We are pleased to announce the following online event to be held on 9-12th December, 2021. Full programme and registration are now available from the following website:
News: Sino-hellenic Environmental Philosophy – Institute of Philosophy (unibe.ch)
Online Workshop
SINO-HELLENIC ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
A Comparative Perspective on Environmental Thought
in Early China and Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Thursday, 9 – Sunday, 12 December 2021
Online (Zoom)
Organised at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Switzerland
TITLES & SPEAKERS
(*Alphabetically by speaker’s surname. Titles subject to change.)
The Implications of Greek Ontology and Confucian “Zoetology” in Environmental Thinking
Roger T. Ames
(Peking University)
Plato’s Ecological Insights and His Environmental Ethics
- Baird Callicott, Jorge Torres, and Jeffrey Gessas
(University of North Texas, University of Bern)
The Intrinsic Value of the Living Natural World according to Aristotle and It’s Relation to Contemporary Environmental Ethics
Sophia Connell
(Birkbeck, University of London)
The Stoic Contribution to Environmental Ethics
Christopher Gill
(University of Exeter)
A Little Bestiary of the Zhuangzi
Christoph Harbsmeier
(University of Oslo)
The Seasonality of the Emotions in Chinese Medicine
Elisabeth Hsu
(University of Oxford)
Introduction
Richard King
(University of Bern)
Aristotle on Winds That Impregnate
Mariska Leunissen
(The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
The Ethics of Vitality in the Zhuangzi
David Machek
(University of Bern)
Porous Bodies and Mobile Spirits: Rethinking Inner and Outer in Early China
Lisa Raphals
(University of California, Riverside)
Death is Not Only a Natural Thing …
Discussing the Human-Nature-Relationship in the Zhuāng zǐ
Dennis Schilling
(Renmin University)
Early Chinese Thought and Its Environmental Misreadings
Roel Sterckx
(University of Cambridge)
Plato and Xunzi on the Role of Humans in the Cosmic Order
Yumi Suzuki
(University of Bern)
Medical Ecology in Hippocratic Medicine
Jorge Torres
(University of Bern)
Towards a Shared Beauty of Nature and Human
Guorong Yang
(East China Normal University)
INVITED DISCUSSANTS
Wolfgang Behr (University of Zurich)
Lea Cantor (University of Oxford)
Thomas Crone (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Alba Curry (University of California, Riverside)
Paul J. D’Ambrosio (East China Normal University)
Betegh Gábor (University of Cambridge)
Eric Hutton (University of Utah)
Lisa Indraccolo (Tallin University)
Karyn Lai (The University of New South Wales)
Liangjian Liu (East China Normal University)
Eric Nelson (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Francesca Puglia (University of Bern)
Marco Schori (University of Bern)
Winnie Sung (Nanyang Technological University)
Anders Sydskjør (University of Bern)
Claudia Zetta (The American College of Greece)
Jingyi Jenny Zhao (Needham Research Institute/Clare Hall, Cambridge)
Workshop Organising Team
Richard King, Yumi Suzuki, Jorge Torres, Francesca Puglia, Marco Schori
Institute of Philosophy, University of Bern, Switzerland
This event is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.