The Sinic World in Perspective
A symposium in honor of Tu Weiming, Harvard Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies,on the occasion of his seventieth birthday.
April 10, 2010
Boylston Hall
Fong Auditorium and the Ticknor Lounge
Organized by the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
In cooperation with:
The Harvard University Asia Center
The John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
The Harvard-Yenching Institute
Program:
8:30-9:00 Coffee and Snacks
9:00-9:15 Opening Remarks
Elizabeth Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government at Harvard University
and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute
Wilt Idema
Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard University
9:15-10:45 Panel I - Cultural China
Chair:
Arthur Kleinman
Director of the Asia Center, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine; Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry; Curator of Medical Anthropology in the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
Speakers:
Philip Kuhn
Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Emeritus
Is there a “Cultural China”?
David Wang
Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature
Cultural China, Multicultural China, Transcultural China
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Panel II - China’s Modern Transformation
Chair:
William Kirby
T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Professor, Chaired
Speakers:
Roderick MacFarquhar
Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science
The Neo-Confucian Challenge Revisited
Ezra Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences, Emeritus
The Moral Order After Reform and Opening
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel III - Reflections on the Enlightenment
Chair:
Peter Bol
Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Speakers:
Michael Sandel
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government
Global Ethics and the Dialog of Civilizations
Vera Schwarcz
Director/Chair of the Freeman Center for East Asian Studies at Wesleyan University
Between Awakening and Enlightenment: A Journey beyond Aggressive Anthropocentrism
3:15-5:00 Panel IV - Confucian Humanism in the 21th Century
Chair:
Michael Puett
Professor of Chinese History
Speakers:
John Berthrong
School of Theology, Associate Dean for Academic and Administrative Affairs, Associate Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston University
Charting the Path of Boston Daoxue
Robert Neville
Dean of Marsh Chapel; Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University
The Importance of Creativity in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy
5:00-6:00 Reception |
