EVENTS
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UPCOMING TALKS
“Beyond East vs West: Questioning the origin story of ‘Western Philosophy’”
'When East Met West. Cross-Cultural Intellectual Networks in Antiquity Interdisciplinary Conference’, KU Leuven (invited talk) Leuven: Sept. 2025 "De mythos à logos : le mythe des origines grecques de la « philosophie occidentale » et la question de la légitimité des philosophies dites « non occidentales »"
Colloque : Nature et surnature en Grèce en Chine (‘The Natural and the Supernatural in Greece and China’ Conference), Université Libre de Bruxelles (invited talk) Brussels: 28 May 2025 “De Platon à Zhuangzi : un argument (ou deux ?) contre le monisme”
De Wulf-Mansion, Université catholique de Louvain (invited talk) Louvain-la-Neuve: 12 May 2025 "De mythos à logos : le mythe des origines grecques de la « philosophie occidentale » et la question de la légitimité des philosophies dites « non occidentales »"
De Wulf-Mansion, Université catholique de Louvain (invited talk) Louvain-la-Neuve: 8 May 2025 |
PAST TALKS
"Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism" (with a response by Taylor Pincin)
Comparative Philosophy Seminar, Columbia University (invited talk) New York: 21 February 2025 “Thales in the historiography of philosophy” (part of the panel "Thales and the Beginnings of Greek Philosophy" - with Tom Hercules Davies; with a response by Abigail Breuker)
Workshop in Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy, Columbia University (invited talk) New York: 18 February 2025 "Tyrants in Sextus Empiricus – and what to do about them"
The Cambridge & Heidelberg Workgroup on Hellenistic Philosophy, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Heidelberg: 16 Jan. 2025 “Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism”
Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Trinity College Dublin (invited talk) Dublin: 6 Nov. 2024 “De Platon à Zhuangzi : un argument (ou deux ?) contre le monisme”
Research seminar of the Centre Atlantique de Philosophie at the University of Nantes (invited talk) Nantes: 18 Oct. 2024 “Aristotle’s ambiguous attitudes to ‘Asians'"
Visions of Utopia in Ancient Greece Conference (invited talk) Oxford: 11 Sept. 2024 “Figurative language in the Zhuangzi as a strategy for expressing scepticism” (part of the panel “Figurative language in early and medieval China” – with John Donegan-Cross, Hajni Elias, Arthur Harris, Avital Rom, Roel Sterckx, & Flavia Xi Fang) European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) 25th Biennial Conference
Tallinn: 29 August 2024 “Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism”
(part of the panel "Ancient Greek and Chinese Philosophy Comparative Approaches" - with Matthew D. Walker, Nikolina Kamzola & Wenzhen Jin, &James Zainaldin) 25th World Congress of Philosophy, La Sapienza Rome: 7 August 2024 Workshop on Prof. Michael Beaney's new book on Chinese philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Invited respondent Berlin: 15 June 2024 "Plato's and Zhuangzi's shared argument against the view that only one thing exists”
Janus Project: Language and Text between Greco-Roman and East Asian Classics (invited talk) Oxford: 10 May 2024 “Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism”
Institute of Philosophy Colloquium, Bern (invited talk) Bern: 11 April 2024 “Uttering the One: A Platonic and Zhuangzian argument against monism”
Bristol Department of Philosophy Visiting Speaker Research Seminar (invited talk) Bristol: 29 Feb. 2024 “The flawed origin story of ‘Western Philosophy’”
Oxford Philosophy Society Speaker Series Oxford: 5 Feb. 2024 “Plato's and Zhuangzi's shared argument against the view that only one thing exists”
King’s College Classical Society (KCCS), King’s College, Cambridge Cambridge: 30 Jan. 2024 “Zhuangzi’s words argument against Parmenidean monism”
Ancient Philosophy Seminar, London Institute of Classical Studies (invited talk) London: 20 Nov. 2023 "Ancient philosophy within a global purview: from historiography to first-order philosophical interpretation"
Expanding the Canon Lecture (invited talk) Sheffield: 10 Nov. 2023 "Why doesn't Parmenides name a subject for noein?"
