Lectures and Events

KEYNOTES – For International Academic Associations / Research Institutes

 

London, July 13-14, 2024

*Featured Speaker for Conversational Dante Panel with John Took and David Mcleod Black, moderator Aaron B. Daniels, Psychology & the Other London Conference, Northeastern University’s London Campus, Devon House, St. Katherine’s Docks, London, England, July 13-14, 2024

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The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa i Tatti), Francesco de Dombrowski Visiting Professor, Florence, Italy, Spring, 2024

Pavia, Italy, May 2, 2024

“Politiche identitarie e giustizia sociale: alcuni equivoci,” Collegio Fratelli Cairoli, Facoltà di Filosofia, University of Pavia, May 2, 2024

Paris, December 15, 2023

“Kénose et wokisme : une alternative à l’instrumentalisation de la justice sociale” [“Kenosis and Wokisme: An Alternative to the Weaponizing of Social Justice”], Symposium on René Girard and the Bible: « Girard, Lecteur de l’Écriture », Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France, December 15, 2023

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Boston, October 5-9, 2023

Invited Address for the Third Dante Salon at Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston College, October 5-9, 2023  

Videorecording of Boston College Vita Nuova lectureWilliam Franke, “Dante’s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation” (youtube.com)

This lecture presents Dante’s youthful work the Vita Nuova (The New Life) as the inaugural work of modern phenomenology and as fully revealing of the latter’…

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Krakow, Poland, June 26- July 2, 2023

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“Taking Letters Literally and Figuring the Unsayable: Plato’s Apophatic Legacy,” GUEST LECTURE for 7th Platonic Summer Seminar: ἄγραφα δόγματα,  Lanckorona (Krakao), Poland, June 25-August 2, 2023

GUEST LECTURE for 7th Platonic Summer Seminar: ἄγραφα δόγματα, Lanckorona (Krakow), Poland, June 25-July 2, 2023

Warsaw, Poland, May 11, 2023

“Transmedial Transmissions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Cult of the ‘Vita Nova,’” FEATURED LECTURE for the International Seminar in Philosophy, Architecture, Education, and Legislation: The Truth of/in Painting, Philosophy Department, University of Warsaw [via Google meet]

 

 Warwick, England, April 13-14, 2023

 “Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature and Indigenous Salvation,” KEYNOTE SPEECH for Processing the Pandemic III: Hope, University of Warwick, Warwick, England, April 13-14, 2023

Call for Proposals_ Processing the Pandemic III

KEYNOTE SPEECH for Symposium on “Processing the Pandemic III: Hope,”Interdisciplinary Approaches to Emotions in the Wake of COVID19,Center for Renaissance St…

 Kuwait, February 7-9, 2023 

*“Unaying Wokeism, or the Role of Self-Critique in Judging Others” KEYNOTE SPEECH Home | GUST International Conference 2023 Gulf University of Science and Technology, Mubarak Al-Abdullah, Kuwait, February 7-9, 2023 

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11 (2)Apophatic Ethics as an Alternative to Identity Politics, or How to Avoid Wokeism GUST Newsletter mini-version

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Nashville (USA) November 2022

*“Dante’s New Life for Poetic Language as Theological Revelation in a Modern Secular Key,” Inaugural Lecture for Annual Dante Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University, November 29, 2022, Nashville, Tennessee 

Berlin May 2022

*“Self-Reflection and Reduction in the Language of Lyric,” Reduction Lecture Series, ICI (Institute for Cultural Inquiry) Berlin, May 16, 2022

Introduction by Manuele Gragnolati

Discussion

Talk by William Franke

*“Self-reflection and the Other in Dante’s “Paradiso,”” Plenary Address for the Dante Salon at Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston College, September 17-19, 2021

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University of Anbar, Iraq, May 2020

*“Much Virtue in Vagueness: Premonition of the Eternal and Encountering t he Other” Keynote Speech for Literary Workshop on: “Obsession with Eternity and Challenges of the Other,” Departments of Arabic and English, College of Arts,                            University of Anbar, Iraq, May 11, 2020 (online conference)   Intervention starts at 1:25:51 in videorecording

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts  October 2019

“Dante and Phenomenology”: PLENARY ADDRESS with respondent for “Psychology and the Other 2019 Conference,” section on “Dante and Phenomenology,” Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 4-6, 2019

 

Xi’an, Xianxi, China  September 2019

Religion, Culture, and Art: Their Common Matrix,” KEYNOTE SPEECH for ICRCA International Conference on Religion, Culture, and Art, MIGCCA (Modern International Green Culture Communication Association), (Co-Organizers: University of Zagreb, Yun Tech, University of Glasgow), Xi’an, China, September 21-22, 2019

 

Taiwan (Greater China)  October 2018

“From Blake’s ‘Eternal Great Humanity Divine’ to Confucian Jūnzǐ 君子: Apophatic Paths between Post- and Pre-Modern Secularity and Divinity,” KEYNOTE SPEECH for Conference “Between Humanity and Divinity: In Literature, Art, Religion and Culture” of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS) National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, October 19-20, 2018

會議手冊 Taiwan TACMRS print program

Call for papers

TACMRS conference info

https://www.stfran.qld.edu.au/keynote-presenters/

Brisbane, Australia  June 2018             

“Negative Theology and Negative Poetics: A Strained Relationship or an Elective Affinity?” KEYNOTE SPEECH for “Tell it Slant: A Symposium on Theology and the Arts,” St. Francis Theological College of Charles Sturt University, Brisbane, Australia, Public and Contextual Theology Research Centre (PACT), June 15-17, 2018

