| Year | Conferences |
| 2010 | “Die Vernunft der Bilder: Gewalt und Menschenrechte”, Situation Kunst Bochum, 11.2.2010 |
| „Indirekte Rede: Bilder der Unversehrtheit“, Situation Kunst Bochum, 11.2.2010 | |
| „Die Genese von Rechtsbewusstsein durch Bilder“, invited paper, „Ästhetik und Politik – Politik und Ästhetik, Universität Dortmund/ Fridtjof-Nansen Akademie für Politische Bildung, Mainz 10.-12.5.2010 | |
| 2009 | „Von Platons Kline bis zur Kunst der Gegenwart“, Bewerbervortrag Professur Philosophie und Kunst, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, 28.1.2009 |
| „Präsenz und Entzug. Ambivalenzen ikonischer Performanz als Grund von Iconoclashs“, Tagung des Institutes for Iconicity, Theologische Fakultät Universität Rostock, 3.-5.4.2009 | |
| „Religion und Lebenswelt“, (invited paper), Otterthaler Gespräche, Universität Wien, 23. – 25.4.2009 (wegen Erkrankung abgesagt) | |
| „Respect for Persons“, (application paper chair in ethics), Tilburg University/ Niederlande, 6.5.2009 | |
| 2008 | „N.N.“, Partikulare Kulturen - universelle Moral - positives Recht. Die moralische und rechtliche Regelung interkultureller Konflikte, Kooperation Universität Frankfurt, Akademie Rabanus, Akademie Arnoldhain, 18.-20.2.2008, Martin-Niemöller-Haus, Arnoldshain/Taunus |
| „Das Fleisch der Sichtbarkeit“, Kunst, Bild, Wahrnehmung, Blick, Art, Image, Perception, Gaze, Bochum, Museum Situation Kunst, March, 13-14, 2008 | |
| „N.N.“, “Religion. Ethik, Sinn und Symboliken”, (invited Paper), Universität Wien, Ottertal/Austria, Sept., 24-26, 2008 | |
| „N.N.“, Corporeity and Affectivity. 100 Years of the Birth of Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961), (invited paper), Fifth Central and Eastern European Conference on Phenomenology, Prague 28 September – 1 October 2008, Prague | |
| 2007 | „The grammar of feelings“, Invited Paper at the Conference “The philosophy of rationality and emotions”, University of Frankfurt, Germany, January, 5 – 7, 2007 |
| „Ethics of respect and human dignity“ (invited paper, Position Ethics), Duquesne University Pittsburgh/USA, Januay, 29, 2007 | |
| „Differences in representation: image and text“, invited paper in the Cluster „Repräsentation“, Ruhr-University Bochum, Dep. of Philosophy, March, 28, 2007 | |
| „Humiliation and decency“, invited paper at the Conference “Ethics of Resistance”, Ruhr-Universityt Bochum, Dep. of Philosophy, March, 30, 2007 | |
| „The invisible and the visible in art“, (invited paper), Symposium on „Causeries“ by Maurice Merleau-Ponty, University Cologne, Salon Publisher Francfourt, French Institute Cologne, May 10, 2007 | |
| „Ethics of respect“, (invited paper), Conference „Ansprüche der Ethik“, Societas Ethica, Leysin/Switzerland, August, 22.-26, 2007 | |
| „Dialogical implications of human dignity“ (invited paper), Conference „Dialogik – Macht – Widerstand – Martin Bubers Gedanken zu Politik und Gesellschaft“, Universität Karlsruhe/ Martin Buber Gesellschaft, September, 28 – 30, 2007 | |
| „Topology of a split modernity“, (invited paper) International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy „Räume und Orte. Spannungen eines Paradigmas“, University Darmstadt, October, 3-6, 2007 | |
| 2006 | „Sartre on War and Peace/Sartre über Krieg und Frieden“, (invited lecture at the universiy Koblenz-Landau, Department of Philosophy, January 25, 2006 |
| „The morality of supererogative acts/Eine Moral für Menschen: Grenzen und Sinn von Zumutungen“, Invited Paper at the 5th Workshop Ethik „The Question of Morality“, Akademie Arnoldshain, University Frankfurt, in Cooperation with Hannover, Frankfurt, March, 17, 2006 | |
| „The dialogical structure of obligation/Die dialogische Struktur der Verpflichtung mit Blick auf Kontraktualismus und Realismus der Moral“, Invited Paper at the Honours Course with Vittorio Hösle „Poetik eines Genres: Zur Philosophie des Dialogs“, Academy Loccum, March, 27 – 31, 2006 | |
| „The power of images/Bildmacht zwischen Verkörperung und Körperlosigkeit“, Paper at the Conference „Verkörperte Gemeinschaften“, Ruhr-University Bochum/Universityt Lausanne, Depertment of Philosophy, IBZ March 31 – April 1, 2006 | |
| „The formative power of the image of the Human/Die formative Kraft des Menschenbildes“, Iinvited paper), University Hildesheim, Research Institute for Philosophy Hammover, July, 5, 2006 | |
| „Respect and dignity of the human face/Achtung und die Würde des Antlitzes“, Invited Paper at the International Conference „A centenary with Levinas (1906-2006)“, University Nijmwegen/The Netherlands, September 21 – 23, 2006 | |
| „Ethics of solidarity/Das Band zwischen den Menschen. Ethik der Solidarität“, Invited Paper at the Conference „Globalisierung und Verantwortung – Vielfalt und Einheit unter den Kulturen“ (Globalization and Responsibility. Plurality and Integration of Cultures, Cultural Institute/University Essen, November 9 -11, 2006 | |
