The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will be hosting an international conference, “Whither Comparative Philosophy?: Chinese Philosophy Encountering Other Traditions in the World,” on April 14-15. Details are on the conference website here, including how to access the sessions remotely.
Author Archives: Steve Angle
Launch of revised 进步儒学 website
I am pleased to announce to the launch of a revised and expanded website devoted to Chinese-language writings related to progressive Confucianism, jinburuxue.com! Some of the essays on the site are appearing for the first time in Chinese translation; thanks to their authors for permission to translate them and much gratitude to the students and scholars who done the lion’s share of the translating. The new site is simplified a bit (for example, no more English-language interface, but given that all the content is in Chinese, that seemed superfluous and made maintaining the site much more complicated) but also much more robust, for which I am grateful to my terrific research assistant, Kate Liu. If you have or know of any content (essays of course, but also, at least in principle, other sorts of digital material) that you feel fits with the themes of the site, please contact me.
Sixth Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy
The Sixth Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy, “New Voices in Chinese Philosophy,” will be held in person, with live streaming through Zoom, on Friday, April 28, 2023. Six junior scholars of Chinese philosophy, representing new voices in the field, will engage six more senior scholars. This year’s workshop is co-sponsored by Rutgers Global, Religion Department, Rutgers Center for the Philosophy of Religion, and Philosophy Department. RSVP is required for attendance, either in-person (limited to the room capacity) or online.
Please see here for more information and to register.
CFP: 2023 Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought
We are pleased to announce that this year’s meeting of the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought (NECCT) will be held on November 11-12 at Brown University. This annual meeting is an opportunity for scholars of Chinese thought (broadly construed) from across the northeast US (also broadly construed) to gather and share their research. This year, we are accepting panel proposals (3-4 presenters) in addition to paper proposals. As we are interested in generating interdisciplinary discussions, we welcome work of any disciplinary/methodological orientation that bears on Chinese thought, including but not limited to history, religious studies, anthropology, literary studies, art history, and philosophy.
On-Line Lecture: Ing on Tao Yuanming
The Coffee Time Talks on Chinese Thought series, sponsored by the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (AMES) Center at Saint Louis University, will be hosting a Zoom lecture by Dr. Michael Ing (Associate Professor, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington) on Wednesday, March 29th from 4:30-6:00PM Central Time. The lecture is titled: “The First Teacher Left Behind Instruction”: Images of Confucius (and Zhuangzi) in the Poetry of Tao Yuanming.
Zoom ID: 984 9500 6071
Please see the attached flyer for more details.
Suggestions for refresh of Neo-C.com?
When Justin Tiwald and I published Neo-Confucianism: A Philosophical Introduction a few years ago, we also launched a companion website, neo-confucianism.com. Years and years ago, I also set up an extext site (take a look at some of the supporting material — reminds one what it was like to work in Chinese on an emerging internet back in the 1990s! 😉
Well, the server on which the etext site lives is being retired, which is an impetus to make some changes. The Song-Ming texts, and some of the more modern ones, are going to move to neo-confucianism.com. I will also try to fill out the texts available there, with section/page numbering that corresponds to English translations, where that is possible.
My question to you all is: what else should we seek to do with neo-confucianism.com? What would be useful? What resources do you know of (or would like to see created — no promises!)? Please share with me, either in comments here or via email. Thanks!
ToC: JCPC 39
The Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 39. This issue features a Scholar’s Corner section by Ellen Y. Zhang titled “The Ethics of Hospitality: Tracing the Confucian Other,” five articles covering a range of topics in Confucian philosophy and political theory, with contributions that span historical analysis to contemporary applications, and a Feature Book Review of Kyung Rok Kwon’s Confucian Sentimental Representation: A New Approach to Confucian Democracy by Sor-hoon Tan.
The full volume is available online at http://jcpc.skku.edu/
New(ish) Journal: Philosophy and Global Affairs
Readings of Warp, Weft, and Way will want to pay attention to the open-access journal Philosophy and Global Affairs, now in its second year. It has already published a number of intriguing essays and book reviews that engage with comparative philosophy (broadly construed); according to the editors, it:
…is a scholarly journal that publishes research and commentary on contemporary theoretical problems of global significance. It will include peer-reviewed articles, critical essays, and reviews for academic and non-academic readers in any country who share a sense of common global citizenship. The editorial team is particularly interested in the work of philosophers and theorists attuned to perspectives from the Global South. The journal’s goal is to establish a respected forum for theoretical discussion that is accessible to audiences across the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences.
Enjoy!
Confucian Web 《儒家网》 Top 10 Books of 2022
The website Confucian Web 《儒家网》 has published a list of their top 10 books from 2022, together with brief descriptions. Enjoy!
CLT2 on Deng Xiaomang Freely Available
The second double-issue of Chinese Literature and Thought Today (CLT2) has been published and the press is running a free access period of this issue till March 31, 2023. All contents of the issue can be viewed and downloaded on the Taylor & Francis website during this period:
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/mcsp21/current?fbclid=IwAR2B6C7F6mIAHO89EKD0AtLDXZIGxUBHx0nEJuQDnWvorMZCeal9xMC3iFU
Chinese Literature and Thought Today (or CLT2) is a merger of Chinese Literature Today and Contemporary Chinese Thought. In this double issue, there is a section devoted to the thought and cultural criticism of Deng Xiaomang that is translated, and introduced by Jens Karlsson. Check it out!
