From September 16thto 17th, the 7th International Seminar on classics was jointly held by School of History and Culture, School of Chinese Classics and Institute of Historical Documents of Central China Normal University and Tsinghua Research Centre of Chinese Classics. More than 60 delegates from over20 universities including Academia Sinica, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, University of Macau, The University of Suwon, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, Nanjing University, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University and Central China Normal University attended the meeting.
On September 16th 16th, the
opening ceremony was held at the multimedia hall on the first floor of Guiyuan Hotel.
Prof. Peng Lin from Tsinghua University,Mr. Lin Qingzhang, researcher of department of
Chinese Literature and Philosophy of the Academia Sinica, and Prof. Cai
Xianjin, President from Liaocheng University, attended the opening
ceremony. Leaders from School of History and Culture and Social Sciences also
participated in the ceremony.
The head of the School of History and Culture,
in his speech, introduced the current situation of the current
development of history and historical philology study in CCNU. Professor
Peng stressed the important significance of Confucian classics studies to be the world class discipline, and the development history of the
international academic seminars on Confucian classics studies and the "Confucian
classics studies" journal. Prof. Cai introduced the conception
on the world definition and continuation of Confucian classics studies. Mr. Lin
affirmed the good development trend of Confucian classics studies in mainland
China, but also pointed out some problems including the neglect of the ontology
of the subject and current research status in modern times.
When delivering the keynote speech, Prof. Chen
Hongsen from Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Prof.
Deng Guoguang from University of Macau, Prof. Xu Jianping from Zhejiang
University and Prof. Yang Hua from Wuhan University gave reports in their own
themes respectively.
More than 50 delegates were divided into nine
groups to discuss about the "Zhou Yi" "Classic of
Poetry" "Three Rites" "the Spring and Autumn Annals
" and other topics. Professor Zhou Guolin hosted, Professor Peng
Lin and other scholars nationwide made keynote speeches respectively at the
closing ceremony of the meeting.
The International Academic Seminar on Confucian
Classics Studies is initiated by Tsinghua University and there have been 7
sessions in past 12 years.