2015 Uehiro Graduate Student Philosophy Conference
Philosophy of Place—Place of Philosophy
Wednesday, March 18
Sakamaki Hall D-201, The University of Hawai'i Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics Education
5:00 – 6:00 pm Welcome Reception and Dinner Served
6:00 – 6:45 pm Special Guest Speaker: Tom Jackson
“Radical Pedagogy and the Philosophy of Wonder”
7:00 – 8:00 pm P4C-style Inquiry
Thursday, March 19
8:30 – 10:00 am Panel I
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Brandon Underwood
“The Place of Intercultural Philosophical Thinking as Space in Motion”
Britta Saal, University of Vienna
“Ummah from Medina to Morocco: The Concept of Community”
Cynthia Schoepner, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
“Visiting Political Futures: Creativity and Projection in Kant and Arendt”
Joel LeBel, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
10:15 – 11:45 am Panel II
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Lisa Widdison
“Extensive Minds: The Spatiality of the Mental”
Josh Stoll, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
“The Maximally-Good Multiverse: How the Inherent Goodness of Free-Will Entails a Multiverse”
Leland Harper, University of Birmingham
“Going Places: Analytic Phenomenology of Changing Place”
Ian Nicolay, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch Provided
Imin Center, Ohana Room
1:15 – 2:45 pm Panel III
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: John Allred
“W. G. Sebald and the Basho of Literature“
Shuchen Xiang, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
“When the Abyss Takes Place: Inquiry of Grigory Pomerants' Thought”
Veniamin TEN, Kyoto University
“Knowing One's Place”
Nicholas Hudson, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
3:00-4:30 pm Panel IV
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Patrick Cody Turk
“Japanese Confucianism"
Matthew Fujimoto, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
“A Possible New Interpretation of Mou Zongsan”
Zhang Wei, University of Tokyo
“Society and Individual in Nishida Philosophy”
Taizo Yokoyama, Kyoto University
5:00 – 7:00 pm Keynote Address
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Introduction by Dr. Eliot Deutsch
“A Glance at Nishida’s Philosophy of Place: Its Ontology, Logic, and Epistemology”
Dr. Shigenori Nagatomo
Professor of Philosophy at Temple University.
Dr. Nagatomo specializes in Comparative philosophy and East Asian Buddhism, with a focus on issues of the mind/body. He has an impressive body of work addressing the place of the body in religious experience and the place of religious experience in philosophy.
Friday, March 20
8:30 – 10:30 am Panel V
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Elyse Byrnes
“Affection to a certain place: An Introduction to "Histo-topo-philia"
Maki Sato, University of Tokyo
“Dominion as Seen Through the Atmosphere”
Jonathan McKinney, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
“Place with Rhythms: Watsuji’s Analysis of Space and Time and its Significance for Environmental Ethics”
Yu Inutsuka, University of Tokyo
“Locating a Place for Ecological Ethics: Local Answers to a Global Crisis or Global Solutions to Local Problems?”
Andrew Soh, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
10:45 - 12:15 am Panel VI
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Moderator: Ryan Fleming
“Embodied Cognition, Profanity, & the Philosophy of Place”
Katelyn Hallman, University of North Florida
“Healing Space, Healing Place: Philosophy as Consolation”
Katrina England, Binghamton University (SUNY)
“Carefree Wandering as "Heart-Mind Fasting" (無心) –
A Study of the Phenomenology of Zhuangzi’s Xiaoyaoyou (逍遥游)”
Jacob Bender, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
12:30 – 1:15 pm Lunch Provided
Imin Center, Ohana Room
1:30 – 3:30 pm Keynote Address
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Introduction by Dr. Masato Ishida
“The Existential Self and the Politics of Place”
Dr. Yoko Arasaka
Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie, Hannover
Dr. Arisaka has published and lectured extensively in the fields of Japanese and Continental philosophy, feminism, postcolonialism, and philosophy of mind. She is on the forefront of the intersection of philosophy and environmental concerns, having participated in the interdisciplinary Japan-U.S. Sustainability Research Group.
3:30 - 4:00 pm Closing Ceremony
Imin Center, Pacific Room
4:30 – 7:00 pm Potluck BBQ
Kaimana Beach
Significant support for this conference was provided by the Uehiro Foundation on Ethics and Education.
Additional support was provided by the Hung Wo and Elizabeth Ching Foundation,
the College of Arts and Humanities, the Philosophy Department, the Philosophy
Student Association, SEED Initiatives for Diversity, Equity, Access and Success. (IDEAS)
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