Wednesday 2 July 2014

Internet Freedom Symposium



In recent time, information and communications technology has changed the way ideas are communicated and expressed in the public . This movement to openness of information and simpler dissemination  presents new  doors and difficulties for the general public all in all. 

Various human rights have been distinguished as applicable in the setting of these new advanced Information. Web access is additionally perceived as a right by the laws of a few nations. 

  • A percentage of the issues we will be talking about include: 

  • What rights and obligations do we have as "computerized natives"? 

  • Do we appreciate total or constrained Internet opportunity? 

  • Are feelings online resistant to restriction? 

  • Should online substance be directed? 

  • What are our obligations when posting substance online? 

  • At the point when do free administrations start to edit the data you accept?

Tuesday 12 February 2013

International Religious Freedom



Symposium highlight


An attendee walks past a Catholic Relief Services display during a symposium on international religious freedom at The Catholic University of America in Washington Sept. 12. (CNS/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

WASHINGTON -- While concern over religious freedom is a hot topic of political debate in the United States, the issue internationally is a far more immediate matter of life and death, of national security, and of special concern to women, who are most often the victims of religious intolerance. The stark dimensions of the problem were outlined during an eight-hour symposium Sept. 12 at The Catholic University of America here.

A few of the themes explored at the symposium, titled "International Religious Freedom: An Imperative for Peace and the Common Good," were:

Suppression of religious freedom fosters and begets violence; religious freedom is a necessary ingredient of domestic peace and stability.

The predominant face of the victims of religious discrimination, intolerance or persecution is that of a woman.

Religious freedom is an integral part of an authentically democratic society and its economic and social development.
 

Monday 13 August 2012

Symposium

In ancient Greece, the symposium (Greek συμπόσιον symposion, from συμπίνειν sympinein, "to drink together") was a drinking party. Literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two Socratic dialogues, Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium, as well as a number of Greek poems such as the elegies of Theognis of Megara. Symposia are depicted in Greek and Etruscan art that shows similar scenes.
The equivalent in Roman society is the Latin convivium.

Thursday 28 July 2011

Symposium

In ancient Greece, the symposium was a drinking party (from Greek συμπόσιον symposion from συμπίνειν sympinein, "to drink together"). Literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two Socratic dialogues, Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium, as well as a number of Greek poems such as the elegies of Theognis of Megara. Symposia are also depicted in Greek, and Etruscan art, and show similar scenes. The Latin equivalent in Roman society is the convivium.