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Commentator on Merold Westphal, Overcoming Ontotheology, Fordham University Press, 2001, at Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, November 2003.
"Emmanuel Levinas and the Culture of the
Copy," Invited address, SPEP group meeting, American Philosophical
Association, Philadelphia PA, December 2002.
Invited speaker, "Autochthony and Welcome: Discourses of
Exile in Derrida and Levinas." Commentator on Francoise
Meltzer, For Fear of Fire, both at annual meeting, American Academy of
Religion, Toronto, 2002 (presented in absentia).
"Panelist "The Anthropic Cosmological Principle:
Life and the Cosmos"; respondant, session, "Virtual
Immortality" both at annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion,
Denver, Co, November 2001.
Dickinson Scholar at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May,
2-5, 2001. Discussions of my recent work (the subject of a trimester course)
and public lecture.
Invited Speaker, conference, "Reflections
on the Future of the Study of Religion," Bowdoin
College, Brunswick, Maine, April 2001.
Invited speaker, "The Double Bind of Obligation: Incursions
of Alterity at symposium "The Problem of Evil and
Modernity" Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, April,
2002.
"Between Swooner and Cynics: The Art of Envisioning God,"
Rockwell Fund Lecture, Rice University, March, 2001 (to be published,
Trinity Press).
Panel presentations: "Philosophy of Religion Today: Trends
and Directions" and "Postmodern Secular Theology"
at annual meeting, American Academy of Religion, November, 2000.
"From Neoplatonic Souls to Souls in Silico,"
Conference on Religion and Postmodernism, Lancaster, England, July 2000.
Proceedings to be published, Blackwell, ed. Philip Goodchild.
Special Lectures (with John D. Caputo) at Honors College, Portland State
University, Portland OR, March, 2000.
Respondant to essays of John Milbank, Graham Ward and Catherine Pickstock
on the theology of radical orthodoxy. American Academy of Religion annual
meeting, Boston, MA. November, 1999.
"Pythagorean Bodies and the Body of Altruism,"
Templeton Fund conference, "Empathy, Altruism, Agape," Boston,
MA, October 1-2, 1999. Proceedings to be published, Oxford Press.
Annual Department of Religion lecture, Boston University, Boston MA.,
September, 1999.
Keynote address, "Texts in Transit: From Academy to Religious
Experience and Back" at Conference "Method as Path:
Religious Experience and Hermeneutical Discourse," New York University,
April 16, 1999. Proceedings to be published.
Panelist "Reason after Revelation", American Academy of Religion,
Orlando, FL, November 1998.
"History, Memory Community: A Passion for the Dead Other,"
at conference "Remembering the Past, Celebrating the Future,"
University of Texas, El Paso, October, 1998. Proceedings, published Greenwood
Press.
"An Ethics of Remembering: History and the Heterological
Historian," at conference "Ethics and History,"
Emory University, Atlanta, GA, April, 1998.
"From Concept to Image in the Choreography of Merce Cunningham"
at conference, "Postmodernism in the Twenty-first Century,"
University of Geissen, Germany. To be published in conference proceedings,
eds. A. Hornung and G. Hoffman, Universitatsverlag, C. Winter, 2001. Revised
version, World Conference of Philosophy, Boston, August, 1998. Proceedings
published.
Paper, "Corporeality, Transcendence and the Glory of the
Infinite in Levinas's Philosophy," American Philosophical
Association, December 1997. Revised version published in proceedings,
ed. Marco Olivetti, of Enrico Castelli conference on Incarnation, University
of Rome, Italy, January, 1998.
"Eating the Text, Defiling the Hands: Specters in Schoenberg's
Opera Moses and Aron," Conference, "Religion
and Postmodernism," Villanova University, September,
1997. Conference articles to be published, Fordham University Press, ed.
John D. Caputo.
Plenary speaker: "'If I am not for myself who will be for
me and if I am only for myself who am I': an Introduction to the Philosophy
of Emmanuel Levinas," July, 1997, Institut Kirche und Judentum,
Humboldt Universitat zu Berlin. Earlier version presented at Calvin College
conference on postmodern philosophy and Christian Thought, Grand Rapids,
Michigan, April 1997; proceedings, ed. Merold Westphal, published by Indiana
University Press, 1999.
