“Texts on the Couch: Kristeva’s Psychoanalytic Reading Practice,” 30th Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: Reading Julia Kristeva’s Passions of our Time,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 25-July 2, 2023.
“Serres’ Textual Parasitism,” 29th Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Michel Serres’ The Parasite and The Natural Contract,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 26-July 3, 2022.
“’This Incredible Need to Believe’: Julia Kristeva’s Reinvention of Secular Humanism at the Crossroad of Religion, Psychoanalysis, and Politics,” Religion in the Secular Age, Conference of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, March 24-26, 2022
“From Mysticism to Psychoanalysis: Julia Kristeva’s Love for Teresa of Avila,” International Online Conference on “The Concept of Love,” organized by the Faculty of Roman-Catholic Theology, University of Bucharest, Romania, June 4-5, 2021.
“Forgiveness Between Hatred and Promise: Kristeva and Arendt,” Trajectories of Psychoanalysis — Kristeva Circle Conference, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, October 3-5, 2019.
“Enigmas, Simulacra, Shadows: Perniola’s Theory of Feeling and the End of Aesthetics,” 28th Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Mario Perniola’s 20th Century Aesthetics,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 30-July 7, 2019.
“Philosophical Approaches to Plagiarism: Barthes, Foucault, Derrida,” The Long Island Philosophical Society, 2019 Conference, SUNY Suffolk County Community College, April 13, 2019.
“Signs, Bodies, Pleasure: Nancy’s Sharing of Sense and Barthes’ Zero Degree of Bliss,” 27th Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Jean-Luc Nancy’s Dis-Enclosure and Adoration (The Deconstruction of Christianity I & II), St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1-8, 2018.
“The Body as Reader and Spectator: Roland Barthes’ Singularity of Meaning,” XXIV World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, China, August 13-20, 2018.
“Hélène Cixous’ Poetic Epistemology of Writing,” 17th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Beijing, China, August 10-12, 2018.
“The Fiction of Cultural Identity: Resistance in Light of the Current Refugee Crisis,” Thirteenth Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA, November 8-10, 2018.
“Of Vertical Lines and Horizontal Structures: The Shaky Grounds of Sloterdijk’s Subject,” 26th Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Peter Sloterdijk’s You Must Change Your Life,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 25-July 4, 2017.
“Cixous’ Reading/Writing as Subversion: From Medusa to Derrida,” Corollaries of a Signature: Colloque international, Paris June 14-16, 2017.
“Beyond Poetry: Kristeva’s Account of the Narrative,” Kristeva Circle Meeting 2017, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 27-28, 2017.
“Plagiarism Revisited,” SCCC Teaching and Learning Center, September 27, 2017.
“A Politics of Writing/Reading: Roland Barthes and Hélène Cixous on Author, Reader, and Text,” The 56th Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, Tennessee, October 19-21, 2017.
“Text, Writing, Experience: Kristeva as Reader, Kristeva as Writer,” The Kristeva Circle Conference, Soedertoern University, Stockholm, Sweden, October 13-15, 2016.
“Logos as Suffocation: Language, Meaning, Expression,” 25th Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Luce Irigaray’s In The Beginning She Was,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 26-July 5, 2016.
„Szenen einer anderen Moderne: Jacques Rancières Aisthesis,“ Neue Wiener Gruppe/Lacan-Schule: Sektion Ästhetik, Lomography Embassy, Vienna, Austria, January 12, 2015.
“Of Ones and Twos: Love and Sexual Difference in Badiou and Irigaray,” 24rd Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Alain Badiou’s Manifestos for Philosophy,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 28-July 7, 2015.
“Control as Self-Control: From Foucault’s Panopticon to Social Media,” Eleventh Biennial Conference, Radical Philosophy Association, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, November 6-9, 2014.
Respondent to Bernard Reginster, “Nietzschean Moral Relativism(s),” Philosophy Spring Conference, Suffolk County Community College, May 10, 2014.
“Of Interruptions, Interventions, Displacements: Rancière’s Counter-Narrative of Modernity,” 23rd Annual Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Rancière’s Aisthesis,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 29-July 8, 2014.