Panelist on Parmenides Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP) Annual Conference (invited talk; online) 4 Nov. 2023 "Ancient philosophy within a global purview: from historiography to first-order philosophical interpretation"
'How Legitimate is the Philosophical Canon? Concrete Applications from Greek and Chinese Philosophies' conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (invited talk) Thessaloniki: 30 Oct. 2023 "Zhuangzi's words argument against monism"
Varieties of Ineffability in Ancient Philosophy (conference; online) 19 Sept. 2023 "What to do about evil rulers? Zhuangzi on the possibility of dissent"
'Patterns of Evil in Greece and China' conference - jointly hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Patras & the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies (invited talk) Patras: 9 July 2023 "Zhuangzi’s Sceptical Challenge to Numerical Monism"
Daoism, Psychology and Psychotheraphy: Exploring Heart, Mind and Body (conference) Leeds Beckett: 9 June 2023 "The origin story of 'Western Philosophy'"
Questioning ‘Western Philosophy’: Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Challenges (conference) Oxford: 29 April 2023 "New ways of knowing ancient philosophy: a case study in cross-cultural epistemology"
(part of the panel "Of Knowledge and Ignorance: new ways of knowing the history of philosophy from cross-cultural, comparative, and connected perspectives" - with Tom Hercules Davies, Jonathan Egid, and Josh Platzky Miller) British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference Aberdeen: 15 April 2023 'East Asian philosophies' panellist
oxford public philosophy 'turn 3' journal launch, co-hosted with Oxford Philosophy Society Oxford: 27 Jan. 2023 “Assuming Parmenides argued for numerical monism, what follows?”
Ancient Philosophy Triangle Graduate Colloquium Cambridge: 18 Nov. 2022 “Zhuangzi on 'happy fish' and the limits of human knowledge”
University of Victoria, British Columbia (invited talk; online) 15 Nov. 2022 “Zhuangzi’s Challenge to Numerical Monism”
British & Irish Posgraduate Philosophy Association Regional Conference on the History of Hindu, South-Asian and Chinese Philosophy King’s College London: 24 Sept. 2022 "Parmenides and the centred view"
Southern Association for Ancient Philosophy (invited talk) Cambridge: 13 Sept. 2022 "Assuming Parmenides argued for numerical monism, what follows?”
Seventh Conference of the International Association for Presocratic Studies European Cultural Centre of Delphi: 27 June - 1 July 2022 "Questioning ‘Western Philosophy’: Of Origin Myths and Hermetic Histories”
Presented with Josh Platzky Miller Nanyang Technological University Philosophy Seminar (invited talk; online) Singapore; 17 June 2022 "Parmenides and the Centred View"
New Trends in the Study of Eleatism (invited talk) St Andrews: 9 - 10 June 2022 "The Origin Myth of 'Western Philosophy'" (part of the "Questioning 'Western' Philosophy" symposium - with Lucy Allais, Josh Platzky Miller, and Christoph Schuringa)
British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference Edinburgh: 21-23 April 2022 “Zhuangzi's Challenge to Parmenidean Monism"
One-Many Relations in Chinese Philosophy Workshop (online) Hong Kong/Oxford: 6 Nov. 2021 Chinese Philosophy Reading Group, University of Warwick (invited talk; online) Warwick: 22 Nov. 2021 "The mythos-logos narrative of 'Western Philosophy' and the legitimacy of 'non-Western' philosophical traditions"
To be presented with Josh Platzky Miller Philosophical rationalities in Ancient Greece (and beyond) (online) Sichuan: 13 Nov. 2021 "The myth of 'Western Philosophy': A Longer History of Interculturality"
Presented with Josh Platzky Miller Interculturality and Ancestrality Conference, 2nd International Congress of Intercultural Philosophy (online) 16 October 2021 "The Centred View - A New Epistemological Reading of Parmenides' Sphere Analogy"
'VOID' Early Greek Philosophy Workshop (online) Kent: 6 September 2021 "Laozi Through the Lens of the White Rose"
The White Rose and the Uses of Culture Colloquium (invited talk; online) Oxford: 7 May 2021 "The Centred View: A New Epistemological Reading of Parmenides’ Sphere Analogy"
Workshop in Ancient Philosophy (online) Oxford: 29 April 2021 "Is There Such a Thing as 'Western Philosophy'?"