| Human dignity revised. The prohibition of humiliation, Invited Paper at the International Conference of the Austrian Society for the Dialogue between East and West „Affect, Affection and Affectivity“, Otterthal, Austria, April 13 – 17, 2005 | |
| 2005 | Respect and the interest of rationality/Achtung und das Interesse der Vernunft, Invited Paper at the International Conference “Philosophy, Religion and Science”, University of Sarajevo/Bosnia, Institute of Cultural Science Sarajevo/Bosnia, April, 23 – 27, 2005 |
| „Elements of a pictorial communiaction/Elemente einer piktoralen Kommunikation“, (Application Paper), University Wuppertal, Dep. for Art and History of Design, April, 26, 2006 | |
| „Knowledge of (un)availability: obligations to respect limits in stemmcell-research)“, „Wissen um Verfügung: Verpflichtung zum Respekt von Grenzen“, Vortrag im Rahmen den Bochumer Ringvorlesung Der Mensch im Zeichen des therapeutischen Klonens, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, April 26, 2006 | |
| Human Values“, Vortrag auf der internationalen Tagung „Philosophical Anthropology Reviewed and Renewed: History, Evidence, Synthesis, and Normative implications“, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame/USA Mai, 6 – 10, 2005 | |
| „Discoursive power of wounding“, „Sprachliche Verletzungsmacht in Erniedrigung und Demütigung”, Vortrag auf der Konferenz „Gewalt der Sprache: Demütigung, Degradierung und Beleidigung“ des Graduiertenkollegs “, Institut für Philosophie Freie Universität Berlin, SFB „Kulturen des Performativen“, November, 26 – 27, 2005 | |
| „Labor, price and dignity“, „Arbeit, Preis und Würde“, Vortrag im Forum Philosophie des Forschungsinstitutes für Philosophie FIPH Hannover, November, 28, 2005 | |
| „Peace capability and peace readiness“, „Friedensfähigkeit und Friedensbereitschaft: Ein „menschliches Alphabet“, (invited paper) Vortrag auf der internationalen Tagung „Weltfrieden“, Institut für Diaspora und Genozidforschung Bochum, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, KWI NRW, December, 8 – 10, 2005 | |
| 2004 | "Humanity between human rights and humiliation", Paper presented at the International Conference "Philosophy of responsitivity", Ruhr-University-Bochum, June 12, 2004 |
| "Responsibility in the face of biological challenges", Paper to be presented at the International Conference "Philosophy, Interpretation, responsibility", University of Sofia/Bulgary, September 23-25, 2004 | |
| "Program for an anthropology of humaine pain", Paper to be presented at the Conference "Peculiarity and relevance of the body, University of Tbilissi/Georgia, in cooperation with the Fritz-Thyssen foundation, Tbilissi, October 6-8, 2004 | |
| "The performative power of dignity between singularity and universality, Paper to be presented at the Conference "The right of dignity", MenschenRechtsZentrum of the University of Potsdam/Germany, December 2-4, 2004 | |
| 2003 | "A
world without meaning", application paper presented concerning
the C-3 Professur, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg Department of Philosophy, February 17, 2003 |
| "The annihilation had already taken place. Auschwitz and the ontology of war", International Conference organized by the University of Hildesheim in cooperation with the Thyssen-Foundation: Die Forderung nach Gerechtigkeit. Emmanuel Levinas' Philosophie des Politischen, (The claim of justice.) Goslar, March 28, 2003 | |
| "Sovereignty and withdrawal of the body", Symposium (Nature, creature and body), organized by the Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, May 7, 2003 | |
| "New forms of war in a new world", Invited paper, Symposium "Ancient Philosophy: War and Conflict", organized by the American Philosophical Association, Washington DC, December 27, 2003 | |
| 2002 | "Pain and Moral Vulnerability in Ethics and Politics", Temple University Philadelphia/USA, February 4, 2002 |
| "On
pain", Habilitation paper Bochum, February 12, 2002 |
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| "Ethics
of Balance", Inaugural paper Bochum, May 15, 2002 |
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| "Human
park and liberal eugenics. ", International Conference, University of Wuppertal, May 14 - 16, 2002 |
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| 2001 | "Women's
voice", Vanderbilt University Nashville/USA, February 16, 2001 |
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"Heidegger's silence", |
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| 2000 | "Catastrophes
as Chora and the transformation of bodies", International Conference of the University of Hannover: Breaks, Fold(ing)s, Jumps: Topologies of the Millennium, Hannover, January, 6 - 8, 2000 |
| "Useless suffering
and evil. Levinas on the Shoa", Lecture and Seminar, Vanderbilt University Nashville/USA, April 11, 2002 |
