The new issue of JAOS, 143.2 (2023), is now available in print and online at https://lockwoodonlinejournal
New Book: Galvany, ed., The Craft of Oblivion
SUNY Press has just released a new volume entitled “The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China” edited by Albert Galvany. It is an innovative volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Drawing on perspectives from history, philosophy, literature, and religion, and examining both transmitted texts and excavated materials, the contributors to this volume analyze various ways of understanding oblivion and its fertile relations with memory in ancient China. Please click here (https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Craft-of-Oblivion) to read more about the book or to purchase it.
New Book: Diversifying Philosophy of Religion
Bloomsbury has recently published Nathan R. B. Loewen (Editor) and Agnieszka Rostalska (Editor), Diversifying Philosophy of Religion: Critiques, Methods and Case Studies. Among other interesting chapters, it includes one with a special focus on Chinese philosophy: “Theory and Method in the Philosophy of Religion in China’s Song-Dynasty” by Leah Kalmanson.
Doing Theory in Southeast Asia website
Professors Gonzaga and Shieng are excited to share a new online resource called ‘Doing Theory in Southeast Asia’ <https://seasia.crs.cuhk.edu.h
This open-access database aims to provide a platform for students, teachers, researchers, artists, and curators to exchange critical ideas about diverse Southeast Asian cultures.
The website features a table that lists intellectual, critical, and creative works about different Southeast Asian contexts categorized according to author, medium, and field. It includes annotations about academic journals in the region. Lastly, the section ‘Archipelagic Juxtapositions’ explores emergent topics, which uncover possible connections among seemingly unrelated objects, conditions, and processes pertaining to myth, geopolitics, art, music, and the environment.
‘Doing Theory in Southeast Asia’ was supported by a Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF), together with a Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Faculty of Arts Direct Grant.
This project was initiated with the ethos of multiplying alternative frameworks outside dominant sites of knowledge production. It is in an early stage of development so please feel free to send us your thoughts and suggestions at seatheorycuhk@gmail.com.
Elmo Gonzaga and Chieng Wei Shieng
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
CFP: AAS Panel on “Healing in Chinese Philosophies, Literature, and Religions”
In-person presentations at the AAS 2024 Annual Conference, March 14-17, 2024 in Seattle, Washington
Abstract submission deadline: July 26, 2023
We invite submissions of paper abstracts for the panel titled “Healing in Chinese Philosophies, Literature, and Religions” to be held at the AAS 2024 Annual Conference. This panel aims to explore the cultural, literary, philosophical, and religious dimensions of illness, medicine, and health in imperial China.
New works by Jana S. Rošker
Professor Rošker (University of Ljubljana) has some recent (2023) publications that may be of interest to blog readers — read on for details!
Sullivan Reviews PWOL Books
The latest issue of Ethics (133:4) contains a Review Essay titled “Philosophy as a Way of Life” by Meghan Sullivan that collectively reviews the books published to date in Oxford’s Guides to the Good Life series:
- Nicolas Bommarito, Seeing Clearly: A Buddhist Guide to Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, On Being and Becoming: An Existential Approach to Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
- Stephen C. Angle, Growing Moral: A Confucian Guide to Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
- Karen Stohr, Choosing Freedom: A Kantian Guide to Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)
Report on 6th Rutgers Workshop
We post here detailed reports on each of the papers presented this past April at the 6th Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy; enormous thanks to Adrian Liu and Esther Goh for compiling them! Please read below for their reports.
One-year lecturer in Asian Religions
The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Towson University (Baltimore, MD) is seeking a lecturer in Asian Religions for a one-year position starting in August 2023. Area of specialization within Asian Religions is open. It is a 4-4 teaching load. The first semester we anticipate the lecturer teaching one section of RLST 209: Religions Traditions of Asia (~25 students) and three sections of a Towson first-year Seminar, TSEM: Reading the Sacred (20 students/section). This latter class is wide-open for how the lecturer would like to teach it. Depending on enrollments, there is a slight chance that in Fall 2023, the lecturer may be expected to teach one or more sections of RLST 206: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam rather than some of the previous course options. Compensation is over $50,000. Please contact Dr. Suk Choi (suchoi@towson.edu) and Dr. Robert Tappan (rtappan@towson.edu) to express interest and for further information.
Call for Applications: Exploring Perspectives on China-US Relations – 2023
This project is co-sponsored by the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies and the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. It promotes in-person dialogue between Chinese and American scholars, including doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows, junior faculty members, think tank experts, as well as emerging leaders in various fields. More details on the program and the application are here.
The submission should include a current c.v. as well as a short (under 500 words) description of specific areas of interest and what the applicant hopes to contribute to such an exchange. The submission deadline is July 10th, 2023. Please email to xuxiaolan@siis.org.cn.
