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Columbia Neo-Confucianism Seminar Dec. 7

The next session of the Columbia University Seminar on Neo-Confucian Studies will convene on Friday, December 7 from 3:30 to 5:30pm. We will meet in the Board Room on the first floor of the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University. Please note the earlier starting time.

Our presenter for this session is Jaeyoon Song of McMaster University. The title of Dr. Song’s paper is “The Zhouli and Li Gou’s Constitutional Agenda.” A copy of the paper is available; please contact any of the organizers for a copy. Please note that it is slightly different than the copy sent out earlier and supersedes the earlier version.

All are welcome to attend. Please feel free to forward this message to interested colleagues. Please join us after the seminar for dinner at the Columbia Cottage restaurant, which is located on the corner of Amsterdam and 111th Streets.

If you have any questions, you may contact one of our organizers: Yong Huang, (yhuang@kutztown.edu), Tao Jiang (tjiang@rci.rutgers.edu), On-cho Ng (oxn1@psu.edu), or Deborah Sommer (dsommer@gettysburg.edu or das9@caa.columbia.edu).   Our rapporteur this year is Liu Peng (pl2411@columbia.edu) of Columbia University.

Bongrae Seok lecture at Columbia this Friday

THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY welcomes BONGRAE SEOK (Alvernia University), with formal responses by HAGOP SARKISSIAN (Baruch College, CUNY). Please join us in RM 101 IN THE DEPARTMENT OF RELIGION  at Columbia University on November 11th at 5:30 for his lecture entitled, “Embodied Moral Psychology of Confucian Heart.” Continue reading →

Three upcoming lectures at Columbia

On Friday, April 29, Edward Slingerland will speak on “Early Confucian Virtue Ethics and the Situationist Critique” to the THE COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR COMPARATIVE PHILOSOPHY, with a response by Owen Flanagan.

On Friday, May 6, the COLUMBIA NEO-CONFUCIANISM SEMINAR will host two speakers:

  • Anna Sun, “The Revival of Confucius Worship: The Renewal and Reinvention of Personal Rites in Confucius Temples in Contemporary China.”
  • Yang Xiao, “‘Throw Me a Peach, I’ll Return You a Plum’: Mencius’ Moral Psychology of Social Relations.”

Details follow. Continue reading →

Doubleheader Friday (11/5) at Columbia

There will be two lecture/seminars at Columbia University this coming Friday, November 5, 2010:

  • John Berthrong will present “Boston Daoxue 道學 Architectonic” at the Neo-Confucianism Seminar at 3:30; and
  • Stephen Angle will present “Rethinking Confucian Authority and Rejecting Confucian Authoritarianism” at the Columbia Society for Comparative Philosophy at 5:30.

Details below. Continue reading →