Keynote Address, "Back to the Future: The Archaic in Heidegger
and Levinas," at conference "Philosophy at the Close
of the Millenium," inaugurating Program in Continental Philosophy,
University of Texas, Austin, March, 1997
Comments on John Caputo's "Prayers and Tears of Jacques
Derrida," at American Philosophical Association, Eastern
Division, Atlanta, December 1996. Revised version of "Work of John
C. Caputo" at meeting of Society of Phenomenological and Existential
Philosophy, October, 1996.
"The Sacralization of Texts," respondant to
panel "Holocaust, Genocide and Radical Theology: Assessing the 'Death
of God Movement' Thirty Years Later" at American Academy of Religion
annual meeting, November, 1996. To be published Greenwood Press eds. Stephen
Haynes and John K. Roth, 1999.
"Pre- and Post: What Do the Modernisms Have to say to the
Study of Religion?" Panel presentation at American Academy
of Religion annual meeting, November, 1996.
"Blind Man Seeing: From Chiasm to the Hyperreal."
Plenary address at conference on Merleau Ponty, University of Memphis,
Memphis TN, September 1996. Scheduled for Publication, SUNY Press, 1999,
Eds. Fred Evans, Leonard Lawlor.
"Fear of Primitives, Primitive Fears: Anthropology in Heidegger
and Levinas," Conference on "Emotion and Postmodernism,"
University of Mainz, Germany, January 8-10, 1996; earlier versions at
Sixth International Comparative Literature Conference on "A-Dieu:
Theology and Philosophy in Heidegger, Derrida, Levinas," SUNY Buffalo,
April 8, 1995; Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October,
1995.
"The Demise of the Aufhebung and the Rise of the Between:
From Ethics to Philosophy of Religion in Martin Buber,"
Colloque International "Enrico Castelli", University of Rome,
4-7 January 1996.
Respondent to discussion, "Ethical Thought of Edith Wyschogrod
and John Caputo," American Academy of Religion, annual meeting,
November, 1995.
Co-present with Rice grad student Mary Ann Clark, comments and demo,
"Integrating the Net into the Religion Classroom: Notes from
the Field," American Academy of Religion, annual meeting,
November, 1995.
"Dwellers, Drifters, Nomads: Home in the Age of the Refugee,"
in series "The Longing for Home," Boston University Philosophy
and Religion lecture series, April, 19, 1995. Broadcast National Public
Radio, April 30, 1995.
Respondent to papers by Terence Tilley, Richard Kieckhefer and Theresa
Sanders at Roman Catholic Studies session on my Saints and Postmodernism,
American Academy of Religion, Chicago, November, 1994.
"Taking the Lowroad, Neville and Postmodernism,"
at session on Robert Neville's Theology, American Academy of Religion,
Chicago, November 1994.
"History, Memory, Revelation: Writing the Past,"
at international conference on philosophy and revelation, Instituto di
Studi Filosofici "Enrico Castelli," Rome, Italy January 1994.
Revised and expanded version, plenary address, Crown-Minow Conference,
on uses and misuses of memory in Christianity and Judaism, Notre Dame
University, March, 1994; plenary addresss Southwest regional meeting,
American Academy of Religion, April, 1994.
Respondant to the work of Al Lingis, Society for Philosophy and Phenomenological
Research, New Orleans, October, 1993
"The Art in Ethics, Literary Language and the Other,"
paper at International Conference, "Ethics as First Philosophy? The
Significance of Emmanuel Levinas for Philosophy, Literature and Religion,"
Chicago, IL, May 1993. Earlier version presented at Institute for Sociology,
Warsaw, 1990.
Plenary address, "The Howl of Oedipus, the Cry of Heloise:
From Asceticism to Postmodern Ethics," at conference, "Asceticism,"
Union Theological Seminary, April 1993.
"Towards a Postmodern Ethics: Corporeality and Alterity,"
invited paper at conference, "Postmodernism and Ethics," University
of Wurzburg, Wurzburg, Germany, January, 1993.
Plenary address, "Religion and Personhood,"
Thirteenth National Workshop on Christian-Jewish Relations, November,
1992.
Adriaan Peperzak, Mark C. Taylor, commentators at session, "The
Work of Edith Wyschogrod" at Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, October, 1992.
Invited Lecture, "The Healing of Philosophy: Saintly Lives
and Moral Action," Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah,
April, 1, 1992.
