The Center for the Contemporary Study of East Asian Classics and Critical Confucianism (CCECC) at Sungkyunkwan University has held the Contemporary Moral Psychology and Cross-cultural Moral Psychology conference with the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs of Georgetown University.

The conference was designed to focus on the following points. Studies on East Asian thought should pay greater attention to empirical data, and cross-cultural approach can allow studies on East Asian thought to contribute to our understanding of the universal foundation on which human nature and behavior are based.

Twelve researchers in total from Georgetown University, Vassar College, CUNY, Brown University, Purdue University, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and SKKU presented and discussed papers on the topic.

The two days of fruitful discussion covering a wide variety of issues coming from the intersection of East Asian thought, modern moral psychology, and cultural psychology have helped us looking for a novel way to study East Asian thought not just through reading traditional Confucian texts but also by reflecting on our own contemporary experiences.

Title: Contemporary Moral Psychology and Cross-cultural Moral Psychology

Date: 2022.09.23.-09.24

Organizer: The Center for the Contemporary Study of East Asian Classics and Critical Confucianism (CCECC) at Sungkyunkwan University, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs(Georgetown University)

Location: Georgetown University, Online Youtube Livestream

Participants:

Philip J. Ivanhoe, Georgetown University

Doil Kim, Sungkyunkwan University

Bryan W. Van Norden, Vassar College

Hagop Sarkissian, City University of New York Graduate Center

Shaun Nichols, Cornell University

Hoon-Seok Choi, Sungkyunkwan University

Youngsun Back, Sungkyunkwan University

Thomas Banchoff, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs

Jin Li, Brown University

Keunchang Oh, Sungkyunkwan University

Daniel Kelly, Purdue University

Michael Brownstein, John Jay College of Criminal Justice