**The 2nd conference of the East Asia Schelling-Network (EASN) will be held
5-6 March 2026, at Academia Sinica in Taipei (Taiwan)**

Philosophy of Mythology in Schelling

Keynote Speakers:

Alexander Bilda (University of Freiburg)
Prof. Gregory Scott Moss (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Prof. Tanehisa Otabe (Open University of Japan, Japan Academy)

Program:

5 MARCH (DAY 1)
Venue: TBA

9:45 - 10:00 Welcome words & Introduction (Norihito Nakamura)

10:00 - 10:45 Lecture 1: Der Tod im Umlauf zwischen Geist und Natur: Schellings späte Todeskonzeption
― Kuangrong Wang (Universität Bonn/National University of Singapore)

10:45 - 10:55 Coffee break

10:55 - 11:40 Lecture 2: Elements of pragmatism in Schelling’s construction of nature 1799/1800
― Alexander Schubert (UWE Bristol)

11:40 - 12:55 Lunch break

12:55 - 13:40 Lecture 3: The time of crisis: Schelling’s scientific racism between history and nature
― Ana María Guzmán Olmos (RWTH Aachen University)

13:40 - 13:50 Coffee break

13:50 - 14:35 Lecture 4: Completeness and Receptivity: On the Paradoxical Structure of the Intelligible Act
― Hao Shen (Independent researcher)

14:35 - 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 - 15:30 Lecture 5: Schelling in Soviet Clothes: The Early Chinese-Language Reception
― Daniel Badenhorst (Independent Scholar)

15:30 - 15:40 Coffee break

15:40 - 17:10 Session 1: Schelling and East Asia

The Locus of Freedom: Schelling, Tanabe Hajime, and Mou Zongsan
― Minseok Kwak (Kyoto University)

A System of “Every Word a Gem”: Xiong Shili's Confucian Systematization and Schelling's “System of Freedom”

― Zhouwei Jiang (University of Tübingen)

17:10 - 17:20 Coffee break

17:20 - 18:20 Keynote 1: (TBA)

18:20 - Closing

6 MARCH (DAY 2)
Venue: TBA

10:00 - 10:45 Lecture 6: Dionysos gegen die Moderne: Das Dionysische bei Schelling und Nietzsche
― Yi-Ping Xia (University of Freiburg)

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:15 Panel discussion: Schelling vs. Hegel

Only the Darkest Night Changes into Day: On Hegel’s “Critique” of Schelling in Phenomenology of Spirit
― Edward Kwok (DePaul University)

Reconsidering Hegel’s and Late Schelling’s Beginnings through Early Schelling
― Ying Xue (University of Warwick)

12:15 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 14:30 Keynote 2
― Prof. Gregory Scott Moss (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

14:30 - 14:45 Coffee break

14:45 - 15:30 Lecture 7: Disrupting God’s Harmony: Bayle, Schelling, and the Genesis of Freedom
― Alexander Legebeke (Radboud University)

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 - 16:30 Lecture 8: New Mythological Poems from Schelling’s Perspective on Dante and Faust
― Sakura Yahata (Hitotsubashi University)

16:30 - 16:45 Coffee break

16:45 - 18:15 Session 2: Schelling’s “Philosophy of Mythology”
― Alexander Bilda (University of Freiburg)
― Prof. Tanehisa Otabe (Open University of Japan, Japan Academy)

18:15 - 18:30 Closing & Meeting for the next conference

7 MARCH (DAY 3)
Excursion (TBA)

Organization:
Prof. Kuan-Min Huang (Academia Sinica, National Chengchi University)

Committee:
Arata Nakashima / Asst. Prof. Fernando Wirtz / Dr. Norihito Nakamura

(E-Mail: aratanakashima1121@gmail.com)

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