CFP: ACPA at 2022 Pacific APA

We welcome scholars to submit individual and panel proposals to be considered for inclusion on two ACPA group sessions at the 2022 APA Pacific Division Meeting. We are open to submissions that engage with Chinese philosophy in a wide variety of ways and we are not specifying a theme for the group sessions prior to receiving proposals.   In addition to the quality of submission, the selection of papers for presentation will be based on how well they can be worked into a good session.  We particularly encourage junior, women, BIPOC, and other underrepresented scholars to apply. Info on the Association of Chinese Philosophers in North America (ACPA) is available here:  http://chinesephilosophersacpa.weebly.com

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Research Associate position available

Research Associate/Fellow (3 years, 80%)
University of Nottingham, U.K.
Applications are invited for a 3-year Research Assistant (80%) based at the University of Nottingham, generously funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The post is part of the Leverhulme Research Project ‘Divine Saving in Greek and Chinese Polytheism’, directed by Dr. Theodora Jim (University of Nottingham, U.K.) together with Prof. Vincent Goossaert (EPHE, Paris). The successful candidate will work with the project team to analyse primary sources on Chinese religions from about the 10th to the 15th centuries C.E., and to compare and contrast Chinese polytheism with Greek polytheism.

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New Book: Governing the Realm and Bringing Peace to All below Heaven

AUTHOR: Kumazawa Banzan

EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR: John A. Tucker, East Carolina University

DATE PUBLISHED: January 2021

Kumazawa Banzan’s (1619-1691) Responding to the Great Learning (Daigaku wakumon) stands as the first major writing on political economy in early modern Japanese history. John A. Tucker’s translation is the first English rendition of this controversial text to be published in eighty years. The introduction offers an accessible and incisive commentary, including detailed analyses of Banzan’s text within the context of his life, as well as broader historical and intellectual developments in East Asian Confucian thought. Emphasizing parallels between Banzan’s life events, such as his relief efforts in the Okayama domain following devastating flooding, and his later writings advocating compassionate government, environmental initiatives, and projects for growing wealth, Tucker sheds light on Banzan’s main objective of ‘governing the realm and bringing peace and prosperity to all below heaven’. In Responding to the Great Learning, Banzan was doing more than writing a philosophical commentary, he was advising the Tokugawa shogunate to undertake a major reorganization of the polity – or face the consequences.

For more information or to order the book, see the publisher’s website.

 

CFP: Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference

The Chinese Studies Association of Australia cordially invites proposals for its forthcoming biennial conference. Contributions addressing the conference theme, “Changing China: Then and Now”, are especially encouraged, though proposals on any area of Chinese Studies are welcome. Proposals may be for individual or joint papers or for panels. We look forward to putting together a wide-ranging, multi- disciplinary montage of the best research in Chinese Studies being done both in Australia and overseas.

The conference welcomes presentations in English and Chinese. Abstracts for individual papers (including papers for panels) and roundtables should not exceed 250 words.

This will be an in-person conference on the ANU campus. In the event that international travel remains impossible through 2021, we will aim for dual-delivery methods to accommodate on-line participation.

Closing date for submissions: 31 July, 2021 

Announcement of successful submissions: 31 August, 2021 

Please submit your abstract including paper title, authors’ affiliation and contact details, and a short bio (approx. 50 words) via this online form.

Please send any enquiries to: csaa.conference@anu.edu.au.

Further details will be updated at: http://www.csaa.org.au/call-for-papers-2021/

Zoom lecture on Li Zhi 李贄 by Pauline C. Lee, July 26, 10 A.M. EDT

The Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania is pleased to announce a Zoom lecture by Pauline C. Lee:

“Tales of a Late-Ming Iconoclast:  On Li Zhi 李贄, His Life, and His Books”

For an abstract and Zoom login info, click here:

https://ealc.sas.upenn.edu/events/tales-late-ming-iconoclast-li-zhilizhi-his-life-and-his-books

Hope to see many of you there!

Paul R. Goldin

2022 SEA International Young Scholars Conference

Dear colleagues,

The Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity in Taiwan (CCS) will be hosting the 2nd Sinophone Studies in Europe and the Americas (SEA) International Young Scholars Conference in March 2022 at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. We invite post-doctoral researcher, Ph. D. candidate, doctoral or master’s degree student in all related fields to discuss different research approaches with their Taiwanese counterparts.

The goal of the SEA 2022 conference is to re-think existing paradigms in fields and sub-fields like Asian Studies, Sinology, Transcultural Studies, Religion Studies, Applied Ethics, Comparative Literature and Philosophy, History of Thought, Global History, Digital Humanities, etc. One central question that we want to explore is how to understand the idea of (geographic, linguistic, conceptual) “border” in the global present, and how different Sinophone perspectives interrogate this and other related ideas, in particular with regard to the following topics:

  1. Categories and Boundaries in Transcultural Perspective.
  2. Inclusivity and Demarcation in Sinophone Religions.
  3. Sinophone Studies in Practical Horizon.

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