Lengthy lecture and research trip takes Dr. Will Sweet to South and West Africa, the Middle East and India 

StFX philosophy professor Dr. William Sweet was recently featured in The Gulf Today and in Emirates Business concerning a lecture he gave in the Emirate of Sharjah on the philosophical implications of parental licensing. While in the Emirates, Dr Sweet was a guest of the American University of Sharjah.

Dr Sweet’s visit was part of a lengthy lecture and research trip that brought him to South and West Africa, the Middle East, and India. In South Africa, Dr Sweet gave a keynote address to the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa, in Johannesburg, on themes related to his recent book, The Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy of British Idealism (2009). In Ghana, he gave the keynote paper at an international conference on intercultural philosophy, held at the University of Cape Coast; while in Ghana, he met Prof Joe Amoako-Tuffour, who is currently on leave from StFX working in a senior advisory capacity to the Ghanaian government. In India, Dr Sweet was invited to lecture in Delhi, Bangalore, and Chennai on the theme of Freedom of Religion, the subject of another of his latest books, which will appear in mid-March. 

Currently on sabbatical leave, Dr Sweet will be giving invited lectures in late March at the Political Studies Association (UK) in Edinburgh, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome. In April, he has been asked to speak on contemporary challenges to intercultural philosophy at Fu Jen University in Taipei, Taiwan, during the University’s celebrations in Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Matteo Ricci; the theme of conference is “The Genesis and Development of East-West Dialogue.”