SACP Annual Conference
June 18-21, 2006

 

DESIRE

Conference Program
(posted 5/30/06)


Sunday, June 18, 2006

3:00 p.m.

Registration Begins – Hearst Social Hall

4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.

Opening Ceremony – Heather

4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m.

Plenary One: Sexual Desire, Transformation of Desire,
Enlightenment – Heather

Chair: Franklin Perkins, De Paul University

“The Dialetics of Desire and Liberation: Marcuse
and Buddhism”
Karsten Struhl, John Jay College / CUNY

“D. T. Suzuki on Religion and Sexual Desire”
Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Dinner Break – Dinner is served between
6:00-7:00 p.m. in Crocker Dining Hall

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Executive Board Meeting – Acacia

8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Plenary Two: Keynote Speaker, Wm. Theodore de Bary,
Columbia University – Heather

Chair: Fred Dallmayr, Notre Dame University

“Chinese Classics and a Global Curriculum: A
response to the views of Lee Kuan Yew and Amartya Sen on the place
of the Confucian classics in global education”

9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Evening Social Hour – open bar and snacks – Heather


Monday, June 19, 2006

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast is served between 7:30 – 9:00
a.m. in Crocker Dining Hall

8:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Panel One: Contemporary Asia under Philosophical
Lenses – Acacia

Chair: K. R. Sundrarajan, St. Bonaventure University

“The Face as the Seat of Value and Desire:
Levinasian Concept of the Face within the Filipino
Culture”
John Funelas, Asia-Europe Foundation

“Desire, Detachment, and the Structure of Iki”

Jeanne Marie Kusina, Bowling Green State University

“Challenging Diaspora, Challenging
Nationalism: A Desire with No Name in Deepa Mehta’s ‘Fire'”
Namita Goswami, De Paul University

“Defining the Woman and Fulfilling Her Desires
through Yin and Yang Mutation of the Dao”
Maria Angelica de Leon Relucio, National University of Singapore

Panel Two: Desire and Motivation –
Heather

Chair: Donna Dorsey, Grant MacEwan College

“Desire and Deliberation: Managing the Contradictions
of Choosing”
Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough / CUNY

“Poetry and the Heart’s Intent: Towards a Poetics
of Desire”
Marthe Chandler, DePauw University

“Desire and the Senses in the Mengzi”

Franklin Perkins, De Paul University

“Xunzi on Motivation”
Dan Robins, University of Michigan

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break – Heather

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Panel Three: Desire and a World Philosophical Perspective
– Acacia

Chair: Eric Nelson, University of Massachusetts
Lowell

“The Desire before Desiring: Deleuze, Husserl,
and Chinul”
Mary Jeanne Larrabee, De Paul University

“The Distance to the Near Side”
Meilin Chinn, University of Hawaii at Manoa
(Winner of the Uehiro Foundation Essay Contest)

Panel Four: Desire, Asceticism, Spiritual
Practice – Heather
Chair: Marthe Chandler, DePauw University

“Asceticism Naturalized: al-Razi and Nietzsche on Desire and
Suffering”
Peter Groff, Bucknell University“Desirelessness and Quiet Sitting: Idea
and Practice of Spiritual
Cultivation in Ming Neo-Confucianism”
Yen-zen Tsai, National Chengchi University

12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

Lunch Break – Lunch is served between
12:00-1:00 p.m. in the Crocker Dining Hall

2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.

Panel Five: Ethics and Desire – Acacia
 

Chair: Karsten Struhl, John Jay College / CUNY

“Ethics after Desire: Daoism and Kant”

Ann Pang-White, University of Scranton

“Cultivating Proper Desire”
Daniel Stephens, Grand Valley State University

“Nature and Desire in Laozi’s Sage and Aristotle’s
Virtuous Man”
Thomas Sherman, Loyola Marymount University

Panel Six: Mystical Visions and Desire – Heather

Chair: Nicholas Gier, University of Idaho

“Desires of Mountains and Rivers in Chinese
Thought”
Joanne Birdwhistell, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

“Desire doubled is love, and love doubled is
madness: Crazy Wisdom in Plato and Tibetan Buddhism”
Elizabeth Schiltz, College of Wooster

“Passionate Love: A Study of Bridal
Mysticism of Hildegard and Andal”
K. R. Sundrarajan, St. Bonaventure University

