Comparative Civilizations Review Volume 79 Number 79 Fall 2018 Article 8 10-2018 48th Annual ISCSC Conference Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr Part of the Comparative Literature Commons, History Commons, International and Area Studies Commons, Political Science Commons, and the Sociology Commons Recommended Citation (2018) "48th Annual ISCSC Conference," Comparative Civilizations Review: Vol. 79 : No. 79 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/ccr/vol79/iss79/8 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Comparative Civilizations Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact
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[email protected]. et al.: 48th Annual ISCSC Conference Comparative Civilizations Review 109 48th Annual ISCSC Conference Soochow University, Suzhou, China June 15-17, 2018 Lynn Rhodes Introductory Comments Thank you for the warm welcome and to all our very special hosts here in Suzhou for the 48th Annual ISCSC Conference. I’d like to share a little history of the ISCSC as we begin this conference. In October 1961 an extraordinary group of scholars gathered in Salzburg, Austria to create the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (ISCSC). There were 26 founding members from Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, England, Russia, the United States, China and Japan. Among them were brilliant