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UPDATE: SACP Annual Conference

April 6, 2020 /
Dear Members of the SACP, dear all who submitted a paper or panel proposal or an essay,
 
 
We sincerely hope that this mail finds you and your loved ones healthy and well.
 
We are sorry to inform you that, because of the uncertainty of the current world situation around the COVID 19 pandemic, and in order to safeguard the safety of everyone involved, we will postpone the next SACP meeting in San Francisco to October 2021 (same location at University of San Francisco, and same conference theme of “One and Many”). The submission deadline for the newly scheduled October 2021 conference is February 1, 2021. We will review all submissions at that time. (We did not yet review original submissions, given that our time recently has been occupied with determining what to do with holding the original conference at all.)
 
For those of you who submitted an abstract for the original October 2020 conference, we can keep your submission on file if you wish, or we can accept an alternate submission prior to February 1, 2021. In any event, we ask that you let us know between January 1, 2021 and February 1, 2021, whether option 1, 2 or 3 applies to your submission:
 
  1. You would like us to process your original submission. (If you would like to participate in the Graduate Student Essay competition, then you have the option to use your original submission for the October 2020 conference. For those who will earn their PhD prior to the February 1 2021 submission deadline and can attend the newly scheduled October 2021 conference, we will consider your original submission for the October 2020 conference—though please note that you [i.e., those of you who will have earned their PhD prior to February 1 2021] cannot submit a new essay for this competition.)
  2. You would like to submit a new abstract. (If you would like to participate in the Graduate Student Essay competition, you are welcome to submit a new essay ONLY IF you will still be a graduate student as of February 1, 2021.)
  3. You would like to withdraw your original abstract submission for the original October 2020 conference. (Please let us know if you do not intend to participate in the newly scheduled October 2021 conference in order to save us time in reviewing submissions.)
 
If we do not hear from you by February 1, 2021, then we will withdraw your submission. However, we would prefer hearing from you directly.
 
For those of you who submitted annual dues on the assumption that you would attending the October 2020 conference, please let SACP Treasurer Geoff Ashton know, and he will process a refund.
 
Emails can be directed to sacpweb@gmail.com.
 
Thank you for your patience and understanding concerning this complicated issue. We understand that at least some if not many of you may be inconvenienced by our decision to postpone. But please know that our decision has in view the best interests of the society and its members.
 
Please stay safe in the meanwhile. We are very much looking forward to seeing you in October 2021 in San Francisco, should conditions allow you to attend.
 
The SACP Board

CFP – Confucianism: Comparisons and Controversies

February 19, 2020 /

Professors Eirik Harris (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Henrique Schneider (Nordakademie) are guest editing volume 8.2 of the Journal Culture and Dialogue (Brill).

The guest editors seek 7-10 papers of high quality on topics related to Chinese philosophy, particularly engaging with all different types of Confucianism. This can occur from a perspective rooted within Chinese philosophy as well as in a comparative approach. The guest editors seek to put together a diverse special issue covering Classical Confucianism as well as contemporary themes for an audience that includes non-specialists in Chinese philosophy.

The guest editors are especially looking for contributions on:

  • Virtues and the state of (Chinese) philosophy of virtues
  • Virtue politics and its limits
  • Virtue as an ideal vs. realistic approach in ethics, political theory, and international relations
  • The relationship between virtues and rituals
  • Philosophy of rituals: past, present, and future
  • Meritocracy and roles
  • The virtues and vices of meritocracy
  • Different versions of meritocracy in Chinese (and Confucian) philosophies
  • Contemporary issues in Confucianism
  • Contemporary philosophical criticisms of Confucianism

If you are interested in submitting, send you abstract, draft paper, or full paper until March 15th to Henrique Schneider (henri.schneider@protonmail.ch) and Eirik Harris (eiriklangharris@gmail.com). Once accepted, final versions of the papers will be due June 1st. Further information on the journal can be found here http://www.culture-dialogue.net/  The journal’s stylesheet can be found here http://www.culture-dialogue.net/notes-for-authors.

 

If you have any queries, contact the guest editors.

Eirik Harris, Henrique Schneider

View CFP (Word)

New Publication: Merleau-Ponty and Nishida

February 18, 2020 /

SACP is pleased to share the publication of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida: Artistic Expression as Motor-Perceptual Faith by Adam Loughnane.

external url: https://www.sunypress.edu/p-6803-merleau-ponty-and-nishida.aspx

Summary  
Places the phenomenologies of Merleau-Ponty and Nishida in dialogue and uncovers a demand for a motor-perceptual form of faith in both philosophers’ meditations on artistic expression.

