The summer issue of the Journal of World Philosophies (3:1) has several articles on Chinese Philosophy (see here and below).
2 PhD Positions on New Confucianism
2 PhD Positions on New Confucianism
The Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel invites applications for two PhD positions starting on February 1, 2019. They are part of the research project “The Exterior of Philosophy: On the Practice of New Confucianism” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). The candidates will complement the research team of Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber and Philippe Major, Ph.D. The research project studies New Confucian philosophy by deploying a sociological perspective for philosophical aims. Existing scholarship has often chosen an approach that is either historical, as in the genre of intellectual history, or philosophical, tuned towards showing the contemporary philosophical relevance of New Confucianism. The current project builds on recent studies that add to these established approaches by offering sociological perspectives on New Confucianism. The project hence breaks new ground in terms of its disciplinary approach beyond the specific context of New Confucianism. Drawing on work done in sociology, the research project explores the possibilities of a sociology of philosophy approached as a philosophical sub-discipline. For more information, see here.
TOC: Asian Philosophy vol. 28 no. 2
Asian Philosophy vol. 28 no. 2 (2018)
APA Grant Opportunities
Deadlines are upcoming for two APA grant opportunities possibly relevant to readers…
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June 30 — Application deadline for Small Grant and Diversity & Inclusiveness funding Each year, the APA’s small grant fund, financed by the Eastern Division, makes up to $25,000 in grants of normally no more than $5,000 each. The board of officers considers applications for these grants each year at its fall meeting in November. See past projects supported by the small grant fund. 2018–2019 Diversity and Inclusiveness Funding In keeping with its mission and goals and the association’s longstanding commitment to addressing philosophy’s serious lack of demographic diversity, the APA board of officers has committed up to $20,000 in the 2018–2019 academic year to fund initiatives focused on this important issue. |
PhD scholarship in Chinese-Western Comparative Philosophy: Comparative Epistemology. AUD$50,000 per year over 4 years plus fee waiver
PhD scholarship in Chinese-Western Comparative Philosophy
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
We invite applications from prospective PhD students to work on the research topic below. The scholarship will run over 4 years, and the following will be provided:
– Tuition fee waiver
– AUD$40,000 p.a. stipend (tax-free)
– Up to AUD$10,000 p.a. career development funds
PhD Research Project Title
Epistemology enlarged: knowledge as practice in Chinese and Western philosophy
Three articles on contemporary Chinese political thinking
Three significant articles, all open access, on contemporary Chinese political thinking.
“Research dialogues on the intellectual public sphere in China (Part I),” Guest edited by Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, and Joshua Fogel. China Information Volume 32, Issue 1, March 2018
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Mapping the intellectual public sphere in China today Timothy Cheek, David Ownby, Joshua Fogel First Published March 14, 2018; pp. 107–120 |
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Liberalism in contemporary China: Questions, strategies, directions First Published January 2, 2018; pp. 121–138 |
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The recasting of Chinese socialism: The Chinese New Left since 2000 Shi Anshu, François Lachapelle, Matthew Galway First Published March 14, 2018; pp. 139–159 |
Call for Nominations: APA Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs
The APA awards a prize for “Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs.” It seems to me that a department that has gone out of its way to diversify the philosophical traditions it teaches and on which its members do research would be worthy of such a prize, though so far this has not happened (see the list below). Any suggestions of a program worthy of nomination?
The American Philosophical Association (APA) and the Philosophy Documentation Center (PDC) invite nominations for the 2018 Prize for Excellence and Innovation in Philosophy Programs. The deadline to submit nominations is June 30.
New Book: Kim, Democracy after Virtue
Oxford has published Sungmoon Kim, Democracy after Virtue: Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy. This is the inaugural volume in the Studies in Comparative Political Theory series.
Editorial summary:
New Book: Huang, Intimate Memory
SUNY has published Martin W. Huang, Intimate Memory: Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China.
Editorial summary:
In the first study of its kind about the role played by intimate memory in the mourning literature of late imperial China, Martin W. Huang focuses on the question of how men mourned and wrote about women to whom they were closely related. Drawing upon memoirs, epitaphs, biographies, litanies, and elegiac poems, Huang explores issues such as how intimacy shaped the ways in which bereaved male authors conceived of womanhood and how such conceptualizations were inevitably also acts of self-reflection about themselves as men. Their memorial writings reveal complicated self-images as husbands, brothers, sons, and educated Confucian males, while their representations of women are much more complex and diverse than the representations we find in more public genres such as Confucian female exemplar biographies.
Nominate for ICAS Book Prize
A call has been issued for books to be submitted for consideration for an ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) book prize.
Books in Chinese, English, French, German, and Korean will be considered. For details see https://icas.asia/en/icas-book-prize-rules-and-regulations.
