SICEP

2nd East Asian Ethics Conference 

Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), 

Organized by Doil Kim, Kevin Lam, Tsai Chen-feng, Philip J. Ivanhoe

* Event postponed due to outbreak of Corona Virus

Time to be announced

1. Scope of East Asian Ethics

In connection with the previous conference held at National Taiwan University, this 2^ndEast Asian Ethics Conference, at SKKU, will continue to welcome papers on any topic concerning traditional East Asian ethics, especially Taiwan, Japan or Korea. Discussions on these topics are embedded in various traditional texts, such as Confucian or Chinese Buddhist texts and often have arisen in part because of different textual and philosophical interpretations of these texts. And so, the planning committee for this 2^nd conference will look forward to receiving papers on textual and historical approaches to traditional East Asian thought, as well as more philosophical approaches.

2. Languages

 English or Chinese. Korean translations of ppt or the gist of papers may be provided for the audience.

3. Specific themes for the 2^nd East Asian Ethics Conference 

The planning committee will especially welcome papers that explore the possibility that contemporary East Asian ethics can be established or improved based on traditional East Asian thought. In this regard, this conference will be a forum for discussion on the contemporary implications of traditional Confucian and Buddhist thought in contemporary East Asia, such as “What are the implications of traditional Confucian thought in contemporary Korean society?” and “What does the thought of the Kyoto school mean to ethical issues in contemporary Japanese society?”

4. Panels
3-4 speakers each from Korea, Japan, and Taiwan. The time allotted will be 30 mins per paper (20-min presentation and 10-min discussion). This format is comparatively easier to manage and designed to encourage in-depth discussions. Ppt or short (maximum of four page) gists of papers must be received two months prior to the meeting in order to allow time for translation. Our aim is to compile papers presented at the conference into a journal special issue or edited volume. All panelists are self-financed for their round trip travel to Seoul, Korea. The Sungkyun Institute for Confucian Studies and East Asian Philosophy (SICEP) will financially and administratively support this 2nd conference (https://swb.skku.edu/sicep/index.do).

5. Speakers

1. CHANG, Kung-Chiang (National Taiwan Normal University)

2. CHONG, Chaehyun (Sogang University)

3. CHUNG, Chen-Yu (Academic Sinica)

4. GODA, Masato (Meiji University)

5. ISHIHARA, Yuko (Ritsumeikan University)

6.  KIM, Doil (Sungkyunkwan University)

7. KIM, Myeong-seok (Yonsei University)

8. LAM, Wing-keung (Dokkyo University)

9. LIU, Lori Kuan-Ling (National Tsing Hua University)

10. PARK, So-Jeong (Sungkyunkwan University)

11. SHINO, Yoshinobu  (Meiji University)

12. TAKEHANA, Yosuke (Otani University)

13. TSAI, Chen-Feng (National Taiwan University)

14. TSAI, Miao Kun (National Taiwan University)