Daily Archives: August 26, 2017

US National Humanities Center East Asian Scholars Program

For blog readers in East Asia, especially…

NATIONAL HUMANITIES CENTER EAST ASIAN SCHOLARS PROGRAM

With the support of the Henry Luce Foundation, the National Humanities Center invites proposals from scholars at elite East Asian universities for fellowships for the 2018-19 academic year. The current participating universities are Tsinghua, Fudan, Shanghai Jiao Tong, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University, National University of Singapore, and National Taiwan University, although we are open to expanding participation from stellar institutions.

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New Book: Between History and Philosophy

Paul van Els and Sarah A. Queen, eds., Between History and Philosophy: Anecdotes in Early China (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2017). ISBN: 978-1-4384-6611-8.

The hardcover version will be out very soon; the Kindle and other eBook versions are already available. For more information, see the SUNY website:

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6418-between-history-and-philosophy.aspx

Information about the book and its cover (including a sharper image) is also available at Paul’s website:

http://paulvanels.nl/publications/anecdotes/ 

Summary and Table of Contents follows.

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CFP: Materiality of Knowledge in Chinese thought

Call for papers:  “Materiality of Knowledge in Chinese thought, Past and Present”.

The conference will be organised jointly by Dirk Meyer and Stefano Gandolfo, University of Oxford. It will take place on 19-21 September 2018 at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. It will discuss matters related to the materiality of knowledge from the following three aspects:

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CFP: ISCP at 2018 Pacific APA

The International Society for Chinese Philosophy (ISCP) invites submissions to be considered for ISCP panels at the upcoming APA Pacific Division Meeting at Westin San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, San Diego, CA, March 28- April 1, 2018.  Submissions focusing on any area of Chinese or Comparative philosophy.

REQUIRED (for proposal):

  • Title of Paper
  • Name of Presenter
  • Presenter’s Affiliation
  • Presenter’s e-mail address
  • Approximately 200-word Paper Abstract

Please send each your proposal as an e-mail attachment to Robin Wang at rwang@lmu.edu by October 1, 2017.