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It looks like 2011 will be remembered as a year of interpretation. As far as I know, there will be three international conferences on this very theme in June (so June will be the month of interpretation!):
1. There is the annual ISCWP Beijing Roundtable on Contemporary Philosophy, “Classical Texts and Philosophical Interpretation: In View of Studies of Chinese Philosophy and Development of Contemporary Philosophy” at Capital Normal University, Beijing, 3 June, 2011.
2. There is the international conference co-organized by Shandong University and SUNY Buffalo: “Interpretation East and West: An International Conference” at Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, 2-6 June, 2011.Here is the program of the conference:
http://www.sps.sdu.edu.cn/sps60/cms/attachment/110523175814.doc
3. Finally, there is the international symposium “Reading Matters: Chinese and Western Traditions of Interpreting the Classics” at Leiden University, the Netherlands, 10-11 June, 2011.
http://www.hum.leiden.edu/news-agenda/iias-reading-matters.html
It is my impression that the organizers of these conferences have come up with the theme independently. I think there is something in the air!
I’ve always been interested in the fundamental question about interpretation, which is “How should we interpret and read texts today?.” Some might try to offer a general theory of interpretation as an answer to the question. Others might try to offer a radical “anti-theory” view, which is that one cannot (and should not) try to come up with any general theory of interpretation that is applicable to any text and any reader. Continue reading →
I have just arrived in Taiwan; I’ll be staying at Soochow University for two weeks, teaching a mini-class and participating in a conference. If any blog readers happen to be in Taiwan and want to get together, please send me an email!
Call for applications: Graduate Workshop
Research Training in Old Chinese: Old Chinese Grammar and Semantics
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See the announcement here. Announcement includes a link to the download of the first issue. Our thanks for the pointer to friend of the blog and avid blogger in his own right, Patrick O’Donnell.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
AT SAN ANTONIO
2012 PHILOSOPHY SYMPOSIUM
Keynote Speaker: Chung-Ying Cheng, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
University of Hawaii
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Texas at San Antonio announces a call for papers in any area of philosophy. Submissions are not to exceed 12 pages (20 minutes reading time). Papers of comparative studies of Eastern and western philosophies are particularly welcome. All manuscripts must be submitted as e-mail attachments to xun.chen@utsa.edu or in two hardcopies to:
Section 2A/6 of the Mencius tells us that the heart of deference (辭讓) is the starting point of ritual. I’ll try to convince you that this is a puzzling claim, and then suggest a solution to the puzzle.
The puzzle is that ritual obviously mobilises motives other than deference, and calls for behaviour that is not simply deferential. Think of the way that grief takes on ritualised shape in funerals: this is not just an extension of deference. So, why did it make sense to the author or authors of Mencius 2A/6 to say that deference is the starting-point of ritual?
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Dao 10:2 is now available, including articles by several regulars on the blog, and an exchange between Justin and myself concerning the interpretation of “li” (= Coherence!). Continue reading →
This is a conference at University of Connecticut, in Storrs CT, in honor of Joel Kupperman, who has written much on Asian and comparative philosophy. Here is the link to the University of Connecticut site. Steve Angle is presenting a paper on Saturday. (I’ll be attending the conference, but I’m not sure exactly when and for how long. If anyone out there can make it, don’t be shy!)
Here are the particulars:
