During June 2024–2025 period, about 19 (or possibly more) papers in the area of Korean Confucianism and comparative philosophy and religion are presented or scheduled/expected to be presented by all three members of Dr. Chung’s KS Lab project team at international conferences in USA, Korea, and Taiwan: one keynote speech and an invited special paper at two international conferences; chairing and moderating two international conferences; and presenting twelve or more international conference papers  as follows:

• Edward Y. J. Chung, a paper title ???? t.b.a. (depending on the finalized conference theme), to be presented at the 2025 KS International Conference on Korean Confucianism in Dialogue with World Philosophies, Religions, Politics, and Technologies: Textual, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives (or optional theme: The Confucian Self and the World: Korean, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, and Contemporary Perspectives), SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge, University of PEI, Charlottetown, Canada, June 26–27, 2025.
  
  The CKS and I will organize and host this international conference (6 panels, 15–16 scholars from Canada, USA, Korea, and East Asia). his conference will be funded by my (UPEI) KS Lab project.
  
• Bongrae Seok (Dr. Chung’s ongoing KS Lab project co-researcher), a paper title ???? t.b.a. (depending on the finalized conference theme), to be presented at the 2026 KS International Conference on Korean Confucianism in Dialogue with World Philosophies, Religions, Politics, and Technologies: Textual, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives (or optional theme: The Confucian Self and the World: Korean, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, and Contemporary Perspectives), SDU Main Building Faculty Lounge, University of PEI, Charlottetown, June 26–27, 2025.
  

• Jung-Yeup Kim (Dr. Chung’s KS Lab project co-researcher), a paper title ???? t.b.a. (depending on the finalized conference theme), to be presented at the 2026 KS International Conference on Korean Confucianism in Dialogue with World Philosophies, Religions, Politics, and Technologies: Textual, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives (or optional theme: The Confucian Self and the World: Korean, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, and Contemporary Perspectives), SDU Main Faculty Lounge, University of PEI, Charlottetown, June 26–27, 2025. 

• Edward Y. J. Chung, organizer, chair and moderator, the NAKPA (North American Korean Philosophical Association) panel (theme: Korean Confucian Humanism on Good and Evil and Self-cultivation: Textual, Comparative, and Contemporary Reflections), at the 2025 Annual Meting of APA (American Philosophical Association), Sheraton New York Times Square, Jan. 8–11, 2005.
  
• Edward Y. J. Chung, “Jeong Hagok’s Yangming Confucian Humanism on Good and Evil and Self-Cultivation: A Korean, Comparative, and Contemporary Interpretation,” to be presented in a NAKPA (North American Korean Philosophical Association) panel (theme: Korean Confucian Humanism on Good and Evil and Self-cultivation: Textual, Comparative, and Contemporary Reflections), at the 2025 Annual Meting of APA (American Philosophical Association), Sheraton New York Times Square, Jan. 8–11, 2005.
  
• Bongrae Seok, “Good, Evil, and Beyond: Moral Psychology of the Pure Unaroused State (Mibal/Weifa) of the Mind in Korean Neo-Confucianism,” a paper to be presented in a NAKPA panel at the 2025 Annual Meting of APA (American Philosophical Association), Sheraton New York Times Square, Jan. 8–11, 2005.
  
• Jung-Yeup Kim (Dr. Chung’s KS Lab project co-researcher), “The Good Life in the Neo-Confucian Philosophies of  Vital Energy (Gi 氣) of The Joseon Era Korea,” a paper to be presented in a NAKPA panel at the 2025 Annual Meting of APA (American Philosophical Association), Sheraton New York Times Square, Jan. 8–11, 2005.
  
• Edward Y. J. Chung, “Yi Toegye’s Perfection of Confucian Ethics and Spirituality in Korea: Textual, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives,” an invited keynote speech to be done at the 2024 International Toegye Studies Conference (organized by the International Toegye Studies Society), National Taiwan University, Taipei, Nov. 25–27, 2024.
  
• Edward Y. J. Chung, “Philosophic and Religious Harmony in Yi Toegye’s Holistic Ethics and Spirituality of Self-Cultivation: A Confucian, Comparative, and Contemporary Interpretation,” an invited special paper to be presented at the 2024 Annual Conference of NAKPA (North American Korean Philosophical Association) panel (conference theme: Religion in Philosophy and Philosophy in Religion in the Korean Traditions), Seoul National University (hosted by the Department of Religious Studies), Seoul, Korea Oct. 29–30, 2024.
  
