2026 Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought CFP

The Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought was created to foster dialogue and interaction between scholars and students working on Chinese thought across different disciplines and through a variety of approaches. We invite submissions on any aspect of Chinese thought, as well as comparative work that engages Chinese perspectives.

The 2026 conference will take place in person at Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on April 3-4, 2026. Conference participants will be provided with two nights of hotel accommodations, all meals, and charter transportation from and to the IAD or BWI airports. (Participants who wish to use the charter service should contact the organizer in advance to coordinate travel plans).

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Chinese-Greek Philosophy Forum Lecture by Jana S. Rošker

On Tuesday, November 4, 2025 at 9:00pm Beijing time the Chinese-Greek Philosophy Forum Geju yu Dongjian 格局与洞见 (Horizons and Insights) will host a lecture by Professor Jana S. Rošker (University of Ljubljana) titled “Zeno of Elea and Hui Shi 惠施 Through the Lens of the Flying Arrow”. Please find the zoom link here.

More can be learnt about the Geju yu Dongjian 格局与洞见 (Horizons and Insights) forum here.

 

Lecture: Tiwald, Confucian Disagreements About Autonomous Understanding 自得 (zìdé)

Justin Tiwald will give a colloquium talk titled “Confucian Disagreements about Autonomous Understanding 自得 (zìdé) in Ethics” at the University of California, Riverside hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature and Languages and the Department of Philosophy on Friday, Oct. 31 at 4pm PST (hybrid format). Please read more for details, the zoom link, and the abstract.
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Collaborative Learning 四海为学 event this week

Dear Colleagues,
On October 22nd at 21:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a book discussion of Professor Wang Youru’s The Ethical Dimension of Forgetfulness: Engaging the Daoist Zhuangzi in Studies of Cultivated Forgetting
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/wang-youru-book-discussion
(Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
For a list of upcoming events see our calendar here. Please feel free to advertise this or share it with anyone. All our events are free and open to everyone.
Sincerely,
Paul J. D’Ambrosio

Brook Ziporyn’s talk on Tiantai Buddhism at Rutgers on Thursday, Oct. 23 (updated: hybrid format)

Brook Ziporyn (University of Chicago), will give a talk, “Everything Everywhere All at Once: The Buddha-Nature According to Tiantai and What To Do About It, If Anything,” at Rutgers New Brunswick campus on Thursday, October 23, 2025, 4-5:30pm. Here’s the link to the talk:

https://rccs.rutgers.edu/events/events-list/icalrepeat.detail/2025/10/23/2454/-/everything-everywhere-all-at-once-the-buddha-nature-according-to-tiantai-and-what-to-do-about-it-if-anything-brook-ziporyn-university-of-chicago

The talk is also available on Zoom. Check the website for the registration link. Please drop me a note if you are coming in person. Thanks.

Episode 26 of “This Is the Way”: The White Horse Dialogue—Language, Logic, and Categories in Early China

According to a speaker in a famous historical dialogue, “A white horse is not a horse.” In this episode, we’re joined by Dr. Lisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University) to unpack one of the most intriguing discourses in early Chinese philosophy—the White Horse Dialogue from the Gongsun Longzi. Together, we explore what this paradoxical statement reveals about language, logic, and categorization in early China, from the connection between words and reality to the ways that set theory, semantics, and metaphysics might be used to help us understand this fascinating text. Continue reading →

Upcoming Collaborative Learning 四海为学 events

Dear Colleagues,
On October 14th at 21:00 Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a roundtable on “Commitments and Devotion.”
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/devotion-roundtable
   (Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
On October 17th at 10:00am Beijing time the 四海为学 Collaborative Learning Project will host a book discussion of Elena Ziliotti’s Meritocratic Democracy.
For details and the Zoom link please see our event page: https://www.sihaiweixue.org/elena-ziliotti-book-discussion
    (Note that no pre-registration or passcode is required.)
You can stay updated with our calendar here. Please feel free to advertise this or share it with anyone. All our events are free and open to everyone.
Sincerely,
Paul J. D’Ambrosio

Online Course: Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought

The online course “Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought” will be running from Thursday, 16 October to Thursday, 18 December 2025. This seminar is designed in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and National Chengchi University (NCCU). Scholars, students, and practitioners are warmly invited to join this collaborative exploration of how different textual traditions in China have structured their visions of reality. Please find the course description and schedule here.
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