You are cordially invited to submit a proposal to:
Confucianism and Education: An International Symposium
University at Buffalo, October 17-9, 2014; Proposal Submission Deadline: June 15, 2014
For details, please visit Conference Website: http://gse.buffalo.edu/confucius.
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Category Archives: Comparative Political Theory
Comparative Political Thought Conference at Yale
There will be a one-day conference, “Comparative Ancient and Medieval Political Thought,” at Yale University on May 1. Details here.
Taiwanese Journal Discussion of Sagehood
The latest issue of the Research Newslatter of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy at the Academia Sinica has a special section on my 2009 book Sagehood. The issue (and all articles), including my reply to the various perspectives offered, is available here. I will also paste the Table of Contents below. My thanks to Fabien Heubel and Kai Marchal for organizing and editing this issue!
Joseph Chan Lecture at Harvard
Friday, April 4, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Political Authority and Democracy: A Contemporary Confucian Perspective
Joseph Chan, Professor, Department of Politics and Public Administration, University of Hong Kong
Harvard Law School, The Morgan Courtroom, Austin Hall Room 308
Sponsored by East Asian Legal Studies, HLS
2nd Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy
I am very happy to announce the 2nd Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy, which will be held on Friday, April 11, on the topic “Xunzi on Authority.” Four scholars of Chinese philosophy will present papers, each followed by a critical commentary from a member of the Rutgers University Philosophy Department. Attendance (including lunch) is free but requires an advance RSVP so that we know how much food to get. Please read on for details!
Major Translation Opportunity: Jin and Liu, Studies in the History of Ideas: The Formation of Important Modern Chinese Political Terms
Please read on for on opportunity to earn USD $25,000 as part of a book translation project.
Kim’s Confucian Democracy in East Asia Published
Sungmoon Kim’s new book, Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice has just been published by Cambridge University Press. According to my blurb on the back of the book:
Confucianism is neither ready-made for democracy nor inalterably opposed to it. As Sungmoon Kim shows in this important book, however, a Confucianism worth defending in the complex, multicultural East Asia of today both can and must incorporate a robust form of democracy. Kim deploys a wealth of careful arguments that draw from classical Confucianism, a wide range of Western political theorists, and the distinctive political culture of modern Korea. The result is a rich and provocative work that successfully bridges theory and practice. Anyone interested in the future possibilities for democracy and for Confucianism – whether conjoined or not – will have to take this book seriously.
Cambridge is offering a 20% discount to readers of this blog, though Amazon has the book discounted as well, and may be less expensive (depending on shipping options). In any event, congratulations, Sungmoon!
Position: Political Theory (including Comparative), Postdoctoral Fellowship, NUS
For more information, see here
New issue of Modern China on Political Legitimacy
Modern China
Special Issue: The Basis for the Legitimacy of the Chinese Political
System: Whence and Whither? Dialogues among Western and Chinese
Scholars, VII
March 2014; Vol. 40, No. 2
http://mcx.sagepub.com/content/40/2?etoc
Three upcoming Harvard events on Chinese politics
Perhaps these events are a little distant from Chinese philosophy, but I wish I could attend!
- A Constitution without Constitutionalism? Paths of Constitutional Developments in China
- Dictatorship and Information: Autocratic Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
- The Rights Defence (weiquan) Movement in China
