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William Franke: Keynote, Named, and Invited Lectures (2009-2019)
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2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFour Lectures: Dante\u2019s Vita nuova<\/em>, Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet,<\/em> Goethe\u2019s Faust<\/em>, Mallarm\u00e9\u2019s Coup de d\u00e9s,<\/em>\u201d Renmin University, Beijing, November, 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0POSTPONED<\/p>\n

\u201cSelbst-Reflexion auf der Schwelle zwischen Mittelalter und Neuzeit: eine theologische Genealogie des Zeitalters der Vorstellung,\u201d lecture for the Alfred Magnum Forum, University of Regensburg, October 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0POSTPONED<\/p>\n

\u201cWalter Benjamin und die Weltliteratur, \u201d Internationale Vereinigung f\u00fcr Germanistik (IVG), XIV. Kongress: <\/strong>Wege der Germanistik in transkulturellen Perspektiven, <\/strong>Palermo 26 July \u2013 2 August 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0POSTPONED<\/p>\n

\u201cApophatic Thinking and its Applications: Between Exhaustion and Explosion,\u201d 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\u20135, 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0POSTPONED<\/p>\n

*\u201cMuch Virtue in Vagueness: Premonition of the Eternal and Encountering t he Other\u201d Keynote Speech for Literary Workshop on: \u201cObsession with Eternity and Challenges of the Other,\u201d\u00a0<\/a>Departments of Arabic and English, College of Arts,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 University of Anbar, Iraq,\u00a0May 11, 2020 (online conference)<\/p>\n

\u201cLa Vita nuova <\/em>entre po\u00e9sie et prose: renouvellement de vie et r\u00e9v\u00e9lation th\u00e9ologique,\u201d Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes et de Recherches sur la Litt\u00e9rature Italienne du Moyen \u00c2ge (CERLIM), Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris\u00a03), May 16, 2020\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0POSTPONED<\/p>\n

\u201cScientific versus Symbolic Representation of the Real: Duns Scotus and Dante,\u201d Seminario de Dantolog\u00eda: Spring 2020, La Asociaci\u00f3n Complutense de Dantolog\u00eda, Universidad Complutense, Madrid<\/a>, March 6, 2020\u00a0 \u00a0POSTPONED<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Discourse of Social Justice in a Negative Theological Perspective,\u201d<\/a> invited lecture for Lecture Series: “Lecturas sobre religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil,” Institute for Culture and Society (ICS), University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, January 21, 2020\u00a0\u00a0 twitter news release<\/a><\/p>\n

2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n

*<\/span> \u201cThe Birth of Modernity and its Crisis in the Dante\u2019s Phenomenology of the Self-Reflective Subject,\u201d<\/span> <\/a><\/span>PLENARY LECTURE WITH RESPONDENT<\/strong> for \u201cPsychology and the Other 2019 Conference,\u201d<\/a> section on \u201cDante and Phenomenology,\u201d Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 4-6, 2019<\/p>\n

*<\/span> \u201cSpeculative Philology: From Ancient Theological Hermeneutics to Modern Linguistic Epistemologies,\u201d <\/a><\/span>Presenter at Yale-NUS and Princeton \u201cComparative Antiquity\u201d workshop<\/a> on \u201cGlobal Classicism,” National University of Singapore, August 1-5, 2019<\/p>\n

* \u201cTechnological Transformation and Postmodern Re-enchantment of the Everyday,\u201d <\/span>Round Table on \u201cSacredness and the Everyday,\u201d ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association) Annual Convention, University of St. Joseph,<\/a> Macao, China, July 29-31, 2019<\/p>\n

\u201cDante\u2019s New Life and the New Testament: Hermeneutics of Revelation in the Vita Nuova<\/em>,\u201d<\/span> Congresso Dantesco Internazionale: \u201cAlma Dante 2019,\u201d Ravenna, June 1, 2019<\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Fate of Philology in a Logo-decentered Culture: The Challenge of Media Studies,\u201d<\/span><\/a> Gastvortrag [Guest Lecture], Lehrstuhl f\u00fcr Medienwissenschaften [Institute for Media Studies] in Fakult\u00e4t f\u00fcr Sprach-, Literatur-, und Kulturwissenschaften [Faculty of Language, Literature and Cultural Studies], University of Regensburg, May 9, 2019<\/p>\n

