Session One: Confucianism, Rights, and Dignity

Chair: Benedict CHAN (HKBU)

9:30 – 10:15: Joseph CHAN (HKU) -- Confucian Reflections on Human Dignity

10:30 – 11:15: Sungmoon KIM (CUHK) -- Confucianism, Moral Equality, and Human Rights: A Mencian Perspective

11:30 – 12:15: Tongdong BAI (Fudan) -- Human Rights without Kantian Dignity


Session Two: Dignity and Continental Thought

Chair: David CHAI (CUHK)

1:30 – 2:15: Stephen PALMQUIST (HKBU) -- Kant on the Dignity of Authentic Religion

2:30 – 3:15: Greg MOSS (CUHK) -- Against Total Depravity: Recovering Human Dignity in the Romantic Imagination

3:30 – 4:15: Eric NELSON (HKUST) -- Bloch and Levinas: Temporality, Prophetic Materialism, and Republican Dignity


Session Three: Reconsidering Dignity and the Political

Chair: Joshua DERMAN (HKUST)

5:00 – 6:15: Michael ROSEN (Harvard) -- The Politics of Dignity