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Registration, Tea

Inauguration

Welcome:

-        Gajanana Prabhu-Gaunkar

Address by:

-        Minister for Arts and Cultura,
M. Digambar Kamat

-        Minister for Industry and Education, M. Luisinho Faleiro

-        Chief Minister of Goa,
M. Pratapsingh Raoji Rane

Vote of thanks:

-        Alain le Pichon

Opening of the Scientific Debate

Introduction of the Scientific Debate:

-        Gajanana Prabhu-Gaunkar, India

Keynote Address:

-        Umberto Eco, Italy

Lunch hosted by Goa International Centre

Presentation of the programme of Transcultura International Institute

Alain le Pichon, France

Knowledge of Language in Indian Perspective

Mallar Kulkarni, India

Concept of JYANA in the vision of Vedanta

K. Ramasubramanian, India

Discussion

Tinka Reichmann, Germany

Coffee Break

Dissemination of knowledge in Indian hinterland

Krithi Ramamritam, India

Distance Education: Opportunities and Challenges for knowledge dissemination

R. K. Shevgaonkar, India

Banquet hosted by the Chief Minister of Goa

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Perception of Matter in Ancient Times: Greek and Indian Perspective

B. V. Subbarayappa, India

Advertising and transculturality: Marketing Eastern religious signs

Thierry Baffoy, France

Knowledge Representation in Ancient China

Wang Mingming, China

Discussion

K. Ramasubramanian, India

Tea Break

Developments of Indian Economy

Nadir Godrej, India

Panel Discussion: Reciprocal Knowledge and Knowledge Economy

Gajanana Prabhu-Gaunkar

Thierry Baffoy, France

Tinka Reichmann, Germany

Alain le Pichon, France

Luisinho Faleiro, India

Lunch Break

Presentation of the Transcultural Observatory

Alain le Pichon, France

Tinka Reichmann, Germany

Shigemi Inaga, Japan

Gajanana Prabhu-Gaunkar, India

Zhao Tingyang, China

Tea Break

Introduction to Ayurveda

Nilesh Kordé, India

Concept of Otherness in Amazonian cultures

Patrick Deshayes, France

Road Side Vendors in India

Sanjeev Shankar, India

John Vijay Abraham, India

Tea Break

A glimpse of Goan history

Maria Aurora Couto, India

The Goan vision of the other: reciprocal knowledge in a situation of cultural heterogeneity

Nandkumar Kamat, India

The language of Art and Knowledge Transmission

Mahesh Vengurlekar, India

Architectural forms of Goan Habitat: Heritage and Evolution

Ashish Sinai Rege, India

Boat cruise on River Mandovi hosted by the Chief Minister of Goa

Dinner hosted by the Minister for Industry and Education of Goa

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Welcoming Address

Jean Pierre Muller, French Institute of Pondicherry, India

An introduction through Aesthetics knowledge

Introduction to the workshop on "Cultures of Knowledge"

Dhruv Raina, India

The concept of knowledge in Aesthetics

Umberto Eco, Italy

Patterns and concepts of knowledge in Indian archaeology

A.P. Jamkhedkar, India

Tea and Coffee Break in the Ecology Hall

Japanese aesthetics knowledge and the concept of perspective

Shigemi Inaga, Japan

Lunch Break - Buffet in the IFP garden

Concepts of scientific knowledge

Two early Twentieth Century Constructions of Science in Ancient India

Dhruv Raina, India

To see ourselves from the others: Sinological anthropology and the concept of anthropological knowledge

Wang Mingming, China

Tea and Coffee Break in the Ecology Hall

A comparative approach of mathematics concepts in Western and Indian cultures

Bernard Randé, France

Classical Indian Music and Dinner Cocktail in the IFP garden

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Concepts in scientific knowledge

Chinese concepts in epistemology

Zhao Tingyang, China

Unity in diversity: towards a logical dialogical reconstruction of the concept of knowledge in the Djaina tradition

Marie-Hélène Gorisse, France

Tea and Coffee Break in the Ecology Hall

The notion of "natural disease" in traditional Laos Medicine

Richard Pottier, France

When the encounter of incommensurable medical concepts is rendered social. Insights into the biomedical validation of Indian medicines

Laurent Pordié, France

Lunch Break - Buffet in the IFP garden

Concepts of knowledge in social sciences

Social Sciences and the Privilege of the Stranger

Nicole Lapierre, France

New Perspectives of Anthropology of Knowledge

Jose F. de Rota, Spain

Concepts of Reciprocal Knowledge in some West African Cultures in post-colonial situation

Moussa Sow, Mali

Tea and Coffee Break in the Ecology Hall

Visit of the French Institute of Pondicherry

Dinner Cocktail at the French Consulate of Pondicherry

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Concepts in scientific knowledge

Political Participation, Cultural Context

Balveer Arora, India

Europe: a declining entity or a civilian power?

Mario Telo, Belgium

Tea and Coffee Break in the Ecology Hall

The conceptions of science and rationality in Indian Islam

Irfan Habib, India

Consciousness of time in different cultures

Lutz Götze, Germany

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Welcome Speech

Dominique Girard (Ambassador of France)

Round Table "Strategies for aquiring reciprocal knowledge"

Umberto Eco, Zhao Tingyang, Moussa Sow, Alain le Pichon, Gustavo Martin Prada
Chairman: Balveer Arora

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Review of the meetings at Goa and Pondicherry and disciplinary reviews

All participants

Students perspectives on Transcultura

Juliette Marin, Jocelyn Boussard

Discussion on the structure and programme of the Transcultural Observatory in India

All participants

Discussion on keywords and key concepts, related to the transcultural encyclopedia

All participants

Lunch Break

Round Table on "reciprocal knowledge" (open to students)

Umberto Eco, Shigemi Inaga, Moussa Sow, Alain le Pichon, Dipankar Gupta
Chairman: Balveer Arora

Reception at the French Embassy in New Delhi