Events
Recent invited lectures
2024
Title TBC, October 2024, Centre for Modern European Studies (CEMES) Memory Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Title TBC, September 2024, KLI Colloquia, Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research.
Title TBC, May 2024, Institute for Medical History and Science Research, University of Lübeck.
“Future Ruins: Phenomenology of Nostalgia,” April 2024, The Ruins of Contemporary Culture, Illinois State University.
“Philosophy of Horror,” April 2024, Department of Philosophy, Illinois State University
2023
“‘Dream is a Second Life’: a Phenomenology of Nostalgia,” December 2023, Research Seminar at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice.
“Chronophobia and Desynchronization in the Case of Nostalgia,” November 2023, Workshop on Time in the Phenomenological Tradition, Freie Universität Berlin.
2022
“On The Thing,” December 2022, Black Individuation, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
"Toward a Phenomenology of Nostalgia," September 2022, Congress of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung, University of Jena.
"Anxiety and Emotional Regulation," June 2022, Philosophy of Anxiety Conference, University of Birmingham [Keynote Lecture]
"Belonging to the Past in Nostalgia," May 20222, “Participation, Integration, or Demolition – What Now for Health and Society?”, University of Cumbria (online)
2021
“A Melancholic Joy: On the Role Habits Play in Nostalgia,” October 2021, Out of Habit: On the Social, Emotional and Involuntary Aspects of Habitual Actions, University of Wurzburg.
"Nostalgia, Habits, and the (Re)constructed Body," October 2021, Corps à (re) Construire, ENS Paris.
“Geographies of Anxiety during Covid-19,” September 2021, National Seminar about Geography and Phenomenology, Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas (online).
“At The Ruins of Popular Culture,” September 2021, WaynePop2020, Wayne State University (online).
“Digital nostalgia: a Phenomenological Perspective,” April 2021, Digital Worlds, The Center for Collaboration and Ethics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (online).
“The Philosophy of Horror,” February 2021, Romancing the Gothic (online).
2020
“Atmospheres of Anxiety: On the Phenomenology of Covid-19,” December 2020, Werkstatt Phänomenologie, University of Vienna (online)
“Some Kind of Monster: On the Atmosphere of Covid-19,” September 2020, Sensibilia 14, [Monstruous things], Tor Vergata, University of Rome (online).
“Spatial Phobias: a Phenomenological Perspective,” February 2020, Department of Philosophy and History of Ideas, Aarhus University.
2019
“Alien Materiality: On the Anonymity of Childbirth,” November 2019, Biennale de Lyon.
“The Phenomenology of Belonging to the Past,” October 2019, Affective spaces and feelings of belonging: phenomenological explorations”, The University of Exeter [Keynote Lecture]
“Who is the subject of birth?” September 2019, The British Society of Phenomenology Annual Conference [Keynote Lecture]
“Anxiety as an Atmosphere,” April 2019, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna.
2018
“On Unhuman Phenomenology,” December 2018, Feinkost Lampe, Hanover.
“Atmospheres of Shared Emotion,” December 2018, Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna.
“Intersubjectivity, Agoraphobia, and Place: a Phenomenological Perspective,” October 2018, Department of Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University.
“The Dark Entity: Phenomenologies of Home,” July 2018, Center of New Philosophy, Institute of Social Sciences and the Humanities of Tyumen State University.
“Beyond Human and Animal: Metamorphosis in Merleau-Ponty,” June 2018, The Inhuman Gaze, Centre Culturel des Irlandais, Paris.
“Phenomenological and Therapeutic Interventions in Agoraphobia,” June 2018, The Body in Clinical Practices, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris.
“The Aesthetics of Nostalgia: An Atmospheric Perspective,” May 2018, Loyola Marymount University, Department of Philosophy, Los Angeles.
“A Nostalgia for Malls: a Phenomenological Perspective,” May 2018, DePaul University, Environmental Science and Studies and Department of Philosophy, Chicago.
2017
“Aesthetics of Nostalgia: On Bachelard’s ‘dialectical sublimation,’” December 2017, Sublimation—Mind, Matter, Concept in Art after Modernism, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz/Kunsthalle Mainz.
“Toward a Phenomenology of Shared Anxiety” December 2017, University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy.
“Nostalgia Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis,” November 2017 at New Research in Phenomenology, Psychology and Psychoanalysis, Babeş-Bolyai University.
“On Body Horror and The Fly” October 2017, Le Champo, Paris.
“Body-Making: Nostalgia and the Image of Time” June 2017, (Un)imaginable Bodies, Ecole normale Supérieure, Paris.
“Atmospheres of Nostalgia,” April 2017, Antinomies of Vagueness, University of Copenhagen [Keynote lecture].
“Anxiety and the Breathing Body,” March 2017, Philosophy & Breath workshop, University of Bristol.
“Phenomenology of the Anxious Body,” presented January 2017 at New Directions in Phenomenology, UCD.
2016
“Anxiety and Selfhood in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive,” December 2016, Film and Phenomenology Symposium, University of Groningen.
“Body Horror: a Phenomenological Introduction,” November 2016, Bluecoat, Liverpool.
“Until it Sleeps: On the Home at Night,” August 2016, Hollows Artspace, Brooklyn.
“The Dream of Anxiety in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive,” March 2016, Karl Jaspers Society of America, The Pacific Division Meeting, American Philosophical Association.
“The Dream of Anxiety in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive,” February 2016, NUI Galway, Department of Philosophy.
“Can we speak of collective anxiety?,” February 2016, Intentionality and Normativity: International Workshop on Phenomenology, UCD, School of Philosophy.
2015
“Psychopathologies of Space and Time in the Florida Landscape,” November 2015 at University of Florida, Department of Architecture.
“The Place of Anxiety: Phenomenological Perspective” November 2015 at University of Central Florida, Department of Philosophy.
“Our bodies do not always have meaning: The Anxious Body” October 2015 at Florida Gulf Coast University, Department of Philosophy.
“The Aesthetics of Anxiety: a Phenomenological Perspective” October 2015 at Precarious Aesthetics, UC Berkeley.
“Invited Speaker in Honor of 25 Years of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology,” October 2015 at IAEP, Emory University, Atlanta.
“A Sense of (Non)-Place: a Phenomenological Analysis,” September 2015 at the International Conference on Spatial Cognition, Sapienza University of Rome.
“Phenomenological Dimensions of the Anxious Body: Trust and Form(lessness),” March 2015 at University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy.
“On ‘The Thing: a Phenomenology of Horror,’” March 2015 at DePaul University, Institute of Nature and Culture.
“Between Anxiety and Horror,” March 2015 at University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies.
“On Bachelard’s Topophobia,” February 2015 at Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Eichstätt, Philosophy Department.
2014
“On Non-Phenomenology in Merleau-Ponty,” November 2014, Duquesne University, Simon Silverman Phenomenology Centre.
“Anxiety at the Limits of Phenomenology,” November 2014 at the University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy.
“Methodical Precedence of Intertwining: Workshop with Dylan Trigg,” August 2014 at Institute of Philosophy, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.
“Memory, Materiality, and Hauntings in The Shining,” June 2014 at Things to Remember: Materializing Memories in Art and Culture, Radboud University Nijmegen [Keynote lecture].
“The Horror of the Cosmos” and “The Horror of the Body,” March 2014 at The Bureau of Melodramatic Research, The Bucharest National University of Arts.
“Anxiety, Uncanny, and the Real,” February 2014 at Is there a phenomenology of unconsciousness? UCD, Dublin.