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)

For more information, see Flyer

Program:

5 MARCH (DAY 1)
Venue: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy

13:00 - 13:15 Welcome words & Introduction (Norihito Nakamura)

13:15 - 14:00 Lecture 1: Elements of pragmatism in Schelling’s construction of nature 1799/1800
― Alexander Schubert (UWE Bristol)

14:00 - 14:15 Coffee break

14:15 - 15:00 Lecture 2: The time of crisis: Schelling’s scientific racism between history and nature
― Ana María Guzmán Olmos (RWTH Aachen University)

15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break

15:15 - 16:00 Lecture 3: New Mythological Poems from Schelling’s Perspective on Dante and Faust
― Sakura Yahata (Hitotsubashi University)

16:00 - 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 - 17:45 Session 1: Schelling and East Asia

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

― Zhouwei Jiang (University of Tübingen)

17:45 - Closing

6 MARCH (DAY 2)
Venue: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy

10:00 - 10:45 Lecture 4: Only the Darkest Night Changes into Day: On Hegel’s “Critique” of Schelling in Phenomenology of Spirit
― Edward Kwok (DePaul University)

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:45 Lecture 5: Reconsidering Hegel’s and Late Schelling’s Beginnings through Early Schelling
― Ying Xue (University of Warwick)

11:45 - 13:15 Lunch break

13:15 - 14:15 Keynote: Schelling’s Tautegorical Turn and Contemporary Anthropology
― Prof. Gregory Scott Moss (the Chinese University of Hong Kong)

14:15 - 14:30 Coffee break

14:30 - 15:15 Lecture 6: The Legacy of Bayle’s Spinoza in Schelling’s Freiheitsschrift
― Alexander Legebeke (Radboud University)

15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 17:00 Session 2: Schelling’s “Philosophy of Mythology”

The Philosophy of Myth: On the Systematic Significance of Schelling’s Deities of Samothrace for Schelling’s Late Philosophy
― Alexander Bilda (University of Freiburg)

Myth and the Productive Imagination: Kiyoshi Miki (1897–1945) in Confrontation with Schelling
― Prof. Tanehisa Otabe (Open University of Japan, Japan Academy)

17:00 - 17:15 Closing & Meeting for the next conference

7 MARCH (DAY 3)
Excursion (TBA)

Venue: Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy (Academia Sinica)

More details on access to the venue can be found here.

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)