PROGRAMME
All times are BST (UK)
Talks: 30-35 minutes; responses: 10 minutes; open discussion: 30 minutes
Day 1 (Monday 18 September 2023)
Chair: Lea Cantor
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Chris Fraser (Chinese University of Hong Kong): ‘Effable and Ineffable in Early Chinese Discourse on Dào’
Commentator: Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Carlos Barbosa Cepeda (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Colombia): ‘Making Sense of Nāgārjuna’s Ineffabilism—and Ineffabilism in General’
Commentator: Harry Alanen (Pittsburgh)
Session 3: 16:15-17:30
Shaul Tor (KCL): ‘Pyrrhonian Scepticism as an Ineffable Knack’
Commentator: Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Day 2 (Tuesday 19 September 2023)
Chair: Ursula Coope
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Lea Cantor (Oxford/Cambridge): ‘Zhuangzi’s Words Argument Against Monism’
Commentator: Kassandra Dugi (Oxford)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Leonida Vanni (Pisa/Florence): ‘Damascius’ Theory of Prime Matter’s Ineffability’
Commentator: Dirk Meyer (Oxford)
Session 3: 16:15-17:30
Nilanjan Das (Toronto): ‘Jayanta Bhaṭṭa on Non-Conceptual Content’
Commentator: Sihao Chew (Oxford)
Day 3 (Wednesday 20 September 2023)
Chair: Nilanjan Das
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Amit Chaturvedi (University of Hong Kong): ‘How is Reality both Ineffable and ‘nothing but name’? Early Yogācāra Sources on the Linguistic Construction and Inexpressibility of Mind and World’
Commentator: Roy Porat (Brown/Tel Aviv)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Stephen Walker (Chicago): ‘“Talking all day is all about dào” – The Adequacy of Speech in Zhuāngzǐ 25’
Commentator: Cat Prueitt (UBC)
Session 3: 16:30-17:30
Anna Lucia Furlan (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan): ‘Shall I utter the unutterable? Unveiling the Mysteries in Julian’s Hymn to the Mother of the Gods’
Commentator: Aamir Kaderbhai (Oxford)
Day 4 (Thursday 21 September 2023)
Chair: Shaul Tor
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Monica Ding (KCL): ‘Regularity (cháng 常) in Xunzi: What is beyond the Regularity is beyond Words’
Commentator: Vincent Lee (Toronto)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Parimal Patil (Harvard): ‘Dharmakīrti, Ineffability, and Causal Relations’
Commentator: Glenda Hall (Birkbeck)
Session 3: 16:15-17:30
Roundtable Discussion: led by Lea Cantor, Amber Carpenter, Ursula Coope
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Conference abstracts can be consulted here
Talks: 30-35 minutes; responses: 10 minutes; open discussion: 30 minutes
Day 1 (Monday 18 September 2023)
Chair: Lea Cantor
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Chris Fraser (Chinese University of Hong Kong): ‘Effable and Ineffable in Early Chinese Discourse on Dào’
Commentator: Amber Carpenter (Yale-NUS)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Carlos Barbosa Cepeda (Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Colombia): ‘Making Sense of Nāgārjuna’s Ineffabilism—and Ineffabilism in General’
Commentator: Harry Alanen (Pittsburgh)
Session 3: 16:15-17:30
Shaul Tor (KCL): ‘Pyrrhonian Scepticism as an Ineffable Knack’
Commentator: Adrian Moore (Oxford)
Day 2 (Tuesday 19 September 2023)
Chair: Ursula Coope
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Lea Cantor (Oxford/Cambridge): ‘Zhuangzi’s Words Argument Against Monism’
Commentator: Kassandra Dugi (Oxford)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Leonida Vanni (Pisa/Florence): ‘Damascius’ Theory of Prime Matter’s Ineffability’
Commentator: Dirk Meyer (Oxford)
Session 3: 16:15-17:30
Nilanjan Das (Toronto): ‘Jayanta Bhaṭṭa on Non-Conceptual Content’
Commentator: Sihao Chew (Oxford)
Day 3 (Wednesday 20 September 2023)
Chair: Nilanjan Das
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Amit Chaturvedi (University of Hong Kong): ‘How is Reality both Ineffable and ‘nothing but name’? Early Yogācāra Sources on the Linguistic Construction and Inexpressibility of Mind and World’
Commentator: Roy Porat (Brown/Tel Aviv)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Stephen Walker (Chicago): ‘“Talking all day is all about dào” – The Adequacy of Speech in Zhuāngzǐ 25’
Commentator: Cat Prueitt (UBC)
Session 3: 16:30-17:30
Anna Lucia Furlan (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan): ‘Shall I utter the unutterable? Unveiling the Mysteries in Julian’s Hymn to the Mother of the Gods’
Commentator: Aamir Kaderbhai (Oxford)
Day 4 (Thursday 21 September 2023)
Chair: Shaul Tor
Session 1: 13:00-14:15
Monica Ding (KCL): ‘Regularity (cháng 常) in Xunzi: What is beyond the Regularity is beyond Words’
Commentator: Vincent Lee (Toronto)
Session 2: 14:30-15:45
Parimal Patil (Harvard): ‘Dharmakīrti, Ineffability, and Causal Relations’
Commentator: Glenda Hall (Birkbeck)
Session 3: 16:15-17:30
Roundtable Discussion: led by Lea Cantor, Amber Carpenter, Ursula Coope
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Conference abstracts can be consulted here