“Citationality as Feminist Practice: of Slutwalks, Dildos, and Reading Famous Philosophers,” XVth International Association of Women Philosophers Symposium: Philosophy, Knowledge, and Feminist Practice, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain, June 24-27, 2014
“Women Writing Women: Blogging and the Feminist Concept of Writing,” Conference on “The Digital Humanities and the Transformation of Scholarship,” Suffolk County Community College, Grant Campus, April 5, 2013.
“Reading/Writing Each Other: The Reader-Writer Relationship from the Perspective of HC and JD,” 22nd Meeting, The International Philosophical Seminar, Topic: “Reading Cixous Reading Derrida,” St. Ulrich, Alto Adige, Italy, June 30-July 9, 2013.
“Of Empty Spaces and the Water that Runs Through Them: Metaphors of Space and Time in Irigaray and Kristeva,” 36th Annual Conference, The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Tallinn University, Estonia, May 28-June 3, 2012.
“Radical Feminist Philosophy – A Question of Style?” Tenth Biennial Conference, Radical Philosophy Association, Canisius College, Buffalo, New York, October 11-14, 2012.
“Speech and Breath: The Thin Air of Sexual Difference” (Panel on Luce Irigaray’s Between East and West), 35th Anniversary Conference, The International Association for Philosophy and Literature, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, May 23-29, 2011.
“Feminist Performance Art and the Notion of Performativity,” Cēsis Art Festival 2011, Cēsis, Latvia, August 2011.
„The Violent Imposition of Patriarchal Language (Irigaray and Daly), Ninth Biennial Conference, Radical Philosophy Association, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, November 11-14, 2010.
“Liebe zwischen Spirituatlität und Politik: Zum Wandel von Irigaray’s Liebesbegriff ,” Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna Austria, June 2009.
“Civil Identity and Sexual Difference: Irigaray’s Politics of the Performative,” Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan, March 2008.
“Kristeva’s Revolt: Illusion and the Feminine,” National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, March 2008.
“From Gender as Performative to Feminist Performance Art: Judith Butler and Valie Export.” Eighth Biennial Conference, Radical Philosophy Association, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, November 6-9, 2008.
“Woman as Translator: From Sexual Difference to Cultural Difference,“ Multiculturalism and Feminism: Thirteenth Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosopher (IAPh), Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea, July 27-29, 2008.
“Feminist Standpoint Theories: Analytic and Continental Perspectives,” Conference on Analytic vs. Continental Philosophy, Australasian Association of Philosophy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, July 6-11, 2008.
“Speaking, Performing, Living the Body: Irigaray and Butler,” Gender Studies Seminar, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, June 5, 2008.
Respondent to “Coming of Age: The Politics of Finitude” by Debra Bergoffen, Alter/Altern – Internationale Konferenz über Simone de Beauvoirs Studie Das Alter, Vienna, February 2008.
“Feminists Reading the Canon: Luce Irigaray’s Concept of Mimesis as Reading Strategy,” The XXII World Congress of Philosophy, Section on “Philosophy and Gender,” Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, July 30-August 5, 2008.
“Simulations of Nature: Elfriede Jelinek’s Deconstruction of Alpine Authenticity,” Michael J. Osborne Centre – Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia, June 12, 2008.
Respondent to a Panel on “Sensibility and the Spirit,” Third Annual Conference of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, September 12-13, 2008.
“Speaking/Writing the Body: Feminist Theories on Language,” Women’s Week 2007: Fighting Words: Deconstructing Patriarchal Language, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, March 2007.
“Neither One Nor Two – Civil Identity and Sexual Difference,” Second Annual Conference of the Luce Irigaray Circle, Stony Brook Manhattan, New York, September 2007.
“Kristeva’s Revolt and the Illusion of the Feminine,” Thirty-First Anniversary Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 2007.
“The Imaginary Third: Reading Julia Kristeva Through Kelly Oliver,” Thirtieth Anniversary Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany, June 2006.
“From Playful Repetition to Linguistic Subversion: Luce Irigaray’s Concept of Mimesis,” First Annual Conference of the Luce Irigaray Circle: The Philosophy of Luce Irigaray, Stony Brook Manhattan, New York, September 2006.
