8th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought
Friday, April 13 ~ Sunday, April 15, 2012
Indiana University, Bloomington
Bloomington, Indiana
Friday, April 13
Wylie Hall 015
3:35: Welcome by Aaron Stalnaker
3:45-5:30 Panel 1: Carving Out the Good Life
Moderator: Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington
3:45-4:15: Rohan Sikri, DePaul University, “A Conversation Amongst Butchers: Plato and Zhuangzi on the Therapeutic Art of Carving Bodies”
4:15-4:45: Ben Huff, “Eudaimonism in the Mencius”
4:45-5:15: Yinghua Lu, University of Illinois, Carbondale, “Mencius’ Idea of Moral Autonomy”
5:15-5:30: Panel Q&A
Saturday, April 14
Wylie Hall 015
8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea and Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:45 Panel 2: Venturing Into the Han
Moderator: Cheryl Cottine, Indiana University, Bloomington
9:00-9:30: Esther Klein, “Sima Qian’s Confucius and the Western Han Lunyu”
9:30-10:00: Michael Ing, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Unity, Prosperity, and the Role of Ritual in the “Liyun” 禮運”
10:00-10:30: Alexus McLeod, “Two Problems Concerning Materialism in Wang Chong’s Lunheng”
10:30-10:45: Panel Q&A
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:45 Panel 3: Literature, Divination, and the Minnd
Moderator: Frank Perkins, DePaul University
11:00-11:30: Michael Harrington, “When Not to be Straightforward: Cheng Yi on Hexagram #39”
11:30-12:00: Jennifer Eichman, “A Very Selective Synthesis: Zhou Rudeng’s Handbook on Mind Cultivation”
12:00-12:30: William Sin, “The Moral World of the Water Margin”
12:30-12:45: Panel Q&A
12:45-2:00 Lunch Break (box lunches provided for participants)
2:00-3:45 Panel 4: Contemporary Encounters
Moderator: Bob Eno, Indiana University, Bloomington
2:00-2:30: Benedict Chan, “Are Civil and Political Rights Universal Rights? An East Asian Challenge and Reply”
2:30-3:00: Jonathan R Herman, “Cramped Scholars and Creative Misinterpretations: Revisiting Martin Buber’s Encounters with Chinese Religion”
3:00-3:30: Brian Hoffert, North Central College, “The Relationship between Ren and Li: Contemporary Implications of the Debate on Human Nature”
3:30-3:45: Panel Q&A
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Keynote Address: A Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: “Progressive Confucianism,” Stephen Angle, Wesleyan University
Sunday, April 15
Wylie Hall 015
8:15-8:45 Coffee/Tea and Continental Breakfast
8:45-10:30 Panel 5: Seeing and Arguing inn Early China
Moderator: Brian Hoffert, North Central College
8:45-9:15, Stephen Walker, University of Chicago, “Misology in classical China”
9:15-9:45: Piotr Gibas, “Punitive Ghosts, “Sagely Illumination,” and History: The Concept of Ming 明 in Mozi’s “Ming gui”《明鬼》”
9:45-10:15: Susan Blake, Indiana University, Bloomington, “A Problem of the Senses in Chinese Thought”
10:15-10:30: Panel Q&A
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:30 Panel 6: The Varieties of the Dao
Moderator: Doug Berger, University of Illinois, Carbondale
10:45-11:15: Frank Perkins, DePaul University, “The Mohist Daodejing”
11:15-11:45: Clarke Hudson, University of Virginia,“The Alchemists’ Daode jìng”
11:45-12:15: Kristina Lebedeva, “The Work of Weakness in the Daodejing”
12:15-12:30: Panel Q&A
