DrDaniel Canaris

PhD, University of Sydney

Daniel Canaris is an intellectual historian specialising in Sino-Western cultural exchange, as well as the Italian Enlightenment and Renaissance. He completed his PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Sydney in 2017 and has been awarded fellowships by the University Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Warburg Institute (University of London), the Sun Yat-sen University, the Ricci Insitute for Chinese-Western Cultural History (University of San Francisco), Villa I Tatti (Harvard; declined) and Boston College. He currently holds two ARC grants. As part of his ARC DECRA award, he is working on translations of the Aristotelian soul into Chinese. As part of his Discovery Project (with Francesco Borghesi, Yixu Lu and Thierry Meynard), he is working on the translation and reception of Confucian classics into Europe and manages the digital database, textus-sinici.org.