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Celebration of Emmanuel Levinas Centennial

January 1-December 31, 2006

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September 11-13, 2006
International Conference, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

“A Century with Levinas: Hangzhou International Conference on Emmanuel Levinas”

This conference, organised by Zhejiang University (China) and the Philosophy Summer School in China (China, Britain, USA), marks the centenary of the birth of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. The conference has the support of the Forum for European Philosophy (Britain), The Levinas Ethical Legacy Foundation (USA), Association pour la Célébration du Centenaire d’Emmanuel Levinas (France) and Raïssa and Emmanuel Levinas Center-MOFET (Israel). The conference joins other international celebrations of ‘A Century with Levinas’.

The conference includes papers on Levinas’s phenomenology and ethics; his Talmudic studies; comparisons between Levinas’s work and Chinese approaches to ontology, ethics, politics, the self and the other; and the application of Levinas’s thought to contemporary problems of ethics and society. Renmin University Press plans to publish a volume of conference papers in Chinese in order to extend the influence of the conference to a wider Chinese intellectual public.

The conference is organized by Professor Yang Dachun (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou), Dr. Nicholas Bunnin (University of Oxford) and Professor Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research).

The conference will have ten eminent foreign speakers:

• Dr. Catherine Audard (London School of Economics)
  RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE OTHER AND THE FRAGMENTED SELF: LEVINAS AND CITIZENSHIP
• Professor Robert Bernasconi (University of Memphis)
  EXTRA-TERRITORIALITY: OUTSIDE THE SUBJECT, OUTSIDE THE STATE
• Professor Simon Critchley (New School for Social Research)
  FIVE PROBLEMS IN LEVINAS'S CONCEPTION OF POLITICS AND THE SKETCH OF A SOLUTION TO THEM
• Professor Rabbi Daniel Epstein (Matan Institute, Jerusalem)
  ONTOLOGICAL SPACE, ETHICAL SPACE AND HOLY SPACE
• Professor Marie-Anne Lescourret (University of Strasbourg)
  THE NOTION OF DESIRE IN LEVINAS’S PHILOSOPHY
• Mr. Alan Montefiore (Balliol College, Oxford)
  AN ENCOUNTER WITH LEVINAS
• Professor Shalom Rosenberg (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
  LEVINAS AND ROSENZWEIG: ON THE GENEALOGY OF THE INFINITE
• Professor Jacques Taminiaux (University of Louvain)
  LEVINAS AND HEIDEGGER: A POST-HEIDEGGERIAN APPROACH TO PHENOMENOLOGICAL ISSUES
• Mr. Dorian Wiszniewski (University of Edinburgh)
  OUTSIDE-INSIDE: SHANGHAI, THE SPACE OF COMMUNICATIVITY
• Dr. Xiaoming Wu (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
  ON NOT BEING ABLE TO BEAR THE SUFFERING OF ANOTHER: MENCIUS AND LEVINAS

There will be 21 speakers from China

Speaking in English

• Professor Du Xiaozhen* (Peking University, Bejing)
  LEVINAS AND PHENOMENOLOGY
  * speaking in French
• Associate Professor Fang Xianghong (Nanjing University, Nanjing)
  L’OTAGE AND L’ESPRIT: AN INVESTIGATION OF DERRIDA’S ADVENTUROUS RECONSTRUCTION OF LEVINAS’ THOUGHT
• Professor Jiang Yi (Institute of Philosophy, CASS, Beijing)
  THE CONCEPTION OF THE INFINITE IN RESPECT OF CHINESE CULTURE
• Dr. Jiang Yuhui (East China Normal University, Shanghai)
  THE OTHER WITHOUT WORLD AND THE WORLD WITHOUT OTHER: A COMPARISON BETWEEN LEVINAS AND DELEUZE
• Mrs. Lan Fei (University of Toronto, Canada)
  ’DESIRE' VIEWED THROUGH ETHICAL OPTICS: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF CONFUCIAN AND LEVINASIAN SELF-OTHER RELATIONSHIP
• Professor Mo Weiming (Fudan University, Shanghai)
  LEVINAS AND THE QUESTION OF THE SUBJECT
• Associate Professor Sun Xiangchen (Fudan University, Shanghai)
  OVERTURNING PRINCIPLE IN MODERN POLITICS: AN INTRODUCTION TO LEVINAS’ POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
• Associate Professor Wang Heng (Nanjing University, Nanjing)
  HOW IS JUSTICE POSSIBLE: BETWEEN THE ETHICAL AND THE POLITICAL
• Dr. Wang Liping (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou)
  IMMANENCE OR TRANSCENDANCE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN BERGSON AND LEVINAS ON THE CONCEPTION OF ‘NEANT’
• Professor Wang Tangjia (Fudan University, Shanghai)
  PHENOMENOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF DEATH IN LEVINAS
• Professor Xu Xin (Nanjing University, Nanjing)
  THE RELATION BETWEEN THE TALMUD AND LEVINAS’ ETHICAL IDEA
• Professor Yang Dachun (Zhejiang University, Hanzhou)
  LEVINAS AND THE THREE DIMENSIONS OF SURPASSING PHENOMENOLOGY

