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A Dying Colonialism,” African Studies Association, Philadelphia, 14 November, 1999.
“The Philosophical Significance of Fanon’s A Dying Colonialism,” Columbia University, 15 November, 1999.
“Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Race,” Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, 16 January, 2000.
“Deconstruction and Justice.” Law Faculty, University of Mississippi, 17 February, 2000.
“Kant’s Contribution to the History of the Concept of Race,” University of Mississippi, 17 February, 2000.
“Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Race,” State University of New York Stony Brook, 3 March, 2000.
“Technological Control: The Ethics of Eugenics and the Practice of Human Genetics,” First International Symposium for Eco-Ethics, Tokyo, 28 March, 2000.
“Rassentheorie: A Response to Eigen, Meijer, and Louden,” Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Erforschung des 18.Jahrhunderts.” American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Philadelphia, 15 April, 2000.
“Levinas and the Struggle for Existence,” Levinas and Politics, Institut Français, London, 11 May, 2000.
“Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason Revisited,” Middlesex University, 18 May, 2000.
“The Invisibility of Racial Minorities,” Summer Institute in Philosophy for Minority Students, Rutgers University, 11 July, 2000.
“The Passage of Philosophy into Religion: Hegel’s Encounter with Indian Philosophy,” Hegel Society Great Britain, Pembroke College, Oxford, 5 September, 2000.
“Sartre contre lui-même,” North American Sartre Society, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 15 September, 2000.
“With What Must the History of Philosophy Begin?”, Hegel Society of America, Fordham University, New York, 20 October, 2000.
“Sartre contre lui-même,” Philosophy Department, Sussex University, 27 October, 2000.
“Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up?” History and Theory Group, Sussex University, 31 October, 2000.
“John Locke and the Event of Appropriation,” Texas A & M University, 16 November, 2000.
“Toward a Political Phenomenology,” Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, Boca Raton, 5 January 2001.
“Toward a Sartrean Theory of Race,” Keynote Address, Sartre and Contemporary Existential Thought, Lewis University, 22 February, 2001.
“Who Counts as an African? Hegel and Racial Identity,” Hegel and Africa Conference, Northwestern University, 3 March, 2001.
“Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up?” Keynote Address, Northeast Florida Student Philosophy Conference, Jacksonville, 10 March, 2001.
“Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up?” Critical Theory and Race, Purdue University, 22 March, 2001.
“Kant and the Polyps: Kant and Blumenbach on Epigenesis,” Eighteenth Century Studies Conference, New Orleans, 21 April, 2001.
“Creation and Technology in Sartre’s Notebooks for an Ethics,” International Symposium on Eco-Ethics, Tokyo, 30 April, 2001.
“Race as a Privileged Example in Kant’s Critique of Teleological Judgment,” The German Invention of Race, Harvard University, 5 May, 2001.
“Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up?” Bilgi University, Istanbul, 28 May, 2001.
“Toward a Sartrean Theory of Race,” Bosphorous University, Istanbul, 30 May, 2001.
“Speaking With Myself As Other: Exoticisation and the Phenomenology of the Primitive,” Dialogue and Difference School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 13 September, 2001.
“‘I needed not to know’: Fanon’s Response to Sartre,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Baltimore, 6 October, 2001.
“Volk, Rasse, and Dasein,” State University of New York at Stony Brook, 11, 12, and 13 October, 2001.
“‘Our Duty to Conserve.’ W. E. B. Du Bois’s Philosophy of History and a ‘Black Tomorrow’,” Hamilton College, 17 October, 2001.
“Race as a Privileged Example in Kant’s Critique of Judgment,” Emory University, 25 October, 2001.
“Speaking with Myself as Other: Exoticism and the Phenomenology of the Primitive,” First Annual SPEP Lecture, Atlanta, 28 December, 2001.
“Sartre’s Existential Theory of Racial Identity,” APA, Atlanta, 30 December, 2001.
“Open House,” Seminar on Hospitality, Leeds University, 4 March, 2002.
