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Conferences, Panels, & Call for Papers
Upcoming Panels SACP SESSIONS AT THE EASTERN DIVISION WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28th GROUP SESSION II * 9:00 - 11:00 A.M. GII * 4. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy 9:00 - 12:00 Noon Topic: Death: East and West Chair: TBA Speakers: Suk Choi (Towson University) "Rethinking Zhuangzi on Life and Death" Stephen Scales (Towson University) "Determinist Materialism and Zhuangzi on Death and Destiny" Carl Yamamoto (Towson University) "Dying Like a Philosopher, Dying Like a Lama: Lama Zhang and the Material Inheritance of Lineage" Wolfgang Fuchs (Towson University) "Thinking Death and Life Differently" (This session will continue past 11:00 a.m.) ********* WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28th GROUP SESSION VI * 7:30 - 10:30 P.M. GVI * 8. Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy 7:30 - 10:30 p.m. Topic: Buddhist Moral Psychology, Physics, and Religiousness Chair:TBA Speakers: Christopher Kelley (Columbia University) "How Good Tricks Widen the Circle of Altruism: The Abnormal Moral Psychology of Bodhicaryāvatāra Jake H. Davis (Graduate Center-City University of New York) "On the Goodness of Goodwill in Early Buddhist Texts" Robert Alan Paul (Dalhousie University-Nova Scotia) "How Physics Contravenes the 'Neither-One-Nor-Many' Madhyamaka Argument for Emptiness" Aaron Fehir (St. Leo University) "Kierkegaardian Faith and Non-Christian Religion: Religiousness B in Pure Land Buddhism" SACP SESSIONS AT THE CENTRAL DIVISION Society of Asian and Comparative Philosophy PANEL ONE. Issues in Chinese and Comparative Philosophy Friday, Feb. 17, 7:00-10:00 p.m. Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Chair "The Zhuangzi and You 遊: Defining an Ideal Without Contradiction" Alan Levinovitz, University of Chicago Transformative Potential of Conceptual Schemes in Comparative Philosophy: The Case of the Laozi Rafal Banka, Jagiellonian University Buren (不忍) and Ren (仁) : Mencius’s Theory of Moral Emotion Bongrae Seok, Alvernia University Foucault and Confucianism James Garrison, University of Vienna Recognition, Resentment, and Alterity in the Analects of Confucius Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Lowell PANEL TWO. East Looks West: Chinese Interpreters of Western Philosophy Saturday, Feb. 18, 12:15 p.m. -2:15 p.m. Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University, Chair Chinese Receptions of Western Philosophy Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University Wang Guowei’s Interpretation of Kant Jinli He, Trinity University Evolutionism through Chinese Eyes: Yan Fu, Ma Junwu and Their Translations on Darwinian Evolutionism Vincent Shen, University of Toronto Zhang Shiying and Contemporary Chinese Scholars' Appreciation of Hegel Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University PANEL THREE. Philosophies of Japan and India Thursday, Feb. 16, 9:00 a.m.-12 noon Christian Coseru, College of Charleston, Chair Wonderful, Whatever Being: An Exploration and Synthesis of Giorgio Agamben’s Thus and Shin’ichi Hisamatsu’s Such Michael Hagan, University of Louisville Finger Philosophy: Moral Sentimentalism and the Mumokan Susan M. Purviance, The University of Toledo The Magnificent Dharmadhatu: Ultimate Reality from the Dzogchen Perspective Kenneth Faber, Vanderbilt University Are Reasons Causally Relevant for Action? Dharmakirti’s Karyanumana Argument and the Embodied Cognition Paradigm Christian Coseru, College of Charleston
SACP GROUP PANELS AT THE PACIFIC DIVISION PANEL ONE: Topics in Indian and Tibetan Philosophy Chair: Adrienne C. Cochran Presenters:
PANEL TWO: Topics in Classical Chinese Philosophy Chair: Henrique Schneider Presenters:
Calls for Papers 47th Annual Conference October 11-14, 2012 Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Conference Theme: Comparative Perspectives on Ethical Practice Keynote Speaker: David Wong, Duke University Deadline for Abstracts and Proposals: March 1, 2012 Co-sponsored by the Philosophy Department at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (http://philosophy.siuc.edu/), the 47th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (http://www.sacpweb.org/) will be held at the SIUC campus from October 11-14 2012. Nestled in the beautiful Shawnee Valley of downstate Illinois, SIUC will provide an inviting location, with a lush yet tranquil natural environment and a thriving scholarly community, for this year's SACP conference. The SACP, which for the better part of the last half-century has drawn scholars from all over the world to its national meetings, and which in coming years will be held in international venues, looks forward to having its conference at SIUC. The Philosophy Department at SIUC has for many decades been committed to the research and teaching of Asian philosophical traditions and cross-cultural philosophical dialogue. The Department has an established history of successively strong faculty members who represent Asian traditions, and has graduated, and continues to graduate, from its Ph.D. program a number of scholars who have gone on to be leading figures in both Indian and Chinese thought. It is also the current center of American Pragmatist thought in the United States. Given the central location of the campus in the United States, the SACP conference hopes this year to draw enhanced American participation from the Midwest and both coasts. The conference theme, "Comparative Perspectives on Ethical Practice," is designed to invite scholars representing Asian traditions of thought to present research on the many ways in which philosophers of these heritages foregrounded and detailed praxis as the means through which to realize truth, manifest goodness and actualize the interdependence that makes human social life and the pursuit of wisdom possible. Of course, those who wish to participate are most welcome to submit abstracts and presentations on the widest variety of topics that correspond to their areas of interest as well. Our Keynote Address will be delivered by the renowned Professor David Wong of Duke University, who has written extensively in recent decades on classical Chinese and Greek ethics as well as cross-cultural philosophy. Presentation and panel proposal abstracts should be sent electronically to BOTH Douglas Berger (dberger@siu.edu) and Michael Barnhart (Michael.Barnhart@kbcc.cuny.edu), AND cc'd to Roger Ames (rtames@hawaii.edu). Abstracts for presentations should be between 200-300 words, including a title. Panel proposals should include the title and a brief description of the panel, names and affiliation of panelists and titles of each participant's presentation. The deadline for submission is March 1, 2012. Notice of acceptance of proposals will be sent to your e-mail address sometime between mid-April and early May. In order to minimize the difficulty of dealing with late cancellations, registration for the conference is expected within 2 weeks after the acceptance notice is received. To encourage student participation, SACP has once again set up Student Essay Contest Awards for the 2012 conference. Student Essay Contest Prizes are: First prize: $1,000; Second prize, $750; and Third prize, $500. The awards will be applied to the travel and accommodation expenses for those attending the 2012 SACP conference only. Students should submit a complete essay of no more than 10 pages (or 4,000 words) and a 300 word abstract to BOTH Douglas Berger and Michael Barnhart, AND cc to Roger Ames, by March 1, 2012. Housing will be primarily available at Carbondale area hotels, all of which are but a short drive from campus, and once the SACP Conference Organizing Committee has made decisions and notified you regarding the acceptance of your papers, you will receive information about available accommodations. For graduate students who wish to attend the conference and who are operating on limited budgets, some members of the large graduate student body at SIUC may be willing to invite you to stay with them during the duration of the conference, and once your paper proposals have been accepted, you will receive further information about these possible accommodations. 2012 Conference Organizing Committee Roger Ames Michael Barnhart Douglas Berger Mary Bockover Peimin Ni Rajam Raghunathan Karsten Struhl Sor-hoon Tan View previous calls for papers |
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