Anne O'Byrne - Curriculum Vitae

Faculty Profile

Department of Philosophy

Stony Brook University

Stony Brook, NY 11794

(631) 632-7570

Email: anne.obyrne@stonybrook.edu

Education

1985 Certificate in Journalism, School of Journalism, Rathmines, Dublin, Ireland
1991 Bachelor's Degree, University of Warwick, Joint Honours in Philosophy and Politics
1993 Master's Degree, Philosophy, University of Virginia
Thesis: Historical Respect and the Historiography of Philosophy
Director: Richard Rorty
1999 Ph.D in Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Dissertation:“Who are we?”:Plurality and the Questioning of Philosophy
Director: Gregg Horowitz

Employment

1985-1986 Assistante de langue étrangère, Collège Eluard, Rouen, France
1986-1988 Staff Journalist, 'The Echo', Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, Ireland
1999-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hofstra University
2006-2008 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Hofstra University
2008-2010 Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University
Sept 2010-2022 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University
Sept 2022-date Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University

Recent Awards and Fellowships

Fall 2019 Faculty Fellow at Humanities Institute Stony Brook
Faculty/Graduate Student Award for Excellence as Graduate Program Director
2021-22 Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellows in Atrocity Prevention, Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention, Binghamton University

Publications

Books

Monographs
Natality and Finitude, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2010
The Genocide Paradox: Democracy and Generational Time. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023

Translation
Jean-Luc Nancy. Being Singular Plural, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000. Translated with Robert Richardson
Jean-Luc Nancy. Corpus II, New York: Fordham University Press, August 2013
Jean-Luc Nancy. Being Nude, New York: Fordham University Press, Spring 2014. Translated with Carlie Anglemire
Jean-Luc Nancy. Derrida, Supplements: Fordham University Press, 2023
Edited volumes
Subjects and Simulations: Between Baudrillard and Lacoue-Labarthe. Co-edited with
Hugh Silverman. Lexington Books, 2014.
Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World. Co-edited with Martin Shuster. Routledge Press, 2020.

Articles

A) Articles in Refereed Journals
Space of Tradition and Innovation. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Philosophy and the Theory of Culture, St.Petersburg, Russia. 1997, 75-84.
“The Politics of Intrusion.” The New Centennial Review 2:3 (Fall 2002): 169-187.
““The Excess of Justice: Timaeus and Aristophanes on Sex and the City.” International Studies in Philosophy XXXVI: 1 (2004): 129-142
“Symbol, Exchange and Birth: towards a Theory of Labour and Relation.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 30:3 (2004): 355-373.
“Pedagogy without a Project: Arendt and Derrida on Teaching, Responsibility and Revolution.” Studies in Philosophy and Education 24 (2005): 389-409.
“Learning a Strange Native Language.” In Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture 13:3 (May 2007): 307-324.

“Communitas and the Problem of Women.” Angelaki 18:3 (Sept. 2013): 125-138.
“Amery, Arendt and the Future of the World.” Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 24:3 (2016): 128-139.
“Taxonomy and Its Pleasures.” Research in Phenomenology. 48 (2017):
“Lessons from Anarchist Eugenics.” Metodo. International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy (2, 2017). Special issue on Responsibility and Justice for Future Generations in Dialogue with Phenomenology. Editors: Matthias Fritsch (Concordia University, Montréal), Ferdinando G. Menga (University of Tübingen)
“Response to Dennis Schmidt.” Research in Phenomenology. 49 (2019), 248-251.
“Possible: On Rodolphe Gasché’s Deconstruction, Its Force, Its Violence.” Philosophy Today 63: 1 (2019): 243-253.
“The Ugly Psyche: Arendt and the Right to Opacity.” Research in Phenomenology, 2020.
“Afterword: ‘Even now there are places where a thought might grow.’” Puncta Special Issue Dwelling in the Contemporary Condition 5:2 (2022): 105-112.
“From Care to Solidarity.” Continental Philosophy Review (2024).