• Jung-Yeup Kim, “The Confucian Conception of Family and Contemporary Social Aesthetics” for the 4th  Biennial Conference of the World Consortium for Research in Confucian Cultures, Oct. 31–Nov. 2, 2024. Ewha Women’s University. Seoul, Korea.
  
• Jung-Yeup Kim, “A Philosophical Investigation of The Confucian Aesthetics of the Everyday: Religious Implications,” an accepted paper to be presented at the 2024 Annual Conference of NAKPA panel, Seoul National University (hosted by the Department of Religious Studies), Seoul, Korea Oct. 29–30, 2024.
  
• Bongrae Seok, “Moral Psychology of Mibal (未發Unaroused State) in Korean Neo- Confucianism and the Religious Experience of Immanent Transcendence,” an accepted m paper to be presented at the 2024 Annual Conference of NAKPA panel, Seoul National University (hosted by the Department of Religious Studies), Seoul, Korea Oct. 29–30, 2024.
  
• Edward Y. J. Chung, “Jeong Hagok’s Great Synthesis of Yangming Neo-Confucianism: A Leading Paradigm of Conflict, Dialogue, and Reconciliation in Korean  Thought,” a major scholarly paper presented in the second NAKPA (North American Korean Philosophical Association), Panel 2 (theme: Conflict, Dialogue, and Reconciliation in Korean Thought; Aug. 5, 3:00–5:00 pm) at the 25^th (2024) World Congress of Philosophy (WCP), Rome, Italy, August 1–8, 2024.
  
• Edward Y. J. Chung, chair and moderator, Panel session 6 (1:00–2:35): Korean Buddhism and
• Christianity and Western Thought in Interaction with Confucian Humanism. 3 presenters from USA and Korea at the 2024 KS International Conference, UPEI: Confucian Humanism: Korean, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, and Contemporary Reflections, SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge, University of PEI, Charlottetown, Canada, June 27–28, 2024. I organized, hosted, and funded this international conference (6 panel, 19 scholars from Canada, USA, and Korea). conference link: 2024 Korean Asian Studies International Conference | University of Prince Edward Island (upei.ca)
  
• Edward Y. J. Chung, “Yi Yulgok’s Confucian  Humanism of Good-Evil and Self-Cultivation: A Korean and Comparative Interpretation for the Twenty-First Century,” an international  paper presented in panel session 4 (June 28, 10:00–11:35: Korean Confucian Ethics: Humanistic, Comparative, and Contemporary Perspectives) at the 2024 KS International Conference on Confucian Humanism: Korean, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, and Contemporary Reflections,  SDU Main Building, Faculty Lounge, University of PEI, Charlottetown, Canada, June 27–28, 2024. I organized and my KS project and UPEI hosted and funded this international conference (6 panel, 19 scholars from Canada, USA, and Korea). website: 2024 Korean Asian Studies International Conference | University of Prince Edward Island (upei.ca)
  
• Bongrae Seok (Dr. Chung’s KS Lab project co-researcher), “Song Siyeol’s Theory of Moral Mind and Its Implications on Ethics of Artificial Intelligence,” resented in Panel 3 (June 28, 3:00–5:05: Confucian Ideas, Politics, Ethics of AI, and Critique of Racism) at the 2024 KS International Conference on Confucian Humanism: Korean, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, and Contemporary Reflections, Faculty Lounge, SDU Main building, University of PEI, Charlottetown, Canada, June 27–28, 2024. website: 2024 Korean Asian Studies International Conference | University of Prince Edward Island (upei.ca)
  
• Jung-Yeup Kim (Dr. Chung’s KS Lab project co-researcher), “The Religious Humanism of Three Neo-Confucian Philosophers of Gi (氣) in the Joseon Era Korea,” presented in Panel 1 (June 27, 10:35–12:10: Korean and Chinese Confucian Humanism: Metaphysical and Ethical Perspectives and Practical Implications) at the 2024 KS International Conference on Confucian Humanism: Korean, Comparative, Interdisciplinary, and Contemporary Reflections, Faculty Lounge, SDU Main Building, University of PEI, Charlottetown, Canada, June 27–28, 2024. website: 2024 Korean Asian Studies International Conference | University of Prince Edward Island (upei.ca)

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