In Merleau-Ponty and Nishida, Adam Loughnane initiates a fascinating new dialogue between two of the twentieth century’s most important phenomenologists of the Eastern and Western philosophical worlds. Throughout the book, the reader is guided among the intricacies and innovations of Merleau-Ponty’s and Nishida’s ontological approaches to artistic expression with a focused look at a rarely explored connection between faith and negation in their philosophies. Exploring the intertwining of these concepts in their broader ontologies invokes a reappraisal of the ambiguous status of religion and art in the writings of both thinkers. Measuring these ambiguities, the ontologies of Flesh and Basho are read in-depth alongside great artworks and the motor-perceptual practices of seminal landscape artists such as Cézanne, Sesshū, Taiga, and Hasegawa, as well as other major figures of European, Chinese, and Japanese art history. Loughnane studies these artists’ bodily practices, focusing on the intimate relations realized with the landscapes they paint, and illuminating a valence of their expressive disciplines as a motor-perceptual form of faith. Merleau-Ponty and Nishida is an exciting intercultural reading, expanding two philosophers’ projects toward new horizons of research, revealing incitements in their writings that challenge unambiguous distinctions between art, philosophy, faith, and ultimately philosophy East and West.

“Loughnane illuminates the ambiguous, chiasmatic, and dynamic relationality between the body and the world, providing concrete examples from art history East and West. He not only skillfully explains Nishida’s and Merleau-Ponty’s ontological notions, but also puts their philosophy to the test of art works, proving that their thinking reveals an important truth of art.” — Takeshi Kimoto, Chukyo University

Adam Loughnane is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at University College Cork, Ireland.

CFP: SACP at AAR 2020

February 17, 2020 /

DUE TO THE ONGOING SITUATION, THE SACP PANEL HAS DECIDED TO CANCEL FOR AAR 2020

SACP Call for Papers
2020 AAR Annual Meeting, Boston
November 21-34, 2020

The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy invites you to submit your paper or panel proposal for the AAR annual meeting 2020.

The SACP will host at least one panel at this year’s AAR meeting. The panel will be scheduled on Saturday (11/21) in the morning, before the start of the official AAR program. Depending on the number of proposals, a second panel will be added back to back to the first SACP panel.

As for the topic of the paper or panel proposal, it is wide open. We will take into account the relevance of the topic to the vital issues that concern our very survival on this planet. We also welcome an “intercultural” perspective incorporated into your proposal, rather than a proposal that dwells on the technical exegesis of a single tradition. The deadline of the submission of your proposal is March 31, 2020.

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Please submit your

paper proposal (your name, the title of the paper, and an abstract of 250-300 words)

or

panel proposal (your name and the names of the panelists; the title of the panel, and the abstract of the panel in 250 words; the title of each individual paper plus an abstract of 200 words for each paper)

to

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

Deadline for the submission: March 31, 2020

 

SACP Call for Papers 2020

CFP: Panikkar Symposium at AAR 2020

February 17, 2020 /

DUE TO THE ONGOING SITUATION, THE PANIKKAR SYMPOSIUM HAS DECIDED TO CANCEL FOR AAR 2020

Call for Papers

SACP Raimon Panikkar Symposium on Diatopical Hermeneutics

AAR Boston, November 20, 2020

At the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Boston, the SACP will host the annual symposium on Raimon Panikkar and his intercultural-intrareligious thought. This symposium, offered in addition to the regular SACP panel(s), has been made possible by private donations. It will take place on November 20 (Friday), the day before the beginning of the official AAR program in order to avoid scheduling conflicts.

Last year in San Diego, we looked into the traditional wisdom that may ground us face the issue of climate change, which continues to be one of the vital issues of us all. We still seek to formulate a SACP resolution that has a practical bearing upon our professional responsibility.

This year, we will examine the fundamental importance of “hermeneutics” in our profession, and especially focus on the significance of Panikkar’s “Diatopical Hermeneutics” as a practical tool for reaching better understanding not only of oneself, but of one another, and of intercultural realities of our time, which cannot be divorced from their historical roots.

We hope that our sustained endeavor may produce yet another book, as the symposium has already resulted in a significant contribution to the field: Raimon Panikkar: A Companion (Cambridge: James Clark, 2018), ed., Peter Phan & Young-chan Ro.

Please submit your proposal of 200-300 words to Dr. Michiko Yusa at michiko.yusa@gmail.com. The deadline for the submission is March 31, 2020.  

 

CFP: Panikkar Symposium at AAR 2020 (WORD document)

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