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Some current projects: _______________________________________________
Guest Editor, The Unbearable Charm of Frailty. Philosophizing in/on Eastern Europe, a special issue of Angelaki. The Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Routledge)
See Call for Papers
Guest Editor, Philosophy as Literature, a special issue of The European Legacy (Routledge) (scheduled for late 2009)
The issue will feature a conversation on the relationship philosophy-literature with Giuseppe Mazzotta (Sterling Professor of the Humanities for Italian, Yale University), Alexander Nehamas (Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities, Princeton University) & Simon Critchley (Professor of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research).
Recent/current research & teaching engagements: _______________________________________________
2009 (April-June): Clark Fellow, The Clark Library & The Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2008 (December): Newberry Fellow, The Newberry Library, Chicago
2008 (July-August): Visiting Professor, European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin, Germany
2007 (May-July): Visiting Scholar, Dipartimento di Filosofia & Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy
2007 (April-May): Visiting Scholar, The Center for European Studies, The Center for Cultural Studies & The Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas, Austin
Some recent & current speaking engagements: _______________________________________________
“On the very idea of Utopia,” What is Utopia? Genre and Modes of Representation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas SP, Brazil, June 3-5, 2009.
“On the Varieties of Political Martyrdom,” Political Religions and Freedom in Modern Society – A Liberty Fund Symposium, Stone Mountain Park, GA, 12-15 February, 2009.
“Dying as Self-expression,” Death in Images and Words: The Case of the Early Modern Hispanic World, Texas Tech University, 23-25 October, 2008.
“The Alchemists of the 21-st Century” Reversible Destiny – Declaration of the Right Not to Die, the Second International Arakawa + Gins: Architecture and Philosophy Conference/Congress, University of
Pennsylvania & The Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, 4-6 April, 2008 [press coverage in New York Times]
“Bruno’s Enchanted World,” Annual meeting of The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Morelia), 17-20 January, 2008
"(History of) Philosophy as Palimpsest," Models and Methods of the History of Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy, the Seminar für Geistesgeschichte und Philosophie der Renaissance &
Gesellschaft für Philosophie des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, University of Munich, Germany, October 4-6, 2007
“Berkeley and the Cathars,” George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment, Gaeta, Italy, 27-29 September 2007
“Theology of Hospitality in Lars von Trier’s Dogville,” The Center for Cultural Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 2 May, 2007
“Philosophy as an Art of Dying,” The Center for European Studies, University of Texas at Austin, 27 April, 2007
"The 'terror of history' in Kieslowski’s Blind Chance," Rediscovering Polish Cinema: History – Ideology – Politics, University of Lodz, Poland, 23-25 September, 2006
"The Book as a Metaphor. George Berkeley's use of the liber mundi," The Book, The Twentieth Annual DeBartolo Conference, University of South Florida, Tampla (FL), 16-18 February, 2006.
"Doing Philosophy Interdisciplinarily," Department of Liberal Studies, California State University at Fullerton, Fullerton (CA), 9 February 2006.
"From Artes Liberales to Cyber-humanities. Teaching Interdisciplinary Humanities in the 21-st Century," The Honors College, Texas Tech University, 27 January 2006.
Recent interviews: _______________________________________________
for The Florence Newspaper, August 2007 [in English]
for Revista EVO, Spring 2006 [in Romanian]
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