B) Book Chapters

“’Who are we?': Self-questioning as political virtue” in Civil Society in South East Europe. Edited by David Durst. Sophia: UNI, 1997, 74-80.
“Heidegger after Brennan.” In Teresa Brennan’s Energetics, edited by Kelly Oliver, Alice Jardine and Shannon Lundine. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007, 35-45.
“Traumatized Sovereignty.” In Traversing the Imaginary, edited by Peter Gratton and John Manoussakis. Chicago: North Western University Press: 2007, 85-102.
“The God Between” in Retreating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean
Luc Nancy. Edited by Alena Alexandrova, Ignaas Devisch, Laurens ten Kate, Aukje van Rooden. New York: Fordham University Press, 2011.
“Nancy’s Materialist Ontology” in Jean-Luc Nancy and Plural Thinking: Expositions
of World, Politics, Art, and Sense. Edited by Peter Gratton and Marie-Eve Morin.
Albany: SUNY Press, 2011.
“Birth and Death.” In The Bloomsbury Companion to Heidegger, edited by François Raffoul and Eric Nelson. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
“Utopia is Here: the Revolutionary Thought of Baudrillard and Nancy.” In Subjects and Simulations: Thinking the Ends of Representations, edited by Hugh Silverman and Anne O’Byrne. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2014.
“The Gossip Circles of Geneva: Morals, Mores and Moralizing in Political Life” in Politics of Religion/ Religion of Politics, edited by Alistair Welchman. Sophia Studies in Cross-Cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures, Volume 8. New York: Springer, 2014.
“The Task of Knowledgable Love: Arendt and Portmann in Search of Meaning,” in Reading Arendt’s Denktagebuch. Edited by Roger Berkowitz, Patchen Markell and Ian Storey. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
“Umbilicus: Toward a Hermeneutics of Generational Difference” in Carnal Hermeneutics, edited by Richard Kearney and Brian Treanor. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
“Generational Being” in Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World. Co-edited with Martin Shuster. Routledge Press, 2020.
“Kristeva and Arendt on Language, Sanity, and the Sensus Communis” in Revolution in Poetic Language: 50 Years Later. Edited by Emilia Angelova. Albany, New York: SUNY Press, 2024.
“The Island of Ireland: Towards an Irish Nissology” in What is an Island? Towards a Patchwork Pedagogy for a World Archipelago. Dublin: Create, 2024.
“Genocide as a Theme in Phenomenology” in Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Edited by Nicholas de Warren and Ted Toadvine. Berlin: Springer, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47253-5_459-1 “Shared Landscape” in Thinking at the Edge: The Philosophy of Edward S. Casey. Edited by Brian Schoeder. Under review at SUNY Press

Richard Kearney’s itineraries: Salvage, Hosting Earth, and Anacarnation. Cont Philos Rev 58, 551–560 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-025-09704-3

C) Translated articles
Marc Froment-Meurice, “Aphasia: or the Last Word” in Philosophy and Tragedy. Edited by Miguel de Beistegui. London: Routledge, 2000, 221-238
Jean-Luc Nancy. “Taciturn Eternal Return.” Catalog for exhibition of the work of Tacita Dean, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. May 2003, 13-19
Claude Lefort. “Hannah Arendt: Antisemitism in the Nazi System.” In Critical Assessments of Hannah Arendt, edited by Garrath Williams. London: Routledge, 2006, 174-194.

Book Reviews

“Being Mine.” Review of Heidegger and the Subject by François Raffoul. Research in Phenomenology. Vol. XXIX (1999), 239-248.
Review of Moral Textures by Maria Pia Lara. Metaphilosophy 32 (July 2001), 452-459.
“Phenomenology of the Exotic” Review of The Imperative by Alfonso Lingis. Journal of the American Academy of Religion 68/4 (Winter, 2001), 905-908.
Review of Sweatshop Warriors by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie in Regional Labor Review, Vol 4 (Spring/Summer 2002), 38-39.
Review of Hannah Arendt by Julia Kristeva in International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 10:3 (August 2002), 377-380.
Review of Heidegger and Practical Philosophy in Continental Philosophy Review, 36:3 (September 2003,) 344-350.
Review of Labor of Fire by Bruno Gullì. Regional Labor Review (Spring/Summer 2007), 35-38.
Review of Regions of Sorrow: Anxiety and Messianism in Hannah Arendt and W.H. Auden. Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative Literature. Volume 9, number 2, Fall 2011.
Review of Feminist Interpretations of Thomas Hobbes, edited by Nancy J. Hirschann and Joanne H. Wright. University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012 in Hypatia Reviews Online, November 2013.
Review of 50 Concepts for a Critical Phenomenology, edited by Gail Weiss, Gayle Salamon, and Ann V. Murphy, 2019 in Puncta 2020.

Articles published in other venues

“Counter-monuments and Ireland'” in Art Bulletin: a Publication of the Artists' Association of Ireland (June 1994).

