Photos 1999-present

A few photos from various trips and 'world tours' (1999-2009)

(About every second year, I travel around the world -- usually west to east; alternate years, I usually do a north-south round trip, e.g., from Africa to Scandinavia. Inevitably, there are opportunities for photos, as well as occasions for shameless publicity.)
(I've rearranged the photos, with the most recent first. That way, as you scroll down, you will note a remarkable rejuvenation process. I have also added a few of my more - and probably the only - artistic photos.)

Moscow, November 2009, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Spiridonovka St.
(with Juergen Habermas)

St Petersburg, Russia, November 2009 - at the memorial of the 'Philosophers Ship'
(with Tu Weiming)

Moscow, Leninsky Prospect, November 2009

Xi'an Jiaotong University (with Richard Feist) July 2009

Shanghai, July 2009

Manila, University of Santo Tomas, July 2009 (with Leovino Garcia and Alfie Co)

Ateneo de Manila, July 2009 (image not exactly as shown...)

Phnom Penh, Cambodia, June 2009 - at the entrance to the Royal Academy

Torun, Poland, November 2008

Seoul, August 2008
holding an invisible fish

Taipei, June 2007

holding a tiger by the jaw

Soochow University, Taipei
class on Philosophy of Culture

Ottawa, May 2007
Breakfast on the Hill seminar
(with Senator Noel Kinsella, Speaker of the Senate of Canada and Dr Noreen Golfmann, President of CFHSS)

Malta, March 2007

lecture at the University of Malta, Msida

at the entrance to the old city of Mdina, Malta

in Valetta, Malta

    Rome 2007

    at the Ancelle des Soeures de Jesus / Istituto Internazionale Jacques Maritain

Hanoi, June 2006

invited lecture at the International Congress, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences

Haein-sa Monastery, Korea, May 2006

Rome, March 2006

In Grenada, West Indies, March 2006

At Oxford - July 2005 - Phil Ferreira, Leslie Armour, Nicholas Rescher, Betty Trott, Will Sweet, James Connelly, Tim Lord

Nivelles, Belgium - July 2005 - at the home of Jean Ladriere and Ghislaine Florival

Collingwood Conference - July 2005 - Lake District, England. (at the site of W.G. Collingwood's excavations)

Prof. Wendy James (Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford), Sir Roger Bannister, Prof. Gary Browning (Oxford Brookes University), Prof David Boucher (Cardiff University), Prof William Sweet (St Francis Xavier University), Dr. Luciano Lukšić (Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet), Prof James Connelly (Southampton Institute)

At the University Museum, Helsinki, Finland, May 2005

In Tallinn, Estonia, May 2005

At the Palazzo Malta, within Rome, April 2005.

At Seoul National University, April 2005

At Seoul National University, with members of FISP/World Congress Program Committee, April 2005

At National Chengchi University in Taipei, December 2004

Lokuang Chair of Philosophy and Culture at Fu Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan (with Prof Theresa Pan and Dr Cristal Huang) December 2004

First seminar as 2004-05 Lokuang Chair of Philosophy and Culture at Fu Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan

With M.Ph. class at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Philosophy, Theology, and Canon Law (Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Dharmaram College), in Bangalore, India (August 2004)

Visiting Professor at the Pontifical Athenaeum of Philosophy, Theology, and Canon Law (Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram, Dharmaram College), in Bangalore, India (August 2004)

Shanghai, July 2004 - at the Shanghai University Library

Catholic Cathedral at Shanghai, July 2004

Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2004. Note my partly successful attempt to eclipse 'The Little Mermaid' (just behind me)

At the International Conference on Anglo-American Idealism, held in Pyrgos, Greece, August 2003.

Istanbul, August 2003. World Congress of Philosophy lecture on 'Philosophy, Culture, and Pluralism'

Istanbul, August 2003. Istanbul Kultur University, sessions on "Philosophical Challenges and Prospects of the Dialogue of Cultural Traditions"

Istanbul University, August 2003

Istanbul, August 2003 - with Mrs. Van Doan, Fr George McLean, Dr Noriko Hashimoto, Prof. William Sweet, Prof. Tomonobu Imamichi, Prof. Tran Van Doan.

