There’s not a ton of philosophy on the AAS program for next week — there never is — but for the first time in years, I’m going to be there and would enjoy meeting any Warp, Weft, and Way readers who are also attending. Here are a couple interesting panels, as seen from my perspective (listed in chronological order):

ELITE AND POPULAR CONFUCIANISM IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA

Session Organizer: Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego

Chair: Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego

1. Confucianism in China / Anna Sun, Kenyon College

2. American Confucianism: Between Tradition and Universal Values / Stephen Angle, Wesleyan University

3. The Revival of Family Values and Ancestor Worship in Southern Zhejiang / Lizhu Fan, Fudan University

4. The Birth of a New Religion — On the Development of the Confucian Congregation in Southeast China / Na Chen, Wabash College

COMMUNIST CHINA AND ITS MODERN FATE: LEVENSON AND CHINA 50 YEARS LATER

Session Organizer: Timothy C Cheek, University of British Columbia
Chair: Mark Elliot, Harvard University

1. Nation-making in China: Between History and Politics Mark Elliot, Harvard University

2. Thought and Fate: Is Confucianism Still “Right”? Gloria Davies, Monash University

3. From Prelude to Revolution to Postlude: Reading Mao’s ‘On New Democracy’ & Levenson’s Challenge / Timothy C Cheek, University of British Columbia

4. The China Story, Chinese Timescapes & Re-reading Joseph Levenson / Geremie Barme, Australian National University

Discussant: David Ownby, University of Montreal

THE FORMATION OF ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY CHINA

Session Organizer: Peter Zarrow, Academia Sinica
Chair: Peter Zarrow, Academia Sinica

1. Zhang Taiyan, Buddhism, and the Formation of Modern Chinese Philosophy John Makeham, Australian National University

2. Qinghua Univerity and the Formation of Modern Chinese Historiography / Brian Moloughney, University of Otago

3. The Synthesis School and the Founding of “Orthodox” and “Authentic” Sociology in Nationalist China—Sun Benwen’s Sociological Thinking and Practice / Guannan Li, Dowling College

4. A Confusion of Terms: Spatial Reorganization and the Field of Geopolitics, 1930-1950 / Shellen X.
Wu, University of Tennessee

Discussant: Peter Zarrow, Academia Sinica

CHINESE THOUGHT AS GLOBAL THEORY?

Session Organizer: Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics (LSE)
Chair: Megan Thomas, University of California, Santa Cruz

1. On the Possibility of Chinese Thought as Theory / Leigh Jenco, London School of Economics (LSE)

2. What Premodern Chinese Theorists Can Teach Us about Social History / Ignacio Villagran, University of Michigan

3. The Challenge of Contemporary Chinese Political Philosophy / David Elstein, State University of New York, New Paltz

4. Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and the Problem of “Chinese” Thought / Guanjun Wu, East China Normal University

Discussant: Megan Thomas, University of California, Santa Cruz