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Tentative programme

08:30

Registration & Refreshment

09:30

Welcoming Remarks by Representative of Malaysian Strategic Research Centre (MSRC)

09:35

Welcoming Remarks by Mr Peter Schier

Representative to Malaysia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF)

09.45

Session I:

Revisiting the “Clash of Civilisations”

Chairperson:

Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Osman Bakar

International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC)

Speakers:

• Dr Syed Ali Tawfik Al-Attas

  Director General, Institute of Islamic Understanding Malaysia

• Dr Andreas Radtke

  First Secretary (Culture and Press), Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

• Dr Abdullah Al Ahsan

  Professor, Department of History and Civilization, Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences International Islamic University Malaysia

• Mr Nagendra Saxena °

  Deputy High Commissioner, Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

11.00

Q & A and discussion

12:30

Lunch

14:30

Session II:

Towards the end of Clashes: Dialogue and Beyond

Chairperson:

Mr Peter Schier

Representative to Malaysia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAF)

Speakers:

• Prof Dr Azizan Baharuddin

  Director, The Centre for Civilisational Dialogue, University Malaya

• Prof Dr Mohammed Hashim Kamali °

  International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilisation (ISTAC)

• Rev Dr Hermen Shastri

  General Secretary, Council of Churches of Malaysia

• Prof Turner Bryan Stanley

  Asia Research Institute

  National University of Singapore

15.30

Q & A and discussion

17:00

Refreshments and End of Seminar

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