Presented with Josh Platzky Miller New College of the Humanities Seminar (invited talk; online) London: 21 Oct. 2020 British Postgraduate Philosophy Association Annual Conference, 'Radical Philosophy' (online) Manchester: 27 Nov. 2020 "'Mythos vs Logos': A Modern Myth? On what the distinction assumes about early Greek philosophy (and so-called 'Western Philosophy')"
DPhil Seminar Oxford: 3 Nov. 2020 “On the Very Idea of Chinese Philosophy” (invited talk)
Chinese Philosophy in the Curriculum – Challenges and Prospects (Workshop) Oxford: 5 Nov. 2019 “The Past, Present, and Future of Intercultural Philosophy i n the Light of Hegel’s Comparative Engagement with Greek and Chinese Thought” (via Skype)
Interculturality and the Future of Philosophy Conference, 1st International Congress of Intercultural Philosophy São Paulo: 29 Oct. 2019 “The Narrowing of the “Canon” of Philosophy and Hegel’s Conflicted Appraisal of the Laozi”
Beyond the Canon: Unexplored Topics and Forgotten Thinkers (OZSW Autumn School) Tilburg: 25 Oct. 2019 “Why Human Subjectivity is a Bit Fishy”
International Society for Chinese Philosophy (Conference) Bern: 3 July 2019 “Zhuangzi and the Limits of Human Knowledge” (Awarded 3rd Student Essay Prize)
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy (Conference) Bath Spa: 18 June 2019 “The Paradoxical Localization of Philosophy and Hegel’s Paradoxical Engagement
with Chinese Philosophy” MAP Bristol Conference Bristol: 7 June 2019 Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference Warwick: 27 June 2019 "The Case of Greece" (invited talk)
From Myth to Metaphysics: The Emergence of Ancient Philosophy in Greece, India, Egypt and China (Symposium) Oxford: 14 Feb. 2019 |
EVENTS ORGANIZED
British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference: Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy
Co-organized with Dr Julia Borcherding, Prof. Angela Breitenbach, Dr Sophia Connell & Lia Nordmann Cambridge: 3-5 April 2025 Funded by the British Society for the History of Philosophy “Thinking about Emotions Across Classical Traditions” Panel, with talks by Dr Curie Virág & Dr Jingyi Jenny Zhao
Peterhouse Theory Group Cambridge: 18 March 2025 “The European Dream” Panel, with talks by Ambassador João Vale de Almeida & Dr Johann Go
Peterhouse Theory Group Cambridge: 25 Feb. 2025 “Women Philosophers since the 19th century – in Cambridge and beyond” Panel, with talks by Dr Sophia Connell & Dr Daisy Dixon
Peterhouse Theory Group Cambridge: 6 Feb. 2025 “Arguments with Silence: Methodology for the study of ancient women philosophers” – a talk by Prof. Dorota Dutsch
Peterhouse Theory Group Cambridge: 21 Nov. 2024 “From Aethiopia to Abyssinia and back: Europe's Imagined Ethiopias” Panel, with talks by Dr Elena Giusti & Dr Jonathan Egid
Peterhouse Theory Group Cambridge: 14 Nov. 2024 “Revisiting Maria von Herbert’s challenge to Kant” Panel, with talks by Prof. Richard Holton & Prof. Rae Langton
Peterhouse Theory Group Cambridge: 24 Oct. 2024 “How the dream of Longtermism begets a nightmare” – a talk by Dr Max Khan Hayward, Peterhouse Theory Group
Cambridge: 30 Nov. 2023 “Conjuncted in Dreams: Medieval Islamicate Psychology” – a talk by Dr Suf Amichay, Peterhouse Theory Group
Cambridge: 9 Nov. 2023 Ancient Philosophy and Science Beyond Borders (Conference)
Co-organized with Dr Arthur Harris Cambridge: 14-15 March 2024 Funded by the British Society for the History of Philosophy; the Cambridge Classics Faculty; and the Cambridge History and Philosophy of Science Department. Varieties of Ineffability in Ancient Philosophy (Conference)
Co-organized with Prof. Ursula Coope, Prof. Nilanjan Das, and Dr Shaul Tor Online: 18-21 Sept. 2023 "Nathan Carlig on the new Empedocles fragment" (Talk)