“Retrieving Vision: On Sonia Kruks’ Retrieving Experience,” North American Sartre Society, Loyola University, New Orleans, 10 March, 2002.
“When Race Was Everything,” Dunbar Lecture, Millsaps College, 18 March, 2002.
“The Limits of Globalisation and Our Ethical Responsibility for World Hunger,” Kazusa Akademia Center, Tokyo, 10 April, 2002.
“Who Counts as an African? Hegel and Egyptian Identity,” Society for the Philosophy of History, APA Central Division, Chicago, 26 April, 2002.
“Othering,” Phenomenology as a Bridge Between Asia and the West, Delray Beach, Florida Atlantic University, 8 May, 2002.
“Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up?” Vanderbilt University, 22 May, 2002.
“Rasse and Erde in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie,” 2. Wuppertaler Aussprache über die Philosophie Martin Heideggers, Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, 1 June, 2002.
“Nietzsche as Prophet of Rassenhygiene,” Nietzsche and the Century of Great War, International Association of Philosophy and Literature, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 6 June, 2002.
“Revisiting Levinasian Hospitality,” Levinas and the Political, University of Toronto, 20 September, 2002.
“Heidegger, Nietzsche and the Critique of Biologism,” Beijing Conference on Nietzsche and Heidegger, Beijing, 26 September, 2002.
“Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up?” The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 30 September, 2002.
“Neither the Condition nor the Outcome of Ethics: Levinas, Derrida, and the Deduction of a Politics from Ethics,” Seoul National University, Korea, 3 October, 2002.
“Levinas and the Politics of Otherness,” Seoul National University, Korea, 4 October, 2002.
“‘Y’all don’t hear me now’. On Lorenzo Simpson’s The Unfinished Project,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, 10 October, 2002.
“When Race Was Everything,” St. Joseph’s College, Philadelphia, 25 October, 2002.
“Ethical Responsibility and Globalization,” Richard B. Lippin Lectureship in Ethics, Pennsylvania State University, 15 November 2002.
“Making a Science of Race from Kant to Darwin,” Rock Ethics Institute together with Africana Research Center, Pennsylvania State University, 16 November, 2002.
“Sartre’s Account of Freedom Between Being and Nothingness and the Critique of Dialectical Reason,” University of Southern Carolina, Columbia, 14 December 2002.
“Flynn and Pseudo-Sartreanism: A Response to Flynn’s Sartre, Foucault, and Historical Reason,” Society for the Philosophy of History, Philadelphia, 28 December, 2002.
“Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up?” American Philosophical Association, Philadelphia, 30 December, 2002.
“Globalisation and Hunger,” Undergraduate Philosophy Circle, University of Memphis, 21 March, 2003.
“Globalisation and Hunger,” Die Fordering nach Gerechtigkeit, Emmanuel Levinas’ Philosophie der Politischen, Goslar, Germany, 28 March, 2003.
“Race and Facticity” Sartre’s and Fanon’s Existential Conceptions of Race,” The Elton Lecture, George Washington University, 17 April, 2003.
“Revisiting Merleau-Ponty’s Critique of Sartre,” American Philosophical Association, Cleveland, 26 April, 2003.
“The Influence of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth on the Issue of Race,” Africana Studies, Hamilton College, 1 May, 2003
“Living Whiteness,” Convocation Lecture, Grinnell College, 8 May, 2003.
“Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy: The Case of Locke,” Grinnell College, 8 May, 2003.
“Janicaud among the French Heideggerians,” International Association of the Philosophy of Literature, Leeds, 29 May, 2003.
“Levinas and Identity Politics,” Zwischen Verantwortung und Gerechtigkeit, Institut für Philosophie der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 21 June, 2003.
“No Exit: Levinas on Transcendence,” a course of three lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Umbria, 14-18 July, 2003.
“The Philosophy of Poverty and the Poverty of Philosophy,” Invited Symposium, Philosophy Facing World Problems, XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, 11 August, 2003.
“In Search of Philosophical Pluralism,” XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, 11 August, 2003.
