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David Wood is Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University where he teaches Continental Philosophy. His books include: Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction (SUNY, 2005), Truth: A Reader (ed. with José Medina) (Blackwell, 2005), Thinking After Heidegger(Polity Press, June 2002), The Deconstruction of Time(2^nd edition, Northwestern, 2001), On Derrida, Heidegger and Spirit (edited and introduction, Northwestern, 1993), and Derrida: A Critical Reader (edited and introduction, Blackwell, 1992). Some of his many book chapters and articles include: "Some Questions for My Levinasian Friends" in Addressing Levinas, ed. E. Nelson et. al. (Northwestern, 2002), "What is Ecophenomenology?" Research in Phenomenology, Vol. XXXI, 2001, "Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: Embodying Transformation" for Interrogating Ethics, edited Jim Hatley and Chris Diem, (Northwestern, 2001), "Comment ne pas manger: Deconstruction and Humanism" in Animal Others, ed. Peter Steeves (SUNY, 1999), "Kierkegaard, God and the Economy of Thinking", in Jonathan Ree (ed.) A Kierkegaard Reader, Blackwell, 1997, and “Philosophy: The Antioxidant of Higher Education.” His books in progress include: Time and Time Again (forthcoming Indiana University Press), Things at the Edge of the World (in preparation), Fatal Projections: Pathologies of Alterity (in preparation for Stanford University Press), and A Conversation Between Neighbors: Emmanuel Levinas and Søren Kierkegaard in Dialogue, co-edited with J. Aaron Simmons (in preparation for Indiana). Professor Wood's interests lie in the possibilities of reading and thinking opened up by contemporary continental philosophy and by 19^th century German thought. Some of his current philosophical projects include: reworking/displacing Heidegger's treatment of time within fundamental ontology; developing a non-prescriptive post-humanistic approach to ethics; providing an account of truth that does justice both to its normative, “existential” and metaphysical dimensions; various different approaches to the philosophy of nature (environmental philosophy, animals rights, thinking boundaries, etc.). In addition, he runs a series of philosophy talks at the Nashville Downtown Public Library titled Thinking out of the Box. He is also an environmental artist and stages Art Events from time to time. Professor Wood received his Ph.D. from the University of Warwick.

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Jason Wirth is an associate professor of philosophy at Seattle University. His many publications include works on aesthetics, comparative philosophy, and contemporary continental philosophy. His translation of Schelling's, The Ages of the World (1815), is published by the State University of New York Press (2000). His edited volume, Zen no Sho: The Calligraphy of Fukushima Keido Roshi , is published by Clear Light Publishers (2003) and his most recent book, The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time, is also from SUNY (2003). Recently, Schelling Now , an edited volume of contemporary readings of Schelling, has appeared with Indiana University Press. He is currently at work on a book about Milan Kundera (Tamina on the Border: Milan Kundera and Philosophy) and an edited volume, Conversations on the Ox Path: Comparative Approaches to the Kyoto School , with Brian Schroeder and Bret Davis. He and Peter Warnek are also at work on a new critical edition of Schelling's Freedom essay.  He has degrees from Holy Cross, Villanova University, and Binghamton University, where he was awarded his Ph.D.

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Michele Yeh was born in Taiwan, graduated from the National Taiwan University, and is currently Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California- Davis, Co-director of the Pacific Regional Humanities Center at UC-Davis, and Chair of the UC Pacific Rim Research Program.  She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California and has research interests traditional and modern Chinese poetry, comparative poetics, international modernism, and translation.  Her current projects include a book the tension between modernity and cultural identity in China, a new anthology of modern poems on Taiwan, and a collection of essays on aromatics in Asian and Western traditions.  Her major publications include: Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917, Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry(edited and translated), No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu (co-translated), Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (co-edited and co-translated), Essays on Modern Chinese Poetry, and Poetic Life.

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Amy Olberding works on Chinese philosophy, with a particular interest in comparing Chinese and Western ideas about death. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and School of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of Hawai'i. Her research interests include philosophical approaches to human mortality, the ethics of the domestic sphere, and philosophical constructions of self and society, particularly as these appear in early Chinese philosophy. Her work has appeared in Philosophy East and West and International Philosophical Quarterly. She has also directed a National Endowment for the Humanities grant project concerning East Asian traditions.

