CALL FOR PAPERS

EXPRESSIONS OF TRADITIONAL WISDOM

The Royal Academy of Overseas Sciences,
in collaboration with the Royal Museum of Central Africa and the Royal Museums of Art and History,
organizes on Thursday 27 and Friday 28 September 2007 an international symposium on the

“Expressions of Traditional Wisdom” of cultures from “overseas”, i.e., Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas including the ancient civilizations of these continents.

The notion of “wisdom” itself in the sense of practical wisdom has entered Western civilization through biblical texts. In the Hellenic experience this kind of wisdom received a more structural character in the form of philosophy. In this sense philosophy should also be part of the expressions of traditional wisdom.

The following topics have been withheld:
Traditional expressions of wisdom and religion
Traditional expressions of wisdom and philosophy
Traditional expressions of wisdom and gender
Traditional expressions of wisdom and afterlife
Traditional expressions of wisdom and family life
Traditional expressions of wisdom and justice
Traditional expressions of wisdom and education
Traditional expressions of wisdom and power/authority (politics)
Traditional expressions of wisdom and contemporary literature
Traditional expressions of wisdom and arts and crafts
Traditional expressions of wisdom and linguistics
Traditional expressions of wisdom and health.

Your reply together with the summary of your paper should be sent preferably before March 1, 2007.