Gerald Cipriani 

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Gerald Cipriani has taught philosophy for many years in Europe and East Asia, most recently at the School of History and Philosophy of National University of Ireland, Galway. He is currently Guest Professor at the Fine Arts Academy of Hunan Normal University, PR China. Other positions include Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of Philosophy of National Central University, Taiwan, Professor at Kyushu University, Japan, Visiting Scholar at the University of Helsinki, Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University of Arts, British Academy Research Fellow at Kyoto University, and Senior Lecturer at the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. He is also Honorary Professor to the UNESCO Chair in Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, based at the D.S. Likhachev Russian Research Institute of Cultural and Natural Heritage (Moscow). [ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT SUSPENDED]. Invited lectures at a number of institutions including The University of Tokyo, Peking University, Sungkyunkwan University Seoul, and University of London. He completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree in Western aesthetics with full scholarship in Leeds (LMU) and studied East Asian philosophy and the Kyoto School in London (SOAS) and Kyoto (KyotoU). He was accredited for directing doctoral supervisory teams in 2004. He is the recipient of several study and research awards, including from the National Science and Technology Council of Taiwan, the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences, the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, the British Academy, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and the Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust. He has been for several years consultant, editor, and reviewer for various academic publishers as well as research institutions and funding agencies such as the French National Research Agency (Paris), the National Fund for Scientific Research (Brussels), and the National Science Centre (Krakow). He is the chair of the International Research Group for Culture and Dialogue and Founding Editor of peer reviewed journals Culture and Dialogue (Brill) and Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge). He has edited around thirty titles in philosophy and the arts and published numerous texts in the fields. His current research focuses on contemporary interpretive aesthetics, relational phenomenology of culture, and dialogical philosophy East-West. Latest book publication: Depois de Nishida: O Vazio Dialógico e a Cosmovisão Histórica (After Nishida: Dialogical Emptiness and the Historical Worldview, trans. André Bueno, 2023).