Sunday, June 8, 2008

2:30 p.m.

Registration Begins  

3-3:40 p.m.

Opening Ceremony                                                        

3:45 p.m.- 5:45 p.m.

PLENARY: “Discussion of Intimacy or Integrity by Thomas Kasulis ”  

Panelists:
Craig Ihara, California State University, Fullerton

Erin McCarthy,

Nick Jones, Ohio State University

Response: Thomas Kasulis, Ohio State University.

Dinner

7:00- p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Executive Board Meeting  

8:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Keynote Address Thomas Kasulis, Ohio State University

Chair: Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University.

9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Social Hour 

Monday, June 9, 2008

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

8:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.

“Comparative Philosophy and Global Community” 

Chair: Al Albergate, California State University, Los Angeles

Judy Saltzman-Saveker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Warren Lew, Ventura College

     “Philosophers are a Community”

Al Albergate, California State University, Los Angeles

     “The Earth Charter: An East-West Guide to a Sustainable Future”

“Dialogue and Globalization” 

Chair: Karsten Struhl, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY).

Stephen Rowe, Grand Valley State University

     “Dialogue, Democracy, and Sustainability”

Ashok Malhotra, State University of New York at Oneonta

     “Towards a One-World Diverse Culture: A Philosophical Vision and a Practical Solution”

Karsten J. Struhl, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

     “What is a Global Community?”

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

“Ethical and Political Implications of Confucianism” 

Chair: Sor-hoon Tan, The National University of Singapore

Mary I. Bockover, Humboldt State Universityz

     “A More ‘Global’ Way of Thinking about what it Means to be a Person: A ‘Middle Way’ Between Western Independence and Confucian Interdependence”

David M. Schoenknecht, Rockford College

     “A Confucian and Daoist Case for Granting ‘Religious Knowledges’ an Epistemically Valid Role in Furthering Ecological Ethics and Activism”

Sor-hoon Tan, The National University of Singapore

     “Global Inequalities and Confucian Democracy”

“Interpretations of Buddhist Ideas” 

Chair: Mathew Varghese, Aoyama Gakuin University

Mathew Varghese, Aoyama Gakuin University

     “Nagarjuna’s Shunyata: a Method of Education for the ‘remaking of man’”

Joseph D. John, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

     “A Reconsideration of the Personalist-Theravadin Debate: Puggalavadins as Radical Empiricists”

Ethan Mills (student prize winner), University of New Mexico

     “Engaged Buddhist Metaphysics: Buddhadasa on Dependent Origination”

12:15 p.m. -2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

“ Feminism, Psychoanalysis and Taoism”

Chair: Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Sara Beardsworth, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

    “Semiotic Dispositions and Subtle Dimensions: Theories of Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Yoga Philosophy”

Chesna Braniger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

     “Cursory Readings of Heidegger’s Daoist Connections”

Stephen Tyman, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

    “Consciousness, Desire, and the Problem of Psychic Energy”

“Student Essay Prizes” 

Chair: Peimin Ni, Grand Valley State University

Emily McCrae, University of Wisconsin, Madison

     “The Role of Emotion in Mengzi”

Thomas Vierra,

     “The Role of Tian in Xunzi’s Ethics”

Amit Chaturvedi, University of Hawaii at Manoa

     “The Phenomenology of Zhuangsi’s Philosophy”

3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Tea Break

3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

“Feminist Interventions”

Chair: Mary Larrabee, DePaul University

Jen McWeeney, John Carroll University

“Woman and Impermanence in the Philosophies of Simone de Beauvoir and Murasaki Shikibu”

Mary Larrabee, DePaul University

“A Feminist Search for MindBody: An Intersection of Phenomenology and Buddhist Philosophy Through Women’s Eyes”

Loriliai Biernacki

5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

5.15-6.15 Membership Business meeting: Chair Joseph Prabhu 

6:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

Dinner Break  

7:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

PLENARY:“Asian Traditions and Socialism”  

Chair: Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

Panelists:

Doug Allen, University of Maine,

Karsten J. Struhl, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

Henry Rosemont, Jr., Brown University

9:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.

Social Hour (Viewing of Ashok Malhotra’s film at 10 p.m. ).

Tuesday, June 10, 2008

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

8:30 a.m. -10:30 a.m.

“Philosophical responses to the Rhetoric of National Unity in Japan” 

Chair: Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

Panelists:

Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University

     “In Praise of Plurality”

Yuki Miyamoto,

Gereon Kopf, Luther College

Respondent: Thomas Kasulis, Ohio State University

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

“Body, Place, Environment” 

Chair: Gereon Kopf, Luther College

Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

     “Kokoro, Body and Place”

Anh TuanNuyen, National University of Singapore

Naoko Sasaki, Ohio Northern University

     “Dai Bosatsu Mandala Day: The Logic of Place in the Transmission of Zen Buddhism in a Global Age”

“Spirituality and Environment” 

Chair: Henry Rosemont, Brown University

David Loy, Xavier University

     “Healing Ecology: A Buddhist Perspective”

Kusumita P. Pedersen, St. Francis College

     “Commitment to Creation in the Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy”

12:15 p.m. -2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

“ Panentheism”

Chair: Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles

Panelists:

         Robert McDermott,

         Loriliai Biernacki,

         Philip Clayton

“Society of Islamic, Arab and Persian Philosophy”

Chair: Mohammed Abed

Panelists:

         Mohammed Abed and TBA

3:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Tea Break

3:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Planery: Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

Liberal Democracy and Asian Voices

Chair: Peimin Ni, Grand Valley State University

Respondents:

Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside

Karsten J. Struhl, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

5:15 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.

Executive Board Meeting, Part 2, with discussion about the Online Forum 

6:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

Dinner Break  

7:45 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.

Planery: Book Launch of Peter Heehs and Richard Hartz’s new biography of Aurobindo Ghose.

Chair: Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles

Panelists

Peter Heehs

Robert McDermott

Michael Murphy

9:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.

Social Hour. Copies of the Aurobindo biography available for sale

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast

8:30 a.m. - 9:50 a.m.

Talk by Doug Allen, University of Maine : “Eliade’s Vision of Philosophy”

Chair: TBA

Respondent: TBA

10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Talk by Purushottama Bilimoria “Animal Ecology”

Chair: David Loy

Respondents:

Randy Firestone, Long Beach City College

11:30 a.m.

Checkout

12:00 p.m – 1:30 p.m.

Farewell Lunch