DAVID WOOD
CURRENT RESEARCH
My current research is centered on the ways in which climate change gives new significance and urgency to traditional ethical, political and metaphysical issues. If ‘”we cannot go on like this”, revolution is no longer a matter of social justice, but of ecological necessity. Truth is no longer a postmodern plaything but a matter of life and death. If we have entered a new geological age – the Anthropocene – with the future of the planet on our backs, what is it now to be human? I am completing books on Reinhabiting the Earth, and Deep Time, (both with Fordham University Press) the latter an expansion of the Thinking Out Loud lectures in Sydney - April/May 2015. I am also working on a longer term writing project Things at the Edge of the World, elaborating the ways in which various Things are not merely part of the furniture of the world, but open up worlds of their own: a fractal ontology. After Giving Voice to Other Beings (2009), I co-organized a conference on EcoDeconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Ethics (Spring 2015) which will result in an edited volume, also with Fordham. On the teaching front my persistent effort is to ‘rewrite Heidegger’s Being and Time’ in the light of the shifts in Heidegger’s own thinking, the new materialism, and other contemporary concerns such as sexual difference, non-human animals, and the earth. I am also trying to address a number of these same issues as an earth/conceptual artist in my Heliotrope, Chronopod, and Wordscape projects, the IntraTerrestrials: Landing Sites series and the development of Yellow Bird Art Farm. Reflection on how Art is more than a thing of the past, but still helps us think, and rethink, is an ongoing focus. I run Thinking Out of the (lunch)Box series of public talks/conversations at the Downtown Public Library.
TALKS
Founders Lecture (Keynote), "Is Time Out of Joint? Or at a New Threshold? Reflections on the Temporality of Climate Change", International Society for the Study of Time (ISST), Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles), June 2019
"Three Art Gardens in Troubled Times", Panel session, ISST conference, LMU (Los Angeles), June 2019
"Thinking Again. A Montage with the Voices of Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and David Wood [virtual participation]", Panel Session, with Barbara Hahn and James McFarland at Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind conference, Vanderbilt University, March 2019.
“Bringing Deconstruction Down to Earth”, IAEP conference, October 2018
Keynote Speaker. “On Track for Terratoriality”, The Territory of ‘a People’: Questioning Community, 18th Graduate Philosophy Conference, Boston College, March 2017
Keynote Address. “Thinking like a Sand Crab”, at Living With Animals Conference. Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY. March 2017
Presentation and critique of “Being with Animals” (my current art portfolio). Living With Animals Conference. EKU, Richmond, KY. March 2017
Panel Moderator, Cultural Sources and the Production of Non-Human Identities. Living With Animals Conference. EKU, Richmond, KY. March 2017
Discussion Panelist, “The Question of Ecology and Environmental Ethics”, The Territory of ‘a People’: Questioning Community, 18th Graduate Philosophy Conference, Boston College, March 2017
Convenor and speaker, Philosophy and Meditation: Shambhala Retreat Workshop, Yellow Bird Artscape, May 2017
Invited Lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, “Natures of Space, Spaces of Nature”, Citta di Castella, Italy, July 2017
Panel presentation on Brian Bannon’s “From Mastery to Mystery”, IAEP, Oct 2015
“Performativity, Reflexivity and Critique in the Anthropocene”, and “What is EcoPhenomenology?” Two Research Seminars, University of Amsterdam, July 2015
“Aporiae of Lived Time”, Lecture, University of Oregon, Jan 2015
“Some Philosophical Problems of Climate Change”, Faculty Seminar, University of Oregon, Jan 2015
Public Lecture: “On the Uses and Disadvantages of Geology for Life”, University of Oregon, Jan 2015
“Disconcerting Experience”, Lecture, Oregon State University at Corvallis, Jan 2015
Public Lecture, “Mission to Earth: Land Art, IntraTerrestrials and Other Attempts at Reinhabiting the Earth through Art”, Arts Center, University of Oregon, January 2015
