Upcoming Speaking Engagements
2009-2010
September 26-30 – “Nature in Hegel” conference, Fortelza, Brazil. “On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire Itself’ (‘Begierde überhaupt’)
October 6 – Lionel Trilling Seminar, Columbia University. “Who Cares Who Shot Liberty Valance? The Heroic and the Prosaic in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”
October 23 – University of California, San Diego. “What is Conceptual Activity? Dreyfus and McDowell; Heidegger and Hegel.”
October 24 – Pacific Study Group, North American Kant Society; University of California, San Diego. “On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire Itself’ (Begierde überhaupt’)”
January 13 - University of California, Riverside, Bernd Magnus Lecture. "Nietzsche on the Possibility of Self-Deception."
January 25 – Siemens Stiftung, Munich. TBD.
February 26-27 – Kalamazoo College. Conference on Hegel’s Practical Philosophy.
April 5-9 - University of Virginia, Page-Barbour Lectures. Three lectures: “Agency and Fate in Film Noir.”
April 29-30 – University of Chicago, conference. “Kant on Intuition.”
2008-09
September 5,6,7 – Stockholm Hegel Conference, “Translating Hegel:
The Phenomenology of Spirit and Modern Philosophy”, “On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire in General’ (‘Begierde überhaupt)”
September 8 – Helsinki Hegel Workshop, “On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire in General’ (‘Begierde überhaupt)”
September 25-28 – Sils Maris, Switzerland, Nietzsche Conference (“Nach neuen Meeren: Nietzsche’s Aufbrüche”), “Nietzsches neue Psychologie als “Erste Philosophie”: Das Problem der Selbsttäuschung”
October 19 – Graham School, University of Chicago, “Who Cares Who Shot Liberty Valance? The Heroic and the Prosaic in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.”
October 22-24 – Seattle University, “The Politics of Self-Knowledge in John Ford’s The Searchers.”
October 29 – Newberry Library, Chicago, “The Politics of Self-Knowledge in John Ford’s The Searchers.”
October 30 – Union College, “On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire in General’ (‘Begierde überhaupt)”
November 3-4 - Hilldale College, “The Politics of Self-Knowledge in John Ford’s The Searchers.”
November 5 - "Vico Lecture," York University, "Political Psychology, American Myth, and Hollywood Westerns: Politics and Truth in John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"
November 6 – Northampton, MA , American Society for Aesthetics, Comments on Richard Eldridge’s, Literature, Life, and Modernity
November 7-8 – Colgate University, Kokonas Symposium (With R. Brandom and J. McDowell), On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire in General’ (‘Begierde überhaupt)”
November 12-16 – International Hegel Conference, Istanbul, “On Hegel’s Claim that Self-Consciousness is ‘Desire in General’ (‘Begierde überhaupt)”
December 27-30 – American Philosophical Association, Commentator in Author Meets Critics session on Alice Crary’s Beyond Moral Judgment
--and, Society for Systematic Philosophy, Symposium on the Closing Argument of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Developmental Justification: The Idea of a 'Logic of Experience' in Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes.
April and May 2009 – Amsterdam, in residence as “Spinoza Chair,” two public lectures and eight week seminar
April 17 - Nijmegen, Netherlands, "Nietzsche on the Possibility of Self-Deceit."
May 7 - Amsterdam, "The Paradoxes of Power in the Early Novels of J.M. Coetzee," The University of Amsterdam, Department of English
May 15 - University of Paris (I), “The Politics of Self-Knowledge in John Ford’s The Searchers.”
May 20-25 – Berlin, Workshop on the Dreyfus-McDowell Exchange, “What is Conceptual Activity? ”
May 27 – Zürich, Switzerland, “Politische Autorität und Kritische Theorie. Hegelianische Überlegungen”
June 29-30 – Paris, International conference, “Hegel, avec ou sans metaphysique”, “L’idéalisme infini et fini”
July 6-9 - Southampton, England, "Nietzsche and Approaches to Ethics," "Nietzsche on the Possibility of Self-Deception"
2007-08
June 7-10, 2007 - Einsteinforum, Potsdam. Conference on "Character." "John Ford's The Searchers and the Problem of Ethan's 'Character'."
