Conferences
WSWG 26
6-8 Dec 2013 / University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Mencius 1-3

WSWG 26 followed on the 2nd NECCT Conference at Wesleyan University, and sought to gather some of its participants and a few others for further discussion of the southern chapters of the Mencius: MC 1-3, in part as a last editorial critique before some summaries of those chapters are finalized for publication in WSP v2 and v3.

The starting point for this discussion was the Project's finding that the MC 1 interviews are only half genuine, and that the remaining chapters divide into a southern school, which emphasizes an economically-tinged statecraft (MC 2-3) and a northern school, which emphasizes a more meditationally tinged personal philosophy (MC 4-7). This view has proved fruitful in the decade and more since it was first proposed (Singapore, 1998), and it was hoped to further refine and extend it.

Weather, always problematic in December, turned out to be favorable. It was hoped that this conference would be followed by two others in 2014, one on MC 4-5 (and the question of northern and southern schools), and one on MC 6-7. These never occurred.

Program

Friday 6 Dec 2013

6 PM: Dinner arrangement for those arriving early can be made among those individuals.
Hotel: Draine, Lambert, Im (3)

Saturday 7 Dec 2013

7-8:50 AM. Complimentary breakfast in Hotel lobby

9 AM.First Morning Session: The Mencius 1 Interpolations (Room 801)
Word of Welcome: Dean Julie Hayes, College of Humanities and Fine Arts

10:15 AM. Break (coffee/tea/soda, cookies; served in Conference room) (6)
Those leaving this evening should check out at Reception Desk (3rd Floor) and bring luggage to Conference Room

10:45 AM.Second Morning Session: The MC 2 Core Sayings, 2A3-2B1 and MC 4A (Room 801)

12:00 NOON.Lunch Buffet (served in Hadley Room, room 1001, 10th floor) (7)

1:00 PM.First Afternoon Session: The Remainder of MC 2 (2A1, 2A2, 2B2-10) (Room 801)

2:15 PM.Break (coffee/tea/soda, cookies; served in Conference room) (7)

2:45 PM. Second Afternoon Session: The Relation Between MC 3 and MC 7 (Room 801)
Session ends at 4:00 PM
Departing after Session: Im, Turner (2)

6 PM. Chinese Dinner (Ginger Garden, 351 Northampton Road, Amherst 01002) (5)
Hotel: Draine, Lambert, Wyatt (3)

Sunday 8 Dec 2013

7-8:50 AM. Complimentary breakfast in Hotel lobby

9 AM. First Morning Session: MC 3A (Room 801)

10:15 AM. Break (coffee/tea/soda, cookies; served in Conference room) (5)
All hotel guests should check out at Reception Desk (3rd Floor) and bring luggage to Conference Room

10:45 AM. Final Session: MC 3B (Room 801)

12 NOON. Working Lunch (served in Conference room) (5)
Includes a few minutes of future planning

1 PM. Conference concludes

 

Roster
In Person / *In Absentia

*Stephen C Angle (Wesleyan)
*Tom Bartlett (Stanford)
A Taeko Brooks (UMass/Amherst)
E Bruce Brooks (UMass/Amherst)
*Alice Cheang (UMass/Amherst)
Patrick Draine (UMass/Amherst)
*Stephen W Durrant (U Oregon)
*Eirik Lang Harris (Hong Kong)
Manyul Im (Fairfield; Friday night and Saturday only)
Andrew Lambert (Western New England)
*Boram Lee (India)
*Jörg Schumacher (Geneva)
*Dewei Shen (Yale)
Karen Turner (Holy Cross; Saturday only)
Don Wyatt (Middlebury; Saturday afternoon and Sunday only)

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