The APA Committee on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies seeks participants for a roundtable panel on how to teach Asian philosophical text at the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub at the 2020 APA Pacific Division meeting, April 8–29, 2020, in San Francisco, CA.
New Book: The Wrong of Rudeness
Oxford University Press has now published Amy Olberding’s The Wrong of Rudeness: Learning Modern C
ivility from Ancient Chinese Philosophy.
A short description follows. I also recommend that people look at the brief blog entry that introduces some major themes and the remarkable first-person approach of the book to these issues. Anyone familiar with the look-to-oneself-first methodology and tenor of so much Confucian reflection will particularly appreciate this approach, and it makes the book all the more compelling reading as well.
Description:
In a time of fractious politics, being rude can feel wickedly gratifying, while being polite can feel simple-minded or willfully naïve. Do manners and civility even matter now? Is it worthwhile to make the effort to be polite? When rudeness has become routine and commonplace, why bother? When so much of public and social life with others is painful and bitterly acrimonious, why should anyone be polite? Continue reading →
Job at Lafayette in East Asian Religions
Lafayette College in Easton, PA, announces a full-time, tenure-track position in the Department of Religious Studies at the rank of assistant professor, beginning July 1, 2020, with specialization in religious traditions of East Asia. Details are available here.
Open Postdoctoral Fellowship Position at Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
The newly-formed Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity*, National Chengchi University in Taipei, Taiwan is seeking applications for ONE Postdoctoral Fellow in areas related to cultural perspectives of Chinese & Sinophone studies in global context, particularly regarding the relation between the special linguistic modalities of Chinese and thought, ethical and religious practice in contemporary contexts, such as Chinese & Sinophone linguistics, comparative studies in Chinese and Western philosophy, Chinese & Sinophone literature, Chinese or Taiwanese history, Chinese religion, applied ethics and psychotherapy in Sinophone societies, Sinophone digital literature, and their variations. Academic researchers who have interests across the areas aforementioned or excelled in broadening or elaborating other possible dimensions in this spectrum are sincerely welcome to apply.
More about the Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity please see here.
CFP: 23rd meeting of the Southeast Early China Roundtable at Milledgeville GA
We are pleased to announce that Georgia College & State University will host the 23rd annual meeting of the Southeast Early China Roundtable in the historical city of Milledgeville, Georgia, from November 1st to November 3rd. We will host two public/keynote lectures during this year’s meeting:
Dr. Robert Neville (Boston University)
“Early Confucian Sources for Contemporary Progressive Confucianism.”
Dr. Alfred Hornung (Johannes Gutenberg University/Obama Institute)
“Confucius and Benjamin Franklin: Chinese ideas in the Foundation of USA.”
We welcome proposals for presentations dealing with pre-Song China from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, archaeology, art history, history, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. Please send a short abstract (250 words) of your proposed presentation and full institutional contact information to Dr. Huaiyu Wang (wdhyana@gmail.com) & Dr. Ashleigh Dean (ashleigh.dean@gcsu.edu) by August 15, 2019. For all abstract submissions, please mark the subject line as “SEECR Submission 2019.”
As per custom of the SEECR, the host university will cover participants’ room and board. Early submissions are welcome.
CFP: 1st SEA International Young Scholars Conference
Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity in Taiwan is a newly established research project regarding a global approach to various fields of Sinophone studies, including Chinese Philosophy, Philology, Literature, Histories and etc.
We are pleased to announce the call of abstracts for the oncoming 1st “Sinophone Studies in Europe and the Americas”(SEA) International Young Scholars Conference.
Please refer to the Facebook link here for further details.
Winston Reviews Kim, Democracy After Virtue
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
2019.07.20 View this Review Online View Other NDPR Reviews
Sungmoon Kim, Democracy After Virtue: Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2018, 255pp., $74.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780190671235.
Reviewed by Kenneth Winston, Harvard University
As Asian countries reclaim their former prominence on the world stage, many Asian scholars are engaged in an ardent effort to respond to the new reality by reexamining basic political principles. The effort is not only academic or philosophical; it is deeply moral — an effort to preserve what is of value in one’s own culture or tradition while adapting to new geopolitical circumstances and engaging in new relationships. Sungmoon Kim is a member in good standing of an international group of scholars who join this intellectual conversation with the general aim of reconciling Confucianism and democracy — with an agenda and vocabulary taken primarily from contemporary English-language analytic philosophy. While written at a fairly abstract level, this book can be read as a search for identity or self-understanding in an evolving world.
ToC: Issue 14:2 of FPC
【Current Issue: Vol.14, No.2, 2019】
Available at: http://journal.hep.com.cn/fpc
Special Theme: Transmission of Western Learning in China
The essays are free to download from July 16th to August 16th!
FPC cordially invites you to submit research articles, review articles, or book reviews to FPC. Manuscripts should be submitted via email to submissionbjb@126.com. Your submission and any advice are welcomed.
Book: The Global Encyclopedia of Informality
While scouring the web for freebies this morning, I came across something that may be of interest to many readers here: The Global Encyclopedia of Informality, University College London, 2018, in two volumes.
http://oapen.org/search?identifier=642570;keyword=informality
Here’s the table of contents for Volume 1:
Australian National Library Asian Study Grants
For anyone residing in Australia, the 2020 CFP for Asia Study Grants may be of interest.
