The year 2014 marks the 10th anniversary of the International Conference of P.E.A.CE—Phenomenology for East-Asian CirclE—inaugurated in 2004 at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). After landed on the soils of the other four cultural and geographical constituents of this East-Asian academic circle—Japan (Tokyo), South Korea (Seoul), Taiwan (Kaohsiung) and China (Beijing), the organization of the 6th International Conference of P.E.A.CE will come back to Hong Kong again in 2014.

The year 2014 will also be the 8th anniversary of SPA—Symposia Phaenomenologica Asiatica, Master Class in Phenomenology for East-Asian Scholars—organized by the Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, CUHK, as an event in coordination with P.E.A.CE to promote teaching and research in phenomenological philosophy in East Asia.

We are thus extremely delighted to announce the organization of the 6th International Conference of P.E.A.CE cum the 8th SPA on May 20–23, 2014 on the campus of CUHK to continue this decade-long fruitful cooperative relationship among East-Asian phenomenologists from Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, with the support of their American and European colleagues. Other than conference presentation, SPA lectures and round tables will be organized. Phenomenologists of different generations will be invited to take part in this cross-cultural intellectual gathering around the theme "Kairos and Topos: Phenomenology and the Celebration of Thinking"

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