“Performativität, Parodie, Resignifikation: Judith Butlers Vervielfältigung der Geschlechter,” Interdisziplinäres Form.UND, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, January 2006.
Respondent to “The Embodied Imaginary and the Patriarchal Real: Women’s Bodies, Men’s Desires” by Debra Bergoffen, Annual Spring Philosophy Conference, Suffolk County Community College, April 2006.
“Simulation of Nature:Elfriede Jelinek’s Deconstruction of Alpine Authenticity,” accepted for the Ninth Annual Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2005.
“Fantasy or Illusion: The Revolt of the Feminine,” Annual International Philosophical Seminar; Topic: “Reading Kristeva’s Intimate Revolt, Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 2005.
“Kelly Oliver: The Intertwining of Politics and Affects,” Twenty-Ninth Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, May 2005.
“Kristevas Begriff der Revolte im Kontext Feministischer Theorie undPraxi,”Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna Austria, June 2005.
“Gottvater und die Frauen: Zur Verbindung von Religions- und Sprachkritik bei Mary Daly,” Das Geschlecht der Religion — Internationale Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Religionsphilosophie, Katholisch-Theologische Privatuniversität Linz, Austria, June 2004.
“Your Body is a Battleground: Toward a Feminist Body Politics,” XI Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers, Göteborg, Sweden, June 2004.
“Feminist Aesthetics,” Research Seminar Series, School of Philosophy, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, July 2004.
“From the Flesh to the Signifier: Teresa Brennan’s Account of Language,” Teresa Brennan Memorial Symposium, Stony Brook Manhatten, New York, October 2003.
“Signs on and of the Body: The Function of Language in Feminist Art,” Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Leeds, Leeds, Great Britain, May 2003.
“Equality and Subversion: Contemporary Feminist Political Theories,” Women: The Power of Politics and the Politics of Power, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, March 2002.
“Weder eins noch zwei:”Zur feministischen Kritik einer dualen Konstruktion von Sexualität und Geschlecht, Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria, June 2002.
“Towards a Politics of Mediating Language and Body: Psychoanalytic Feminist Theory,” Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, June 2002.
“Der Körper als Zeichen und die Frage nach dem Geschlecht,” Workshop on “Körper, Sprache und Erkenntnis,” Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, June 2001.
“From the Flesh to the Signifier: Teresa Brennan’s Account of Language in Contemporary Feminist Perspective,” Special Meeting of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Naples, Italy, January 2001.
Respondent to “Body between Organic and Technological: The Disappearance of Borders and New Forms of Knowledge in the Media Arts” by Bojana Kunst, Internationales Symposium: Kunst. Zeichen.Technik. Institute for Science and Art/Department of Philosophie, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, January 2001.
“Male Systems of Exchange and the Female Voice: Reflections on Jane Campions ‘The Piano,’” Chicks and Flicks. Image, Expression and Theory in Movies By and About Women, Suffolk County Community College, Selden, New York, March 2000.
“Mimesis and Parody: Linguistic Subversion in Irigaray, Butler, and Jelinek,” Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, May 2000.
“Die feministische Essentialismusdebatte: Zum Problem der Kategorie ‘Frau,’” Österreichische Gesellschaft für Philosophie, Johannes-Kepler-Universität, Linz, Austria, June 2000.
“Die Frage eines feministischen Subversionsbegriffs: Zum Zusammenhang vonWissen, Macht und Sprache,” IX. Symposium of the International Association of Female Philosophers, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2000.
“(Über) den Körper sprechen: Materialität und Diskurs in der gegenwärtigen Gender-Debatte,” Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria, June 1999.
Respondent to “Some Considerations on the Kinship of Thought and History in Hegel’s Philosophy” by Allegra De Laurentiis, Long Island Philosophical Society, Spring ‘99 Meeting, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, April 1999.
“A Language of Sexual Difference: Representation and Matter in Irigaray,” Ninth Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic: “Reading the Ethics of Sexual Difference by Luce Irigaray, Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1999.
