Emptiness and Buddha-Nature in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy: An Author-Meets-Critics Symposium with Jenny Hung
Description
Join the Notre Dame Centre for the History of Philosophy for an author-meets-critics symposium engaging with Jenny Hung's new book project, Between Buddha-nature and Emptiness: The Peak Era of Chinese Buddhist Philosophy (under contract with Oxford University Press).
This special event brings together leading scholars of Chinese philosophy and Buddhist thought to discuss Dr Hung's significant contribution to the study of Chinese Buddhist philosophy.
Following an introduction to the book by Dr Hung, three distinguished respondents - Dr Elena Walsh (University of Wollongong), Dr Yu Sang (University of Sydney) and Dr Waldemar Brys (Notre Dame) - will offer critical reflections on the work.
Speakers
Jenny Hung (HKUST)
Dr Jenny Hung is an assistant professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a visiting associate professor at the National University of Singapore.
Elena Walsh (UOW)
Dr Elena Walsh is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She holds an MA in Buddhist philosophy from the University of Melbourne, and a PhD from the University of Sydney’s Theory and Method in Biosciences Lab at the University of Sydney. Her research spans the philosophy of science and the philosophy of mind, with particular expertise in emotion, emotional dispositions, and intelligent systems. Her current research brings contemporary research on emotion into dialogue with machine learning and AI, with a focus on values in decision-making, the ethical governance of emerging technologies, and the effects of human interaction with AI on attention, emotion, and character. She has an ongoing interest in Buddhist and Asian philosophies.
Yu Sang (Sydney)
Dr Yu Sang is a Lecturer in Chinese Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, at the University of Sydney. Her main research interests include Chinese philosophy and religion, particularly Buddhism and Confucianism, as well as the intellectual history of modern China. She has published book chapters and journal articles in both English and Chinese on these topics, and is the author of a monograph on the ontological philosophy of Xiong Shili (1885–1968), a founding figure of the modern New Confucian school.
Waldemar Brys (HKUST / UNDA)
Dr Waldemar Brys is a research assistant professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a research fellow in the History of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame Australia. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of New South Wales (UNSW), supported by the highly competitive Scientia PhD Scholarship. His research focuses on epistemology and virtue theory in Chinese philosophy, with a particular emphasis on pre-Qin and Song-Ming Confucianism.
In person or online
In person location: NDS22/102 - 140 Myrtle St, Chippendale NSW 2008, Australia
Online: Microsoft Teams details link to be confirmed
Jenny Hung
Dr Jenny Hung is an assistant professor of philosophy and religion in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She has two PhDs, one in philosophy, another in nanophysics. She investigates the nature of the self from both the Western and Eastern perspectives, aiming to answer the most fundamental questions of human existence, such as: "What are we?" "How do we persist?" She was a visiting scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, Riverside, and the Australian National University. She also had the opportunity to collaborate with John Perry at Stanford University, exploring the concept of self across different traditions, thanks to a grant. She was recently awarded an ECS grant by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council for the project titled "Between Buddha-nature and Emptiness: The Peak Era of Chinese Buddhism".
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