* \u201cDe Dante \u00e0 Mallarm\u00e9 \u00e0 travers l\u2019Hamlet<\/em> de Shakespeare: N\u00e9gativit\u00e9 de la r\u00e9v\u00e9lation proph\u00e9tique-po\u00e9tique dans la modernit\u00e9\u201d<\/span><\/a> (\u201cFrom Dante to Mallarm\u00e9 via Shakespeare\u2019s Hamlet<\/em>: Negativities of Prophetic Revelation in Modernity\u201d), International Conference: \u00ab Dante et Shakespeare: Cosmologie, Politique et Poetique \u00bb, University of Poitiers \/ Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes Sup\u00e9rieures de Civilisation M\u00e9di\u00e9vale, FRANCE, 4-6 April 2019<\/p>\n

* \u201cApophatic Thinking and its Applications: Between Explosion and Exhaustion,\u201d<\/span><\/a> INVITED LECTURE<\/strong> for \u201cNegation und Wissen. Zur Kategorie der Negativit\u00e4t in Theologie, Anthropologie und \u00c4sthetik der Vormoderne\u201d [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 Universit\u00e4t, Berlin, April, 4-5, 2019<\/p>\n

2018 <\/strong><\/p>\n

* \u201cFrom Blake\u2019s \u2018Eternal Great Humanity Divine\u2019 to Confucian J\u016bnz\u01d0 \u541b\u5b50 as Consummate Humanity: Apophatic Paths between Post-Modern Secularity and Pre-Modern Divinity,\u201d<\/span><\/a> KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for Conference \u201cBetween Humanity and Divinity: In Literature, Art, Religion and Culture\u201d of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS), National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, October 19-20, 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cDante between Philosophy and Philology (After the Theological Turn),\u201d<\/span><\/a> Research Methods Workshop for Early-Career Graduate Students, Co-led with Prof. Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, September 8, 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cOutline of an Apophatic Approach to an Intercultural Philosophy of Universalism,\u201d <\/span><\/a>24th World Congress of Philosophy, Section 19: Intercultural Philosophy, Beijing, August 13-20, 2018<\/p>\n

* \u201cAt the Creative Source of the Arts: Poetry as Prophecy in a Negative Theological Key,\u201d<\/span><\/a> KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for \u201cTell it Slant: A Symposium on Theology and the Arts,\u201d Centre for Public and Contextual Theology, St. Francis Theological College of Charles Sturt University, Brisbane, Australia, June 15-17, 2018<\/p>\n

* \u201cPaths Beyond Words: The Ways of Unsaying in Early Modernity,\u201d<\/span><\/a> KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for Conference \u201cBeyond Words: The Unknowable and Unutterable in Early Modernity,\u201d Centre for Research on Early Modern Studies (CREMS) and Humanities Research Centre (HRC), University of York, UK, June 1, 2018<\/p>\n

* \u201cNegative Theology, Poetic Prophecy, and the Religious Bonding of Society,\u201d <\/span><\/a>Lecture Series: \u201cLecturas sobre Religi\u00f3n y sociedad civil,\u201d Institute for Culture and Society, Department of Philosophy, University of Navarra,Pamplona, Spain, May 15, 2018<\/p>\n

\u201cDante and the Crisis of Representation in the Modern Age,\u201d <\/span>MLA Panel on Crisis in Dante, Modern Language Association National Convention, New York City, January 7, 2018<\/p>\n

2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

* \u201cHow to Read the Bible: Can Fundamentalists and Secularists be Brought into Dialogue?\u201d<\/span> Presentation of A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities, <\/em>Ecumenical Chaplaincy, Lake Forest Place, Lake Forest, Illinois, December 21, 2017<\/p>\n

* \u201cContemporary Apophatic Thinking and its Fields of Application,\u201d <\/span>Guest Lecture for Critical Religion Research Group + Stirling Students Critical Religion Association, University of Sterling, Scotland, November 8, 2017 (via webcam)<\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Other Italian Renaissance between Religion and Humanism: Dante to Vico,\u201d <\/span><\/a>Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop co-led with Prof. Rocco Rubini, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, October 13, 2017<\/p>\n

* \u201cPoetry as Prophecy: From Anthropological Origins to Postmodern Apocalypses,\u201d<\/span><\/a> KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for The Prophetic Word: Poetry, Philosophy and Theology in Conversation<\/em>, The Power of the Word International Conference V, Heythrop Institute for Religion and Society<\/a> (Heythrop College, University of London) and the Oxford Centre for Christianity and Culture (Regent\u2019s Park College, University of Oxford), Regent\u2019s Park College, University of Oxford, England, September 13-16, 2017<\/p>\n

