SACP at the APA East

CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS

2014 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association

December 27-30, 2014, Philadelphia, PA

The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy welcomes proposals for our panels at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division meeting.  Please submit individual paper abstracts or complete panel proposals.

Paper abstracts should be 150-200 words in length.

Complete panel proposals should include: panel title, a 150 word introduction to the theme of the panel, and a 150 word abstract for each of the papers.

Include each presenter’s name, e-mail address, and institution.

Proposals regarding any aspect of Asian or comparative philosophy are welcome.  No simultaneous submissions.

Please submit these materials no later than May 7 to Brian Bruya at bbruya@emich.edu.

Looking for a Specialist

A colleague of someone I know wonders who might be able and willing to contribute a chapter in a Routledge volume on Asian political thought on any of the following topics:

Confucianism beyond China
Ming Patriots (Critical Confucianism)
Buddhist Political Thought around Asia

Please contact me (mim@fairfield.edu) if you or someone you know qualifies. Cheers.

ISCWP Newsletter, Volume 12, Issue 1

Greetings!  Many of you will have received the latest ISCWP Newsletter.  For those who are not on the ISCWP membership list, you can find out about the the society’s activities and events by following the link above and looking through recent newsletters, which are all available there.

If any readers are not members of the ISCWP and would like to join, please click here to be taken to the membership form online, where you can apply for membership.

Hagop Sarkissian
Secretary and Treasurer
ISCWP

 

Slingerland at Harvard this Monday

Monday, February 3, 4:00 p.m.

Fairbank Center China Humanities Seminar

Chinese Studies in the Age of Consilience: New Approaches Drawn from the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences

Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia

Cosponsored with the Mahindra Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

http://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/event/edward-slingerland

CGIS South, Doris and Ted Lee Gathering Room (S030), 1730 Cambridge Street, Harvard University

ISCWP CfP 2014 Eastern APA

The International Society for Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophy (ISCWP) plans to sponsor one or two panels at this year’s Eastern Division Meeting of APA, which will take place on December 27-30, 2014 at the downtown Marriott in Philadelphia. We hereby invite submissions.
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Penn State Summer Institute in Asian Studies

Penn State Summer Institute in Asian Studies

The Pennsylvania State University invites applications for a week-long fellowship to participate in the inaugural Penn State Summer Institute in Asian Studies. To be held June 1 -7, 2014, on the theme of “Reading and Textual Production in Early Modern China,” the Summer Institute welcomes applicants interested in reading primary and secondary sources on its annual theme, in workshopping and discussing their own research, and in exploring the latest scholarship in their field. This year?s Institute will be led by On-cho Ng (Penn State), Kai-wing Chow (U of Illinois) and Hung-lam Chu (Hong Kong Polytechnic U).
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June, 2014 ISCWP Beijing Roundtable

The 2014 Term of the ISCWP’s “Beijing Roundtable on Contemporary Philosophy” workshop /symposium series is a small-size, half-day workshop on the theme “Mohist Logical Thought and Development of Contemporary Philosophy”, which will be held at Peking University, Beijing, China, 27th June 2014. For more information, click here. Please note that for those interested in possibly presenting at the Roundtable, the deadline for contacting the organizers is June 1, 2014.