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Monday, July 9
Time:
7
:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue:
Room 120, C.K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall, Vancouver)
Abstract:
Professor
Philip Clayton, an American specialist in the intersection of science and post-modern religion, is co-author of a ground-breaking book about the relationship between Chinese and Western philosophy and politics.
Organic Marxism: An Alternative to Capitalism and Ecological Catastrophe, co-authored with Justin Heinzekehr, is a revolutionary book that fuses the enduring legacy of socialism-government for the common good-with the best of the environmental movement and the newest insights from sustainability studies. The book argues for a "postmodern Marxism" that takes its leads from the core insights of Karl Marx, from process philosophers in China (Taoism) and in the West (Alfred North Whitehead), from ecology, and from the organic practices of sustainable communities. The Chinese-language version of Organic Marxism, was at one point a couple of years ago the eighth best-seller in China.
About the Speaker:
Clayton, who frequently engages with Chinese scholars in the West and the East, holds the Ingraham Chair of Theology at Claremont School of Theology and is affiliated faculty at the Claremont Graduate University. Clayton earned a joint Ph.D. in Religious Studies and Philosophy from Yale University and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Munich. He has published over 20 books and hundreds of academic and popular articles. He has been an outspoken advocate for multicultural and multi-religious approaches to the field of theology, philosophy, and culture.
Sponsors: UBC Allard School of Law, UBC Centre for Chinese Research.
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Over the last two decades, the FACES Annual Summit has brought together forty exceptional student scholars from across the globe to engage in a five-day immersive experience. Through the Summit, student delegates hear from luminaries in U.S.-China relations, forge connections with a diverse range of exceptional peers, and engage in-depth on issues critical to the world's most pivotal bilateral relationship. With the support of their global network of partners, FACES has hosted a broad range of renowned speakers such as former President George H.W. Bush, former Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi, former U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman Jr., and Sidney Rittenberg, former translator to Chairman Mao Zedong.
The 2018-19 FACES Annual Summit will be held at Stanford University from October 4-8, with the Summit's China session arranged at Peking University in late March. FACES pays for all food, accommodation, programming, and transportation costs of the Summit, and provides generous financial aid for student delegates requiring assistance to cover travel expenses.
All students and professionals aged 20-28 at the time of the Summit with demonstrated strong personal or academic interests to the U.S.-China relations from fields of spanning business, politics, humanities, and engineering are welcomed to apply.
Application Deadline: July 8, 2018 11:59PM PST
REX is a mentorship program that provides undergraduate students from all faculties with their first taste of research. With support from a graduate or postdoctoral mentor, REX participants work in groups of 2-4 to develop a theoretical research project that they can present at UBC's Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) in March. REX allows students to gauge their interest in research while developing fundamental research skills and building their professional network.
The REX Program are currently looking for graduate students and post-doctoral fellows who are interested in committing a minimum of 3 hours each month to act as a mentor. It is a great opportunity for graduate students to gain mentorship, leadership, and management skills. Furthermore, the REX program assists mentors on the lookout for promising students to take into their lab through direct evaluation for 6 months (October to March).
If this opportunity interests you and you would like to become a mentor, please fill out a registration form
here.
(This is NOT the final registration. The final registration and bio submission opens on August 1st and will confirm your registration in the program for this year.)
The Institute for European Global Studies at the University of Basel invites applications for two PhD positions starting on February 1, 2019. They are part of the research project "The Exterior of Philosophy: On the Practice of New Confucianism" funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). The candidates will complement the research team of Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber and Philippe Major, Ph.D. The research project studies New Confucian philosophy by deploying a sociological perspective for philosophical aims. Existing scholarship has often chosen an approach that is either historical, as in the genre of intellectual history, or philosophical, tuned towards showing the contemporary philosophical relevance of New Confucianism. The current project builds on recent studies that add to these established approaches by offering sociological perspectives on New Confucianism. The project hence breaks new ground in terms of its disciplinary approach beyond the specific context of New Confucianism. Drawing on work done in sociology, the research project explores the possibilities of a sociology of philosophy approached as a philosophical sub-discipline.
The candidates will
contribute to the research project by writing a doctoral thesis on one of the two following topics:
1. Exiled at Home! Writing Confucian Philosophy under Conditions of Censorship in the PRC (1949-1976)
2. The Politics of Anti-Confucianism and Philosophical Argument: The Debates between Confucians and Liberals in 1950s Taiwan.
Application Deadline: July 5, 2018.
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