Invited lecture, "Faces, Bodies, Saints, Some Reflections,"
Addison Locke Roache Memorial Lectures, University of Indiana South Bend,
February, 1992.
Plenary address, Metropolitan Round Table, American Catholic Philosophical
Society, December, 1991.
Commentator on Eugene Borowitz, Renewing the Covenant
(Philadelphia: Jewish Publications Society, 1991) at American Academy
of Religion, November, 1991.
"The Double Discourse of Depravity: On Teaching Genet,"
Boston University conference, "Tainted Greatness," Boston, MA,
April, 1991.
Plenary address, "Hellenism, Hasidism, Holocaust,"
conference, "Judaism and Modernization," University of Alabama
at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa, AL, April, 1991.
Panel member, "Europa und Widerstand: Getrennte Welten"
at Weisse Rose Conferenz, Universitat Hamburg at Hamburg, Germany,
February, 1991.
Commentator on Alphonso Lingis, Deathbound Subjectivity
(Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1989) at Society for Phenomenology
and Existential Philosophy, Villanova University October 1990
Invited lecture, "Emmanuel Levinas and Religious Language"
at Sociological Institute, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland,
June 1990.
"Corporeality and Suffering in Women Saints," at
conference "Saints and Amazons," CUNY Graduate Center, New York,
May, 1990
"Works that Faith: The Grammar of Ethics in Judaism"
at conference "Faith and Works," Association for Religion in
Intellectual Life (ARIL), San Fransisco, CA. April, 1990.
Plenary address, American Academy of Religion, "Man Made
Mass Death: Shifting Concepts of Community," annual meeting,
Anaheim CA, November, 1989.
"How to Say No in French, The Lineage of Negative Theology
in Derrida," annual meeting, American Academy of Religion,
Anaheim, CA, November, 1989.
"Is There a Future for Continental Ethics?"
Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, October,
1989.
Invited lecture "Saints and Stories: Towards a Postmodern
Ethics" in "Philosopher's Holiday" series, Vassar
College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April, 1989.
Panel discussion of my Spirit in Ashes; Hagel, Heideggerand Man-
Made Mass Death at Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Northwestern University Evanston, IL, October, 1989.
"Exemplary Individuals and the Moral Life,"
Lecture Series
at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington D.C., April, 1988; Fordham University,
Lincoln Center, March 1988 and Rose Hill Campus, March, 1988.
"Mass Death and the Autonomous Self," Boston
University Colloquium on Philosophy and Religion, Boston, February, 1988.
Response to Robert Lifton, "The Nazi Doctors,"
Woodrow Wilson Center, December 1987.
Invited lecture, "Mass Death and Self," Williams
College, Williamstown, Mass. November, 1987
"Theology and the Erotic: A Response to Alphonso Lingis'
Excesses" American Academy Of Religion, annual
meeting, Boston, November, 1987.
"From the Disaster to the Other: Tracing the Name of God
in Levinas," at Fifth Annual Symposium of Duquesne University,
Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center, March, 1987.
"Empathy: Psychoanalytic and Phenomenological Perspectives,"
Symposium of New York Psychoanalytic Academy of Medicine, November,
1986.
"The Ontological Argument: A Lacanian Analysis," plenary
session, American Academy of Religion, Atlanta, November, 1986.
Two day discussion of my Spirit in Ashes, Seattle University,
Seattle, Washington, May 1986; (Inaugural address, Pigott McCone Lecture
Series, "Mass Death: Changing Concepts of Selfhood"). Lecture
also presented at St. John's University, March,1986; Karen Horney Institute
for Psychoanalysis, March, 1987. Earlier version at American Academy of
Religion, December, 1982.
"Saints as Carnal Generals," American Academy
of Religion session on Philosophy of Religion and Phenomenology, December,
1986.
"Nominalism in Quine, Derrida and the Yogacara Logicians,"
workshop on Derrida's Grammatology and Buddhism, Society for
Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, November, 1985.
"Soft Nominalism in Quine and the School of Dignaga,"
New Jersey Philosophical Association, November, 1985.
Reply to Martin Golding's "On the Idea of Moral Pathology,"
Conference on the Holocaust, Queens College, CUNY, Flushing,
NY, April, 1985.
"Non Being in Mishima and Genet," at Society
for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Honolulu, Hawaii, August. 1984.