At Vijnananilayam Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Eluru, India, January 2001

Academy Day lecture, at Vijnananilayam Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Eluru, India, January 2001

At the Gateway to India, Mumbai, January 2001

Receipt of Kund Kund Bharti medal, during Indian Philosophical Congress, Delhi, January 2001

With the faculty of the Department of Philosophy, University of Pune, January 2001.

In Tokyo, November 2000

In Rome, during metaphysics conference, September 2000

In Teheran (Iran), International Congress on Human Rights, May 2001

In Teheran (Iran), May 2001 (l to r: Steve Schneck, N.N., Viatcheslav Morozov, William Sweet, Jack Donnelly)

In Hong Hong, following meeting of Chinese and Canadian philosophers [photograph courtesy of Asia Week magazine], August 2001

Chiba, Japan - International Aesthetics Congress - August-September 2001

In Bangalore, November 2001, during the Dharma Endowment Lectures at Dharmaram College (Pontifical Athenaeum)

In Bangalore, November 2001, during the Dharma Endowment Lectures at Dharmaram Colege (Pontifical Athenaeum)

At the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem - December 2001

At the Great Buddha of Kamakura (Kamakura Daibutsu) at the Kotokuin Temple, Japan, August 2002. With Jean Ladriere (Belgium), Manny Dy (Philippines), Will Sweet, Noriko Hashimoto (Japan), Tomonobu Imamichi (Japan), Cristal Huang (Taiwan), Leo Garcia (Philippines).

Will Sweet, James Cook and friend (Christchurch, NZ) July 2002

Seminar at Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh, August 2002

Jabalpur, India August 2002 [news story related to a public lecture]

Jabalpur, India, August 2002

Tirupati, India - lecture at the Sri Venkataswara University, August 2002

Princeton, NJ - the former home of Jacques Maritain, October 2002

Lebanon - lecture at Notre Dame University - May 2003 (left to right: William Sweet, Fr. Richard Woods, OP, Fr. Robert Badillo)

Rome - Conference keynote address on metaphysics - July 2, 2003

In Mexico, following business ethics conference in Puebla, July 2000

Outside of the Ho Chi Minh museum, Hanoi, Vietnam, January 2000

At Fu Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan (January 2000)
(from left to right: Prof. Cristal Huang, Sr. Prof. Marian Kao, Prof. William Sweet, Sr. Prof. Pascal Ting, Prof. Peter Wu, Prof. Tran Van Doan)

Ho Chi Minh City, with some Vietnamese scholars and two delegates from the Council on Research and Values in Philosophy, December 1999

San Francisco, October 1999. That's Alcatraz in the background.

At F.H. Bradley's grave, Oxford, September 1999
(from left to right: Timothy Sprigge, Leslie Armour, Betty Trott, Phil Ferreira, William Sweet, Fred Wilson, James Connelly, and Maria Dimova-Cookson)

In New Delhi, near the India Gate, August 1999

In Madras (Chennai), delivering the Nimishakkavi K. Subbaiah Naidu Endowment Lectures, August 1999

At the Port Moresby Yacht Club, Papua New Guinea (with David Lea, Dean of Humanities, UPNG), August 1999

At the 'Twelve Apostles' - Australia (August 1999)

Sea of Galilee, near Tiberias (December 2001)

Sunset at Juhu Beach, Mumbai. A family out for a stroll. (November 2001)

A photo, at dusk, of the 'Twelve Apostles.' The Twelve Apostles are limestone sculptures situated just off of the Great Ocean Road (Victoria), a few hundred kilometers south-west of Melbourne. The wind and the water, coming up from the Antarctic, are bracing. (July 1999)

Telescope Beach, Grenada, West Indies, March 2006

Halong Bay, Vietnam, June 2006

St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum at night - November 2009