wiederentdeckt. Zur Rezeption des Linkskommunismus der Zwischenkriegszeit in der Bundesrepublik

Begrüßung und Einführung in die Tagung "Linke Zwischengruppen - vor, mit und jenseits der Neuen Linken in beiden deutschen Staaten"

Sceptical Buddhism as Provenance and Project

Buddhist Variations on Axiological Scepticism and Ethical Pluralism

Between Faith and Scepticism: Probabilism as a Philosophical Approach to Scripture in Dharmakīrti’s Thought

Abandoning the Doubt through Doubting: cintāmayī prajñā in the *Vajracchedikātīkā by Kamalaśīla

Ethics of Atomism and Scepticism

The Evident and the Non-Evident: Buddhism through the Lens of Pyrrhonism

The Soteriology of Scepticism: Historical and Philosophical Readings on Pyrrhonism and Buddhism

Nāgārjuna's Scepticism about Philosophy

Keynote: Some Sceptical Doubts about "Buddhist Scepticism"

Einführung

Zwischen Herkunft und Migration. Brygida Helbigs "Pałówa" als ein transnationaler Roman

Migrations, Transformations, and ownership in Vesna Goldsworthy’s "Gorksy"

Hybrid Identity of the Czech National Auther(s): Bohumil Hrabal on Bohumil Hrabal

fact and fiction: Die Autofiktion als Medium für eine hybride Identität

Die transnationale Identität in Katja Petrowskajas "Vielleicht Esther": Verfremdung, Fiktion und Übersetzung

Development of Yugoslav Literature Beyond Its borders: East European Heritage or West European Trend?

Literarische Heimkehr zur Kindheit in der autobiographischen Prosa der Migrationsautorin Wioletta Grzegorzewska am Beispiel von "Guguły"

Tschechische Einfügungen im Roman von Libuše Moníková "Die Fassade"

Phantomschmerz Sowjetunion: Vergangenheitsbewältigung und Gegenwartsgestaltung in den interkulturellen Familienromanen Andrei Makines und Vladimir Vertlibs

Entgrenzung und Hybridität in Dostoevskijs "Winterlichen Aufzeichnungen über sommerliche Eindrücke": Zeit, Kultur, Identität

Die Diktatur in Weißrussland, Katastrophe in Ukraine, die Tragödien in Syrien – Svitlana Alexijewitsch: eine mutige Frau, die ihre Stimme gegen Krieg und gegen die Unfreiheit erhebt

Das „russlanddeutsche Opfer-Narrativ“

Der polnischen Heimat so fern. Das Sujet der Emigration in den Filmen Jerzy Skolimowskis

Personalverwaltung am Beispiel von „Go East –Go West“ Projekt

Podiumsdiskussion

The Road not Taken: Why was Spinoza not a Sceptic?

Varieties of Early Modern Scepticism

Narrowing Process and the Context-Sensitivity of Knowledge Attribution Sentences

"Scepticism concerning Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Philosophy: the Case of George Berkeley"

The Role of Sceptical Doubt in Spinoza's Naturalism

The Sources of Medieval Scepticism and the Origin of Divine Deception

The Problem of Many Gods in Al-Ghazali, Averroes, Maimonides, and Crescas

What is Maimonidean Scepticism?

Ancient vs. Early Modern Scepticism: Was There a Cartesian Revolution?

When Scepticism turns against the Sceptic: the use of Scepticism by Medieval Religious Thinkers - the Case of Al-Ghazali, Halevi and Maimonides

Sextus Empiricus' Criticism of the Foundations of Ancient Mathematics

Scepticism and Monotheism. A Specific Relation?

Plotinus and Scepticism

Agrippan Pyrrhonism, Questionable Assumptions, and the Epistemic Challenge of Disagreement

Sextus Empiricus' Use of δύναμις

"Enquiring into (Jewish) Scepticism"

Welcoming Remarks

Academic Scepticism and the Teachability of Practical Ethics

"Dialectic and Sophisms: the Sceptical Dissolution of Dogmatic Logic""

Introduction and Welcoming Remarks

Grasping for the Past: Postcatastrophic Biographies

School Photos in Holocaust Europe: Archives of Possibility?