“Ireland’s Native Language, National Language.” in European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism, proceedings of the conference of the 8th International Society for the Study of European Ideas 2002. Edited by Daniel Meyer-Dinkgraefe. CD Rom. ISBN 0-9544363-0-X

Selected Presentations

April 1994 “Monuments, Counter-monuments and Memory in Ireland.” Eight Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin, TX.
April 1995 “Money for the Black Babies: Remembering and Forgetting Famine in Ireland.” Ninth Annual Graduate Irish Studies Conference, Notre Dame University.
April 1997 “ ‘Who are we?’: Self-questioning as Political Virtue.” Civil Society in South East Europe: Ethical and Philosophical Perspectives, American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
Sept. 1997 “Rousseau and the Platonic Monologue.” Global Baroque, the meeting of the Northwest Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon.
Dec. 1997 Conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love (with the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division) Philadelphia. “The Power of Love: Timaeus and Aristophanes on Eros.”
April 1998 “Thinking as Communal Practice: Arendt on Thought and Plurality.” Community 2000: Exploring Community for the Next Millenium ,University College, Cork, Ireland.
May 1999 “Taste as Sensus Communis.”International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Trinity College, Hartford.
October 1999“Thinking Singularly, Plurally.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon.
March 2000 “Plato’s Dame Dilemma, or, the Fate of Women in the History of Philosophy.” Bergin Community College, New Jersey. Women’s History Month Lecture Series.
May 2000 “Traumatized Sovereignty.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Stony Brook, New York.
July 2000 “Embalming the Other the Simulacrum of Intersubjectivity.” International Philosophical Seminar (topic: Baudrillard’s Simulations and Simulacra), Kastelruth, Italy.
April 2001 “Jean-Luc Nancy and the Politics of Touch.” Address to the Philosophy Colloquium, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York.
May 2001 International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta. “The Organic, the Symbolic, the Imaginary”
October 2001 “Exiles from the Republic of Conscience: Seamus Heaney and the Work of the Poet.” Keynote address at the Interdisciplinary University-wide Conference, Southern Connecticut State University.
December 2001 “Pedagogy Without a Project: Teaching, Revolution and Responsibility” Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division. Atlanta, GA.
July 2002 “Political Ontology and Birth” at the International Philosophy Seminar (topic: Slavoj Zizek’s Ticklish Subject), Kastelruth, Italy.
July 2002 “Ireland’s Native Language, National Language: on Alienation” at the Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Aberystwyth, Wales.
October 2002 “The Birth of a Political Theory: Kelly Oliver on Politics and the Body” at the annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, IL.
12 November 2002 “Natality, Exchange and Labour” address to the Program in Women’s Studies at SUNY Stony Brook, NY.
6 April 2003 “Immunity, Body and Identity” at the Eastern Division meeting of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Tampa, FL.
May 2003 “Heidegger and Practical Philosophy.” Commentary paper at the Annual Heidegger Conference, Norfolk, VA.
May 2003 “Visitation and Nativity: Remembering Birth” at the annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds, England.
October 2003 “Heidegger after Brennan” at the Teresa Brennan Memorial Conference, SUNY Stony Brook, Manhattan.
November 2003 “The Beings We Are: Political Ontology After Heidegger” at the Annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Boston, MA.
May 2004 “Body Singular Plural” at the annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, NY.
May 2004 “Heidegger and Practical Philosophy” response at Heidegger Conference, Norfolk, VA.
July 2004 “Slouching Towards Multiculturalism: Roddy Doyle’s Ireland at the Crossroads” at New Europe at the Crossroads Conference, Munich, Germany.
May 2005 “Birth, Historicity and Finitude in Being and Time” at Heidegger Conference, Baltimore, MD.
June 2005 “Ontology in Motion/Ontology Displaced” at annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Helsinki, Finland.
September 2005 “From Philosophical Anthropology to Political Ontology: from Dilthey to Arendt and Jonas” at the Joint Conference of the UK Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy, Reading, UK.
November 2007 “History and Generation: Dilthey and the Meaning of a Life for the Historical Sciences” at annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Chicago.
November 2007 “Does Pain De-create the World?: Nancy on Factical Existence” at the annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago.
August 2008 “Materialist Ontology” at the annual conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy, Dublin, Ireland.
October 2008 “What does it mean to be born today: Hannah Arendt on natality in the modern age.” Address to the New York Society for Women in Philosophy, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.
March 2009 “Natality and Genocide,” a joint presentation with David Pettigrew at the Hannah Arendt Circle, Fayetteville, Arkansas.
May 2009 “Metontology and the Metaphysics of Existence” at the Heidegger Circle, Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 2009 “Will the Clone Be Natal?” at the PhiloSophia conference, New York, New York.
October 2009 “The Extension of the Soul: Nancy Reading Descartes” Annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Arlington, Virginia.
October 2009 “Existential Angst in the Age of the Clone” Humanities Institute, Stony Brook University.
December 2009, “What Will the Clone Make of Us?” Philosophy Department, St. John’s University, Jamaica, New York.
February 2010 “The Gossip Circles of Geneva: morals, mores and moralizing in political life,” Brackenridge Workshop on the work of Simon Critchley, University of Texas at San Antonio.
March 2010, “Beyond the Ontological Difference: Heidegger’s Flirtation with Metontology” Philosophy Department, Stony Brook University.
September 2010, “Exiles from the Republic of Conscience,” Departments of English and Philosophy, SUNY New Paltz.
November 2010, “Where are Ireland’s Counter-monuments?” Public lecture at the New York Public Library.