* \u201cTraum-Epistemologie und religi\u00f6se Offenbarung in Dantes Vita nuova<\/em>\u201d<\/span><\/a> [\u201cDream Epistemology and Religious Revelation in Dante\u2019s Vita nuova\u201d], Lecture for Graduiertenkolleg \u201eEurop\u00e4ische Traumkulturen,\u201c <\/em>Universit\u00e4t des Saarlandes, Saarbr\u00fccken, Germany, June 13, 2017<\/p>\n

\u201cWriting as Theophany: Dante\u2019s Scriptural Epiphany and the Medium as Metaphor for Immediacy,\u201d<\/span> \u201cSchrift und Graphisches im Vergleich,\u201d XVII. Tagung der DGAVL (Deutsche Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Vergleichende und Allgemeine Literaturwissenschaft), University of Bochum, Germany, June 6, 2017<\/p>\n

2016\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>* \u201cApophatic Paths from Europe to China: Method and Mysticism in Intercultural Philosophy,\u201d <\/span><\/a>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for Comparative Mysticism: Renewing a Neglected Project, Annual Conference of the Mystical Theology Network, University of Glasgow, Scotland, December 15, 2016<\/p>\n

* \u201cReligious Tradition and Interdisciplinary Humanities Studies in a (Post)Secular World,\u201d <\/span>Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, October 17, 2016<\/p>\n

* \u201cLiberal Arts Education as Learned Ignorance: From an East-Asian Vantage Point,\u201d<\/span> <\/a>60th ANNIVERSARY LECTURE, Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, October 14, 2016<\/p>\n

* \u201cApophatische Theologie und ihre Wirkung auf die neuzeitliche Philosophie,\u201d<\/span>[Apophatic Theology and its Effects in Modern Philosophy] Summer Semester Block-Seminar, co-taught with Prof. Wilhelm Essler, Philosophy Department, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, August 2-6, 2016<\/p>\n

\u201cDie vielen Sprachen der Literaturwissenschaft,\u201d<\/span> ICLA 2016 – Association Internationale de Litt\u00e9rature Compar\u00e9e\/International Comparative Literature Association – XXI. Kongress, 21. Juli \u2013 27. Juli 2016 \u2013 University of Vienna, Austria<\/p>\n

* \u201cUniversality of Knowledge and Specialization at the University: A Path from France to China,\u201d<\/span><\/a> KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for International Academic Conference to Inaugurate the School of Foreign Studies, Beijing Capitol University of Business and Economics (CUEB), Beijing, May 26, 2016<\/p>\n

\u201cImagining Otherness as an Aporia for Comparative Philosophy: In Debate with Fran\u00e7ois Jullien,\u201d <\/span>21st<\/sup> Symposium: Imagination East and West, Acad\u00e9mie du Midi, Alet-les-bains, France, May 15-21<\/p>\n

* \u201cBooks, Bread, and Bubbles: or How to Read Dante Backwards and Forwards in Time on the Way to China,\u201d<\/span><\/a> William Franke places his recent books in the context of an integrated philosophy of the humanities, Followed by a Critical Response to The Revelation of Imagination <\/em>by Lenn Goodman, Andrew W. Mellon Prof. of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, April 6, 2016<\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Apotheosis of Self-Reflection: Dante and the Inauguration of the Modern Era,\u201d<\/span><\/a> ANNUAL DANTE LECTURE<\/strong> at the Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, co-sponsored by the Devers Program in Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame, and the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, Newberry Library Center for Renaissance Studies, Chicago, February 27, 2016<\/p>\n

* \u201cPoetry as Theology: New Theoretical Approaches to Dante,\u201d <\/span><\/a>Interdisciplinary Graduate Workshop co-led with Prof. Vittorio Montemaggi, Newberry Center for Renaissance Studies, The Newberry Library, Chicago, February 26, 2016<\/p>\n

\u00a02015\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

* \u201cNegative Theology,\u201d<\/span> Philippine Academy of Philosophical Research University of Santo Tomas (\u201cThe Catholic University of the Philippines\u201d), Manila, Philippines, December 6, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cTheological Revelation and Secular Reason:\u00a0Critical Proposals for a Meeting of Minds and Cultures,\u201d<\/span><\/a> Invited Lecture in Department of Philosophy, Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines, December 5, 2015<\/p>\n

