2011 Uehiro Graduate Student Philosophy Conference: CrossCurrents
March 16th-18th, 2011
Wednesday, March 16
6:00 – 8:00 pm Welcome Reception
Aloha Address by Dr. Kenneth Kipnis, Department Chair
Sakamaki Hall C-308, Philosophy Lounge
Thursday, March 17
8:30 – 9:15 am Panel I: “Economics and Politics”
Moderated by Laura Specker
Imin Center, Pacific Room
“Ethical Responsibility in Modern Islamic Banking: Murābaḥa and Ribā”
Sydney Johnson, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Response by Aaron Creller, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
9:30 – 11:00 am Panel II: “Selfhood and Experience”
Moderated by K.P. Maroufkhani
Imin Center, Pacific Room
“The Metaphysically Relational Self in Kierkegaard and Nishida”
Andrew Komasinski, Fordham University
Josh Stoll, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Self or Non Self? The Ethical Dimension of Selfhood in Paul Ricouer”
Ana Laura Funes, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
11:00 – 12:30 Lunch on your own
12:30 – 2:30 pm Panel III: “Aesthetics and Nature”
Moderated by Nick Brasovan
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Ryan Shriver, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Philosophy as Art: On Moving Past Postmodernism”
Timothy Ryan Center, California State University at Chico
Matthew Izor, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Classifying the Inhuman: Flora and Fauna in Japanese Buddhist Cosmology”
Kevin Taylor, University of Illinois
2:45 – 4:30 pm Keynote Address
Introduction by Dr. Eliot Deutsch
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Dr. Carl Becker on Comparative Environmental Philosophy
Professor of Philosophy at the Kokoro Research Center, with joint appointment as Professor of Human Environmental Studies, both at Kyoto University, Japan
5:00 – 6:30 pm Pupu Reception
Sakamaki Hall C-308, Philosophy Lounge
Friday, March 18
9:00 – 10:00 am Panel IV: “Power and Moral Practice”
Moderated by Sydney Johnson
Imin Center, Pacific Room
“Rule-Following and Moral Practice”
Laura Specker, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Power, Relativism and Society in Zarathustra's 'Of the Thousand and One Goals'”
Anna Ezekiel, McGill University
10:15 – 11:45 am Panel V: “Violence and Evil”
Moderated by Robert Evans
Imin Center, Pacific Room
“Is War Inevitable? Human Habit, Asoka, and Globalizing Perspectives”
Joshua Mandelstam, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
David van Ofwegen, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“The Concept of Evil in the Thought of Toyohiko Kagawa”
Stig Lindberg, Kyoto University, Japan
11:45 – 1:00 Lunch on your own
1:00 – 2:30 pm Panel VI: “Contemporary Comparisons”
Moderated by Matt Izor
Imin Center, Pacific Room
“A Daoist Critique of Reification”
Joe Harroff, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Reconciling Oneself to the Limits: Daoism, Feminism and Necessary Boundaries”
Stephanie Adair, Duquesne University
“Kawaiso as a Searlian Speech Act”
Jeff Hoyt, Drake University
2:45 – 4:30 pm Keynote Address:
Introduction by Dr. Vrinda Dalmiya
Imin Center, Pacific Room
Dr. Sor Hoon Tan on Confucianism and Democracy
Associate Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the National University of Singapore
4:30 – 5:00 pm Closing Ceremony
Imin Center, Pacific Room
5:30 – 7:30 pm Potluck Barbeque
Kaimana Beach
Significant support for this conference was provided by the Uehiro Foundation.
Additional support was provided by the Hung Wo and Elizabeth Ching Foundation, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Philosophy Department, the Philosophy Student Association, and the Student Association Program Fee Board.