Speaking in Chinese

• Associate Professor Ke Xiaogang (Tongji University, Shanghai)
  A READING OF LEVINAS' ‘THE DESIRE OF DESIRE’
• Associate Professor Meng Yanwen (China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing)
  LEVINAS' NOTION OF METAPHYSICS: BEYOND BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
• Dr. Ou Chungching (Nanhua University, Taiwan)
  THE JOURNEY OF DIFFERENCE AND BEING
• Professor Ou Yangqian (Renmin University of China, Beijing)
  THE DIMENSION OF THE OTHER: LEVINAS AND HIS ETHICS OF BEING
• Professor Shang Jie (Institute of Philosophy, CASS, Beijing)
  LEVINAS ON JUSTICE
• Dr. Xia Kejun ( Strasbourg University Marc-Bloch, France)
  SUBSTITUTION AND THE AKEDAH OF ISAAC
• Dr. Xu Chen (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou)
  THE OTHER: ACCESSIBLE OR NOT
• Associate Professor Zhang Xu (Renmin University of China, Beijing)
  ETHICS AS FIRST PHILOSOPHY
• Professor Zheng Yong (Institute of Philosophy, CASS, Beijing)
  FROM LITERATURE TO LIVES

• Professor Song Quancheng (Journal of Literature, History and Philosophy)
• Dr. Wei Kaiqiong (Journal of Foreign Philosophy)

