Category Archives: Call for Papers (CFP)

CFP: 2025 Meeting of the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought at Duke University

CFP: 2025 Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 meeting of the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought (NECCT) will be held from November 14–15 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This annual gathering offers scholars of Chinese thought an opportunity to share their work in a collaborative and intellectually vibrant environment.

The organizers of NECCT share a commitment to interdisciplinary dialogue. We invite scholars and graduate students working on Chinese thought from a variety of disciplines and methodologies, as well as comparative work on common themes in Chinese thought.

  • When: Friday, November 14 to Saturday, November 15, 2025
  • Where: Duke University, Smith Warehouse (Bay 4), Durham, NC
  • Format: Fifteen 30-minute slots, each consisting of a 20-minute presentation followed by 10 minutes of Q&A. Sessions will be grouped into thematic panels when possible.
  • Meals, Travel, and Accommodations: Morning coffee and pastries, lunch on Friday and Saturday, and a catered dinner on Friday will be provided. Presenters are expected to cover their own travel and lodging.
  • Submissions: Please submit one anonymized abstract (containing only paper title and abstract, not to exceed 300 words) and one cover page (containing title and contact information) by August 15, 2025, to necct2025@gmail.com. Please use the subject line “NECCT 2025 Submission.” Format as a Word document. The final schedule will be announced by September 13, 2025.
  • Panel Proposals: Proposals for panels (3 speakers) are also welcome. Please include an anonymized document containing the panel title and panel abstract, along with individual paper titles and abstracts.  In addition, please provide a cover page containing the panel title, names and contact information of all participants.

We are grateful for the support of Duke University’s Department of Philosophy, the Center for Comparative Philosophy, and the Harmony Lab.

Organizers: Wenjin Liu, David Wong, Emily Kluge
Please direct any questions to Emily Kluge at emily.kluge@duke.edu.

We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Durham in the fall!

CFP: ISEAP Conference on Progressive East Asian Philosophy

We are pleased to inform you that the International Society of East Asian Philosophy (ISEAP) will have its fifth international conference, titled Progressive East Asian Philosophy, on August 28-29, 2025 at the National Chengchi University, Taiwan. The conference poster is here.

Keynote Speakers
Professor Heisook Kim (Ewha Womans University)
Professor Stephen C. Angle (Wesleyan University)

What does it mean to pursue progress from within East Asian philosophical traditions? And how might they offer insight into ongoing global conversations around social reform, ethical responsibility, political transformation, and justice? This year’s gathering focuses on how these traditions both classical and contemporary can contribute to our understanding of progress in practical philosophy.

Abstracts for individual papers and organized panels should be submitted by June 1, 2025 (Japan Time). Please check our website for more details: ISEAP 2025 Conference

You can also connect with us on our website and social media.
Website: https://iseap.jp/
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/iseapjp
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/InternationalSocietyofEastAsianPhilosophy/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@iseap

Sincerely yours,
Fion Wu
On behalf of ISEAP

CFP: Weaving Together: Comparative Approaches to Process Philosophy

The ISCP (International Society for Chinese Philosophy) invites proposals for an edited volume that explores the history, influence, and contemporary practice of process philosophy as a framework for comparative philosophy. This volume, Weaving Together: Comparative Approaches to Process Philosophy, aims to illuminate how process thought can serve as subject, method, or application in engaging philosophical traditions across cultures. While the primary focus is on the process tradition developed by Alfred North Whitehead and his intellectual heirs, contributions that engage other process-oriented figures and traditions are also encouraged. These may include figures such as G.W.F. Hegel, Henri Bergson, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Gilles Deleuze, as well as philosophical currents from Indian, Daoist, Confucian, Buddhist, and Indigenous thought. Proposals that employ process philosophy as a methodological or conceptual tool in comparative contexts, or that highlight how process thought contributes to broader conversations across metaphysical, ethical, aesthetic, and socio-political domains are especially welcomed.

Please read more for more details of the volume and the submission guidelines.
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CFP: 2025 Workshop of “Comparative Philosophy Forum – Beijing”

The 2025 Workshop of “Comparative Philosophy Forum – Beijing” will be held July 22, 2025, Beijing.  This year’s workshop is on the theme of”Doing Chinese Philosophy Through Cross-Tradition Engagement: Making Original Contributions to the Development of Philosophy.” Please read this document to find more details on the workshop.

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CFP: Teaching Intercultural Philosophy, Cordoba (June 2025)

In the current climate of increasing provincialism and geopolitical division, the need to decenter and deprovincialize philosophical education is vital. Engaging with multiple traditions can illuminate new pathways of thought and reveal overlooked perspectives. Expanding the traditions valued for study is central to the vocation of intercultural, comparative, and global philosophy, while remaining committed to intellectual honesty, universally shared values as well as the pursuit of truth and practical wisdom.
The task of integrating philosophical reflections on diverse ideas that have emerged in, among other regions, Africa, China, India, Japan and Latin America, together with the Western tradition in secondary and tertiary education, is largely left to individual initiatives and instructors. This conference aims to assess the progress made in integrating these approaches within philosophical education. The teaching Intercultural Philosophy Universidad Loyola invites participants to explore different methods, synergies, and common challenges in teaching intercultural philosophy.

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CFP: Workshop on Revenge at KU Leuven

Revenge can clearly be used to criticize power structures and renegotiate accepted norms but is similarly governed by its own set of rules. But how do such opposites—rules and the unruly, entertainment and brutality, ritual and defiance of norms—go together and relate to one another within the act of revenge? And how might the tension between such opposites be dissolved? How did revenge become such an influential cultural trope in China? What is revenge used for in all these different contexts? And how did it change over the long history from early China to the present day?

The Repay Resentment with Straightforwardness? Exploring Revenge in the Chinese Context workshop seeks to study revenge in all fields of the Chinese socio-cultural realm to uncover its many facets and the relations between them. Therefore, participants are invited to explore the topic of revenge from various angles and with creative approaches, in hope to cover methodologies from diverse fields, including but not limited to: Anthropology, sociology, literature studies, philosophy, theater studies, history, political sciences, archaeology,
criminology etc. Presentation of both case studies as well as wider theoretical reflections on the nature of revenge in China are welcomed.

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CFP: History of Philosophy Society

The History of Philosophy Society (HOPS) conference will be held in Salt Lake City from March 28-29 this year. The conference will feature keynote addresses by Brook Ziporyn (Chicago) and Massimiliano Tomba (UC Santa Cruz), as well as a text seminar by Emanuela Bianchi (NYU).

If you are interested, please submit an abstract of 500-750 words by January 20th (see detailed instructions in the CFP attached).

Call for applications: Way and Being Seminar-workshop

Way and Being: Between Daoist and Pre-Socratic Approaches is a seminar-workshop designed for students engaged in or interested in research opportunities within Chinese and/or Greek philosophy. The program includes 90-minute presentations and discussions led by invited speakers on related topics. Additionally, students will have the chance to share and discuss their ideas with peers and speakers in 30-minute sessions. Students who are currently working on or planning to explore pre-Socratic philosophy and/or Daoist philosophy in their bachelor, master, or doctoral theses are particularly encouraged to apply.

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CFP: SACP Annual Conference

The 57th annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy will be held at Leiden University from July 9-11, 2025.

We invite individual and panel proposals on any topic consistent with the SACP mission of advancing intercultural philosophy. The SACP board especially welcomes paper and panel submissions that reflect diverse Asian and comparative approaches to traditional philosophical concerns, as well as critical engagement with contemporary issues of global concern.

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