Co-organizer Funded by KCL and the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy KCL: 26 May 2023 Questioning 'Western Philosophy': Philosophical, Historical, and Historiographical Challenges (Conference)
Co-organized with Dr Josh Platzky Miller, Dr Sihao Chew, Dr Jonathan Egid, alicehank winham, and Dr Dmitri Levitin Oxford: 28-30 April 2023 Funded by the Mind Association; the Aristotelian Society; the British Society for the History of Philosophy; the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy; the UK Kant Society; All Souls College, Oxford; Worcester College, Oxford; St Catherine's College, Oxford; the Oxford Centre for Early Modern Studies; the Oxford Centre for Global History; the Oxford Centre for European History; the Maison française d'Oxford; the London Arts and Humanities Partnership; the University of the Free State, South Africa; and NTU Singapore. In Search of Zera Yacob (Conference)
Co-organized with Dr Jonathan Egid, Dr Johann Go, and Dr Justin Holder Oxford: 29 April-1 May 2022 Funded by the Royal Institute of Philosophy; the Aristotelian Society; the British Society for the History of Philosophy; the Mind Association; the Worcester College Hinton Clarendon Fellowship; and the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy 'Ancient Women Philosophers: Key Findings and Methodological Considerations' - a Talk by Katharine O'Reilly & Caterina Pellò (online)
Co-organizer Oxford: 2 December 2021 Queerness Beyond Borders (Conference; online)
Co-organized with Dr Robin Brons, Dr Johann Go, and Dr Matteo Parisi Oxford: 7 - 9 July 2021 Funded by the Mind Association; Worcester College; and the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute New Perspectives on Mesopotamian and Egyptian Cosmogonies (workshop; online)
Co-organizer Oxford: 26 March 2021 Reconsidering Early Chinese Conceptions of Transcendence (Seminar; online)
Co-organizer Oxford: 7 Dec. 2020 Pluralising Philosophy: Learning from the Case of Chinese Thought (Symposium)
Co-organized with Dr Sihao Chew, Dr Maya Krishnan, and Dr Chong-Ming Lim Oxford: 23 June 2019 Funded by All Souls College; the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy; Nanyang Technological University of Singapore; and the Aristotelian Society Curing Through Questioning: Philosophy as Therapy Across Ancient Traditions and Modern Applications (Conference)
Co-organized with Dr Robin Brons, Dr Sihao Chew, Sybilla Pereira, and Dr Alesia Preite Oxford: 1-2 May 2019 Funded by the Worcester College Hinton Clarendon Fellowship; the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy; the Oxford Faculty of Oriental Studies; the Marc Sanders Foundation; Minorities and Philosophy; the Balliol College Interdisciplinary Institute; the Mind Association; and All Souls College Grounding: Notions of Essence and Dependence Across Traditions (Panel)
Lead organizer Oxford: 4 May 2018 Descartes and Beyond: Leibniz, Stahl and Amo on the Mind-Body Problem (Panel)
Co-organizer Oxford: 9 March 2018 Aphorisms and Fragments: A Metaphilosophical Discussion on Form (Panel)
Co-organizer Cambridge: 18 Oct. 2017 |
READING GROUPS
Zhuangzi on Happy Fish: Chinese Philosophy Reading Group (convenor), Minorities and Philosophy Cambridge
Cambridge: 14 March 2025 Reconsidering the Daoist Tradition: Metaphysics and Cosmology in Early Excavated and Transmitted Texts
Co-organizer Oxford: Oct. - Dec. 2020 |
SOCIETIES, ADVISORY BOARDS, & COMMITTEES
American Philosophical Association
Member of the American Philosophical Association’s Committee on International Cooperation 2024- Peterhouse Theory Group
Lead organizer & Senior Treasurer 2023 - 2025 Oxford University Belgo-Luxembourgish Society (OUBLS)
Executive Officer (2017 - 2018) President (2018 - 2019) Cambridge University Belgian Society (CUBS)
President 2016 - 2017 |