Aloha! Please note the change in venue for the opening reception. We will be downstairs on the second floor of Sakamaki Hall, D-201, at the University of Hawai'i Uehiro Academy for Philosophy and Ethics Education. See you soon!

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Conference Schedule

Aloha Y'all!

I've updated the program below. All presenters will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for question and answer time.

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Syd & Elyse

Conference Poster

Updated Conference Schedule Draft

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)

Campus Map

Aloha! I've added a page with the campus map as a .jpeg (screen right). Hale Manoa is right "below" the conference venue, Jefferson Hall, i.e. closer to Dole Street but still on East-West Road.

On-campus accommodations

We have reserved 10 rooms at Hale Manoa, which is dorm style and next door to the conference venue. These rooms are $32 per night. Here is the website:http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-ewc/housing/visitor-housing.

If you would like other suggestions for where to stay, please email us psa@hawaii.edu.

Conference Program

Aloha! Here is the plan for the conference:

Wednesday, March 18 - Welcome Dinner begins at 5:00 pm in the Philosophy Department Lounge.
Thursday, March 19 - Panels begin at 8:30 am. Lunch and periodic coffee and snacks provided.
Friday, March 20 - Panels begin at 8:30 am. Lunch and periodic coffee and snacks provided. In the afternoon, around 4pm, we will head to the beach for sunset and grilling.