Teacher Training for Confucian Studies

The Nishan program for undergraduates has been announced here.  Below is an announcement for the program that is tailored to instructors.

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We are pleased to introduce the Third Annual Nishan Confucian Studies Summer Institute at theNishan Birthplace of the Sage Academy in Shandong, China, July 6 to August 3, 2013.

 

This month-long training program for teachers of Chinese culture will be led by professors Roger T. Ames (University of Hawaii), Sor-hoon Tan (National University of Singapore) and Tian Chenshan(Beijing Foreign Studies University), with a special series of lectures by Henry Rosemont, Jr.(Brown University), Zhang Xianglong (Beijing University), Hans-Georg Moeller (University College Cork), and Robin Wang (Loyola Marymount University).

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Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy lecture this Friday (02/15) @5:30pm

(Note: This talk was rescheduled owing to the blizzard last week.)

THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY

Welcomes JONATHAN C. GOLD (Princeton University)

With responses from Robert Wright, Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, and prize-winning author of such books as The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

Please join us at Columbia University Department of Religion on February 15, 2013 at 5:30 for his lecture entitled,

Accepting the Conditions: The Ethical Implications of Vasubandhu’s Buddhist Causal Theory

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Reminder: AAR Confucian Traditions Group CFP

Confucian Traditions
Call for Proposals

This Group invites proposals concerning any aspect of Confucianism from any geographical area. Topics of particular interest this coming year are:

  • Confucianism, death, and after
  • For a possible cosponsored session with the Buddhism Section, connections between Confucianism and Buddhism
  • Archaeological discoveries and Confucian texts
  • Contemporary representations of Confucianism, postmodern Confucianism, and/or Confucius institutes
  • Roles and agency in Confucianism
  • Feelings and emotions

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Conference: Cultures of Ancient Science

Cultures of Ancient Science
Friday, March 15 2013 – Sunday, March 17 2013
University College London

This conference will bring together the leading international scholars of the history science of many ancient cultures to discuss the content and methodology of the study of ancient science and prospects for future research. The scope here is important and unique. While there are conferences on the science of individual ancient cultures, there are not conferences on ancient science across many cultures.

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Review of Makeham, Ed., Learning to Emulate the Wise

My review of the new volume edited by  John Makeham, Learning to Emulate the Wise: The Genesis of Chinese Philosophy as an Academic Discipline in Twentieth-century China, has just been published in The China Journal. Anyone who lacks JSTOR access and would be interested in a copy, please let me know. My conclusion: “In sum, Learning to Emulate the Wise is a splendid and unusually unified collection, as important for thinking about the nature of philosophy around the globe today as it is for understanding the complex Chinese intellectual world in the first half of the 20th century.”

International graduate student research scholarships at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

These are generous scholarships, running for 3 years for a PhD and 2 years for a Masters degree. The scholarships pay for the tuition fee (which are around AUD$20,000 per year) and an annual stipend of $24,653.

If you are interested in submitting a proposal for research in Chinese philosophy, please get in touch with A/Prof Karyn Lai (k.lai@unsw.edu.au) as applications require the support of the supervisor.

More details are available at: http://research.unsw.edu.au/sites/all/files/related_files/regular_page_content/international_scholarship_guidelines.pdf?t=1360177126

The closing date for applications is 1st March 2013.

NECCT Announcement

Announcing the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought, to be held at Wesleyan University on Friday and Saturday, November 8-9, 2013.

The goals of the Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought (NECCT) are twofold:

  1. To provide a regional forum for everyone from graduate students to established scholars to present work, learn from one another, and establish or strengthen mutual relationships; and
  2. To bring together scholars and students who approach Chinese thought from diverse disciplinary perspectives so as to foster understanding of our various objectives, perspectives, and constraints—the point not being to privilege one approach or hope for a grand synthesis, but simply to encourage each of us to be less insular and to find ways to learn from the approaches of others.

We will issue a call for abstracts later in the Spring, the submission deadline for which will be June 1. Papers will not be circulated in advance, there will be no pre-determined commentators, and we do not anticipate a conference volume. In short, this is intended to be an informal (though high-quality) discussion at which new ideas and work-in-progress are very welcome.

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