Ralph Weber, Philippe Major, Yim Fong Chan and Milan Matthiesen at the 4th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Chinese Philosophy
Ralph Weber, Philippe Major, Yim Fong Chan and Milan Matthiesen participated in the 4th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP) with the theme "Interpretation and Reinvention of Chinese Philosophy". The event was held at the University of Macerata from June 16 to 18.
The EIB researchers’ panel on “Reinterpreting the Reinvention of Confucianism in the Modern Period: Sociology of Philosophy Perspectives” featured presentations dealing with the role of sociology in interpretation and its implications for the study of Modern Confucianism, the social conditions of (im)possibility of Confucian Philopsophy, Liang Shuming’s intellectual struggles under Mao as well as the emergence of Modern Confucianism in post-war Hongkong and Taiwan.
Ralph Weber is Associate Professor of European Global Studies at the Institute for European Global Studies. He specializes in Political Theory, Chinese Politics, and modern Confucianism. Currently, he is the President of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy and the Chair of the Section on Political Theory in the Swiss Political Science Association.
Philippe Major is a postdoctoral researcher in the SNSF-funded project The Exterior of Philosophy at the Institute for European Global Studies. His research interests include Modern Chinese Philosophy, Modern Chinese Intellectual History, New Confucianism, Sociology of Philosophy, The Relationship between Modernity and Tradition, as well as Textual Authority.
Yim Fong Chan is an SNSF fellow in the project The Exterior of Philosophy at the Institute for European Global Studies. In her dissertation, she investigates Confucian philosophy in China between 1949 and 1976. Her general research interests lie in the area of New Confucianism and Chinese intellectual history.
Milan Matthiesen is a research fellow in the SNSF-funded project The Exterior of Philosophy at the Institute for European Global Studies. His research interests include New Confucianism in Taiwan and Hong Kong, the development of modernity in the 19th and early 20th century in Europe and Asia, the history of philosophy, conceptual History, and the sociology of philosophy, as well as contemporary political theory.