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David Krell was educated at Duquesne University. He has taught at universities in Germany, France, and England. He works in the areas of early Greek thought, Plato, German Idealism, Romanticism, and Contemporary European literature and thought. His books include The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God (Indiana, 2005); The Purest of Bastards: Works on Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida (Pennsylvania, 2000); Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (Indiana, 1998); The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image, with Donald Bates (Chicago, 1997); Architecture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body (SUNY, 1997); Infectious Nietzsche (Indiana, 1996); Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought (Chicago, 1995); Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (Indiana, 1992); Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge (Indiana, 1990); Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being (Pennsylvania, 1986; 2nd ed., 1991); and Postponements: Woman, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche (Indiana 1986).

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David Krell was educated at Duquesne University. He has taught at universities in Germany, France, and England. He works in the areas of early Greek thought, Plato, German Idealism, Romanticism, and Contemporary European literature and thought. His books include The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God (Indiana, 2005); The Purest of Bastards: Works on Mourning, Art, and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida (Pennsylvania, 2000); Contagion: Sexuality, Disease, and Death in German Idealism and Romanticism (Indiana, 1998); The Good European: Nietzsche's Work Sites in Word and Image, with Donald Bates (Chicago, 1997); Architecture: Ecstasies of Space, Time, and the Human Body (SUNY, 1997); Infectious Nietzsche (Indiana, 1996); Lunar Voices: Of Tragedy, Poetry, Fiction, and Thought (Chicago, 1995); Daimon Life: Heidegger and Life-Philosophy (Indiana, 1992); Of Memory, Reminiscence, and Writing: On the Verge (Indiana, 1990); Intimations of Mortality: Time, Truth, and Finitude in Heidegger's Thinking of Being (Pennsylvania, 1986; 2nd ed., 1991); and Postponements: Woman, Sensuality, and Death in Nietzsche (Indiana 1986).

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Peter Hershock is an Educational Specialist for the Asian Studies Development Program at the East-West Center. His research focuses on cultural dimensions of issues surrounding human rights, activism, and community in the Asia Pacific region, with special emphasis on the ramifications of technological and social change.  His books include: Mapping Communities: Ethics, Values, Practice (2005), Chan Buddhism (2005), Technology and Cultural Values: On the Edge of the Third Millennium (2003), Reinventing the Wheel: A Buddhist Response to the Information Age (1999), and Liberating Intimacy: Enlightenment and Social Virtuosity in Ch'an Buddhism (1996).

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Erin McCarthy received her Ph.D. from the University of Ottawa and joined the Department of Philosophy and Asian Studies Program at St. Lawrence University in New York. She teaches courses on ethical theory, feminist philosophy, existential philosophy, Asian philosophy, and introduction to philosophy—from a comparative perspective whenever possible. Her research on comparative philosophy has been published in Philosophy, Culture and Traditions, Sagesse du Corps, Corps et Science: Enjeux culturels et philosophiques. She has also published on teaching Asian and comparative philosophy in ASIANetwork Exchange, and on post 9/11 rhetoric and popular culture in Collateral Language. Her current research takes two directions. First, she adds a feminist perspective to comparative philosophy on ethics and the body, in particular using the work of French feminist philosopher Luce Irigaray and Japanese philosophers Watsuji Tetsuro and Yuasa Yasuo. The second current interest proposes how teaching comparative philosophy can contribute to the development of multicultural communities and “geocitizens” on liberal arts campuses. In addition, she has served on Columbia University’s Expanding East Asian Studies collaborative and is Co-Director of St. Lawrence University’s Asian Studies Initiative, an initiative funded by a one million dollar grant proposal that she coauthored and was granted from the Freeman Foundation Asian Studies Development Grant.

