Date: 22 November
Organizers: AAR (American Academy of Religion) and SACP (Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy)
Theme: “Climate Change”
Part I: Panikkarian Cosmotheanthropic Vision and Climate Change
Diane Pendola, Skyline, and Yakshi Vadeboncoeur, Skyline, Praxis: Panikkarian Earth Liturgy;
Andrew Thrasher, Birmingham Univ., The Contemporary Western Christian Cosmology of Creation on Climate Change;
Peter C. Phan, Georgetown Univ., Asian Christianity on Climate Change: Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Asian Catholic Churches;
Abdulaziz Sachedina, George Mason Univ. Islam on Climate Change;
Young-Chan Ro, George Mason Univ., Confucianism on Climate Change;
Michiko Yusa, WWU, East Asian Nature ‘Mysticism’ on Climate Change.
Part II: Remembering Gerry J. Larson
Milena Carrara, Vivarium, Prof. Larson and Panikkar at UCSB, Some Letter Exchanges;
Lara Mitias, Antioch College, Dualisms East and West: Resolving Cartesian Problems with the Insights of Sankhya-Yoga;
Geoffrey Ashton, Univ. of San Francisco, Recuperating the Life of Nature in the Samkhya karika: A Reconsideration of Gerald Larson’s Theory of Prakrti through the Lens of Goethe’s Organics.