Activities and Service
Professor Tu has participated in numerous conferences and committees as moderator, chair, panelist, and speaker. This list highlights his activities during the last few years.
Year 2003
Chair, International Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Co-Moderator, Aspen Institute Executive Seminar Asia.
Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.
External Reviewer of Republic of China Ministry of Education's "Project of University's Pursuit of Academic Excellency".
Member of Advisory Board of Chinese Cultural Quarterly (China).
Member of Advisory Board of Contemporary (Taiwan).
Member of Advisory Board of Cultural China (Canada).
Member of Advisory Board of Journal of Chinese Management (Hong Kong).
Member of Advisory Board of Journal of Humanities (Hong Kong).
Member of Advisory Board of Social Theory (China).
Member of Advisory Board of Tendency.
Member of Advisory Board of Twenty-First Century (Hong Kong).
Member of Committee of 100.
Member of Editorial Board of Asian Thought and Society.
Member of Editorial Board of Philosophy East and West.
Member of International Advisory Board of the Chinese Heritage Center (Singapore).
Member of the Advisory Committee of the Harvard-Yenching Library.
Member of the Advisory Committee to the Program Committee of the Eastern Section of American Philosophical Association.
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Applied Linguistics.
Member of the Committee on Ethnic Studies.
Member of the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies.
Member of the Council on Asian Studies (John B. Fox, JR).
Member of the Editorial Board of the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Asia Center.
Member of the Executive Committee of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.
Member of the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute.
Member of the Publication Program Committee of the Asia Center.
Member of the Standing Committee on the Study of Religion.
Moderator of the Harvard Seminar in Confucian Studies.
The Group of Eminent Persons selected by the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan for the year of Dialogue among Civilizations.
Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Confucian Association in Beijing.
Year 2002
Beijing Harvard University Alumni Reunion, May 13-15.
Chair, International Advisory Board of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.
Chinese Institute of Engineers in San francisco, January 19.
Co-Moderator, Aspen Institute Executive Seminar Asia.
External Reviewer of Republic of China Ministry of Education's "Project of University's Pursuit of Academic Excellency".
External Reviewer of the Radcliff Institute Fellowship.
Guest Speaker at Western Michigan University and Kalamazoo College.
Guest speaker at the conference "The Dialogue among Civilizations: Diversity and Common Values" at the Goethe Institute and Boston University.
Harvard Taiwanese Society, Keynote speaker, February 16.
International Forum for Social Development in NYC, February 7-8.
Keynote speaker at Reverence for Life Seminar at Salado Institute.
Member of Committee of 100.
Member of International Advisory Board of the Chinese Heritage Center (Singapore).
Member of the Advisory Committee to the Program Committee of the Eastern Section of American Philosophical Association.
Member of the International Advisory Council of the Toda Institute.
Selection Committee of the American Coucl of Learned Societies.
Talk at Berea College, April 4.
The Academia Sinica conference, January 7.
The Confucian Humanism and the Contemporary World conference, February 28 - March 1. Co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and China's Friendship Association with Foreign Countries at the AAAS.
The Confucian Seminar Annual Workshop, May 28.
The Dewey conference co-sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and Boston Research Center, April 5-6.
The Global Culture and the US Security conference in Washington, D.C, April 18.
The Triglav meeting at the AAAS, March 8-9.
The UN meeting on Dialogue among Civilizations, Berlin, Germany, May 15-17.
University of Missouri at St. Louis, Symposium on East Asina Studies and Policy Making, February 9.
University of the South, speaking on "A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights", April 11.
Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Confucian Association in Beijing.
Wing Tsit Chan lecture at University of Pittsburg, March 14.
Workshop on Globalization and the Dialogue Among Civilizations and the aftermath of the 9/11 tragedies, March 15-16.
Year 2001
An Exploration, Talk jointly sponsored by the Harvard-Yenching Institute and the Korean Institute, Harvard University, December 11. "Yi T'oegye's Intellectual Self-Definition.
Conference on Multiple Modernities, Berlin, Germany, May 10.
East Asian Studies Program Sophomore Tutorial Lecture on Neo-Confucianism, December 11.
Fengqi Lectures in East China Normal University (Huadong Shifan Daxue, Shanghai), October 22-23.
Globalization and China
Hong Kong Institute of Education, November 30.
Interviews with the 2002-2003 Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar program candidates in China, September.
Keynote speaker at the Kanagawa Foundation, November 10.
Keynote speaker, Joint Alumni Association of Chinese Universities and College in Northern California, San Francisco, CA, January 6. "Cultural China and the Public Intellectual."
Lecture at Bowdoin College, November 15.
Lecture on Human Civility and the World at Harvard Humanist Forum, November 18.
Lectures in the "Fifth Tasan Memorial Lectures in Philosophy" Series, November 3-7. "The Ecological Turn in New Confucian Humanism
Nuclear Disarmament Forum in Kandersteg, Switzerland, July 29-30.
The "What is Classics?" conference in Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, P. R. China, December 15-16.
The 14th Symposium on Chinese Social Sciences (Tokyo, Japan), December 21.