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Vyvyane Loh is an independent writer, a choreographer-dancer, and a physician. She is the author of Breaking the Tongue (W. W. Norton, 2004). Her interest is in language and its relation to human behavior. She is drawn to experimenting with fictional forms and the function of art in creating social change. Loh´s novel-in-progress is about the use of language in genocidal regimes. Her protagonists are two sisters from a fictional country who are thrown into the turmoil and savagery of genocide and who must struggle to battle with the rhetoric of hate in trying to save their own lives. Loh was a Holden scholarship holder at Warren Wilson College, where she obtained her MFA in fiction. Her first book was a notable book for the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and was picked by The New York Public Library as one of the year´s "Books to Remember" in 2004. She was a scholar and a fellow at the Bread Loaf Writer´s Conference in Vermont and was invited to the International Literature Festival in Berlin in 2005. She is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.

Framed in tortured silence, Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue tells the story of Singapore's fall to the Japanese in 1942. The British surrendered the city to the invaders after an intensive air campaign destroyed the British naval base at Sembawang, the Gibraltar of the East, thereby demoralizing the garrison. These troops, like the expatriate British businessmen running Singapore's economy, were made up of "expendable" men too incompetent to succeed at home. The novel describes literal torture, for the plot is framed by the brutal Japanese interrogation of Claude Lim, the teenage son of an ethnic Chinese clerk at the British bank. Claude's captors carve a map of their invasion on his face, but his "body" struggles to remain silent. To avoid speech, Claude sends his mind into retreat, focusing on the years preceding Singapore's fall when he and his family felt protected by the British colonial government.

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Henry Rosemont has written, edited and/or translated a number of books, including A Chinese Mirror, Rationality & Religious Experience: The Continuing Relevance of the World's Spiritual Traditions, The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation (with Roger Ames), and the forthcoming Radical Confucianism. Professor Rosemont's interests include Chinese thought, logic and linguistics, and global justice. He is the author of numerous articles in scholarly journals and anthologies, has been editor of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy's Monograph Series and is the current editor of the Dimensions of Asian Spirituality Series for the University of Hawai`i Press. He is retired from Saint Mary's College of Maryland (Maryland's public honor's college) where he was George B. and Willma Reeves Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and continues in many roles such as Senior Consulting Professor to Fudan University in China and as a public intellectual. Currently, he is Distinguished Visiting Professor of East Asian Studies at Brown University.

On behalf of the Kennesaw State University Philosophy Student Association, I would like to invite you to submit a paper to the NGSPC to be held March 31 - April 1, 2006. This year, we are honored to have Dr. David Krell as our keynote speaker. Dr. Krell is a professor of Philosophy at DePaul University where he works in the areas of early Greek thought, Plato, German Idealism, Romanticism, and Contemporary European literature and thought. He has published many books during the last twenty years, including his most recent work, The Tragic Absolute: German Idealism and the Languishing of God (Indiana, 2005).

The ancient Greeks recognized the relationship between playing and learning, as both "play" and "pedagogy" share the same root. In that vein, our theme this year is INTERPLAY. The NGSPC provides a vehicle for philosophical dialogue both among students and the professors who attend. This conference is a perfect venue for exchanging and creating philosophical ideas with thinkers from other disciplines, thus opening new avenues of thought. We welcome your paper submission dealing with any philosophical issue, period, or field of inquiry in order to engage in cross-topical discourse. Submission is open to all students enrolled for undergraduate and graduate study at an accredited institution of higher education during the 2005-2006 academic year.

Abstracts must be received via email by February 28, 2006. Abstracts must include: name, university, email address, and paper title. Abstracts should be 150 words or less, 12-point font, Times New Roman, and double-spaced. Papers should be 10-12 pages, 12 point font, double spaced, Times New Roman, and with a cover sheet with name (for the purpose of blind review, do not put your name on paper).

Selected proceedings will be published by North Georgia Philosophy Studies, a division of the Georgia Philosophy Series in association with the Philosophy Student Association at Kennesaw State University. The NGSPC is sponsored by the Philosophy Student Association, the History & Philosophy Department, the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, SABAC and the Center for the Development of Asian Studies.

