Department of Asian Studies

Remembering Li Zehou Commemorative Conference

Philosopher Li Zehou

This online conference (ZOOM link) is being held in honor of Professor Li Zehou on November 2, 2022, the first anniversary of his death.

The conference has been organized by Roger T. Ames and Jana S. Rošker with the help of Maja M. Kosec. It will extend over 11 hours, namely from UTC 7:00 to 20:00 (7:00 AM - 8:00 PM) and across four different time zones.

Many internationally renowned experts on Li Zehou have accepted our invitation and are participating in this conference. We are both proud and honored.

On this website, you will find the conference program and the proceedings, which include preliminary drafts by (almost) all the participants. They will be discussed at the conference and then revised for the final publication of the Li Zehou memorial volume that will be submitted to SUNY Press.

We hope that the conference will be interesting and inspiring, and that it will give us a lot of new food for thought. Creating new ideas by honoring and developing the old ones is something Li Zehou always valued. Therefore, we believe that this meeting will be an excellent opportunity to celebrate and appreciate all that we have learned from this great philosopher.

On behalf of the organizers,

Jana S. Rošker

Proceedings from the online conference in memory of Li Zehou held on November 2, 2022, the first anniversary of his passing

REMEMBERING LI ZEHOU - A Commemorative Conference
November 2nd, 2022
UTC 7:00– 20:00 (7:00 AM – 8:00 PM)

ZOOM LINK



PROGRAM:

UTC TIME

Local time

Name

Title

07:00 -

07:15

21:00-

21:15

(Nov 1st)

Roger Ames

Welcome address and introduction

07:15

07:30

8:15-8:30

Jana Rošker

Li Zehou obituary

07:30

9:00

 

PANEL 1

Chair: Jana Rošker

07:30-

07:45

15:30-

15:45

Li Chenyang

A Deep Harmony Account of Justice

07:45-

08:00

20:45-

21:00

Wu Xiaoming

The Du Beyond the Limits of Du and Finding the

Du in the Du without Limits

08:00-

08:15

16:00-

16:15

Jordan Martin

Sedimentation and Gene-Culture Coevolution

08:15-

09:00

 

 

Q & A

09:00-

10:20

 

PANEL 2

Chair: Dawid Rogacz

09:00-

09:15

17:15-

17:30

Jia Jinhua

Li Zehou on the Distinction and Interaction between Ethics and Morality

09:15-

09:30

17:30-

17:45

Wang Keping

A New Alternative to the How-to-live Concern

09:30-

09:45

recording

David Elstein

Autonomy and the Nature of Ruist Morality: Li Zehou and Mou Zongsan

09:45-

10:20

 

 

Q & A

10:20–

11:50

 

PANEL 3

Chair: Maja Kosec

10:20-

10:35

11:20-

11:35

Jana Rošker

A Neo-Marxian Dialogue on the Subject-Object Relation: Li Zehou and Adorno

10:35-

10:50

11:35-

11:50

Gregor Paul

Philosophy of Beauty as an Ethics of Freedom: From Kant to Li Zehou

10:50-

11:05

11:50-

12:05

Karl-Heinz Pohl

Chinese Aesthetics and Li Zehou’s Major Contributions

11:05-

11:50

 

 

Q & A

11:50-

13:20

 

PANEL 4

Chair: Karl-Heinz Pohl

11:50-

12:05

12:50-

13:05

Dawid Rogacz

Li Zehou: A Postmarxist Yogācārin?

12:05-

12:20

12:05-

12:20

Michael Nylan

Li Zehou, the Voracious Pupil and Radical Conservative

12:20-

12:35

08:20-

08:35

Robert A. Carleo III

“Emotion as Substance”: A Concrete Humanist Moral Framework

12:35-

13:20

 

 

Q & A

13:20

15:10

 

Breakfast, lunch or dinner break

 

15:10-

16:30

 

Cultural program

Becoming Human (video recording of a theater performance with introduction)

16:30-

18:00

 

PANEL 5

Chair: Jan Vrhovski

16:30-

16:45

12:30-

12:45

Paul D’Ambrosio

Li Zehou in the Tradition of Masters and Commentators

16:45-

17:00

17:45-

18:00

Maja M. Kosec

The Origins of Chinese Culture and the Question

of Shamanism: Li Zehou and Xu Fuguan

17:00-

17:15

12:00-

12:15

Sydney Morrow

I Demand a Recount! Li Zehou’s Reading of

Kant’s Philosophy of Mathematics

17:15-

18:00

 

 

Q&A

18:00-

19:30

 

PANEL 6

Chair: Paul D’Ambrosio

18:00-

18:15

14:00-

14:15

Andrew Lambert

Li Zehou and Political philosophy: Li’s response to liberalism

18:15-

18:30

18:15-

18:30

Rafal Banka

Historical Perspective and Situated Cognition:

Towards New Aesthetics?

18:30-

18:45

13:30-

13:45

Tani Barlow

Instinct and Modern Yellow Men, or the

Impossible Figure of Woman in Li Zehou’s Philosophy

18:45-

19:00

 

 

Q & A

19:30-

20:00

20:30-

21:00

 

09:30-

10:00

CLOSING REMARKS by

Jana S. Rošker

and Roger T. Ames