15th Annual Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought
North Central College (Naperville, IL)
April 26-27, 2019
Wentz Science Center, Room 104
(Free and open to the public)
Friday, April 26
1:30-3:15 Wandering with the Way (Chair: Brian Hoffert)
- Roy Porat (Fulbright Postdoc Fellow, Harvard University)
“Two Ways of Seeing Things as One in the Zhuangzi Qiwulun” - Stephen Walker (PhD Candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School)
“The Way and the Sway in the Huainanzi” - Michael Ing (Associate Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington)
“The Ecstasy of Ale: Tao Yuanming on Life’s Enjoyments”
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:15 Confucian Moral Theory (Chair: Susan Blake)
- Dobin Choi (Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Iowa)
“Confucian Care with Distinctions and Internal Moral Self-Cultivation” - Julianne Nicole Chung (Assistant Professor, University of Louisville)
“Making Sense of Aesthetic Obligation” - Sam Cocks (Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse)
“Wang Yangming, Moral Realism, and Moral Fictionalism”
5:30-6:30 Keynote Address
- Peimin Ni (Professor of Philosophy, Grand Valley State University)
“Theories of the Heat-Mind and Globalization of Confucianism Today”
Saturday, April 27
9:30-10:40 Subtle Tones of Moral Expression (Chair: Cheryl Cottine)
- Brandon King (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania)
“Moral Concern in the Legalist State” - Hannah Haejin Kim (PhD Candidate, Stanford University)
“Human Nature and Music: Competing Confucian Views on Music’s Moral Relevance”
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Round Table on Interdisciplinarity Approaches to Chinese Thought (Chair: Michael Ing)
- Susan Blake (Visiting Assistant Professor, Bard College)
- Julianne Nicole Chung (Assistant Professor, University of Louisville)
- Brian Hoffert (Associate Professor, North Central College)
- Aaron Stalnaker (Associate Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington)
12:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:45 The Application of Confucian Ethics (Chair: Aaron Stalnaker)
- Ben Birkenstock (Trinity Western University)
“The Character of Ethical Judgment: Shared Perspectives in Aristotle and Confucius” - Rui Fan (PhD Candidate, Indian University, Bloomington)
“Mencius 1A7 and What the Mencian Gentleman Would Eat in Today’s America” - Liang Cai (Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame)
“The Master Kept a Distance from His Own Son: Filial Piety, Confucius’ Learning Community, and Textual Stratification”
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:10 Exploring the Boundaries of Identity and Difference (Chair: Julianne Nicole Chung)
- Jenny Hung (Visiting Scholar, University of California, Riverside)
“The Concept Ji 即 in T’ien-t’ai Buddhism” - Tim Gutmann (PhD Candidate, University of Chicago Divinity School)
“Relations and Difference: Wang Daiyu’s Muslim and Confucian Humanisms”
Full program with abstracts available on the conference website.