For more details on submission guidelines, the review process, registration, social activities, for a copy of the official cover sheet and more please visit our website at:

www.kennesaw.edu/clubs/psa/ngspc

If you have any questions, please email us at:

ngspc.psa@gmail.com
Thank you,

Abbey Swanson
NGSPC Conference Chair
Philosophy Student Association
Kennesaw State University

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Stephen Goldberg specializes in the history of Chinese art. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. Since the early 90s, he has participated as instructor and director of numerous summer institutes and region conferences of the Asian Studies Development Program (ASDP), a joint program of the University of Hawai'i and the East-West Center that was initiated to infuse Asian content and perspectives into the core curriculum at U.S. colleges and universities. He has published numerous articles and chapters in books on Chinese art and philosophy, with a particular interest in Chinese calligraphy. His publications include "The Primacy of Gesture: Phenomenology and the Art of Chinese Calligraphy," in Metamorphosis, (2004); "Philosophical Reflection and Visual Art in Traditional China," in Texts and Contexts: The Art of Infusing Asian Philosophies and Religions, (SUNY Press, 2004); and "Recognition of the True Self: Zen Buddhism and Bokusek Calligraphy," in Zen no Sho: The Calligraphy of Fukushima Keido Roshi (Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 2003).

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Red Pine dropped out of graduate school at Columbia University in the early 1970s and bought a one-way ticket to Taiwan, where he joined a monastery to feed his fascination with Buddhist spirituality. He meditated four hours a day and read classical Chinese texts for another eight. After leaving the monastery, Porter spent 14 years in seclusion on a farm outside Taipei. He made no money and enjoyed no comforts of the developed world. As he grew more fluent in Chinese, Porter started translating classical texts. Porter met more than 100 hermits in the 1980s while researching his travel book Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits. Just as hermits will spend years dwelling on a favored text to root out new interpretations, Porter struggles to find a way to convey Chinese verse in meaningful, equally beautiful English. One day on a bus in Taiwan, he came up with the pen name Red Pine. Doing away with a birth name, at least temporarily, diminishes the ego and frees up the mind. "I translate just like a ball player plays ball. I look at it as fun and a performance, and I feel physically involved with it when I do it. It's like dancing with words." (From the Seattle Times)

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Stacy K. Keltner received her Ph.D. at the University of Memphis in 2002. Her research and teaching interests fall within social and political philosophy, broadly construed to include continental philosophy, psychoanalysis, aesthetics, and feminist and race theory. She has published on de Beauvoir, Levinas, Kristeva, Irigaray and Heidegger. She is currently writing a book entitled Julia Kristeva: Thresholds and editing a volume on Kristeva's writings with Kelly Oliver entitled Psychoanalysis, Aesthetics, and Politics in the Work of Kristeva.

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Ni Peimin received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Fudan University and he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in Philosophy. Ni is a founder and former president of the Association of Chinese Philosophers in America (ACPA). His published books include: On Confucius (2002), and On Reid (2002). He is also an accomplished calligraphy artist.

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Jena Grace Jolissaint is a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Oglethorpe University where she received her B.A. in philosophy cum laude. She completed the M.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oregon. The title of her dissertation at Oregon was "Receiving Socrates' Banquet: Plato, Schelling, and Irigaray on Nature and Sexual Difference".

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This is Paul Dover's first semester in the history department at Kennesaw State. He has taught previously at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN and at Georgian Court University in Lakewood, NJ. His primary area of research interest is Renaissance Italy and he has published several articles on Italian city-state ambassadors and diplomacy. He is currently completing a book that examines the changing role of the ambassador in fifteenth-century Italian culture and court life. While he would never dare call himself an intellectual historian, Paul is also interested in the reception of classical learning and culture in the Renaissance-he and the classicist Christopher McDonough recently produced an article entitled Of camels, crocodiles, and human sacrifice: the Chapel Hill MS of Solinus' Collectanea Rerum Memorabilium and the reading of classical geography in the Renaissance. This talk is largely derived from Dr. Dover's reflections on medieval and Renaissance epistemologies that were prompted by his research on that article. Professor Dover did his both his bachelor's and graduate work at Yale University.

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Stanley Murashige (Ph.D., University of Chicago) has just completed a four-year term as chair of the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses on Asian art and theory, Chinese art and aesthetics, and cross-cultural issues East and West. A specialist in Chinese landscape painting, he previously taught at Michigan State University. He has published in the Monumenta Serica and the Encyclopedia of Chinese Philosophy and has received awards from the American Oriental Society Fellowship for Chinese Painting.

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