Professor Huang Yong will be spending a few days at UNSW Sydney, Australia, in August, delivering a reading masterclass as well as a talk.

Details as follows:

1. READING MASTERCLASS

NB: Registration Required

Wednesday 12 August 2026

10:00am-4:00pm (Australian Eastern Standard Time; UTC/GMT +10:00)

A close reading and discussion of two texts from A Source Book of Chinese Philosophy (Wing-tsit Chan, Princeton University Press): [*contact the Organiser below for pdf’s]

1. Chapter 8, “The Mystical Way of Chuang Tzu”
2. Chapter 35, “Dynamic Idealism in Wang Yangming”

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Richard King’s new book on roles and virtues in Plato, Aristotle, the Mencius and the Xunzi is published and available open access.

The website for the book is here, and the book is downloadable from there. The book is written in English (even though the website is in German).

Monash University has advertised a permanent lectureship in Daoist philosophy. Details are available here.

Deadline for applications is 17th May 2026.

Announcing a new editor for the book series SpringerBriefs in Philosophy, who welcomes book proposals in non-Western philosophical traditions. This series features short books consisting of 50-125 pages (roughly 25,000-62,500 words). Unlike other short book series, the books in SpringerBriefs are not necessarily surveys of any particular (sub)fields. If you have an idea for a short book, please contact the series editor, Dr Koji Tanaka (koji.tanaka@anu.edu.au)

The British Society of the History of Philosophy (BSHP) sponsors a book series, published by Oxford University Press, on New Texts in the History of Philosophy. Its aim is to encourage and facilitate the study of all aspects of the history of philosophy, including the rediscovery of neglected elements and the exploration of new approaches to the subject.

More information is available at the BSHP website: https://bshp.org.uk/publications/new-texts-in-the-history-of-philosophy/

I am particularly, though not exclusively, seeking proposals for translations of texts from the Chinese tradition. Please get in touch with me if you would like to submit a proposal: k.lai@unsw.edu.au

Karyn Lai
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Posting on behalf of Dr Manhua Li, Royal Holloway College, University of London:

Please join the Australian Society for Asian Humanities for the 2022 A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Dr Barbara Hendrischke

Date and time
Thu., 27 October 2022, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Australian Eastern Daylight Time

Online event. Please register here


About this event

In the second century CE, the leaders of the newly founded Daoist religion promised to rescue their followers from the devastation that was accompanying the breakdown of the Han dynasty empire and was expected to soon reach apocalyptic proportions. Believers in Dao would be saved into millennial bliss. The authors of the Scripture on Great Peace (Taipingjing 太平經) saw great peace as universal in scope. It would arrive once human society agreed with heaven’s laws and natural order. So, they devised new social, cultural and administrative guidelines and practices. One example was the plans to improve the flow and reliability of written communication between the people, administrative strata and the imperial court. The authors made practical suggestions for the conveyance of documents and reflected on the role of control and fear in preventing informants at the grassroots from reaching decision-makers.

About the speaker

Barbara Hendrischke has been teaching at the Universities of Melbourne and New South Wales and is now a Research Fellow with the University of Sydney China Studies Centre. Her publications include books on Wenzi (Frankfurt 1974) and the Taipingjing (Berkeley 2006).

Organised by the Australian Society for Asian Humanities, the A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture is held annually to commemorate A.R.Davis, Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney and an important scholar of Asian Studies in post-war Australia. This year, the event is kindly supported by the University of Sydney China Studies Centre.

Announcing a series of peer-reviewed articles published to date in 2022, in Philosophy Compass

The Confucian Ren and Care Debate: Reassessment, Development, and Future Directions
Chenyang Li
04 August 2022 (early view)

The irony of Confucius
Dimitra Amarantidou
Volume 17, Issue 6
09 May 2022

Sincerity (cheng) as a civic and political virtue in classical Confucian philosophy
Dawid Rogacz
Volume 17, Issue 6
24 April 2022

Mencius and Xunzi on the legitimate use of offensive force: A pacifistic critique of recent just war interpretations
Kurtis Hagen
Volume 17, Issue 6
15 April 2022

Death in the Zhuangzi: Themes, arguments, and interpretations
Pengbo Liu
Volume 17, Issue 4
17 March 2022