Northeast Conference on Chinese Thought Schedule

We are grateful for the generous financial support of Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College and the CUNY Graduate Center. 

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November 2nd & 3rd 2024

All talks will be in the Vertical Campus room 8-155

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2

8:30 AM: COFFEE

8:55 AM: Remarks

9:00AM – 10:30AM: Confucian Ethics

• Wenxuan Shen, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  Reconstructing Confucius’ Theory of Parental Virtues
• Seonjung Kim, Florida State University
  Shu as a Self-Corrective Process: Reinterpreting the Upright Gong in the Analects
• Wenyang Gao, Brown University
  On Jing (敬) in Early Confucianism: What is Confucian Respect?

10:30AM-10:45AM: BREAK

10:45AM – 12:15PM: Political Philosophy

• Stephen C Walker, University of Chicago
  The Political Qiwulun: How to Cultivate the Most Inclusive Character
• Ming Lu, Fudan University
  Two Trust Issues under a Certain Perspective: Analyzing Han Feizi’s Political Ideal
• Victor Wu, Yale University
  The Autocrat’s Personality Problem: Lessons from the Han Feizi for the Study of Authoritarian Politics

12:15PM – 1:30PM: LUNCH BREAK

1:30PM – 2:30PM: Metaphysics I

• Robert Carleo, East China Normal University
  If “Vital Stuff” Is all there Is, Are Right and Wrong Fictitious Fluff? Confucian Qi-Monism and Its Possibility of Morality
• Mike Ashfield, Utah State University
  Aptic Normativity: The Right Fit for Confucian Righteousness?

2:30PM-2:45PM: BREAK

2:45PM – 3:45PM: Metaphysics II

• Li Kang, Washington & Lee University
  “Is There an Ultimate Ground in Huayan Buddhism?”
• Peter Tan, Fordham University
  The Possibility of Causal Knowledge in Shen Gua

3:45PM-4:00PM: BREAK

4:00PM – 5:30 PM Metaphysics III

• Hao Hong, University of Maine
  The Power of Indecisiveness: An Interpretation of Wu-wei in Daodejing
• Petru Rosu, CUNY Graduate Center
  Analogical Reasoning about Nature and Xing in Early Chinese Thought
• Paul R. Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
  Mimesis and Rulership in Lüshi chunqiu 呂氏春秋”

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3

9:30AM – 10:30AM: Zhuangzi I

• Qianyi Qin, CUNY Graduate Center
  Groundless but Resolute: Zhuangzi’s Absolute Values and How He Argues for Them
• Thomas Radice, Southern Connecticut State University
  Confounding the Spectator: ‘Performance Art’ and Subversion in the Zhuangzi

10:30AM-10:45AM: BREAK

10:45AM – 11:45AM: Zhuangzi II

• Pengbo Liu, Bentley University
  Zhuangzi and Agency
• Yiting Tang, University of Chicago
  On Being (Attuned): A Reading of Zhuangzi, Book 2

11:45AM – 12:15PM: Business Meeting

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