Category Archives: 四海为学 / Collaborative Learning

四海为学 “Collaborative Learning“ Roundtable: Considering Non-Humans

On January 9th at 9:00am Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host a roundtable on “Considering Non-Humans”. To find details and the Zoom link, please visit the project’s event page. No pre-registration or passcode is required is required for Zoom participation.
A list of the project’s upcoming events can be found at the calendar here.

四海为学 “Collaborative Learning“ Lecture by Fabian Heubel

On January 6th at 19:00(pm) Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host a lecture by Professor Fabian Heubel, titled “Without Nothingness: Reflections on Transcultural Entanglements of Being and Way”. To find details and the Zoom link, please visit the project’s event page. No pre-registration or passcode is required is required for Zoom participation.
A list of the project’s upcoming events can be found at the calendar here.

四海为学 “Collaborative Learning“ Lecture by Mark Csikszentmihalyi

On December 10th at 9:00am Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host a lecture by Professor Mark Csikszentmihalyi, titled “Portrayals of the Disciples and the Development of Early Confucianism”. To find details and the Zoom link, please visit the project’s event page. No pre-registration or passcode is required is required for Zoom participation.
A list of the project’s upcoming events can be found at the calendar here.

四海为学 “Collaborative Learning“ Lecture by Shirley Chan

On December 4th at 9:00am Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host a lecture by Professor Shirley Chan, titled “Conceptualizing Crisis in Early Chinese Texts”. To find details and the Zoom link, please visit the project’s event page. No pre-registration or passcode is required is required for Zoom participation.
A list of the project’s upcoming events can be found at the calendar here.

四海为学 “Collaborative Learning“ Lecture by Tim Connolly

On November 26th at 9:00am Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host a lecture by Professor Tim Connolly, titled ““Sharing Transformative Experience: A Confucian Perspective”. To find details and the Zoom link, please visit the project’s event page. No pre-registration or passcode is required is required for Zoom participation.
A list of the project’s upcoming events can be found at the calendar here.

CFP: ECNU 2025 International Graduate Conference of Philosophy, Roots and Branches

This International Graduate Conference of Philosophy intends to gather brilliant graduate students and early career scholars to discuss different aspects of philosophical innovations and traditions. The organizing committee, drawn from the long-standing international Graduate Program in Chinese Philosophy at ECNU, is committed to collect voices from various philosophical backgrounds focused on Chinese Philosophy and comparative philosophy, as well as excellent research in other areas.

The guiding theme of the conference this year is benmo 本末 , or “roots and branches”. Rootedness, grounding, the archeology of thought and hermeneutics shape thinking in ways often difficult to detect. Branches, reinterpretations and applications of philosophical wisdom, which are frequently the more obvious aspects of philosophical reflections, stem from roots.
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Lecture: Women’s Affective Labor in the Red Army’s Propaganda by Ping Zhu, October 21

This coming Monday, October 21st, at 9:00am Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host a lecture by Professor Ping Zhu. For details, including the Zoom link please see the event page. No pre-registration or passcode will be required.

For a list of more upcoming events see the calendar of 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning”.

 

 

Book Discussion this Friday: Tristan Brown’s Laws of the Land

The 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host a book discussion of Tristan Brown’s Laws of the Land this Friday, October 18th, at 9:00am Beijing time. Please find the details and the zoom link on the project’s page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/tristan-brown-discussion. No pre-registration or passcode is required.
For a list of upcoming events see 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project’s calendar here.

四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Roundtable on Learning and Education

This Friday, September 13th, at 19:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host the first roundtable of 2024-2025 academic year. The title of this roundtable is “Reflecting on Learning and Education,” for details, including the Zoom, link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/learning-roundtable (Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
For a list of upcoming events see the calendar here.

Fall 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Free Seminars

This academic year the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project will be hosting 2-3 events each month. Please visit their event calendar for details.

The program is also hosting three seminars this fall, seminars are free courses that are open to anyone interested:

1. Dao and Logos: Reading the Laozi with/against Heraclitus
Led by: Dimitra Amarantidou (University of Macau) and Fabian Heubel (Academia Sinica) This course will meet on Mondays at 19:00 Beijing time. There will eight classes, starting in October 21 and ending December 9th.

2. Early Chinese Philosophy of Education
Led by: Geir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland) and Paul J. D’Ambrosio (East China Normal University)This class will meet on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm Beijing time, and starts September 24th

3. The Political Laozi
Led by: Paul J. D’Ambrosio (East China Normal University), Dimitra Amarantidou (University of Macau), and John Lombardini (College of William and Mary)This class will meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm Beijing time. It will begin on September 24th.

For more details and links to any of these seminars please visit: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/seminars