* <\/strong>\u201cThe Tradition of the Chinese Classics and the Idea of World Literature Today,\u201d<\/span> <\/a>KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> (with simultaneous translation into Chinese) at International Symposium on \u201cThe Orient vs. The Occident: Cultural Exchanges and Influences,\u201d sponsored by Foreign Language Department of Capital University of Economics and Business, jointly organized by the Chinese People\u2019s 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<\/p>\n

* \u201cNegative Theologies and Apophaticism,\u201d<\/span> Invited Speaker and Panelist for Session on American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Atlanta, November 22, 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversality and Cultural Difference between East and West,\u201d<\/span> Host and Moderator (with Xavier Garnier, Director of L\u2019Alliance Fran\u00e7aise, Macao), Philosophy Caf\u00e9 (public lecture\/discussion): Rui Cunha Foundation, Macao, February 11, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cLiberal Arts Education in the East-Asian University: The Unspeakable Basis of Comparative Humanities,\u201d<\/span> Invited Speaker and Panelist on Symposium on \u201cLiberal Arts in the Age of Globalization,\u201d 10th<\/sup> Anniversary Celebration of Underwood International College, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, October 28, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cApophatic Paths from Europe to Asia: A Personal Philosophical Journey,\u201d<\/span> Invited Lecture for Center for Zhouyi and Ancient Chinese Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Shandong University, China, October 20, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cNothingness and the Aspiration to Universality in the Poetic \u2018Making\u2019 of Sense: \u00a0 An Essay in Comparative East-West Poetics,\u201d <\/span>What Is World Literature? Tension between the Local and the Universal, An International Summit Dialogue and Forum, School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Normal University, October 16-17, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cFrom the Globalism of Nature to the Universality of Thought: Bringing Universalist Ethics and Politics back into Ecological Harmony by the Apophatic Way,\u201d <\/span>27th<\/sup> International Conference of Philosophy (IAGP): Global Ethics and Politics (Invited Speaker), Vouliagmeni (Athens metropolitan coast), July 10-16, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cDie Apophase als Paradigma der belehrte Unwissenheit<\/span>\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [\u201cApophasis as Paradigm of Learned Ignorance\u201d], Cusanus-Tagung zur Thematik des Idiota bei Cusanus, University of T\u00fcbingen, Germany, June 5-6, 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cCognitive Universality between Science and the Humanities,\u201d<\/span> PhilHist\u201915: History of Philosophy Conference on \u201cInteractions,\u201d DAKAM (Eastern Mediterranean Research Centre), Istanbul, Turkey, May 14-16, 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cClassical Chinese Thought and the Sense of Transcendence,\u201d<\/span> International Colloquium: Transcendence and Immanence in Intercultural Philosophy, Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macao, March 20- 21, 2015<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is Apophatic Thinking and Why is it Relevant\u00a0Today? Discussions around William Franke\u2019s\u00a0<\/a>A Philosophy of the Unsayable,<\/em>\u201d<\/span> Introduction and Roundtable, International Philosophy Colloquium, Program of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macao, March 7, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cPhilosophical Universalism and the Role of China in the World Today,\u201d<\/span><\/a> Philosophy Caf\u00e9 (public lecture\/discussion): Rui Cunha Foundation, Macao, February 11, 2015<\/p>\n

* \u201cNatural Cognition, Universals, and the Nothing of Religion,\u201d<\/span><\/a> Keynote Address<\/strong> for \u201cCognition, Religion, and Science\u201d: 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<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong><\/p>\n

* \u201cImmanence versus Transcendence–A Key Controversy in Comparative Philosophy,\u201d <\/span>Invited Lecture in Philosophy Colloquium series, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, October 13, 2014<\/p>\n

* \u201cDante\u2019s Apophatic Vision and Classical Daoist and Confucian Wisdom: Methodological Reflections on Comparative Philosophy, Religion, and Literature,\u201d <\/span>Dante and East Asia, Devers Program in Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, August 27-28, 2014<\/p>\n

* \u201cSelf-Reflection and the Theological Apotheosis of Lyric in the Paradiso,<\/em>\u201d <\/span>Lecture at NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute: \u201cDante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/em>, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence,\u201d Florence, July 21, 2014<\/p>\n

