2024 - 'Meaning and Art: Critique of the Role of (Western) Theory in Understanding Art', Fine Arts Academy, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, PR China. TBA

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 Symposium 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.