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| "Philosophy
of war. Logos and Polemos", Symposium: World without war, University Würzburg, November, 23 - 24, 2000 |
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| 1999 | "Limites
du politique" (Boundaries of the Political), Colloque International, Université de Paris XII/Val de Marne Paris/ France, June, 3 - 6, 1999 |
| "On
repetition and the constitution of the political", Panel with D. Wood and Jason Winfree, International Meeting of the American Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Oregon/ USA, October, 7 - 10, 1999 |
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| "Returning
war, philosophies of violence", International Conference, Addressing Levinas. Ethics, Phenomenology and the Judaic Tradition, University of Emory/Atlanta/USA, October, 15 - 17, 1999 |
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| "The
visible and the invisible. On the genealogy of art", Symposium, Bochum, November, 13- 14, 1999 |
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| 1998 | "Merleau-Ponty:
Ethnology and violence", Laboratoire de Sociologie de la Culture Européenne. Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, Maison de Science de l'Homme, Paris: Anthropology in Germany and France between the wars, Freiburg, February, 13 - 14, 1998 |
| "Strategies
of banalization - the death principle of ethical alterity",
International Conference Other Banalities at Vanderbilt-University Nashville/USA, March, 17 - 19, 1998 |
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| "The
enemy and destruction", Graduate College Ruhr-University Bochum/ Institute for research on Diaspora and Genocide: Structures of collective violence, Bochum, July, 1 - 4, 1998 |
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| "Merleau-Ponty
on the 'Annihilation of the Other'", SUNY at Stony Brook, New York/ USA: Philosophy Lecture Series, Stony Brook/NY, USA, October, 8, 1997 |
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| "Moutheité:
the mouth, regulation and self-gestation", 23rd Annual International Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle: Ethical Bodies, Salisbury State University, September, 17-19, 1998 |
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| "The
invisible in history- on denied vulnerability", Internatinal conference "The visibility of the invisible", Husserl-Archive at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven/Belgium: September, 23 - 26, 1998 |
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| "Transformation
of the discourses of the Polemos", Laboratoire de Sociologie de la Culture Européenne. Université des Sciences Humaines de Strasbourg, Maison de Science de l'Homme, Paris: Historical Discourses in Anthropology and Ethnology, Straßbourg, October, 23 - 24, 1998 |
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| 1997 | "The
So-called 'Barbarian Basis' of Nature and its Secret Logos", 22nd Annual International Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle: The Concept of Nature, Seattle September, 18 - 20, 1997 |
| "Merleau-Ponty
on the 'Annihilation of the Other'", SUNY at Stony Brook, New York/ USA: Philosophy Lecture Series, Stony Brook/NY, USA, October, 8, 1997 |
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| "Figures
of Conflict and the Logic of Violent Exclusion", Sixth Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium: War and its Uses: Conflict and Creativity, SUNY at Plattsburgh/ USA, October, 2 - 4, 1997 |
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| "The
Ethical Eminence of the Flesh: Towards a Plurality of Faces",
Panel with Jim Hatley and Duane Davis: International Meeting of the American Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Lexington/USA, October, 16 - 18, 1997 |
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| 1996 | "Tout
visible est taillé dans le tangible" (The visible
is cut out of the tangible", 21st Annual International Conference of the Merleau-Ponty Circle: Merleau-Ponty, Perception, and the History of Philosophy, University of Memphis, September, 19 - 21, 1996 |
| "Phenomenologcal
Interpretations of a cartesian motive", International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy: Cognitio humana - Dynamics of science and values. XVII., Leipzig, September, 23 - 27, 1996 |
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| "Ethical
revision", International Conference of the German Society for phenomenological Research: Ethical perspectives, Freiburg, October 9 - 12, 1996 |
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| 1994 | "The
paradigm of selfrestriction", International Conference of Graduate Collegede University Bochum and Wuppertal, June, 22 - 24, 1994 |
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