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Announcements
 
David Jones Director of the Center for the Development of Asian Studies, Kenensaw State University, and SACP Program Chair, was elected the 2003-2004 President of the Association for Asian Studies/Southeast Regional at the 2002 January meeting in Chattanooga. He will serve this coming year as the Vice President.

Doug Allen , SACP President, spent several weeks in Romania in June 2002 doing research and delivering six lectures, primarily on the phenomenology of Mircea Eliade and on terror and terrorism. He has become a member of the advisory board of the Romanian journals Archaevs and Stvdia Asiatica.

Ronnie Littlejohn received a grant from the Freeman Foundation to study Daoist moral practice in 2001. He was also given a Rasmussen Grant for advanced studies in China.

Raimundo Panikkar recently received the Italian prize "Premio Nonino: Un maetro per il nostro tempo" as well as the Medal of the President of the Italian Republic during a ceremony in Rimini, October 2001. His books The Intrareligious Dialogue, A Dwelling Place for Wisdom, and Culture Disarmament: The Way to Peace were translated into Chinese while The Vedic Experience just came out in Italian. A second edition of this last work is expected soon. .

Henry Rosemont, Jr reports his retirement as editor of the SACP's Monograph Series, published in association with the University of Hawaii Press. The nineteenth volume of this series has just been published, on sense perception by Jane Geaney. The series will now be edited by Professors T.C. Kline, III and John Schroeder. Henry is also retiring from St. Mary's College of Maryland. Inquiries or orders should be directed to University of Hawai'i Press, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, HI 96822. Manuscripts should be directed to either of the Editors at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, St. Mary's college of Maryland, St. Mary's City, MD 20686-3001. .

James Giles, SACP member, will be teaching two summer courses at the University of Cambridge entitled "The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism" (Aug. 5-16, 2002) and "The Philosophy of Taoism" (Aug. 2-4, 2002). For further information contact Madingley Hall, University of Cambridge: email: intenq@cam.ac.uk,
Tel: + 44 1954 280398.

Bina Gupta, from the University of Missouri-Columbia, has been awarded a grant by the MU Research Council to co-produce, with J.N. Mohantyof Temple University/Emory University, the first English translation of the Pan=capaµdikaµvivaran\a (ìElucidation of Five partsî), a Sanskrit commentary which provides an elaborate and systematic exposition and defense of the Advaita Vedaµnta system of the Indian tradition.

Ashok Malhotra, from the State University of New York at Oneonta, went to India during Easter break (April 6-16, 2001 and visited six villages affected by the January earthquake. Through the Ninash Foundation of Oneonta, Malhotra adopted the village of Kuran in Gujrat. Since this village of 1200 people was completely wiped out during the earthquake, it needed to be rebuilt before the arrival of monsoon. Along with providing help for the earthquake dictums and the building of an elementary school for 150 children in Kuran, the Ninash Foundation will provide assistance to Mr. Pushpendra Singh, an artist, who will be setting up the Indo-International Art Restoration School in Jaipur by the end of the year. Money will be raised through the Ninash Foundation to support this art restoration project. Malhotra spent two days in Dunlod, Rajasthan, where the participants of the SUNY "Learn and Serve in India 2000" study abroad program helped build the first Indo- International School building. Malhotra hopes to raise 40,000 to help build another 80 houses in Kuran. NOTE: Donations to build houses for the earthquake victims can be mailed to The Ninash Foundation, 17 Center Street, Oneonta, New York 13820. www.ninash.f2s.com. Tel: (607) 436-3220

Mara Miller's book, The Garden as an Art, (SUNY Press, 1993) has been nominated for the First American Philosophical Association Book Prize.
 
Arlen Wolpert, SACP member and an independent scholar from Cambridge, MA, announces his new Web site at world.std.com/~awolpaert.

Images of Asian Deities

The following PowerPoint programs will be available on a CD-ROM format by next summer. The images will also be available as JPEG files for use in other programs. A text commentary will also be include. Contact: ngier@uidaho.edu.
Nicholas F. Gier, Professor of Philosophy, Coordinator of Religious Studies, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID 83844-3016 208-885-6284;882-9212;
FAX 208-885-8950

Publications by Society Members

 
 
Fred Dallmayr'sedited collection, Border Crossings: Toward a Comparative Political Theory, has been published by Lexington Books.

Bina Gupta and J.N. Mohanty(SACP Secretary-Treasurer, Temple University and Emory University)announce that their edited textbook, Philosophical Questions East and West, has just been published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

James Giles' edited work, Kierkegaard and Freedom, has been published by Palgrave. This work is a critical exploration of the ideas of Kierkegaard on radical choice, autonomy, anxiety, necessity, fate, self-deception and other issues surrounding the problem of human freedom.

Ashok Malhotra's book, Instant Nirvana,has been published in the Oneonta Philosophy Studies Series. The book seeks to separate "fact from fantasy regarding claims of 'instant enlightenment' made by such groups at T.M., Hare Krishna...". Professor Malhotra is from the State University of New York at Oneonta.
 
J.N. Mohanty's Classical Indian Philosophy has just been published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
 
Ralph Sawyer's Tao of Peace, Lessons from Ancient China on the Dynamics of Conflict has been published by Shambala Press. His work includes a translation of the Tao Te Ching as understood by Wang Chen and includes his commentary and analytical introduction.

Joan Stambaugh's book, The Formless Self,has been published by SUNY Press.
 

Doug Allen (University of Maine)--reports that his book, Myth and Religion in Mircea Eilade, was released by Routledge in May 2002.

James Giles (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)-- No Self to be Found: The Search for Personal Identity, 1998 University Press of America

Bina Gupta (University of Missouri)-- The Disinterested Witness: A Fragment of Advaita Vedanta Phenomenology, 1998 Northwestern University Press

Arthur L. Herman (University of Wisconsin)-- Community, Violence and Peace: Aldo Leopold, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., and Gautama the Buddha in the Twenty-first Century, 1998 SUNY Press

John Koller (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY) and Patricia Koller-- Asian Philosophies, revised edition, 1998 Prentice-Hall

Shu-Hsien Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)-- Philosophy: Classical and Sung-Ming, 1998 Greenwood Publishing.

Robert Magliola (Abac University, Thailand)-- On Deconstructing Life-Worlds: Buddhism, Christianity, and Culture, 1998 Scholars Press

Ashok Malhotra (SUNY Oneonta)-- Transcreation of the Bhagavad Gita, 1998 Prentice Hall; Mysticism, Meditation and Instant Nirvana, 1998 Oneonta Philosophy Series

WORK IN PROGRESS

Johannes (ìHansî) Bakker of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph in Ontario is currently working on Narayan Desaiís contribution to the ìGandhiî (Desai-Gandhi) translation of the Gita.

Michael Barnhart of the Department of History, Philosophy, and Political Science at Kingsborough/CUNY in New York is currently working on a collection entitled Varieties of Ethical Reflection: New Directions for Ethics in a Global Context.
 
Ben-Ami Scharfstein is currently working on a study of comparative aesthetics entitled Prelude to the History of World Art.

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