 

York, UK  June 2018

Apophatic Mysticism as Paradigm of Learned Ignorance,” KEYNOTE SPEECH for Conference “Paths Beyond Words: The Ways of Unsaying in Early Modernity” Centre for Research on Early Modern Studies (CREMS) and Humanities Research Centre (HRC), University of York, June 1, 2018

VIDEO-TAPED LECTURE:  “Nicholas of Cusa as Focal Point for Advocating Apophatic Vision and Thought Today”

Lecture, with introduction by Kevin Killeen and questions from audience:

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Oxford, UK  September 2017

“Poetry as Prophecy: From Anthropological Origins to Postmodern Apocalypses” KEYNOTE SPEECH for The Prophetic Word: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation, The Power of the Word International Conference V, Heythrop Institute for Religion and Society (Heythrop College, University of London) and the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford

Audio Recording of Oxford Poetic Prophecy Lecture, Part 1

 Audio Recording of Oxford Poetic Prophecy Lecture, Part 2
Audio Recording of Oxford Poetic Prophecy Lecture, Part 3 (Questions & Answers)

Glasgow, UK  December 2016

“Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Method and Mysticism in Intercultural Philosophy” KEYNOTE SPEECH for Comparative Mysticism: Renewing a Neglected Project, Annual Conference of the Mystical Theology Network, University of Glasgow, Scotland, December 15, 2016

Beijing, China  May 2016

“Universality of Knowledge and Specialization at the University: A Path from France to China,” KEYNOTE SPEECH for International Academic Conference to Inaugurate the School of Foreign Studies, Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, May 26, 2016

Beijing, China  November 2015

“The Tradition of the Chinese Classics and the Idea of World Literature Today” KEYNOTE SPEECH (with simultaneous translation into Chinese) at International Symposium on “The Orient vs. The Occident: Cultural Exchanges and Influences,” sponsored by Foreign Language Department of Capital University of Economics and Business, jointly organized by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, Capital International Culture Research Center of Beijing Language and Culture University, and the Comparative Literature Studies Center of Soochow University. Beijing, November 27-29, 2015

 

Macao (Greater China)  January 2015  (conjoint with Institute for Advance Study of Religion, Toronto)

“Natural Cognition, Universals, and the Nothing of Religion” Keynote Address for “Cognition, Religion, and Science”: A Conference of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR), co-sponsored by the Toronto Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion Philosophy and Religious Studies Program, University of Macao, January 13-14, 2015

 

Pretoria, South Africa  January 2012

“The Art of Memory or the Forgetting of Art? The Visionary Moment in Dante and Blanchot” KEYNOTE SPEECH for International Conference: “Memory: Impressions, Expressions, Reflections: An Interdisciplinary Conference,” The Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, March 28, 2012

 

Bamberg, Germany  March 2011

“Letargo and the Argo: Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Christian Epic Tradition”            Internationale Nachwuchstagung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs: Generationenbewußtsein und Generationenkonflikte in Antike und Mittelalter: “Erfahren, Erzählen, Errinern: Narrative Konstruktionen von Gedächtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter”

[4th International Postgraduate Colloquium,  DFG (German Research Foundation): “Record, Relate, Remember: Narrative Constructions of Memory and Generation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages”]

Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, March 2- 4, 2011

 

Ankara, Turkey  August 2010

 “The Scientific Paradigm and the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities” PLENARY ADDRESS: 12th International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas): “Thought in Science and Fiction” Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, August 4, 2010

 

Tampere, Finland  August 2009

“’Il Trapassar del Segno’: Language and Transcendence in Dante’s Paradiso”” KEYNOTE SPEECH:The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference of the Nordic Dante Network: “Dante and Transgression,” University of Tampere, Finland, August 20, 2009

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SYMPOSIA – On William Franke’s Work

Syndicate Theology Symposium, April 2016

Syndicate Theology, vol. 3, issue 2, March/April (2016) “William Franke, A Philosophy of the Unsayable,”

Macao (Greater China) March 2015

“What is Apophatic Thinking and Why is it Relevant Today? Discussions around William Franke’s ‘A Philosophy of the Unsayable’” International Philosophy Colloquium, Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macao, March 7th, 2015

Tokyo, Japan  October 2013

INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ‘DANTE AND THE SENSE OF TRANSGRESSION’: “Transgression and Transcendence: What Makes Religion Radical?  A two-day symposium to discuss Prof. William Franke’s book “Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign,’” Institute for Christianity and Culture,International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan, October 11-12, 2013

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ACADEMIC LECTURES: Anniversary Lectures, Series Lectures, Named Lectures 

 

Nashville, USA, November 29, 2021

Vanderbilt Dante Lecture Series, Inaugural Lecture on the Vita Nuova

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Berlin, Germany, May 16, 2022

“Self-Reflection and Reduction in the Language of Lyric,” Reduction Lecture Series, ICI (Institute for Cultural Inquiry), Berlin, May 16, 2022

Introduction by Manuele Gragnolati

Discussion

Flyer Berlin Reduction Lecture 

UCLA, California, November 12, 2021

*“Dante and East Asia: The Apophatic Connection,” PLENARY ADDRESS for Symposium: “Afterlives: Dante in Dialogue with East Asian Buddhism”
UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS), November 12, 2021

Pasadena, California, October 15, 2021

“Transcendence, Immanence, and Transdescendence in Modern Art from Dante to Mallarmé,” JIS (Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies) International Symposium: “The Arts & Transcendence: In Search of Beauty, Truth & Goodness,” Pasadena, California, October 16, 2021 [remote]

