Contact: Bin Song (Washington College), bsong2@washcoll.edu.
Panel 1: "Contemporary Confucian Applications on Gender and Queerness"
Ting-mien Lee (Lanzhou University, China): “Appropriating Datong: Queer Inclusion and the Geopolitics of Moral Superiority in Contemporary China”
Li-Hsiang Lisa Rosenlee (University of Hawai’i – West O’ahu): “What is the use of Confucian Feminism to the LGBTQ communities?”
Anna Sun (Duke University): “A Place at the Altar: Challenging Gendered Ritual Inequality in Contemporary Confucian Practice”
Peng Yin (Boston University):“How to Write a Confucian Queer History?”
Panel 2 "Transcendence, Self-Cultivation, and Spiritual Joy"
Jea Sophia Oh (West Chester University): “For a Sustainable Future of Earth-Democracy: The Divine Transcendence and Immanence of Samjae (三才) and Samkyung (三敬)”
Jordan Jackson (University of California, Riverside): “The Emergence of Self-Cultivation Techniques in Pre-Qin Confucian Philosophy”
Doil Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea): “No-Self and Joy: The Path to the Formation of Yan Hui's Spiritual State”