Gerald Cipriani 

Cert, CertEd, PgCRM, MA, PhD


Gerald Cipriani has taught philosophy for many years in Europe and East Asia, most recently at National University of Ireland Galway. Other positions include Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of Philosophy of National Central University, Taiwan, Professor at Kyushu University, Japan, Visiting Scholar at the University of Helsinki, Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University of Arts, British Academy Fellow at Kyoto University, and Senior Lecturer at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. He is also Honorary Professor to the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, based at the D.S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow). [ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT SUSPENDED]. Invited lectures at a number of institutions including The University of Tokyo, Peking University, Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, and University of London. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Western aesthetics with full scholarship in Leeds (LMU) and studied East Asian philosophy and the Kyoto School in London (SOAS) and Kyoto (KyotoU). He was accredited for directing doctoral supervisory teams in 2004. He is the recipient of several study and research awards, including from National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan, the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, The British Academy, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust. He has been for several years consultant, editor, and reviewer for various academic publishers as well as research institutions and funding agencies such as the French National Research Agency (Paris), the National Fund for Scientific Research (Brussels), and the National Science Centre (Krakow). He is the chair of the International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue and Founding Editor of peer reviewed journals Culture and Dialogue (Brill) and Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge). He has edited around thirty titles in philosophy and the arts and published numerous texts in the fields. His current research focuses on contemporary interpretive aesthetics, relational phenomenology of culture, and dialogical philosophy East-West. Latest book publication: Depois de Nishida: O Vazio Dialógico e a Cosmovisão Histórica (After Nishida: Dialogical Emptiness and the Historical Worldview, trans. A. Bueno, 2023).

  Ne marche pas devant moi, je ne suivrai peut-être pas. 

       Ne marche pas derrière moi, je ne te guiderai peut-être pas. 

       Marche juste à côté de moi et sois mon ami.

                                                                                                

                                                                                                Albert Camus

 

 

                        Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. 

                        Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. 

                        Just walk beside me and be my friend.


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Current Board Memberships:

TEACHING

Scope

Philosophy of culture, aesthetics, art theory, ethical phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, dialogical philosophy East-West

Courses (1996-present):  Click on links for details

 RESEARCH

Scope


(a) Dialogical philosophy of culture East-West: aesthetics, environment

(b) Contemporary European interpretive philosophy: aesthetics, art  

(c) Relational phenomenology of culture: Gabriel Marcel, French Personalism

(d) The Kyôto School: Nishida Kitarô, aesthetics, ethics 

(e) Theories of visual arts and urban design

My research activities and interests have always focused in one way or another on the 'fundamental of relation in cultural formations'. The point of departure was 20th century European interpretive philosophies of art & culture (Dufrenne, Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard, Deleuze). The project then developed into a dialogical study of aspects of Western relational phenomenologies (Marcel, French Personalism) and the philosophies of the Kyôto School (Nishida, aesthetics, ethics) for a better understanding of the formation of meaning in cultural experience. I have since explored cross-cultural avenues to comprehend cultural formations in the context of globalisation with, for example, projects on the art and ethics of the dialogue, interpretive and East-Asian environmental philosophy and aesthetics, and, more recently, cultural mesology.                                                                                  

Research Awards, Fundings & Honoraria


2022-23 - Research Project Grant, Reference: NSTC 111-2811-H-008-012 / NSTC 110-2410-H-008-048-MY3. Awarding body: National Science and Technology Council, Taipei, Taiwan. 

2021-22 - Grant (Invited Speaker), EU-China Cultural Misunderstandings, Peking University, China. Awarding bodies: European Union, Institut international Transcultura (Paris) & Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

2019 - Athena SWAN Research Capacity Building Grant. Awarding body: National University of Ireland Galway

2019 - Travel Grant & Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Questions Concerning Aesthetics, Art and Culture, Fine Arts Academy. Awarding body: Hunan Normal University, PR China

2019 - Travel Funding & Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: Peking University, PR China

2018 - Travel Funding (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea

2018 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker), Interpreting Chinese Philosophical Texts—Theories, Case Studies and Praxis (解讀中國哲學文本—理論、個案與實踐), Awarding body: Tunghai University, Taiwan  

2017 - Travel Funding & Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 - Honorarium (Conference Guest Speaker), Symposium: “Archives, Documents / Reproduction, Display” – Dialogues and Creation of Art (藝術對話與創意之「 檔案 、文獻/重現、展示」學術研討會, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

2017 - Honorarium (Invited Speaker): Awarding body: Tunghai University, Taiwan 

2017 - Travel Funding & Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: The University of Tokyo, Japan

2017 - Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: Tunghai University, Taiwan

2016 - Millennium Research Fund, Culture Within Dialogue East-West: Awarding body: National University of Ireland Galway 

2016 - Honorarium (Congress Roundtable Organiser, Chair & Speaker), 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul, Korea. Awarding body: International Association for Aesthetics

2015 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker & Session Chair). Awarding body: Wuhan University, PR China

2015 - Travel Funding & Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: The University of Tokyo, Japan 

2015 - Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2015 - Honorarium (Conference Keynote Speaker), Art and Education. Awarding body: National University of Tainan, Taiwan

2015 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker & Session Chair), Environmental Aesthetics and Beautifying China. Awarding body: Wuhan University, PR China

2012-2015 - Research Grant (Wangheng Chen, Feng Su, Gerald Cipriani), Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing, PR China

2012 - Conference Funding (Guest Speaker), International Forum - Confucianism and Ecological Civilization (国际儒学论坛 儒学与生态文明). Awarding body: Renmin University of China, Beijing, P.R. China

2014 - Travel Funding & Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: The University of Tokyo, Japan

2012 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker), World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations, 10th Anniversary Session, Rhodes, Greece. Awarding body: World Public Forum

2010 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker - cancelled for professional reasons), Colloque International: Image, Phantasia et Création Artistique – Enjeux Phénoménologiques et Esthétiques, University of Gabès, Tunisia. Awarding body: Ambassade de France en Tunisie

2009 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker), International Forum on Environmental Aesthetics & Annual Meeting of Asian Art Institute: City Public Art Research. Awarding body: Xiangfan University, Hubei, PR China

2008 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker), 6th International Conference of the Asian Society of Art, Taipei, Taiwan. Awarding body: Asian Society of Art

2008 - Travel Funding & Honorarium (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan

2007 - Travel Funding (Invited Speaker). Awarding body: The University of Tokyo, Japan

2006 - Research Grant, The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, London, UK

2005 - Research Grant, The British Academy, London, UK

2004-2005 - Research Grant, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), Tokyo, Japan

2004 - Travel Grant (Conference Guest Speaker), Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan

1993-1996 - Doctoral Research Scholarship, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

1993 - Grant, The Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust, London, UK


Publications


Books:

2024 - Zen Buddhism, Personalism and the Ethics of Globalisation, London: Routledge (ISBN: 978-11-38-22177-2). [Forthcoming]