Madrid, Spain, October 14, 2021

“La nuova vita per il linguaggio poetico come rivelazione teologica in una chiave moderna e secolare secondo Dante,” [The New Life for Poetic Language as Theological Revelation in a Modern Secular Key” International Conference “La modernità di Dante], Complutense University of Madrid, October 16, 2021

Nancy, France, October 7, 2021

“Dante’s Relevance to and Impact on Postmodern Thought,” Colloque International: “La mondialisation de Dante,” Société française de littérature générale et comparée, University of Lorraine, Nancy, France, October 7, 2021

Regensburg, Germany  May 2019

“The Fate of Philology in a Logo-decentered Culture: The Challenge of Media Studies,” Guest Lecture, Lehrstuhl fuer Medienwissenschaften (Institute for Media Studies) in Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur-, und Kulturwissenschaften [Faculty of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies], University of Regensburg, May 9, 2019

Poitiers, France  April 2019

**“De Dante à Mallarmé à travers l’Hamlet de Shakespeare: Négativité de la révélation prophétique-poétique dans la modernité” (“From Dante to Mallarmé via Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Negativities of Prophetic Revelation in Modernity”), International Conference: « Dante and Shakespeare: Cosmology, Politics and Poetics », University of Poitiers / Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, FRANCE, 4-6 April 2019

 

Berlin, Germany  April 2019

*”Apophasis und die Achsenzeit: Transzendente Ursprünge des kritischen Bewusstseins”[“Apophasis and the Axial Age: Transcendent Origins of Critical Consciousness”]

International Conference on “Negation und Wissen. Zur Kategorie der Negativität in Theologie, Anthropologie und Ästhetik der Vormoderne” [Negativity and Knowledge: On the category of negativity in theology, anthropology and aesthetics in the pre-modern period] Interdisciplinary Conference under auspices of SFB: Sonderforschungsbereich: Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universität, Berlin, April, 4-5, 2019

 Pamplona, Spain  May 2018

“Negative Theology, Poetic Prophecy, and the Religious Bonding of Society,” Lecture Series: “Lecturas sobre Religión y sociedad,” Institute for Culture and Society, Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Navarra, May 15, 2018

Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, Universidad de Navarra

Saarbrücken, Germany June 2017      

“Traumepistemologie und religiöse Offenbarung in Dantes Vita Nuova,” DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2021 “Europäische Traumkulturen,” University of Saarbrücken, 13 June, 2017

Beijing, China  October 2016

“Liberal Arts Education as Learned Ignorance: From an East-Asian Vantage Point,” 60th ANNIVERSARY LECTURE, Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, China, October 14, 2016

 

Chicago, Illinois  February 2016

2016 Annual Dante Lecture: Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois, February 27, 2015

 

Manila, Philippines  December  2015

“Negative Theology,” Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research, University of Santo Tomas (“The Catholic University of the Philippines”), Manila, Philippines, December 6, 2015

 

Seoul, South Korea  October 2015

Invited Speaker and Panelist on “Liberal Arts Education in the East-Asian University: The Unspeakable Basis of Comparative Humanities,” Symposium on “Liberal Arts in the Age of Globalization,” 10th Anniversary Celebration of Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, October 28, 2015

 

Shandong, China  October 2015

Lecture/Seminar on “Apophatic Paths from Europe to Asia: A Personal Philosophical Journey,” Guest Lecture for Center for Zhouyi and Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Shandong University, China, October 20, 2015

 

Tübingen, Germany June 2015

“Die Apophase als Paradigma der belehrte Unwissenheit” [“Apophasis as Paradigm of Learned Ignorance”],            Die Thematik der Weisheit in den Idiota- Schriften des Nikolaus von Kues, Universität Tübingen, June 5-6, 2015

 

Florence, Italy  July 2014

“Self-Reflection and the Theological Apotheosis of Lyric in the Paradiso,” NEH Summer Institute on Dante, Poetry, Philosophy and the City of Florence, NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute:, Dante’s Divine Comedy, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence, Florence, July 21-24, 2014

 

Tokyo, Japan  October 2013

“The Humanities and the Ideal of Wholeness—Epic Pasts, Partisan Presents, Plural Futures” – The 5th Lecture of the 50th Anniversary series

International Speakers Series on “The Future of the Humanities,” International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2013

 

Macao (Greater China)  November 2012

Distinguished Lecture Series, English Department, University of Macao, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,University of Macao, October 27, 2011

 

Hong Kong November 2011

“The Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation: Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality?” Lecture for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, November 7, 2011

 

Urbino, Italy  August 2011

“Dante e la teologia negativa” [Dante and Negative Theology], ISSR (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose), University of Urbino Carlo Bo, August 18, 2011

 

Notre Dame, Indiana  October 2006

“Scripture as Theophany in Dante’s Paradiso,” 2006 Annual Lecture in Religion and Literature, University of Notre Dame, October 30, 2006

 

Hong Kong  December 2005

“Primordial Sacrifice, Typology, and the Theological Vocation of Literature in Finnegans Wake,”  University of Hong Kong Comparative Literature Lecture Series (2006)

 

Hong Kong  September 2005

“The Death of God and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and Post-secular Postmodernity,” Lecture Series on Culture, Value, and the Meaning of Life, Department of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong, September 28, 2005

