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Two positions at American University

May 25, 2022 /

The Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University is hiring two one year positions that may be of interest to our SACP members.

 

1) The Department of Philosophy and Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University invites applications for a full-time, academic year appointment in religious ethics (either Western or non-Western) at the rank of Professorial Lecturer beginning August 29, 2022. Teaching duties include introductory courses in religious ethics and one upper level seminar. We particularly welcome candidates with a capacity to incorporate diverse religious traditions in teaching and with expertise in religion and society, religion and politics, religion and ecology, or issues relevant to the contemporary world. In addition to scholarship and teaching, responsibilities will include participation in department, school, and university activities.

Click here to see the full PDF: Religious Ethics Ad-May 2022

 

2) The Department of Philosophy and Religion in the College of Arts and Sciences at American University invites applications for a full-time, academic year appointment in ethics and philosophy of race at the rank of Professorial Lecturer beginning August 29, 2022. Teaching duties include introductory courses in moral philosophy and one upper-level seminar. We particularly welcome candidates with expertise in philosophy of race, or non-Western moral theories with knowledge in Western moral philosophy. In addition to scholarship and teaching, responsibilities will include participation in department, school, and university activities.

Click here to see the full PDF: Ethics & Philosophy of Race-Ad-May 2022

CFP – Raimon Panikkar Symposium at AAR 2022

May 14, 2022 /

Raimon Panikkar Symposium
Call for Papers
2022 AAR Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
November 18, 2022

The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy invites you to submit your paper proposal for the Raimon Panikkar Symposium, held in conjunction with the AAR Annual Meeting 2022.

This symposium is enabled by a private donor. The SACP has the honor of hosting a 3 hour-symposium on Friday afternoon (11/18), possibly, 3-6 p.m.

The 2022 symposium on Raimon Panikkar will be the tenth and the last symposium in conjunction with the AAR. To celebrate this milestone, the symposium will have no specific set theme but will be open to free-flowing logos (vāc) and pneuma (prāna). We shall brave the spiritual-intellectual challenges and have fun along the way in a truly Panikkarian spirit.

We invite papers on any aspect of Panikkar’s thought, either in itself, or in dialogue with other philosophy, theology, and religion. The symposium will be an opportunity to take a fresh look at Raimon Panikkar’s thought and celebrate his multifaceted achievements as a beautiful bouquet of wild flower.

Before we conclude the symposium, we will discuss the possibilities of continuing the Panikkar Symposium in different form(s) of incarnation—at different venues and times.

Please submit your

Paper proposal (your name; academic institution; e-mail address; the title of the paper; abstract of 200-250 words)

to

Dr. Michiko Yusa (michiko.yusa@gmail.com)

Deadline for submission: June 15, 2022

RPanikkar Call for Papers 2022.PDF

Call for Papers: SACP at AAR in Denver 2022

May 8, 2022 /

SACP Call for Papers
2022 AAR Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
November 19-22, 2022

The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy invites you to submit your paper proposal for the AAR Annual Meeting 2022.

The SACP will host at least one panel. The panel will be scheduled on Saturday (11/19) in the morning time slot, 11:00 a.m. -12:30 p.m.

Depending on the number of proposals, a second panel may be added in the evening on Saturday or Sunday (11/19 or 20), 7-8:30 p.m.

As for the topic of the paper proposal, any timely issue will be welcome. If you are proposing a technical paper steeped in one tradition, please approach it from an “intercultural” perspective, so that other thinkers from other traditions will find your topic accessible and engage in fruitful dialogue and exchanges. If we, as members of the SACP, manage to address the vital issues and concerns of the day, even if anchored in a single tradition but open to dialogue, our time and effort will be spent well.

If it is a panel proposal that you have in mind, please contact the individual members of your panel to submit their proposals each as an independent paper proposal to me. In this case, indicate that it is part of a panel, following your name. There is no blanket acceptance policy of the paper, even if it is part of a panel.

     The deadline for the submission of the proposal is June 15 (Wednesday), 2022.

 

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Please submit your

Paper proposal (your name; academic institution; e-mail address; the title of the paper; abstract of 200-250 words)

to

Dr. Michiko Yusa (michiko.yusa@gmail.com)

Deadline for submission: June 15, 2022

Click here to view PDF

In Memoriam – Dr. Joseph Prabhu

April 24, 2022 /

Greetings all,

Springer has recently (April 15, 2022) posted an In Memoriam of Dr. Joseph Prabhu written by Purushottama Bilimoria. That link is provided below.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11841-022-00917-0

With respect,

The SACP Board

Translating Sanskrit Buddhist Philosophy for the Philosophy Curriculum

February 9, 2022 /

https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2022/translating-buddhist-philosophy

 

A symposium focused on a new translation of Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses and Exposition

In North America today, philosophers are aware of and often respectful of non-canonical philosophical traditions, but still, Buddhist philosophical texts are taught almost exclusively in Religion departments. Perhaps the problem is partly one of translation.

The Vasubandhu Translation Group (VTG) has sought to create texts that can be dropped into a non-specialist’s philosophy course: This includes their recently-completed draft translation of the 5th century Indian Buddhist philosopher Vasubandhu’s Twenty Verses and Exposition (Viṃśikāvṛtti). So, we’ve provided the draft to ten Philosophy professors and asked them each to provide their thoughts in response to the following question: “Can you imagine a place for a text like this in a philosophy curriculum?”

Has the VTG succeeded in producing a translation that might fit into a philosophy course? If not, why not? What works and what doesn’t? What’s left to do? What kinds of contextualization, justification, translation choices, notes/apparatus, or disciplinary changes would be necessary to grant this text—or other Buddhist philosophical texts—a week in a course? Answers to these questions have ramifications beyond the text in question and beyond Buddhist philosophy. The six members of the VTG will participate in conversation with the presenters.

A keynote by one of the translators, Parimal Patil (Harvard University) will follow the day’s conversations. His talk is entitled “Philosophy, Philosophers, and Buddhist Scholastic Texts (Śāstra).” Another member of the VTG, Trina Janiec Jones, will be discussant after the talk.

Register for the symposium Zoom meeting.

Schedule

9-10:30am Panel 1 Jonathan Gold, moderator
Harvey Lederman
Gabriel Citron
Susanna Siegel

10:30-11:00am break

11am-12:45pm Panel 2 Hagop Sarkissian, moderator
Elliot Paul
Akeel Bilgrami
Dan Garber
Andrew Chignell

12:45-2:00pm Lunch

2:00-3:30pm Panel 3 Jonathan Gold, moderator
Alex Guerrero
Mark Johnston
Allison Aitken

3:30-4:00pm Break

4:00-5:00pm Panel 4: Translators’ panel (general discussion) Nataliya Yanchevskaya, moderator
Jonathan Gold
Parimal Patil
Trina Janiec Jones
Mario D’Amato
Dan Arnold
Richard Nance

5:00-7:00pm Dinner

7:00-8:45pm Keynote
Parimal Patil, “Philosophy, Philosophers and Buddhist Scholastic Texts (Śāstra)” Trina Janiec Jones, respondent

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