ISCSC - Program

39TH World Conference
June 3-7, 2009
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI
The Fetzer Center

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All A Sessions will take place in Putney Lecture Hall.
All B Sessions will take place in Room 1450/60.
All C Sessions will take place in Room 1060.
All D Sessions will take place in Kirsh Auditorium
Keynote Lectures will be in the Kirsh Auditorium
Board Meetings in Room 1030, Annual Election in Room 1040/1050
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9:00 AM—KEYNOTE ADDRESS-Kirsh Auditorium
Will Business End or Revive Western Civilization?
From Malthusian Trap to Business Growth Trap
Andrew Targowski

Cold War, Hot Climate: City Planning in Times of Crisis
Michael Dudley
Globalization and International Development: Critical
Challenges of the 21st Century
Sisay Asefa
The Origin of Civilization in Ecological Crisis
Lee Stauffer

Andrew Bell-Fialkoff, The Role of Migration in the History of the Eurasian Steppe
Reviewer: Kristofer Allerfeldt
Frances Wood, The Silk Road
Reviewer: Julie Melko
James A. Millward, Eurasian Crossroads: A History of Xinjiang
Reviewer: Tseggai Isaac

Kathryn A. Bard, An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Reviewer: Vladimir Alalykin-Izvekov
Sally-Ann Ashton, Cleopatra and Egypt
Reviewer: Norman Rothman
Kasia Szpakowska, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
Reviewer: Matthew Melko

Session A– Religion and Civilizational Scholarship
Chair: Laina Farhat-Holzman

Paradigms and Paradigmatic Shifts in the Study of Civilizations: Spengler, Toynbee, McNeill, Huntington, and Diamond
George Von der Muhll
Why Population Demographics and Fundamentalist Forms of Religion are the most important Causes of the Developing Global Crisis
Michael Andregg
The Role of Religious Conversions in History
Laina Farhat-Holzman

Clerical Courage, Crown, and Citizenship in Medieval Ethiopia
Tseggai Isaac
The Citizen and the Law in Islamic and Catholic Spain During the Middle Ages
Dario Fernandez-Morera
The Role of Race and Prejudice in the Russia-Chechnya Conflict
Mariana Tepfenhart

Dynamic Systems and Theoretical Approach to Civilization: Rise, Fall, Competition, Cooperation, and Self-Organization
Peter Erdi
Connecting Laws of Science and Society
Thomas F. Rienzo
Pre-Diction and Prophesy: Two Modes of Announcing Civiliztional Distress
Comparing Frank Herbert's Dune to John of Patmos Book of Revelation
Adan Steven-Diaz

The Times, They are a Changin’: American Racial Identities in the Age of Globalization
Hettie V. Williams
The Slave Trade, Hydrocarbons, and Globalization in the Niger Delta
G. Ugo Nwokeji
Edward Kritzler, The Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean
Reviewer: Laina Farhat-Holzman

Global Financial Crisis: Is it Failure of Market or Government?
Dong Hyeon Jung
Reviving Western Civilization with Tax Reform in the New Millennium
Christopher M. Korth
How to Sustain An Economically Viable Civilization?
Ajay Samant

Explaining British-Chinese Divergence Through Comparative Strategic Scopes
Jacob Shively
Overseas Chinese Business Networks Between Two Civilizations: Chinese Industrial Takeoff in British Hong Kong and Singapore During the Great Depression of the 1930s
Huei-Ying Kuo
Capitalism, Internationalism, Socialism
Pedro P. Geiger

5:00 - 6:00 PM Reception
Hosted by the WMU Haenicke Institute for Global Education

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9 AM

Conservatism and Chaos: Martin Heidegger and the Decline of the West
David J. Rosner
Why Civilizations Decline
William McGoughey
Globalization -- the Rise, Decline, or Mutation of Western Civilization?
Donald G. McCloud

Tonio Andrade, How Taiwan became Chinese
Reviewer: Ricardo Duchesne
Marc S. Abramson, Ethnic Identity in Tang China
Reviewer: David Maurer
Ashok Malhotra, Wisdom of the Tao Te Ching
Reviewer: Michael Andregg

Landmarks in the Comparative Study of Civilizations
David Wilkinson
From Sorokin to Huntington and Beyond--Civilizations in Times of Change, Transition, and Crisis
Vladimir Alalykin-Izvekov
On Megalopolitans and Retards: The Views of Spengler and Toynbee on the Variability of the Rate of Cultural Change and Their Continuing Relevance
W. Reed Smith
Pitirim A. Sorokin and Russian Civilization
Nikolay Zyuzev

John Bintliff, Ed., A Companion to Archaeology
Reviewer: Connie Lamb
Asok Kumar Malhotra, Instant Nirvana, 2nd. Ed.
Reviewer: Chandrakant Yatanoor
Malgorzata Oleskiewicz-Peralba, The Black Madonna
Reviewer: A. M. Stevens-Arroyo

Economic Growth and Development of Korea under Park Chung Hee and Chun Doo Hwan Administrations
Dong Hyeon Jung and Cheol Hun Park
Executive Rewarding and Compensation System: A Comparison Between Samsung and GE
Chin Ok Kim

2:00 PM KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Kirsh Auditorium
War, Peace, and Civilization
Matthew Melko

Jarif Khalidi, ed., The Muslim Jesus
Reviewer: Adan Stevens-Diaz
Richard W. Bulliet, The Case for Islamo-Christian Civilization
Reviewer: Ricardo Duchesne
Roman Herzog, Preventing the Clash of Civilizations
Reviewer: Andrew Targowski
Majid Tehranian, Rethinking Civilization
Reviewed by Pedro Pinchas Geiger

