12:30 pm - 2:45 pm 

Chair: Eric S Nelson (HKUST)

Manhua Li (Royal Holloway London), "Cultivating Capacities (de): Nourishing Life as a Contemporary Feminism"

Tobias Benedikt Zürn (HKUST), “Reading Texts as Bodies: Object Agency in the Age of Human Empowerment”

Bony Schachter (PolyU), “Daoism and kingship”

3:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Chair: Justin Tiwald (HKU)

David Chai (CUHK), "Zhuangzi and the Meontological Nature of Friendship"

Jenny Hung (HKUST), "Yangist egoism, egoistic concern, and the self"

4:45 pm - 6:15 pm  

Chair: Jim Behuniak (Colby College / CUHK)

Wai Wai Chiu (Lingnan University), "Primitivists' view of knowledge and the possibility of restoring xing"

Andrej Fech (HKBU), "Wenzi's Interpretation of the Laozi"