“Identity and Agency in Frantz Fanon: A Response to Chris Buck, Neil Roberts and Anita Chari,” The North American Sartre Society, Purdue University, 12 September, 2003.
“The Policing of Race Mixing,” Sovereignty and the Right to Death, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 17 October, 2003.
“Genocide and the Philosophy of History,” The Twenty-Second International Symposium of Eco-Ethics, Kyoto, 3 November, 2003.
“New Ethics and Culture in the 21st Century: Ecological Issues,” Eichi University, 5 November, 2003.
“Race and Facticity: On Sartre’s and Fanon’s Existential Conceptions of Race,” Grinnell College, 14 November, 2003.
“Sartre’s Account of Freedom Revisited: The Passage from Being and Nothingness to Critique of Dialectical Reason,” Twelth Annual Jack Worley Memorial Lecture, Iowa Philosophical Society Invited Speaker, 15 November, 2003.
“The Policing of Race Mixing,” University of San Francisco, 21 November, 2003.
“Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate Over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians,” Out of Africa, National Museum for Photography, Bradford, 5 December, 2003.
“Beyond the Race-Class Dichotomy? A Response to Clarence Johnston’s Cornell West and Philosophy,” Radical Philosophy Association, Washington, DC, 29 December, 2003.
“On Giving What is Not Mine to Give,” Le don et la dette, Instituto di Studi Filoso fici Enrico Castelli, Villa Mirafiori, Rome, 4 January, 2004.
“Why do the People of Tahiti Bother to Exist?” Haverford College, 12 February, 2004.
“Can One Understand Race in terms of Facticity?”, Plenary Address, Mid-South Philosophy Conference, Memphis, 20 February, 2004.
“Race and the Imperial Idea in the Late Nineteenth Century and Today,” Plenary Address, Empire Conference, Stanislaus University, California, 27 February 2004.
“On Needing Not to Know and Forgetting What One Never Knew,” Epistemology of Ignorance, Pennsylvania State University, 28 March, 2004.
“Rasse an Erde in Heidegger’s Beiträge zur Philosophie,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, 21 May, 2004.
“Heidegger, Nietzsche and the Critique of Biologism,” Messkirch, 28 May, 2004.
“Race and the Imperial Idea in the Late Nineteenth Century and Today,” Centenary Philosophy Week, Rhodes University, South Africa, 16 August, 2004.
“Two Philosophers against Racism: Sartre and Levinas,” Rhodes University, South Africa, 18 August, 2004.
“Who Counts as an African? Hegel and Egyptian Identity,” North American Hegel Society, University of California at Los Angeles, 22 October, 2004.
“How Heidegger Helped to Save Nietzsche from Darwinism,” The Nietzsche Society, Memphis, 28 October, 2004.
“Two Dogmas of Imperialism: Race and the Imperial Idea in Late Nineteenth Century and Today,” Twenty-Third Annual Eco-Ethica Symposium, Kyoto, 11 November, 2004.
“Will the 21^st Century also be the Century of Sartre?” Center for the Humanities, University of Memphis, 28 January, 2005.
“The Price of Peace,” Frieden: eine philosophische Herausforderung?, Internationales Kolloquium, Aachen, 19 February, 2005.
“Social Accountability and the Invention of Responsibility,” Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Essen, 21 February, 2005.
“Sartre’s Alleged Subjectivism,” Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, 3 March, 2005.
“The Transcendence of Fecundity: Levinas on Alterity and Kinship,” Keynote, Encounters With The Other, Graduate Student Conference, Loyola University, Chicago, 20 March, 2005.
“Alain Locke’s Concept of Ethnic Race as Applied to Black Ethnicity and Latino Race,” Black Ethnicity, Latino Race?, University of Buffalo, 2 April, 2005.
“Against the Law of Nature,” ‘On Inequality,’ A Celebration of Rousseau’s Second Discourse, La Maison Francaise, New York, 8 April 2005.
“Kantian Racial Thinking from Darwinism to National Socialism,” Keynote, Identity and Difference Conference, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, 21 April, 2005.
