Intercultural Dialogue · Interfaith Dialogue · Art, Religion and Society · Technology, Ecology and Values · Individual and Family Values · Indian Language and Literature · Gender Issues and Social Change · Popular Culture · Media and Film · Education · State and Public Policy · Sound · Language and Meaning · Meditation and Stress Management · Mantra and Meditation · Yoga and Trans Personal Psychology · Beyond Therapy · Eastern Herbal Medicine · Music and Creativity · Music: Classical and Contemporary · Music: Eastern and Western · Holistic Healing

• Shamanism and Consciousness Healing and Consciousness
• Shamanistic Healing and Consciousness Medicine and Consciousness
• Altered States of Consciousness Possession and Consciousness
• Dissociation and Consciousness Dreams and Consciousness
• Drugs and Consciousness Religion and Consciousness
• Animal Consciousness Hominid Consciousness
• Evolution and Consciousness Meta-Models of Consciousness
• Political and Class Consciousness Gender and Ethnic Consciousness
• Self, Society and Consciousness Historical Consciousness
• Language and Consciousness Myth and Consciousness

• The idea of Tolerance and its legal and political dimensions
• Toleration and political neutrality
• Toleration and civic education

• What is the future of interdisciplinary scholarship?
• How have interdisciplinary studies transformed the academy?
• What methodologies contribute to an interdisciplinary approach to interpretive inquiry?
• Has global capitalism impeded the development of interdisciplinary, transformative global pedagogies and scholarship?
• How will the influential ideas of structuralism/poststructuralism and the languages of criticism impact interdisciplinary critical theory and scholarship?

Peace Movement · Nonviolent Resistance/Action · Social Justice · Politics · Discrimination against Minorities · Animal Rights · Women's Rights · Ecology · Third-World Exploitation · Right Livelihood · Role of Business and Economics · History of Engaged Buddhism

Social, Moral, Political, Economic, Environmental, and Aesthetic Values, the Teaching of Values, and the Resolution of Conflict between Competing Values and between Theory and Practice.
Of particular interest are papers that discuss issues and conflicts of values that have arisen as a result of the social, political, economic, scientific, and technological developments involved with globalization.

The purpose of the conference is to better understand the concept of forgiveness across history, languages, cultures and religions, and to help develop ways in which forgiveness can be used to further peace: both among ourselves in our everyday conflicts at the local and national level, and at the global level.

Social, Moral, Political, Economic, Environmental, and Aesthetic Values, the Teaching of Values, and the Resolution of Conflict between Competing Values and between Theory and Practice.
Of particular interest are papers that discuss issues and conflicts of values that have arisen as a result of the social, political, economic, scientific, and technological developments involved with globalization.

It is time to re-open the question of Cultural Studies and its problematic "foundation" on the principle of interdisciplinarity. The variety of theoretical conceptualisations and general practices of "transgressing" (disciplinary) boundaries – interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, alterdisciplinarity, etc. – continue to raise questions of translation, otherness and difference while generating possiblities for dialogue. The contributions are invited to address the conference topic from various prespectives:

• the view from "inside" Cultural Studies
• the view from "outside" Cultural Studies
• the "hybrid" view
• the view "from the boundary"

• The state of the discipline (African philosophy at the start of the new millenium)
• Connections between African philosophy and the larger discipline (challenges of assimilation or accommodation)
• Feminist contributions to African philosophy
• Developing sub-fields within African philosophy (ethics, political theory, epistemology, metaphysics)
• Insiders and outsiders (challenges of diversity)
• Religious contributions to African philosophy
• Strategies and hopes for the future

Epistemology of Boundaries · Cognitive Mapping · Mapping Racial and Cultural Boundaries · Terrestrial and Extra-Terrestrial Boundaries · Greening of Space · Bioregionalism · Ecosystemic Boundaries · Physical-Spiritual Boundaries · Ethnic Boundaries · Mapping the Sacred · Eco-centric/Anthropocentric Boundaries · Indigenous Reconstruction · Hermeneutics of Boundaries · Politics of Zoning · Segmentation Theory · Marginalized Living

1. Pensamiento latinoamericano e historia de las ideas
• Aportes históricos de Bolívar, Rodó, Sarmiento, Vasconcelos, Zea, Freire y otros
• Integración cultural y pensamiento latinoamericano
• Pensamiento e interculturalidad
• Pensamiento femenino en América Latina; arielismo, juventud y reforma universitaria
2. Regionalización e integración
• Formas de integración y colaboración en el Cono Sur; nuevas propuestas
• Integración y discurso militar
• Análisis de las políticas educativas y culturales frente a la integración y las contradicciones de la globalización
• Redes intelectuales, pensamiento e integración y las contradicciones de la globalización
• Propuestas éticas y utópicas frente al amanecer del 2000

• Literature's quest for the hidden, "true" reality
• Inspiration and its search for expression
• Cipher, metaphor, image, vision

• Gender and Ideology
• Technology and Ideology
• Ethnicity and Ideology
• Popular Culture as Ideology
• Globalism and the New World Order
• Post-Colonialism and Postmodernism: Will They Survive?
• Locality or Universality in Artistic Creation

Both within and without Western culture, the place of rationality in attaining knowledge and wisdom is often challenged. Philosophers and psychiatrists both make judgments about rationality and irrationality in their daily work. What theories and criteria guide these judgments? Are such criteria universal, or particularistic and culture-bound, and if the latter, how are specific rationality criteria selected? Once the issue of judgments is raised, further questions of power, responsibility, and ethical stance arise. Who should be empowered to make determinations of rationality, and what epistemic, ontological, and sociopolitical weight do they bear?

• Can pragmatism be adapted to very different cultural and intellectual contexts?
• Is there a place for pragmatist philosophy within contemporary European culture?
• Is pragmatism somehow compatible with European cultural traditions and contemporary conditions?
• How can pragmatism enrich European as well as American cultures?
• What new and valuable features can the new pragmatism bring into European cultures?
• What sorts or types of pragmatism could be developed in central and eastern Europe?

Cultures of Everyday Life · Media, Media Cultures and Film · Globalisation and Diaspora · New Technologies · Culture and Economy · Social and Cultural Theory · Difference and Identity · Power and Knowledge · The City: Space and Place · Cultural Policy · Postcolonialism · Cultural Studies · Pedagogy · Cultures of Work and Organisation · Consumer Culture