2023 - Depois de Nishida: O Vazio Dialógico e a Cosmovisão Histórica [After Nishida: Dialogical Emptiness and the Historical Worldview], trans. André Bueno, Rio de Janeiro: Orientalismo UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro), 103 pp. (ISBN: 978-65-00-77518-1)

2015 - Chinese Environmental Aesthetics (edited, Wangheng Chen & Feng Su), London: Routledge, 272 pp. (ISBN: 978-04-15-54017-9)  

2013 - Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening (edited, Wei Hsiu Tung), Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 207 pp. (ISBN: 978-07-39-16584-3) 


Book chapters:

2024 -《全球筑造环境时代下栖居的微光》[The Twilight of Dwelling in the Age of the Globalising Built Environment], trans. Su Feng, in Environmental Aesthetics Frontiers Series 《环境美学前沿》, ed. Wangheng Chen, Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, China.  [Forthcoming]

2024 - ‘The Interpreting Mind and Meaning-Formation: A Relational Critique of Lyotard ... and Ricœur’ in Human Minds and Cultures, ed. Sanjit Chakraborty, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland. [Forthcoming]

2024 - ‘Dialogical Philosophy and the Shaping of Thought’ in What is Comparative Philosophy?, ed. Martin Ovens, Newcastle: CSP, UK. [Forthcoming]

2023 - 'Debt, Human' (人情) and 'Happiness' (福), in Transcultural Dictionary of Misunderstandings – European and Chinese Horizons, eds. Huang Ping ((黄平),  Alain le Pichon, Tinka Reichmann, Zhao Tingyang  (赵汀阳), Paris: Cent Mille Milliards, pp. 93-99 and 228-234. 

2019 – ‘Entendendo as Formação Cultural: Sobre a Relevância da Concepção Mesológica de Amor de Nishida Kitaro’ [Understanding Cultural Formations: On the Relevance of Nishida Kitaro’s Mesological Conception of Love] trans. André Bueno, in Extremo Oriente Conectado, Rio de Janeiro: Edições Especiais Sobre Ontens, Brazil, pp. 19-40.

2019 - 《自然、文化与崇高:埃德蒙伯克环境美学思想时评》[Culture and the Sublime: On Edmund Burke’s Environmental Aesthetics], trans. Liu Sijie (刘思捷), in Environmental Aesthetics Frontiers Series, ed. Wangheng Chen, Wuhan: Wuhan University Press (武汉大学出版社), China. ISBN: 978-7-307-20908-4  

2018 - ‘Estética Personalista na Escola de Quioto: O Esvaziamento da Natureza Dia-Formativa da Arte’, [Personalist Aesthetics in the Kyoto School: The Emptying Dia-Formative Nature of Art], trans. André Bueno, in Diverso Orientes, Rio de Janeiro / União da Vitória: Edições Sobre Ontens, pp.39-48.

2018 -《自然的存在是自我的空虚》[The Presence of Nature Is my Own Emptiness], in《美丽中国与环境美学》[Beautifying China and Environmental Aesthetics] (北京：中国建筑工业出版社) [Beijing: China Architecture & Building Press], trans. Liu Si-jie (刘思捷), pp. 65-71

2010 - ‘Une Réflexion Dialogique entre Nishida Kitarô et Gabriel Marcel’, in Philosophes Japonais Contemporains, ed. J. Tremblay, Montréal: Presses de l'Université de Montréal, Canada, pp. 77-96.

2009 - ‘Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne, and the Basho of the Visible’, in Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism, eds. J. I. Park & G. Kopf, Lanham: Lexington Books, USA, pp. 141-154.

2005 - ‘Ethics, Art and the Formation of Meaning: From Ontology to Muology’, in International Yearbook of Aesthetics, ed. A. Haapala, International Association for Aesthetics, Vol. 9, pp.19-38.

2005 - ‘Toward an Ethical Hermeneutics for Art and its Theories’, in Philosophia, Yearbook of the Research Centre for Greek Philosophy at the Academy of Athens, No 35, Athens, Greece, pp. 22-30.

2005 - ‘Western Culture and the Possibility of a Responsible Humanism’, translated in Chinese in Beauty and the Way of Modern Life, Wuhan: Wuhan University Press, China, pp. 333-340.

2005 - ‘Art and the Paths of Interpretation’ in Art in the Making -Aesthetics, Historicity and Practice, ed. Kirsten Mey, Bern: Peter Lang AG, Switzerland, pp. 141-160.

2000 - ‘Art, Space and Time’ in Disciplines, Fields and Change in Art Education, Volume 2, Aesthetics and Art Histories, eds. Jacquie Swift & John Swift, ARTicle Press, UK, pp.11-26.


Peer review journals:

2022 – ‘How the Poem Thinks: Musical Silence and Emptitude in Christian Bobin’, in Special Issue on Art and Truth, Janus Head, Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, ed. John Pauley, Volume 20, Issue 1 (July), 5-16. (http://janushead.org/volume-20-issue-1/)

2022 – ‘Nishida and Marion on the Beautiful: Resonance and Dissonance’, in APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, Special Double Issue on Japanese Aesthetics, The American Philosophical Association, Vol. 21, Nos. 1-2 (Spring), 86-89.

2021 – ‘The Ethics of Relation in the New Modernity of Digital Art and Culture’, in International Journal of Cultural Research, St Petersburg, Russia, No. 3, 44, 6-17. 

2020 - ‘The Self-Overcoming of (Western) Postmodern Aesthetics’, in ESPES The Slovak Journal f Aesthetics, ‘Aesthetic Crossroads’ Vol. 9, No. 1 (June), 16-25. 

2019 - Emmanuel Alloa, Resistance of the Sensible World: An Introduction to Merleau-Ponty’ (Fordham University Press, 2017), Book Review, in Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol.50, 2 (2019).

2018 – ‘The Phenomenon of Beauty’, English translation of Le phénomène de beauté by Jean-Luc Marion, in Special Issue on French Aesthetics, Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, London: Routledge, Volume 5.2, 85-93.

2017 - ‘Once more unto the breach: On Meaning and Structure’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Vol. 42, 35-45.

2016 – ‘The Visible that Means and the Boundless Universe: An Ethical Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience'’, in JTLA, Journal of the Faculty of Letters of The University of Tokyo, Vol. 40, 1-10. 

2016 - ‘The Touch of Meaning: Researching Art Between Text and Texture’, Janus Head – Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Volume 15, Issue 2, 157-166.

2015 - 'Wisdom in Interpretation or The Otherness of Subversion and Relativism', in Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Volume XXXVIII, Nos. 1-2, 77-84.

2014 – ‘Dialogue, Ethics, and the Aesthetic Worth of Life’, in JTLA Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 39, 15-24.

2014 - 'Dwelling in the Light of the Thou, Or the Art of the Opening Space', in International Journal of Cultural Research, No. 3 (16), St Petersburg, Russia, 74-78.

