THE 6th INTERNATIONAL SINOLOGY SYMPOSIUM 2009 PTUJ SLOVENIA 27 - 30 August 2009 Co-sponsored by Taiwan Research Center Slovenia SCHEDULE: Thursday, 27.8.2009 19:00 - 19:30 Matjaž Medvešek Slovenia Introduction Speach 20:00 - Late Dinner in a Chinese Restaurant Friday, 28.8. 2009 Presenter Country Title 10:00 - 10:55 Ida Hiršenfelder Slovenia Buy My Art - Problems of Art Criticism 11:00 - 11:55 Iva Valenti č Croatia Looking at and considering paintings in Europe and China through history till nowdays - A comparative view 12:00 - 12:55 Petra Mili č Slovenia Philosophy and art – Comparison between China and Europe 13:10 - 14:00 Lunch 15:00 - 15:55 Goran Babi č Croatia Philosophy and mysticism in Chinese architecture 16:00 - 16:55 dr.Zhang Sanxi China On classical poetry and the current experience 17:20 - 18:15 Vladimir Jovanovi ć Serbia Lao She and The Rickshaw Boy; Analysis of Camel Xiangzi 18:20 - 19:15 dr.Wang Qiaolan China Network language and Chinese’s contemporary life 20:00 - Late Dinner Saturday, 29.8.2009 Presenter Country Title dr.Zhang Ruogu China 'Whoever Wins The Support Of The People Wins The Control Of The Land Under Heaven''- A Critical 10:00 - 10:55 Analysis Of The Periodicity Of The Chinese Dynastic Changes 11:00 - 11:55 dr.Helena Motoh Slovenia Between "East-Asian Consciousness" and "Sinic Civilisation" - culturalism in political discourse 12:00 - 12:55 Neža Loštrek Slovenia/Taiwan Creation and Recreation of Taiwanese Ethnic Identity, Culture and Nationalism 13:10 - 14:00 Lunch 15:00 - 15:55 Davor Perši č Slovenia Driving forces of social crisis 16:00 - 16:55 dr.Mitja Saje Slovenia Taiwan-Mainland relations in the light of Global Economic Crisis 17:20 - 18:15 dr.Saša Isteni č Slovenia New developments in the relations between China and Taiwan and the future outlook 18:20 - 19:15 dr.Stefan Fleischauer Germany Taiwan and the Chinese Mainland on the Road to European-Style Integration? A Neofunctionalist Assessment of Recent Developments in Cross-Strait Relations 20:00 - Late Dinner.