On French Studies
Fan, Jiani. “From an Enclosed Universe to the Cartesian Vortex – Pascal’s, La Fontaine’s, and Fontenelle’s Literary Representation of the Universe” in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol.L, No.99, 2023, pp.229-325;
Fan, Jiani. “Friedrich Nietzsche’s Assessments of François de La Rochefoucauld’s Maxims through the Academic Sceptic Argumentative Method of pro and con and Syntactic Analysis,” Early Modern French Studies, Vol.45.2, 2023, pp.150-169;
Fan, Jiani. “From Libido Dominandi in Disguise to An Apologetic Device? Invention and Reinvention of Sweetness (Douceur) in La Rochefoucauld’s and Pascal’s works,” Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. XLVIII,95, 2021, pp.319-336；
Fan, Jiani. Encyclopedia entry on Michel Foucault’s « Qu’est-ce qu’un auteur? » [What is an Author?] in The Literary Encyclopedia;
Fan, Jiani. Encyclopeida entry on La Rochefoucauld’s Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales in The Literary Encyclopedia；
Fan, Jiani. “Le vide dans la poésie du paysage de François Cheng et de Philippe Jaccottet,” dans Littératures et arts du vide, séries of the Colloque de Cerisy, France, Éditions Hermann, 2018, pp. 25-40 (in French);
On German Studies
Fan, Jiani. “Antiquity and Modernity at a Standstill – Interpreting Walter Benjamin’s Allegoric Image and Dialectic Image through Charles Baudelaire,” Cowrie: Comparative and World Literature. Berlin: De Gruyter, Vol.1, 2024 (forthcoming);
Fan, Jiani. “Psychology as a First Principle? Self-love and The Will to Power in La Rochefoucauld and Nietzsche,” The European Legacy, Vol. 29.1, 2024. DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2023.2272449;
Fan, Jiani. “Friedrich Nietzsche and Blaise Pascal on Skepticisms and Honesty,” History of European Ideas, Vol. 49.7,2023, pp.1085-1104;
Fan, Jiani. « La Stimmung du paysage dans l’esthétique allemande et les concepts esthétiques chez Wang Fuzhi et Wang Guowei», Monumenta Serica: Journal of Oriental Studies, vol. 71:2,pp.437-452 (in French);
Fan, Jiani. “Redeemed from Skepticism --- Nietzsche’s revaluation of ancient Skeptics’ truth investigation (ζητϵῖν) and philosophy of life (ἀταραξία),” Comparative and Continental Philosophy, 2021, Vol. 13, No.2, pp.142-52；
Fan, Jiani. “Images of Mind, Images of God---Mirror as Metaphor in Chinese Buddhism and Early Mysticism (focuses on Meister Eckhart and Diego Velázquez’s painting),” Buddhist-Christian Studies, 2018, Vol.38, pp.173-185；
Fan, Jiani. “‘Being-towards-Death’: A Comparative Study on Attitudes towards Death in Europe (focuses on Heidegger and Arnold Böcklin’s paintings) and in China,” published in European Journal of Sinology, special volume1, 2014, pp.183-206.
On Classics
Fan, Jiani. “Saint Augustine’s Confessions and Speech Acts” in Studia Patristica (Vol. CXVIII - Papers presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies held in Oxford 2019). Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2021, pp. 131-146.
2. Academic Conferences
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.