Syblle Haynes, Etruscan Civillization
Reviewer: Midori Yamanouchi-Rynn
Vassos Karageorghis, Early Cyprus
Reviewer: TBA
Kevin Butcher, Roman Syria and the Near East
Reviewer: George Von der Muhll

Session C—Modern Global Issues
Chair: Dorica Kafunya
Membership in WTO and Gross Domestic Product
Dorica Kafunya
Computer Networks as Tools for Enlarging Human Networks in Our Civilization
Kaja Michalec and Leszek Lilien
How Education Leads to Peace
Polina Kadatska

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9:00 AM—KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Kirsh Auditorium
Will Religion Mitigate the Clash of Civilizations?
Professor Laina Farhat-Holzman

Session A—Civilization Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Chair: Ashok Malhotra

The Spirit of Indian and Western Civilizations: Clash or Cooperation?
Ashok Kumar Malhotra
The Proclaimed Globalization—An Ideology of Soft-Totalitarian Social and Psychological Engineering
Roman Zawadzki
The Influence of Intercivilizational Contact on Intracivilizational Discourse on Identity: Samurai Imagery as a Response to Changes in Meiji Japan
Oleg Benesch

The Revolutions of Nature and Naturalizing Revolutions: Seeking Religious Authority in the Yellow Turban Uprising and the Fall of the Han Dynasty
Jacques Brouillette
Resilience and Resourcefulness in Various Ethnic Groups Following Psychotraumatic Experience
Marek J. Celinski, Giorgio Ilacqua, Lyle Allen III.
Between Civilizations: Is Belarus a Cleft or a Torn Country?
Andrey Daragensky

The Future Teachers and Formation of Orthodox Values in the Educational Process in Teachers’ High School
L. F. Mihaltsova
Self-Realization of the Students in Pedagogical High School on the Basis of Orthodox Culture and Moral Life
O. A. Milinis
Kuzbass State Pedagogical Academy, Russia

The Influence of Religion in Western Civilizationand Its Role in Future World Affairs
Stephen J. Newell
Is the University Still a Source of Progress in Western Civilization?
Norman W. Hawker
Mauricio Teonora-Trillo, Mexico at the World’s Fair, Crafting a Modern Nation
Reviewed by Andrew Targowski
The Future of Religion
Rudolf Siebert

3:30 PM MEET BUS FOR DRIVE TO CONFERENCE DINNER

The Conference dinner will be held in Sagautack, on lake Michigan. Our bus and cars (for those who wish to drive) may be parked in the city’s central parking lot at Lake Street, close to many art, fashion, gift shops, and an interesting marina. Coffee will be offered when we arrive at the Club House of the East Shore Harbor Club Condominium, 777 Lake Street, hosted by our ISCSC president, Andrew Targowski. This is just a half-mile from the restaurant where we will be dining.

Our thanks to the Program Committee:
Co-Chairs: Laina Farhat-Holzman and Steven Blaha
Michael Andregg, Richardo Duchesne, Dario Fernandez-Morera, Sanford Holst, Connie Lamb, David Wilkinson, and Andrew Targowski (ex-officio).

Conference Staff :
Michael Andregg, COO, Betsy Drummer, Treasurer
Brittany Drummer, Sophia Rath, and Cheri Edgar, Help Desk
Andrew Targowski, Conference Chair

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SUNDAY June 7

Student Paper Presentations
Fetzer Center, Putney Lecture Hall

8:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast

College of Arts & Sciences
9:00-9:20 John Chrisman , Climate Change And Societies’ Choice
9:30-9:50 Lyudmyla Pustelnyk, The Orange Civil Society Or The Orange Social Movement? The Case Study of Ukrainian Revolution Of 2004.

Engineering College
10:00-10:20 Steven Srivastava, Carbon Credits And The Global Trading Market
10:30-10:50 Benjamin Roush, Viable Solutions For Sustainable Urban Water Systems

Haworth College of Business
11:00-11:20 Michael Kreutzjans, Credit Crisis Demystified
11:30-11:50 Carrie McDonald Swift, Barack Obama: A Prospect for a New Enlightenment or Just another Superstar CEO?

12 Noon-1:00 PMLunch

Graduate College
13:00-13:20 Richard Seim, The New Enlightenment: The Age of Consilience in the Sciences.

Education College
13:30-13:50 Masashi Izumi, The Dream of Middle-aged Educational Leader

2:00 PM International Conference is adjourned

ISCSC: Call for Papers - 2010
International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
40th Annual International Conference Tuesday–Thursday, June 15–17, 2010
Brigham Young University Provo, Utah, USA
Main Theme: Civilizational Futures

Sub-Themes:

— What roles religion, in the past, today and tomorrow?
— Is a global civilization developing? How would we know?
— How can past civilizational crises inform the present?
— Does ecology matter, or are these crises driven entirely by culture politics, religion and other social phenomena?

Eternal Themes:

— What is a “Civilization” anyway?
— How are civilizations distinct from nations, societies and cultures?
— Are they correlated with empires?
— How many are there in human history and today?
— Does history repeat itself and what about technology?
— Are civilizational transformations necessarily traumatic, or can they “transform” peacefully?
— When civilizations “clash” can they hybridize by combining strengths positively? Or must one die?
— How do art, language and culture matter compared to ancient drivers of commerce and military affairs?

Submission Deadline: March 15, 2010

Email abstracts to: Michael Andregg, mmandregg@stthomas.edu

ISCSC website at www.wmich.edu/iscsc for conference information

The International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations

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