Datum: zaterdag 14 januari van 15.00 - 18.00 uur

Plaats: Campus Gelbergen, Gelbergenstraat 50, 3471 Hoeleden-Kortenaken

Organisatie: Campus Gelbergen

In het jaar 2012 wil Campus Gelbergen een platform bieden voor verschillende reflecties met betrekking tot de interactie tussen economie en cultuur.  Als kick-off voor 2012 kijken we hoe de Arabische wereld zich financieel organiseert en wat het westen daarvan kan leren.

Deze lezing is in het Engels.

The presentation "Theoretical foundations of ethical banking. Lessons to be learned from Islamic Banking" introduces statements, which attempt to construct the perspective of a sense rationality, which grants a wholeness of actions, regarding banking practice. First, the question of the theoretical support of the normative banking practice is posed by the lack of normative understanding of the banking theory - profit maximization. Building on that, an insight in the sense rationality of Islamic Banking is granted by means of the communicatively verified interpretation of the Shari'ah'. This spiritual law is under constant construction by men. The abstract principles like social welfare, justice, distribution need the situational interpretation by the stakeholders. As a conclusion, a new taxonomy of ethical banking management is proposed. The distinctive feature of this taxonomy, which establishes an extension of the term ethical banking management, is the sense rationality of action. The advantage of this action-theoretical foundation lies within the harmonization of goals and means (utilitarian rationality), as well as value rationality. This, in turn, makes a contribution to the stabilization of the actual practice in the banking sector.

Milena Valeva has obtained her doctorate on Islamic banking in 2011 as a collaboration between the International Graduate School Zittau (IHI), Germany, and the K.U.Leuven, Institute of Philosophy, Belgium.  She started her studies at the University of Economics in Sofia (Bulgaria) where she obtained a pre-degree in International Economic Relations. In 2000 she continued at the University of Stuttgart (Germany). Some of her publications are Islamic Banking: Claim and Reality, in "Finance & Ethics", (Ed. Löhr A., Valeva, M.), and Teaching of Business Ethics in Middle- and Eastern-Europe, in "Betriebswirtschaftslehre und Unternehmensethik" (Ed. Scherer A., Patzer M.).

Luc Van Liedekerke is director of the Centre for Economics and Ethics, K.U.Leuven, and also teaches at the University of Antwerp (UA).  Apart from the colleges business ethics and philosophy at Leuven and Antwerp, he also teaches regularly at University Antwerp Management school and at EDHEC business School (Lille/Nice, France) and occasionally at other business schools abroad.  He fulfills several functions for academic publishers in the field of business ethics among others proof reader for business ethics books for Oxford and Cambridge, and general editor for the upcoming handbook Series in Business Ethics (Springer Verlag).  He is a board member of academic and non-academic organisations in Belgium and abroad; among others are EBEN, Vigeo (Europe's leading SRI screening organization),TI Belgium and DNWE (Germany).  He is the immediate past president of the European Business Ethics Network (EBEN: 1,400 members and 16 national networks).

Praktisch
U kunt zich inschrijven vóór 12 januari 2012:

• Via de kalender op onze website www.campusgelbergen.be
• Via e-mail: info@campusgelbergen.be met vermelding van uw naam, adres en telefoonnummer. Indien u met het openbaar vervoer komt, graag ook vermelden.

Deelnameprijs
De inschrijvingsprijs is € 30. Voor studenten en gepensioneerden € 10.

Betaling via overschrijving op ING 330-0192476-82 met vermelding "lezing 14 jan."; uw betaling geldt tevens als inschrijving.

Locatie
Campus Gelbergen, Gelbergenstraat 50, 3471 Hoeleden-Kortenaken

T: +32 (0)16 35 25 55, F: +32 (0)16 77 00 60, GSM: +32 (0)477 31 43 98

www.campusgelbergen.be

Bereikbaarheid
Openbaar vervoer: dichtstbijzijnde station is station Tienen. Informeer Campus Gelbergen vooraf en wij zorgen voor vervoer.