“Responsibility in an Age of Climate Change”, the Thinking Out Loud lectures (3), University of Western Sydney, Sydney, April/May 2015
Public Lecture: “On Being Geologically Human”, University of Canberra,
May 2015
”The Eleventh Plague: Thinking Ecologically After Derrida”, EcoDeconstruction conference, Vanderbilt, March 2015 and Research Seminar, University of Canberra, May 2015
State University of California at Stanislaus: “Deep Time”, March 2015
Organizer: EcoDeconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Ethics, International Conference, Vanderbilt, March 2015
“Aporiae of Lived Time” (panel on Lived Time), International Institute for Hermeneutics, New Orleans, Oct 2014
Keynote Address, “On Being Geologically Human”, IAEP (International Association for Environmental Philosophy), New Orleans, Oct 2014
“Aporetic EcoHermeneutics” Environmental Hermeneutics panel (in memory of Helen Tartar), SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy), Oct 2014
Titus-Hepp Public Lecture: “Disconcerting Experience”, Denison University, November, 2014
Some Philosophical Challenges of Climate Change”, Denison University, November, 2014
Keynote Address: “The Truth about Animals”, Animality Conference, Koc University, Istanbul, Nov 2014
Public Lecture: “Disconcerting Experience”, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Nov 2014
“Lived Time”, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Nov 2014
“The Truth About Animals”, Middle Eastern Technical University, Ankara, Nov 2014
“What Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stronger: Why we still read Kierkegaard and Nietzsche”, Berry Lecture, Vanderbilt, Feb 25 2014
Lyceum lecture, “Disconcerting Experience”, MTSU, April 2014
“Deep Time”, Manchester Metropolitan University, April 30 2014
“IntraTerrestrials and other Art”, London Metropolitan University, May 2014
“Touched by Touching”, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Annual Conference, Eugene, Oct 2013,
“Reinhabiting the Earth”, Concordia University, Montreal, Oct 2013
“Derrida and Husserl: The Normative Commitments of Phenomenology”, response to Rump, Pacific APA, April 2013
“Only Connect: Is a Cyber-Noo-sphere our Last Best Hope”, Humboldt Kolleg conference on Time, Nature, Responsibility, Macau, April 2013
“Unthinkables and Im-possibles”, 36th annual Fritz Marti Lecture, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, April 2013
“Decentered Anthropocentrism,” book session on Kelly Oliver’s Animal Lessons, SPEP, November 2012
“The Art of the Possible,” IAEP, November 2012
'Art and Resistance’, Nature in Art and Culture conference, University of Helsinki, 2012
“Violence and the Image”, University of Bochum/Cubus Art Conference, 2012
“Art and Truth” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castella, Italy, July 2011
“Reinhabiting the Earth”, BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY ANNUAL CONFERENCE, St. Hilda's College, Oxford. 15th - 17th April, 2011
“What is Eco-Phenomenology?” IAEP session, APA, Boston, December 2010
“Art and Truth” invited lecture, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castella, Italy, July 2011
“Reinhabiting the Earth”, BRITISH SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY ANNUAL CONFERENCE, St. Hilda's College, Oxford. 15th - 17th April, 2011
“What is Eco-Phenomenology?” IAEP session, APA, Boston, December 2010
“Total Transparency”, McGill Philosophy Seminar, Vanderbilt, Nov 2010
“Is Art Dead? (Or could it Save the Earth?)” Honors Program Distinguished Speaker, De Paul, Chicago, May 2010
Coastal Installation, Keynote Conference Speaker, “Can Art Save the Earth?”, and photographic presentation: “Imagination Displacement Transformation: A Photographic Essay” at Thinking the World in the Twenty-First Century (Conference), University of Tasmania / Australian Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Association (APHA), Hobart, Tasmania, April 30th and May 1st, 2010
Installation and Lecture to Land Art and Landscape Seminar, University of Richmond, March 2010
"After Art?" Public Lecture, University of Richmond, April 2010
“Singular Universal Once Again”, April 2010, Keynote Speaker, Kierkegaard Conference, Bristol (UK)
“Where does the Voluntary Extinction movement go wrong?” Pacific APA, San Francisco, April 2010
Installation and Lecture to Land Art and Landscape Seminar, University of Richmond, March 2010
