Princeton University

Expanses of Thought: Space Among Kant, Husserl, Heidegger, Stanford University Press (Cultural Memory in the Present), forthcoming.

“’Finally Learning to Walk by Falling a Few Times:’ Kant’s Gait and the King’s Gout,” in Eighteenth-Century Studies, forthcoming.

“Nigún libro es también una escalera. 3 x Kant zu Babel” in Aris Fioretos / Urs Engeler (eds.), Babel: Festschrift für Werner Hamacher (Basel: Urs Engeler, 2008).

“Herrschaftszeiten! Theopolitical Profanities in the Face of Secularization,” in New German Critique 35:3 (105), Fall 2008.

“Diesseitswunder: Franz Kafka as Political Saint,” Journal of the Kafka Society of America 30:1-2 (2006).

"Malediction and Verheißung: Jacob Taubes's Pauline Curses," AJS, Los Angeles, December 2009. Organized Session on "Jacob Taubes's Political Theology in Light of His Relationship to Carl Schmitt."

"Kafka Among the Parables: The Toils of Interpretation," GSA, Washington D.C., October 2009. Organized Session on "Interpretive Standoffs: Modern Prose Beyond Parable and Paradox."

"Engraving the Sandmen: E. T. A. Hoffmann and the Romantic Legacies of the Counter-Enlightenment,” NASSR, Duke University, May 2009.

"Terrors of Theater: Alain Badiou Rhapsodizing the Berliner Schaubühne," ACLA, Harvard University, March 2009.

"Urgründe: On Joseph de Maistre's Disappearance in Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Theory," Princeton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs (LAPA), Constitutional Law Advanced Workshop, December 2008.

"No Time for History: The Spoils of 1977," New York University, November 2008.

“’Durch einigemal Fallen wohl endlich gehen lernen:’ Kant’s Gait and the King’s Gout,” GSA, St. Paul, October 2008. 

“Futures Past 1977: Historical Time Beyond Non-Contemporaneity (Bloch, Schmitt, Koselleck),” international conference on “Time Beyond Borders,” Jerusalem/Haifa, July 2008. 

“Time Past the Messiah: Taubes, Koselleck, Derrida,” ACLA, Long Beach, April 2008.

“Biopower and Suicide: Michel Foucault and Jean Améry on the Right to Take One’s Own Life,” GSA, San Diego, October 2007. 

“Literature and Its Image: The Survival of Manuscript,” international conference on “Remediating Literature,” Utrecht University, June 2007. 

“Between Figure and Formula: Ernst Meister’s Semio-Ontological Splits,” MLA, Philadelphia, December 2006. 

“’Es darf natürlich keine einfache Schrift sein.’ In medias res fac simile!” conference “Für Alle und Keinen: Lektüre, Schrift und Leben bei Nietzsche und Kafka” at the Nietzsche-Kolleg Weimar, October 2006. 

“Eppur non si muove: The Post-Copernican Returns of Phenomenology,” ACLA, Princeton University, March 2006. 

“Diesseitswunder: Franz Kafka as Political Saint,” Kafka Society of America / MLA, Washington D.C., December 2005. 

“Jewish Political Theology in Times of War: Max Brod and Franz Rosenzweig,” AJS, Washington D.C., December 2005. Organized special session on “Apologetic Thinking: Max Brod, Franz Rosenzweig, Jacob Taubes.”  

“The Curse of Secularization: Carl Schmitt’s Theopolitical Profanities,” Department of German, Northwestern University, April 2005.