"The Kims' Three Bodies: How Dynastic Succession Works in North Korea"

March 29 Thursday, 4:30-6:00 p.m. @Devlin 008
Part of the Global Korea 2011-2012

Professor Bruce Cumings, foremost U.S. scholar of the Korean War, is Department Chairperson and Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, Dept of History, University of Chicago.

Additional sponsorship from The Institute of Liberal Arts, Political Science International Relations Lecture Series, and History Department.

Coffee and Conversation with Professor Bruce Cumings

March 29 Thursday, 3:00-4:00 p.m. @Intitute of Liberal Arts Seminar Room, 10 Stone Ave.
Part of the Global Korea 2011-2012

Author of "Parallax Visions", "North Korea: Another Country", and "The Korean War: A History".

Sponsored by AS & AASP, Asian Caucus and Korean Student Association.

"Senses and Values of Oneness”: A Lecture on East Asian Philosophy and Religion in Comparative Perspective

April 2 Monday, 5:00-6:30 p.m. @Devlin 101

The lecture explores different ways in which people do or might claim themselves to be “one” with other parts of the world or with the universe at large and what ethical implications might come with recognizing and living in light of such a conception of the self. In particular, I am interested in how such views about the self and its relationship with the rest of the world entail or imply various types and levels of care for other people, creatures, or things. I will discuss a range of views currently being discussed among contemporary psychologists and philosophers but my primary purpose is to describe the views of several Chinese neo-Confucian thinkers, most prominently Wang Yangming, and bring them into dialogue with modern psychology and philosophy. Open to the Public; Free Admission.

Philip J. Ivanhoe, who earned his Ph.D. from Stanford University, is Professor of Philosophy at City University of Hong Kong. He has written, edited, or co-edited more than twenty books and published more than fifty articles and numerous dictionary and encyclopedia entries on Chinese and Western religious and ethical thought and its contemporary implications. Among his more recent publications are The Essays and Letters of Zhang Xuecheng (Stanford University Press), the co-edited anthology Taking Confucian Ethics Seriously: Contemporary Theories and Applications (with YU Kam-por and Julia TAO, SUNY Press), Readings in the Lu-Wang School of Neo-Confucianism (Hackett Publishing Company) and the co-edited anthology Working Virtue: Virtue Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems (with Rebecca Walker, Oxford University Press).

Sponsored by Department of Slavic and Eastern Languages and Literatures, Asian Studies Program, and Institute of the Liberal Arts.