The Confucian Traditions Group will sponsor panels for the 2012 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, which will take place in Chicago from November 17-20. This Group invites proposals concerning any aspect of Confucianism from any geographical area. Topics of particular interest this coming year are:
- Confucianism and tradition — Confucianism as a conservative force or a source of change
- Confucian ritual interaction with other traditions
- Confucian self-cultivation
- Confucianism and the Confucius Institutes
- “Confucian Fever” — grass-roots Confucianism
- Unintended consequences of Confucian discourse and institutions
