Gongsheng/Kyōsei and Convivialism: Forging a Planetary Philosophy and Ethics?

On Friday, March 29th, and Saturday, March 30th, 2024, a two-day symposium titled “Gongsheng/Kyōsei and Convivialism: Forging a Planetary Philosophy and Ethics?” will be held by the Berggruen China Center and co-organized by EAA at the Komaba Campus.

The symposium will be held in English, Chinese, Japanese, with simultaneous interpretation provided.

Organized by Berggruen Research Center at Peking University
Co-organized by East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts at the University of Tokyo (EAA)

List of Speakers

– Roger AMES, Humanities Chair Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Peking University
– Frank ADLOFF, Professor of Sociology, University of Hamburg
– BAIK Youngseo, Emeritus Professor, Department of History, Yonsei University
– Nicolas BERGGRUEN, Chairman and Founder, Berggruen Institute
– Alain CAILLÉ, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Paris-Ouest-Nanterre University
– Markus GABRIEL, Chair in Epistemology, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy and Director of Center for Science and Thought, University of Bonn
– GONG Jun, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Sun Yat-sen University
– HOSHINO Futoshi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
– ISHII Kosei, Emeritus Professor, Komazawa University
– ISHII Tsuyoshi, Professor at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Director of East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo
– KOBAYASHI Yasuo, Emeritus Professor, The University of Tokyo
– LAI Shi-San, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University
– MAFUNE Fumitaka, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences & Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo
– Mark MCCONAGHY, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University
– NAKAJIMA Takahiro, Professor and Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
– REN Xiao, Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University
– SONG Bing, Senior Vice President and Director of Berggruen China Center, Berggruen Institute
– TIAN Xinyuan, Senior Program Coordinator, Berggruen Institute China Center
– ZHAN Yiwen, Lecturer, School of Philosophy, Beijing Normal University

Workshop Schedule

9:00-9:20 Opening Remarks
MAFUNE Fumitaka, Nicolas BERGGRUEN

9:20–9:30 Project Background
SONG Bing

9:30–10:50 Keynote Speech I: Our Kyōsei: What the Personal Works
NAKAJIMA Takahiro

10:50–12:30 Panel Discussion I: Exploring the Philosophical Foundations of Gongsheng/Kyōsei and Convivialism
Moderator: ISHII Tsuyoshi
Understanding the Limits of the Symbiosis: MIYAZAWA Kenji’s Theory of Symbiosis as a Clue, ISHII Kosei
The Concept of Gongsheng in Daoist Philosophy: Examples from Laozi and Zhuangzi, GONG Jun
Overcoming Naturalism: Conviviality and Symbiosis, Frank ADLOFF

13:30–14:50 Keynote Speech II: Convivialism (and Symbiosis) in the Face of Struggles for Recognition
Alain CAILLÉ

14:50–17:00 Panel Discussion II: Disasters and Revivals
Moderator: GONG Jun
Daoist Technological Critique and Gongsheng Transformation: From “Dominating Over Things by the Self” (以我宰物) to “Matching Tian with Tian” (以天合天), LAI Shi-San
Co-Becoming Humanities on the Way to Alternative Civilization(s): Navigating the Age of the Great Transition through Knowledge Restructuring, BAIK Youngseo
The Logos for Human Co-Becoming—Toward the “Post-2050” Era, ISHII Tsuyoshi
The Parasitic: Co-Existence/Para-Existence, HOSHINO Futoshi

09:00–10:20 Keynote Speech III: Human Co-Becoming, Anthropological Diversity, and the Age of a New Enlightenment, Markus GABRIEL

10:20–12:30 Panel Discussion III: Gongsheng/Kyōsei and Convivialism: A Philosophy Shared by Mankind in the Planetary Era?
Moderator: TIAN Xinyuan
The Confucian Values of Relational Equity and an Achieved Diversity: From Convivialism to Conviviality, Roger T. AMES
LIANG Shuming’s Planetary Philosophy: From Capital to the Unselfish Heart, Mark MCCONAGHY
Reality in Co-Becoming: On the Metaphysics of Interperspectivality, ZHAN Yiwen
The Gongsheng Theory of International Relations, REN Xiao

14:00–17:00 Past to Future: Reflecting and Envisioning Together
Moderator: ISHII Tsuyoshi, SONG Bing
One Singular Moment over the North-Pole Area: My Hope for Philosophia, Like a Very Far Star, KOBAYASHI Yasuo
Further Discussion and Future Plans: All Participants