Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy

SACP 2027 Annual Conference — Call for Proposals

September 5, 2026 /

The 59th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy will be held June 4–7, 2027, at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, South Korea.

The conference theme is:

Embodiment and Agency Across Texts and Traditions

SACP welcomes individual paper proposals, standard panel proposals, and alternative-format panel/session proposals on the conference theme as well as other topics in Asian and comparative philosophy.

Proposal deadline: November 15, 2026
Graduate Student Essay Contest deadline: November 15, 2026

Keynote Speakers

East Asian Philosophy Keynote: Professor Yong Huang, Fudan University
South Asian Philosophy Keynote: Professor Elisa Freschi, University of Toronto

For the complete Call for Proposals, submission forms, registration information, travel updates, and other conference details, please visit the official SACP 2027 conference website:

https://sacp2027.skku.edu/

Questions concerning the conference may be directed to SACPcontact@gmail.com.

Please feel free to circulate the Call for Proposals widely among colleagues, graduate students, and relevant departments and organizations.

View CFP: SACP Annual Conference 2027 (pdf)

CFP: SACP at APA Pacific

September 1, 2026 /

SACP CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
2027 Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association

March 24 to March 27, 2027; Portland Oregon
Submission deadline: October 6th, 2025
The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy welcomes proposals for our panel at the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division meeting. Proposals regarding any aspect of Asian or comparative philosophy are welcome.
Individual paper abstracts should be 200-300 words in length and complete panel abstracts should include a 150 word introduction to the theme of the panel, complete with panel title, along with 200-300 word abstracts for each of the papers. Please include presenter’s name(s), email(s), and institution(s).
Information about the SACP can be found on our website at http://www.sacpweb.org.
Guidelines for paper/abstract submission:
  1. We encourage submission of either individual papers or full panel proposals, on any topic in Asian and/or Comparative Philosophy. All paper and panel proposals will be considered.
  2. Feel free to submit a longer abstract (300-500 words) or to include a completed paper with your abstract. The presentation time for each paper will be between 20 and 30 minutes.
  3. Please let us know if you are simultaneously submitting a separate proposal to other Asian philosophy groups for the same APA meeting. We strongly suggest making only unique submissions.
  4. Membership in the SACP is not required for consideration or acceptance, but we ask that you be a current SACP member by the time we submit the session information to the APA.
  5. All submissions must include the presenter(s) name, university affiliation (and state/province or country of affiliation), email address, and paper title (where appropriate) in Title Case

Each presenter will have to register and pay the conference registration fee to the APA.

Paper or abstract submissions (with your full name, affiliation/contact information) and any questions should be sent by email to Johnathan Flowers at johnathan.flowers@csun.edu.
In order to present your paper in an SACP session at the APA, you must also be a current member of the SACP.
Membership may be paid via PayPal through the SACP website: https://www.sacpweb.org/
Annual SACP membership rates are as follows:
  • Fully employed members: $50 USD
  • Graduate students, underemployed members, and emeritus members: $30 USD.

 

SACP AT APA PACIFIC CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS 2027 (PDF)

SACP Listserv Has Moved to Google Groups

August 9, 2026 /

The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy has moved its email listserv from Dada Mail to Google Groups through our new Google Workspace for Nonprofits account.

Approximately 1,200 addresses from the previous listserv have been migrated to the new SACP Listserv. Because a migration of this size can produce occasional errors, we encourage current members and subscribers to confirm that they can access the new list.

Instructions for joining the SACP Listserv, including instructions for .edu and other non-Gmail addresses, are available here:

https://www.sacpweb.org/membership/sacp-listserv/

Please also add sacp-listserv@sacpweb.org to your email contacts or address book to help prevent SACP announcements from being routed to your spam or junk folder.

Important announcements are coming very soon, including the SACP Vice Presidential election and information about the 2027 Annual SACP Conference.

During the transition, major announcements will be distributed through Google Groups and posted on the SACP website and Facebook page. We will also continue using the former Dada Mail list temporarily to make sure members are aware of the transition and have an opportunity to move successfully to the new listserv.

If you encounter any difficulty joining or accessing the listserv, please contact SACPcontact@gmail.com.

SACP CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS 2027 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association Boston, MA, January 13–16, 2027.

July 22, 2026 /

SACP CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
2027 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Boston, MA, January 13–16, 2027.

 

SACP CALL FOR PAPER AND PANEL PROPOSALS
2027 Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association
Boston, MA, January 13–16, 2027.

Submission deadline: Sunday, July 26, 2026 (pretty soon!)

The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy welcomes proposals for our panel at the American Philosophical Association’s Eastern Division meeting. Proposals regarding any aspect of Asian or comparative philosophy are welcome.

Individual paper abstracts should be 200-300 words in length and complete panel abstracts should include a 150 word introduction to the theme of the panel, complete with panel title, along with 200-300 word abstracts for each of the papers. Please include presenter’s name(s), email(s), and institution(s).

Information about the SACP can be found on our website at http://www.sacpweb.org.

Guidelines for paper/abstract submission:

  1. We encourage submission of either individual papers or full panel proposals, on any topic in Asian and/or Comparative Philosophy. All paper and panel proposals will be considered.
  2. Feel free to submit a longer abstract (300-500 words) or to include a completed paper with your abstract. The presentation time for each paper will be between 20 and 30 minutes.
  3. Please let us know if you are simultaneously submitting a separate proposal to other Asian philosophy groups for the same APA meeting. We strongly suggest making only unique submissions.
  4. Membership of the SACP is not required for consideration or acceptance, but in order to present your paper in an SACP session at the APA, you must also be a current member of the SACP. Membership may be paid via PayPal through the SACP website: https://www.sacpweb.org/
    Annual SACP membership rates are as follows:
    Fully employed members: $50 USD
    Graduate students, underemployed members, and emeritus members: $30 USD.”

Each presenter will have to register and pay the conference registration fee to the APA.

Paper or abstract submissions (with your full name/affiliation/contact information) and any questions should be sent by email to Josh Mason at joshua.mason@lmu.edu.

 

SACP Panel at AAR Online June Session 2026

June 5, 2026 /

SACP Panel at AAR Online June Session

Our Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy panel in American Academy of Religion convenes 6/23 Tuesday, 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM (online). The session, Social Political Idealization in Chinese Thought, brings Chinese political thought into direct conversation with the study of ethics. Pre-modern Chinese schools rarely held politics and ethics apart, treating the question of how to live a good life as inseparable from how a society should organize itself. The four papers take up that connection through comparative moral pedagogy, classical conceptions of political progress, syncretic accounts of the good life, and the democratization of political knowledge.

Session details

Papers

  • Thomas Jackson, “Tao Yuanming’s Immanent Transcendence: How to Live Life Through Reflection on Multiple Styles of Life”
  • Borong Zhang (Indiana University Bloomington), “Heaven, Knowledge, and the People: Epistemic Competence and Political Status in Confucian and Mohist Thought”
  • Keegan Nichols, “Confucius and the Exemplary Conception of Progress”
  • Yue (Alex) Zhou (Indiana University Bloomington), “To Be Like Them: Comparative Study of the Role of Idolization in Moral Pedagogy”

We hope you will join us!

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