CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

[Guest guest]

Third International Conference

 

Daoism and the Contemporary World

 

Daoist Cultivation in Theory and Practice

 

25-28 May 2006

 

Monastery Frauenwörth near Munich, Germany

 

Organizers

 

Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Sinological Institute

 

Medical Society for Qigong Yangsheng, Bonn

 

Societas Medicinae Sinensis (International Society for Chinese

Medicine), Munich

 

Keynote Speaker: Catherine Despeux, Paris

 

Presentations on:

 

Daoism and long life Qigong and Taiji quan

 

Herbs and diets Daoism and medicine

 

Daoist concepts of body and self Daoism in China today

 

Health practices and modern science Comparative monastic cultivation

 

Daoist cultivation in history Daoism and ecology

 

Daoism and health politics New visions of life and health

 

Workshops on:

 

Taiji quan, Qigong, Daoyin, Chinese medicine, meditation,

visualization, dietary methods

 

Presentation format:

 

individual papers or complete panels, with three papers plus chair

and discussant

 

languages: English, German, Chinese (abstracts will be translated)

 

Schedule: The conference will begin on Thursday, May 25, at 2 pm,

with a plenary session (welcome, keynote speaker). Then panels will

be open Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, Friday afternoon,

Saturday morning, and Saturday afternoon.

 

A plenary session with concluding remarks will take place Saturday,

at 4:00 p.m. The conference will end around 5:00 p.m. on Saturday.

An excursion to monastaries and mountains is scheduled for Sunday.

 

Conference Fee: 60 €

 

To register:

 

E-mail: info

 

Mail: Medical Society for Qigong Yangsheng

 

Colmantstr. 9, D 53115 Bonn, Germany

 

Please supply the following:

 

Name

 

Institution

 

E-mail address

 

Address

 

Phone/fax

 

Paper title (if presenting)

 

Please check with kind of monastery accommodation you prefer (for

three days):

 

50 € per day (double occupancy, all meals included)

 

80 € per day (single room with private bath, all meals included)

 

Deadline:

 

Registration for housing: March 1, 2006.

 

Abstracts for papers: email by March 15, 2006.

 

The abstracts will be put at the homepage www.daoism-conference.de

 

Final schedule will be emailed around April 15, 2006