“The Revival of Kant’s Thinking on Race at the End of the Nineteenth Century,” Society for the Philosophy of History, Chicago, 28 April, 2005.
“Alain Locke on Race and Culture,” American Philosophical Association, Chicago, 30 April, 2005.
“The Tyranny of the Meaning of History in Kant, Hegel, and Levinas,” University of Santa Cruz, 2 May, 2005.
“Why do the Happy Inhabitants of Tahiti Bother to Exist?” Thirty Years Anniversary Conference, University of Essex, 7 May, 2005.
“War and the Meaning of History,” mini-course, University of Essex, 9, 10, and 11 May, 2005.
“Perpetual Peace and Total War,” Plenary Address, ASCP, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 15 June, 2005.
“Hegel: The Responsibilities of Historical Memory,” a course of 3 lectures, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Umbria, July 18, 20, and 22, 2005.
“Levinas and the Transcendence of Fecundity,” Colloquio International Emmanuel Levinas, University of Chile, Santiago, 6 October, 2005.
“The Invention of Responsibility,” Mike Ryan Lecture, Philosophy Student Association, Kenneshaw State University, Atlanta, 13 October, 2005.
“Sartre contre lui-même: His Response to Merleau-Ponty,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, 21 October, 2005.
“Levinas and the Transcendence of Fecundity,” The André Schuwer Lecture, Salt Lake City, 22 October, 2005.
“To Whom and For What? Accountability and the Invention of Hyperbolic Responsibility,” 24^th International Symposium of Eco-Ethica, Copenhagen, 1 November, 2005.
“Sartre contre lui-même: His Response to Merleau-Ponty,” Sartre at One Hundred, Emory University, 9 December, 2005.
“Francois Bernier and the Brahmans: Exposing an Obstacle to Cross-Cultural Conversation,” India International Centre, New Dehli, 13 January, 2006.
“Extraterritoriality: Outside the Subject, Outside the State,” Freiburg, 15 February, 2006.
“Locke, Grotius, Pufendorf, and Tyrrell on Slavery,” American Philosophical Association, Portland, 26 March, 2006.
“The Policing of Race Mixing,” Trinity College, 6 April, 2006.
“The Impact of North American Ideas on European Ideas of Race,” Southern Connecticut University, 7 April, 2006.
“After the German Invention of Race: Racial Discourse in Germany from Kant to National Socialism,” Remapping Black Germany, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 21 April, 2006.
“When Mixed Race Was Thought to Be Superior to Pure Race: The Scientific Debate in Northern Europe about Human Hybridity Before 1850,” Keynote Address, The Sciences of Race in the Long Eighteenth Century, USC-Huntington, 27 April, 2006.
“Extraterritoriality: Outside the State, Outside the Subject,” Hangzhou International Conference on Levinas, Zhejiang University, China, 11 September, 2006.
“Another TKO? Kelly’s Villains – and Kelly’s Heroes,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 12 October, 2006.
“Why ‘Athens and Jerusalem’?”, Athens and Jerusalem, Fifth Religion and Postmodernism Conference, Villanova University, 27 October, 2006.
“Perpetual Peace and Total War” Twenty-Fifth Eco-Ethica Symposium, Copenhagen, 8 November, 2006.
“The Policing of Race Mixing: When Did Racism Come Under the Sway of Biopower?,” University of Buffalo, 16 November, 2006.
“An Haitian in Paris: Antenor Firmin as a Philosopher Against Racism,” Vanderbilt University, 29 November, 2006
“Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights,” Political Phenomenology, Memphis, 8 December, 2006.
“A Play of Forces: Heidegger’s Reading of the Phenomenology of Spirit” Hegel Society of America, APA, 28 December, 2006.
“The Policing of Race Mixing: When Did Racism Come Under the Sway of Biopower?,” Boston College, 9 February, 2007.
“Identity in Difference: Continuities and Discontinuities in Derrida’s Confrontations with Levinas,” University of Kentucky, 30 March, 2007.
