Conference Program
Wednesday, 28 May 2014:
Arrival of participants
Thursday, 29 May 2014:
8:00 Registration (College of Arts and Sciences, 685 – 725 Commonwealth Avenue)
Opening Ceremony (College of Arts and Sciences: B50)
9:00 Welcome (Thomas Michael, Professor of Religious Studies, BU)
9:05 Dean’s Greetings
9:15 Conference Greetings (Livia Kohn)
9:25 Keynote: Lai Chi-tim, “Spirit-Writing: The Daoist Dimension”
9:50 Keynote: John Berthrong, “How Daoist is ZhuXi?”
10:30 Break
10:30 Registration moves to School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue
PANEL STRUCTURE
Time: 105 minutes
Papers: 20’ each when 4 panelists are presenting = 80’
or 25’ each when 3 panelists are presenting = 75’
Discussion: 10’ by assigned chair person
and 15’-20’ open questions
ROOMS for PANEL SESSIONS
A = STH 115—Panels
B = STH B24 —Panels
C = STH B23 —Workshops
D = STH 113 —Exhibits
E = STH 325—Rest, Recreation, Chat
NOTE: Paper titles listed first in CHINESE are given in Chinese
Thursday, 29 May 2014
VENDORS OPEN DURING BREAKS
SESSION 1: 11:00-12:45
| A: Zhuangzi: Philosophy | Eske Mollgaard (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Brian Loh) |
| Jennifer Lundin Ritchie | Three Interpretations of the Zhuangzi |
| Alan Fox | Zhuangzi’s Weiwuwei Epistemology: Seeing through Dichotomy to Polarity |
| Agne Budrunaite | The Joys of an Empty Skull: The Tension between Nature and Death in the Zhuangzi |
| B: New Daoist Masters | David Mozina (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Francis Ngo) |
| Adeline Herrou | Transmitting the Daoist Master’s Role beyond the 20th Century |
| Wu Nengchang | Daoism in the Maoist and Post-Maoist Periods |
| Georges Favraud | A Daoist Medical Tradition of the 20th Century |
| C: Robert Neville | Taiji quan: An Introduction to Its Practice (Monitor: Tyler Mingalone) |
SESSION 2: 14:00-15:45
| A: Comparative Philosophy | John Berthrong (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Tyler Mingalone) |
| Roger Ames | Thinking through Abduction in Early Daoist Cosmology |
| Steven Burik | Comparative Resources: Continental Philosophy and Daoism |
| Rob Smid | Finding the Point of Rest on the Potter’s Wheel of Heaven: A Comparative Method Drawn from the Inner Chapters of the Zhuangzi |
| B: Daoist Practice Today | Scott P. Phillips (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Howard Herscovici) |
| Elisabeth Friedrichs | When Managers Support the Sky: Acupuncture and Qigong in the General Practice of a German Family Doctor |
| Michael Rinaldini | Daoism as a Modern-day Practice |
| Mark Saltveit | Authenticity, Exoticism, or Privilege? A Critique of Modern Western Daoism |
| C: Caryn Boyd Diel | Summer Qigong (Monitor: Francis Ngo) |
SESSION 3: 16:00-17:45
| A: Intertextuality in the HNZ | Harold Roth (chair & discussant) (Monitor:Howard Herscovici) |
| Adrien Stoloff | “For he who listens with his ears, the learning is in his skin”: Determining the Textual History of the Received Wenzi and its relation to the Huainanzi from its parallels in the Manuscript Wenzi |
| Larson DiFiori | Uses of Laozi in Huainanzi and Wenzi |
| Andrew Seth Meyer | Echoes of Unplucked Hairs: Yang Zhu’s Thought in the Huainanzi |
| Judson Murray | Shenming 神明 in the Huainanzi: An Inter- and Intratextual Analysis |
