NTU-UGA Workshop on Buddhist and Analytic Approaches to Memory 2
(National Taiwan University)

Schedule:

08/01/2026

  • 09:00-09:20. Registration.
  • 09:20-09:30. Opening.
  • 09:30-10:20. An analytic perspective on Keng's Buddhist model of episodic memory. Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).
  • 10:20-10:30. Break.
  • 10:30-11:20. Memories of fiction, mindshaping, and the porous self. Ying-Tung Lin (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University).
  • 11:20-12:10. Self-apprehension in episodic memory: Husserlian and Buddhist approaches in comparison. Francesca Righetti (Université Grenoble Alpes).
  • 12:10-13:40. Lunch.
  • 13:40-14:30. Mental time travel: Perceiving the present as being past? Nihel Jhou (National Taiwan University).
  • 14:30-15:20. Dignāga-style memory argument meets multisensory transparency. Tony Cheng (Waseda University).
  • 15:20-15:30. Break.
  • 15:30-16:20. Can a simulationist be a causalist about the metasemantics of episodic remembering? Jakub Rudnicki (Université Grenoble Alpes).
  • 16:20-17:10. Reduced boundary extension in observer-perspective memory compared to field-perspective memory. Brown Hsieh (National Taiwan University).
  • 18:00. Dinner.

09/01/2026

  • 09:00-09:50. Memory and the sense of us: A Buddhist-inspired account of the collective phenomenology of remembering the shared past. Chris McCarroll (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University) and Shin Sakuragi (Shibaura Institute of Technology).
  • 09:50-10:40. A new Galilean physicalist account of ineffability II. Lok-Chi Chan (National Taiwan University).
  • 10:40-10:50. Break.
  • 10:50-11:40. The object of grief in cultural loss. Jelena Markovic (Université Grenoble Alpes).
  • 11:40-12:30. On Wittgenstein on "Vorstellung" and memory. Christian Wenzel (National Taiwan University).
  • 12:30-14:00. Lunch.
  • 14:00-14:50. Episodic memory and the sense of self: A constructivist approach. Ching Keng (National Taiwan University).
  • 14:50-15:40. Recollection without a subject: The Buddhist causal theory of memory. Kaspars Eihmanis (University of Latvia).
  • 15:40-15:50. Break.
  • 15:50-16:40. The phenomenological sense of identity in episodic remembering is compatible with the Buddhist ontology of aggregates. Denis Perrin (Université Grenoble Alpes).
  • 16:40-17:00. Break.
  • 17:00-18:00. General discussion.
  • 18:00. Dinner.

Organizers: Ching Keng (National Taiwan University), Kourken Michaelian (Université Grenoble Alpes).