“Five Periods in the Science of Race Thinking; Race Before the Age of Genomic Medicine” Forty-third Annual Conference, University of Cincinnati: “Race After the Age of Genomic Medicine,” 12 April, 2007.
“Absolute Knowing or a Ten Step Recovery Programme for the Last Chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” Hegel Society, APA, Chicago, 19 April, 2007.
“Race and Earth in Heidegger’s Thinking During the Late 1930s,” Keynote Address, Twenty-Fifth North Texas Heidegger Symposium, Collin College, Frisco, 28 April, 2007.
“Don’t Blame Me: Democratic Practices and the Responsibility of Voters,” Democracy in Crisis, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, 22 June, 2007.
“‘Poets like Painters’: Heidegger’s Reading of Hölderlin’s ‘Andenken’,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, 19 July, 2007.
“Absolute Knowing or a Ten Step Recovery Program for the Last Chapter of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit,” Hegel: Pensador de la Actualidad, Universidad Diego Portaler Santiago, Chile, 5 September 2007.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights,” 26^th International Symposium of Eco-Ethica, Denmark, 27 September, 2007.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights,” Eighth Annual Alanshah Lecture, California State University at Fullerton, 10 October, 2007.
“Why is there no discussion of “race” in Kant’s Physical Geography?,” Conference on Kant’s Physical Geography, Stony Brook, New York, 3 November, 2007.
“The Epistemology of Ignorance in the Sartre-Fanon Debate,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Chicago, 8 November, 2007.
“Eighteenth Century Debates on Skin Color. Responses to Ilma Katzew, Maria-Elena Martinez, and James Delbourgo,” University of Southern California, Huntington Library, Los Angeles, 16 November, 2007.
“Locke, Liberalism and Slavery: Debating James Farr,” University of Memphis, 30 November, 2007.
“Some Blindness to Chattel Slavery and Some Insight,” Invited Symposium: History of Philosophy With Attention to Difference, American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, 28 December, 2007.
“The Policing of Race Mixing,” Institute of Advanced Studies, Durham University, 16 January, 2008.
“Natural History and Natural Description in Kant’s Physical Geography,” Conference on Kant’s Physical Geography, Durham University, 17 January, 2008.
“The Policing of Race Mixing,” Pennsylvania State University, 1 February, 2008.
“Five Periods in the History of Racism,” Georgia College and State University, 20 March, 2008.
“Translating Levinas into Another Idiom,” The Quest for the Past and Future of Jewish Philosophy, Indiana University, Bloomington, 31, March, 2008.
“The Policing of Race Mixing and the Birth of Biopower,” 49^th annual Hurst lecture, American University, Washington D.C., 9 April, 2008.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Human Rights,” University of North Texas, Denton, 11 April, 2008.
“The Policing of Race Mixing and the Birth of Biopower,” North Texas Philosophical Association, 12 April, 2008.
“The Policing of Race Mixing: The Birth of Biopower and the History of Racism,” Larwill Lecture in Philosophy, Kenyon College, 24 April, 2008.
“Totality and Infinity in Hegel’s ‘Glauben und Wissen’,” Zwischen Hegel und Levinas, Institut für Wissenschaft, Universität Wien, Vienna, 29 May, 2008.
“Does the Levinasian Ethics of Sacrifice Present Insurmountable Problems for Heidegger’s Ontology of Authenticity?,” University of Sussex, 16 June, 2008.
“Nature, Culture, Race,” Florida Atlantic University, 21 June, 2008.
“Hegel’s Glauben und Wissen: A Course of Three Lectures,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, 14 July – 18 July, 2008.
“Hermann Goldschmidt and the Dialogue between Adolf Harnack and Leo Baeck,” Dialogical Perspectives, University of Toronto, 8 September, 2008.
“Universalisms Partially Applied: Locke and Kant on Slavery,” Dalhousie University, Halifax, 2 October, 2008.
“When Cosmopolitanism was Racist,” Twenty-Seventh Eco-Ethica Symposium, Roskilde, Denmark, 22 October, 2008.
