Keynote Speakers
Andrea L. Baldini
Professor,Director of NJU Center for Sino-Italian Cultural Studies
Doctor of Philosophy in History
Academic affiliations and memberships:
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Research Fellow, INTI International University (Malaysia)
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Affiliated Member, Culinary Mind – Center for the Philosophy of Food (UNIMI, Italy)
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Delegate-at-Large, International Association for Aesthetics (2019–2023)
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Editorial Advisory Board, Bloomsbury History of Modern Aesthetics
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Editorial Board Member, Graffiti and Street Art (GSA)
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Editorial Board Member, ESPES: The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics
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Scientific Committee Member, Street Art and Urban Creativity (SAUC)
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Editorial Board Member, Philosophical Inquires
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Board Member, Association of Italian Scholars in China (2017–2020)
Research Interests:
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Aesthetics, ethics of cultural heritage, foundations of intellectual property law, economics of art, urban creativity, and visual culture
Professor Shadiev Rustam Narzikulovich
Zhejiang University, China
Prof. Rustam Shadiev earned his Ph.D. in Network Learning Technology from National Central University in 2012. He is currently a Tenured Professor at the College of Education, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, specializing in advanced learning technologies for language learning and cross-cultural education. Prof. Shadiev is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). In 2019, he was honored with the title of Distinguished Professor of Jiangsu Province, China. Further, he has been recognized as one of the most cited Chinese researchers in the field of education by Elsevier, Scopus, and Shanghai Rating for four consecutive years, from 2020 to 2023.
Clive Barstow
Professor of Art, School of Arts and Humanities, Edith Cowan University
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.