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PUBLIC TALKS AND SEMINARS

 Chicago, Illinois  September 2018

“Dante Between Philology and Philosophy (After the Theological Turn),” Graduate Research Methods Workshop, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, September 8, 2018 (jointly led with Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago)

 

Lake Forest Place, Illinois  December 2017

“How to Read the Bible: Can Fundamentalists and Secularists be Brought into Dialogue?” Presentation of “A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities,” Ecumenical Chaplaincy, Lake Forest Place, Lake Forest, Illinois, December 21, 2017

 

Chicago, Illinois  October 2017

“The Other Italian Renaissance: Between Religion and Humanism, Dante to Vico,” with Rocco Rubini, Newberry Library Research Methods Workshop, Chicago, October 13, 2017

 

Frankfurt, Germany  August 2016

Block-Seminar: “Apophatische Theologie und ihre Wirkung auf die neuzeitliche Philosophie” [Apophatic Theology and its Consequences in Modern Philosophy], Goethe University of Frankfurt, Philosophy Department, Summer Semester, 2016

 

Nashville, Tennessee  April 2016

“Books, Bread, and Bubbles: or How to Read Dante Backwards and Forwards in Time on the Way to China.”   Vanderbilt University Book Talk, Nashville, April 6, 2016

 

Chicago, Illinois  February  2015

“Poetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante,” with Vittorio Montemaggi, Graduate Workshop, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, Illinois, February 26, 2015

 

Macao (Greater China)  November 2015

Philosophy Café: “Philosophical Universalism and the Role of China in the World Today,” Cunha Foundation Macau Cultural Center, November 2, 2015

 

Macao (Greater China)  October 2015

Seminar with Philippe Beck (French Poet Laureate, 2015), Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macao, October 26, 2015

 

Hong Kong (Greater China)  April 2014

“Porphyry’s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature,” Lecture and Seminar at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of English, April 11, 2014

 

Macao (Greater China)  April 2014

Faculty Seminar on Knowledge and the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities, University of Macao, April 30, 2014

 

CERISY-la-Salle, France  September 2013

“L’éloge de la fadeur et la litote du neutre: Entre François Jullien, Maurice Blanchot et Roland Barthes” [The Eulogy of Blandness and the Litotes of the Neutral: Between François Jullien, Maurice Blanchot, and Roland Barthes] CERISY Colloquium on François Jullien, Cerisy-la-Salle (France) Des Possibles de la pensée: Autour des travaux de François Jullien, September 14-21, 2013

 

Seattle, Washington  January 2012

“Christian Figuralism and Kenosis: From Otherworldliness to the Becoming Worldly of Otherness,” MLA (Modern Language Association) National Convention, Religion and Literature Section, Panel on “Secularism,”
Seattle, January 6, 2012

 

Macao (Greater China)  October 2011

Seminar on Emily Dickinson, Department of English, University of Macao, “Reading Emily Dickinson: Three Approaches to One of her Poems,” with linguist Martin Montgomery and translator Zhang Meifang, October 21, 2011

 

CERISY-la-Salle, France August 2011

“Le commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans le mysticisme apophatique : de Platon au postmodernisme,” CERISY-la-Salle (France) Colloque: « Philosophie et Mystique: Autour de Stanislas Breton », August 25-September 1, 2011, Colloquium organized by Jean Greisch, Jérôme Du Gramont, Marie-Odile Métra

 

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EVENTS IN SERIAL ORDER OF OCCURRENCE

2020

“Four Lectures: Dante’s Vita nuova, Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Goethe’s Faust, Mallarmé’s Coup de dés,” Renmin University, Beijing, November, 2020

“Selbst-Reflexion auf der Schwelle zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit: eine theologische Genealogie des Zeitalters der Vorstellung,” lecture for the Alfred Magnum Forum, University of Regensburg, October 2020

“Walter Benjamin und die Weltliteratur, ” Internationale Vereinigung für Germanistik (IVG), XIV. Kongress: Wege der Germanistik in transkulturellen Perspektiven, Palermo 26 July – 2 August 2020

“Apophatic Thinking and its Applications: Between Exhaustion and Explosion,” 2020 Annual Conference of The Mystical Theology Network & The Association for Continental Philosophy of Religion: Thinking About Nothing: Negation, Philosophy and the Mystical, Liverpool Hope University, July 3–5, 2020

La Vita nuova entre poésie et prose: renouvellement de vie et révélation théologique,” Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur la Littérature Italienne du Moyen Âge (CERLIM), Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris 3), May 16, 2020

“Scientific versus Symbolic Representation of the Real: Duns Scotus and Dante,” Seminario de Dantología: Spring 2020, La Asociación Complutense de Dantología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, March 6, 2020

“The Discourse of Social Justice in a Negative Theological Perspective,” invited lecture for Lecture Series: “Lecturas sobre religión y sociedad civil,” Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, January 21, 2020   twitter news release

2019

* “The Birth of Modernity and its Crisis in the Dante’s Phenomenology of the Self-Reflective Subject,” PLENARY LECTURE WITH RESPONDENT for “Psychology and the Other 2019 Conference,” section on “Dante and Phenomenology,” Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 4-6, 2019

* “Speculative Philology: From Ancient Theological Hermeneutics to Modern Linguistic Epistemologies,” Presenter at Yale-NUS and Princeton “Comparative Antiquity” workshop on “Global Classicism,” National University of Singapore, August 1-5, 2019

Postclassicisms: Global Collaborative Networks

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*“Technological Transformation and Postmodern Re-enchantment of the Everyday,” Round Table on “Sacredness and the Everyday,” ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) Annual Convention, University of St. Joseph, Macao, China, July 29-31, 2019