November 2010, “Genocide is a Crime against Natality,” Society for the Study of Genocide and the Holocaust, meeting with the Radical Philosophical Association, Eugene, Oregon.
May 2011, “Gestation, Identity, Immunity.” PhiloSophia Conference of Feminist Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.
July 2011, “Wilhelm Pinder and the Problem of Generation in European Art History.” Invited lecture at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy.
February 2012, “’A Past That Has Never Been Present’: Reflections on Natality and the Immemorial.” Invited lecture, California State University, Stanislaus.
March 2012, “Born Catholic: on Conversion, Identity and Violence.” Society for the Philosophical Study of Genocide and the Holocaust. Meeting held in conjunction with the meeting of the Central American Philosophical Association, Chicago.
May 2012, “Descartes and Elisabeth,” a joint public lecture with Kyoo Lee at New York Public Library, Stephen Schwarzman Building, New York City.
September 2012, “Blue People: Uncovering the Racial Contract in Europe’s Oldest Colony,” Charles Mills Symposium, Stony Brook University.
November 2012, “Women and Conceptions of Community.” Invited lecture, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY.
April 2013, “Visitation” at American Philosophies Forum, Emory University, Atlanta.
October 2013, “If this was possible, everything would now be possible.” The Many Faces of Evil, an international workshop, The New School, New York.
November 2013, “Umbilical Hermeneutics” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Eugene, Oregon.
April 2014, “Arendt and Portmann on Scientific Thinking,” Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia.
May 2014, “Why Have Children?” Stony Brook-Sorbonne Colloquium on Feminist Bio-ethics, Université de Paris IV, Sorbonne.
October 2014, “Genocide and the Logics of Violence,” Boston College.
October 2014, “Being and Generation: Male and Female Dasein in the Age of ART, co-authored with Jill Drouillard. International Institute for Hermeneutics
Meeting with SPEP, New Orleans.
November 2014, “’A Living Man Declared Dead’: Taryn Simon and Lines of Blood” Radical Philosophy Association, Stony Brook University.
April 2015 “Genocide: a Crime Against Natality.” Invited lecture, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
April 2015, “Kinship, Generation and Genocide,” Invited lecture, Penn State University
September 2015, “The Perfect Community,” Invited lecture, Aarhus University, Denmark
February 2016, “Genocide is Not an Ethical Problem,” invited lecture, Concordia University, Montreal
April 2016, “Who do you think you are?” Invited lecture, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
July 2016, “Taxonomy and its Pleasures,” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy.
October 2016, “A Phenomenology of Belonging and Non-belonging,” Hermeneutics Society, meeting with SPEP, Salt Lake City, Utah
January 2017, “Towards Democracy” SPEP at the APA. A response to Walter Brogan.
March 2017 “How Much Kin Does A Person Need?” Emory University.
April 2017 “Possible” on Derrida and Gasché, DePaul University, Chicago.
April 2017 “Deconstructing Nazi Politics” SUNY New Paltz.
May 2017 “Genocide between Politics and Ethics,” University of Oregon.
Sept 2017 “’This should not have happened’: a Political Hermeneutics of Genocide.” Meeting of the North American Society for Hermeneutics, Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland.
October 2017 Paper presented to the Workshop on Political Philosophy, Fordham University.
March 2018 On Linda Zerilli’s Democratic Judgment 12th annual meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle, University of California, Davis.
September 2018 Arendt on Ethics, Politics and Genocide. Address to Department of Philosophy, SUNY Purchase.
October 2018 SPEP, Hermeneutics Society: “What are Hermeneuts For?”
December 2018 “The Genocide Paradox” University of Aarhus, Denmark.
March 2019 “The Ugly Psyche” Vanderbilt University; invited workshop on the critical edition of Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind.
September 2020 Humanities Institute Stony Brook “Democratic Violence and the Genocide Continuum.” [Remote]
November 2020 Rock Institute for Ethics/Dept. of Philosophy, Penn State University. “On Logics of Genocide.” [Remote]
November 2020 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. “Genocide and Democracy.” Invited lecture. [Remote]
January 2021 SPEP at Eastern APA. “Towards an Irish Nissology.” [Remote]
May 2021 “Logics of Genocide” Humanities Institute, Simon Frasier University, Canada. [Remote]
June 2021 “Notes for an Irish Nissology.” Symposium on Irish Phenomenology. [Remote]
November 2021 On Nancy. University of Hawaii, Manoa. [Remote]
January 2022 Nancy for a New Generation. Memorial Symposium for Jean-Luc Nancy, University of Leiden, Netherlands (Remote)
October 2022 Democracy and Generational Time. SPEP, Texas A&M.
April 2023 “Kinship, Citizenship: 23andMe and the End of Democratic Life”
Lecture, class visit, and workshop, Carroll College, Helena, Montana.
July 2023 Democracy and Generations. Philosophy Symposium, Perugia, Italy
October 2023 SPEP On Shannon Mussett’s Entropic Philosophy
January 2023 SPEP at the APA “Ancestors Past and Future”
February 2024 “Democracy and the Genocide Continuum” Invited lecture, Research Center for Philosophy and Society, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
March 2024 “‘The internal war of an enclosed city’: J-L Nancy on war and democracy,” Disruption, Technique, World: Thinking the Present with Jean-Luc Nancy conference, ICI, Berlin.
September 2024 “Shared Landscape” University of Copenhagen
September 2024 “Democracy and the Genocide Continuum” Invited lecture, Sodertorn University, Stockholm
October 2024 Response to critics at book session on The Genocide Paradox, SPEP, Rochester, NY.
August 2025 “The Urban Animal: on the Work of Eduardo Mendieta” APL, Frankfurt, Germany.
October 2025 “Phenomenology in a Time of Genocide” keynote address Stony Brook-Boston University Phenomenology Conference
October 2025 “Banal Immortality: Peg Birmingham Scholar Session” SPEP, online.
February 2026 “Grounded Normativity, Seaborne Relationality” Reimagining the Landscape of Identity: Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Approach; The University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica (online)
May 2026 “On Toppling: Arendt’s Reflections on the Hungarian Revolution.” Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy

Service to the profession

A) Advisory boards, etc.
June 2009-2012 Member SUNY University Press Advisory Board
2016-2023 Board of directors, Hannah Arendt Circle.
2022- Advisory Board Philosophy, Politics and Critique, a journal published by Edinburgh University Press
2022- Advisory Board for Grant Proposal World-Open Care: Integrative Phenomenological Platform for Research in Creativity and Mental Health Care, Aarhus University, Denmark.

B) Other service
January 1996 Organizer of graduate student-run conference “Openings: the
Space of Thinking”, Vanderbilt University.
January 1999 Organizer of graduate student-run conference “Feminist
Philosophy,” Vanderbilt University.
May 2001 Coordinator of panel “Towards Nancy’s Birth to Presence” at the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Spelman College, Atlanta, GA.
July 2001 Seminar Leader at the Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “Earth, Body, Art,” Citta di Castello, Italy.
July 2001 Invited participant in Philosophy Symposium on Singularity, Perugia, Italy.
June 2002 Coordinator of panel “Jean-Luc Nancy: Sharing Philosophical Voices” at the conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
October 2002 Coordinator of panel “’Something more than vision, other than speech’: Engagements with Kelly Oliver on Politics and the Body” at the annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, IL.
May 2003 Coordinator of panel “Memory and the Immemorial” at the annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Leeds, England.
May 2004 Coordinator of panel “Body Singular Plural” at the annual conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Syracuse, New York.
July 2005 Seminar leader at Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “Derrida and Patocka,” Citta di Castello, Italy.
November 2007 Coordinator of panel “Facticity Revisited” at the annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago.
June 2012 Participant in the first annual Hannah Arendt workshop, Hannah Arendt Centre, Bard College, Annandale on Hudson, New York.
July 2014 Seminar leader, “Kant, Arendt and Nietzsche,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy.
Jan 2015 Participant Hess Seminar on Teaching the Holocaust, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
July 2016 Co-organizer Academic Seminar on Structure of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.
2019 Director, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “Critical Phenomenology,” Citta di Castello, Italy.