Author: DawidRogacz

Between mid-September and mid-October 2023, Dr. Rogacz actively participated in the Polish Philosophical Congress (Łódź), International Society of East Asian Philosophy Conference (Edinburgh), and the workshop on Teaching Chinese Philosophy in Europe (Berlin), which inaugurated the Educational Network of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (with Dr. Rogacz as its Board Member). The network aims to connect the lecturers in Chinese philosophy across Europe and offers a new platform for discussing the perspectives and conditions of the didactics in Chinese philosophy.

Dr. Rogacz and 113 other speakers from 95 universities participated in The Fourth Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP) held in Macerata, Italy, between 16 and 18 June 2023. The conference program and the book of abstracts are available here. Upon the decision of the EACP Borad, the conference in 2027 will be hosted by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań and organized by a team of scholars led by Dr. Dawid Rogacz.

During the conference ‘Humanism, Posthumanism and Transhumanism in East Asian Past and Present,’ held at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) on May 19-21, 2023, Dr. Dawid Rogacz gave a talk “Interplanetary Revolutions: On Mao’s Cosmic Communism,” which dealt with an unknown transhumanist aspect of Maoism.
The conference program and the book of abstracts are available here.

In celebration of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the CUHK Department of Philosophy is organizing an international conference, “Whither Comparative Philosophy?: Chinese Philosophy Encountering Other Traditions in the World.” Dr. Dawid Rogacz is an invited speaker with his talk “On Philosophical Histories of Chinese Philosophy: A Methodological Prelude” (April 14, 8 a.m. CEST).
The event’s website is available here, and the conference program is under this link. The conference can be joined online without prior registration via Zoom under the Meeting ID: 944 1856 7676.

Upon the invitation of the University of Zürich, Dr. Dawid Rogacz gave a lecture on “Classical Roots of Sino-Marxism” at the UZ Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies and afterward moderated the intercultural panel “Pragmatic world interpretation in social settings”:
https://www.agenda.uzh.ch/record.php?id=53595

Dr. Dawid Rogacz has given an interview (in Polish) on Chinese strategical theory and culture from Sunzi and Confucians up to Maoism and beyond within the cycle of debates organized by the Academy of Polish Navy. It is available on YouTube under this link.

Starting from October 1, 2022, Dr. Dawid Rogacz will act as Erasmus+ Programme Coordinator at Adam Mickiewicz University Department of Philosophy. He will also be in charge of international collaboration beyond the framework of the European Commission.

“Philosophy East and West” has published a review of Dr. Rogacz’s “Chinese Philosophy of History.” The review was written by Prof. Don J. Wyatt from Middlebury College: link.

Four papers authored by Dr. Rogacz were published between January and April 2022:

* “The Idea of Supreme Peace (Taiping) in Premodern Chinese Philosophies of History“, Asian Studies vol. 10, no. 1 (2022), 401-424;
* “Inaudible Sounds and Nonhuman Harmony: On Daoist Mysticism of Music“, Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies vol. 61, no. 21 (2022), 115-128;
* “Pushed Forward by Lifted Hearts: On Stanislaus Lo Kuang’s Sino-Christian Philosophy of History“, Religions vol. 13, no. 3 (2022);
* “Sincerity (cheng) as a civic and political virtue in classical Confucian philosophy“, Philosophy Compass vol. 17, no. 6 (2022).

The first three are available in Open Access.

Classical Chinese philosophy, and the philosophy of Confucius in particular, has often been criticized for lacking definitions of its core concepts. Dr. Rogacz’s paper argues that unlike Socrates, Confucius systematically used non-classical definitions—to be precise, operational ones. As it shows, this mode of defining things had major implications for the content of Confucian thought. The article is available in Open Access: link.