“Can Art Save the Earth?”, Keynote Speaker, Annual Mardi Gras Conference, LSU, Baton Rouge, Feb, 2010
“Philosophy and Global Climate Change: Seven Key Issues”, Climate Change Seminar, Yale Law School, November 2009
“Toxicity and Transcendence: Two Faces of the Human”, Keynote Speaker, Conference: Limits of the Human: Philosophical, Historical and Ecological Perspectives, Research School of Humanities, Australian National University, Canberra, September 2009
“Philosophy and Global Climate Change”, Public lecture, Monash University, sponsored by Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and La Trobe University, Philosophy Department, School of Communication, Arts and Critical Enquiry, September 2009
“Beyond Human Politics”, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 2009
“Things at the Edge of the World”, Phenomenologies of the Stranger Conference, Boston College, May 2009
“Imagining the other, valuing difference”, International Conference: Reconciling Human Existence and Ecological Integrity", Berlin 16-20 July, 2008
“Beyond narcissistic humanism”, IAEP Conference: Thinking Through Nature: Philosophy for an Endangered World, June 2008, University of Oregon, Eugene
“Honoring the Past”, Keynote Address to the 14th Annual Conference Time, History, Memory, Villanova University Philosophy Graduate Student Union, March 28-29, 2008
Book session on my book Time After Time (Vanderbilt Colloquium) with commentators Gregg Horowitz and Michael Bess, Nov 2007
“From Dog to God: Thinking the Palindrome”, Scholars Session on the work of John Llewelyn, SPEP Annual Conference, Chicago, November 2007
Invited seminar on my books: The Step Back: Ethics and Politics After Deconstruction and Time After Time, Department of Philosophy, Penn State University, April 2007
“Back to Everyday Things” Author meets Critics [on Peter Steeves], Pacific APA, San Francisco, April 2007
Public Lecture, Three Unthinkable Things, Concordia College, Montreal, December 2006
“On Being Haunted by the Future,” Memorial Session for Jacques Derrida, American Philosophical Association, Annual Meeting (Eastern Division), Washington Dec 29 2006.
Keynote Address at Visual Intelligence and The Sense of Art: Philosophy and Art in Conversation with Experience conference, CSU Stanislaus, November 2006
Scholar’s Session on my work, Annual Conference, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Villanova, Philadelphia, October 2006
"Critique of Pure Externalization: The Politics of Environmentalism" (with Barbara Muraca), International Association for Environmental Philosophy, IAEP Annual Conference, Villanova, Philadelphia October 2006
Public Lecture, “What is Econstruction?”, Hendrix College, Arkansas, and lecture “Is Art Truly Dead?”, November 2006,
Keynote Address, “Liminal Philosophy: Negotiating Resistance at the Limits of Representation”, Spring Conference, North Texas Philosophical Association, UNT-Denton, April 2006
Keynote Address, “Negative Capability”, Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle Annual Conference, Atlanta, April 2006
Author session on my book The Step Back: Ethics And Politics After Deconstruction, Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle (Atlanta), April 2006
“Negative Capability and Beyond”, CSU Stanislaus, April 2006
Negotiating Alterity, Three research seminars at Warwick University, UK, May 22-26 2006,
“Thinking the Unthinkable:Animality, Animosity, Animadversity”, Collegium Phenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 2006
“The Ecological Imagination”, International Whitehead Conference, Salzburg, Austria, July 2006
“The War of the Worlds: Seven Paradigms of Globalization”, SPEP Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, October 2005
“Truth as Responsibility”, Faculty Colloquium, Vanderbilt, October 2005
Keynote Address, “Specters of Derrida: On the Way to Econstruction”, IAEP Annual Conference, Salt Lake City, October 2005
Greening Derrida, “Ground for Hope” An Interfaith Theology Conference, Drew University, Sept/Oct 2005.
“Greening Derrida: The Eleventh Plague”, APA Annual Conference (Pacific Division), San Francisco, April 2005
“Jacques Derrida: the Socrates of our Time?” Thinking Out of the Box Public Lecture series, Nashville Public Library, Feb 2005, (with Chancellor Gee).