“Of Ghosts, Commodities, and Women: Irigaray and Derrida,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Thirty-Eight Annual Meeting, University of Oregon at Eugene, Oregon, October 1999.
Respondent to “Freud, Psychoanalysis, and Feminism: The Paradox of Love” by Kelly Oliver, Spring 1999 Philosophy Conference, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, May 1999.
“Volatile Bodies, Volatile Truths: Female Embodiment between Matter and Discourse,” invited for a Plenary Session, Annual Interdisciplinary Conference of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 1998.
“Kristeva’s Strangers and Irigaray’s Others: Two Conceptions of Alterity,” General Philosophy Seminar, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, August 1998.
Respondent to “Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Ontology” by Kristana Arp, Long Island Philosophical Society, Spring ‘98 Meeting, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, May 1998.
“Prostitution in Marriage: Property and Sexuality in Elfriede Jelinek’s Lust,” Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of California, Irvine, California, May 1998.
“The Body of the Ghost,” Seventh Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic: “Reading Specters of Marx by Jacques Derrida,” Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1997.
“Marginality and National Narratives: The Case of Austria,” Twenty-First Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of South Alabama, Mobil, Alabama, May 1997.
“The Undifferentiated Manifold: Philosophy at the Two Year College,” APA Committee on Teaching Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges, Ninety-Fourth Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1997.
“Feminism, Nationalism, and the Question of Ethnic Identity,” lecture organized by the Student Philosophy Association of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1997.
“Kristeva’s Strangers and Irigaray’s Others: Two Conceptions of Alterity,” Annual Eastern Division Meeting of the Society for Women in Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook, New York, March 1996.
Respondent to “Maternal Bodies and Nationalisms” by Robin May Schott, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., October 1996.
“Does Nationalism have Anything to do with Gender?” Women’s Week 96, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, April 1996.
“Women and Nature: A Problematic Alliance,” lecture organized by the Student Philosophy Association of Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1996.
“Feminismus, Nationalismus und die Frage nach der ethnischen Identität,” Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Austria, June 1996.
“On Nature, Passion, and Women: Some Contradictions in Rousseau,” Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 21st Annual Conference, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, February 1995.
“Women as International Strangers,” Fifth Annual International Philosophical Seminar; topic: “Reading Strangers to Ourselves by Julia Kristeva,” Tianes Hof, Castelrotto, Alto Adige, Italy, July 1995.
“The Cyborg as Seductive Image: Donna Haraway’s Feminist Politics,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Nineteenth Annual Conference, Villanova University, Villanova, Pennsylvania, May 1995.
“Women, Language, and Power,” lecture organized by the Women’s Council, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, February 1995.
“Nature versus Culture: An Obsolete Distinction,” Faculty Lecture Series, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, December 1995.
“Feminist Approaches to Language,” lecture organized by the Student Philosophy Association, Dowling College, Oakdale, New York, February 1995.
Respondent to “Nation, Race, and Immigration: German Identities After Unification” by Andreas Huyssen, faculty seminar, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, March 1994.
Respondent to a panel on “When Truth Became a Woman – Seductive Images,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Eighteenth Annual Conference, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May 1994.
Two-day lecture and workshop series on “Gewalt durch Sprache,” Katholisch-Theologische Hochschule, Linz, Austria, May 1994.
“The Postmodern Discourse on Technology and the Female Body. A Feminist Approach to Lyotard and Baudrillard,” Second European Feminist Research Conference – Feminist Perspectives on Technology, Work, and Ecology, University of Technology, Graz, Austria, July 1994.
“Woman as Invisible: Remarks on Bachmann, Language, and Fascism,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Seventeenth Annual Conference, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1993.
“Philosophical Models for a Feminist Utopia,” New York Women’s Studies Association Conference, SUNY/Stony Brook, New York, March 1993.
“The Fall of the Wall: Women’s Life and Writing in a Changing Germany,” Women’s Week 92, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, March 1992.
“New Borderlines in a Germany without Borders: The Case of Christa Wolf,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Sixteenth Annual Conference, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 1991.
“Contemporary French Feminism: Radical Concepts of Liberation or Intellectual Game?” Women’s Week 90, Suffolk Community College, Selden, New York, March 1990.