“Dante’s New Life and the New Testament: Hermeneutics of Revelation in the Vita Nuova,” Congresso Dantesco Internazionale: “Alma Dante 2019,” Ravenna, June 1, 2019

* “The Fate of Philology in a Logo-decentered Culture: The Challenge of Media Studies,” Gastvortrag [Guest Lecture], Lehrstuhl für Medienwissenschaften [Institute for Media Studies] in Fakultät für Sprach-, Literatur-, und Kulturwissenschaften [Faculty of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies], University of Regensburg, May 9, 2019

Poitiers, France  April 2019

*“L’invention par Shakespeare d’une poésie prophétique moderne à la suite du modèle dantesque” (“Shakespeare’s Invention of a Modern Prophetic Poetry and its Revision of Dante’s Precedent”), International Conference: « Dante and Shakespeare: Cosmology, Politics and Poetics », University of Poitiers / Centre d’Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, FRANCE, 4-6 April 2019

[4-6 avril 2019] Dante et Shakespeare : cosmologie, politique, poétique

Berlin, Germany  April 2019

International Conference on “Negation und Wissen. Zur Kategorie der Negativität in Theologie, Anthropologie und Ästhetik der Vormoderne” [Negativity and Knowledge: On the category of negativity in theology, anthropology and aesthetics in the pre-modern period] Interdisciplinary Conference under auspices of SFB: Sonderforschungsbereich: Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universität, Berlin, April, 4-5, 2019

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“From Blake’s ‘Eternal Great

Humanity Divine’ to Confucian Jūnzǐ 君子: Apophatic Paths between Post- and Pre-Modern Secularity and Divinity” KEYNOTE SPEECH for Conference “Between Humanity and Divinity: In Literature, Art, Religion and Culture” of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS), National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, October19-20, 2018

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“Dante Between Philology and Philosophy: Graduate Research Methods Seminar, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, September 8, 2018 (jointly led with Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago)

 

“Outline of an Apophatic Approach to an Intercultural Philosophy of Universalism,”  24th World Congress of Philosophy, Section 29: Intercultural Philosophy, Beijing, August 13-20, 2018

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“Negative Theology and Negative Poetics: A Strained Relationship or an Elective Affinity?” KEYNOTE SPEECH for Conference on “Theology and the Arts,” St. Francis Theological College of Charles Sturt University, Brisbane, Australia, June 15-17, 2018

Closing Panel

 

“Apophatic Mysticism as Paradigm of Learned Ignorance,” KEYNOTE LECTURE for Conference “Paths Beyond Words: The Ways of Unknowing in Early Modernity” at the Centre for Research and Early Modern Studies (CREMS) and Humanities Research Centre (HRC), University of York, UK, June 1, 2018

Event Announcement

VIDEO-RECORDED LECTURE:  “Nicholas of Cusa as Focal-Point for Advocating Apophatic Vision and Thought Today”

CFP for “Beyond Words”

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Negative Theology, Poetic Prophecy, and the Religious Bonding of Society,” Lecture Series: “Lecturas sobre Religión y sociedad,” Institute for Culture and Society, Department of Philosophy, Universidad de Navarra, May 15, 20

 

“Dante and the Crisis of Representation in the Modern Age,”  2018 MLA Panel on Crisis in Dante, New York, Modern Language Association National Convention, New York City, January 4-7, 2018.   Dante Society of America event

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“How to Read the Bible:Can Fundamentalists and Secularists be Brought into Dialogue,” Lake Forest Place, December 21, 2017

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The Other Italian Renaissance: Between Religion and Humanism, Dante to Vico, Newberry Library Research Methods Workshop, Chicago, October 13, 2017

 

“Poetry as Prophecy: From Anthropological Origins to Postmodern Apocalypses,” Keynote Speech for The Prophetic Word: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation, Fifth Power of the Word Project Interdisciplinary Conference, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford, September 13-16, 2017

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Audio Recording of Oxford Poetic Prophecy Lecture, Part 1

Audio Recording of Oxford Poetic Prophecy Lecture, Part 2

Audio Recording of Oxford Poetic Prophecy Lecture, Part 3 (Questions & Answers)

“Traumepistemologie und religiöse Offenbarung in Dantes Vita Nuova,” DFG-Graduiertenkolleg 2021 “Europäische Traumkulturen,” University of Saarbrücken, 13 June, 2017

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“Writing as Theophany,” Deutsche Gesellschaft für allgemeine und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 6 June 2017

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“Apophatic Paths from Europe to China,” Keynote Speech, Conference on Mysticism in a Comparative Perspective, University of Glasgow, Scotland, December 14-16, 2016

VIDEO-RECORDING

Video Recording of Glasgow lecture with response by Victoria Harrison

https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=0nPE5IvKKiE

Conference website

Conference Program

Besharma Magazine – Interview with George Pattison about Comparative Mysticism 2016 Conference

Glasgow Keynote Chapel(large)

 

“Liberal Arts Education as Learned Ignorance: From an East Asian Vantage Point,” 60th Anniversary Lecture, Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, October 14, 2016

 



audience front rows

 



“Apophatische Theologie und neuzeitliche Philosophie” [Apophatic Theology and its Effects in Modern Philosophy], Summer-Semester Seminar, invited by Prof. Wilhelm Essler, Philosophy Department, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt, August 2-6, 2016

link to Goethe University Frankfurt seminar

seminar announcement

ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) Weltkongress, University of Vienna, July 21-27 2016

