Selected Presentations & Appearances
Stitching the Past to the Present: Caryl Phillips speaks with Corina Stan (JP)
· November 11, 2021
Broadcast Appearance
Novel Dialogue,
On Tact in Dark Times
- Exploring Self and Community in Dark Times
· November 9, 2020
Invited Talk
Duke University,
Zoom
An Experiment in Allowing Oneself to Be Told Something
- Alone Together Workshop
· September 17, 2020
- September 18, 2020
Invited Talk
University of Kent,
Zoom
Affordances of a New Language: Abbas Khider’s Claim to Community in Deutsch für alle
- Works-in-Progress Series
· September 10, 2020
Invited Talk
Duke-UNC German Program,
Zoom
“Seventeenth-Century Literature after Modernism”
· November 8, 2018
- November 10, 2018
Invited Talk
Modernist Studies Association Conference,
Columbus, Ohio
“Decadence, the ‘end of the West’, and the Refugee Crisis”
- Symposium on Philosophy, Arts, and Literature
· October 6, 2018
- October 7, 2018
Invited Talk
Boston University,
"Novels in the Translation Zone: From Der falsche Inder to Ohrfeige (Abbas Khider)"
- Refugee Literature Workshop
· July 6, 2017
- July 8, 2017
Other
GIS MOMM Congress,
Paris
An Art of Distances: Heidegger, Plessner, Barthes
- Uncommon Communities
· January 5, 2017
- January 8, 2017
Other
MLA Convention,
Philadelphia
A Travesty of Innocence
· November 17, 2016
- November 20, 2016
Invited Talk
MSA,
Pasadena
On Some Philosophical Problems in Contemporary Historical Fiction: The Seventeenth Century, Our Contemporary
· July 21, 2016
- July 26, 2016
Other
ICLA,
Vienna
A Travesty of Innocence: Pierrot Lunaire
· February 15, 2016
Invited Talk
English Department,
Duke University
The Lures of Polyphony: Socrates, Joyce, Schönberg
- Approaches towards the Global in European and Chinese Modernisms
· July 9, 2015
- July 10, 2015
Lecture
Dahlem Humanities Center,
Free University
The Art de Vivre Bourgeois as an Anachronism
- Comment vivre ensemble
· June 15, 2015
- June 16, 2015
Lecture
French-Norwegian Program in Social Sciences and Humanities, Maison des sciences de l'homme,
Paris
Poetic Injustice: the Loss of Immunity in the Contemporary Novel
- Immunity and Modernity: Picturing Threat and Protection
· May 27, 2015
- May 29, 2015
Other
Leuven,
Belgium
The Ship of Fools: Precarious Lives in 1660s/1980s Britain
- The Humble in 19th- to 21st-Century British Literature and Arts
· March 27, 2015
- March 28, 2015
Other
Montpellier
How to Live with Others: A History of Interpersonal Distance
· February 10, 2015
Invited Talk
Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature (PAL),
Duke University
Rethinking the Moral Subject: Agnes Heller’s Ethics of Personality
- Annual conference of the Dutch Research School of Philosophy
· November 7, 2014
- November 8, 2014
Other
OZSW,
Nijmegen
A Passionate Misunderstanding: Ordinary Men in Paris, China
- Finite, Singular, Exposed: Who’s Afraid of the Modernist Individual?
· October 30, 2014
- October 31, 2014
Other
Córdoba, Spain
England (as if) through a Foreigner's Eyes: George Orwell's 'Masquerade' among the Poor of London
- State of Britain: Representing / Writing Britain in the 20th and 21st Centuries
· October 24, 2014
- October 25, 2014
Other
Denis Diderot,
Paris
Gossip, the Deaf Waiter and the Blind Tuner: the 'Modality of the Audible' as Communal Space in Joyce’s Ulysses
- Modernist Communities
· April 24, 2014
- April 26, 2014
Other
Société d'Etudes Modernistes, Sorbonne Nouvelle,
Paris
The Child at the Threshold: Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood Around 1900”
- Benjamin’s Figures and the Crisis of the Humanities
· August 28, 2013
- August 30, 2013
Other
Leiden University,
Inside the Whale: Orwell’s Paris, Miller’s China
- AILC
· July 18, 2013
- July 24, 2013
Other
Comparatisme et malentendu”/ “Comparativism and misunderstanding”,
Paris
The End of Western Culture: Canetti, Wat, Eliade
- Telos: The Legacy of the West
· September 7, 2012
- September 9, 2012
Other
L’Aquila, Italy
Matter of Distances: Adorno and Barthes on How to Live with Others
· March 29, 2012
- April 1, 2012
Other
ACLA,
Brown University
Authenticity and Its Discontents in Elias Canetti’s Autodafé and Crowds and Power
· March 1, 2010
- March 4, 2010
Other
ACLA,
New Orleans
Outside and Beyond Moral Philosophy: Agnes Heller’s Ethics of Personality and the Good Reader as a Lucky Throw of the Dice
- ACLA
· March 26, 2009
- March 28, 2009
Other
Harvard University ,
Cambridge
A Socialism of Distances: on the Virtues of Phronêsis, Délicatesse, and Love”. Young Scholars Workshop
· February 19, 2009
- February 20, 2009
Other
PAL,
Duke University
Limits of Empathy: the Other’s Shoes, the Other’s Skin, and the Skeptical Voice in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
- Sich in die Haut der anderen einfuehlen. Narrative Merkmale von Empathie – Empathie als Voraussetzung von Narration
· July 2, 2008
- July 4, 2008
Other
International Center for Research in the Humanities,
Vienna
The Body as a Measure of Truth: Orwell, Morand, and the Poor of London”. British Bodies
· April 4, 2008
- April 5, 2008
Other
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
Champaign
Standing Apart: Unsocial Sociability and Other ‘Distances’ in the Poetry of Philip Larkin”. Larkin’s Elsewheres
· June 29, 2007
- July 1, 2007
Other
Third Hull International Conference on the Work of Philip Larkin,
UK
Digging Up Utopia: Necessary Revolutions in 1640s/1960s Britain
- 13th Annual Graduate Conference on Language and Literature: New Worlds, Lost Worlds: Discovery, Change, and Loss in Literature
· March 10, 2007
- March 11, 2007
Other
McGill University,
Montreal
The Man Who Collected Stones: the Disposable Everyday and Other Social Disorders
- Un/Common Experience: The Dross and the Glory of Everyday Life
· February 16, 2007
- February 17, 2007
Other
New York University,
Metamorphic Representations of History. The ‘Forgotten’ Revolution
- Transformations and Mutations
· January 28, 2005
- January 30, 2005
Other
Annual Conference of the Duke Graduate Program in Romance Studies,
Duke University
Grafting the Self: Subversive Intertextual Alliances in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the Cherry
- Constructing Images of the Self
· February 20, 2004
- February 22, 2004
Other
Annual Conference of the Duke Graduate Program in Romance Studies,
Duke University