Presentations

Presentations

2023

Plenary Speaker, “Nothing Rather than Something: A Zhuangzian Re-Appraisal of Nihilism,” 45th PHAVISMINDA Conference, Philippines, 27-29 November 2023

Plenary Speaker, “Freedom In: A Daoist Response to Isaiah Berlin” in Resilience: A Workshop for Women Doing Philosophy, Philippines, hosted by University of the Philippines Los Baños, 2023

2021

Invited Speaker “The Sameness and Difference of One’s Nature (xing 性) in Guo Xiang “ One-Many Relations in Chinese Philosophy, held by Philiminality Oxford, November, 2021

Invited Speaker, “The Evils of Truth and Knowledge: A Post-colonial Approach to Other-ing in Philosophical Discourse,” BTG Webinar 6: Tremulous Speech: Other-ed and Silenced Subjects Talking Back to Philosophy, held by Women Doing Philosophy, 28 August 2021 (over Zoom)

Invited Speaker, “The Cultured Man as the Noble Man: Jun zi 君子 as a Man of Li 禮 in Lun yu 論語,” Ethics 1 Guest Lectures: “Asian Ethical Frameworks,” held by the College of Social Sciences, University of the Philippines, Baguio, 10 May 2021 (over Zoom)

2019

“Epistemic Injustice and the Ontology of Self-So: A Study of Guo Xiang’s Ontological Oblivion in Relation to Miranda Fricker’s Notion of ‘Epistemic Injustice,’” 21st International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, held at the University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, July, 2019
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“The Sameness and Difference of One’s Nature (性xing) in Guo Xiang,” Singapore-Hong Kong-Macau Symposium on Chinese Philosophy 2019, held at the National University of Singapore, Singapore, May, 2019
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2018

“Li as Ziran in the Analects: Spontaneity in the Ritualized Self,” 24th World Congress of Philosophy: Learning to be Human, held at Peking University, Beijing, China, August, 2018
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2017

“Freedom Beyond Realism and Idealism: Re-visiting Guo Xiang’s Ontology of Zide 自得” Creating a Philosophy for the Future, held at the University of Macau, Macau, China, November 2017.
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“Zhuangzi Beyond the Postmodern: The Necessity of Contingency in Guo Xiang’s Inclusive Account of Causality and Freedom” 2nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy, held at the University of Basel, Switzerland, September 2017.
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Presenter, “The Inclusive Humanism of Wang Bi: Unity of Dao道 as Wu 無” 20th International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, held at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. July 2017
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2015

“On the Notion of Li 禮 and Jun zi 君子,” 27th Confucian Night, held at Oasis Events Place, San Juan, Philippines, Septermber 2015
Invited Speaker

“The Yi Jing and the Harmonious Cultivation Of Man: A re-reading of the metaphysics of the cosmos and man’s place in it from the Wang Bi/Han Kang Bo Commentaries on the Xi Ci,” 19th International Conference of the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, held at the Chinese University of Hongkong, HK, PRC. July 2015
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2014

“At the Intersection of the Mystical Yin 陰 and the Practical Yang 陽:  The Indivisibility of Dao 道 in Sun Zi 孫子 and Lao Zi 老子in light of the Yi Jing 易經,” Existence through the Lens of Oriental Philosophy, in celebration of World Philosophy Day, held at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, November 2014
Invited Speaker

2013

“The Kristevan Fantasy and Imaginary in the Society of the Spectacle: Thought Specular from Cinema to Virtual Reality,” “Philosophy is Not Dead”: Philosophy on Pop Culture, held at the University of Santo Tomas, by the Concilium Philosiphiae (the official undergraduate council of the UST Philosophy Dept.), December 2013
Invited Speaker

“The Kristevan Aesthetic of the Sublime: Lapses of Meaning from the Meaningless Abject,” 6th DLSU Arts Congress, held at the De La Salle University, February 2013
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2012

Protest and the Public Sphere, held at the Ateneo de Manila University, by the Philosophy Circle of the Philippines, August 2012
Student Panelist/Reactor

2011

“Understanding Ramanuja’s Concept of the Brahman-Atman Relationship Through St. Thomas Aquinas’ Analogous Being,” Kapihan 2011: On Thomistic Philosophy , held at the University of Santo Tomas, February 2011
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