(1888PressRelease)
August 18, 2008 - Brain Tea is a French association that has just been created along with its website.
Its vocation is to favor knowledge exchange and mutual enrichment between nations and more particularly to benefit Sri Lanka. It is an association with no Ideology nor any partisan sympathies. Brain Tea team agrees that knowledge should be presented with no artifice and with the scientific seal.
The association’s project is to organize two conference cycles in Sri Lanka and publish a book with the Sinhalese and Tamil translated versions of the conference texts, in February 2010.
The conferences will be on four topics:
(1)The question of Identity under a psychoanalytical approach
It seems that the question of Identity is an important one for all the Sri Lankans. Hiding behind the history of civil war, there is a sour misunderstanding and fear on this particular question when the British power left a much confused and disoriented Sri Lankan to-be-born-nation. Understanding the question of Identity is important for a Nation composed of many different communities that may find it hard to find a Unity under an apparent set of differences.
(2)The Debt System in “third world” countries and liberal Economy
This topic will focus on the birth of the “debt” mechanism in Asia including Sri Lanka. The parts played by the IMF, World Bank and other leading debt contractors, the side-effects. The world “hunger” problem is also explained while the structural causes of poverty are highlighted.
(3)Socially acceptable, ecological, qualitative and quantitative Production Methods
According to the United Nations Organization, Millenium Ecosystem Assessment (2005), most of the environmental problems are the consequence of absurd food production methods.
Instead of putting a stop to the dramatic problem of Hunger in the world, a global system has been put in place that is disrespectful of the work of billions of people, and which is socially criminal.
Future can be guaranteed only by men and women that will produce food through the usage of techniques that are compatible with the rhythm of the planet, by re-valorizing traditional production techniques, by respecting biodiversity, gastronomic traditions strictly related to the culture and economy of each place in the world.
(4) A short Course in intellectual Self-Defense
This conference will aim at contributing to the development of critical thinking of its auditors.
For this, it will integrate large sections of Normand Baillargeon’s book A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense.
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