2011 - ‘Essay on the Phenomenology of the Visual: “Homo pictor” and Imaging Function’, English translation of 'Essai sur la phénoménologie du visuel: <<Homo pictor>> et fonction imageante' by Eliane Escoubas, in Aesthetic Pathways, Special Issue on Everyday Aesthetics, eds. A. Haapala and C. Stevens, Taipei: Airiti Press, Vol. 1, No. 2, 65-74. 

2010 - ‘Environmental Aesthetics as Creative Dialogue with Otherness’, in The Journal of Asian Arts and Aesthetics, Taipei: Airiti Press, Taiwan, Vol. 3., 59-64.

2009 - ‘The Basho of Cultural Expressions: Nihility or Nothingness?’, in The Journal of Asian Art & Aesthetics, Taipei: Airiti Press, Taiwan, Vol. 2, 57-62.

2008 - ‘The Wrong Form of Emptiness in Global Design’ in The Journal of Asian Arts and Aesthetics, Zhonghe: Ariti Press Scholarly Publishing, Taiwan, Vol.1, 79-84.

2007 - ‘Cultural Experience as Concrete Self-awakening’, in JTLA Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 31, 55-68.

2006 - ‘On British Visual Education’, coauthored with Monica Keating, trans. T. Sugiyama in Bijutsu Forum 21 (美術フォ―ラム 21), Vol. 13, Kyoto: Kyoto University, Japan, 113-116.

2005 - ‘Du Sens de l’Herméneutique’, in Les Cahiers de Tunisie, Revue de Sciences Humaines, ed. Taoufik Cherif, Tunis: Université de Tunis, Tome LVIII, No. 193-194, 49-72.

2005 - ‘Beyond the Institutional Site and the Ethos of the Void: The Relevance of Gabriel Marcel’s Creative Fidelity’, in the Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol. 4, Nos 2 & 3, Ed. C. Smith, Bristol: Intellect, United Kingdom, 167-175.

2004 - 'From Goshu’s Disgust to an Aesthetics of Hope and Availability’, in JTLA Journal of the Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 29,  41-47.

2004 - ‘The Calm Movement of Phúsis Revealed – Representation and Presencing in the Still Life’, in Seijo Journal of Aesthetics and Art History - Bigaku Bijyutushi Ronsyuu, Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan, Vol. 16, 13-34.

2004 - 'The Art of Renewal and Consideration: Marcelian Reflections', in Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia, ed.  J. J. Vila-Chã, Universidade Católica de Braga, Portugal, Tomo 60, Fasc. 1, 167-175.

2003 - ‘El Significado en la Forma’, in Diálogo Filosófico, trans. L. Rodríguez Duplá, No.56, ed. Maria Jesus Ferrero, Madrid, Spain, 229-246.

2003 - ‘Noetic Validity in Aesthetic Interpretation’, in Quest: An African Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XVII, No. 1-2, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 91-106.

2002 - ‘The Deconstructed Deconstructing Subject: Postmodern Ethos or Incarnate Fidelity?’, in Synthesis Philosophica, International Edition of Filozofska Istrazivanja, Vol. 17, fasc. 2, University of Zagreb, Croatia, 317-325.

2002 - ‘The Moment of Meaningful Form in Art: Expression or Presentation?’, in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, T. 46, Nos 1-2, Académie Roumaine, Bucharest, Romania, 237-244.

2001 - Reflections on the Nature of the Figural in Art’, in Philosophical Review, ed. Yih-jing Lin, No 24, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 279-301.

2001 - ‘Art, Theory and Experience’ in Philosophical Enquiry: International Quaterly ed. D. Z. Andriopoulos, Vol XXII, No 4, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 53-70.

2001 - Cynthia Freeland, But Is It Art? (Oxford University Press, 2001), Book Review, in International Journal of Art & Design Education, Vol. 20, No.2, 244-246.

2000 - ‘Hermeneutics and Art’ in Philosophical Enquiry: International Quaterly, (Ed. D. Z. Andriopoulos), Vol XXI, No 1-2, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 85-101. 

1999 - ‘Meaning in Form’ in Ideas y Valores: Revista Colombiana de Filosofía, No 111, Universidad Nacional Bogotá, Colombia,  3-18. 


Editorials:

2023 - 'Community, Selfhood and Dia-Formation', in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 11.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 169-172.

2023 – ‘On the Circumstantial Value of the Dialogue’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 11.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 1-4.

2022 – ‘Crossing the Bridge: A Cultural Experience’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 10.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 99-101.

2022 – ‘Culture and Dialogue: The Tenth Anniversary’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 10.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, pp. 1-4.

2021 - ‘French Thought in Dialogue’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 9.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 147-149. 

2021 - ‘Music in Time, Music in Space’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 9.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1-2. 

2020 - 'Of the Philosophies of Africa – Theory and Practice', with Guest Editor Felix O. Olatunji, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 8.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1-4.

2019 - ‘The Culture of Sovereignty – and War', in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 7.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 113-116.

2019 - ‘Dialogue and Creativity’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 7.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1-3.

2018 - 'Dialogue and Globalisation’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 6.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 119-125. 

2018 - 'Eastern and Western Thought in Dialogue', in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 6.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1-8.

2017 - 'History and Dialogue’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 5.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill., 155-156. 

2017 - 'Culture and the Environment’ (bilingual English-Japanese), with Guest Co-Editor Kinya Nishi,  in Culture and Dialogue, Vol.5.1, 1-4. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1-4.

2016 - 'Interpretation and Dialogue’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 4.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 223-224.

2016 - 'Science, Culture and Dialogue’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol.4:1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 1-2.

2015 - 'Editorial', in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (co-authored with A. Haapala) Vol.2.2, 1-2. London: Routledge.

2015 - 'Editorial', in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (co-authored with A. Haapala) Vol.2.1, 1-2. London: Bloomsbury.

2014 - 'Editorial', in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (co-authored with A. Haapala) Vol. 1.2, 1-2. London: Bloomsbury.

2014 - 'Editorial', in Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (co-authored with A. Haapala) Vol. 1.1, 1-2. London: Bloomsbury.

2013 - 'Identity and Dialogue', in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 3.2, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-3.

2013 - 'Religion and Dialogue’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 3.1, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-2

2012 - 'Editorial', in Aesthetic Pathways (co-authored with A. Haapala) Vol. 2.2, Taipei: Airiti Press, 1-2.

2012 - 'Politics, Culture and Dialogue', in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 2.2, Taipei: Airiti Press, 1-3.

2012 - 'Dialogue and Art', in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 2.1, 1-3. Taipei: Airiti Press, 1-3.

2011 - 'Philosophy and Dialogue’, in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 1.2, Taipei: Airiti Press, 1-3.

2011 - 'Editorial', in Aesthetic Pathways (co-authored with A. Haapala) Vol. 2.1, Taipei: Airiti Press, 1-2.

