CFP: ISCP at 2025 APA Central DIvision Meeting (Online)

The International Society for Chinese Philosophy invites submissions for the ISCP Group Panel at the 2025 APA-Central Division Meeting. The meeting will be entirely online. Sessions will be held on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of two consecutive weeks: February 20–22 and February 27–March 1, 2025. Any submission relevant to Chinese philosophy is welcomed. Please send the following information along with your abstract in Word or PDF format to Jing Hu at jing.hu@concordia.ca by Oct. 1, 2024. Kindly title your email “2025 ISCP Central APA submission”.

1. Title of Paper
2. Name of Presenter
3. Presenter’s Affiliation and Contact Information
4. Paper Abstract (200-300 words, in attachment)

Please reach out to Jing Hu for for any inquiries.

Works In Progress Series

The 四海为学 “Collective Learning” program is delighted to announce the launch of their second season of the “Works in Progress” series. This series aims to provide an academic forum for graduate students and early career scholars engaged in Chinese or comparative philosophy to share and improve upon their projects with peers in conference-style panel presentations. Each session features a chairperson, 2-3 presenters, and an audience of participants who will provide constructive feedback on content, structure, or presentation style. It welcomes projects at any stage of development and aims to accommodate the intellectual needs of each presenter. Events will be held once a month. The first session for the Fall 2024 season is already planned for September 23 with three members presenting on their exciting new projects. Graduate students and early career scholars are welcomed to join or submit applications to present in the next October or November sessions.

Interested individuals can visit the website (General 2 — 四海为学 Collaborative Learning) or email WorksinProgressSHWX@hotmail.com for more information and an application form to present in a future session.

Episode 10 of “This Is the Way”: Moral Cultivation

How do we become good? What is the process by which we acquire the virtues? We examine these question by focusing on some key concepts in Mencius’s account of moral development such as reflection and extension. This discussion also centers on Mengzi 1A7 and the famous “king and the ox” passage that has been the subject of much conversation and debate. Continue reading

四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Roundtable on Learning and Education

This Friday, September 13th, at 19:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will host the first roundtable of 2024-2025 academic year. The title of this roundtable is “Reflecting on Learning and Education,” for details, including the Zoom, link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/learning-roundtable (Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
For a list of upcoming events see the calendar here.

Fall 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Free Seminars

This academic year the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” project will be hosting 2-3 events each month. Please visit their event calendar for details.

The program is also hosting three seminars this fall, seminars are free courses that are open to anyone interested:

1. Dao and Logos: Reading the Laozi with/against Heraclitus
Led by: Dimitra Amarantidou (University of Macau) and Fabian Heubel (Academia Sinica) This course will meet on Mondays at 19:00 Beijing time. There will eight classes, starting in October 21 and ending December 9th.

2. Early Chinese Philosophy of Education
Led by: Geir Sigurðsson (University of Iceland) and Paul J. D’Ambrosio (East China Normal University)This class will meet on Tuesdays at 6:00 pm Beijing time, and starts September 24th

3. The Political Laozi
Led by: Paul J. D’Ambrosio (East China Normal University), Dimitra Amarantidou (University of Macau), and John Lombardini (College of William and Mary)This class will meet on Tuesdays at 7:45 pm Beijing time. It will begin on September 24th.

For more details and links to any of these seminars please visit: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/seminars

Book Discussion: Wong, Moral Relativism and Pluralism

The 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project will be starting off the new academic year with a book discussion of David Wong’s Moral Relativism and Pluralism. The discussion will start at 20:00 on September 6th, Beijing time. For more details and the Zoom link please visit the event page.

Note: Zoom does not always adjust the date and time correctly, please ignore what the link says and follow our scheduled time. No pre-registration or passcode is required. Everyone in the waiting room will be let in promptly when the event begins.

For more information on the 四海为学 “Collaborative Learning” Project visit the website, and for list of our upcoming events please see the calendar.

CFP: 2nd Carolina Conference on Chinese Thought

The Carolina Conference on Chinese Thought (CCCT) invites scholars and graduate students to discuss their work on Chinese thought, drawing from any disciplinary perspective. Presentations focusing on research, pedagogy, and other engagements with Chinese thought are welcome. Works-in-progress are especially encouraged, with the CCCT being a collegial atmosphere for collaboration. All things otherwise equal, proposals from scholars and graduate students based in the Carolinas and the U.S. Southeast region will be given preference for selection. Please read on for details!

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