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Dr. Rogacz participated in the meeting between the Polish Young Scholars Academy (Akademia Młodych Uczonych PAN) and the Young Academy of Sweden, associated with the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, organized in Warsaw on April 23-24, 2025.
On April 25, 2025, as the Vice-dean for research and international collaboration, he joined the discussions over closer co-operation between Adam Mickiewicz University and the University of Southern Denmark in Odense, including the perspectives of co-teaching between respective faculties of philosophy.

Upon the invitation of the University of Chicago and its Council on Advanced Studies (within the Philosophy of Religions workshop series), Dr. Rogacz gave a lecture on the revival of Confucian Philosophy through its interaction with Daoism in sixth-century China. More info here.

Dr. Rogacz participated in the 7th Rutgers Workshop on Chinese Philosophy (RWCP) entitled “Moral Conflict in Early Chinese Philosophy,” in New Brunswick, NJ, on April 10-11, 2025. Dr. Rogacz, the only European participant, discussed “Weighing (quan) in early Confucian philosophy.” The workshop’s website is available here.

Dr Rogacz był gościem audycji Eureka w Pierwszym Programie Polskiego Radia, gdzie mówił m.in. o współczesnym znaczeniu filozofii chińskiej, jej nauczaniu i badaniach. Rozmowa zaczyna się od ok 14. minuty nagrania: link.

Dr. Dawid Rogacz and Dr. Selusi Ambrogio held a book launch around their three-volume set „Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers” hosted by Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris on 20th February 2025.

Dr. Dawid Rogacz gave the talk, “The concept of undeveloped socialism: a useful myth, a resisting reality,” within the panel Making/Unmaking Myths: Conceptual Histories from 20th Century China during the 25th History of Concepts conference, Rio de Janeiro (Dec. 5-7, 2024).

Dr. Dawid Rogacz has published a paper offering the first English-language philosophical treatment of Master Liu (Liuzi 劉子)—a treatise that gives a unique insight into the intellectual life of sixth-century China. The article argues that Liuzi integrated Confucian moral philosophy with selected Daoist ideas and responded to post-Buddhist transformations of key categories of Chinese thought in a manner that anticipates many solutions characteristic of Neo-Confucian lixue. The paper, published in the special issue of the Religions journal, is openly available under the link.

W listopadowym numerze “Życia Uniwersyteckiego” ukazał się wywiad (str. 26-27), w którym dr Dawid Rogacz mówi m. in. o swoich pracach nad trzytomową historią filozofii chińskiej oraz o znaczeniu myśli chińskiej dla kultury zachodniej. Link.

The Rector of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan has appointed Dr. Dawid Rogacz as the Deputy Dean for Research and International Collaboration at the Faculty of Philosophy, effective from 1 October 2024. Dr. Rogacz will be in charge of research evaluation, research collaboration, international exchange, and doctoral research at the AMU Faculty of Philosophy.

Dr. Dawid Rogacz and Dr. Selusi Ambrogio are delighted to officially announce that the three-volume set “Chinese Philosophy and its Thinkers. From Ancient Times to the Present Day” is scheduled for publication with Bloomsbury Academic in mid-November 2024. This collective work encompasses three thousand years of Chinese thought, totalling around 1,500 pages and bringing together a team of 75 experts from four continents.

This history covers such neglected areas as ancient Chinese economic thought, ancient women thinkers, Chinese Tantric Buddhism, medieval Confucian utilitarianism, early Sino-Muslim philosophy, Chinese analytic philosophy, the philosophy of the PRC’s ethnic minorities, Chinese bioethics, and much more. In the words of one of its reviewers, it is simply “the most comprehensive work in English on the history of Chinese philosophy.”

The project has been done for three years since its commissioning, while the proper editing of received submissions has been done in only two. It followed an original design renegotiated through an in-depth conversation with the authors, resulting in a much-needed comprehensive and up-to-date history of Chinese philosophy.

Vol. I Chinese Ancient and Early Imperial Philosophy
Vol. II Chinese Imperial Philosophy After Buddhism
Vol. III Chinese Philosophy from the Eighteenth Century to the Present

The list of chapters on the collection’s website is available here.