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Events and Activities
Report of the Meaningful Broadband Working Group - "Meaningful Broadband Report: Thailand 2015" by Craig W. Smith.
Please have your say on the policy of expanding broadband network to the middle income group of population in Thailand as part of making broadband "meaningful." Visit http://www.meaningfulbroadband.org/
Public Forum on Meaningful Broadband, November 26, 2009, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration.
International Workshop on "Ethics, Wellbeing and Meaningful Broadband," August 16-17, 2011, Room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn University.
Craig Warren Smith of the Digital Divide Insitute is now a Research Fellow at the Center. The Center is also formally affiliated with the Digital Divide Institute.
Past Events
- September 8, 2009
- Public Lecture on “Attraction
and Repulsion from Scientific Buddhist Perspective ” By Dion
Peoples Room 706 Boromratchakumari Bldg.
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- August 26, 2009
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International
Conference “Nanoethic Asia” (NEA 2009) Room 708
Boromratchakumari Bldg. Http://www.stc.arts.chula.ac.th/NEA2009/
- August 10,
2009
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Two Public
Lectures on “Thai- Sri Lanka Relations: A Historical Overview”
and “Possible Approaches in Social Sciences using Buddhist
Epistemology” By Prof.Dr. Hema Goonatilake and Prof.Dr.Susantha
Goonatilake Room 706
Boromratchakumari
Bldg. http://cestchula.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/two-public-lectures/
- August 8-9, 2009
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Conference
on “Embrace Society with Love and Compassion” Room 105 Maha
Chulalongkorn Bldg.
http://thousandstarsfoundation.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html
- July 15,
2009
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Conference
on “Social and Ethical Dimensions of Information Technology”
Room 105 , Maha Chulalongkorn Bldg.
http://cestchula.wordpress.com/infoethics/
- June 23,
2009
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Public Lecture on “Knowledge,
Logic and Exercise: Three Fundamentals of Buddhism in the Process of
Globalization” By Dr. Ravindra Kumar, Room 707
Boromratchakumari Bldg.
- March 25,
2009
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Public Lecture on “What is
Shambhala?” By Dr. Craig Warren Smith, Room 707
Boromratchakumari Bldg.
- March 20,
2009
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Public Lecture on "Self
and Subjectivity: A Middle Way" By
Prof. Dr. Georges B. Dreyfus, Room 309
Boromratchakumari Bldg.
- February 24,
2009
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Seminar on “Meaningful Broadband
Working Group” Room 105, Maha
Chulalongkorn Bldg.
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- February 6 - 7, 2009
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National
Conference on “Buddhism in German Philosophy and Literature: An
Intercultural Dialogue” (In Cooperation
with Centre for European Studies at Chulalongkorn University And
Goethe-Institute Bangkok), Room 105,
Maha Chulalongkorn Bldg.
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- January 26, 2009
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Public Lecture on "An Overview
of Contemporary Buddhism and its Meaning for Asia," By Prof.
Dr. Craig Warren Smith, Room 707 Boromratchakumari Bldg.
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- January 12, 2009
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Public Lecture on "Authority
and Authenticity: How Mahayana Literature Began," By Prof. Dr.
Jan Nattier, Room 706 Boromratchakumari Bldg.
- December 12, 2008
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Public Lecture on "Learning
from Bhavaviveka: A Sixth-Century Buddhist Rationalist," By
Prof. Dr. Malcolm David Eckel, Room 608 Boromratchakumari Bldg.
- August 29-30, 2008
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National Conference on “Mind and
Life: Perspectives from Buddhism and Science,” Room 105, Maha
Chulalongkorn Bldg. --
http://philoflanguage.wordpress.com/mind-and-life/
- July 9, 2008
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Seminar
on “Data Protection and Risks in the Age of E-Government Age.”
Room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Bldg.
http://cest-thailand.blogspot.com/2008/06/blog-post_17.html
- July 4, 2008
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Seminar
on “Human Enhancement and Buddhism” by Dr. Soraj Hongladarom and
Prof. Somparn Promta, Room 708, Boromratchakumari Bldg. --
http://cest-thailand.blogspot.com/2008/05/blog-post.html
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March 2, 2007
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Public lecture on "Tibetan
Medicine and Good Health" by Dr. Lobsang Rabgay and Dr. Dickey
P. Nyerongsha, Room 105, Maha Chulalongkorn Building, Chulalongkorn
University. For more details please contact Krisadawan Hongladarom
at hkesang@yahoo.com.
- Audience: 200 from all walks of
life.
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- June 23, 2006
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Meeting of the Thousand Stars
Buddhism and Science Group, Topic: "Buddhism and the Structure
of Matter", Room 708 Boromratchakumari Bldg., Faculty of Arts,
Chulalongkorn University, 1 to 4 pm.
- Participants: 15, from
Departments of Physics, Philosophy and Eastern Languages,
Chulalongkorn University.
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- May 27, 2006
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Dharma lecture and Manjushri
Empowerment, conducted by Ven. Kunga Sangbo Rinpoche, Room 103,
Bldg. 4, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.
- Audience: 200 from all walks of
life.
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- May 25, 2006
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Seminar on "Nagarjuna's
Philosophy", Room 708, Faculty of Arts. Speaker: John Schroeder
from Saint Mary's College of Maryland, USA.
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Audience: 20 from Dept. of
Philosophy.
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- May 17, 2006
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Meeting of the Thousand Stars
Buddhism and Science Group, Topic: "Buddhism and Astrophysics",
Room 708 Boromratchakumari Bldg., Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn
University.
- Participants: 15, from
Departments of Physics, Philosophy and Eastern Languages,
Chulalongkorn University.
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- April 27-28, 2006
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Lectures on "What does the
Computer Revolution Tell Us about the Human Mind?" by Prof.
Theo C. Meyering, Leiden University, the Netherlands. Room 708 BRK
Bldg., Faculty of Arts.
- Audience: 20, from Dept. of
Philosophy.
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- April 25-26, 2006
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Meeting of the members of the
research project on "The Role of the University in Information
Technology for Development", supported by a grant from the IDRC
and the APEC Foundation. This will be followed by an international
conference, Digital Learning Asia 2006.
- Participants: 20 from the
member universities of the UICT4D Project.
New website of the Information Ethics Research Group has been set up (August 27, 2008).
The podcast of the Center and of the Thousand Stars Buddhism and Science Group has been updated with audio files from a recent talk on the ethical implications of compulsory licensing of medicines at Khon Kaen University, April 24, 2008.
The final report of the project on "The Role of Universities in Information Technology for Development in Asia," funded by the IDRC ,is now available online.
Fore more news and activities, please look at the CEST Blog and CEST Newsfeed (see links above).
The PowerPoint files of the papers presented at the 3rd Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy Conference have been uploaded.
The final report of the Project on Development of Retirement Index for Government Workers is now complete.
The final report of the project on "The Role of Universities in Information Technology for Development in Asia," funded by the IDRC ,is now available online.
Podcast of the Thousand Stars Foundation Buddhism and Science Group
The final report of the Project on "Curriculum Development for Continuing Education of the Elderly," supported by the National Economic and Advisory Council of Thailand, is now finished and the whole report can be viewed and downloaded here. The report is in Thai. Please also click here for a summary report in PDF format, as well as a Powerpoint report of the Project on Retirement Age Index for Government Officials.
The Powerpoint files of the papers presented at the 8th Asian Bioethics Conference can now be downloaded.
You can also view more activities and events in the blog of the Center.
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