Program Chair's Report Fall '98

The academic year 1998-99 promises to be an exciting one for the SACP.  Our new Web site will enable us to communicate rapidly with each other, giving us new ease in keeping up with conference announcements, member news, etc.

For those of you who have not yet contacted me or one of the Division Program Coordinators but wish to present a paper or organize a panel at either the SACP concurrent meetings with the Central Division or Pacific Divisions of the APA, please contact me (bdavidburke@sprintmail.com)  or Joseph Prabhu (jprabhu@calstatela.edu) at once.  Joseph Prabhu is organizing the Pacific Division meeting, and I am organizing the Central Division meeting.

Frank Hoffman and Xinyan Jiang have done excellent work in organizing (respectively) the SACP/APA Eastern Division panels and the SACP/AAS panels as you can see below. When the exact dates and times have been secured from the AAS, that information will be posted here.

B. David Burke
SACP Program Chair

SACP at the APA

The SACP will host the following panels at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association meeting at The Hilton, Washington, D.C., from December 27-30, 1998.

Panel No. 1
Monday Morning, December 28, 1998
Group Session III, 9:00-11:00 a.m.
Dupont Room
 

Panel Title:	CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE PHILOSOPHY: CONCEPTS OF EXPERIENCE
Chair:	Philip Blosser (Lenoir-Rhyne College)
Participants:	Andrew Feenberg (San Diego State University):  "Culture and Experience: Nishida's Path 'To the Things Themselves'"
	Yoko Arisaka (University of San Francisco):  "Corporeality and Worldhood: Nishida, Watsuji, and Merleau-Ponty"
	Robin Roth (Kyoto):  "Nietzsche and Nishitani: Distance and Evil"

Panel No. 2
Thursday Evening, December 29, 1998
Group Session XI, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
Bancroft Room
 

Panel Title:	EASTERN AND WESTERN PERSPECTIVES  ON MORALITY, PRUDENCE, AND VIRTUE
Chair:	Thomas Radice
Participants:	Linda Chance (University of Pennsylvania):  "Virtue in Classical Japanese Literary Thought"
	Frank J. Hoffman (West Chester University and University of Pennsylvania):  "Morality, Prudence, and Virtue in Early Buddhism"
	Ashok Gangadean (Haverford College):  "Global Virtue: the Logos, East and West"
	Paul Streveler (West Chester University):  "Greek and Medieval Understandings of Morality, Prudence, and Virtue"
Commentator:	Paul Goldin (University of Pennsylvania)

SACP at the AAS

The SACP will host the following panels at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies meeting from March 11 - 14, 1999 at The Marriott, Boston, Massachusetts.

Panel No. 1-- Organizer Xinyan Jiang
 

Panel Title:	BUDDHISM
Chair:	Xinyan Jiang (Grand Valley State University)
Participant:	Ellen Zhang (Temple University):  "Is Chan Logocentric?-- In-scribing/De-scribing Gong-an Discourse"
Commentator:	Stephen Rowe (Grand Valley State University)
Participant:	Zijiang Ding (California State Polytechnic University):  "Tantric Buddhism and the Contemporary Chinese Conceptual Art"
Commentator:	Tao Jiang (Temple University)
Participant:	Sandra Wawrytko (San Diego State University):  "Logic and Language in the Lotus Sutra"
Commentator:	Frank Hoffman (West Chester University and University of Pennsylvania)

Panel No. 2-- Organizer Chung-ying Cheng
 

Panel Title:	QING THOUGHT: CRITIQUE AND INTERPRETATION
Participants:	Chung-ying Cheng (University of Hawai'i at Manoa):  "General and Brief Remarks on the Character of Qing Thought  and Its Place in Chinese Intellectual History"
	On-Cho Ng (State University of Pennsylvania at University Park):  "Study and Reflections on Jiao Xun"
	Shao Dongfang (National University of Singapore):  "Historical Hermeneutics and Critique of Cui Shu"
	Xiao Yang (New School for Social Research):  "Study and Reflections on Dai Chen"
Commentators:	Chung-ying Cheng and P.J. Ivanhoe (University of Michigan)

 A Business Meeting of the SACP will follow this panel. All are invited to stay and participate.
 

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