2011.05.		Berkeley, USA.
University of California at Berkeley Philosophy Department,
BA with honors and high distinction; Molecular and
Environmental Biology, BS with honors and high distinction.

2014.01.		Tokyo, Japan.
Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency N2.

2016.08.		Tokyo, Japan.
Certificate of Japanese-Language Proficiency N1.

2017.04.		Kyoto, Japan.
Kyoto University Graduate School of Human and
Environmental Studies (JINKAN) Research Student with
provisions from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture,
Sports, Science and Technology Scholarship.

2019.04.		Kyoto, Japan.
Matriculation into Kyoto University JINKAN Masters program.

2019.09.		Nagoya, Japan.
“Nishitani Keiji and the Good Life” is presented at the 5th Annual Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy.

2019.10.		Kyoto, Japan.
“Domestic Horror and the Unity of the Self” is contributed to the Kyoto University Intercultural Workshop.

2019.10.		Hawai’i, USA.
“Why Are the Tears Under the Moon So Many? Nishitani, Rosen, and the Diagnostic Problem of Nihilism” is presented at the 4th Conference of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy.

2019.10.		Albany, USA.
Co-translation with Abe Hiroshi of Nishitani Keiji’s “Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Meister Eckhart” appears in Ian Alexander Moore’s ‘Eckhart, Heidegger, and the Imperative of Releasement’ by SUNY Press. ISBN: 1438476523.

2020.05		Online.
UGOC Tetsugaku is established with Ikegami Kano and Ito Toryo, providing a platform for online discussion of philosophical themes. 

2021.03.		Kyoto, Japan.
Kyoto University JINKAN MA.

2021.04.		Kyoto, Japan.
Advance to Kyoto University JINKAN Doctoral program.

2021.03.		Kyoto, Japan.
“Demythologizing Topology: Nishitani, Kant, and the ‘Standpoint’ of the Subject” is presented at the 5th Conference of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy.

2021.03.		Berkeley, USA.
Guest lecture (“Watsuji Tetsuro’s Fudo as an ‘Approach to Heidegger from East Asian Thought’”) is given for the seminar, ‘Intersubjectivity, Communality & Responsibility’ at the University of California.

2021.08.		Online.
“Nishitani on Familial Breakdowns: Interpersonal Demands and the Unity of the Self” is presented at the 16th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies.

2021.12.		Online.
“Nishitani’s ‘Anti-Cartesianism’” is presented at the International Society of East Asian Philosophy Conference.

2022.02.		Online.
“Nishitani, Existence, and Dialectic” is presented at the 6th Annual Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy.

2022.06.		Nagoya, Japan.
“Cajolery as an Ontological Problem” is contributed to the Readings of Nishida’s ‘Absolute Contradictory Self-Identity’ Workshop at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture.

2022.07.		Tokyo, Japan.
“The Conceptual and Normative Structure of Activity: Considering Nishitani’s Readings of Nishida and Aristotle” is presented at the 20th Conference of the Nishida Philosophy Association.

2022.07.		Online.
UGOC Tetsugaku holds its 25th session. Our theme is ‘Procrastination.’

2022.10.		Kyoto, Japan.
“Modernity and Evil in Nishitani Keiji’s Early Work” is presented at the Workshop on Nishida and Nishitani hosted by the Nishida Philosophy Association and the Japanese-German Culture Institute.

2022.10.		Nagoya, Japan.
Second translator with Urai Satoshi of Tanabe Hajime’s “The Third Stage of Ontology” appears in the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Volume 7. ISBN-13: 979-8353879251.

2022.11.		Kyoto, Japan.
Guest lecture (“Philosophical Criticism and Autonomy”) is given for the seminar, ‘Introduction to Human Sciences’ at Kyoto University.

2023.03.		Kyoto, Japan.
Symposium abstract (“Dialectic as Love at Work”) appears in the journal Zivilisation und Philosophie, Vol. 15. ISBN: 978-4-87559-371-3.

2023.04.		Kyoto, Japan.
Research project (“Multi-Centered Social Sense Making: The Kyoto School in Early Showa and Contemporary Hegel Scholarship”) begins with support from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research. Grant no.: 23KJ1203.

2023.05.		Nagoya, Japan.
“What Life Demands: Attitudes and Experience in Nishitani Keiji’s ‘Mysticism’ (1956)” is contributed to the Nishitani Keiji Workshop on the Philosophy of Religion at Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture.

2023.07.		Kyoto, Japan.
“Contextualizing Nishitani’s Critique of Nishida” is presented at the 21st Conference of the Nishida Philosophy Association.

2023.07.		Ishikawa, Japan.
“The Aesthetic ‘A Priori’: Nishitani Keiji and the Normativity of Pure Experience” appears in the Annual Report of the Nishida Philosophy Association, Vol. 20. ISSN: 2188-1995.

2023.08.		Online.
“Translating Fudo” is contributed to the Workshop on Watsuji.

2023.08.		Geneva, New York.
“Play in Early Nishitani” is presented at the 6th Conference of the International Association for Japanese Philosophy.

2023.09.		Cork, Ireland.
“From the Realm of Shadows to the Theater of History: Nishitani Keiji on the Use of Hegel’s Phenomenology for Life” is presented at the 7th Annual Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy.

2023.10.		Online.
Translation of Nishitani Keiji’s “Prajna and Reason [Excerpt]” appears in the Journal of East Asian Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43493-023-0024-5

2023.11.		Nagoya, Japan.
Second translator with Urai Satoshi of Tanabe Hajime’s “Clarifying the Meaning of the Logic of Species” appears in the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Vol. 8. ISBN-13: 979-8866672356.

2023.11.		Nagoya, Japan.
“Why the Absolute Matters as Idealism like Never Before: Nishitani, Hegel’s Logic, and Freedom in the Modern World” appears in the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Vol. 8. ISBN-13: 979-8866672356.