Announcements

A summer course titled "What Makes Us Human? Philosophical and Religious Perspectives in China and the West" will be held this summer from 4 July - 15 July, 2016 at Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary.

For more information, please follow the official link or write to medzibrodszky_alexandra [at] phd.ceu.edu (project coordinator).

The Inaugural Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy under the title Thinking across the Borders: Philosophy and China will take place in Vilnius, Latvia, from 9-11 June 2016. The organizers at the Vilnius University Centre of Oriental Studies now invite scholars with interest in Chinese philosophy and philosophy in China to submit panel and paper proposals for the conference as well as student paper abstracts for the Young Scholar Award. For more information visit the conference website: http://www.eacp2016.oc.vu.lt/

CALL FOR PAPERS

for the special issue of the journal Asian Studies

The first issue in 2016 will be dedicated to the Buddhist studies. It will explore the role of Buddhism in contemporary global, especially European societies. The call for papers is especially directed towards (but not limited to) the participants of the Symposium dedicated to the same topic, which took place at the Faculty of Art in Ljubljana from March 12th to 14th 2015.

The main purpose of the issue is to explore the role of this ancient thought in modern life, to investigate and analyze the current prevailing attitudes towards Buddhism, to enable new insights into its theoretical contents, and to introduce its new methods and practices.

Themes to be addressed may include contemporary Buddhist ritual customs; Buddhist social practices; the relationship between Buddhism and other religious traditions; the relationship between Buddhist institutions and the state; Buddhist monasticism and its relationship to the laity; Buddhist ethics; Buddhist "modernism," the concept of mindfulness, the relationship between Buddhism and psychology, neurology and cognitive sciences, and so on.

We welcome papers from scholars, researchers, PhD students and others who have expertise in the above mentioned topic.

International Symposium

University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Blue Room

March 12th – 14th 2015

Program