Conferences and Workshops
Seminar Leader at the Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, June/July 2019.
Co-organizer of the conference “Constructing and Contesting Community,” Bern, 8-9 May, 2019.
Seminar Leader at the Institute for World Literature, University of Kopenhagen, July 2017.
Organizer of the conference “What is Authentic About Authenticity?,” Bern, 17-19 November, 2016.
Hosting of the Distinguished Lectures Series 2016 at the University of Bern:
- Laura Marcus, The Meanings of Ambivalence: Its Origins and Ends (11 April 2016)
- Cary Wolfe, Ethics and the (Lewss Than Divine) Comedy of the (Bio)Political (24 May 2016)
- Rosi Braidotti,Critique, Power, Affirmation (24 October 2016)
Seminar Leader at the Institute for World Literature, University of Lisbon, June 2015.
Hosting of the Distinguished Lectures Series 2015 at the University of Bern:
- Étienne Balibar, Commonality Vs. Individuality: An Ethical Dilemma? (23 March 2015)
- Alain Badiou, Event, Subject, Idea (5 October 2015)
- Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, The World as a Universe of Possibilities: Absolute Freedom or Existential Overload? (14 December 2015)
Host of the annual Balzan-Lecture, 17 October 2014.
Organizer of the opening conference “Theories and Practice of Authenticity in Global Cultural Production,” Bern, 14-16 March, 2014.
Hosting of the Distinguished Lectures Series 2014 at the University of Bern:
- Simon Critchley, Tragedy and Philosophy (30 September 2014)
- Drucilla Cornell, Post-Humanism or Revolutionary Humanism (1 December 2014)
- Annual Balzan Lecture: Terence Cave, Far Other Worlds and Other Seas: Thinking with Literature in the 21st Century (17 October 2014)
Hosting of the Distinguished Lectures Series 2013 at the University of Bern:
- Mireille Rosello, Hybrid Train to Contingency. Pascal Mercier’s Transnational Stories (21 October 2013)
- Judith Butler, Freedom of Assembly, Or, We, the People (11 November 2013)
- Roberto Esposito, Community, Immunity, and Biopolitics (2 December 2013)
Hosting of the Distinguished Lectures Series 2012 at the University of Bern:
- Homi K. Bhabha, The Poetics of Anxiety and Security (8 October 2012)
- Nancy Fraser, Can Societies Be Commodities All the Way Down? (22 November 2012)
- Jacques Rancière, Literary Communities (3 December 2012)
Organizer of the workshop “For the Health of Body Politic: Hybridity from Fanon to Bhabha,” EAAS conference, Izmir, June 2012.
Hosting of the Distinguished Lectures Series 2011 at the University of Bern:
- David Damrosch, Europe After Eurocentrism: Nation, Region, World (10 October 2011)
- Djelal Kadir, Literature, the World, and You (21 November 2011)
- Paul Gilroy, Fanon’s Refusal: Racism and the Value of the Human (5 December 2011)
Hosting of the Distinguished Lectures Series 2010 at the University of Bern:
- Giorgio Agamben, Opus Dei. An Archeology of the Office (4 October 2010)
- Robert J.C. Young, Community and Ethos (18 October 2010)
- Jean-Luc Nancy, Singular Poiesis, Common Praxis (15 November 2010)
Co-Organizer with ICORN of the conference “The Conditions of Hospitality,” Stavanger, 8-10 September 2008.
Co-Organizer with Ulla Haselstein and Siegliende Lemke of the conference “Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature,” JFK-Institute, Berlin, 15-17 April 2004.
Co-Organizer with Winfried Fluck of the conference “Theories of American Culture,” JFK-Institute, Berlin, 9-12 Mai 2002.
Co-Chair with Russell Goodman of the workshop “Ecology and the American Philosophical Tradition: Is There a Usable Past?” EAAS Conference, Graz, April 2000.
Co-Organizer with Maria Moss of the conference “Mirror Writing: (Re-)Constructions of Native American Identity,” JFK-Institute, Berlin, 27-29 November 1999.
Conceptualization and Teaching of the Module “Environmental Imagination” of the Erasmus/Sokrates Program (1998-99).