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Conference Participants

Alan Chan (National University of Singapore)
Professor
Ph.D. Toronto
Chinese Philosophy & Religion. Hermeneutics.
phickl@nus.edu.sg
Tel: 65-6516-3485 (office)

Attilio Andreini (Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice)
Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia Orientale
attilio@unive.it
Tel: +39-(0)41-234 95 19

Benjamin Wai-ming Ng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Professor, Department of Japanese Studies
Ph.D Japanese History, Princeton University, April 1996
waimingng@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: 852-26096561
Homepage: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/jas/staff/benng

Carine Defoort (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Associate Professor of Oriental Studies
carine.defoort@arts.kuleuven.be
Tel: 32 16 32 49 55
Classical Chinese philosophy (Zhou and Han dyansties) and its contemporary interpretation. Recent research concerns various views concerning abdication (shanrang), moral discussions in the Mozi, and the contemporary debate concerning the legitimacy of Chinese philosophy.

Dan Overmyer (UBC)
Professor Emeritus, Centre for Chinese Research and the Department of Asian Studies
dano@interchange.ubc.ca

 

Erin Cline (University of Oregon)
Department of Philosophy
ecline@uoregon.edu
Tel: 541-346-5546 (Office)
Classical Confucian and Daoist thought, with particular interests in the virtues and moral psychology.

Griet Vankeerberghen (McGill University)
Assistant Professor, Joint appointment Dept of History and East Asian Studies
PhD East Asian Studies Princeton University
Early Chinese intellectual history (Warring States and Han periods). With a particular interest in the interaction between ideas and historical realities.

 

Hal Roth (Brown University)
Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies and Director of Contemplative Studies Initiative
PhD East Asian Studies, University of Toronto, 1981
Early Chinese Religious Thought, Taoism, the History of East Asian Religions, and the Comparative Study of Mysticism.
Harold_Roth@Brown.edu

YEN Hsueh-Cheng (National Taiwan University)
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology
Ph.D. Michigan State University
Reseach of Han Chinese in Southern China, Anthropology of the body
yenhsueh@ntu.edu.tw
Tel: 02-3366-4741

Lee Yearley (Stanford University)
Evans-Wentz Professor
PhD Chicago
Comparative religious ethics and poetics.
yearley@stanford.edu
Tel: 650-723-0466

Livia Kohn (Boston University)
Professor of Religion
Ph.D. University of Bonn, Germany
lkohn@bu.edu
Tel: 617-353-4465

Michael Puett (Harvard University)
Professor of Chinese History and Department Chair, Dept of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
PhD Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1994.
Early Chinese religions, emphasis on bringing the study of early China into larger historical and comparative frameworks.
puett@fas.harvard.edu
Tel: 617-495-8360

Paul Crowe (Simon Fraser University)
Assistant Professor of Humanities
PhD Asian Studies, UBC
Daoist inner alchemy: Song and Yuan literati thought; formation of religious identity and the interplay of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism; methodology in the study of religion; cross-cultural comparative philosophy; contemporary local Chinese religion
Tel: 778-782-4664

Richard Lynn (University of Toronto)
Professor Emeritus (2005), Dept of East Asian Studies
Chinese Thought and Literature
Ph.D. Asian Languages, Stanford, 1971
Biography , Fine Arts , History , Language and Literature , Philosophy , Religion
Richard.lynn@utoronto.ca
Tel: 250-247-8871

Richard Smith (Rice University)
George & Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities and Professor of History, Director of Asian Outreach in the Center for Education
Ph. D., University of California-Davis, 1972.
Chinese history and culture, Comparative/Global history
smithrj@rice.edu
Tel: 713-348-2552

Rob Campany (University of Southern California)
Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures
Ph.D. History of Religions, University of Chicago, 1988
History of Chinese religions, methods and theory for the study of religion and culture.
campany@usc.edu
Tel: 213-740-0270

Robin Yates (McGill University)
Department of East Asian Studies
PhD Chinese History Harvard University
Early and traditional Chinese history, historical theory, archaeology of culture, traditional popular culture, Chinese poetry, Chinese science and technology.

Scott Cook (Grinnell College)
Associate Professor of Chinese and Department Chair, Dept of Chinese
cook@grinnell.edu
Tel: 641-269-4248

 

Terry Kleeman (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department
Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley
Daoism and Chinese popular religion.

XING Wen (Trinity University)
Associate Professor, Dept of Chinese language, literature and culture
Ph.D Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

 

LIU Xiaogan (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Professor and Graduate Division Head
M.A., Ph.D Peking
liux@cuhk.edu.hk
Tel: 26097152

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