SACP Programs

Program Chair's Report

B. David Burke
Elgin Community College, IL
March 1999

Congratulations to all who have worked so hard this year to serve as liaisons for the five SACP conferences and to the panel participants.  It is thanks to your active participation in these events that SACP is alive and well.  Again, I wish to remind all SACP members that this is your professional organization and your intellectual contributions are most welcome.

If you would like to organize a panel, or if you have a paper you wish to present, now is the time to get in touch with either me or the divisional program liaisons so that we may get the 1999 -2000 academic year programs scheduled.  The e-mail addresses for all of us on the Program Committee are below.

Our last two panels this year, at APA Pacific and Central Division meetings, are printed in the current issue of the Forum. The Pacific Division meeting's panel, organized by Joseph Prabhu, will be focusing on the "Philosophy of Yogavasishta"; and the Central Divisions two panels will be focusing on "Issues in Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese Philosophies".  One of these panels is a graduate student panel.  I would particularly like to thank the graduate students involved for their enthusiasm and initiative in organizing this
panel.  Melanie Johnson-Moxley, our SACP Web Master, has been particularly helpful in this regard.

I would like to see a graduate student panel at every SACP meeting, but that may not be possible given the new restraints on number of concurrent panels that the APA is starting to impose.  For instance, the Eastern Division APA is now restricting all affiliated organizations to one panel, with only the possibility of two panels being allowed depending upon the demand for limited available space.

Because of these new restrictions, it is essential that you get your requests to me and/or the program liaisons early.  Frank Hoffman, East Coast SACP Program Liaison, has informed me that he is in the final stages of putting two panels together for APA Eastern Division in December 1999.  However, only one of these panels may be able to be presented due to the new restrictions.  Therefore, I would request all SACP members who wish to either present or be on a panel at an APA meeting to consider presenting at the APA Central Division or Pacific Division meetings next year, where, hopefully, affiliated organizations will still be able to present two panels.

I realize the middle of Spring Semester is a very busy time for all of us, but early planning of panels for 1999 - 2000 is essential.  Please get your request in to us as soon as possible.

SACP Program Committee

B. David Burke, Elgin Community College
Program Chair and Central Division APA Liaison
bdavidburke@sprintmail.com

Frank Hoffman, University of Pennsylvania
Eastern Division APA Liaison
fhoffman@sas.upenn.edu

Joseph Prabhu, California State University at Los Angeles
Pacific Division APA Liaison
jprabhu@calstatela.edu

John Holder, St. Norbert College
AAR Liaison
holdjj@sncac.snc.edu

Xinyan Jiang, Grand Valley State University
AAS Liaison
jiangx@river.it.gvsu.edu

SACP at the APA Pacific Division Meeting

The SACP will host the following panel at the Pacific Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association meeting being held at the Claremont Hotel and Resort, Berkeley, CA, from April 1-3, 1999.

Thursday Evening, April 1, 1999
8:00-11:00 p.m.
Napa I
 
 

Panel Title:	THE PHILOSOPHY OF YOGAVASISTHA
Chair:	Joseph Prabhu (California State University, Los Angeles)
Participants:	Adam Chakrabarti (University of Hawai'i)--  "The Metaphysics of Yogavasistha"
	Christopher Chapple (Loyola Marymount University)--  "The Ethics and Psychology of Yogavasistha"
	Seth Titchner (University of Hawai'i)--  "The Role of the Teacher in Self-Transformation"

SACP at the APA Central Division Meeting

The SACP will host the following panels at the Central Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association meeting being held at the Hyatt Regency, New Orleans, LA, from May 5-8, 1999.

Panel No. 1
Friday Evening, May 7, 1999
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Poydras A
Graduate Student Panel
 
 

Panel Title:	ISSUES IN HINDU, BUDDHIST, AND CHINESE PHILOSOPHIES
Chair:	William D. Edelglass (Emory University, Atlanta)
Participants:	Melanie Johnson-Moxley (University of Missouri-Columbia)-- "The Void Galloped into Cloud Street: Wittgenstein and Early Mahayana Buddhism on Expressing Transcendental Ideas"
	Amy Olberding (University of Hawai'i)-- "Youth and Death: Confucius and Seneca on Untimely Death and the Nature of a Full Life"
	Lori J. Underwood (University of Missouri-Columbia)-- "Spinoza's Ethics and Advaita Vedanta: Sameness in Difference"
Commentator:	William D. Edelglass (Emory University, Atlanta)


Note:  A business meeting of the SACP will follow this panel. All members are invited to stay and participate.
 

Panel No. 2
Saturday Afternoon, May 8, 1999
Noon to 2:00 p.m.
Location TBA
 

 

Panel Title:	ETHICS, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHIES IN THE ASIAN CONTEXT
Organizer:	B. David Burke (Elgin Community College, Illinois)
Chair:	J.N. Mohanty (Temple University and Emory University)
Participants:	Marthe Chandler (DePauw University)-- "Contemporary New Confucianism: A Secular Fundamentalism"
	David Jones (Kennesaw State University)
	John Culliney (University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Sea Grant Program)-- "Rectifying the Institution: A Confucian/Evolutionary Model of Human Ethical Authority"

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