Montreal Workshop on Chinese Philosophy and Political Thought

The conference will take place at Concordia University and McGill University. 

Program

Friday, October 23, 2026

Panel One 9:30 am 11:30 (ER-1428 Rue Guy, Montréal, QC H3H 2L9, Concordia University)

• Qianyi Qin (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Extension Is Not Simulation: on the Absence of Perspective-Taking in the Analects and Zhu Xi”
• Discussant: Yutang Jin (HKU)
• Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser), "Lǐ  and Rén in the Analects: The Social Grounds of Virtue” 
• Discussant: Jing Iris Hu (Concordia)

Panel Two 1:30-3:30 (LEACOCK 520, 855 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7, McGill)

Chair: Oran Magal (McGill)

• Emily Hill (Queen’s University), “Incentives and Investment in Chinese Stories of Rural Reform, 1950s and 1980s”
• Discussant: Kimberly Manning (Concordia)
• Yutang Jin (Hong Kong University), “Freedom under Dispute: The Postwar Liberal-Confucian Debate on the Concept of Freedom” 
• Discussant: Juan Wang (McGill)

Panel Three 3:50-5:50  (LEACOCK 520, 855 Sherbrooke St W, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7, McGill) 

Chair: Yutang Jin (HKU)

• Doil Kim (Sungkyunkwan University), “Marginalized Harmony: Reconstructing It as a Critical Concept” 
• Discussant: Guojun Wang (McGill)
• Monica Ding & Jing Iris Hu (University of Toronto and Concordia), “Can “Correcting the Names” Help LLMs Become Morally Diverse"
• Discussant: Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser)

Saturday 24th

Panel Four 9:30-11:00 (Philosophy Department, Concordia, Grey Nuns (GN) Building, 1175 St-Mathieu St., MR 13.

• Roundtable Discussion Session

Co-sponsored by: 

• Philosophy Department, Concordia University
• Canadian Journal of Philosophy
• Social Justice Centre, Concordia University
• Centre for Global Chinese Studies, McGill University