The ISCWP has announced its two panels for the Eastern APA:

Panel #1:

Saturday Evening, December 27, 2014: 6:30–9:30 p.m.

GI-2. The International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP)

Topic: Knowledge, Virtue, and Embodiment: Chinese and Western Perspectives

Chair: Yang Xiao (Kenyon College)

Speakers:

May Sim (College of the Holy Cross), “Laozi and Zhu Xi on Knowledge and Virtue”

Bryan Kimoto (University of Memphis), “Shen and De, Embodiment, Disability: Zhuangzi and Merleau-Ponty on Perspective and Being a Body”

Thorian Harris (Notre Dame de Namur University), “The Moral Fallibility of the Confucian Sage”

Panel #2:

Monday Evening, December 29, 2014: 7:00–10:00 p.m.

GX-4. International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP)

Topic: Etiquette and Ethics in Chinese and Western Philosophy: Confucian and Daoist Responses to Karen Stohr’s Book On Manners

Chair: Eric Hutton (University of Utah)

Speakers:

Erin M. Cline (Georgetown University), “The Boundaries of Manners: Ritual and Etiquette in Xunzi”

Amy Olberding (University of Oklahoma), “Best Selves and Sociality: A Confucian Account of Self-Presentation”

Bryan W. Van Norden (Vassar College), “The Limitations of Manners: Daoist Critiques”

Commentator: Karen Stohr (Georgetown University)