Seminar on Paradiso<\/em> VI-X and XI-XVIII<\/span>, NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Summer Institute: \u201cDante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/em>, poetry, philosophy, and the city of Florence\u201d (Institute Leader, with Brenda Schildgen, et al.), Florence, July 18-22, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cIdentity and the Undefinable: What Escapes all Social Categorizations?\u201d<\/span> 14th International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Vienna, July 9-11, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Philosopher\u00a0or the Sage? Apophaticism\u00a0in Europe\u00a0and China,\u201d<\/span><\/a> Symposium: Wisdom East and West, Acad\u00e9mie du Midi, Alet-les-bains, France, June 8-14<\/p>\n

* \u201cPaul Among the Theorists: A Genealogy of the New Universalism,\u201d<\/span> 2014 Symposium of contributors to Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion, University of Toronto, June 4-6, 2014<\/p>\n

Invited participant in Jungcusaner Symposium (\u201cWissensformen bei Nicolaus Cusanus\u201d<\/span>), Kueser Akademie f\u00fcr Europ\u00e4ische Geistesgeschichte, Berncastle-Kues, Germany, May 26-28, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cUniversalism and Transcendentality East and West: The Theological Anomaly\u201d<\/span> Critical Theory and the Way: Kantian Paradigms and Prospects in East Asia, International Philosophy Symposium, University of Macao, May 8-10, 2014<\/p>\n

* \u201cKnowledge and the Humanities,\u201d<\/span> (With Dean Martin Montgommery, Chair Professor of English), Faculty Seminar for Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Macao, April 30, 2014<\/p>\n

* \u201cReligion and Literature: Method and Meaning or Porphyry\u2019s Hermeneutics of Revelation and the Philosophical Criticism of Literature,”<\/span> Humanities Research Seminar in Religion and Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong, April 11, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cRethinking Cultural Universality Today,\u201d<\/span> <\/a>The International Institute of Knowledge Management, Colombo, Sri Lanka (2014), April 3, 2014<\/p>\n

\u201cRethinking Cultural Universality Today and the Question of Theological Transcendence,\u201d<\/span> International Conference on \u201cCultural Spaces, Cultures of Difference,\u201d Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Andrha Pradesh, India, 27-29 January, 2014<\/p>\n

\u00a02013<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom Epic Wholeness to Anamorphic Imagination: A Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities,\u201d<\/span> International Colloquium on \u201cThe Force of Imagination,\u201d University of Macao, December 14, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cNatural Cognition and its Cultural A Prioris: Macau as the Double Swinging Door between Cultures,\u201d<\/span> Introductory Address for International Conference on \u201cNatural Cognition: Logic, Evolution, Organisms,\u201d Program in Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Macau, December 14, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cAmphibolies of the Postmodern: Hyper-Secularity or the Return of Religion,\u201d<\/span> Annual International Conference on Advances in Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCS), Singapore, December 9-10, 2013<\/p>\n

*\u00a0\u201cThe New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstructive Critical Theories and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition,\u201d<\/span> ASCP (Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy) Annual Conference, Response Session to my paper, with respondent (Prof. Chris Hackett), University of Western Sydney, Paramatta, Australia, December 3-5, 2013<\/p>\n

* \u201cDes pistes apophatiques menant de l\u2019Europe en Chine: En cheminant avec Fran\u00e7ois Jullien,\u201d<\/span> Bilingual (French-Chinese) Conference-Workshop with Fran\u00e7ois Jullien, (with simultaneous translation into Chinese), Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, November 7-8, 2013<\/p>\n

* INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DANTE AND THE SENSE OF TRANSGRESSION, <\/em><\/span><\/a>\u201cTransgression and Transcendence: What Makes Religion Radical? A two-day symposium to discuss Prof. William Franke\u2019s book Dante and the Sense of Transgression: \u2018The Trespass of the Sign\u2019,<\/em>\u201d Institute for Christianity and Culture, International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, Japan, October 11-12, 2013<\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Humanities and the Ideal of Wholeness\u2014Epic Pasts, Partisan Presents, Plural Futures,\u201d<\/span> International Speakers Series on \u201cThe Future of the Humanities,\u201d International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan, October 12, 2013<\/p>\n

