SUNY Press has recently published Kuan-yun Huang’s new book A Walk in the Night with Zhuangzi: Musings on an Ancient Chinese Manuscript. In the book, Huang probes deeply into the manuscript in order to observe unappreciated aspects of many of the transmitted literary sources and come to a more definite conclusion about the text itself. Please click here for the publisher’s website and more information on the book itself.
Author Archives: Aris Dashiell
Hybrid Lecture: Further Reflections on the “Unmoved Heart”
The Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica; the Research Center of Taiwan, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences; and the online colloquium series, “Philology in Our Time: The Early China Project” are happy to announce a hybrid talk by Jeffrey Riegel titled “Further Reflections on an ‘Unmoved Heart’: Mengzi 2A2 Revisited”. The event will occur on Thursday, March 23rd, 2023, 10:00 am (Taipei/Hong Kong) at both 2nd Floor Conference Room, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy as well as on Webex (online). The event will be chaired by LEE Ming-huei and CHUNG Tsai-chun (both Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica), and feature the following discussants: LIN Ming-chao (National Taiwan University), WU Zhen-xun (National Taiwan University), HUANG Chi-li (Tunghai University), and NG Kai Chiu (National Chengchi University).
Please click here to sign up for the online version and here for an abstract of the paper being discussed.
Call for Registration: Questioning ‘Western Philosophy’
Worcester College, Oxford is happy to announce a call for registration for the coming conference, “Questioning ‘Western Philosophy’: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Challenges”. The event will happen both in-person and online from 28th April to 30th April 2023. The event will be the first international conference that subjects this concept to critical interrogation, asking whether it is legitimate, where it comes from, when and how it becomes widespread, and how it impacts our understanding of philosophy and its history. Building on work from, inter alia, the history of philosophy, global intellectual history, intercultural and comparative philosophy, critical philosophy of ‘race’, and decolonial studies, the conference will explore the concept of ‘Western Philosophy’ from philosophical, historical, and historiographical perspectives. Please read below for more information and how to register.
CFP: Being, Thinking, and Meaningfulness of Life
The Department of Philosophy at Fu Jen Catholic University is organizing a three-day international conference in memory of Professor Vincent Shen which will take place June 7th-9th 2024 at New Taipei City in Taiwan. They are inviting scholars, researchers, and members of academia to present their latest findings related to the theme of this conference. If you are interested in submitting a paper please click here for instructions in English and here for instructions in Chinese.
Please submit a proposal of your presentation, including an abstract (300 words in English, 500 in Chinese), with a title of your paper and 5 key terms, digitally by March 31th 2023. Please include your basic information when submitting your proposal via Email to Mrs. Zoe Saelim.
Online Workshop: Tiwald on “The Confucian Debate on Virtue Politics”
The Sun Yat-sen University is pleased to announce the 34th Comparative Philosophy Workshop which will be held virtually at 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm (Bejing time), on March 16th, 2023. The workshop will be held using Tencent Voov Meeting, and any video recording of the meeting is prohibited. Please click here to sign up for the workshop.
Topic: “The Confucian Debate on Virtue Politics”
Speaker: Justin TIWALD (Professor of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Jun-Hyeok KWAK (Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai), Sun Yat-sen University)
ToC: Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2:1
Edinburgh University Press is happy to announce that they have recently published a new issue of the Journal of Social and Political Philosophy 2:1. This issue was published in February of 2023 with 10 different publications including book reviews, a review essay, and articles. Please click here for the attached postcard which contains a free access code for the journal. Read below for a table of contents.
CEACOP Seminar
The CEACOP is happy to announce that they will have a new seminar this Friday, March 3rd at 2pm (HKT). The speaker is Ahyoung Lee (Ph.D. Candidate, City University of Hong Kong) and her talk is “On Han Fei’s Enlightened Ruler”. The seminar will take place via Zoom, please click here for the poster for the event. Read below for the Zoom information.
ToC: Dao 22:1
Springer has recently published issue 22:1 of Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy. In this issue there are 14 different articles. Please read below for a table of contents.
New Book: The Future of China’s Past
SUNY Press has recently published a new book titled The Future of China’s Past: Reflections on the Meaning of China’s Rise by Albert Welter. This book examines how China’s traditional culture is being reinvented and manipulated for political purposes. Please click here for more information on the book.
ToC: Asian Philosophy 33:1
Issue 33:1 of Asian Philosophy has been published. In this issue, published in January 2023, there are six articles. Read below for the table of contents.