2011 - 'Culture and Dialogue: Inaugural Issue', in Culture and Dialogue, Vol. 1.1, Taipei: Airiti Press, 1-3.

2010 - 'Editorial', in Aesthetic Pathways (co-authored with A. Haapala) Vol.1.1, Taipei: Airiti Press, 1-3.


Edited volumes:

2023 - Dia-Morphic Studies and Philosophy, C&D Vol. 11.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 143 pp.

2023 - On Dialogical Themes: Education, Communication, Tradition, and Method, C&D Vol. 11.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 168 pp.

2022 - Crosscultural Encounters, C&D Vol. 10.2, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 111 pp.

2022 - The Arts and Cultures of the Dialogue, C&D Vol. 10.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 98 pp.

2021 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 8, Issue 2, November, 77 pp.

2021 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 8, Issue 1, May, 84 pp.

2021 – French Thought in Dialogue, C&D Vol. 9.2, ed. G. Cipriani, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 166 pp.

2021 – Music, Culture and Dialogue, C&D Vol. 9.1, ed. G. Cipriani, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 148 pp.

2020 - African Thought and Dialogue, Guest Editor Felix O. Olatunji, C&D Vol. 8.1, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 181 pp.

2020 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 7, Issue 1, May, 87 pp.

2019 - Culture, War and Sovereignty, C&D Vol. 7.2, ed. G. Cipriani, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 137 pp.

2019 - Dialogue and Creativity, C&D Vol. 7.1, ed. G. Cipriani, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 111 pp.

2019 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 6, Issue 1, May, 93 pp.

2018 - Dialogue and Globalisation, C&D Vol. 6.2, ed. G.Cipriani, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 138 pp. 

2018 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 5, Issue 1, May, 78 pp.

2018 - Culture Within Dialogue East-West, C&D Vol. 6.1, ed. G. Cipriani, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 118 pp. 

2017 – History and Dialogue, C&D Vol.5.2, ed. G. Cipriani, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 100 pp.

2017 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 4, Issue 1, May, 91 pp.  

2017 - Culture and the Environment, C&D Vol.5.1, eds. G. Cipriani & K. Nishi, bilingual special issue English/Japanese, Leiden/Boston: Brill, 154 pp.

2016 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 3, Issue 1, May, 79 pp.  

2016 - Interpretation and Dialogue, C&D Vol.4.2, ed. G. Cipriani, Leiden/Boston : Brill, 129 pp. 

2016 - Science, Culture and Dialogue, C&D Vol. 4.1, Guest Editor Martin Ovens, Leiden/Boston : Brill, 221 pp.

2015 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Routledge, Volume 2, Issue 2, November, 117 pp.  

2015 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Bloomsbury, Volume 2, Issue 1, May, 125 pp.  

2014 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Bloomsbury, Volume 1, Issue 2, November, 112 pp.

2014 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, London: Bloomsbury, Volume 1, Issue 1, May, 124 pp.

2013 – Identity and Dialogue, C&D Vol. 3.2, ed. G. Cipriani, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 110 pp.   

2013 – Religion and Dialogue, C&D Vol. 3.1, Guest Editor Cosimo Zene, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 180 pp.  

2012 - Aesthetic Pathways, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, Taipei: Airiti Press, Vol. 2, No. 2, 117 pp.   

2012 - Politics, Culture and Dialogue, C&D Vol. 2.2, ed. G. Cipriani, Taipei: Airiti Press, 130 pp.   

2012 - Dialogue and Art, C&D Vol. 2.1, ed. G. Cipriani, Taipei: Airiti Press, 135 pp.

2011 - Aesthetic Pathways, eds. G. Cipriani & A. Haapala, Taipei: Airiti Press, Vol. 2, No. 1, 113 pp.

2011 – Philosophy and Dialogue, C&D Vol.1.2, ed. G. Cipriani, Taipei: Airiti Press, 125 pp.

2011 - Culture and Dialogue, C&D 1.1, ed. G. Cipriani, Taipei: Airiti Press, 150 pp.

2010 - Aesthetic Pathways, Inaugural Issue, eds. G.Cipriani & A.Haapala, Taipei: Airiti Press, Vol.1,No.1,98 pp.


Proceedings and other public platforms:

2022 – ‘debt, human / dette personnelle / 人情’; ‘happiness / bonheur / 福’, in 'Documents', EU-China Forum on Cultural Misunderstandings 2022, funded by the European Union. (https://forum.centmillemilliards.com/documents/)

2021 - ‘Pándēmos! All Under the Same Heaven!’, UniTwin, UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue (Russian Research Institute for Cultural and Natural Heritage, Moscow), 12 January.

 (http://unitwinidiu.org/pandemos-all-under-the-same-heaven/).

2020 - 'Malebranche, Nicolas: Dialogue between a Christian Philosopher and a Chinese Philosopher on the Existence and Nature of God', in ODIP: The Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy, Editor-in Chief Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 

(https://7301ff38-bee9-425c-8054-2a1a22a332e8.filesusr.com/ugd/c49976_dadbafe2eda94f9488076d3696fd7f24.pdf).

2020 - 'Todorov, Tzvetan [and Intercultural Philosophy]', in ODIP: The Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy, Editor-in Chief Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 

(https://7301ff38-bee9-425c-8054-2a1a22a332e8.filesusr.com/ugd/c49976_43d1eccce0034097a1ead793101b1e64.pdf)

2020- 'Ricoeur, Paul: Oneself as Another', in ODIP: The Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy, Editor-in Chief Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 

(https://7301ff38-bee9-425c-8054-2a1a22a332e8.filesusr.com/ugd/c49976_edafe49f5e9349b5a108aed2a37d79fd.pdf)

2020 - 'Marcel, Gabriel: Creative Fidelity', in ODIP: The Online Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy, Editor-in Chief Thorsten Botz-Bornstein 

(https://7301ff38-bee9-425c-8054-2a1a22a332e8.filesusr.com/ugd/c49976_80a9654e8d7c4e1285e26de022239bc1.pdf)

2019 - Interview by China Review Studio, Beijing, 9 April (http://www.iqiyi.com/w_19s97lhn61.html). In connection with

Conference on Dialogue of Asian Civilizations, Beijing, China (http://english.2019cdac.com)

2018 - ‘Estética Personalista na Escola de Quioto: O Esvaziamento da Natureza Dia-Formativa da Arte’, trans. André Bueno, 2o Simpósio Eletrônico Internacional de História Oriental, State University of Paraná, Brazil, 1-5 October. (http://simporiente2018.blogspot.com/p/gerald-cipriani.html)

2017 - ‘The Way of Aesthetic Phenomena: No Delphic World to Unfasten’, in Proceedings of the 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Korea.

