Thinking Ahead: Chinese Visions on a Planetary Scale
15-17 August 2007
Monash University
Clayton Campus
With the attention of the world focusing on China on the eve of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, a group of people who share a common love and concern for the living legacy of Chinese thought and scholarship will gather to discuss the prospects for China as a world civilization in the twenty-first century.
Thinking Ahead: Chinese Visions on a Planetary Scale, organised by Gloria Davies, Geremie R. Barmé and Timothy Cheek, is sponsored by Monash University, The Australian National University and the University of British Columbia.
It is designed as a series of structured conversations about the diversity of contemporary Chinese thought and Chinese conceptions of history and culture. These discussions also focus on the role of critical thinking (within both Sinophone and Anglophone scholarship) and will be broadly engaged with the following themes: History and its Times, Tradition and Modernity, Cultural Difference, Intellectual Publicity and Heritage and Becoming.
Chinese Visions poses two general questions: What does Chinese thought offer to the present-day work of the humanities and social sciences? Are there epochal articulations within Chinese thought and scholarship that are, in some way, characteristically Chinese yet also meditations on what it is to be human?
Participants include:
Geremie R. Barmé (Australian National University), Andrew Benjamin (Monash University), Timothy Cheek (University of British Columbia), Chen Pingyuan (Peking University), Ci Jiwei (University of Hong Kong), Gloria Davies (Monash University), Adam Driver (Australian National University), Feng Chongyi (University of Technology Sydney), Mark Harrison (University of Westminster), He Baoguang (Deakin University), Hong Lijian (Monash University), Theodore Huters (University of California, Los Angeles), Jin Guantao (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Carma Hinton (George Mason University), David Kelly (National University of Singapore), Jon Kowallis (University of New South Wales), Lin Yü-sheng (University of Wisconsin–Madison), Liu Dong (Peking University), Liu Qingfeng (Chinese University of Hong Kong), John Makeham (Australian National University), Maurizio Marinelli (University of Bristol), John Minford (Australian National University), Meaghan Morris (Lingnan University/University of Western Sydney), Graham Priest (University of Melbourne), Qin Hui (Tsinghua University), Warren Sun (Monash University), Eddy U (University of Sydney), Ban Wang (Rutgers University), Lindsay Waters (Harvard University Press), Wu Guanjun (Monash University), Xu Jilin (East China Normal University), Ye Xiaoqing (Macquarie University) and Wen-hsin Yeh (University of California, Berkeley).
Enquiries
Please direct enquiries to Melanie Thiedeman on (03) 9905 2253 or by email to Melanie.Thiedeman@arts.monash.edu.au