Invited Speaker

I was invited to present my work at several universities. Here are some of the records:

10/2025 Presented a paper “Confucian Digital Democracy: On the Role of Digital Technology in Confucian Democracy” at the workshop “Revisiting Chinese Philosophy: From the Perspectives of Political Philosophy” (「從政治哲學看中國哲學」工作坊) (link)


10/2024 Presented a paper “Sincerity and Perfectionist Policies: Lessons from Wang Yangming” at National Taiwan University and National Chengchi University (link 1, link 2)


7/2024 Presented a paper “Confucian “Integration writ small”: What integralism might learn from the rise and fall of community covenant”, at the conference “All the Kingdoms of the World, Integralism, and Religious Attitudes Toward Liberalism”, a book symposium on Kevin Vallier’s All the Kingdoms of the World: On Radical Religious Alternatives to Liberalism, hosted by the McDonald Centre and Magdalen College, University of Oxford (link)


7/2024 Presented a paper “Contributing Public Deliberation by Religious Behavior: Beyond Exclusivism-Inclusivism Debate”, at the conference “Religion, Freedom, Equality“, hosted by University of Texas and Magdalen College, University of Oxford (link)


5/2024 Presented a paper “Cultivating the Perspective of Oneness (一體) by Eliminating Self-centered thoughts (私欲): On Wang Yangming’s Unified Virtue Monism”, at the conference “Political Virtue Between East and West”, held by the Centre for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy, City University of Hong Kong (link)

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2/2024 Presented a paper “To Confucianism, are Perfectionist Policies a Help or a Trap? Lessons from Wang Yangming” in the Columbia Neo-Confucianism Seminar (see here).


2/2024 Being a guest speaker and delivered a talk on Confucianism, Perfectionism and Wang Yangming’s moral psychology at St. John University


8/2023 Delivered a lecture on Contemporary Confucianism for the 8th Great China Summer Workshop Program in Chinese Studies, focusing on the political philosophy of Mou Zongsan and Tang Junyi. (link)


11/2022 “Cultivating Civic Virtue in a Gendered Society”, in Tradition and Modernity and Korean Political Philosophy, held by the Center of K-Academic Expansion Project


1/2022 “A Right to Etiquette: A Discussion of Workplace Rights from a Xunzian Perspective”, in the New Debates on Human Rights and East Asian Philosophical Traditions: Confucianism and Beyond of the Hong Kong Baptist University

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11/2020 “Those smart guys will decide”: On the Problem of Estrangement in Confucian Meritocracy within a Pluralistic Context”, in the CEACOP International Conference of the City University of Hong Kong


5/2019                “The division of educational labour between Confucian education and political liberalism,” in the Centre for East Asian and Comparative Philosophy (CEACOP) of the City University of Hong Kong

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10/2018           “Confucian Neutrality: On why Confucianism should embrace a principle of liberal neutrality,” invited to present in The Educational University of Hong Kong


10/2018        Delivered a guest lecture of the later Rawls’s theory of public reason in the Department of Philosophy of the University of Pittsburgh

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10/2017             “Sincerity, Pluralism, and Honesty — A critique of the convergence conception of public justification”, invited to present in the Departmental Seminar of the Department of Philosophy, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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