April 21st 2018 MDT
Call for Papers SACP Symposium: Celebrating the Centenary of Raimon Panikkar's Birth, Denver, November 16, 2018 In addition to the regular SACP panel, the SACP will host a mini-symposium on the intercultural thought of Raimon Panikkar at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver. This symposium is made possible by private donations. It will take place on November 16 (Friday), the day before the official beginning of the AAR program in order to avoid any scheduling conflict. Raimon Pan ...Continue Reading
April 19th 2018 MDT
SACP Call for Papers 2018 AAR Annual Meeting, Denver November 17-20, 2018 Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy is affiliated with the AAR as a "Related Scholarly Organization" (RSO), in that capacity we are invited to offer panels at the annual meeting (starting this year they are called "Other Events," instead of "Additional Meetings"). The SACP will host at least one panel for this year's AAR meeting. There is a possibility that the panel will be scheduled on Saturday (11/17) i ...Continue Reading
February 19th 2018 MDT
Dear Colleagues and Friends, I am emailing you on behalf of the Board of Directors for the SACP. 2018 is upon us, and the activities of the SACP for this calendar year require the financial support of its members. If you have not already done so, I kindly request that you submit your annual dues by March 15th. Hopefully you will find these affordable—annual dues are only $45 ($30 for students). Payment can be submitted through either Paypal (the preferred method, since it saves on time and paperwork) or by check. Plea ...Continue Reading
January 31st 2018 MDT
Today is the last day to submit an abstract for the 2018 SACP conference. We’ve received a healthy number of submissions. Still we feel that there might be people who were not able to meet this deadline so we extended the deadline until February 10. We strongly encourage graduate students to submit your essays for the Graduate Student Essay Contest. Thanks. SACP 2018 Conference Organization Committee Jin Y. Park, American University, Washington DC (SACP President) Bryan van Norden, Yale-NUS College ( ...Continue Reading
January 25th 2018 MDT
SACP members may be interested in the two Asian Studies Development Programs (ASDP) posted below. Buddhist East Asia: The Interplay of Religion, the Arts and Politics Dates: May 28- June 22, 2018 Location: East-West Center, Honolulu, HI Director: Peter Hershock This multidisciplinary program, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will offer four weeks of context-rich engagement with Buddhist teachings, practices and primary texts (in translation), examining how they have shaped and been shaped b ...Continue Reading
January 21st 2018 MDT
Call for Proposals Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy 50th Annual Conference June 8-11th, 2018 Hosted by Pedagogical University of Cracow, Krakow, Poland; supporting co-organizers are National Museum in Krakow and Institute of the Middle and Far East of Jagiellonian University CONFERENCE THEME: Power and Creativity Keynote Speaker: Graham Parkes (University of Vienna), “Will to Power and the Field of Dao/De: Nietzsche and Zhuangzi on Creative Experience” Deadline for Abstracts ...Continue Reading
January 18th 2018 MDT
The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy will hold panels at the World Congress of Philosophy to be held at Peking University in Beijing, August 13-20, 2018. Conference details can be found here: http://wcp2018.pku.edu.cn/yw/index.htm The conference topic is “Learning to be Human,” and papers dealing with the conference topic are solicited. Please submit your title to Secretary of the SACP, Marzenna Jakubczak sacp2018@PROTECTED by February 15, 2018. If you want to submit a round table ...Continue Reading
December 4th 2017 MDT
Dear SACP members, Thanks for your participation in the SACP election. Bryan van Norden was elected as VP and will serve for 2018-2019. And Peter Hershock was elected as a board member for 2018-2020. We wish all the members of the SACP a smooth end of the semester and happy holidays! Jin Park Vice President SACP ...Continue Reading
November 1st 2017 MDT
Dear SACP members, **If you receive a duplicate of this message, please ignore. We have recently updated the listserv and if you have not received this message before, that was because of a technical problem. The election deadline has been extended until Nov 4 (Saturday) to accomodate. If you have already cast your ballot, thank you and please ignore this message. This year the Society elects two officials: Vice President and one Board member. By the end of this calendar year, Robin Wang will com ...Continue Reading
October 19th 2017 MDT
Dear SACP members, **If you receive a duplicate of this message, please ignore. We have experienced technical problems so the election has been extended until Nov 4 (Saturday). If you have already cast your ballot, thank you and please ignore this message. This year the Society elects two officials: Vice President and one Board member. By the end of this calendar year, Robin Wang will complete her term as President of the SACP, and Jin Y. Park will begin her presidency in January 2018 for a two-year term. ...Continue Reading
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