3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Coffee Break – Heather

4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

Panel Seven: Desire and Naturalness
– Acacia

Chair: Joanne Birdwhistell, Richard Stockton College
of New Jersey

“The Way of Naturalness and the Paradox of
Desire”
Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

“‘Being-with’ and ‘Being-towards-death’ in
the Zhuangzi”
Steve Coutinho, Muhlenberg College

“Being without Desire and Doing as One Pleases
in the Zhuangzi”
Eric Sean Nelson, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Panel Eight: On Desire in the Orthodox
Indian Traditions – Heather

Chair: Judy Saltzman, California Polytechnic State
University

“The Human Theory of Motivation and Egoism”

Christopher Framarin, University of Calgary

“Doubt, Desire, and Darsana: Recovering Truth
in the Age of the Systems”
Geoff Ashton, University of Hawaii at Manoa

“Memory as Desiring the Past”
Lara Mitias, University of Hawaii at Manoa

5:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.

Membership Meeting – Heather
Everyone is not only welcome but requested to be present at this important
meeting.

6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Dinner Break – Dinner is served between
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Crocker Dining Hall

8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Plenary Three: “Mahatma Gandhi on Desire,
violence, and Peace Education” – Heather

Chair: Joseph Prabhu, California State University
Los Angeles

Doug Allen, University of Maine

9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Evening Social Hour – open bar and snacks
– Heather

 

Tuesday, June 20, 2006

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast is served between 7:30 – 9:00
a.m. in the Crocker Dining Hall

9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Panel Nine: Desire to be without Desire: Extinction
of Karma – Heather

Chair: Bart Gruzalski, Pacific Center for Sustainable
Living

“I Desire, Therefore I Am”

Lori Witthaus, Grand Valley State University

“The Intelligence of Desire”
Donna Dorsey, Grant MacEwan College

“Is Desirelessness Desirable?”
Richard Reilly, St. Bonaventure University

9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.

Panel Ten: Knowledge and Desire –
Acacia

Chair: Michael Barnhart, Kingsborough Community
College / CUNY

“Is Desire Illusory? The Two Truths in the
Gelupa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism”
Joel R. Smith, Skidmore College

“Augustine, Plotinus, and the Education of Desire”
Joseph Prabhu, California State University Los Angeles

10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Coffee Break – Heather

11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Panel Eleven: Transformation of Desire:
East West – Acacia
Chair: Doug Allen, University of Maine

“Was Gandhi a Tantric?”
Nicholas Gier, University of Idaho

“One of the Philosophical Merits of Passion”
Bart Gruzalski, Pacific Center for Sustainable Living

“Desire: Liberation, Immortality, or Death”

Warren Lew, Ventura College

Panel Twelve: Desire is Necessary
and Good – Heather
Chair: Bradley Park, St. Mary’s College
of Maryland
“Earthly Desires are Enlightenment:
A Nichiren Buddhist Perspective”
Al Albergate, California State University Los Angeles“Grazing in Mara’s Pasture: The Dyhamics
of Desire in the Pali Nikayas”
Angela Sumegi, Carleton University

“Lu Xun’s On the Power of Mara
Poetry”
Virginia Suddath, East-West Center

12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch Break – Lunch is served between
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in the Crocker Dining Hall

1:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Afternoon Excursion to Carmel (optional)

6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

Dinner Break – Dinner is served between
6:00 – 7:00 p.m. in the Crocker Dining Hall

7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.

FORUM Editorial Board Meeting – Acacia

8:00 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Plenary Four: “Desire and Redemption: Nicholaus
of Cusa’s Search for
Truth” – Heather

Chair: Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University

Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame

9:30 p.m. – 10:30 p.m.

Evening Social Hour – open bar and snacks
– Heather
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Breakfast is served between 7:30-9:00
a.m. in Crocker Dining Hall

9:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.

Plenary Five: Plenary in Memory of
Lee Rouner – Heather
Chair: Fred Dallmayr, University of
Notre Dame
M. David Eckel, Boston University
Anna Lanstrom, Boston University
Vrajaprana Pravrajika, Ramakrishna Mission, Santa Barbara
Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame
Joseph Prabhu, California State University Los Angeles
(Coffee Break will be called appropriately
by the Chair)

11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Check-out

12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Lunch and Farewell
Lunch is served between 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. in the Crocker Dining Hall

If you have further questions concerning the conference, please contact
Michiko Yusa, SACP President at Michiko.Yusa@wwu.edu