| B: Tiandi jiao | Lv Xichen (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Francis Ngo) |
| Liou Chien-hui | 老子及天帝教教義中太陽系生成之宇宙模型探討 (Exploring Cosmogonic Models in Laozi and in Solar System Formation as Presented in Tiandi Jiao Texts) |
| Liou Chien-cheng | 頓超直入：《文始真經》的修道思想 (Sudden Transcendence and Direct Entry: Ideas on Cultivating Dao in the Wenshi True Scripture) |
| Liou Tong-miin | 天人親和之炁氣觀(Heaven-Human Communion Viewed in Light of Innate and Acquired Qi ) |
| C: ROUNDTABLE | Spreading Daoism in the West (Monitor: ) |
| Bede Bidlack | Elijah Sieger, David Mozina, Zhou Xuanyun |
EVENING: 19:00-21:30
Documentary Showing: Dennis Willmont, “Return to the Mountain: A Taiji Journey”
Special Presentation: Xue Xiaogang薛哓刚, Mount Kongtong as Sacred Daoist Space Today 中国崆峒 道源圣地
Vendors’ Exhibits, Book Signing
Friday, 30 May 2014
SESSION 4: 9:00-10:45
| A: Zhuangzi Psychology | Thomas Michael (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Greg McCue) |
| Mercedes Valmisa | Control, Fate, and Adaptation in Zhuangzi and Qiongda yishi |
| Livia Kohn | Forget or not Forget? The Neurophysiology of Zuowang |
| Lin Ming-chao | Reflection, the Other, and the Response of Qi: The Ethical Dimension of Zhuangzi |
| B: Daoist Gods | Lai Chitim (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Tyler Mingalone) |
| Wang Qian | 论汉画像石中西王母 图像方位模式(The Directional Pattern of Han Stone Carvings of Queen Mother of the West) |
| Wang Xiaoyang | 汉代西王母信仰的两个误读(Two Misreadings in the Study of the Cult of Queen Mother of the West in the Han) |
| Nikaido Yoshihiro | 再論伽藍神招寶七郎大權 (The Temple Guardian Zhaobao Qilang Daquan) |
| Zhao Xiaohuan | 元代城隍神信仰：以《全元文》為中心的考察(The Cult of the City God (Chenghuang) in the Yuan Period) |
| C: Sat Hon | The Secret of the Golden Flower: Forms of Daoist Alchemical Meditation (Monitor: Francis Ngo) |
SESSION 5: 11:00-12:45
| A: Daoist Thought | Dan Lusthaus (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Zhang Muliang) |
| Liu Xiang | “I Effaced Myself” and “The Disappearance of the Subject”: A Comparison between Zhuangzi and Jean Baudrillard’s Anti-Subjectivism |
| Tobias Zuern | Traces of the Ancients (gu zhi ji 古之跡) in the Huainanzi |
| Zhou Enyi | The Laozi in the Light of the Philosophy of Technology 从技术哲学的视角探视“老子” |
| B: Qigong | Robert Neville (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Zhang Muliang) |
| Ken Cohen | Yang Sheng: Shamanic Roots, Scientific Branches |
| Sat Hon | The Oracle, the Brush, and the Sword: The Practical Application of Daoist Alchemy |
| Li Juntao & Nie Qunhui | Dao of Tai Chi: Chinese Spiritual Practice and Body Practice |
| Scott P. Phillips | Cracking the Code: Taijiquan as Enlightenment Theater |
SESSION 6: 14:00-15:45
| A: Daoist Ritual Today | Terry Kleeman (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Andrew Lambert) |
| David Mozina | Zhima (Paper Horses) and the Production of Daoist Ritual Images in Hunan Province |
| Mark Meulenbeld | Let the Demons Play: Daoist Exorcism and Theatrical Redemption |
| Michael Naparstek | Re-placed Bodies: The Principle of Tishen at Work in the Daoist Kaiguang Ceremony |
| Sean Allen | Lam Ching-ying’s Affective Capital: Taoist Ritual in Hong Kong Cinema |
| B: Applied Daoist Wisdom | Denis Mair (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Zhang Muliang) |
