As I had mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the “Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity in Taiwan” has invited David B. Wong to present five online-lectures on “Metaphor and Analogy in Early Chinese Thought: Governance within the Person, State, and Society”.
International Conference on “Nothingness in Deliberation”
We are pleased to announce the Routledge International Conference on “Nothingness in Deliberation” which will be held virtually at 19:00 PM to 22:00 PM (Beijing Time), May 22nd, July 10th, and July 17th, 2021.
Due to the pandemic across the world, we will have a virtual (on-line) conference. Should you wish to join the conference, please email to the conference coordinators to get the meeting password. We are going to use Tencent Voov Meeting, and any video recording of this meeting is prohibited.
TANG Shaowei: tangshaowei23@
HUA Xiaoya: 1335888231@qq.com
Voov Meeting: https://voovmeeting.
Aristotelian Society Talk by Michael Beaney
“Swimming Happily in Chinese Logic” By Michael Beaney
MONDAY, 21 JUNE 2021 17.30 – 19.15
More information here: https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-proceedings/the-2020-21-programme/michael-beaney/ (including the Zoom link)
(Brought to my attention by an ex-student)
CFP: ISCP at the 2022 APA Eastern (January 5-8 in Montreal, Quebec)
The International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) plans to host two-panel sessions at the Eastern Division American Philosophical Association (APA) in Montreal, Quebec, on January 5–8, 2022.
Submissions focusing on any area of Chinese or Comparative philosophy are welcomed. Your submission should include the following information:
1. Title of Paper
2. Name of Presenter
3. Presenter’s Affiliation
4. Presenter’s e-mail address
5. Approximately a 200-300 word Paper Abstract
6. Submission Deadline: June 20, 2021
Please send the submissions electronically to Dr. Jea Sophia Oh, ISCP Liaison to the APA Eastern Division Meeting, at: joh@wcupa.edu with “ISCP APA Eastern” in the subject line.
Simultaneous submissions (e.g. submitting the same abstract to multiple APA Group Sessions) are discouraged. If your paper is selected for inclusion, then you are committed to presenting it at our Group Session of the APA Eastern Division Meeting.
–on behalf of A/Prof Jea Oh, West Chester University of Pennsylvania & the ISCP
CFP: Teaching Philosophy as a Way of Life
Jane Drexler and Ryan Johnson are co-editing a special issue of American Association of Philosophy Teachers Studies in Pedagogy focused on philosophy as a way of life, and are looking for contributions, including those with an emphasis on non-Western philosophies. See here for more information.
Connolly Reviews Kim, Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics
NDPR Sungmoon Kim Theorizing Confucian Virtue Politics: The Political Philosophy of Mencius and Xunzi (Reviewed by Tim Connolly, East Stroudsburg University)
“Confucian political theory offers a normative vision for contemporary societies that draws on concepts from thinkers in the Chinese philosophical tradition initiated by Confucius (551-479 BCE). Much of the recent work in this area is motivated by dialogue with mainstream Western political theory, focusing on questions of Confucianism’s compatibility with liberal democracy. Yet as Sungmoon Kim writes in the opening pages of the book, these attempts to establish dialogue have tended to look at general characteristics of the classical Confucian tradition, giving less attention to internal debates and disagreements within this tradition. Kim’s book is devoted to a reconstruction of…”
Continue reading on ndpr.nd.edu
ToC: HJAS 80:1
Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Vol. 80, No. 1) Contents
On-line Conference: Dynamics of knowledge transmission and linguistic transformation in Chinese textual cultures
The program of the Online International Workshop “Dynamics of knowledge transmission and linguistic transformation in Chinese textual cultures” (June 10-11, 2021) is available online at the following link:
https://knowl-lingtrans.sciencesconf.org/program
The workshop will be held online via Zoom. Access is free but registration is required. For registration, please visit
https://knowl-lingtrans.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/3
The workshop is jointly organised by Barbara Bisetto (University of Verona, Italy) and Rainier Lanselle (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, CRCAO, Paris, France).
For inquiries, contact: knowl-lingtrans@sciencesconf.org
New Book: One Corner of the Square
One Corner of the Square: Essays on the Philosophy of Roger T. Ames. Edited by Ian M. Sullivan and Joshua Mason. University of Hawaii Press, 2021.
This volume contains contributions from 33 scholars who studied with Roger Ames. Their chapters reflect on, analyze, and sometimes critique Ames’s work, building on his legacy of comparative and Chinese philosophy and taking themes from his career in novel directions.
For more information or to order the book, see the publisher’s website here:
(See the contents of the book below)
Berggruen Workshop: Living with Machines
An English-language workshop titled “Living with Machines: Future Perspectives and Analysis” will be held by the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University on May 7, 3:00pm-5:00pm local time; details about the topics and presenters as well as registration and streaming info are here.