• Catherine Audard is a Visiting Fellow in the Philosophy Department at The London School of Economics and Chair of the Forum for European Philosophy. She was a directeur de programme at the Collège international de Philosophie. Her current concerns are moral issues in political theory, conceptions of citizenship in France, multiculturalism and deliberative democracy. She has published widely on liberalism and Republicanism, citizenship and theories of justice. She has also published numerous translations into French, in particular, John Rawls: A Theory of Justice.
• Robert Bernasconi is Lillian and Morrie Moss Professor at University of Memphis. With Simon Critchley, he has edited Re-Reading Levinas (1994) and The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002) and has co-edited Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (1996) and In Proximity: Emmanuel Levinas and the Eighteenth Century (2001). He contributed to the English edition of Levinas: Existence and Existents (2001). He has also written extensively on Heidegger, Derrida, Gadamer and issues of race.
• Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of The Ethics of Deconstruction: Derrida and Levinas (1992) and Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity: Essays on Derrida, Levinas, and Contemporary French Thought (1999). With Robert Bernasconi, he has edited Re-Reading Levinas (1994) and The Cambridge Companion to Levinas (2002) and has also co-edited Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writings (1996). His other writings include studies of death, humour, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens.
• Rabbi Daniel Epstein is Professor of Jewish Philosophy at the Matan Institute, Jerusalem and is a leading figure in Levinas studies in Israel. He has translated several works of Levinas into Hebrew and has written extensively on Levinas’ philosophy and Talmudic readings.
• Marie-Anne Lescourret is Professor of Art at Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg and a member of the board of Association pour la Célébration du Centenaire d’Emmanuel Levinas (ACCEL). Her major biography Emmanuel Levinas (Flammarion) appeared in 1993. She has written several studies in the visual arts, music and literature, including books on Rubens, Claudel and Goethe.
• Alan Montefiore was a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford for 30 years and is President of the Forum for European Philosophy. He has worked and published on a wide diversity of topics, including moral and political philosophy, contemporary French philosophy, philosophy of education and, more specifically, on issues of identity and responsibility. His collection Philosophy in France Today (Cambridge University Press, 1983) included a paper by Levinas that introduced major Levinasian themes to an English-speaking audience.
• Shalom Rosenberg is Professor of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Visiting Professsor at Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard University and a member of the board of MOFET-Raissa and Emmanuel Levinas Center (Jerusalem). He is the author of ‘From Anaximander to Levinas: Toward a history of the concept "infinite."’ In R.Jospe, editor: Paradigms in Jewish Philosophy (1997) and has written widely on Maimonides, Averroes, rabbinical thought, Jewish ethics, the Torah and science, and anti-semitism.
• Jacques Taminiaux was Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, Professor of Philosophy at Université de Louvain and a founder of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Perugia. As a major figure in the development of contemporary phenomenology, he has written extensively on Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt and Levinas. His articles include ‘The Early Levinas’ Reply to Heidegger’s Fundamental Ontology’ (1998) and ‘Levinas et l’histoire de la philosophie’, in Levinas et l’Histoire (1998).
• Dorian Wiszniewski is Senior Lecturer in Architecture, University of Edinburgh and a practicing architect.
• Xiaoming Wu is Senior Lecturer in Chinese, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He studied at Fudan University and Peking University in China before turning to European philosophy and literary theory at the University of Sussex, where he focused on deconstruction and the Chinese tradition. He is currently writing about The Doctrine of the Mean, the question of Being in Chinese thought and the philosophy of Mou Zongsan, a contemporary Neo-Confucian who, like Levinas, examined questions about ethics and ontology at the heart of first philosophy.

• Du Xiaozhen is Professor of Philosophy at Peking University. She is a specialist on contemporary French philosophy, especially the works of Sartre, Derrida, Foucault, Ricoeur and Levinas. Her extensive writings include a book and articles on Levinas. She also an excellent translator of French philosophy into Chinese.
• Dr. Fang Xianghong is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nanjing University. His interests include French philosophy and phenomenology, especially the works of Husserl, Derrida, Marion and Levinas, He has written articles about Levinas.
• Dr. Jiang Yi is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and works mainly on analytical philosophy and political philosophy, and has also written on Levinas.
• Dr. Kha Saen Yang is Professor and Director of the Institute of French Culture at Tongji University, Shanghai. He worked for more than twenty years in Paris, where he was a research fellow at CNRS, and has written extensively on French philosophy, including a work on Levinas.
• Dr. Mo Weiming is Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University, Shanghai. His interests are in French philosophy, especially the works of Foucault and Lyotard, and he has also written about Levinas.
• Dr. Ou Yangqian is Professor of Philosophy at Renmin University of China, Beijing. His interests are in French philosophy.
• Dr. Shang Jie is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His interests are in French philosophy, especially the works of Derrida, and he has also written about Levinas.
• Dr. Sun Xiangchen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University, Shanghai. His main works, including his doctoral dissertation and several articles, are on the philosophy of Levinas.
• Dr. Wang Heng is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Nanjing University. His main works, including his doctoral dissertation and several articles, are on the philosophy of Levinas.
• Dr. Wang Tangjia is Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University, Shanghai. His interests include Ethics and French and German philosophy.
• Professor Xu Xin is Professor of History of Jewish Culture and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University. He is President of the China Judaic Studies Association and has written extensively on Jewish life and culture in China and abroad.
• Dr.Yang Dachun is Professor of Philosophy at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou. His interests are in French philosophy, especially the works of Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Derrida and Levinas. He has written ‘Beyond Phenomenology: Levinas and the Problem of the Other’ , Philosophical Research, Beijing, July 2001 and many other articles about French philosophy. His books include studies of Kierkegaard, Derrrida, Foucault, Merleau-Ponty, structuralism, post-structuralism and deconstruction, and he has translated major works of Merleau-Ponty into Chinese.