Columbia Neo-Confucianism Seminar Dec. 7

The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies will convene on Friday, December 7 from 3:30 to 5:30pm. We will meet in the Board Room on the first floor of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Please note the earlier starting time.

Our presenter for this session is Jaeyoon Song of McMaster University. The title of Dr. Song’s paper is “The Zhouli and Li Gou’s Constitutional Agenda.” A copy of the paper is available; please contact any of the organizers for a copy. Please note that it is slightly different than the copy sent out earlier and supersedes the earlier version.

All are welcome to attend. Please feel free to forward this message to interested colleagues. Please join us after the seminar for dinner at the Columbia Cottage restaurant, which is located on the corner of Amsterdam and 111th Streets.

If you have any questions, you may contact one of our organizers: Yong Huang, (yhuang@kutztown.edu), Tao Jiang (tjiang@rci.rutgers.edu), On-cho Ng (oxn1@psu.edu), or Deborah Sommer (dsommer@gettysburg.edu or das9@caa.columbia.edu).   Our rapporteur this year is Liu Peng (pl2411@columbia.edu) of Columbia University.

CFP: Society for the Study of Early China First Annual Conference

The Society for the Study of Early China First Annual Conference

A call for papers for the first annual conference of the Society for the Study of Early China, to be held in conjunction with the 2013 national meeting of the Association for Asian Studies.

The SSEC conference will take place on Thursday, March 21, from 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM, in room “Edward C” of the Manchester Grand Hyatt hotel in San Diego, California. The planning committee is now accepting individual paper proposals.

Prospective speakers should plan for a presentation of 20 minutes, with 10 minutes allocated for discussion. Please submit proposals in PDF or MS Word format to <SSECconference2013@gmail.com>. Submissions should include the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, academic rank, contact information, paper title, and a brief abstract of no more than 250 words. Proposals are due by January 15, 2013.

All are welcome to attend our meeting in San Diego. If you are not a current member of the Society for the Study of Early China, we urge you to become one now by ordering Early China 33-34 (see www.earlychina.org for order forms or to pay online).

Please note that those who participate only in the SSEC conference need not register for the AAS meeting.

Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism 中國佛教電子書目

Especially given the great importance of Buddhist discourse in the 19th and 20th centuries to modern Chinese thought more broadly, this resource looks to be very valuable!

From: “Gregory Adam Scott” <gas2122@columbia.edu>

I am very pleased to announce the public opening of the online search interface to my Digital Bibliography of Chinese Buddhism 中國佛教電子書目.

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Nov. 2 Neo-Confucianism Seminar

Our thoughts go out to those in the New York area recovering from Hurricane Sandy! Happily, the lights stayed on in Middletown where I live, though 650,000 people are without power in Connecticut and many more in New York, New Jersey, and beyond. 

Update, 10/31: The Nov. 2 Seminar has been cancelled, and will be re-scheduled at a later date.

The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies will convene on Friday, November 2 from 3:30 to 5:30pm.  We will meet in the Common Room in the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University.  Please note the earlier starting time.

Our presenter for this session is Deborah Sommer.  Her paper is titled “The Body of Confucius in Han Apocrypha.”  A copy of her paper can be obtained from any of the Co-Chairs (see below).

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Weinstein Prize on East Asian Buddhism 

STANLEY WEINSTEIN DISSERTATION PRIZE

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to announce the
third competition for the Stanley Weinstein Dissertation Prize, honoring
Professor Weinstein's many contributions to the study of East Asian Buddhism in
North America. The prize will be awarded once every two years to the best Ph.D.
dissertation on East Asian Buddhism written in North America during the two
previous years. The dissertation must be based on original research in the
primary languages and should significantly advance our understanding of East
Asian Buddhism. East Asian Buddhism is understood for this competition to refer
to those traditions in East Asia that take Chinese translations of the Buddhist
scriptures as their basis (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese). Studies
of East Asian Buddhist communities in the West are not eligible for
consideration.
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New APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies

APA Newsletters, Fall 2012 (Vol. 12, No. 1)

Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
From the Editor, David H. Kim
Article
“Report on ‘Japanese Aesthetics’,” A. Minh Nguyen
Book Review
Yubraj Aryal: The Humanities at Work: International Exchange of Ideas in Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Literature, Reviewed by Arun Kumar Pokhrel

Prof. Lao Sze-Kwang 勞思光 Passes Away

I regret to announce that Prof. Lao Sze-Kwang 勞思光, a leading interpreter of Chinese philosophy, has passed away. According to Prof. Wu Youneng of Hong Kong Baptist University:

中央研究院院士勞思光教授,痛於二0一二年十月二十一日辭世, 先生生於1927年, 享壽八十五歲.先生是著作等身的哲學大師, 特別在中國哲學史方面, 貢獻很大.

相信各位前輩學者,必然知之甚詳, 無須多作介紹. 雖然先生辭世的新聞在今天港台報章多有報導, 但晚輩恐怕各位身處外地,未必馬上得知,特別專函告知.

There is a Facebook page at which Prof. Lau’s many students and admirers are leaving messages.

For some more information on Prof. Lau’s life and accomplishments, read on.

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Another Recent Dissertation: Chai on Ontology and Cosmology in Zhuangzi

Here is anther recent dissertation in Chinese philosophy, posted with permission. David has already published articles on Ji Kang and on Xuanxue, and will be presenting papers at the Eastern and Central APAs on topics ranging from “Ziqi and Yan Hui on Forgetting” to “Heidegger’s Lichtung in Light of Daoism” to “Being and the Abyss: Heidegger’s Leap into Daoist Nothingness.” 

Title: Nothingness, Being, and Dao: Ontology and Cosmology in the Zhuangzi
Author: David Chai (david.chai@utoronto.ca)
Defended: February 2012
Institution: University of Toronto, Canada (Dept. of East Asian Studies)
Supervisor: Vincent Shen

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