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NDU-LAU
joint
RVP Seminar
WITH FATHER GEORGE F. MCLEAN
A
unique seminar was organised on the campuses of
NDU and LAU in association with The Council for
Research in Values & Philosophy (RVP). The first session
was held on the NDU Main Campus on January 18,
2003 and the second at the LAU campus at Jbeil (Byblos)
on January 20. The title of the seminar was God in
Multicultural Society: Religion and Politics/Religion and
Globalization and enjoyed the participation of Father
George Francis McClean.
Organisers: Dr. Edward Alam (NDU) at email edwardja@usa.net
and Dr. Habib Charles Malik (LAU) at email
hcmalik@yahoo.com.
Founder of the Inter-University Committee on Research
and Policy Studies (ICRPS), the Joint Committee of
Catholic Learned Societies (JCCLS), the Council for
Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) and The
Center for the Study of Culture and Values, and
Secretary, 1965-1980, of the American Catholic
Philosophical Societies, The International Society for
Metaphysics (ISM), 1974-1998, The World Union of
Catholic Philosophical Societies (WUCPS), 1974-..., The
Inter-university Committee on Research and Policy
Studies (IRC), 1975-1977, and The Joint Committee of
Catholic Learned Societies and Scholars (CLS), 1974-
1977, and member of the Board of Directors of the
International Federation of Philosophical Societies,
1977-1987, Father McClean enjoys outstanding academic
distinction. Accomplished in five modern languages,
he is Ph.B., Ph.L., S.T.B. & S.T.L. from the Pontifical
Gregorian University, Rome, 1949-!956, and Ph.D. from
the Catholic University of America, Washington, 1956-
1958. He was Visiting Research Scholar, University of
Madras, India, 1969 and 1977, and Visiting Research
Scholar at the University of Paris, 1970. He was at the
Institute for Oriental Studies, Cairo, Egypt, 1991-1992.
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