2013 - آلبر كامو يا وجدان آزادى اخالقى  [Albert Camus, or the conscience of ethical freedom], trans. in Farsi by Bita Aziminejadan in Iranian national daily newspaper Shargh, Special Issue on Albert Camus, 10 Nov. 2013 (Persian calendar: 19 Aban 1392) (www.sharghdaily.ir)

2013 - در باب عنیت گفتگوی فرهنگی   [On the concreteness of cultural dialogue], trans. in Farsi by Bita Aziminejadan in Iranian national daily newspaper Bahar, Special Issue on Dialogue Among Civilizations, 21 Sept. 2013 (Persian calendar: 30 Shahrivar 1392)  

2012 - ‘Cultural Experience after Metaphysics: On the Thoughts of Nishida Kitarô’, Proceedings of Metaphysics 2006: Third World Conference (Fondazione Idente di Studi e di Ricerca, Rome, Italy), pp.423-438.

2012 - ‘On the Concreteness of Cultural Dialogue’ in World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations, Moscow, Russia. (http://wpfdc.org/blog/politics/18387-on-the-concreteness-of-cultural-dialogue)

2009  -  ‘The Unseen as a Gift of Art’, in Visual Arts 2009, Tainan: National University of Tainan, Taiwan, pp. 101-106.

2008 - ‘Being Global and Unavailability: Lessons from Ethical Phenomenology’ / ‘The Chiasmic Nature of Research in Art: Theory soku (is/is not) Making’ / ‘Merleau-Ponty’s Eye on Art within Nothingness’ / ‘Art without Place and Today’s Techno-thought after Heidegger’ / ‘Buddhist Ethical Self-Awakening and Christian Kenotic Thought: State of Affairs in Nascent Global Culture’ / ‘The Art of Education beyond Self-expression and Imitation’, in Taiwan in the Thread of Asia Studies, ed. J.J. Gong, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan.  

2007 - ‘Hope and Despair in Postmodernity’, in the Proceedings of the 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, Vol. 7, Philosophy of Culture(s), ed. V. Cauchy, Ankara: Philosophical Society of Turkey, pp. 15-19.

2006 - ‘Education as Mutual Formation in Self-expression’, Proceedings of the 13th Conference of Korean-Japanese Aesthetic Studies Society - Art Education and Human Cultivation, Yeungnam University, Gyongsan, Korea, pp. 28-42.

2003 - ‘Philosophy between Image and Text: Reflections in Parallel to the Work of Photographer Deborah Baker’ in the The Great Book of Aesthetics - Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Aesthetics, The University of Tokyo, Japan, CD ROM.

2001 - Foreword of catalogue for exhibition by artist Audrey Searle Complicity and Simplexity, Queen’s Hall, Narberth, UK, June.

1995 - Entry in Artistes de la Gironde, Dictionnaire des Peintres et Sculpteurs, Bordeaux: Regards, France, 58.  

1985-88 - Entries in French newspapers: Sud-Ouest (Sept. 1985 & Oct. 1987); Le Républicain (Nov. 1988).


Research Essays:

2008 - 'The Fundamental of Relation in Cultural Formations: From Western Ethical Phenomenology to the Kyôto School' (28,000 words, MPhil/PhD Upgrade), SOAS, London, United Kingdom.

1998 - 'On the Figural in Painting - From Objectifying Approach to Experiencing the Event, from Realism and Subjectivism to Hermeneutical Phenomenology' (117,000 words, PhD), LMU, Leeds, United Kingdom.

1992 - 'A Phenomenological Perspective on the Modernist/Postmodernist Debate with Particular Reference to the Arts' (21,000 words, MA), UWIC, Cardiff, United Kingdom.


Forthcoming (from Masters & PhD materials, research fellowships, conference papers):

The Available Self - Marcelian Reflections on Culture (authored text, 150 pp.). 

Diapositions – Philosophy and Art (authored text, 200 pp.). 

Modernism and After from the Standpoint of Phenomenology (authored text, 100 pp.). 

Saying and Showing (authored text/photographs, 200 pp.).

Poexis (authored poetry, 250 pp).


Unpublished essays (unedited):

‘Figure and Structure: Ferdinand de Saussure Reconsidered’ (25 pp.).

‘The Figural as Critical Object’ (15 pp.). 

‘Meaning in Retrospect: On Paul Ricoeur and the Question of Desire’ (15 pp.). 

‘Collecting Sense with Jean-François Lyotard and Norman Bryson: History or Actuality?’ (20 pp.). 

‘On the Dialectics of Sense: Hegel in Question’ (15 pp.). 

‘Complementary Difference in Disruption: Object, Subject and Experience’ (15 pp.). 

‘The Reconstructive Nature of the Event of Meaning’ (20 pp.). 

‘Phenomenology and Art: In the Wake of Henri Maldiney’ (20 pp.). 

‘A Posteriori: The Metaphysical Function of the Experience of Meaning’ (15 pp.). 


Academic reports:

2016 - Millennium Research Fund (National University of Ireland, Galway):‘Culture Within Dialogue East-West’.

2006 - The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (London, UK): 'The Experience of Meaning along Nishida Kitarô’s Five Axes: Place, Dialectics, Negation, Self-awakening and Love'. 

2005 - The British Academy (London, UK): 'Beyond Modern Metaphysics and Postmodern Relativism: The Experience of Meaning in the Philosophies of Nishida Kitarô and Gabriel Marcel (Part 2)'.

2005 - The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Tokyo, Japan): 'Beyond Modern Metaphysics and Postmodern Relativism: The Experience of Meaning in the Philosophies of Nishida Kitarô and Gabriel Marcel (Part 1)'.


Conferences, plenary sessions and lectures:

2023 - 'Depois de Nishida: O Vazio Dialógico e a Cosmovisão Histórica', Opening Lecture (written presentation), trans. André Bueno, 70 Simpósio Eletrônico Internacional Estudos Orientais [7th International Electronic Sympsium of Oriental Studies], State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 7  August.

2023 – 'After Nishida: Dialogical Emptiness and the Historical Worldview' (Keynote Speaker), International Graduate Philosophy Conference, University of Galway, Ireland, 17 April.

2022 – 'Cross-Cultural Philosophy East-West: Encounters, Flaws, and Fascinations' (Keynote Speaker), Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan, 13 December.

2022 – 'Contemporary Western Aesthetics and the Primacy of Creative Fidelity' (Keynote Speaker), Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan, 05 December.

2022 – ‘Post-Modernising the Arts: The Phantasma of Tradition’ (Invited Speaker), 2022 International Conference on the Modernization of Traditional Arts, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 13-14 October.