“Sprache der Migration. Migration der Sprache. Transkulturelle Literatur im Zeitalter der Globalisierungsprozesse”

“Universality of Knowledge and Specialization at the University: A Path from France to China,” KEYNOTE SPEECH for International Academic Conference to Inaugurate the School of Foreign Studies, Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, May 26, 2016

 

 

“Books, Bread, and Bubbles: or How to Read Dante Backwards and Forwards in Time on the Way to China.”   Vanderbilt University, Nashville, April 6, 2016

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2016 Annual Dante Lecture: Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, Illinois, February 27, 2015

The Apotheosis of Self-Reflection: Dante and the Inauguration of the Modern Era,

Flyer-Franke

Medieval Academy Blog

Saturday February 27, 2016

Poetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante, Graduate Workshop, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, Illinois, February 26, 2015

Graduate Workshop at Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago

 

Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies

Poetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, 1502. Newberry Wing ZP 535 .A354.

Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, 1502. Newberry Wing ZP 535 .A354. Click image to enlarge.

William Franke, Vanderbilt University

Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame

Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students
Friday, February 26, 2016

9 am to 5 pm

Room 101

Led by William Franke, Vanderbilt University, and Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame
Application deadline: December 1
Center for Renaissance Studies Programs
Renaissance Graduate Programs

One recent approach to research on Dante emphasizes the use of poetry as a vehicle of religious discourse and even of theological revelation. Dante has a paradigmatic value for this topic that has widely influenced study throughout numerous subfields of literature and religion, intensely engaging a considerable variety of medieval and Renaissance writers—mystics and humanists alike.

This workshop will bring together Dante scholars who have given decisive impulses to the new theologically—and at the same time theoretically—oriented readings of Dante, to suggest how the techniques developed in Dante studies might be applied to the study of other authors and even to Biblical literature. Key to this undertaking is understanding the theology of the divine Word not as a dogmatic system but as interpreting a dimension of literary communication, a dimension of the poetic word that in some ways can transcend pragmatic contexts of communication. Such interdisciplinary study moves the traditional disciplines of theology and philology into a new kind of dynamic interaction.

Learn more about the workshop directors:

William Franke, Vanderbilt University
Vittorio Montemaggi, University of Notre Dame

*“Negative Theology” Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research, University of Santo Tomas (“The Catholic University of the Philippines”), Manila, Philippines, December 6, 2015

“Theological Revelation and Secular Reason:  Critical Proposals for a Meeting of Minds and Cultures,” Guest Lecture Department of Philosophy, Pontifical & Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines,December 5, 2015

 

Keynote Speech at International Academic Symposium: “The Orient vs. The Occident: Cultural Exchanges and Influences,”  Foreign Language Department of Capital University of Economics and Business, Beijing, November 27-29, 2015

会议议程安排CUEB conference programme(1) with keynote speech: “The Tradition of Chinese Classics and the Idea of World Literature Today”

Post-Conference News Release

 

Beijing International Symposium 2016

国际学术研讨
The International Symposium on
The Orient vs. The Occident: Cultural Exchanges and Influences
会议日程
11:00-12:00 Main Hall, Fragrant Hill Hotel

 

 

Keynote Speech

SessionChair

Professor Zhang Hua

3.The Chinese system of world literature: Cross East and West Civilizations

(Professor Fang Hanwen, Doctoral Supervisor and the Director of Comparative Literature and Civilization Study Center at Soochow University)

4. The Tradition of the Chinese Classics and the Idea of World Literature Today

(William Paul Franke, a philosopher of the humanities and literary theorist, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Macao)

AAR (American Academy of Religion) Annual Meeting), Atlanta, November 24, 2015

Exploratory Session on Negative Theologies and Apophaticism

Seminar with Philippe Beck, Philosophy, University of Macao, October 26, 2015

“Apophatic Paths from Europe to Asia: A Personal Philosophical Journey”                   Center for Zhouyi and Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Shandong University, China, October 20, 2015

Shandong University Seminar

International Summit Dialogue and Forum:  What is World Literature? Tension between the Local and the Universal,                              Beijng Normal University, 16-17 October, 2015

Conference online Program

Beijing Normal University, October 16-17, 2015

Global Ethics and Politics in Relation to Ecological Philosophy, 27th International Conference of Philosophy (IAGP), Athens-Vouliagmeni, July 10-16, 2015

“From the Globalism of Nature to the Universality of Thought: Bringing Universalist Ethics and Politics back into Ecological Harmony by the Apophatic Way”

27th ICOP-Programme

Die Thematik der Weisheit in den Idiota- Schriften des Nikolaus von Kues, Universität Tübingen, June 5-6, 2015

Conference Programme

PhilHist’15: History of Philosophy Conference on “Interactions,” Eastern Mediterranean Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey, May 14-16, 2015

Cognitive Universality between Science and Humanities

Transcendence and Immanence in Intercultural Philosophy

Conference poster 1(1).2

Press Release covering event

FAH holds international conference on intercultural philosophy 人文學院辦國際研討會探討跨文化哲學

Transcendence and Immanence in Intercultural Philosophy – Proposal

Transcendence and Immanence in Intercultural Philosophy – Program

Transcendence and Immanence in Intercultural Philosophy – Abstracts

Transcendence and Immanence in Intercultural Philosophy – Biographies

What is Apophatic Thinking and Why is it Relevant Today? Discussions around William Franke’s A Philosophy of the Unsayable