“Universalisms Partially Applied: Locke and Kant on Slavery,” St. John’s College, Annapolis, 14 November, 2008.
“Kant’s Third Thoughts on Racism,” New School for Social Research, New York, 20 November, 2008.
“Nature, Culture, Race,” OPO III, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 16 December, 2008.
“The Place of Race in Kant’s Physical Geography and the Writings of the 1790s,” University of Toronto, 13 April, 2009.
“In an Instant: The Moment of Forgiveness in Levinas and Jankélévitch,” St. Francis College, 19 April, 2009.
“The Place of Race in Kant’s Physical Geography and the Writings of the 1790s,” Plenary, North American Kant Society, State College, 26 April 2009.
“Disingenuous Disenlightenment,” Nobel Museum, Stockholm, 20 May 2009.
“Nature, Culture, Race; A Phenomenological Perspective,” Fifth Södertörn Lecture, Stockholm, 28 May 2009.
“Levinas and the Transcendence of Fecundity,” Philosophy Department, Södertörn University Stockholm, 29 May 2009.
“Race and Heredity in Kantian Natural History,” Sex Race and Reproduction Around 1800, Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna, 12 June 2009.
“Systemic Violence,” Gesichter der Gewalt, Institute of Human Sciences, Vienna 19 June 2009.
“True Colors: Kant and Forster on Nature and Artifice” Text-Kontext/Analyse – Interpretation. University of Halle, 25 September, 2009.
“Nature and Culture: The Example of Race,” Twenty-eighth Eco-Ethical Symposium, Copenhagen, 8 October, 2009.
“Is the Distinction Between Nature and Culture Phenomenological?” Plenary, II Congresso Luso-Brasiliero de Fenomenologia / IV Congresso Interracional da Soriedade Brasiliera de Fenomenologia, Paraty, Brazil, 27 October, 2009.
“Situating Frantz Fanon’s Account of Black Experience,” Table Ronde, French Outside French, Pennsylvania State University, 11 November, 2009.
“Sartre, Fanon and the Critique of Dialectical Reason” The North American Sartre Society Conference, University of Memphis, 20 November, 2009.
“Nature, Culture, Race: A Phenomenological Perspective on Critical Philosophy of Race,” Inaugural Lecture, Pennsylvania State University, 4 December, 2009.
“Eco-Ethica as a Revolutionary Ethics,” Twenty-ninth Eco-Ethical Symposium, Tokyo, 23 February, 2010.
“Carolina in My Mind: John Locke and the Defense of New World Slavery,” 2010 Veroni Memorial Lecture in Philosophy and the Humanities, Kant State University, 23 March, 2010.
Comments on Jeffrey Van Davis, “Only a God Can Save Us. Heidegger—Nazism and Philosophy,” Penn State University, 28 March, 2010.
“Carolina in My Mind: John Locke and the Defense of New World Slavery,” Atlantic Studies Seminar, Graduate Center, City University of New York, 9 April, 2010.
“Poets like Painters,” Heidegger Circle, New York, 8 May, 2010.
“Levinas’s Critique of Levinasian Ethics,” Launches and Re-Launches, Plenary Address, Sussex University, 28 May, 2010.
“Heidegger’s Rectorial Address,” Panel Discussion, Joint Meeting Freiburg University/Penn State, 4 June, 2010.
“Levinas’s Critique of Levinasian Ethics,” Koc University, Istanbul, 25 June, 2010.
“Race Across Borders,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, 20 July, 2010.
“Steps Toward a Phenomenology of Race: Ludwig Ferdinand Clauss’s Debt to Husserl,” Center for the Advanced Study of Phenomenology, New Orleans, 25 September, 2010.
“John Locke and the Defense of New World Slavery,” Graduate Group in Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 28 September, 2010.
“Racism Before Race: John Locke and Slavery,” University of Memphis, 22 October, 2010.
“What Binary?” Beyond the Binary Conference, Pennsylvania State University, 12 November, 2010.
“Race, Slavery, and Enlightenment Philosophy,” Bard College, 31 January, 2011.