* \u201cL\u2019\u00e9loge de la fadeur et la litote du neutre: Entre Fran\u00e7ois Jullien, Maurice Blanchot et Roland Barthes\u201d<\/span> [The Eulogy of Blandness and the Litotes of the Neutral: Between Fran\u00e7ois Jullien, Maurice Blanchot, and Roland Barthes], Colloquium: \u201cDes possibles de la pens\u00e9e\u00a0: Autour des travaux de Fran\u00e7ois Jullien,\u201d CERISY-la-Salle\u00a0(France), September 14-21, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cThinking in the Gap between the Cultures of Greece and China: Apophatic Universalism,\u201d<\/span><\/a> 23rd<\/sup> World Congress of Philosophy: Philosophy as Inquiry and as Way of Life, School of Philosophy, University of Athens, Greece, August 2-11, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cAgamben\u2019s Logic of Exception and its Apophatic Roots and Offshoots,\u201d<\/span> <\/a>International Conference \u201cExcept Asia: Agamben\u2019s Work in Transcultural Perspective,\u201d Department of English, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, June 25-27, 2013<\/p>\n

* \u201cDante\u2019s Theology and Contemporary Thought,\u201d<\/span> featured lecture-workshop at: International Seminar \u201cDante\u2019s Theology\u201d sponsored by Nanovic Institute for European Studies, Leeds Center for Dante Studies, and Devers Program for Dante Studies, University of Notre Dame, Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, June 21, 2013<\/p>\n

* \u201cAll or Nothing? The Question of Nature as Bond between the Chinese Classic Past and the Global Future,\u201d<\/span> Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung sponsored Philosophy Colloquium:\u00a0 \u201cNature-Time-Responsibility,\u201d University of Macao (China), April 14, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cPostmodern Identity Politics and the Social Tyranny of the Definable,\u201d<\/span> Third Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion, and Philosophy, IAFOR \u201cConnectedness and Alienation: The 21st<\/sup> Century Enigma,\u201d Osaka, Japan, March 30, 2013<\/p>\n

\u201cFran\u00e7ois Jullien and the Notion of Immanence: \u00a0Chinese compared with Western Thought and Culture,\u201d<\/span> Asian Studies Association of Hong Kong (ASAHK), 8th<\/sup> Annual Conference: \u201cTransformations, Development and Culture in Asia: Multidisciplinary Perspectives,\u201d University of Hong Kong, March 9, 2013<\/p>\n

\u00a02012<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cReligious Literature\u2019s Secular Vocation:\u00a0 Dante and Postmodern Thought,\u201d<\/span> Conference on Italian Literature and Religion, Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto, October 11, 2012<\/p>\n

* \u201cTrauma and Silence in the Post-Holocaust Poetry of Paul Celan,\u201d<\/span> International Forum for Advanced Research in English: \u201cSuffering in Literature and Trauma Studies,\u201d English Department, University of Macao, August 23-26, 2012<\/p>\n

* \u201cDer \u00dcbergang zum \u201aanderen Zustand\u2018 als literarisches Motiv,\u201c<\/span> Invited Research Conference: \u201cEnde oder Umbau einer Erl\u00f6sungsreligion? Verschiebungen in der Vorstellung eines nicht nur endlichen, sondern \u2018ewigen\u2019 Lebens,\u201d Evangelisch-Theologisch Fakult\u00e4t, Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany, July 12-15, 2012<\/p>\n

\u201cThe New Apophatic Universalism: Deconstruction, Negative Theology, and Open Togetherness in the European Tradition,\u201d<\/span> International Conference on Interrogating Cosmopolitan Conviviality: New Dimensions of the European in Literature, University of Bamberg, May 24, 2012<\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Art of Memory or the Forgetting of Art? The Visionary Moment in Dante and Blanchot,\u201d<\/span><\/a> KEYNOTE SPEECH\u00a0<\/strong>for International Conference: \u201cMemory: Impressions, Expressions, Reflections: An Interdisciplinary Conference,\u201d The Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, March 28, 2012<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Apophatic Experiential Grounds of Philosophy of Religion,\u201d<\/span> Wesleyan Philosophical Society, annual meeting on Philosophy and Religious Experience, Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, March 1, 2012<\/p>\n

* \u201cChristian Figuralism and Kenosis: From Otherworldliness to the Becoming Worldly of Otherness,\u201d<\/span> MLA National Convention, Religion and Literature Section, Panel on \u201cSecularism,\u201d Seattle, Washington, January 6, 2012<\/p>\n

