3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:30 Concurrent Panels A-G Concurrent Panel A: The Place of War “Justification is Not the Issue” John W. POWELL (Humboldt State University) “Re-Placing Memory: Total War, Commemoration, and Reuse of Militarized Sites in Japan” David Havlick (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) “Yibing: Human Nature’s Impact on the Confucian Model of Righteous War” Lake Davidson (Colorado State University) Concurrent Panel B: Dwelling, Hospitality, and Home “Dwelling: Levinas beyond Heidegger” Hanoch BEN PAZI (Bar Ilan University, Israel) “On the Matter of Hospitality” Kimiyo MURATA-SORACI (Belmont University) “Accommodation, Location and Context: Conceptualization of Place in Indian Traditions of Thought” Meera BAINDUR (Manipal University, India) Concurrent Panel C: Intercultural Encounters as Philosophical Places “On Zheng 正, Associative Properness and Logical Validity: A Case Study of Shared Practices of Matteo Ricci, S. J., and Chinese Mathematicians in the 17th Century” Jinmei YUAN (Creighton University) “A Place to Meditate: James Legge’s Translation of Xin 心”
I-Hsin CHEN (The University of Manchester, UK) “The Place of China in Translation: The Heart Sutra” Sarah MATTICE (University of North Florida) “Notes on a Chinese Garden: Comparative Response to Arnold Berleant’s Environmental Aesthetics” Eva Kit Wah MAN (Hong Kong Baptist University) Concurrent Panel D: Taking Place in Hawaiian Ways “The Hawaiian Sense of Place as Focus and Field” Keliʻi AKINA (Hawai’i Pacific University) “Knowing and Places in Hawaiian and Chinese Traditions: A Possible construction of ʻĀina (or River Hao) Epistemology” Julia MORGAN (Kaua'i Community College) and Kuan-Hung CHEN (University of Hawai’i) “Speculative Metaphysics from Trans-cultural Perspectives: Traversing Boundaries and Self-Transformation without Moving or Changing” Matt LoPRESTI (Hawai’i Pacific University) Concurrent Panel E: Land and Climate “Attempting a ‘Philosophy of Climate’” Maximilian Gregor HEPACH (University of Freiburg, Germany) “Coral Reef Cultures and Place-Making in Okinawa” C. Anne CLAUS (American University) “The Flow of the Land: Place in Dōgen and the Koyukon” Gerald KUPERUS (University of San Francisco) “Beijing Hot, Beijing Cool”
Peter ZHANG (Grand Valley State University) Concurrent Panel F: Dao as Place “Residing in De: Contentment, Home & Finding One’s Place in the Liezi and Zhuangzi” Jeffrey W. DIPPMANN (Central Washington University) “Place in the Philosophy and Biography of Laozi” Andrej FECH (University of Tuebingen, Germany) “The Ziran of Dao: Persistence and Transience” LIU Jing (University of Hawai’i) Concurrent Panel G: Placing the Body “Body as Place: A Short Philosophical Improvisation” Daniel RAVEH (Tel Aviv University, Israel) “Particularist Bioethics” Laura Specker SULLIVAN (University of Hawai’i) “Biological and Semiotic Marking of Human Space in Michel Serres's Interdisciplinary Philosophy” Keith A. MOSER (Mississippi State University) Thursday, May 26 Plenary Session 2: Keoni Auditorim Chair: 8:30-9:10 “Ethics without Forgiveness” Kwong-loi SHUN (UC Berkeley) 9:10-9:50 “Presence: Place and Second-Personal Space” Stephen DARWALL (Yale University)
9:50-10:20 Coffee break 10:20-11:00 “Blame and the Blamed's Place in (or beyond) the Moral Community” George TSAI (University of Hawai’i) 11:00-11:30 Open Discussion 11: 30-1:00 Lunch Lunchtime presentation: Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics in Education 1:00-3:00 Concurrent Panels A-G Concurrent Panel A: Placing Poetry “Dao of Emily Dickinson: Placing of Poetry and Philosophy across Boundaries” Shudong CHEN (Johnson County Community College) “Same Place, New Locations: Mobile Home and Nomadic Lifestyle of Kamo no Chomei” Alari ALLIK (Tallinn University, Estonia) “Understanding Place: A Dialectic within Regional American Landscape Poetry” Wayne ANDREWS (Hawai’i Pacific University) “Postcolonial Spaces and Identity in Nathalie Handal’s Poet in Andalucia” Etham Y. Al-RAWASHDEH and Oumeima BOUCHLAKA (University of Jordon) Concurrent Panel B: Virtual Places “Philosophical Issues of Place and the Past in Virtual Reality” Erik CHAMPION (Curtin University, Australia) XXXXX
“Place Metaphors in E-Learning and E-Science: Empirical Transcultural Exploration and Their Critical Socio-Epistemic Reflections” Gerhard BUDIN (University of Vienna, Austria) “The Sage in Silicon Valley: A Confucian Sense of Place in the Age of the Internet” Ian M. SULLIVAN (University of Hawai’i) Concurrent Panel C: Ethics in Confucian Contexts “Diagram of the Ethical Ideal: Centering on T’oegye Yi Hwang (退溪李滉, 1501-1570)’s Modification of the Existing the Diagram of Heavenly Mandate” Kyung Hyun KANG (Yonsei University, Korea) “The Place of De” Janghee LEE (Gyeongin National University of Education, Korea) “A Home under tian 天 for the People of ren 仁: On the Cultural Symbolism of the ‘Xiangdang’ Chapter 乡党篇 of the Analects of Kongzi” YANG Liuxin (Peking University, China) “Five Trends in Confucian Studies” ZHU Fengqing (Harbin Institute of Technology, China) Concurrent Panel D: Philosophy and Geography “The Place Called India” C. K. RAJU (Centre for Studies in Civilisations, Delhi, India) “The Place of Europe in Philosophical Eurocentrism” “Dharma and Science are Complementary: Himalayan Environmental Studies and Conservation Organization’s Experiments with Himalayan Communities”