“Trees and Truth: Our Uncanny Arboreality”, Kyoto University, Kyoto, November 2004
“A Comparative Assessment of British and American Education and Culture”, Ryukoku University, Kyoto, November 2004”
“Sexual Difference/Ontological Difference”, Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Memphis, October 2004
“Response to my Critics”, Scholars Book Session on Thinking After Heidegger, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Memphis, October 2004
“Response to Charles Scott”, Faculty Colloquium Book Session on Thinking After Heidegger, Vanderbilt, November 2004
Response to John Protevi’s Political Physics for SPEP, 2003 (November 2003, Boston)
“On Being Grown-Up”, Heidegger Conference, New Orleans, April 2004
“Globalization and Freedom”, Returns of Marx conference, Paris, March 2003, and Ethics, Politics and History conference at Toledo, Ohio, April 2004
“Nothing Much”, at Nothing Conference, Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center, February 2004
“Beyond Hegel and the End of Art: Heidegger and Earth-Art”, Public lecture, Galatasaray University, Istanbul, Turkey, January 2004
“Eroticism and Other Minds”, McGill Hour, Vanderbilt, October 2003
“The Ethics of a War on Terrorism”, “In Defense of Truth” - various student groups in Nashville, 2003-4
“ American Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism”, Foreign Policy group, Vanderbilt Law School, October 2003
“Art for Earthlings”, and “The Future of Thinking”, University of Helsinki, October 2003
“Topologies of Transcendence”, Religion and Postmodernism conference, Villanova University, Sept 2003
Paper presented to Towards a Taxonomy of Boundaries conference, Matlock Green, Kansas, June 2002
“Sacrificing Sacrifice: Opening to the Animal”, Society for the Study of Ethics and Animals, APA, Atlanta, December 2001
“Liminal Nature”, at Annual Conference, International Association of Environmental Philosophy, Maryland, October 2001
“Terrorism, International Justice and the Reduction of Moral Exposure”, Terrorism Faculty Group, Humanities Center, Vanderbilt, October 2001
“Justice, Forgiveness and Hospitality”, McGill, Vanderbilt, Oct 2001
“Tales of Innocence and Experience: Kierkegaard’s Spiritual Accountancy”, International Kierkegaard Conference, Augusta, Georgia April 2001
"Naturalistic Phenomenology?", University of North Texas, December 2000
"Reading and Writing After Heidegger: Glimpses of Being in the Development of Dasein", Keynote Address, Annual Conference, Australian Society for Continental Philosophy, Sydney, November 22 2000
"Why Time Breaks Down", Colloquium, Philosophy Department, University of Sydney, and Faculty Seminar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, November 2000
"Earth Art Sky: Distance in Dwelling", Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 39th Annual Meeting, Penn State, October 2000 and Arts Faculty Research Seminar, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, November 2000
"What is Eco-Phenomenology?", International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Penn State, October 2000
"Heidegger and the Responsibilities of Reading", Heidegger Conference, Huntington, KY, April, 2000
"Double Trouble: the Work of Richard Kearney", Annual Conference, International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Stony Brook, May 2000
"Experience: Folded and Unfolding", Art and Experience Conference, University of London, Nov 20 1999
"The Old and the New", Levinas Conference, Emory, Oct 15 1999
“Trees and Truth”, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Oregon, Oct 10 1999
"The Return of Repetition and the Ends of Desire", Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Oregon, Oct 9 1999.
"Things at the Edge of the World: Part 1, The Mouth", Collegium Phenomenologicum, Citta di Castella, Italy, July 22 1999
"Critique, Transgression, Repetition: The Event of Philosophy", Rhizomatics, Genealogy and Deconstruction Conference, Peterborough, Ontario, May 21 1999
“Heidegger and the Challenge of Repetition”, Heidegger Conference, De Paul University, April 1999
“Bicycles have two wheels: a response to Randall Havas on ‘Authenticity and Community in Nietzsche and Heidegger’,” American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division), Berkeley, April 1999
“Interruptions, Regressions and Discontinuites: Why Time Breaks Down”, Alice Berline Kaplan Centre for the Humanities, Northwestern University, February 1999
“Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis: Embodying Transformation”, University of Sussex, University of Warwick, Nov 1998
“Heidegger, Derrida and Blanchot on experience”, University of Middlesex, and Wadham College, Oxford, Nov 1998
“In Memory of Time”, reply to Charles Scott, Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association, Washington Dec 30
Paper on Charles Scott at Scholar’s Session, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Denver, October 1998
“Orality: An opening for philosophy”, paper presented to the Merleau-Ponty Circle, Salisbury University, Sept 1998. Versions also presented at Sussex, Warwick and Oxford University, November 1998.
“The Philosophy of Violence::The Violence of Philosophy” at conference on The Structure of Social Violence, University of Bochum, Germany, July 1998
Research Session: “The Return of Experience After Phenomenology” (two papers) at Spacing Art, Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July/August 1997.
“Time, Dimensionality and Engagement in Heidegger”, Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle, Penn State University, May 1997.
