9:30-11:00: Panel 3 – Morality Tales and Greek Didacticism in Ming and Qing China
- Giulia Falato (University of Parma): “The Political Life of a Fable: The Belly and the Members from Rome to China.”
- Andrew Hui (Yale–NUS): “Mathematics and Moral Pedagogy in the Qing Court: The Kangxi Emperor’s Study of Euclid.”
- Valentina Yang (KU Leuven): “From miraculous to exemplary: moral reframing of Christian devotional tales in early modern Sino-European interactions.”
11:00-11:15: Coffee and Tea Break
11:15-12:45: Panel 4 – Jesuit Translations and Linguistics
- Kim-Bảo Đặng (New University of Lisbon): “Shadowing Alvaro Semedo: Chinese Influence on Christian Translations in the Jesuit Missions in Vietnam.”
- João Riso (University of Lisbon): “The Use of Latin as an Intermediary Language in Learning Chinese: A Deeper Look into a 17th Century Latin-Chinese Dictionary.”
- Wu Di (University of Lisbon): “How the Jesuits learned Confucianism in the late Ming dynasty: the Latin annotations to the Four Books by Francesco Brancati.”
12:45-13:30: Lunch
13:30-14:30: Panel 5 – Moral Education between Ancient China and Greece
- Hin Ming Frankie Chik (University of Pittsburgh): “Desiring the Virtuous: Comparative Reflections on the Teacher as Moral Ideal in Early Confucianism and the Platonic Symposium.”
- Matthew Walker (Yale–NUS): “On the “Philosophical” Status of Xenophon’s Memorabilia and the Analects of Confucius in Modern Europe.”
- Yu Wang (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München): “On the Stoic elements in Alfonso Vagnoni (⾼⼀志)’s educational philosophy.”
14:30-15:15: Coffee and Tea Break
11:15-12:45: Panel 6 – Aristotle and Confucianism
- Xing Hao Wang (University of Chicago): “Aristotle the Xunzian: Virtue Politics in Ancient Greece and China.”
- Wenzhen Jin (University of Vienna): “Persuasion and Moral Instruction in Aristotle and Han Fei.”
- Benjamin Huff (Randolph-Macon College): “Moral Starting Points in Aristotle and Mencius.”
16:45-17:00: Coffee and Tea Break
17:00: Keynote – Jingyi Jenny Zhao
