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Press Releases from Civilisations Matter - International Society for Intercultural Dialogue e.V. (6 total)

The Danger of a New Kind of Bilateral “Cold War" has Emerged

(CM, 2008-07-05 Beijing/Berlin) INTERVIEW WITH FANG WEIGUI, EXPERT FOR CHINA AND GERMANY IN BEIJING Fang Weigui is professor for comparative literature at Beijing Normal University since 2006. His focus in teaching and research is on comparative literature, modern Chinese culture and literature, language change (historical semantics), and the Internet in China. In 2002, Fang habilitated in Erlangen, Germany, with a study on Chinese literature during the times of the republic. In 2004, he

Double Moral Standards applied by the West harm the democratization process in C …

(Berlin/Beijing, CM 02/08/2008) The West applies two different standards when judging a country, “depending on who they refer to”. This is how Fang Weigui, scholar in Beijing habilitated in Erlangen, Germany, criticized Western hypocrisy in an interview conducted by Civilizations Matter. Even critical Internet users in China allege that the West has dishonest motives when degrading China at present. “I am a more or less ‘different-minded’ person in China, and

Berlin Society for Intercultural Dialog organises a Europe-China Encounter in Be …

(Berlin, 23rd July 2008) The major of the Chinese capital Beijing and of the north-eastern port city of Qingdao (Tschingdao), from which the Olympic Sailing regatta should depart, welcomed the first Autumn Symposium organized by the newly founded Berlin Society for Intercultural Dialogue. Scientists, business-men, media represent­atives and artists have been invited to Beijing and Qingdao by the German Society, whose long term aim is to initiate interdisciplinary and intercultural

Beijing-Symposium on economic ethics prepared by the non-profit organisation Civ …

(CM, Berlin, 2008-06-25) Subsequent to the Beijing Olympic Games the non-profit Society for Intercultural Dialogue based in Berlin (cm-germany.org) will organise an interdisciplinary encounter between European and Asian businessmen and scientists. For reasons concerning public security, on short notice, the Chinese authorities have decided to ban all events which should have taken place during the Olympic Games. The four day-symposium in the European Year for Intercultural Dialogue, which will now

Academy for Intercultural Dialogue has established a new platform

(CM, Berlin, 2008-02-06) The Academy for Intercultural Dialogue, founded December 2007 in Berlin, has established a new platform: cm-germany.org . Beyond the political scene and exempt from economic incitement, the Academy is designated to provide a forum of dialogue between groups of different political, religious and ethnical backgrounds. With its name 'Civilisations Matter', underlining the need of an interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion, this academy is bound to be an international site of

Academy for Intercultural Dialogue has been founded in Berlin Germany

(CM, Berlin, 2007-12-18) After one year of preparation, the Civilisations Matter Academy was founded today in Berlin. Beyond the political scene and exempt from economic incitement, the Academy is designated to provide a forum of dialogue between groups of different political, religious and ethnical backgrounds. With its name \'Civilisations Matter\', underlining the need of an interdisciplinary and intercultural discussion, this academy is bound to be an international site of encounter

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