- (Co-authored with Simon Critchley, Giuseppe Mazzotta and Alexander Nehamas), "Despre gânditori şi poeţi. Un dialog cu privire la filosofie, literatură şi reclădirea lumii” in Secolul 21, No. 7-12 (2009) (Bucharest, Romania), pp. 18-39. (Translation into Romanian by Mona Mamulea)
- “’Dios te está soñando’: La narración como Imitatio Dei en Miguel de Unamuno," in Enfocarte.com (September, 2009) (Gijón, Spain) (Translated into Spanish byVanessa Rodriguez-Garcia).
- "'Deus está sonhando você’: Narrativa como Imitatio Dei em Miguel de Unamuno," in Principios. Revista de Filosofia, Vol. 15. No 24 (2008) (Natal, Brazil), pp. 249-265. (Translated into Portuguese by Jaimir Conte)
- ‘Terror historii’ w Przypadku Krzysztofa Kieślowskiego” [“The ‘terror of history’ in Kieslowski’s Blind Chance”] in Ewelina Nurczynska-Fidelska & Konrad Klejsa (Eds.) Kino Polskie: Reinterpretacje. Historia – Ideologia – Polityka, Translated into Polish by Tomasz Kłys, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Lodzkiego, Lodz, 2008, pp. 177-196.
Recent/current speaking engagements: _______________________________________________
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"On a certain philosophical decadence." Transcending Disciplinary Decadence. The Fourteenth International Forum on Contemporrary Theory, IIS Jaipur, India, December 18-21, 2011.
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“From Draft to Infinite Writing,” Luiz Costa Lima International Symposium, The Mimesis and Culture Group, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, November 10-11, 2011. -
“Trapped in History. A reading of Kieslowski’s Blind Chance,” Religion and Secularity in Contemporary European Cinema, Barcelona, Spain, 7-9 October, 2011.
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“Death and the sacred. Disposing of one’s life as a symbolic gesture.” Il sacro e la vita in una società multiculturale, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice (Italy), 9-10 December, 2010.
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“God’s Playground,” Cold War Cultures: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives, University of Texas at Austin (TX), September 30-October 3, 2010.
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“A playful, all-too playful god. A philosophical reading of Lars von Trier’s Dogville,” The Department of English, University of Pune, India, June 17, 2010. -
“Historical Pessimism, Geo-Political Despair and Other East-European Anxieties,” The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, India, 10 June, 2010.
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“Jan Patočka and the tradition of Socratic Death,” The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda, India, 8 June, 2010.
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"The Making of a Philosopher-Martyr," The Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI), May 3, 2010.
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“Scapegoats, Martyrs, Founding Figures,” Explosive Past, Radiant Future – An International Colloquium, The Center for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada, 18-20 March, 2010. -
“To Die Laughing,” The 2009-2010 Brackenridge Philosophy Symposium, Department of Philosophy & Classics, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio (TX), 22-23 February, 2010.
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“On the very idea of Utopia,” What is Utopia? Genre and Modes of Representation, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Campinas, SP, Brazil), June 7-10, 2009.
Recent interviews: _______________________________________________
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for Observator Cultural, March 2011 [in Romanian]
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for firi-org.it, March 2011 [in Italian]
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for Evenimentul Zilei, April 2010 [in Romanian]
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for Romanian Public Radio (Radio Romania Cultural), October 2009 [in Romanian]
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for Romanian Public Radio (Radio Romania Cultural), June 2009 [in Romanian]
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for Evenimentul Zilei, January 2009 [in Romanian]
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for Strada32.com, January 2009 [in Romanian]
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for The Florence Newspaper, August 2007 [in English]