“’Becoming Flowers:’ An Alternative Judeo-Christian Ecological Ethic” Elyse BYRNES (University of Hawai’i) Concurrent Panel G: Mapping Place in Early Indian Philosophical Narratives “Upanişadic Isomorphisms: Mapping the Universe within the Body” Ana FUNES (Loyola Marymount University) “Living within Space and Place: Directionality and Inner Experience in Indian Texts” Chris CHAPPLE (Loyola Marymount University) “Sāmkhya and the Architecture of Devotion in the Bhagavad Gītā: Liberation through Re-Imagining Place as the Body of Krishna” Geoff ASHTON (University of Colorado at Colorado Springs) “Queen Gāndhārī’s Mapping the Battlefield: Reversing the Gaze from Detached Dispassion to Dynamic Interplay of Emotions” Veena HOWARD (California State University, Fresno) 3:00-3:30 Break 3:30-5:00 Concurrent Panels A-G Concurrent Panel A: The Place of Friendship “The Place of Friendship in Spousal Relationship: You 友 and Philia” Li-Hsiang Lisa ROSENLEE (University of Hawai’i—West Oahu) “The Master Kept a Distance from His Own Son: The Place of Family Affection in Confucian Morality” Liang CAI (University of Notre Dame)
“Being a Friend to Places” Bryan E. BANNON (Merrimack College) Concurrent Panel B: Placing Trauma, Conflict, and Peace “Places of Trauma” Kristina LEBEDEVA (DePaul University) “Place and Space in Israel/Palestine” Michael MYERS (Washington State University) “Land, Territory and Border: Space and Ethics in Contemporary Israeli Literature” Adia MENDELSON-MAOZ, (Open University of Israel) “Hei-Sei-Ji: The Place of Peace (A Case Study)” David SHANER (Furman University) Concurrent Panel C: Places for Education “Wisdom at Work: Philosophy in the Agora” David STOREY (Boston College) “Discourses that Fragment Suburban Educational Spaces” Deedee MOWER, (Weber State University) “Lithuanian Philosophical Philotopy of Arvydas Šliogeris and the Wisdom of Place: The Essence, Origins and Modes of Arvydas Šliogeris‘s Philosophical Philotopy” Naglis KARDELIS (Vilnius University, Lithuania) “Lithuanian Philosophical Philotopy of Arvydas Šliogeris and the Wisdom of Place: The Relevance of Philotopical Perspective to the Global Environmental Challenges” Justas KUČINSKAS (Vilnius University, Lituania) Concurrent Panel D: Daoist Places I
“A Relational Space for Language Learners’ Mobility between Built and Natural Environments” Dongping ZHENG, Yang LIU, Daniel HOLDEN and Jared TOMEI (University of Hawai’i) “The ‘Place’ of Identity Construction” Yuanfang DAI, Dongping ZHENG and Yang LIU (University of Hawai’i) Discussant: Peter SHAINDLIN (Author and COO, Halekulani) Concurrent Panel F: Raimon Panikkar’s Intercultural Dialogue and Inter-space (Dia-topical) Hermeneutics “Topological Existence: Panikkar & Nishida” Michiko YUSA (Western Washington University) “A Pilgrimage to the Sacred Place of Kailash” Milena Carrara PAVAN (Vivarium, Spain) “Hermeneutics and the Empeiria of the Soul in Panikkar” Roberta CAPPELLINI (Centro Interculurale Dedicato A Raimon Panikkar, Italy) “Thomas Merton and Asian Thought” Fred DALLMAYR (University of Notre Dame) “The Dialectic of Topos and University in Panikkar’s Hermeneutics” Joseph PRABHU (California State University, Los Angeles) “The Pertinence of Panikkar’s Diatopical Hermeneutics for Intercultural Dialogue with Aboriginal Australians” Gerard HALL (Australian Catholic University, Australia) “Experience of Space: Cosmologies in Dialogue”
“Place, Position and Perspective: A Classical Daoist World View and Physiology” James D. SELLMANN (University of Guam) “’Fallingwater’: Daoist Inklings about Place for Design and Sustainability” Kirill O. THOMPSON (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) “The Conceptualization of a ‘Feminine Universe’ in Lao Zi’s Dao De Jing and Jane Lead’s Writings about Spiritual Alchemy” Tien-yi CHAO (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Concurrent Panel F: Topologies of Self “Watsuji Tetsurô’s Fûdo in the Context of Globalized World” Kristýna VOJTÍŠKOVÁ (Charles University, Czech Republic) “Being-in-the-World, World-in-the-Being: Finding Ethics in Watsuji Tetsurō’s Socio-environmental Ontology” Steve BEIN (University of Dayton) “Watsuji’s Topology of the Self” David W. JOHNSON (Boston College) Concurrent Panel G: “Being in Place: There’s No App for That!” Graham PARKES and Helen PARKES (Vienna) Monday, May 30 Plenary Session 5 Chair: 8:30-9:10 “The Protoplaces of Philosophy”