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“Jan Patočka and the Tradition of ‘Socratic Death’,” The Australia and New Zealand Slavists' Association 2013 Conference, Macquarie University, Sydney, 4-5 February, 2013

“Philosophy as Performance,” Drama and Philosophy, Instituto de Filosofia da Linguagem, Lisbon, Portugal, 17-18 January, 2013.

"Not even death is what it used to be. Notes on a certain philosophical decadence.” Transcending Disciplinary Decadence. The Fourteenth International Forum on Contemporrary Theory, IIS Jaipur, India, 18-21 December, 2011.

“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.

“God’s Playground,” Cold War Cultures: Interdisciplinary and Transnational Perspectives, University of Texas at Austin (TX), September 30-October 3, 2010.

“Scapegoats, Martyrs, Founding Figures,” Explosive Past, Radiant Future – An International Colloquium, The Center for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, Canada, 18-20 March, 2010.

“Giordano Bruno’s Re-enchantment of Nature in La Cena delle ceneri,” The Annual Meeting of the North Texas Philosophical Association, University of North Texas, Denton, March 26-28, 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.

“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

“Berkeley and the Cathars,” George Berkeley: Religion and Science in the Age of Enlightenment, Gaeta, Italy, 27-29 September 2007"The 'terror of history' in Kieslowski’s Blind Chance," Rediscovering Polish Cinema: History – Ideology – Politics, University of Lodz, Poland, 23-25 September, 2006

"Philosophy as an Art of Dying," The Cave Hill Philosophy Symposium 2006, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, 2-3 March, 2006 [in absentia].

"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.

"'I was a stranger, and ye took me not in.' Deus ludens and theology of hospitality in Lars von Trier's Dogville," Eastern Devision Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, New York City (NY), 27-30 December, 2005 [in absentia]

"Jan Patočka’s Socratic Art of Dying," Thinking in/after Utopia, 27-30 October, 2005, Miami University, Oxford (OH)

"Between Job and the Grand Inquisitor. Patterns in divine trial in Lars von Trier's Dogville," Sacred Text, Sacred Film? Responsible Interpretations of Scriptures in Film and Popular Media, University of Central Florida, Orlando, 3-5 April, 2005

"Nature and Archetypal Knowledge in George Berkeley's Siris," The Nineteenth Annual DeBartolo Conference, University of South Florida, Tampa, 17-19 February, 2005.

"Using Sources and (almost) nothing else," Bâtir de nouveaux ponts: sources, méthodes et interdisciplinarité / Building New Bridges: Sources, Methods and Interdisciplinarity, May 8-9, 2003, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

“On George Berkeley as a Christian Apologist,” Society of Christian Philosophers, Eastern Regional Meeting, 4-7 December, 2003, Asbury College, Wilmore, Kentucky, USA.

"Berkeley's Educational Utopia", The Eleventh Quadrennial ISECS Congress on the Enlightenment, 3-10 August, 2003, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (paper awarded a Travel Fellowship by the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies).

"Platonism and Berkeley's Early Philosophical Writings," George Berkeley International Conference, 3-5 April, 2003, Texas A&M University, USA (see abstract).

"Unamuno and Self-Narration as Imitatio Dei," Annual Meeting of The Metaphysical Society of America, 7-8 March 2003, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.

"Philosophy as Palimpsest," Philosophy As… A Conference Exploring the Nature and the State of Philosophy, 28-30 November 2002, University of London, United Kingdom.

"Narrative and Personal Authenticity in Miguel de Unamuno," Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, September 11-14 2002, University College Cork, Cork, Republic of Ireland (paper awarded a "Graduate Bursary" by the SEP).

"Ordering Worlds and Minds: 'The Great Chain of Being' in Berkeley's Siris," Ordering the World in the 18th Century, "5th Conference of the North Western Section of The British Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies", September 12-13 2002, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK (paper awarded a "Graduate Bursary" by the BSECS).

"George Berkeley and the universal language of nature," The Book of Nature. Continuity and Change in European and American Attitudes towards the Natural World, 22-25 May, 2002, University of Groningen, The Netherlands.

"Lapis Philosophorum seu Medicina Universalis: Medication, Soteriology, and Symbolism in Medieval Alchemy," The 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, May 3-6 2002, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, USA (paper awarded a "Congress Travel Award" by the Kalamazoo Medieval Institute).

"George Berkeley: A Modern Alchemist?," Society Of Christian Philosophers, Central Division Meeting, March 7-9, 2002, Bethel College, St. Paul (MN), USA.

“The Island: an Ideal Place for Paradisiacal Nostalgias, Educational Utopias and Other Eschatological Enterprises,” The Ninth Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies, November 15-18 2001, Philadelphia, USA [in absentia].

"Communicating Paradigms," Universities of Durham and Bergen 2001 Philosophy Seminar, 27th-30th September 2001, University of Bergen, Norway.

"Matter as a Source of Evil in Berkeley and Catharism," Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness. The 2nd Global Conference, March 16 - 21 2001, Anglo-American College, Prague, Czech Republic.

"Some Remarks on the Ends of the World," Young Thought on the Threshold of the New Century, February 27-28, 2000, Urals Philosophical Society (Urals State University), Yekaterinburg, Russian Federation [in absentia].