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Announcement Theme: The Great Death and the Pure Land Subtitle: Nishitani Keiji and the Ecological Emergency Type: Online Lectures on Intercultural Philosophy Institution: Society of Intercultural Philosophy Location: Online Date: 30.6.2020 Deadline: 29.6.2020 __________________________________________________ From Fernando Wirtz - GIP <[email protected]> The GIP (Gesellschaft für interkulturelle Philosophie / Society of Intercultural Philosophy) is launching a new online lecture series. We very much invite all of you to join the monthly lectures and make this a forum for lively discussion! The series will take place monthly, but not on a fixed date (due the different time zones of our guest speakers). Our aim is to use the GIP lectures to bring GIP members and everyone interested in intercultural philosophy together and to bring them into conversation. We want to create a platform for regular exchange in intercultural philosophy. At the same time, we would like to draw attention to the activities of GIP and make society better known. We want also to keep the topics varied, interesting and relevant, trying to represent the different fields and views within intercultural philosophy. Our keynote speakers are willing to engage in productive discussion after their presentation. We will be updating the schedule here: http://www.int-gip.de/gip-lectures/ First GIP-lecture will be given Tuesday, June 30th at 7pm German time (10am PST) by Prof. Dr. Jason Wirth, University of Seattle, on: "The Great Death and the Pure Land: Nishitani Keiji and the Ecological Emergency.” Dr. Jason M. Wirth is professor of philosophy at Seattle University, and works and teaches in the areas of Continental Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy, Aesthetics, Environmental Philosophy, and Africana Philosophy. His recent books include Mountains, Rivers, and the Great Earth: Reading Gary Snyder and Dōgen in an Age of Ecological Crisis (SUNY 2017), a monograph on Milan Kundera (Commiserating with Devastated Things, Fordham 2015), Schelling’s Practice of the Wild (SUNY 2015), The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time (SUNY 2003), a translation of the third draft of The Ages of the World (SUNY, 2000), the edited volume Schelling Now (Indiana 2004), the co-edited volume (with Bret Davis and Brian Schroeder), Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Indiana 2011), and The Barbarian Principle: Merleau-Ponty, Schelling, and the Question of Nature (SUNY 2013). He is the associate editor and book review editor of the journal, Comparative and Continental Philosophy. His forthcoming book is called Nietzsche and Other Buddhas (Indiana, spring 2019) and he is currently completing a manuscript on the cinema of Terrence Malick. He was ordained in 2010 in Japan as a priest in the Soto Zen lineage and is the founder and co-director of the Seattle University EcoSangha (www.ecosangha.net). Nishitani Keiji (1900-1990), student of Nishida Kitarô and a second-generation member of the Kyoto School, is known in the West because of his reflections on the concept of nihilism and religion within the discussion regarding the overcoming of modernity in Japan. To participate please send a short notice before June 29th to: [email protected] The lecture will be given via zoom. A zoom-link will be sent to all those who registered June 29th. Tuesday, June 30th: - Los Angeles 10:00 AM - Sao Paulo 14:00 PM - Germany 19:00 PM - India 22:30 AM __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