The Academia Sinica Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, June 29-July 4.
The Confucian-Islamic Dialogue Conference in New York, August 12-13.
The Confucius and the 21st Century symposium in Qufu, Shandong province, P. R. China, September 26-28.
The Daedalus Conference in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, September 24.
The Dialogue among Civilizations Conference in Dublin and New Jersey, May 28-June 3.
The Executive Seminar on Asia, the Aspen Institute, August 17-24.
The Ninth International T'oegye Studies Award ceremony, October 14-16.
The Triglav conference at the AAAS, November 16-17.
The UN Dialogue among Civilizations Conference in Beijing, September 11-12.
The UN Dialogue among Civilizations Conference in Qatar, September 3-6.
The Zhuzi conference (Malaysia), December 1.
The conference on Neo-confucianism in Singapore, October 28.
World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland), January 25-30. "How Do Different Religions Shape Us," Panelist; "What is the Essence of Chinese Culture," Panelist; "No More Heroes in the World," Panelist; "Writing History the Right Way," Panelist.
Year 2000
Baccalaureate Speaker, Lehigh University Commencement, June 3-4.
Co-Moderator, Aspen Institute "Asia Seminar", Maryland, March 24-31.
Co-Moderator, Aspen Institute Executive Seminar Asia/50th Anniversary Symposium, Aspen, Colorado, August 13-18.
Commemoration of the 870th Anniversary of the Death of Philosopher Zhi Xi, East China Normal University, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China, October 7-12.
Conference on Sinology, New Tendencies in World Culture, Contemporary Confucianism and World Culture, Academia Sinica, June 29 - July 1.
Copenhagen Seminars in conjunction with World Summit for Social Development of UN, Geneva, June 26-28.
Fudan University, October 9-10. Chinese Contributions to America: An International Academic Conference, New York City, October 20-21. Keynote Speech Topic: "The Dialogue of Civilizations and Cultural China;"Lecture Topic: "Implications of the Harvard-Yenching Institute's Humanities Idea for American Culture."
Interfaith Council's forum: Enlightened Leadership and Human Responsibilities, Harvard JFK School, May 10-11.
Islamic-Confucian Dialogue, Harvard University, May 22-23.
Keynote Speaker at the International Conference of Religious Studies: Meeting the Millennium, Department of Chinese Studies, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 30 – January 1. Topic: Dialogue among Civilizations in the New Axial Age.
Keynote Speaker, Conference on Ethics and Religion for a Global 21st Century, Chapman University, March 23-25.
Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Religions in Our Future Society, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Korea, September 21-22. Topic: "Globalization and the Dialogues Among Civilizations: Vision for the Culture of Spirituality in the 21st Century."
Keynote speaker, "Developing a Peaceful, Democratic and Prosperous Chinese Community," Taipei City Government Conference, Taipei, Taiwan, November 12-13. Topic: "Cultural Issues Pertaining to the Cross- Strait Relationship."
Keynote speaker, Dialogue of Civilizations: The Global Significance of Local Knowledge; Third Conference of Harvard-Yenching Alumni in China Suzhou, China, August 24-27.
Keynote speaker, Searching for New Directions of East Asian Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, November 23-24. Topic: "The Global Significance of Local Knowledge: A New Perspective on Confucian Humanism."
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders United Nations, New York City, August 28-31.
Panelist at the Toda Institute's Conference on Dialogue among Civilizations: A New Peace Agenda for a New Millennium, Okinawa, Japan, February 11-13.
Panelist, Cortona 2000: Science and the Wholeness of Life, Cortona, Italy, September 13-17.
Panelist, UN Universal Ethics Millennium Conference, New York, April 12. Topic: "Ethical Dimensions of Global Problems."
Plenary Speaker at the International Congress on Culture and Humanity in the New Millennium: The Future of Human Values, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, January8-10. Topic: "Confucianism Humanism in the 21st Century: Dialogue among Civilizations and the Public Intellectual."
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, April 20-22. Topic: "A Confucian Critique of Enlightenment Mentality."
Seminar on Values and Market Economies, The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Paris, January 19-21.
South China Normal University, Guangzhou, China, September 25.
Speaker and Panelist, "Religion and Politics in Asia", Images of the World Festival, Copenhagen, August 4-6.
Special Seminar on China-European Union, Aspen Institute Italia Cernobbio, Italy, November 10-11.
Studies of Zhu Xi and East Asian Culture Seminar: Commemorating the 800th Anniversary of the Death of Zhi Xi, Taipei, Taiwan, November 16-18.
Tenth Anniversary of University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, April 27-28.
The 20th International Advisory Board Meeting, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, January 7.
The 8th East-West Philosophers' Conference, Hawaii, January 9-21.
Thomas Berry Lecturer and Recipient of the Thomas Berry Award, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York City, August 30.
Thomas Clark Lecturer, University of Kentucky, April 13-14.
Triglav Biannual Meeting, Harvard Business School, April 14-15.
Wei Lun Memorial Lecturer, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong September 25 - October 5. Topic: "Implications of the dialogue Among Civilizations for Cultural China."
World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, Davos, January 27-28.
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