Calendar of Events

  • Michael Puett

    Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology, Director of Asia Center

    Harvard University

    How to Read a Text – in Early China and Early Greece, For Example

    Time: TBA

  • Seminar-Workshop

    Is Being Opposed to Becoming?

    Daoist and Presocratic Approaches to Dialectical and Paradoxical Thinking

    February 18th, 2026

    Co-organized with the University of Chicago Workshop on the Philosophy of Religions

  • Jana S. Rošker

    Jana S. Rošker

    Professor of Sinology and Chinese Philosophy, Research Counsellor

    Chief editor of Asian Studies

    University of Ljubljana

    Zeno of Elea and Hui Shi 惠施 Through the Lens of the Flying Arrow

    Tuesday, November 4th, 2025

    9 pm Beijing time

  • Robin Wang 王蓉蓉

    Professor of Philosophy, Director of Asian Pacific Studies

    Loyola Marymount University

    Inaugural Lecture

    On Subtle Proximity: The Greek Paradox of Sorites and the Chinese Maxim of the Qiqi 欹器

    Wednesday, September 17th, 2025

    9pm Beijing time

  • International Seminar-Workshop

    Way and Being: Between Daoist and Pre-Socratic Approaches

    July 3-6, 2025

    Co-organized with the Educational Network of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EN-EACP)

    Hosted by the Institute of Philosophy, Free University of Berlin