Transcripts of recent unpublished seminar and conference talks:
The Worldview of the Zhuāngzǐ. Presented Nov. 13, 2025, as Unit 5 of an online course hosted by the University of Zurich entitled "Worldmodels & Ontologies: Visions of Reality in Chinese Thought (Fall 2025)." This series of lectures was coordinated by Polina Lukicheva in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Zurich, the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and National Chengchi University (NCCU).
How Can Death Be Good? A Zhuangist Outlook. Presented at the 2nd Simon Fraser University workshop on Asian philosophy, October 25, 2025.
Aristotle and Xúnzǐ on the Good Life. Presented at "How Legitimate is the Philosophical Canon," a comparative discussion of Greek and Chinese philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, October 30-31, 2024.
Inversions, Leftovers, and Hazy, Indistinct Stuff. Presented at a roundtable on Brook Ziporyn’s translation of the Daodejing, Chinese University of Hong Kong, October 6, 2023.
Effable and Ineffable in Early Chinese Discourse on Dao. Presented at "Varieties of Ineffability in Ancient Philosophy," online conference, Sept 18-21, 2023.
Can Something Come from Nothing? Existence and Nonexistence in Early and Medieval Daoism. Presented at 2nd Pan-American Symposium on the History of Logic, UCLA, June 20-23, 2023.
“Standards cannot stand on their own”: Xúnzǐ and Ruist discourse on moral character and political institutions. Keynote talk for International Society for Chinese Philosophy, UC Riverside, June 22, 2023.
Contextualizing the Zhuangzi "Heaven" Pian. Presented at "2023 Zhuangzi beyond the Inner Chapters in Seoul," Institute of Korean Philosophy and Culture, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, March 14-16, 2023. Video available online here.