| Lv Xichen | 道家养生智慧 (Daoist Wisdom in Health Cultivation) |
| Lv Dongshen | 道家智慧在企业管理中的应用 (Applying Daoist Wisdom in Company Management) |
| Xin Hongjuan | 道德经在英语世界的译介：文化旅行视角(The Daode jing in the English-speaking World: Perspective of Cultural Travelling) |
| Yu Senlin | 中国道教经籍在英语世界的译介(A General Survey on the Translations and Studies of Taoist Scriptures in the English-speaking World) |
| C: Michael Rinaldini | Circle Walking: Moving Daoist Cultivation (Monitor: Tom Moscarillo) |
SESSION 7: 16:00-17:45
| A: Daoist Ethics | Bassam Romaya (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Brian Loh) |
| Galia Dor | Between the Worlds: Gateways in Ancient Daoist Thought |
| Guan Yinlin | Ethics of the Laozi: The Guidebook for Ordinary People to Have Good Lives |
| Ann Pang-White | Who Really Cares? The Daoist Ci and the Confucian Ren—A Comparative Analysis |
| B: Culture and Wisdom | Michael LaFargue (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Andrew Lambert) |
| Zhang Yunlong | Daoism as Theory and as Religion 作为思想的道家与作为宗教的道教 |
| Miomir Arandelovic | Daode jing: Ancient Immortals’ Theory of Everything |
| Deng Bo | Femininity in the Laozi |
| Zhang Muliang | Complementarity and Confluence in the Historical Development Process: The Intrinsic Unification of Daoism and Confucianism |
| C: ROUNDTABLE | Women’s Practice (Monitor: ) |
| Christina Barea | Julianne Baecker, Marie Favorito, Caryn Diel |
EVENING: 18:30-20:30
Banquet Dinner at Sichuan Gourmet (1004 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA 02446)
Saturday, 31 May 2014
SESSION 8: 9:00-10:45
| A: Zhuangzi Language | Alan Fox (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Brian Loh) |
| Robert E. Allinson | Metaphor and the Zhuangzi |
| Roy Porat | Different Layers of Ineffability in the Zhuangzi |
| Cristobal Serran-Pagan | The Coincidence of Opposites in Thomas Merton and Zhuangzi |
| B: Aspects of Daoist History | Lai Chitim (chair & discussant) (Monitor: ) |
| Zhu Daxing | 〈道德经〉传授仪式研究 (The Ritual Transmission of the Daode jing) |
| Zhang Yang | 張伯端生卒與《悟真篇》成書考 (Zhang Boduan’s Life and his Wuzhen pian) |
| Biplop Sraman | Daoist Priests and Spirit Mediums |
| Jacopo Scarin | One Institution and Many Identities: The Tongbai gong after the Fall of the Qing |
| C: Michael Guen | Advanced Nei Gong (Internal Power) Training Methods: A Comparison of Classical Styles (Monitor: Tom Moscarillo) |
SESSION 9: 11:00-12:45
| A: The Laozi in the Han | Gil Raz (chair & discussant) (Monitor: ) |
| Yuan Qing | How the Laozi Became a Classic: Its Fate in the Western Han |
| Mark Csikszentmihalyi | The Han Laozi held at Beijing University and Han readings of the Laozi |
| Cui Xiaojiao | The Textual Transmission and Development of the Laozi in the Western Han Dynasty：In Light of the Peking University Bamboo Slip Manuscripts Laozi |
| Michael Puett | |
| B: Daoism and the Military | Steve Jackowicz (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Greg McCue) |
| Peter Lorge | The Daoist Thread in Chinese Military Thought |
| E. Bruce Brooks | The Dao/De Jing in Its Original Military Context |
| Marnix Wells | Heguanzi—A Message for Our Times |
| C: Ken Cohen | Hunyuan Qigong: The Healing Legacy of Daoist Hu Yaozhen (Monitor: Andrew Lambert) |
SESSION 10: 14:00-15:45