2022 –  ‘Relational Description as Pivotal to Dialogical Translation: The Instance of Western Look at Chinese Thought’, Chinese Cultures, Translation and Contemporaneity: Literature – Cinema - Performance - Visual Arts, Tsinghua University (Beijing) & University of New South Wales (Sydney), 20-22 May. (Online)

2022 – ‘Happiness / bonheur / 福’, Second EU-China Forum on Cultural Misunderstandings (Invited Speaker), European Union, Institut international Transcultura (Paris) & Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), Peking University, China, 25-29 April. (Online)

2022 – ‘Environmental Aesthetics’ (Keynote Speaker), Research in Art & Design, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 14 January. (Online)

2021 – ‘Debt of gratitude / dette personnelle / 人情’, EU-China Forum on Cultural Misunderstandings (Invited Speaker), European Union, Institut international Transcultura (Paris) & Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing), Peking University, China, 2-5 November (Online)

2021 – ‘Aesthetic Function and Environment’ (Honored Guest Lecture), ARCADE 2021 – The International Symposium on Arts, Craft, and Design, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand, 25 October. (Online)

2021 – ‘Edifying Pathway: Imitation, Criticality, Creation’ (Guest Speaker), International Youth Day, Department of Education, The Women University Multan, Pakistan, 12 August (Online)

2020 – ‘The Ethics of Relation in the New Modernity of Digital Art and Culture’ (Keynote Speaker), 2020 NKUST International Conference on Cultural and Creative Industries, National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, 20 November.

2020 – ‘The Changing Virtues of the Hosting Language: Notes on the Philosophy of Translation’, Values and Identities seminar series, School of History and Philosophy, National University of Ireland Galway, 2 March.

2019 – ‘Questions Concerning Aesthetics, Art and Culture’ (Invited Speaker), lecture series, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China, 21 October-1 November.

2019 – ‘Understanding Cultural Formations: On the Relevance of Nishida Kitaro’s Mesological Conception of Love’ (Guest Speaker), 3o Simpósio Eletrônico Internacional de História Oriental, State University of Paraná, Brazil, 5-9 August. 

2019 – ‘The Moving Mind-Art: A Poststructuralist Account’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Peking University, China, 10 May.

2019 – ‘Merleau-Ponty is Dead, Mon œil ! Phenomenology and the Invisible Field of Perception in Art’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Peking University, China, 10 May.

2019 – ‘Availability, Creativity, Appeal: Art and Ethical Phenomenology’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Peking University, China, 9 April.

2019 – ‘Interpretation and Art: A Case Study in Hermeneutic Phenomenology’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Peking University, China, 8 April.

2018 – ‘I Meet, Therefore We Are: A Critical Reflection on the Cultural Ideologies of Sameness and Alterity’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, 14 November.

2018 – Philosophie française (Vladimir Jankélévitch) : ‘Exprimer l’inexprimable à l’infini’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 22 October.

2018 – Philosophie française (Albert Camus) : ‘Création et révolution’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 12 October.

2018 – ‘Personalist Aesthetics in the Kyoto School: The Emptying Dia-Formative Nature of Art’ (Keynote Speaker) [Estética Personalista na Escola de Quioto: O Esvaziamento da Natureza Dia-Formativa da Arte], trans. André Bueno, 2o Simpósio Eletrônico Internacional de História Oriental, State University of Paraná, Brazil, 1-5 October. 

2018 – Philosophie française (Simone Weil) : ‘Tableau théorique d’une société libre’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 5 October. 

2018 – Philosophie française (Henri Bergson) : ‘L’évolution de la vie’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1 October.

2018 – ‘Interpreting Otherness in Translation: What Transpires Through the Looking Glass?’ (Guest Speaker), Interpreting Chinese Philosophical Texts—Theories, Case Studies and Praxis (解讀中國哲學文本—理論、個案與實踐), Depatement of Philosophy, Tunghai University, Taiwan, 20-21 April. 

2018 – ‘Poststructuralist Flaws Or Felicitous Interpretation? Lyotard and Ricoeur on the Question of Desire’ (Guest Speaker), Symposium on “Phenomenology and (Post-)Structuralism”, Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 13-14 April.

2017 – ‘Lectures philosophiques: Simone Weil, Réflexions sur les causes de la liberté et l’oppression sociale (1934)’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 18 December.

2017 – ‘Lectures philosophiques: Gabriel Marcel, La Dignité humaine et ses assises existentielles (1964)’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 15 December.

2017 – ‘Lectures philosophiques: Henri Bergson, L’Évolution créatrice (1907)’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 8 December.

2017 – ‘Lectures philosophiques: Vladimir Jankélévitch, La Musique et l’ineffable (1961)’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 1 December.

2017 – ‘Edmund Burke, Culture and the Sublime Object of Ethical Consciousness’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, 28 November.

2017 – ‘What to Do with the Truths in Art? On Derrida and Zeami and the Questions of Display and Imitation’ (Guest Speaker), Academic Symposium, Institute of Art Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 25 November.

2017 – ‘Lectures philosophiques: Albert Camus, L’Homme révolté (1951)’ (Workshop), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 24 November.

2017 – ‘Culture and the Rupture Concerning Technology: An Ethical Response to Martin Heidegger’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan, 22 November.

2017 – ‘The Self-Overcoming of European Aesthetics’ (Guest Speaker, video conference), Coordinates of Aesthetics, Art and Culture III, University of Prešov & Slovak Society for Aesthetics, Slovakia, 8-9 November.

2017 – ‘Once more unto the breach - On Meaning and Structure’ (Invited Speaker), Institute of Aesthetics, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 6 October.

2017 –  ‘Le vide et la réponse dans la formation culturelle: notes sur Lévinas et le faux-lieu de la transcendance’ (Guest Speaker and Session Chair), Levinas and East Asian Philosophy Conference, Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan, 22-23 September.

2017 - ‘How (Not) to Think of Cultural Identity, Or, Cross-Cultural Philosophy as Antidote to Shallowness, Flaws and Philosophical Correctness’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Tunghai University, Taiwan, 4 May.

2016 - ‘Culture Within Dialogue East-West’, International Conference on Cross-Cultural Philosophy (Organizer & Chair), sponsored by International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue (IRGCD) and funded by the Millenium Research Fund (NUIG), National University of Ireland, 11 November.

2016 - ‘The Way of Aesthetic Phenomena: No Delphic World to Unfasten’, Aesthetics and Phenomenology Roundtable (Co-Chair), 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Korea.

2016 - ‘Dialogue and The Aesthetics of Globalization’, Culture, Dialogue, and Globalization Roundtable (Chair), co-sponsored by UNESCO and the International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue (IRGCD), 20th International Congress of Aesthetics, Seoul National University, Korea.

2016 - ‘After Personalism and Zen Buddhism: Cultural Formations and Self-Awakening’ (Invited Speaker), The Irish Institute for Japanese Studies Conference, University College Cork, Ireland, 22 April.

2015 – ‘Opening Speech: In Dialogue - Culture and the Environment’, International Forum (Convener, International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue), Etchigo-Tsumari Art Triennale, Niigata, Japan, 30 July-1 August.

2015 -  ‘The Visible that Means and The Boundless Universe: An Ethical Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience’ (Invited Speaker), Institute of Aesthetics, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 19 June.

