Talks

Upcoming Talks

‘The Re-Signing of the Thing: Paracelsus, Boehme, Derrida.’ Derrida Today. École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France. July 2026.

Keynote Lectures
‘Anecological Dwelling: Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot.’ Thinking Nature: Lecture and Workshop Series, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. June 2025.

‘Derrida’s La Chose Seminars (1975-1977).’ Derrida Today. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. June 2024.

‘Apocalypse and Disaster: Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy’s Discourses of the End.’ Dialectics, Deconstruction and Dialetheism, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, United Kingdom. February 2024.

‘Spacing Before Formalism and Materialism: Eco-Deconstruction and the New Realisms in Literary Theory.’ Spectral Spaces: Exploring Spatiality and the Engagement of Form, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota. March 2022.

‘Das Ding in Deconstruction: Derrida’s Unpublished Seminars on Heidegger.’ National Postgraduate Colloquium in German Studies, Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom. November 2019.

‘To Speculate: On “Realism.”’ Beyond Boundaries: Exploring Disciplines and Limits. Concordia University, Montréal, Québec. April 2017.

Invited Lectures
‘Life after Extinction Studies,’ Extinction Studies Doctoral Training Programme Workshop. University of Leeds, Leeds, England. April 2026.

‘Dearth: Deconstruction after Speculative Realism Book Launch,’ Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy Seminar Series. University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. March 2026.

‘Can Water Remember? Rethinking World Heritage with the Blue Humanities-Sciences’ (with Natasha Lushetich), UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy, and Science. University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland. November 2025.

‘A Neganthropy without Reserve.’ Metaphysics of the Anthropocene: A Workshop on the Thought of Jean Vioulac. Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. October 2025.

Respondent, ‘Aminadab’: Webinaire International Maurice Blanchot. Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France. May 2025.

‘En après-dernière humanité: Nihilisme, anécologie, effondrement.’ Devant l’effondrement: Association pour les Rencontres Philosophie-Psychanalyse de Strasbourg. Université de Strasbourg, Strasburg, France. April 2025.

‘Earth and Cloud: Environmental Posthumanities in the Age of AI.’ University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. February 2025.

‘Aminadab, la terre et les profondeurs végétales: un Green Blanchot.’ Webinaire International Maurice Blanchot. Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France. November 2024.

‘Roundtable: Deconstructing Sustainability Discourses around the Globe.’ International Sustainable Development Research Society. Mid-West University, Surkhet, Nepal. June 2024.

‘The Arche-Forest and the Clinging Instinct: Anthropocentrism and Attachment.’ Derrida Today. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. June 2024.

‘Eurydice, Nature and the Earth/World Divide.’ Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Online Seminar, St. Louis University, Madrid, Spain. June 2023.

‘Ecologies of Emptiness: Nishida and Nishitani on Nature.’ Nature, Time, Responsibility: Environmental Philosophy and Interreligious Dialogue, Loyola University Andalusia, Seville, Spain. December 2022.

‘Extinction and Nothingness: Deconstruction and the Kyoto School.’ X-Centric Future Studies, NOVA University, Lisbon, Portugal. December 2022.

‘Oedipal Transition: Nietzsche and Blanchot’s Last Men from La Vie la mort to Le Témoignage.’ From the Archive: Reading Jacques Derrida, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy. June 2019.

‘Blanchot’s Role in Derrida’s Life Death.’ Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts. Warwick University, United Kingdom. December 2018.

‘Eco-Deconstruction: An Introduction.’ Book talk at Critical Theory Archives, University of California, Irvine. April 2018.

‘Impossible Life, Thing, Time, Gift: Derrida’s 1970’s seminars.’ Derrida Seminars Translation Project. Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine. Caen, France. July 2016.

‘Translating “Avec Levinas.”’ Derrida Seminars Translation Project. Institut Mémoires de l’Édition Contemporaine. Caen, France. July 2015.

‘The Posthuman Promise of the Earth.’ Eco-Deconstruction Contributors’ Conference. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. March 2015.

‘Living-On as Eco-deconstruction: Arche-Materiality and La Terre sans terre.’ Nature, Time, Responsibility. University of Macau, Macau, China. April 2013.

Peer-Reviewed Panel Presentations
‘Khōra, Gaia, Chaos: Deconstructing Blanchot’s “Note on Transgression.”’ Derrida Today. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece. June 2024.

‘“Comment s’habituer à rien?”: Revisiting Nihilism in Deconstruction.’ Derrida Today. Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, Washington, D.C. June 2022.

‘Narrative and Extinction: Blanchot’s Récit and Derrida’s Thing.’ Association for Philosophy and Literature, Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt, Austria. May 2019.

‘The Imagination Out of Mind: Bachelard, Blanchot, Derrida.’ Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. York University, Toronto, Ontario. November 2018.

‘Eco-Deconstruction after Speculative Realism.’ International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Pennsylvania State University, State College, Pennsylvania. October 2018.

‘Roundtable: Eco-Deconstruction.’ Derrida Today. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 2018.

‘Derrida’s Advances and Forewords to Philosophy.’ Derrida Today. Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. May 2018.

‘Time Before Biopolitics.’ Society for the Study of Biopolitical Futures. Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. November 2017.

‘Deconstructing Biopolitics.’ Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts: After Biopolitics. Rice University, Houston, Texas. November 2015.

‘Ecologies of the Living-Dead: Transcendence and Immanence in Derrida and Deleuze.’ International Association for Environmental Philosophy. New Orleans, Louisiana. October 2014.

‘The Biopolitics of Double Affirmation.’ Derrida Today. Fordham University, New York City, New York. May 2014.

‘Interrupting Relationality: Derrida on Heidegger’s Walten.’ International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Eugene, Oregon, October 2013.

‘Translation as a Material-Discursive Practice: Complementarity, Autopoiesis and General Ecology.’ Canadian Association for Translation Studies. University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 2013.

‘Rhythm, the Life-Death Pulsion and Psychoanalytic Aesthetics.’ eXhibitions Conference on the Humanities; Montreal, Québec. Galerie A.B., April 2012.