Book Colloquium Program

Book Colloquium Proposal and Rationale

Colloquium Participant Biographies

For Videtape of recorded lectures, see page “Media Documents” on this website

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Philosophy Café: Philosophical Universalism and the Role of China in the World Today

Philosophy Café – Cunha Foundation site with multiple pictures of the events

Philosophy café – picture (1st)

Philosophy cafe – press article

Macau Daily Times article online:  “Philosophy Cafés to Spur Critical Thinking”

Love of Wisdom poster

 

 

Religion, Cognition, Science (January 2015)

Conference Programme – final

Abstracts of Presentations

Chinese University of Hong Kong Philosophy Lecture

Lecture announcement

Book Interviews (Conversations with Chris Benda about three of recent books by William Franke)

Dante and the Sense of Transgression

The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante

A Philosophy of the Unsayable

Videotaped Lecture : Rethinking Cultural Universality Today and The Question of Theological Transcendence

Rethinking Cultural Universality Today and The Question of Theological Transcendence

 

NEH Summer Institute on Dante, poetry, philosophy and the city of Florence

“Self-Reflection and the Theological Apotheosis of Lyric in the Paradiso

NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute:

Dante’s Divine Comedy, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence

Florence, July 21-24, 2014

Faculty biographies

Summer NEH Institute Announcement

 

20th Symposium of the Académie du midi:  Wisdom East and West.
Alet-les-bains, France, June 8-14, 2014

Jungcusaner Symposium                           (“Wissensformen bei Nicolaus Cusanus”) Kueser Akademie für Europäische  Geistesgeschichte                                                        Berncastle-Kues, Germany, May 26-28, 2014

Critical Theory and the Way:
A Symposium on Kantian Paradigms and Prospects in East Asia

Philosophy and Religious Studies Program,  University of Macao

Link to Program

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Faculty Seminar on Knowledge and the Humanities, Faculty of Arts and
Humanities University of Macao

The 1st Faculty of Arts and Humanities Seminar on Humanities

‘KNOWLEDGE AND THE HUMANITIES’

Date: 30 April 2014 (Wednesday)
Time: 1430-1600
Venue: RG09

Language: English
Other information will be announced soon.

Speakers:

Prof. Martin Montgomery
Chair Professor of English

Prof. William Franke
Professor Catedrático of Philosophy and Religions
Professor of Comparative Literature

All are Welcome.

Lecture and Seminar at Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of English, April 11, 2014

Events & Seminars
“Porphyry’s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature” by Prof. William Franke
Date:
11 Apr 2014
Time:
11:30 am
Speaker:
Prof. William Franke, Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme, The University of Macau
Topic:
Porphyry’s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature
Venue:
E-Zone, 3/F Fung King Hey Building
Porphyry’s in the Cave of the Nymphs inaugurates a style of philosophico-allegorical interpretation of literary texts that flourished in antiquity and that finds analogues in criticism down to the present. It is distinguished by its use of literary interpretation to think through speculative problems of philosophy and theology. Although it became suspect in terms of Enlightenment philological principles prescribing interpretation of the text. In its own terms, this kind of criticism reveals the originally philosophical motives and purpose of literary criticism and restores to literature the vocation of disclosing a properly poetic truth higher than that of fact or history. The history of this type of speculative criticism stemming from Porphyry reading of Homer is then traced forward through Latin allegorical readings of epic revolving around Virgil. This itinerary highlights the perennial and inevitable tensions between philological and philosophical approaches to interpreting literature as a revelation of truth, even of theological truth.

Porphyry’s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature

 

International Conference on The Force of Imagination, University of Macao

Download the Conference Program

Symposium on 2013 book: ‘Dante and the Sense of Transgression’, ICU, Tokyo, Japan

“Transgression and Transcendence: What Makes Religion Radical?”

ICU conference poster.in Word-5Program

Symposium on Dante and the Sense of Transgression: ‘The Trespass of the Sign’

Seminar at ICU Institute for Christian and Culture

International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, October 10-11, 2013

Ganymede.pdf

International Speakers Series on “The Future of the Humanities,” ICU, Tokyo, Japan

“The Humanities and the Ideal of Wholeness—Epic Pasts, Partisan Presents, Plural Futures”

International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2013

The 5th Lecture of the 50th Anniversary series

CERISY Colloquium on François Jullien, Cerisy-la-Salle (France)

Des Possibles de la pensée: Autour des travaux de François JullienSeptember 14-21, 2013
Prospectus
ProgrammeReportage by Daniel BougnouxLa Croix

Debating with François Jullien (left), Fabian Heubel (right):

23rd World Congress of Philosophy:  Philosophy as Inquiry and as Way of LifeSchool of Philosophy, University of Athens, Greece, August 2-11, 2013

Video of  session +          YouTube Video (but with poor sound quality)
+                         Athens lecture sound track (minutes 33-55 in tape)
“Thinking in the Gap between the Cultures of Greece and China:  Apophatic Universalism”
(minutes 33-55 in tape)

“Thinking in the Gap between the Cultures of Greece and China: Apophatic Universalism” (My Videotaped Lecture)

 

International Agamben Conference, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei (Taiwan)

“Except Asia: Agamben’s Work in Transcultural Perspective”
Taipei, June 25-27, 2013

“Agamben’s Logic of Exception: Its Apophatic Roots and Offshoots”

International Summer Seminar on Theological Dimensions of Dante’s Work, Tantur Ecumenical Institute  (Israel)

Tantur Institute, Jerusalem:  Program
June 17-28, 2013

Humboldt Colloquium: Nature, Time, Responsibility, University of Macao (China)