August 31 - American Political Science Association; panel discussion: "Modernity as a Crossdisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Concept." With Geoffrey Harpham, Michael Alan Gillespie, and Moishe Postone.
September 5-9 - Conference on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Santiago, Chile. "A 'Logic' of Experience? On Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit."
September 10-13 - Hegel Society of Great Britain. "A 'Logic' of Experience? On Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit."
October 5-7 - Conference in Honor of Henry Allison, University of California, San Diego. "Developmental Justification: The Idea of a 'Logic of Experience' in Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes"
October 11 - Catholic University of America. "Political Psychology and American Myth: The Right to Rule in Howard Hawks' Red River ."
October 12 - SUNY Binghampton. ""Political Psychology and American Myth: The Right to Rule in Howard Hawks' Red River .""
October - Italian-American Philosophy Conference, "Autonomy of Reason? Judgment in Logics, Aesthetics, Ethics, Right and Politics, "Developmental Justification: The Idea of a 'Logic of Experience' in Hegel's Phänomenologie des Geistes," Villa Mondragone, Rome, Italy.
November 1-2 - Robert T. Harris Lecture in Social and Political Philosophy. Miami University (Ohio). "Political Psychology and American Myth: The Right to Rule in Howard Hawks' Red River ."
November 9-10 - NYU, Conference on "The Problem of Aesthetic Judgment." "The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel's Aesthetics."
November 19-20 - "Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Today," Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos, University of Coimbra, Portugal. "A 'Logic' of Experience? On Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit."
November 29-30 - Bologna, Conference on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, "A 'Logic' of Experience? On Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit."
December 27-30 - North American Nietzsche Society, Eastern Division, American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, Maryland. "Author Meetcs Critics," A session on my Nietzsche, moraliste français: La conception nietzschéenne d'une psychologie philosophique, commentators: Lanier Anderson, Jim Conant, Christa Davis Acampora
January 24 , 2008 - lecture, California College of the Arts,"Political Psychology and American Myth: Who Cares Who Shot Liberty Valance?"
February 8-9 - Nietzsche conference ("Nietzsche: Style and Thought"), University of Chicago - "Baubo Logic: What is Hidden in Plain Sight in Nietzsche's Texts"
February 18-29, 2008 - Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University (Four lectures) "Political Psychology and American Myth: Violence and Order in Hollywood Westerns. "
March 6-7, 2008 - University of Indiana, "Political Psychology and American Myth: Who Cares Who Shot Liberty Valance?"
March 14, 2008 - Georgetown University, "Politics and Self-Knowledge in John Ford's The Searchers."
March 20-22, 2008 - Queen's University, "Hegel's Social Theory of Agency." (Conference Cancelled)
March 24-5, 2008 - University of North Carolina, "Who Cares Who Shot Liberty Valance?"
April 3, 2008 - Sarah Lawrence, "Politics and Self-Knowledge in John Ford's The Searchers"
April 7-14, 2008 – Donnellan Lectures, Trinity College, Dublin (Three lectures on Hegel)
May 1-2, 2008 - Boston University - "Hidden in Plain Sight: Nietzsche's Style"
May 9-11, 2008 - University of Toronto, "The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel's Aesthetics."
May 12-16, 2008 - University of Chicago - "Political Psychology and American Myth" - Three lectures (MWF) on Hollywood Westerns.
May 26-28, 2008 - Berlin, "The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel's Aesthetics"; May29-30 - University of Warwick, conference on Hegel on Truth, "Literary Truth in Hegel's Phenomenology."
June 17, 2008 - University of Cologne - "Die Abswesenheit der Ästhetik in Hegels Ästhetik"
June 19, 2008 - University of Heidelberg - "Die Abswesenheit der Ästhetik in Hegels Ästhetik"
July 9, 2008 - Universtity of Newcastle - "Hegel's Social Theory of Agency"
July 10 - University of Manchester - "The Unboundedness of the Conceptual: On Finite and Absolute Idealism"
July 17-20 - Asilomar, CA. - "The Unboundedness of the Conceptual: On Finite and Absolute Idealism"