The 50th annual Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (SACP) conference will take place in Kraków, Poland June 8-11, 2018. This year’s conference theme is “Power and Creativity.” The conference is hosted by the Pedagogical University of Cracow and co-organized by the National Museum in Krakow and the Institute of the Middle and Far East, Jagiellonian University. See the conference website for more details.
There are quite a few panels with material on Indian philosophy at this year’s SACP conference (see panel titles below). Names of participants, paper titles, and abstracts can be found on the conference website.
- “Own-Being” (svabhāva) in South Asian Philosophy: Jaina, Cārvāka, and Sarvāstivāda Perspectives
- Power and Creativity in Comparative Perspective
- Approaches to Subjectivity in Western and Asian Philosophical Traditions
- Creativity and Power in Sāṃkhya-Yoga Philosophy
- Buddhism: Power of Knowledge and Its Limits
- Indian Philosophy: Limits and Beyond
- Power, Rights, and Equality
- Non-Violence in Gandhi’s Thought and Beyond
- Buddhism: Vision, Pleasure, and Compassion
- Dialogue in Indian Philosophy
- Action and Causal Determination
- Plato, Buddhism, and Daoism
- Debate in Buddhism and Beyond
- Self, Mind, and Soul in Comparative Perspective
- The Heuristic Interest in Studying Indian Philosophy
- Empowerment and Power of Creativity
- Between Philosophy and Poetry