Friday, April 3
| 12:00-2:00
Midday Panel Chair: Ellie Hua Wang |
1. Tim Connolly, “Confucianism and Transformative Education”
2. Hagop Sarkissian, “Reciprocity’s Only Appearance in the Mengzi” 3. Polly Chou, “On Ordinary Anger in the Mencius: Moral Cultivation, and the Resources of yi (義)” 4. Naiyi Hsu, “Moral Perfectionism and Political Agency in Early Confucian Philosophy” |
| 2:00-2:15 – Break | |
| 2:15-3:45
Afternoon Panel Chair: Tim Connolly |
5. Zhang Borong, “Rethinking ‘Hard to Nurture’: Gender, Class, and Ritual Constraints in Analects 17:25”
6. Ori Tavor, “Eschatological Optimism in Contemporary Daoist Utopian Thought” 7. Yuanfang Dai, “Disquiet in the House of Chinese Philosophy: On the State of the Field of Comparative Feminist Philosophy” |
| 3:45-4:00 – Break | |
| 4:00-5:30
Keynote Address Chair: Mercedes Valmisa |
8. Brook Ziporyn, “Paeans and Polemics in the Mirror Ball: A Late Ming Case-Study in Ambivalent Tiantai and Tiantai Ambivalence” |
Saturday, April 4
| 9:00 -10:30
Morning Panel Chair: Yuanfang Dai |
9. Li Kang, “Performative Metaphysics: A Chinese Chan Buddhist Approach”
10. Samuel Cocks, “According with Things: Volition, Freedom, and Enlightened Activity in Chan Buddhism” 11. Ewa Rzanna, “The Pric(z)e of Adaptability: Qu Yuan’s Fisherman and the Challenge of the Social” |
| 10:30-10:45 – Break | |
| 10:45-12:15
Midday Panel Chair: Julianne Chung |
12. Ellie Hua Wang, “From Feeling to Fitting: A Fivefold Model of Ethical Understanding in Mencius, Zhuangzi, and Xunzi”
13. Stephen Walker, “How to Be Caring and Careful: Ren 仁 and Yi 義 in Context” 14. Thomas Clark Jackson, “Notes on Tao Yuanming’s Orchestration of Ethical and Existential Life” |
| 12:15-1:45 – Lunch | |
| 1:45-3:15
Afternoon Panel Chair: Stephen Walker |
15. Julianne Chung, “That’s Entertainment? Flexible Absorption in the Qiwulun and Beyond”
16. Ren Songyao, “Open-mindedness: Insights from the Zhuangzi” 17. Rose Novick, “Three Ways of Looking at a Big Bird” |
| 3:15-3:30 – Break | |
| 3:30-5:00
Afternoon Panel Chair: Rose Novick |
18. Rachel Zhou, “Deep into the Depth of the Misty Rain”
19. Frankie Chik, “Thinking with Beasts: Animal Set-Phrases and Argumentation in Classical Chinese Philosophy” 20. Jane Bennett, “The Style of Becoming: On Dao, Nature, and Sweeping” |
Sunday, April 5
| 11:00-12:30
Midday Panel Chair: Samuel Cocks |
21. Season Blake, “Mohist Dialectics on Communication”
22. Brian Hoffert, “The Butterfly’s Dream: Early Daoist Mysticism and Zhuangzi’s ‘Transformation of Things’” 23. Olivia Lee, “Saying or Not Saying? The Sage and Language in Wang Bi’s Philosophy” |
| 12:30-1:30 – Lunch | |
| 1:30-3:00
Afternoon Panel Chair: Hagop Sarkissian |
24. Yi Ching Tam, “Embracing Western Music through Confucian Logics: The Case of Kang Youwei’s ‘Travelogue of Denmark’”
25. Sara Rubio, “Are Human Lifespans Fated? Revisiting the Mengzi 孟子 in Light of Warring States and Han Sources” 26. Wenwen Li and Brian Bruya, “The Origin of Mencius’s View of Qi” |
| 3:00-3:30
Closing Remarks/ Business Meeting |
