| Wednesday 18 September | |
| THEMATIC DISCUSSION (location, Collegia Hall) | |
| 19.00 – 20.30 | Thematic Discussion “Problem of Repentance and the Threat of Loosing our Historical and Moral Memory” based on the new poem after Mukhtar Shakhanov: Kosmophormula of Chastening Memory - A Mystery Taken Away by Chingizkhan)– Location: Large Lecture Hall, House of Scientists |
| Thursday 19 September | |
| Official inauguration (location: large Conference Hall) | |
| 09.30 – 10.15 |
Ms. Berkimbaeva, Minister of Education and Sciences, Republic of Kazakhstan Dr. Daukeev, President of the Academy of Sciences, Almaty Mrs Rosa Guerreiro. Program specialist, UNESCO culture division, Paris Prof. Pranab Das, Elon University, USA and spokesman of Science and the Spiritual Quest (SSQ), a program of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, Berkeley, USA Mr Doris Bredberi, Director, Soros Foundation, Kazakhstan. |
| SESSION 1 | Science and Spirituality Along the Silk Road |
| 10.15 – 10.20 | Moderator: Prof Meruert Abuseitova, Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Almaty |
| 10.20 – 10.45 | Prof Absattar Derbisali, Mufti of Kazakhstan The role of religion in the spirituality of society |
| 10.45 – 11.10 | Prof Vedwati Vaidik, University of Delhi, India The development of Spirituality and Science along the Silk Road |
| 11.10 – 11.35 | Prof Fariduni Dzhunadji, University of Teheran, Iran The Cultural Bases of the Makings of SilkRoads |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Coffee break |
| 11.50 – 12.15 | Prof Jacques Vauthier, Sorbonne University, Paris Zero and infinity on the silk road |
| 12.15 – 12.40 | Prof Muminov Ashirbek, State University of Tashkent, Uzbekistan Islam in the Soghdian cities and settlements of Turkestan |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Lunch break |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Round table 1 discussion and questions from the audience Location: Collegia Hall, Academy of Sciences |
| SESSION 2 | Sciences of the Human Person (location: Collegia Hall) |
| 15.00 - 15.05 | Moderators: Dr Munawar Anees, Director Knowsys, USA and Prof Bersimbaev, Professor of Genetics, Almaty Academy of Sciences |
| 15.05 – 15.35 | Dr Anne Dambricourt, Museum of Natural History, Paris The embryonic origins of the process of hominization. Evolutionary processes and on the findings that are consistent with the question of finality and transcendence. |
| 15.35 – 16.05 | Prof Michael Denton, University of Otago, New Zealand Towards a post Darwinian predictive and rational biology: The order of life as self organizing and natural rather than specified and artificial. |
| 16.05 – 16.25 | Coffee Break |
| 16.25 – 16.55 | Prof William Hurlbut, Stanford University, USA Biotechnology, religious faith and the future of humanity |
| 16.55 – 17.55 | Round table 2 discussion and questions from the audience |
| Friday 20 September | |
| SESSION 3 | Physics and Astrophysics (location: Collegia Hall) |
| 09.00 – 09.05 | Moderator: Prof Pranab Das, Elon University, USA |
| 09.05 – 09.35 | Prof Khalil Chamcham, Hassan II University, Morocco The Road to Faith and Knowledge: Islamic Astronomy along the Silk Road. |
| 09.35 – 10.05 | Prof Ramanath Cowsik, Indian Institute of Astrophysics, India Indian contributions to Science and Spirituality at the Dawn of Human Civilization |
| 10.05 – 10.20 | Coffee Break |
| 10.20 – 10.50 | Prof Pranab Das, Elon College, USA The intellect and free will. Perspectives from the history of science, Islam and Christianity |
| 10.50 – 11.20 | Prof Kenes Kuratov, Tien Shan Observatory,Almaty Astronomy in the past and its perspectives |
| 11.20 – 11.50 | Prof Jamal Mimouni, Mentouri University, Constantine, Algeria The ideological/religious battle: behind the slow acceptance of the Big Bang Theory |
| 11.50 – 12.50 | Round table 3 discussion and questions from the audience |
| 12.00 – 13.45 | Lunch |
| SESSION 4 | Faith and Modern Science: Two roads to knowledge (location: Collegia Hall) |
| 13.55 - 14.00 | Moderator: Prof Elior Karimov, Deputy Director, Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan Academy of Science |
| 14.00 – 14.25 | Prof Zaur Djalilov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Almaty Theocentrism: Conception and Reality |
| 14.25 – 14.50 | Prof Larissa Dodkhudoeva, Institute of Oriental Studies, Tajikistan Social survey of the development of the spiritual wealth of Mavarannahr |
| 14.50– 15.15 | Prof Muzzafar Iqbal, Center for Islam and Science, Canada Dialogue between science and spirituality: towards a new Silk Road |
| 15.15 – 15.40 | Prof Salamat Dushenbiev, Center of Islamic Studies, Kyrgyzstan, Buddhism on the North branch of the Great Silk Road |
| 15.40 – 16.00 | Coffee Break |
| 16.00 – 16.25 | Prof. Shakhym Gullyev, Almaty Conservatory Folklore of the Silk Roads |
| 16.25 – 16.50 | Heng Tan Shi, Institute of Religions of Beijing, Christianity as an inspiration for science |
| 16.50 – 17.15 | Munawar Anees, Director, Knowsys, USA Science and Muslim interpretation. Deconstructing literalism |
| 17.15 – 18.15 | Round table 4 discussion and questions from the audience |
| UNESCO CHAIR – PRESENTATION (location: Collegia Hall) | |
| 18.30 – 19-30 | Presentation of the UNESCO Chair for continued research in the field of
Science and Spirituality. Presentation by Rosa Guerreiro, UNESCO and Dr.Daukeev,
president of the Academy of Sciences of Almaty. Prof. Albert Fischler, Laureat of the Prize for Peace and Cultural Tolerance awarded by the President of Kazakhstan. Entre Steppes et Chaines Alataou, une Chaire UNESCO à Almaty (Between the steppe and the Alatau mountains, a UNESCO Chair in Almaty) |