2015 - 'The Available Self and the Dialogical Condition of Culture' (Invited Speaker), Institute of Philosophy, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 8 June.

2015 – ‘Aesthetics East/West: A Comparative Critique’ (Invited Speaker), Institute of Art Studies, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, 2 June.

2015 – ‘Creativity and Aesthetic Education: A Western Perspective’, Art and Education (international conference, Keynote Speaker), National University of Tainan, Taiwan, 23-24 May.

2015 - ‘The Presence of Nature is My Own Emptiness – Revisiting Marcel Conche and the Concrete Significance of Self- Awakening’, Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China (Guest Speaker), Wuhan University, China, 20-23 May.

2015 - ‘Introduction to Wangheng Chen’s Chinese Environmental Aesthetics’, Special Lecture, Environmental Aesthetics and Beautiful China (international conference, Guest Speaker), Wuhan University, China, 20-23 May.

2014 – ‘From Modernism to Globalization: Pathway to Dialogical Aesthetics’, Philosophy Seminar Series, Department of Philosophy, NUI Galway, Ireland, 22 September.

2014 – 'Art for Cultural Awakening', co-presentation with Wei Hsiu Tung, Association for Asian Studies Conference, National University of Singapore, 17 July.

2014 – 'Dialogue, Ethics and The Aesthetic Worth of Life' (Invited Speaker), Institute of Aesthetics, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 4 July.

2013 - 'After Jacques Maritain: Reflections on the Creative Self and the Social World' (Invited Speaker), Department of Religion & Social Work, Tainan Theological College & Seminary, Taiwan, 16 December.

2013 - ‘Art for Social Change and Cultural Awakening’ (Invited Speaker), Department of Culture and Natural Resources, National Tainan University, Taiwan, 20 November.

2013 - ‘Local Cultures and Globalization’, UNESCO Guest Speaker (video conference), International Day of Cultural Diversity, Russian Institute for Cultural Research, Saint Petersburg, Russia, 21 May.

2012 - 'We Are the Environment: For an Ethical Life Without Will to Control' (Invited Speaker), International Confucianism Forum, Renmin University of China, Beijing, P.R. China, 1-2 December.

2012 - ‘On the Concreteness of Cultural Dialogue’ (Invited Speaker), World Public Forum – Dialogue of Civilizations, 10th Anniversary Session, Rhodes, Greece, 3-8 October.

2011 - International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue, Colloquia Series, convener, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, Kyushu University, Japan, 24-25 October.

2011 - 'Dialogical Aesthetics - For an Ethics and Politics of Harmony', MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory 2011, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 31 August-2 September.

2011 - ‘Between Appeal and Response: The Expression of Cultural Formations’, (Invited Speaker), Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom, 17 March.

2010 - 'Aesthetics and Ethics', series of lectures at the Institute for Art Research, University of Helsinki, Finland, 18-29 January.

2009 - ‘The Unseen as a Gift of Art’, (Invited Speaker), 2009 Visual Art Conference, National University of Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan, 17 December.

2009 - ‘Environmental Aesthetics as Creative Dialogue with Otherness’, (Invited Speaker), International Forum on Environmental Aesthetics & Annual Meeting of Asian Art Institute: City Public Art Research, Xiangfan University, Hubei, China, 16-18 October.

2009 - ‘Art, the Western Sublime, and the Ethical Self’, (Invited Speaker), Xiangfan University, Hubei , China, 15 October.

2009 - ‘Time, Transcendence and One’s Relationship with the Other: On Emmanuel Lévinas’, (Invited Speaker), The Agathe Academe, convener: H.Y. Liu, Taipei, Taiwan, 16 March.

2009 - ‘Other Selves and the Human World: On Maurice Merleau-Ponty’, (Invited Speaker), The Agathe Academe, convener: H.Y. Liu, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 March.

2008 - ‘The Basho of Cultural Expressions: Nihility or Nothingness?’, 6th International Conference of the Asian Society of Art, (Invited Speaker), Taipei, Taiwan, 17-19 December.

2008 - ‘On the Aesthetics of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’, (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan, 9 December.

2008 - ‘Comprendre l'Art Aujourd'hui: L'Apparaître du Sens’, (Invited Speaker), College of Fine Art, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 25 November.

2008 - 'Cultural Formations within Dialogue as Basho', (Invited Speaker), Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan, 19 November.

2008 - ‘Comprendre l'Art Aujourd'hui:  L'Évènement du Sens’, (Invited Speaker), College of Fine Art, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 18 November.

2008 - ‘Comprendre l'Art Aujourd'hui: Sens et Interprétation’, (Invited Speaker), College of Fine Art, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 11 November.

2008 - ‘Comprendre l'Art Aujourd'hui: Une Question de Points de Vue’, (Invited Speaker), College of Fine Art, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, 4 November.

2008 - ‘Philosophy of Art’ (series of 12 seminars) and ‘Philosophy of Existence’ (series of 12 seminars) at The Agathe Academe, convener: H.Y. Liu, Taipei, Taiwan, 15 Oct.-16 Dec.

2008 - ‘The Creative Self in Dialogue: A Question of Mutual Responsibility and Negation’, The 5th International Conference Dialogical Self, Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, UK, 26-29 August.

2008 - ‘The Wrong Form of Emptiness in Global Design’, Cumulus Kyoto 2008 conference, Seika University, Kyoto, Japan, 29 March.

2008 -  'A Case Study in Dialogical Philosophy: Christian Socratism and Buddhist Dialectical Ethics’, What is ‘Comparative Philosohy’? colloquium, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, UK, 14-15 March.

2008 -  'Persons and Cultures: The Formation of Self-identities from the Standpoints of Ethical Judeo-Christian Phenomenology and Kyoto School Logic', BA Hons. & MA seminar, Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, 20 February.

2007 - ‘Being Global and Unavailability: Lessons from Ethical Phenomenology’, (Invited Speaker), National Sun Yat Sen University, Graduate Institute of Philosophy, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 19 November.

2007 -  ‘The Chiasmic Nature of Research in Art: Theory soku (is/is not) Making’, (Invited Speaker), National Tainan University of the Arts, Doctoral Program of Art Creation and Theory, Taiwan, 20 November.

2007 - ‘Merleau-Ponty’s Eye on Art within Nothingness’, (Invited Speaker), National Tainan University of the Arts, Doctoral Program of Art Creation and Theory, Taiwan, 20 November.

2007 - ‘Art without Place and Today’s Techno-thought after Heidegger’, (Invited Speaker), National Tainan University, Department of Fine Arts, Taiwan, 21 November.

2007 - ‘Buddhist Ethical Self-Awakening and Christian Kenotic Thought: State of Affairs in Nascent Global Culture (1)’, (Invited Guest), National Cheng-Kung University, Buddhist Research Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 21 November.

2007 - ‘Buddhist Ethical Self-Awakening and Christian Kenotic Thought: State of Affairs in Nascent Global Culture (2)’, (Invited Guest), Tzu Chi University, Graduate Program of Religion and Culture, Hualien, Taiwan, 22 November.