“My Travels in Scott-land,” Ethics, Indifference, and Social Concern, Penn State University, 1 April, 2011.
“Race, Slavery, and the Philosophers of the Enlightenment,” Histories of Race Shasha Seminar, Wesleyan University, 9 April, 2011.
“ ‘Science Condemns Racism’: Philosophical Reflections on the Role of Science in the Fight Against Racism,” Emory University, 13 April, 2011.
“Beyond Hegel’s Totality and Beyond the Philosophy of Finitude,” Plenary lecture, North American Levinas Society, Texas A&M University, 1 May, 2011.
“The Phenomenology of Racial Types,” Keynote Address, The Ends of Phenomenology, Sussex University, 20 May, 2011.
“The Racial Politics of Life Itself,” The Normal and the Pathological, Leverhulme Project on Bioethics, Warwick University, 28 September, 2011.
“Crossed lines in the Racialization Process,” St. Mary’s College Maryland, 5 October, 2011.
“Environment and Technology as Philosophical Concepts: Uexkhüll, Goldstein, and Canguilhem,” Eco-Ethics Conference, Protestant Institute of Theology, Paris, 26 October, 2011.
“Totalitarianism and the Infinity of Time,” American Philosophical Association, Washington DC, 28 December, 2011.
“What Went Wrong with the Fight Against Racism?” Georgia College, 9 February, 2012.
“Hegel’s Very Interesting and Pleasant Occupation,” Reading China During the Enlightenment, 25 February, 2012.
“Incremental Stages in the Racialization of Slavery,” Heredity and Race in the Eighteenth Century, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, 16 March, 2012.
“Racism: a thought or a system,” University of King’s College, Halifax, Canada, 30 March, 2012.
“Heidegger’s Logic Lectures 1934,” four seminars, University of King’s College, 31 March-1 April, 2012.
“The Emancipation of Ethics from Politics,” Plenary Lecture, 7th Annual Graduate Conference, West Chester University, 7 April 2012.
“Was ist das, ein Volk? Debating Race in the Early 1930s,” Sixth Richard Owsley Memorial Address, 30^th North Texas Heidegger Symposium, Dallas, 27 April, 2012.
“Levinas Against Racism,” North American Levinas Society, Anchorage, 14 May, 2012.
“Why the Fight Against Racism Failed,” Instituto de Filosofia Prática, Universidade da Beira Interior, Corvilhã, Portugal, 24 May, 2012.
“Totalitarianism and the Infinite Time of Fecundity” Instituto de Filosofia Prática, Universidade da Beira Interior, Corvilhã, Portugal, 25 May 2012.
“Against Ethics as Technology,” Eco-Ethica. Thirty-first Annual Meeting, 29 September, 2012.
“Levinas: Ethics and the Face,” Fordham University, New York, 4 October, 2012.
“Why do we think of racism as we do?” California Roundtable on Race, CUNY, 6 October 2012.
“Hoernle as Educator,” Global Approaches to Intersectionality, Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University, 22 October, 2012.
“Misremembering Racism” SPEP, Rochester, NY, 3 November, 2012.
“The Logics of Racism: Three Lectures: “I am also a racist”; “I am not a racist but . . .”; and “I don’t see race,” The Capen Lectures, University of Buffalo, 5, 6, 7, November, 2012.
“Kant and the Hottentots,” American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, 29 December 2012.
“Am I a Racist?” Georgia College, 9 April, 2013.
“Totalitarianism and the Infinite Time of Fecundity” Levinas et Socialité, Faculté des sciences humaines de l’Université, Charles de Prague, Prague, 23 April, 2013.
“Heidegger’s Sigetics and the Place of Eckhart in the Nazi Period,” Heideggers Esoterik, Bergischen Universität Wuppetal, 24 May, 2013.
“The Play of Presence and Absence in Heidegger’s Phenomenology,” keynote Lecture, Phenomenology’s Presence, Sussex University, 13 June, 2013.
“Devastation and the Rejection of the National in Heidegger’s