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Second PESETO Humanities
Conference Held at PKU
PKU NEWS 2010--04—13
http://ennews.pku.edu.cn/news.php?s=271231576
Peking University, Apr.13, 2010:The Second PESETO Humanities Conference was
held at Zhongguanyuan Global Village, Peking University on April 9th to 11th. More
than thirty scholars from three universities and forty graduate students studying
humanities came to PKU to attend the China- Japan-South Korea academic
conference. Cheng Yuzhui, director of the PKU Faculty of Social Sciences, and Niu
Dayong, dean of the PKU Dept. of History presided over the opening and closing
ceremonies respectively.
Prof. Yang He, the PKU Council vice chairman, delivered the opening speech, in
which he introduced the basic information, the recent achievements, and the future
direction and target of Humanities of PKU. He pointed out that this conference would
increase the communication of the three universities in the areas of humanities and
promote the common progress of academy, for the conference gathered the
strongest force on humanities from the best universities of China, Japan, and South
Korea, the three most important Asian countries, and took place at Peking University,
which has a long and deep-rooted humanistic tradition. In addition, Prof. Hisao
Komatsu, director of the University of Tokyo (UT) Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, and Prof. Chang-Ku Byun, dean of the Seoul National University (SNU)
College of Humanities, gave splendid speeches on behalf of their universities
respectively.
Then, Prof. Yan Shaodang and Prof. Wang Xiaoqiu chaired the academic part of the
conference. The theme of the conference, which consisted of six academic reports
and twelve academic comments, is ―the modern value of Asian humanistic classics‖.
The contents of the conference included the classic humanistic works of China,
Japan, and Korea: Romans of Three Kingdoms, the classic historical novel of China
with which was concerned by scholars from the three universities; Records of the
Grand Historian of China, The Tale of Genji of Japan, Series of Mingnan Building, of
Korea, and so on. Prof. Furuido Hideo and Fujiwara Katsumi from UT, Prof. So
Kyong-ho and Park Hee-byoung from SNU, and Prof. Liu Yongqiang and He Jin from
PKU made the keynote speech. And then, twelve professors from the three
universities made academic comments on the six reports, with free questions and
discussions from attendees after each comment, improving everyone‘s
comprehension of the reports and comments. Simultaneous interpretation services
were provided in this conference, which guaranteed the communication effectively
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