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Conference Announcement Theme: Chinese Political Thought Subtitle: A Global Dialogue beyond "Orientalism" Type: International Workshop Institution: Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Naples "L’Orientale" Tallinn University European Institute for Chinese Studies (EURICS) Location: Online Date: 20.–21.1.2022 __________________________________________________ Chinese philosophy is often considered as a pragmatic, intrinsically “political” discourse, more oriented towards the stabilization of a community (be it social, cultural or institutional) and the establishment of an organic, well-functioning state apparatus than to the understanding of the metaphysical realm of thought. This is a largely biased and simplistic reduction of its thematic richness and its high level of theoretical sophistication, yet the formative centuries of Chinese thought - amidst the turmoil of the Warring States - undeniably urged the main intellectual actors of the time to a reflection on how to rebuild the lost “political order”. And yet, even as China is becoming a global power, Chinese political thought is rarely allowed to participate in discussions beyond the disciplinary “wall” of Sinology and Asian Studies and their categories of thought. In other words, if Plato, Machiavelli or Rousseau are unanimously considered to speak the universal language of “political philosophy”, the reflections on power, authority and legitimacy offered by Laozi, Han Fei or Mencius tend to remained confined to a specialized (sometimes still considered and treated as “exotic”) Chinese context. Program January 20, 2022 9.45am Institutional Greetings 10am Opening Remarks (Federico Brusadelli & Lisa Indraccolo) 10.15am Keynote Lecture: Hilde de Weerdt (Leiden University) "Modeling Tang Emperor Taizong and Chinese Governance in Eighteenth-Century German Political Theory and State Fiction" 11.30am Section One: Methodological Frameworks & Global Perspectives Discussant: Youngmin Kim (Seoul National University) Jiyan Qiao (Leiden University) “Human Nature and Governance: A Framework for Global Comparative Political Philosophy” Baldwin Wong (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong) and Elton Chan (Lingnan University) “Recusing Political Realism by Confucianism. On a Confucian Account of the Realist Distinction between Ethics and Politics” Dawid Rogacz (Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań) “Sincerity (cheng) as a Civic Virtue” Yang Fu (National Taiwan University) “Bring the Dao to the World: Yü Ying-shih and the Study of Chinese Political Thought” 3.30pm Section Two: Pre-Imperial and Early Imperial Legacies Discussant: Lisa Indraccolo (Tallinn University) Yuri Pines (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Class Traitors? The Assault on the Intellectuals’ Power in the Book of Lord Shang and Han Feizi” Stephen Walker (University of Chicago) “Nature, Power, and Critique in the Huainanzi” Gu Yixin (Princeton University) “Disengagement from Power and Power of Disengagement: Rhetorics and Politics in Six Hypothetical Discourses (shelun) in the Han” 5:00pm Section Three: Ming Political Philosophy and Practice Discussant: Phillip Grimberg (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Sebestyén Hompot (University of Vienna/Austrian Academy of Sciences) “The Interpretations and Evaluations of Ming-Qing China’s Tributary System of Foreign Relations in Recent Historiography” John Lombardini (College of William & Mary) “Ethics and Politics in Li Zhi’s Fenshu” 6:30pm Keynote Lecture: Sarah Allan (UC Berkeley/Dartmouth College, Emerita) “The Origins of Chinese Political Thought” January 21, 2022 9am Section Four: Global Encounters in the 20th Century Discussant: Marc A. Matten (Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg) Adrian Krawczyk (Leipzig University) “The Concept of Ideology in Chinese Marxism” Yan Bo (Nanyang Technological University) “A Maoist Moment in the Late 1960s America: Establishing Ethnic Studies Programs in American Universities” Alice Trinkle (Freie Universität Berlin) “Liberal Economic Thinking in China in Exchange with (Post) Socialist Eastern Europe 1978 – 2001” 11am Section Five: Hong Kong as a Political Laboratory Discussant: Sebastian Veg (EHESS Paris) Kenneth Kai-chung Yung (University of Hong Kong) “Reshaping Cold War Currents in a Chinese Context: A Study of the Chinese Émigré Intellectuals in Hong Kong in the 1950s” Patricia Eunice C. Miraflores (University of Groningen/University of Uppsala) “One Country, Two Perspectives: Analyzing the Sino-British Turnover of Hong Kong from 1982 to 1997 as an East-West Human Rights Dialogue” 2pm Section Six: Chinese Political Thought as a Global Alternative Discussant: Federico Brusadelli (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) Martyna Świątczak-Borowy (University of Warsaw) “Confucianism and the Crisis of Democracy” Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen) “The United Front in Chinese Political Thought and its Global Dimension” Shubham Karmakar (University of Trento) “Integrating Chinese Political Philosophy and Social Media Diplomacy: Xi’s era” Astrid H. M. Nordin (King’s College London) “Multiplicity, Holism, and Yin-Yang Dialectics in Contemporary International Relations Theory” 4.30pm Keynote Lecture: Teemu Ruskola (Emory University) “China in Political Space and Time” 6pm Section Seven: Convergences Discussant: Shao-yun Yang (Denison University) Michael Nylan (UC Berkeley) “Xunzi and Aristotle: Beyond Orientalism” Shoufu Yin (University of British Columbia) “Liu Bei, Plato, et al. on the State: A Microhistory of Seventeenth- century Globalization and Political Thought” Trenton Wilson (Yale University) “Reading Qin Hui Reading Zhang Taiyan Reading Chinese Institutional History: The Question of Du” 7.30pm Conclusions & Final Discussion Please find a PDF version of the Final Program (Central European Time) here: https://cutt.ly/7YMJBxf Registration If you wish to register as audience, please fill this form: https://forms.office.com/r/6U8YpGeyyR Organizers Dr. Federico Brusadelli University of Naples L'Orientale Email: [email protected] Prof. Lisa Indraccolo Tallinn University Email: [email protected] Conference website: http://www.eurics.eu/event_chinese-political-thought-a-global-dialogue-beyond-orientalism- __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ __________________________________________________