| A: Daoism & Prognostication | Andrew Seth Meyer (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Andrew Lambert) |
| Denis Mair | The Mother-Daughter Relation of the Earth and Fire Trigrams |
| Michael Harrington | Daoist Hexagrams in Cheng Yi’s Yijing Commentary |
| Barbara Hendrischke | Views on Prognostication in Early Religious Daoism |
| B: ROUNDTABLE | Daoism Today (Monitor: ) |
| Gil Raz | Li Youkun, David Mozina, Mark Meulenbeld, Terry Kleeman |
| C: Aurora Barlow | Traditional Daoist Qigong for Changing Tendons and Cleaning Bone Marrow (Monitor: Tom Moscarillo) |
SESSION 11: 16:00-17:45
| A: Daoism and Community | Zhao Xiaohuan (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Howard Herscovici) |
| Nathan Woolley | Representing Daoist Principles in the Political Actions of Individuals during the Tang and Five Dynasties |
| Shiga Ichiko | Formation of a New Daoist Community in 19th-century Lingnan Area |
| Dona Cady | Half the Sky: Untangling Roots to Reach the Heights of Wisdom |
| Sabina Knight | Daoism, Deep Ecology, and Contemporary Chinese Literature |
| B: Daoist Psychology | Jerry Alan Johnson (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Greg McCue) |
| Dennis Willmont | A New Perspective on the Old Master |
| Reggie Pawle | The Application of Daoism to Client Concerns in Psychotherapy |
| Donald Davis | Daoist Practice and Human Flourishing in Positive Psychology |
| Andrew Lambert | Daoism and Disability: alternative models of personhood and agency in disability studies |
| C: Jampa Mackenzie Stewart | Cultivating the Elixir Field: The Dantian Revisited (Monitor: ) |
Sunday, June 1, 2014
SESSION 12: 9:00-10:45
| A: Zhuangzi Lifestyle | Livia Kohn (chair & discussant) (Monitor:N/A) |
| Thomas Michael | Images of Legendary Recluses in the Zhuangzi |
| Eske Mollgaard | Zhuangzi and the Coming Community |
| B: Longevity | Shawn Arthur (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Christina Chandler) |
| Mei-yen Lee | Daoist Breathing and Guqin Music |
| Jia Jinhua | The Tang Priestess-cum-Physician Hu Yin and Her Scheme of Nourishing Life |
| Zhao Yanxia | Daoist Healthy Longevity Yangsheng and the Aging Society |
| C: Scott P. Phillips | Conditioning Emptiness: Where Martial Arts Meet Spontaneous Luminosity (Monitor: Brian Loh) |
SESSION 13: 11:00-12:45
| A: Ritual in History | Zhao Yanxia (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Tyler Mingalone) |
| Terry Kleeman | Ordination Ritual in Early Daoism: What the S.203 Manuscript Can Tell Us about Daoist Communities |
| Zhu Yiwen | A Preliminary Study on Inner Method of Taiji for Sacrificing to and Sublimating [the Souls of the Deceased] (Taiji jilian neifa) 宋元祭鍊文獻研究:以鄭思肖《太極祭鍊內法》為例 |
| Aaron Reich | Beyond Performance: An Illustrated Ritual of Investiture in Late Imperial Daoism |
| B: Daoism and Martial Arts | David Weiss (chair & discussant) (Monitor: Greg McCue) |
| Steve Jackowicz | The Martial Body: Chinese Medicine as a Basis of Natural Science in Chinese Martial Arts |
| Alex Feng | Connectivity – Cosmic. Medical, and Ergonomic |
| Hirsh Diamant | Perfection through Practice: A Requisite for Fine and Martial Arts—The Cognitive Relationship of Daoist Thought and the Arts |
| C: Marie Favorito | Qigong for the Courageous (Monitor: Tom Moscarillo) |
13:00 CONCLUDING FORUM & FAREWELLS
13:30 ADJOURN