“Unlocking the Image in Thought”, International Conference on Art and the Image, Tate Gallery/University of London, May 1997
“Deconstructive Phenomenology”, British Society for Phenomenology Annual Meeting, Oxford, April 1997
“Time after Narrative”, Time and Language Graduate Conference, Sonderborg, Denmark April 1997
“Hunting Heffalumps: Heidegger and Humanism”, International Heidegger Conference, Amsterdam, March 1997
“The Artefactuality of God” (response to John Caputo) Styles of Piety Conference, Vanderbilt, March 1997.
“Philosophy and the Future of Higher Education”, APA (Pacific Division), Berkeley, Feb 1997
“Continental Philosophies of Language”, UT Chattanooga, Feb 1997
“The Return of Experience” (three versions) at University College, Dublin; Metropolitan University of Manchester; University of Warwick Conference on Experience, February 1997
“The Impossibility of New Music”, Interfaculty Seminar on Time, Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Nov 1996
Presentation to Interfaculty Discussion of William Franke’s Dante’s Interpretive Journey. Vanderbilt, Sept 1997
“The Limits of Philosophy”, keynote address to 3rd annual Graduate Philosophy conference, DePaul University, May 1996
“Time Revisited”, public lecture, University of Richmond, March 1996
“Much Obliged: Derrida’s Gift of Death”, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago Oct 1995
“Kierkegaard’s Earthquake”, McGill lecture, Fall 1995
“Economies of Time”, Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy 1995
“Cannibalism”, McGill lecture, Fall 1994
“Man as Disease?” response to John Mizzoni’s “Environmoral Realism”, conference of Mid-Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nov 1994
Invited lecture on Identity, Vanderbilt University, March 1994
Lecture series (three lectures), University of Turin, March 1994
Three papers on Derrida: Origins, Promises, Reponsibilities for Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy, July 1993.
"Comment ne pas manger: Deconstruction and Humanism", Death of the Animal conference, Warwick, November 1993
"Fate, Destiny and the Space and Narrative", University of Valencia, Spain, April 1993.
"The Voyage of Reason", International Conference on Discovery and Conquest, Chieri, Italy, July 1992
"Deconstructing Kierkegaard", Kierkegaard Workshop, University of Warwick, May 1992
"Beyond the Cave", "Steeled for Change": two papers to British Steel managers, November 1991/February 1992
"Time and Being", Dundee University, February 1992
"Reassessing the deconstruction of time: a response to my critics", Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Annual Conference), Memphis, Oct 1991
"The Poetics of Time", Vanderbilt University, October 1991
"Heidegger's Politics", ICA Forum on Tradition and Dialogue: the Politics of Communities, February 1991
"Philosophy and Mastery", lecture in Freud Museum’s Speculations lecture series, January 1991
"The Actualization of Philosophy and the Logic of Geist", Workshop on Derrida's De l'esprit, Warwick, November 1990
"Political Openings: Heidegger 1933-34", Conference on Martin Heidegger: the Politics, the Philosophy,the Arts, Goethe Institute, London, January 1990
"The Future of Time: Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida" (three papers), De Paul University, Chicago, April 1990
"Thinking about Time", Interfaculty Research Seminar, De Paul University, Chicago, April 1990.
"What is Metaphysics?", Public Lecture, De Paul University, Chicago, May 1990..
"Husserl on `Universal Teleology'" , Collegium Phenomenogicum, Perugia, Italy, July 1990
"Heidegger's reading of Hegel's `Phenomenology of Spirit'", Annual Conference of the Hegel Society of Great Britain, Pembroke College, Oxford, September 1990
LECTURE TOUR: "Reiterating the Temporal: Heidegger and Destiny" presented at SUNY Binghamton, Temple University, and the University of Toronto, October 1989.
"Questioning Thought", SPEP, Duquesne University, Oct. 1989.
"Heidegger and the Future of Time", conference on Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ontology, Poetics, at Loyola University, Chicago, September 1989.
"The Strange Loops of Escher and Calvino," Calvino Conference University of Warwick, 1987.
LECTURE TOUR: "Hermeneutics and Deconstruction in Dialogue: the Derrida / Gadamer debate," presented at Boston College, Vanderbilt University, Northwestern University, Penn State University and Loyola University of Chicago, 1987.
"Beyond Deconstruction?", Royal Institute of Philosophy,[part of series on French Philosophy], 1986
"The Traduction of Heidegger: Derrida and Gadamer on the Concept of Horizon," Heidegger, Hermeneutics and Interpretation, Goethe Institute Conference, London [1986]; York University (Glendon), Toronto [1986]; McMaster University [1986].
