Guest Speakers

The center invites distinguished scholars from and visiting Hong Kong to offer talks in our Guest Speakers series.

3 December 2018

 

"The Rise of China: Outline of a Philosophically Informed Interpretation "

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Professor Jiwei Ci

Professor
Department of Philosophy the University of Hong Kong

 

12 November 2018

 

"Zhang Junmai and Confucian Social Democracy"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Dr. Eric Nelson

Associate Professor
Division of Humanities
University of Science and Technology

 

29 October 2018

 

"Progressivism and Constitutionalism"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Prof. Ngoc Son Bui

Assistant Professor
Faculty of Law
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

8 October 2018

 

"Deliberative Citizenship: A Critical Reappraisal"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Prof. William Smith

Assistant Professor
Department of Government and Public Administration
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

31 January 2018

 

"Diversity and Sagehood in Zhuangist Ethics"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Frank Saunders Jr.

PhD Candidate
Department of Philosophy
University of Hong Kong

 

15 December 2017

 

"Blindness To Suffering: Rethinking The Origins of Genocidal Practices"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


James Glass

Professor
Department of Government and Politics
University of Maryland

 

12 October 2017

 

"American Confucianism: Possible but Improbable"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Sam Crane

W. Van Alan Clark '41 Third Century Professor in the Social Sciences
Williams College

 

9 October 2017

 

"To Be More Fully Human: Freire and Confucius"

The corresponding paper is available here.

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Charlene Tan

Associate Professor
the National institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University

 

21 September 2017

 

"Confucianism, Perfectionism, and Liberal Society "

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Franz Mang

Lecturer
Department of Politics and Public Administration
University of Hong Kong

 

7 June 2017

 

"Accounts of Abdication in Early China"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Andrej Fech

Instructor
Southern University of Science and Technology of China

 

1 June 2017

 

"Virtue, Skill, and the Moral Psychology of Civility"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Jonathan Jacobs

Professor and Chair
Department of Philosophy
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
City University of New York

 

10 April 2017

 

"The Goodness in Human Nature: Debates and New Perspectives on Mencian Theory"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Xiaogan Liu

Professor
Department of Philosophy
Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

27 March 2017

 

"The Problem of Political Order in Classical Confucian Thought"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Loubna El Amine

Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
USA

 

14 November 2016

 

"A Confucian Critique of Family-based Ethics"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


Kam-por Yu

Director
General Education Center
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

 

12 October 2016

 

"Place without Borders: Progressivism of Place"

Venue: MMW-4433 (CEACOP Conference Room)


JeeLoo Liu

Professor
Department of Philosophy
California State University, Fullerton

 

2 June 2016

 

"Getting Published by an Academic Press"

Time: 11:00

Venue: AC1-B7516 (POL Multi-purpose Room)


Robert Dreesen

Senior Editor
Cambridge University Press

 

27 October 2015

 

"The Sage and the People, The Confucian Revival in China "

Time: 16:00

Venue: Meeting Room 2-130, To Yuen Building


Sébastien Billioud

Professor and Head
Department of East Asian Studies
University Paris-Diderot

 

13 May 2015

 

"Varieties of Knowing in Neo-Confucianism"

Time: 16:00

Venue: Conference Room 1, To Yuen Building


Stephen C. Angle

Professor of Philosophy
Chair of the College of East Asian Studies
Wesleyan University

 

8 May 2015

 

"Dignity in Work and the Challenges of Asian "Productivist" Welfare Models"

Time: 16:00

Venue: Conference Room 2, To Yuen Building


Dr. Yvonne Chiu

Assistant Professor
Department of Politics & Public Administration
The University of Hong Kong

 

12 February 2015

 

"Han Fei's Close Encounters with Dao Constitutionalism"

Time: 10:00-12:00

Venue: Conference Room 2, To Yuen Building


Dr. Mateusz Stępień

Associate Professor
Department of Sociology of Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration
Jagiellonian University
Cracow, Poland

 

2 December 2014

 

"A Processual Perspective on the Human individual"

Time: 12:00-14:00

Venue: Conference Room 2, To Yuen Building


Professor John Dupré

Professor of Philosophy of Science the University of Exeter
Director of the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences (Egenis)
the University of Exeter

 

4 September 2014

 

"How Confucian is the 'Confucian Revival' in China?"

Time: 16:00-17:30

Venue: Conference Room 2, To Yuen Building


Henrique Schneider

Independent Scholar

 

23 May 2014

 

"A Neglected Aspect of Empathy: Learning from Wang Yangming"

Time: 16:00-17:30

Venue: Conference Room 1, To Yuen Building


Professor Yong Huang

Professor
Department of Philosophy
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

 

15 April 2014

 

"Yan Fu: Between Tradition and Modernity"

Time: 16:00-17:30

Venue: Conference Room 1, To Yuen Building


Professor Kirill Thompson

Professor
Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
National Taiwan University

 

25 November 2013

 

"Reason, Feeling and Ethics in the Thought of Mencius and Xunzi"

Time: 16:00-17:30

Venue: Conference Room 1, To Yuen Building


Professor Torbjörn Lodén

羅多弼

Professor of Chinese Language and Culture at Stockholm University
Director of Stockholm Confucius Institute
2013 Visiting Professor at City University of Hong Kong

 

11 November 2013

 

Confucian Perfectionism: A Political Philosophy for Modern Times

Time: 16:00-17:30

Venue: Conference Room 1, To Yuen Building

Seminar Flyer


Professor Joseph Chan

陳祖為

Professor
Department of Politics and Public Administration
The University of Hong Kong

 

10 June 2013

 

Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism


Professor Roger Ames

安樂哲

Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Hawai'i