"Zen Buddhism: Roots and Branches"
November 2-3, 2018
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The Asian Studies Program and the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Թ invite paper proposals for a conference onZenBuddhism:RootsandBranchesthat will be heldNovember 2-3, 2018at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The conference’s call for papers is as follows:
ZenBuddhism:RootsandBranches
Today, ZenBuddhismis both a religion and a bodily practice withbranchesthat have spread over the entire world. Itsrootsfirst developed in China during the Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE), and by the thirteenth century the tradition had spread to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. In the modern period, the theory and practice ofZenhas become prominent in Europe, the Americas, and elsewhere. This conference will provide a forum for scholars to explore both the early development and the later spread ofZen. Areas of particular interest include both ancient and modern issues related to history, ethics, aesthetics, gender, as well as pedagogy.
Abstracts of 250 words and a current CV should be sent electronically as attachmentstobodymindculture@fau.eduno later thanAugust 1, 2018.Please direct conference inquiries to the same address.Further information about the conference will be made available athttp://www.fau.edu/bodymindculture, where you can also consult the programs of the Center’s prior international conferences. Prospective speakers should be notified byAugust 25, 2018.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The Center for Body, Mind, and CultureofԹinvite paper proposals for a conference on“Bodies of Design: Somaesthetics Perspectives on Technology”that will be heldJanuary 24 to 25, 2019at FAU’sBoca Ratoncampus. The conference’s call for papers is as follows:
There is no denying that recent developments in technology have significantly transformed our modes of communication, behavior, and experience, even to some extent the experience of our own bodies. This conference will explore issues relating to the somaesthetic dimensions of technology with particular attention to human-computer interactive design. These issues include such questions as the following.
* To what extent and in what way does our technology-saturated lifeworld require rethinking our conception of the body and the revision of aesthetic theory and practice?
* How does the study of somaesthetics inform the conceptualization, design and use of technology and how is the study of somaesthetics informed by concepts and uses of technology?
* How should somaesthetic theory and practice inform design in robotics, virtue reality, and mixed realities?
* In what ways have the contemporary arts reacted to the new technologies and their creative potential but to also their possible risks?
* How can somaesthetics help us to develop an ethical stance towards technology and its various devices and purposes?
Abstracts of 250 words and a current CV should be sent electronically as attachmentstobodymindculture@fau.eduno later thanNovember 27, 2018.
Please direct conference inquiries to the same address.Selected papers may be developed for publication inThe Journal of Somaestheticsor in an edited book based on the conferencepapers and published in Brill’s seriesStudies in Somaesthetics.
Further information about the conference will be made available at thislink, where you can also consult the programs of the Center’s prior international conferences. Prospective speakers should be notified in December 2018.
WINTER 2018 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
"Somaesthetics and Chinese Culture"
December 14-15, 2018
The Center for Somaesthetics of East China Normal University (Shanghai) and the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Թ (Boca Raton) invite submissions for a conference on Somaesthetics and Chinese Culture. The conference will take place at the E.C.N.U. campus in Shanghai on the dates of December 14-15, 2018. Possible paper topics include not only somaesthetic theories and practices of classical and contemporary Chinese culture, but also the influence of Chinese philosophy and culture on the somaesthetic theories and practices in other Asian and Western cultures.
Scholars interested in presenting a paper at the conference should submit an abstract of approximately three hundred words.
Proposals in Chinese should be sent to Professor Wang Feng,wang99feng@126.com; proposals in English should be sent tobodymindculture@gmail.com.
Proposals should be submitted before August 1, 2018.
December 15, 2018
Dr. Shusterman lectured on"Somaesthetics: Retrospect and Prospect"at the conference “Somaesthetics and Chinese Culture” at East China Normal University (Shanghai), on December 15, 2018. For more information click .
For a mention of this conference in FAU'sResearch Weeklynewsletter, click . For a report of the conference, click .