Short-bio: Jun-Hyeok Kwak is Yixian Professor of Philosophy (Zhuhai) at Sun Yat-sen University. He is also serving as the Head of Political Philosophy and Ethics at the department. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2002. Before joining SYSU in 2016, he taught various universities including Korea University. His research interests lie at the crossroads of political philosophy from Socrates to Machiavelli, contemporary political theories, ethics, and comparative philosophy. He has published numerous articles and books, including “Individuality with Relationality” (Philosophy East and West 2023), “Confucian Role-Ethics with Non-Domination” (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 2022), “Global Justice without Self-centrism” (Dao 2021), “Deliberation with Persuasion: the ‘Political’ in Aristotle’s Politics” (Australian Journal of Political Science 2021), Machiavelli in Northeast Asia (Routledge 2022), Leo Strauss in Northeast Asia (Routledge 2020), and Global Justice in East Asia (Routledge 2019). Currently, he is serving as General Editor of the Routledge Series of Political Theories in East Asian Context and co-editor of Journal of Social and Political Philosophy. Title: Political Emotion and Democratic Civility Abstract: This special workshop seeks to establish a value formative forum for cross cultural dialogues about the relationship of political emotion with democratic civility. More specifically, by taking seriously the idea that the reliable enjoyment of democratic freedom requires more than the existence of laws that stake out of the areas of basic political rights in which we are to be morally and politically autonomous to make our own choice without interference, we will consider how emotions in the public sphere, which also include interactive feelings that give rise to negative attitudes in relationship with others, and habits of democratic deliberation, which are bound to foster the legitimation of law by providing citizens with a discursive stance about sociopolitical injustices without relegating disagreement to irreconcilable conflict. On the one hand, we seek an alternative view to the currently dominant view of feelings in that emotion in our political and public lives, as opposed to reason or rational thinking, has been taken for granted as something harmful to democratic deliberation. Particularly, we are searching for a set of moral and ethical principles with which the roles of political emotions can be salutary to our relationship with other fellow citizens or at least not harmful to having a healthy and fair reciprocity between citizens in democratic society. On the other hand, we are keen to investigate our senses of social justices and injustices that shed lights on the roles of negative emotions in disempowering an asymmetric relationship between citizens in democratic society. Surely, not all struggles for recognition promote what we can say about democratically healthy relationship between citizens. Thus, although we are looking carefully at the resentment of those who feel loss of dignity or respect due to actual experiences of sociopolitical domination, we also carry out inquiries to find out a democratically desirable way through which political emotions against sociopolitical injustices can be steered to promote conflict resolution through democratic deliberation.