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Keynote Speakers

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Andrea L. Baldini

Professor,Director of NJU Center for Sino-Italian Cultural Studies

Doctor of Philosophy in History

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Academic affiliations and memberships:

  • Research Fellow, INTI International University (Malaysia)

  • Affiliated Member, Culinary Mind – Center for the Philosophy of Food (UNIMI, Italy)

  • Delegate-at-Large, International Association for Aesthetics (2019–2023)

  • Editorial Advisory Board, Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics

  • Editorial Board Member, Graffiti and Street Art (GSA)

  • Editorial Board Member, ESPES: The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics

  • Scientific Committee Member, Street Art and Urban Creativity (SAUC)

  • Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Inquires

  • Board Member, Association of Italian Scholars in China (2017–2020)

Research Interests:

  • Aesthetics, ethics of cultural heritage, foundations of intellectual property law, economics of art, urban creativity, and visual culture

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Holger Mathias BRIEL

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Professor Dr Holger BRIEL is Professor in Media and Communication Studies Programme. He holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Theory from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a B.A. in English and German from Eberhardt-Karls-Universität Tübingen, Germany. A portion of his graduate studies was also undertaken at the Université de Paris, Sorbonne. Previously, Dr Briel has taught at New York University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Aristotle University Thessaloniki, the University of Innsbruck, the University of Surrey, Indiana State University and Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University. He has held numerous Visiting Professorships and lectured at Oxford University, UC Berkeley, CUNY, Ateneo de Manila, the National University of Malaysia, the National University of Singapore, Universität Rostock and many others. Besides many other engagements, he continues to supervise Ph.D. and Master students in countries around the globe. He has published copiously in media and cultural studies, philosophy, the social sciences, and international management studies and remains active a as journalist for several international newspapers. For many years, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the influential IAFOR Journal of Cultural Studies and sits as an Editor and Joint Editor on many journal boards. Furthermore, he is the recipient of numerous prestigious research grants and fellowships, most recently the endowed National South Korean Senior Fellowship in Cultural Studies.

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Clive Barstow

Professor of Art, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University

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Clive Barstow is Professor of Creative Arts at Edith Cowan University, Honorary Professor of Art at the University of Shanghai Science & Technology China and Honorary Professor of Design at Guangdong Baiyun University China. Prior to moving to Australia in 1992, Clive taught at Middlesex University in London and the Kent Institute of Art and Design. He trained under Eduardo Paolozzi at the University of the Arts London (Chelsea School of Art) and holds a PhD from Griffith University Australia. Clive was Executive Dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at ECU from its inception in 2016 to 2021, prior to which he was head of the Schools of Art and Design (1998-2012) and the School of Communications and Arts (2012-2016).

He was President of the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA) Australia’s peak body for leadership in the arts from 2017-2021, and is also Director of the Open Bite Australia, which encourages the development and self-management of visual practices within a number of local indigenous communities. In 2019 Clive was awarded the lifelong fellowship award by the Australian Council for University Art & Design Schools, for his outstanding contribution to art and design education in Australia.

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