Humboldt Colloquium:  Nature, Time, Responsibility
April 12-14, 2013

University of Toronto Italian Studies: Conference on Literature and Religion (Canada)

Program

Toronto Italian Literature & Religion University of Toronto 2012 Booklet

International Forum for Advanced Research in English Studies, University of Macao (China)

Program:  Suffering in Literature

 

Ende oder Umbau einer Erlösungsreligion? at University of Bochum (Germany)

Program
Projektskizze

Interogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature, University of Bamberg (Germany)

International Conference:  Universität Bamberg, May 24-35, 2012 Program

“Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition”

Pictures and Press Release

Keynote Speech for Interdisciplinary Conference on Memory at UNISA (University of South Africa)

“Memory: Impressions, Expressions, Reflections: An Interdisciplinary Conference”

Memory-conference-programme

 

Round Table on “Secularization andLiterature,” MLA (Modern Language Association) National Convention,
Seattle, January 6, 2012

‘Several of the most provocative, insightful scholars at the intersection of religion and literature will be participating on a panel entitled “Literature and Secularization” (Friday, 3:30-4:45, WSCC 617). Facilitated by Susannah Brietz Monta (Notre Dame, and editor of Religion and Literature), this roundtable will feature Lori Branch (Iowa, author of Rituals of Spontaneity); John Cox (Hope College,Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith); Tracy Fessenden (Arizona State, Culture and Redemption); William Franke (Vanderbilt, Poetry and Apocalypse); Colin Lovell Jager (Rutgers, New Brunswick, The Book of God); and Michael W. Kaufmann (Temple, coordinator of recent Religion and Literature forum, “Locating the Postsecular”).’

–Everett Hamner,  http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

European Studies Lecture, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong

School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong

Lecture Announcement

Distinguished Lecture Series, English Department, University of Macao

UMAC English Dept. Newsletter11.pdf

Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Univeristy of Macau

Seminar on Emily Dickinson, Department of English, University of Macao

 

“Reading Emily Dickinson: Three Approaches to One of her Poems,”
with linguist Martin Montgomery and translator Zhang Meifang,
University of Macao, Department of English Seminar Series, October 21, 2011

University of Hong Kong Lecture:The Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation: Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality? November 7, 2011

 

Philosophy Colloquium, CERISY, Centre Culturel International (France)

William Franke, “Le commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans le mysticisme apophatique : de Platon au postmodernisme”  [The Beginning and the End of Philosophy in Apophatic Mysticism : From Plato to Postmodernism]. August 27, 2011

CERISY-la-Salle (France) Colloque: « Philosophie et Mystique: Autour de Stanislas Breton », August 25-September 1, 2011

Colloquium organized by Jean Greisch, Jérôme Du Gramont, Marie-Odile Métra

Programme Argument Resumes.docx

CERISY–Le chateau depuis l’Orangerie

Communication à CERISY,
Philosophie et Mystique

Public Lecture, Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose, University of Urbino (Italy)

”Dante e la teologia negativa” [Dante and Negative Theology]
Seminari d’estate,
August 18, 2011                           Press release

With Professor Andrea Aguti (left) and Professor Piergiorgio Grassi (right)

With Andrea Aguti (left) and Piergiorgio Grassi (right)

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Keynote Speech, Ancient and Medieval Colloquium, University of Bamberg (Germany)

Erfahren, Erzählen, Erinnern: Narrative Konstruktionen von Gedächtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter

[Record, Relate, Remember:  Narrative Constructions of Memory and Generation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages]

4. Internationale Nachwuchstagung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs     [4th International Postgraduate Colloquium–DFG (German Research Foundation)]

Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, An der Universität, Raum U2/025, 2-4 März 2011

Keynote14.00-15.30

”Letargo and the Argo”: Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax
of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Christian Epic Tradition

William Franke (Nashville, TN)

 


Review Article from Interview by Monika Beer, Fränkischer Tag, March 11, 2011
:
„Wahrheit ist immer auch unwahr” (“Truth is always also untrue“)

Bamberg Conference complete program

Audio Interview on Classical Epic and Humanities Education

Interview with Vanderbilt Divnity librarian Chris Benda on The Revelation of Imagination

Plenary Address for the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), Turkey

12th International Conference of the ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas):
“Thought in Science and Fiction”
Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey
August 2-4, 2010

Wednesday, August 4, 2010, afternoon sessions, 1:30 – 5:00:

Plenary Session – William Franke, The Scientific Paradigm and the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities — Blue Hall, 1:30 pm.

Keynote Address, Nordic Dante Network, Finland

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trivium Announcement of Keynote Lecture: Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Philosophy and Literature Forthcoming Events

CFP: Call for Papers

Abstracts of  lectures for Nordic Dante Network

Salzburg Critical Theory and Theology Lecture – Zentrum Theologie Interkulturell

University of Salzburg Classics Lecture

 

Vorträge klassische Philologie

 Porphyry and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature
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“Scripture as Theophany in Dante’s Paradiso,” Annual Religion and Literature Lecture, University of Notre Dame

“Primordial Sacrifice, Typology, and the Theological Vocation of Literature in Finnegans Wake,”  University of Hong Kong Comparative Literature Lecture Series (2006)

finnegans wake lecture poster jpeg (3)

 

 

 

 

Picture Extras

Miscellaneous News Releases

Collegium Phenomenlogicum, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1993

Vanderbilt University Daily Register.mht

Fulbright Scholar grant.docx

Fulbright Scholar grants.pdf

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