2007 - ‘The Art of Education beyond Self-expression and Imitation’, (Invited Speaker), National Hualien University of Education, Graduate Institute of Visual Art Education, Taiwan, 23 November.

2007 -  ‘On the Self-awakening of Culture after Nishida Kitarô’, Human Mind - Human Kind, The University of Aarhus, Denmark, 15 - 18 August.

2007 - ‘Cultural Experience as Concrete Self-awakening’, (Invited Speaker), Institute of Aesthetics, The University of Tokyo, Japan, 27 May.

2006 – ‘Representation as Background or Place for Artistic Experience? Encounter between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Nishida Kitarô’, (Invited Guest), Art and Metaphysics Conference, International University Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 18-21 May.

2005 - ‘The Integrity of the Person at the Age of Virtual Productivity’, and Chair at the International Congress of Philosophy, ‘Person and Society’, Catholic University of Portugal, Braga, Portugal, 17-19 November.

2005 - ‘Education as Mutual Formation in Self-expression’, 13th Conference of Korean-Japanese Aesthetic Studies Society, International Conference of Aesthetics in East Asia, Art Education and Human Cultivation, Yeungnam University, Gyongsan, Korea, 05-10 August.

2005 - ‘History and Innovation – The Experience of Education at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design’, (Invited Guest), Takaoka College, Toyama University, Japan, 22 July.

2005 - ‘Merleau-Ponty, Cézanne and the Basho of the Visible’, (Invited Speaker), Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan, 29 June.

2005 - ‘Grace and Trust in the Formation of the Self-identity of Absolute Contradictories: On the Relevance of the Ethical Phenomenologies of Gabriel Marcel and Nishida Kitarô’, (Invited Guest for Symposium on the Philosophy of Chiasm), 26th International Society for Philosophy and Literature Annual Conference, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 2-7 June.

2005 - ‘Self-Retraction as the Act of Seeing the Taking Place of Meaning - Between Ethics and Zen’, International Conference on Literature, Consciousness and the Arts, Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, 7-9 May.

2005 - ‘Creativity, Technology and Self-awakening toward the Other’, (Invited Speaker), Kyôto University, Center for Plurality and Science, Technology, Art; Kyoto, Japan, 23 April.

2005 - ‘Art as Expression of the Complementary Difference between Self-Identities’, (Invited Speaker), University of Hiroshima, Department of Comparative Aesthetics, Hiroshima, Japan, 10 January.

2004 - ‘Art and Theories: Around Balthus’, (Invited Speaker), Seijo University, Department of Aesthetics and Art History, Tokyo, Japan, 29 November.

2004 - ‘After the Crisis of Truths in Art, The Way to Wisdom’, 16th International Congress of Aesthetics, ‘Changes in Aesthetics’, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 18-23 July.

2004 - ‘Western Culture and the Possibility of a Responsible Humanism’, Chinese Aesthetics Society Conference, ‘Beauty and the Way of Modern Life’, Wuhan University, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan, China,14-16 May.

2004 - ‘Ethics and Values in Western Culture’, (Invited Speaker), Hubei University, Department of Philosophy, China, 17-19 May.

2004 - ‘The Catacombs of Meaning’, (Invited Speaker), West Wales School of Art, Carmarthen, United Kingdom, 21 April.

2003 - 'The Calm Movement of Phúsis Revealed - Representation and Presencing in the Still Life', (Invited Speaker), International Colloquium of Art Studies, Seijo University, Tokyo, Japan, 22-24 November.

2003 - 'Faith in the Other and the Making of Art', (Invited Speaker), Department of Aesthetics, Institute for Art Research, University of Helsinki, Finland, 24 October.

2003 - 'Hope and Despair in Postmodernity', 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-17 August.

2003 - 'The Aesthetic Author and the Paradox of the Responsibility to Disclose', 27th  International Association for Philosophy and Literature Annual Conference, Leeds University, Leeds, United Kingdom, 26-31 May.

2003 - 'Dwelling in the Light of the Thou, or the Art of the Opening Space', 2nd Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics, Association Tunisienne d'Esthétique et de Poïetique, Université de Tunis, Tunisia, 6-8 March.

2002 - 'For An Ethics of Hope and Availability In A Multi-Relational Culture', 26th International Society for Philosophy and Literature Annual Conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 3-8 June.

2002 - 'The Temporality of Hoping in Artistic Creation', 19th Annual Conference of The Canadian Society For Aesthetics, University of Toronto, Canada, 25-27 May.

2002 - 'Toward an Ethical Hermeneutics for Art and its Theories', Ethics across the Disciplines Conference, Viterbo University, USA, 18-20 April.

2001 - 'Interpretation and Psychoanalysis: A Philosophical Critique', (Invited Speaker), West Wales School of Art, United Kingdom, 16 November.

2001 - 'Philosophy between Image and Text: Reflections in Parallel to the Work of Photographer Deborah Baker', 25th International Congress of Aesthetics, Tokyo, Japan, 27-31 August.

2001 - 'The Touch of Meaning - Researching between Text and Texture', Research Degree Conference, University of Central England, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 19 May.

2001 - 'Beyond the Institutional Site and the Ethos of the Void: The Relevance of Gabriel Marcel's Creative Fidelity', Theoros Conference, University of Dundee, United Kingdom, 26-27 January.

2000 - ‘Art, Duration and Spatiality’, British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference, Oxford University, United Kingdom, September.

1999 - ‘Art, Space and Time’, Art Education Discourses Conference, University of Central England, United Kingdom, November.

1999 - ‘The Sensuous and the Gaze - A Philosophy; in collaboration with, photographer Debbie Baker’, Research Seminars, University of Central England, United Kingdom, March.

1998 - ‘Art, Theory and Experience’, Theoros Conference, University of Dundee, United Kingdom, May.

1997 - ‘The Relevance of Kantian Aesthetics Today’, (Invited Speaker), Forum on Aesthetics, West Wales School of Art, United Kingdom.

1997 - ‘Structuralist Strategies and the Image’, Forum on Aesthetics, (Invited Speaker), West Wales School of Art, United Kingdom.

1997 - ‘Postmodernism, Poststructuralism and Deconstruction: A Parallel between Philosophy and Art’, Forum on Aesthetics, (Invited Speaker), West Wales School of Art, United Kingdom.

1996 - ‘Hermeneutics and Art: Methodology or Constitutive Experience?’ MA Fine Art Critical Theory Programme, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Leeds Metropolitan University, United Kingdom.

1996 - ‘From Language to Image: On the Notion of the Figural’, Theoros Conference, ‘Word and Image’, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, United Kingdom.

1995 - ‘Beyond Representation and Narration: For a Figural History of Art’, Second Annual Graduate Symposium Northern Universities Group, ‘History and Representation’, University of Leeds, United Kingdom.


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