The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy (RVP) has announced a number of conferences in spring and summer 2017 under the general heading of “Re-Learning to Be Human for Global Times: Challenges and Opportunities.” Details are here. I have never attended a RVP conference; if any readers have, maybe you could share your impressions?
Category Archives: Comparative philosophy
Angle lecture in Beijing Sunday 11/20
For anyone who’ll be in Beijing on the 20th, you are welcome to my lecture that evening, the title of which is “从进步儒学的角度看社会压迫 [Social Oppression as Viewed by Progressive Confucianism”].” Details follow. Please feel free to contact me with any questions.
Job at Ryerson University
Ryerson University (Toronto) has a newly announced tenure-track position: AOS (i) Non-Western Philosophy or (ii) Metaphysics and/or Epistemology; see here for more details.
Reminder: 2017 ISCP CFP
The deadline for submitting paper abstracts and panel proposals for 20th International conference on Chinese philosophy is 30 November 2016. The conference will take place at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore on July 4-7, 2017.
The conference website for information and submission is at http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/programmes/philosophy/iscp/Pages/Home.aspx .
New Book: Feminist Encounters with Confucius
Mathew A. Foust and Sor-hoon Tan, eds., Feminist Encounters with Confucius (Brill, 2016) has been published. Congratulations! The table of contents follows, and see also here.
Fung Global Fellows Program
Princeton University is pleased to announce the call for applications to the Fung Global Fellows Program at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS). … Fellowships are awarded to scholars employed outside the United States who are expected to return to their positions, who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual intellectual promise, but who are still early in their careers.
During the academic year 2017-18, the program theme will be “The Culture and Politics of Resentment.”
NEW DEADLINE: Applications are due on November 21, 2016 (11:59 p.m. EST).
Website: http://piirs.princeton.edu/funggfp/
Pacific APA Panel on Teaching Asian/Asian-American Philosophy – Call for Proposals
[Just a reminder that the deadline for proposals is Monday, 10/31. Thank you. -M. I.]
The APA’s Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies invites proposals/abstracts for a sponsored panel on teaching Asian and/or Asian-American philosophy. The Committee is especially interested in documented, project or experience based narratives of effective teaching techniques, comparative philosophy focus in lesson plans, theoretical or practical complexities, or strategies for curricular integration in degree programs. Other topics will also be considered. The Pacific Division meetings will be held in Seattle, WA on April 12 – 15, 2o17. Please send proposals or abstracts to Manyul Im via email: manyulim@bridgeport.edu. Please include a CV with your proposal/abstract.
Deadline for full consideration of proposals is October 31, 2016.
Frontiers of Philosophy in China 11:2
I seem to have posted the Tables of Contents of FPC 11:1 and 11:3, but never 11:2. The Table of Contents for issue 11:2, with a special section on excavated manuscripts, is available here.
Lecture in Berlin: Nelson on Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism
Prof. Dr. Eric NELSON (Division of Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology):
The Debate between Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism in Jeong Dojeon and Gihwa
Nov. 30, 2016; 18:00-20:00. More information here.
CFP: ISCP at 2017 Central APA
International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) invites abstracts of papers for the ISCP panels at APA Central Division Meeting in Kansas City, MO from March 1 to March 4, 2017. The themes and topics are open as long as they are connected with Chinese philosophy.
Your submission should include the following information:
1. Title of Paper
2. Name of Presenter
3. Presenter’s Affiliation and Contact Information
4. Paper Abstract (200-300 words)
Please send your submission in Word Format to Qiong Wang at qiong.wang@oneonta.edu by October 28, 2016.
