Speaking

“ Nietzsche and French moralists- François de La Rochefoucauld and Pascal-on deception and self-deception,” Forschungskolloquium, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, 2024.8, invited talk;

“Nietzsche on Pascal and Montaigne” in the first student conference of Comparative Literature and World Literature at Tsinghua University, 2024.5, keynote speech;

“Friedrich Nietzsche’s Assessments of François de La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims through the Academic Sceptic Argumentative Method of pro and con and Syntactic Analysis,” The Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Tsinghua University, 2022, invited talk.

“Invention and Reinvention of Sweetness (Douceur): from Guez de Balzac to La Rochefoucauld and Pascal" in the MLA 2022 guaranteed panel on “How the French 17th-Century Invented (or Not).” (wrote the paper, but the panel has been cancelled one week before the conference due to the COVID)；

“Trace et ji: symptômes des ruines paysagères françaises et chinoises,” 61th annual conference of The British Society for French Studies, 2021(in French);

“Trahit sua quemque voluptas? Nietzsche’s assessment of La Rochefoucauld and Helvetius’s self-love and pleasure,” in the annual conference of NASSCFL, 2021;

“Ridentem dicere verum quid vetat? --- Unmasking Seneca in François de La Rochefoucauld’s Maximes,” Society of Classical Studies, 2021;

“Antiquity and Modernity at a Standstill --- Analysis of Walter Benjamin’s Allegoric image and Dialectic image through Charles Baudelaire,” University of London, School of Advanced Studies 2019；Chair of the section 3 of the Conference Walter Benjamin et le XIXe siècle aujourd’hui;

“Conversation as a Therapy of Desire: Pascal’s Cosmo-theological Dialogue with a Libertin (fragment Lafuma 201 / Sellier 233),” in 38th Annual Conference of Society for Interdisciplinary French Seventeenth-Century Studies, 2019;

“Augustine and Speech Act” in XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies in Oxford University, 2019;

“An Augustinian Humanism? --- On Francesco Petrarch’s “The Ascent of Mount Ventoux” the 54th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, 2019;

“From Epicurean liberum arbitrium to Fideist Revelation: Montaigne’s vision about free will and natural law,” Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, 2019;

“A Modern Cynic’s Parrhesia in the Public Sphere of Enlightenment: The Dialogue and Pantomime in Rameau’s Nephew,” CSECS, Niagara Falls, 2018;

“Le vide dans la poésie du paysage de François Cheng et de Philippe Jaccottet” dans le Colloque international “Littératures et arts du vide.” Cerisy-la-Salle, France, 2017 (in French);

Translate from ancient Greek into English and present a section of Aristotle’s Physics in ancient philosophy reading group with scholars from Princeton University and Greek scholars in Syros, Greece, 2017;

Chair of the Panel “Lieux, Milieux et Injustice(s) de Mémoire” in Princeton Comparative Literature Department Annual Conference “Aesthetic Afterlives,” 2016;

“La visibilité de l’invisible : À La Recherche du temps perdu et les peintures impressionnistes,” Equinoxes conference “Intermediality,” the French Department of Brown University (in French), 2016 ;

“The potential of obscurity--the sublime landscape in Taoist aesthetics and Victor Hugo's trans-media creation” in The American Comparative Literature Association’s Annual Meeting, 2015；

«La Stimmung romantique et le sentiment-paysage (情景) dans l’esthétique classique chinoise, » « Notions esthétiques : la perception sensible organisée » conference organised the Sorbonne, the Sorbonne nouvelle and the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, 2014 ;

“‘Being- Towards- Death’: A Comparative Study on Attitudes Towards Death in Europe and China,” conference on “China and Europe,” University of Rome III, 2014;

“On the Road to Beatitude: “Westerns’ Spiritual Inspiration from Asian Culture in The Dharma Bums,” conference on “Marginalized Mainstream,” University College of London, 2013.

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