Conferences

past and upcoming

 

 
  1. University of Aarhus, ESSE conference, workshop leader (with Jukka Tiusanen) Film Studies: Fragmentary Forms and Totalizing Narratives, with paper: "Carpe Diem in Black and White: Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers." August 22-26, 2008

  2. University of Helsinki, ISSEI conference on Language and the Scientific Imagination. July 28-August 2, 2008

  3. University of Lisbon, The 25th International Literature and Psychology Conference, with paper: "Saving Solanas: SCUM Manifesto and I Shot Andy Warhol". July 2-7, 2008

  4. University of Oslo: EAAS conference, E Pluribus Unum" or "E Pluribus Plura? with paper: "Sesame Undone: Negotiations of Virtual Space in Federman’s blog [the laugh that laughs at the laugh…]". May 9-12, 2008

  5. University of Helsinki, Renvall Institute: The 12th Biennial Maple Leaf and Eagle conference on North American Studies, with paper: "Cadillac Culture: Iconographies of the Standstill". May 5-8, 2006

  6. University of Reims: The Cultural Kernel, with paper: "Hard-core Divas Hit the Stone: “Sharon”, “Gertrude”, “Lynn” in Emanuel’s poems". March 14-15, 2008

  7. L'Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg: High Culture, Low Culture: Reprises, Recycling, and Recuperation, Strasbourg, with paper: "Mellow Mélange: Marge and Blanche". November 23-24, 2007

  8. 24. International Literature & Psychology Conference, Belgrade, with paper: "Between Gazes: Zizek and the Politics of Articulation". July 4-9, 2007

  9. NAAS 2007: American Bodies, American Violence, Tampere, Finland with paper: "'The Body Prefers Not To': Ethereal Immortality in Melville and Acker. May 24-26, 2007

  10. University of Manitoba: Following Derrida: Legacies with paper: "Transmissions" in the panel Five Faces of Derrida. 4-7 October 2006

  11. University of Aveiro, Portugal: Colloque: Forma Breve. Invited as keynote with paper: "Unbeginnings: The Fragment as a Round Space". 29 September 2006 (the colloque was divided into 2 parts; the first part took place on March 31)

  12. University of Stirling, UK: Poetry and Politics with paper: "Dogs and Daggers: The Aesthetics of Political Community in Lynn Emanuel’s Prose Poems". 13-16 July 2006

  13. University of Helsinki, Finland: The 23rd International Literature and Psychology Conference with paper: "Mad (W)holes: Susan Sontag's The Benefactor". June 28-July 3, 2006

  14. Karlstad University: Space Haunting Discourse with paper: "San Francisco as a Road Scholar’s Beginning and End". 15-18 June 2006

  15. University of Helsinki, Finland: Maple Leaf and Eagle Conference on North American Studies: Communities and Connections with paper "Dogs and Daggers: The Aesthetics of Political Community in Lynn Emanuel’s Prose Poems". 16-19 May 2006

  16. University of Cyprus: The EAAS Conference: Conformism, Non-Conformism, Anti-Conformism with paper: "Exquisite Crossings: Andrei Codrescu’s Rules of Conventions". 7-10 April 2006

  17. University of Reims, France: Colloque on Plurality of Interpretation with paper: "Orlando's Stake: Spectacles of Interpretation in Sally Potter's Adaptation of Virginia Woolf". 10-11 March 2006

  18. University of Louisville: 20th Century Literature Conference. Chair for the session "The Appearance of Saints in Literature and Theory". 23-25 February 2006

  19. L'Université de Rouen: Invited as plenary speaker. "Prose/Poetry - The Prose Poem: Generic Dualities". International conference/colloque organized by U of Rouen and Paris X Nanterre on Dualité(s): Dualities. 4-5 November 2005 draft

  20. University of Kent, Canterbury: A two-day conference on Dream Writing with paper "Dreaming Aphorisms". 15-16 October 2005

  21. University of Cordoba: The 22nd International Literature and Psychology Conference, with paper: "Portraits in Pain: The Psychology of Inspiration in Prose Poems by Lynn Emanuel". June 29 - July 3, 2005

  22. University of Växjö, Sweden: The Nordic Association for American Studies Conference, Poetics of Nonconformity, with paper: "Exquisite Crossings: Andrei Codrescu’s Rules of Conventions". 26-29 May 2005

  23. Annual American Studies Association Meeting - Atlanta 2004: Crossroads of Culture with paper: "Counter Frames: The Generic Crossroads of the Prose Poem". 11-14 November  2004

  24. ESSE 7 Zaragoza Spain:  with paper "Abstracting Wit: Giorgio Agamben's Aphoristic Archive and Lynn Emanuel's Poetry of Becoming". 8-12 September 2004

  25. University of Leeds, UK: British Comparative Literature Association, 10th International Conference: Invention - Literature and Science with paper: "Stumbling unto Grace – Invention and the Poetics of Imagination in Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach". 12-15 July 2004

  26. University of Stirling, UK: Poetry and Sexuality with paper: "Sexing Up Genius: Tableau Instaurations in Lynn Emanuel and Gertrude Stein". 1-4 July, 2004

  27. University of Karlstad, Sweden: Memory, Haunting, Discourse with paper: "H(a)unting Potentialities: Federman Frenzies". 17-20 June 2004

  28. University of Timisoara, Romania: 14th Conference on American and British Studies, joint presentation with Bent Sorensen "Lexical Fragments and Romanian Echoes in T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land". May 13-15, 2004

  29. Aarhus University, Denmark: Ninth Nordic Conference for English Studies with paper: "Closet Fictions: Raymond Federman and Cynthia Ozick". 27-29 May 2004

  30. Lorand Eotvos University, Budapest: Shakespeare and Philosophy in a Multicultural World with paper: "From Act to Fact: Epitaphic Truth in Titus Andronicus and Heraclitus". 17-20 March 2004

  31. University of Louisville, Kentucky: 20th Century Literature Conference with paper: "Theory as Literature and Literature as Theory: The Emblematic Fragments of Avital Ronell and Nicole Brossard" in workshop Picture and Narrative. 26-28 February  2004

  32. Aalborg University, Complexity with paper: "Fill the Shoes and Walk the Field" in workshop: Dynamic Concepts in Literature and Aesthetics: Text and Reader. January 22-25, 2004

  33. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim: America in the World: Exploring Transnational Dimensions of Life and Culture in the US with paper: "Schmucks: The First Person Plural in Raymond Federman's Fiction". 6-9 August 2003

  34. Columbia University, New York: Graduate student conference, The Pen as Sword with paper: "Louis Aragon and the Redundant Potential". March 25, 2002

  35. University of Southern Denmark, Kolding: a two-day conference on Derrida's  Glossing Glas. I haven't presented a paper but together with Bent Sørensen I have transcribed for publication the final session with Jacques Derrida. 24-26 May 2001

  36. ESSE 5-2000 English Studies Conference, Helsinki with paper: "Fragments: The Promise of Fulfillment" in workshop: Postmodernism, the Baroque, and the Study of Fiction in Print. 25-29 August 2000