Supervisor
Victoria Harrison
Jan Gresil KAHAMBING, 简玄宾
Education
Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macau
M.A. in Philosophy (summa cum laude), Holy Name University
Ph.L. Licentiate in Philosophy (magna cum laude), University of Santo Tomas
Bachelor in Sacred Theology (magna cum laude), University of Santo Tomas
Bachelor in Philosophy (magna cum laude), University of Santo Tomas
Bachelor of Arts Classical (magna cum laude), University of Santo Tomas
Certified Enduring Materials/Courses Completed
PhD (ECTS credits) Aesthetic Experience and Aesthetics of Slowness, Aalborg University
International Summer School on Doing World Philosophy Today, East China Normal University
Decolonizing Global Health, Harvard Medical School
Scientific Expeditions for Conservation, National Geographic
Green Fiscal Policy, United Nations Institute for Training and Research
Research Interests
Posthumanism, Museology, Philosophy of Curation, Health Humanities, Religious and Cultural Studies
2024 Contributing Expert, Artificial Intelligence and Health Communication Postdoctoral Project, University of Zurich
2021 – present Teaching and Research Assistant, University of Macau
2021 – present Editorial Assistant (Philosophy of Religion), Philosophy Compass
2017 – 2022 Museum Director, Research Coordinator for Social Sciences and Values Education, and Instructor, Leyte Normal University
2021 Human Rights, Communication and Media Intern, Sikh Human Rights Group, ECOSOC United Nations
2018 – present Editorial Board, Discover Global Society (Springer), Editor International Journal of Humanity Studies; Reviewer (inter alia): Journal of Posthuman Studies, Asian Bioethics Review, Environmental Challenges, Discover Mental Health, Journal of Public Health (Oxford), BMC Medical Ethics, Scientific Reports (Nature), Journal of Affective Disorders, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature), Digital Health, Sustainability: Science Practice and Policy, Asian Journal of Psychiatry
2019 – 2020 Editorial Consultant, Tugahala: The Official Publication of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cebu
2016 Guidance Counselor and Instructor for Social Anthropology, Far Eastern Polytechnic College
2011 – 2015 Managing Editor, The OWL; Editor-in-Chief, Veritatis Amor; Editor, The Thomasian Philosopher, University of Santo Tomas
2019, 2020, 2022 Researcher of the Year, Leyte Normal University
2021 Top Prize in Poetry, University of Macau
2021 Top Performing Scholarship Grantee, Department of Science and Technology
2018, 2019 Best Paper Award, University of San Jose-Recoletos
2013 Rector’s Academic Award, University of Santo Tomas
2008 Top Prize in Chemistry, Saint Joseph College
Monograph
Kahambing, J.G. (2014). Nietzsche’s Casts of Promising Towards an Eternal Vow. University of Santo Tomas.
Book Chapters
Kahambing, J.G. (2021). Nietzsche on Actively Forgetting One’s Promise (of Love). In Soraj Hongladarom & Jeremiah Joven Joaquin (eds.) Love and Friendship across Cultures: Perspectives from East and West. Springer.
Kahambing, J.G. (2018). Diaspora as Vanishing Mediator: Emancipation of Identity for the Mamanuas of Basey, Samar. In Galang-Pereña, F., Ampil, R., Gonzales, E., & Lazaro-Zamora, N. (eds.) Philippines and Asian Studies: Expositions, Explorations, and Expectations (pp. 183-200). Word Prints Publishing Services, Inc.
Journal articles
Kahambing, J.G. (2024). Truth, Perspectivism, and Scientific Knowledge on Health. Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health 32, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2023.100964
Kahambing, J.G. (2023). Supporting African Thought with Migrant Indigenous Knowledge on dead human bodies research. Developing World Bioethics 23(3), https://doi.org/10.1111/dewb.12402
Kahambing, J.G. (2023). Decolonizing Public and Planetary Health, or Chthulucene mediations. Journal of Public Health (Oxford), https://doi.org/10.1093/pubmed/fdad057
Kahambing, J.G. (2022). Heidegger’s Spectral Abyss: Grounding the (Strange) Return of the Subject and Object in the Žižek & Harman duel/duet. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 18(1), 302-330.
Kahambing, J.G. (2022). The Roc’s Egg as Vanishing Mediator in Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from Text to Film. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/13530194.2022.2079115
Kahambing, J.G. (2021). Final and Larval Spectrality in Albert Camus’ The Fall. Neophilologus: An International Journal of Modern and Medieval Language and Literature 105(1), 19-26.
Kahambing, J.G. (2021). Epilepsy, Forgetting, and Convalescence in Ondaatje’s Warlight. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 13(2), 1-11.
Kahambing, J.G. (2020). The abyss, or the insufficiency of ethical nihilism for Nietzsche’s Übermensch. Ethics and Bioethics (in Central Europe) 10(3-4), 155-172.
Kahambing, J.G. (2020). Exclusion, Penance, and the Box: Retracing Mercy in the Birth of the Confessional. Scientia: International Journal on the Liberal Arts 9(1), 38-49.
Kahambing, J.G. (2019). Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of the Icon as an Apologia for Quiapo’s Black Nazarene Traslación. Prajñā Vihāra: Journal of Philosophy and Religion 20(2), 13-31.
Kahambing, J.G. (2019). Derrida and/to Žižek on the Spectral Victim of Human Rights in Anil’s Ghost. International Journal of Žižek Studies 13(3), 1-16.