"The Problem of Generality in Levinas and Merleau Ponty,"
at the Merleau Ponty Circle, New School for Social Research, New York,
December 1983.
Directed two workshops at American Association of Teachers of Philosophy
on the teaching of philosophy through literature, University of North
Carolina, Boone, North Carolina, August, 1982.
"Deconstructing Philosophical and Literary Tradition,"
Symposium on Modes of Inquiry and Validation in the Humanities, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 1981.
"Equality, Repression and Culture," at symposium,
"The Genesis of Genius: The Relationship between Culture and Society
in America and the West" at National Humanities Center, Research
Triangle Park, North Carolina, April, 1981.
"Is Man Infinite: A Phenomenological Perspective,"
at plenary session of The American Catholic Philosophical Association,
April, 1981.
"God and 'Being's Move' in the Theology of Emmanuel Levinas,"
at session "Uses of Phenomenology for the Philosophy of
Religion," at annual meeting, American Academy of Religion, Dallas,
Texas, November, 1980 and at Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Ottawa, November, 1980.
Comments on the "The Double Game, Psychoanalysis and Deconstruction,"
paper by Alan Bass at National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysts,
New York, June, 1980.
Comments on "The Yogacara and Hua yen Infrastructure of
Dogen's Shobogenzo," paper by David Dillworth at Long Island
Philosophical Society, Hofstra University,NewYork,April, 1980.
Comments on "The Triadic Nature of the Analytic Process,"
paper by Norman Kelman at the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New
York, December, 1979.
"Concentration Camps and the End of the Life World,"
Association for Programs in Public Philosophy, Eastern Division
of the American Philosophical Association, New York, December, 1979.
"The Moral Self in Emmanuel Levinas and Hermann Cohen,"
at Jewish Studies Association, Boston, December, 1979 and Long Island
Philosophical Society, April 1979.
Participant at symposium on Religious Studies and the Humanities on "The
Text and its Interpretation," SUNY at Stony Brook, October, 1979.
"Women and Existentialism." Guest speaker,
Philosophy Lecture Series of Queensborough Community College, April, 1978.
"Death, Reason and Philosophical Form," at
Catholic Philosophical Association regional meeting at St.John's University,
Flushing, New York, September, l978.
"Death and Some Philosophies of Language,"
Long Island Philosophical Society, York College, Jamaica, New York, May,
1976.
"Sons without Father," at American Academy
for Psychoanalysis, Atlanta, December, 1976.
"Comments on Nietzsche System Metamorphosis," paper
by David Allison at Long Island Philosophical Society, Adelphi University,
December, 1976.
"Struggles with Modernity: Further Questions on the work
of John Murray Cuddihy," at Association for the Sociological
Study of Jewry, American Sociological Association, New York, September,
1976.
"Some Problems in Comparative Philosophy,"
at International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (U.S.),
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, November, 1975.
"Death and Contemporary Philosophy: A Conspectus of Views,"
at Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy at American Philosophical
Association, New York, December, 1975.
"Sin and Guilt in Dialectical Perspective."
Guest speaker in series "Religious Studies and the Humanities"
at SUNY, Stony Brook, May, 1975.
Invited lecture, "Death and Sport," King's
College, Wilkes Barre PA, October, 1975.
"Hegel, Death and the Crisis of Identity,"
Philosophy Lecture Series, Queensborough Community College, Bayside, New
York, February, 1974.
"Is God He?" panel discussion "Women and
Theology," Town Hall, National Association for Women, New York, November
1974.
"Romantic Consciousness and the Holocaust," at
international symposium on the Holocaust, "Auschwitz: the Beginning
of a New Era" at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, New
York, June, 1974.
"The Meaning of the World in in Samkara'a Commentary on
the Vedanta Sutra: A Response to Milton Munitz," at Society
for Asian and Comparative Philosophy at the American Philosophical Association,
Atlanta, GA, December, 1973.
"Death in Hegel and Three Modern Dilemmas,"
at symposium, "Philosophical Aspects of Thanatology," Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center, November, 1973.
"The Mathematical Model in Plato and Some Substitutes in
Jain Epistemology," The International Society for the Comparative
Study of Civilizations, Bradford College, Haverhill, MA, April 1977; Long
Island Philosophical Society, SUNY at Old Westbury, April, 1973.
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