ONGOING SYMPOSIUM SERIES
Meditative Humanities Symposium Series
Meditative Humanities Symposium Series
The Meditative Humanities Symposium Series is an ongoing cross-disciplinary scholarly platform. Each edition selects different questions and research fields, inviting humanists, educators, and contemplative practitioners to ask how meditation enters reading, interpretation, historical understanding, philosophical reflection, artistic practice, and public response.
The series remains concerned with how inquirers are formed and transformed in reciprocal movement with texts, materials, other beings, institutions, and the world. Edition themes may develop, test, revise, or challenge the methods and claims of Meditative Humanities—without requiring a single theory, tradition, or practice form.
THEMATIC FIELDS
Series themes
These themes form the series’ open research range. Each edition selects one or more for deeper work, according to contemporary questions and conditions of collaboration.
AI, epistemic agency, and human formation
How AI enters attention, questioning, writing, and judgment—and which capacities of inquiry cannot be fully delegated.
Contemplative ecocriticism and ecological subjects
How matter, other beings, and environmental crisis challenge received understanding and participate in forming ecological subjects.
Koan, Chan studies, and subject transformation
How gong’an, Canjiu, great doubt, and teacher–student dialogue bring the questioner into the question.
Contemplative reading, literature, and art
How reading, writing, form, perception, and embodied experience change the relation between the understander and the work.
History, materials, and double accountability
How contemplative inquiry meets archival evidence, counter-evidence, and material resistance—returning transformed understanding to history and the contemporary world for testing.
East Asian thought and cross-traditional comparison
How Chan, Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, and other cultivation traditions understand attention, learning, cultivation, and human formation.
Contemplative pedagogy and humanistic education
How contemplative practice enters reading, writing, curriculum, assessment, and faculty development.
Ethics, institutions, and public holding
How contemplative practice meets cultural context, power, student privacy, public responsibility, and institutional conditions.
For each edition’s theme, archive, and current information, return to the Research page.