Pre-Conference Beijing Tour – 29 May 2009 – 4 nights
Post-Conference Xi’an Tour – 06 June 2009 – 2 nights
Post-Conference Beijing Tour – 05 June 2009 – 4 nights
For more details regarding one or more of these optional 2009 Humanities Conference Tours, please see the Activies and Extras on the Conference website.
James R. Pusey, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
www.Humanities-Conference.com
James R. Pusey is a professor of Chinese Studies at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on Chinese language, philosophy, literature and their relations with intellectual thought. He is the author of Lu Xun and Evolution (State University of New York Press, 1998) and also of other books and essays on Wu Han, K’ang Yu-wei, Liang Qichao and the impact of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in China. The recent publication of a translation of his China and Charles Darwin (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard UP, 1983) is attracting both widespread interest in China and renewed attention abroad. He has recently completed a book manuscript titled “Confessions of a Chinese History Teacher: Reflection on the 200th Anniversary of the Macartney Mission.” In celebration of Charles Darwin’s bicentennial, he will be editing a volume of essays on Darwin and the humanities and social sciences. More…
Enjoy a wonderful dinner full of flavor and distinctions true to Chinese tradition. For more information on the Humanities Conference Dinner, please see the Activities and Extras at the Conference website.
Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Judy Lattas, Director of the Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies, Gender and Sexuality program in Sociology, Macquarie University, Macquarie, Australia.
Accommodation for the 2009 Humanities Conference in Beijing, China may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
Greg Clingham, Professor of English and Director of the University Press at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA.
Wu Qing, Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women, Beijing, China.
2-5 June 2009
Beijing, China
www.Humanities-Conference.com
The journal Logica Universalis has issued a Call for Papers for a special issue dedicated to the question “Is logic universal?”
Included in the Call is this:
Many questions are connected to this issue: 1. Do all human beings have the same capacity for reasoning? Do people of different gender, ethnic, cultural and linguistics backgrounds reason in the same way? 2. Does reasoning evolve? Did human beings reason in the same way two centuries ago? In the future will human beings reason in the same way? Did computers change our way to reason? Is a mathematical proof independent of time and culture ? 3. Do we reason in different ways depending on the situation? Do we use the same logic for everyday life, physics, economy? 4. Do the different systems of logic reflect the diversity of reasonings? 5. Is there any absolute true ways of reasoning ? Any contribution dedicated to one aspects of the question "Is logic universal?" is welcome. Submit your paper to universal.logic@ufc.br before August 31st 2009