Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought

7th Annual
Midwest Conference on Chinese Thought

Friday, May 6
Fireside Lounge, White Activities Center
(see #13 on map below)

1:15	Coffee and Tea
1:30-2:45	Moderator: Brian Hoffert, North Central College Kelly Clark, Calvin College “The Evolutionary Psychology of Chinese Religion: Pre-Qin High Gods as Punishers and Rewarders” Ryan Nichols, California State University, Fullerton “A Genealogy of Early Confucian Moral Psychology”
2:45-3:00	Break
3:00-4:15	Moderator: Franklin Perkins, DePaul University Lisa (Li-hsiang) Rosenlee, University of Hawaii, West Oahu “Bidirectionality of Confucianism and Care Ethics: A Feminist Response” Cheryl Cottine, Indiana University, Bloomington “Is Confucianism a Form of Role Ethics?”
4:15-4:30	Break
4:30-5:45	Moderator: Alexis Smith, North Central College Galia Patt-Shamir, Tel Aviv University “Whose Confucius? – On Two "Confucian Episodes" in the Zhuangzi” Stephen Walker, University of Chicago “Zhuangzi on agreement and justification”
8:00	Party at Brian Hoffert’s House 219 Cedarbrook Rd., Naperville, IL

Saturday, May 7
Benedetti-Wehrli Stadium, Room 129
(see #39 on map below)

9:15	Continental Breakfast
9:45-11:00	Moderator: Doug Berger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale Esther Klein, University of Illinois at Chicago “Constancy and the Changes: A New Perspective on the ‘Heng Xian’” Robin Wang, Loyola Marymount University “Thinking Through Images: The Way of Xiangshu 象數 (Images and Numbers)”
11:00-11:15	Break
11:15-12:30	Moderator: Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University, Bloomington Franklin Perkins, DePaul University “Generation (shēng 生) and Impartiality as Linking Nature and Human Ethics in Early Chinese Philosophy” Dan Robins, Stockton College “Three Puzzles about Conforming Upwards”
12:30-2:00	Lunch Break
2:00-4:00	Moderator: Brian Hoffert, North Central College Sonya Ozbey, DePaul University “Is it Possible to not to be Part of Nature?: How to think of the Human/Nonhuman, Human/Nature and Natural/Artificial Splits in Spinoza’s and Zhuangzi’s Thoughts” Doug Berger, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale “Is Nothing Alone, or with Something? Heidegger, Wang Bi and Zhong Hui on Dao De Jing 11” Sam Cocks, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse “Edmund Husserl & Wang Yangming on Self-Actualization”
4:00-4:30	Break
4:30-6:30	Keynote Address: Michael Puett, Harvard University “Ancestors, Fathers, and Sons: Ritual Theory and Philosophy in Early China”
8:00	Dinner at Mapo 1563 N. Naper Blvd., Naperville, IL ~ 630-420-1388

We would like to thank Cultural Affairs, the International Programs Office, Multicultural Affairs, Interdisciplinary Programs, and the Philosophy and Religion Departments for their generous support of this conference.

For further information, contact Brian Hoffert at bhoffert@noctrl.edu.