"Husserl and Temporality," University of Oxford 1986.
"The Future of Narrative," Middlesex Polytechnic 1986.
"Deconstruction and Strategy," Edinburgh University 1986.
"Heidegger after Derrida," Reading Heidegger, Conference, University of Essex 1986.
"Narrative and Time," Narrative and Interpretation (Ricoeur), Conference, University of Warwick, 1986, and Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Annual Conference, Toronto 1986.
"The Future of Continental Philosophy," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Annual Conference, Toronto 1986.
"Following Derrida," Deconstruction and Philosophy; the Texts of Jacques Derrida, International Conference, Loyola University, Chicago 1985; UC at Berkeley, 1985.
"Time and Narrative," SUNY, Stony Brook 1985.
"The Philosophy of the Future", Yale University and Loyola University, Chicago.
"The Importance of Philosophy for Literary Study," 22nd Annual Eastern Comparative Literature Conference, New York University 1985.
"The City of the Future," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Annual Conference, CUNY, New York 1985.
"Reading for Pleasure," The Text of Barthes, Conference, University of Warwick 1985.
"Thinking after Heidegger," "Derrida on Kant's Apocalyptic Tone," "The End of the World: Fragments." Three papers to Collegium Phenomenologicum [Perugia, Italy 1985].
"Derrida and Criticism," University of Leeds 1984; French Institute, London 1984.
"The Future of Post-Modernity: Derrida, Rorty, Lyotard,"
Modernity and Post-Modernity Workshop, University of Oxford, 1984.
"Nietzsche's Deconstruction of Time," European Studies Nietzsche Symposium, University of Sussex 1984; Oxford University German Philosophy Society 1984.
"Eternal Return Revisited," Warwick Workshop in Continental Philosophy: The New Nietzsches, Warwick 1984.
"The Formalizability of Deconstruction: Reply to Donato," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Annual Conference, SUNY, Stony Brook 1983.
"The Limits of Strategy: Some Lessons from Derrida," Philosophy in Modern France (Conference), Manchester 1983.
"Philosophy as Performance," University of East Anglia [1982].
"Nietzsche's Styles," British Society for Phenomenology, Annual Conference, Oxford, 1982.
"Philosophy as Edification," Open University [1982].
"Differance and the Problem of Strategy," Warwick Workshop in Continental Philosophy [1982].
"Writing at the Edge of Metaphysics," (Three papers) Collegium Phenomenologicum, Perugia, Italy 1982.
"The Faces of Silence," Open University [1982].
"Philosophy and Metaphor," City University 1981; Sussex University 1981.
"Times for Interpretation," Warwick Workshop in Continental Philosophy on Time and Metaphysics, Warwick 1981.
"The Retreat of Metaphor," Collegium Phenomenologicum (Perugia, Italy 1981).
"Keeping the Past in Mind: a Reply to Professor Casey," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Annual Conference, Northwestern University 1981.
"Contemporary Paris Fashions," Warwick Schoolmasters' Conference [1980].
"The Time of Philosophy," British Society for Phenomenology (Annual Conference), Oxford 1980.
"Time and the Sign," International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Annual Conference, Orono, Maine 1980.
"Prolegomena to a New Theory of Time," Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Annual Conference) Purdue University, Indiana 1979.
"Metametaphysical textuality: Heidegger and Derrida," SUNY at Stony Brook [1978].
"Foucault and the Body Politic," Columbia University 1978; Suny at Stony Brook 1978.
"Heidegger and Temporality," University of Birmingham 1978.
"The Rationality of Suicide," Bowdoin College, Maine 1978.
"Philosophy and Literature," International Colloquium on Philosophy, Literature and Art [University of Oxford, 1977].
"Husserl and Hegel on Time," BSP Workshop on Hegel and Husserl, [Warwick, 1977].
"Husserl," Research Group in Epistemology and Metaphysics [University of Oxford, 1976].
"Questions," [Open University, 1975].
"Dr. Nietzsche," [Bedford College, 1973].
"Transcendental Experience," British Society for Phenomenology, Annual Conference [Oxford, 1973].
"The Body, Expression and Truth," Anglo-French Philosophy Symposium [Montreal, 1971].