Assistant Professor in Asian Philosophy
Dr. Dawid Rogacz participated in the World Congress of Philosophy in Rome, held between Aug. 1 and 8, 2024. He joined special panels and roundtables and launched a book presentation of the upcoming three-volume set “Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers.”
Dr. Dawid Rogacz opened the workshop on early Tang Dynasty Philosophy, Chongxuanxue, and Its Broader Philosophical Context, with a lecture, “The Advent of the Idea of the Three Teachings: The Cases of Three Late Sixth-century Scholars,” organized at the Leipzig University, 26-27 July 2024.
Dr. Dawid Rogacz has been elected as a new member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and, precisely – its (sub)-Academy of Young Scholars. I will be the only young (30+ yo) representative of the humanities, chosen out of the total number of 116 nominations.
Dr. Dawid Rogacz participated in the 55th Annual Conference of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy in San Francisco (November 9-11, 2023). He gave a talk entitled “What Divides into What, and Why: On Metaphysical Foundations of Dengism,” which discussed the second, post-1978 phase of the One Divides into Two Controversy. The conference program and abstracts are available here.
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.