International Harmony Conference held at Sri Lanka on 7-8 January 2019, organized by the Institute of International Harmony and Sustainable Development
International Harmony Theologian Prize
Laureate - Rev. Fr. Aloysius Pieris (Founder-Director of the Tulana Research Centre for Encounter and Dialogue, Sri Lanka)
INAUGURAL SPEECH
Bishop Prof. Dr. Dennis T.W. Ng
(President, Institute of International Harmony and Sustainable Development, Hong Kong S.A.R., China; Senior Fellow, Andrew F. Walls Centre for the Study of African and Asian Christianity, Liverpool Hope University, UK)
2019 International Harmony Conference at Sri Lanka
Inaugural Speech by Bishop Prof. Dr. Dennis T.W. Ng
"The Contribution of Theology of Harmony in China to World Harmony"
International Harmony Conference
Inaugural Speech by Bishop Prof. Dr. Dennis T.W. Ng
"The Contribution of Theology of Harmony in China to World Harmony"
Presentation of Mementos
Mr Liu Dong (the First Secretary and Chief of Cultural Section, Senior Management at the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Sri Lanka)
Prof Dr Daniel Jeyaraj (Liverpool Hope University, UK)
Prof Dr Danny Moses (Lanka Bible College, Sri Lanka)
International Harmony Conference - A Moment of Silence and Prayer
Bishop Prof. Dr. Dennis T.W. Ng led a moment of silence and prayer in memory of Prof. Dr. Lamin Sanneh (Yale University, USA), one of the keynote speakers at the 2019 International Harmony Conference.
Prof. Lamin Sanneh's keynote paper "Themes in Reconciliation and Harmony with Reference to Contemporary Africa" at the 2019 International Harmony Conference turns out to be his last paper and was read out at the conference after a moment of silence and prayer
Keynote Speaker
Professor Dr. Richard Fox Young (Elmer K. and Ethel R. Timby Chair in History of Religions, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA)
"Bhikkhu Bentara Atthadassi: Early Proponent of a Buddhist Hermeneutics of Hospitality?"
Keynote Speaker
Professor Dr. Thomas Harvey (Academic Dean, Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, University of Oxford, UK)
"天人合一(Tian Ren He Yi) - Harmony of Heaven & Humankind: Rediscovering the Tie that Binds"