\u00a02011<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>*\u00a0\u201cThe Holistic Ideal of the Humanities and Religious Revelation:Linguistic-Cultural Diaspora or a New Universality?\u201d<\/span> Lecture for the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Hong Kong, November 7, 2011<\/p>\n

* \u201cEpic Imagination and the Unlimited Vision of Literature,\u201d<\/span> Distinguished Lecture Series, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macao, October 27, 2011<\/p>\n

*<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cReading Emily Dickinson: Three Approaches to One of her Poems,\u201d<\/span> with linguist Martin Montgomery and translator Zhang Meifang, Department of English Seminar Series, University of Macao, October 21, 2011<\/p>\n

*<\/strong> \u201cL\u2019itin\u00e9raire du corps dans la Divine com\u00e9die<\/em> de Dante\u201d<\/span> (\u201cThe Itinerary of the Body in Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/em>\u201d), Lecture and seminar for the Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic Institute of Paris, September 23, 2011<\/p>\n

*<\/strong> \u201cLe commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans le mysticisme apophatique: de Platon au postmodernisme,\u201d<\/span> (\u201cThe Beginning and the End of Philosophy in Apophatic Mysticism: From Plato to Postmodernism\u201d), Lecture at colloquium on \u201cPhilosophie et Mystique: Autour de Stanislas Breton,\u201d CERISY-la-Salle\u00a0(France), August 27, 2011<\/p>\n

* \u201cDante e la teologia negativa\u201d<\/span> [Dante and Negative Theology], ISSR (Istituto Superiore di Scienze Religiose), University of Urbino Carlo Bo, August 18, 2011<\/p>\n

\u201cCanonicity, Creativity, and the Total Revelation of Literature,\u201d<\/span> The Hospitable Text Conference: New Approaches to Religion and Literature, London, July 14-17, 2011<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Paramount Importance of What Cannot Be Said in Public Theological Discourse,\u201d <\/span>International Conference on Contextuality and Intercontextuality in Public Theology, GNPT (Global Network for Public Theology), Dietrich Bonhoeffer Research Center for Public Theology, University of Bamberg, June 24, 2011<\/p>\n

* \u201cA Philosophy of the Humanities: Their Classical Roots and Contemporary Relevance,\u201d <\/span>Lecture sponsored by Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Macao, May 5, 2011<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 \u201cLetargo<\/em> and the Argo: Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax of Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/em> and the Christian Epic Tradition,\u201d <\/span><\/a>KEYNOTE ADDRESS<\/strong>: 4.Internationale Nachwuchstagung des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs: Generationenbewu\u00dftsein und Generationenkonflikte in Antike und Mittelalter: \u201cErfahren, Erz\u00e4hlen, Errinern: Narrative Konstruktionen von Ged\u00e4chtnis und Generation in Antike und Mittelalter\u201d [4th International Postgraduate Colloquium, \u00a0DFG [German Research Foundation]: \u201cRecord, Relate, Remember: Narrative Constructions of Memory and Generation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages\u201d], Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, March 2- 4, 2011<\/p>\n

2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t Mention It: Emily Dickinson\u2019s Poetics of \u2018Still Appreciation\u2019\u201d<\/span> (read by Gary Stonum), Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) International Conference, Oxford University, August 8, 2010<\/p>\n

* \u201cThe Scientific Paradigm and the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities,\u201d<\/span> PLENARY ADDRESS <\/strong>for 12th<\/sup> International Conference of ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas): \u201cThought in Science and Fiction,\u201d Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, August 4, 2010<\/p>\n

\u201cPorphyry and the Philosophical Interpretation of Literature,\u201d<\/span> Session on Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature, ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas), Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, August 3, 2010<\/p>\n

\u201cPoetic Revelation:\u00a0 Between Language and Apocalypse,\u201d<\/span> Tools of the Sacred, Techniques of the Secular: Awakening, Epiphany, Apocalypse and Doubt in Contemporary English-Language Verse, Facult\u00e9 de Philosophie et Lettres, Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, May 7, 2010<\/p>\n

2009<\/strong><\/p>\n

* \u201c\u2019Il Trapassar del Segno\u2019: Language and Transcendence in Dante\u2019s Paradiso<\/em>,\u201d<\/span> KEYNOTE SPEECH <\/strong>for The Fourth Interdisciplinary Conference of the Nordic Dante Network: \u201cDante and Transgression,\u201d University of Tampere, Finland, August 20, 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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