The Long Rise from Hell to (hopefully) Heaven. The Voyage of the Children from Limbo
Hungarian Academy of Sciences online workshop "Images of Hell, Images of Heaven: Can Pictures Alleviate Human Suffering?"
Lectures
Islands and Boats: (Lucid?) Meditations on a Stone Utopia and a Naval Heterotopia in the work of José Saramago
7th International José Saramago Conference “A herdanza filosófica e sociopolítica de José Saramago”, 26-29 October 2022, University of Vigo, Spain
The Beautiful/Sacred Game: the ambiguity of Soccer’s Sanctity
International Conference “The Refuge of Football”, English Department, University of Kiel, Germany.
The Importance of the Third Place. On the Emergence of Purgatory and its relevance today
International Colloquium “Mediaeval Theology and Spirituality, from the Perspective of Contemporary Theological Discourse”. Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
The Revenge of the Words
Guest Lecture. Department of Religious Studies, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa
The Revenge of the Words
Guest Lecture, Faculty of Theology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Dissecting Foucault. On his Use, Abuse, and necessary Centrifuge
Guest Lecture. Department of Sociology, University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
Until Death does not do us Part. Or on what the Afterlife can still Teach us Today
International Conference “Engaging the Contemporary 2019: The Philosophical Turn towards Religion”, 07-08 November 2019, University of Malta, Valetta, Malta
The Beauty of the (Wo)Men in Black. Why Football needs a Referee
International Conference “The Art of Football”, 04-05 July 2019, Technical University Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
The Dangerous Paradigm of the Afterlife
Keynote Lecture. 3rd Biennial Conference on Spirituality and Healthcare, 23-24 May 2019, The Centre for Confessional Ministry (University of Pretoria) and HospiVision, Pretoria, South Africa
Thinking Through the Afterlife
Guest Lecture. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
What HasN’t Athens to do with Jerusalem
Guest Lecture. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
The Dangerous Paradigm of the Afterlife
Keynote Lecture. 3rd Biennial Conference on Spirituality and Healthcare, 16-17 May 2019, The Centre for Confessional Ministry (University of Pretoria) and HospiVision, Cape Town, South Africa
There is no such Thing as ‘Continental Philosophy’
Guest Lecture. Philosophy Department Seminar, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Thinking Through the Afterlife
Guest Lecture. Philosophy Society, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
The Tale of a Medieval Heresy. A Philosophical Pleonasm
PICT Faculty Lectures IV. Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre, Paris, France
Knock Knock, Who’s There? On Various Forms of Attempted Interference between the Here and the After
International Conference “Imagining the Last Things”, 24-26 October 2018, British School, Rome, Italy
Soccer as a Parody of the World/Life
International Conference “Writing Football”, 12-14 July 2018, TU Dortmund, Germany
Le corps Chrétien du Footballeur
Workshop “Le corps du Footballeur”, organized by the France Focus of Innsbruck University, Austria and Reims University, France, held at Reims University
Giovani per sempre. Qualche considerazione sulla maturità e l’infanzia nella modernità
I° Congresso Internazionale di Filosofia “Antropologia, Pedagogia, Etica”, Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy
Round table Discussion: The Importance of Trivial Oppositions. The Narcissism of Minor Differences of Derby-team Fans
Beautiful Game Workshop, 13-15 July 2017, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA
Mental dyslexia. Or why good intentioned readings turn out terribly
The second Small Circle conference, 27th-29th November 2016, Basel, Switzerland
The Importance of Trivial Oppositions. The Narcissism of Minor Differences of Derby-team Fans
International Conference “The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in Transnational Perspective”, June 30-July 2 2016, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
La minorità ‘oltre-storica’. L’eredità Francescana secondo Michel Foucault
Incontro di Studio “Frontiere tra Francescanesimo e Filosofie Contemporanee”, 11 May 2016, Facoltà di Filosofia, Pontificia Università Antonianum, Rome, Italy
αἵρεσις. Some Essential Elements for the construction of an Archaeology of ‘Heresy/Sects’
International Conference “How to Act Together: From Collective Engagement to Protest”, 19-21 November 2015, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Philosophy, Theology, and Politics. The Recent Past and a Possible Way to the Future
First Small Circle conference “Religion and Society: Realism and Abstraction”, 27th-29th September 2015, Frankfurt, Germany
And the word turned once more to the flesh. Or on the various ‘theological turns’ in contemporary continental philosophy
International Conference "The Interplay between Theology and other Disciplines in Research and in Theological Education", 14th -16th April 2015, Faculty of Theology, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
The Power of the Void. On Sovereignty and Annihilation
Invited presentation at the ‘Kolloquium Politische Philosophie: Theorien und Kritiken der Souveränität’. University of Basel, Switzerland
Difficult Anonymity. The Masked Foucault
International Conference “Engaging Foucault”, 5th–7th December 2014, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, Serbia
The Situation is without hope but not serious. Some considerations on the non criticalness of the current manifold of crisis
Symposium of the Swiss Philosophical Association “Kritik und Krise – Critique and Crisis”, 5th-7th June 2014. University of St. Gall, Switzerland
I Shall Vote – Thou Shall not Govern. A Tale of Political Heresy
International Conference: “Challenges to Participation in Democracy”, 16th-17th May 2013. University of Lisbon, Portugal
Il condottiero del carro guerriero di Ares. O chi ha paura del postmodernismo?
Seminar “Post-Modern Culture and the Franciscan Way: Context and Perspectives”, 11th-13th July 2012 / 29th-31st January 2013. Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome, Italy
How Philosophical were the First Christians? The First Generation of Fathers seen through Archaeological Glasses
The Fourth British Patristics Conference, 5th – 7th September 2012, St. Luke’s Campus, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
A Critical Ricochet. Some Reflections on the Place of Philosophy in the University Institution
14th International Graduate Conference in Philosophy “PHILOSOPHY IN CRISIS”, 28 May 2011, University of Essex. Essex, UK
Philosophy as the in-between
Joint Conference of The Irish Philosophical Society and Mary Immaculate College “Writing Philosophy’s History”, 15th – 16th April 2011, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick. Limerick, Ireland
When Rats ate Crocodiles and Trees hated each other. On the necessary limitations of intercultural and interreligious dialogue
Guest Lecture. Morehead State University, Morehead, KY, USA
Philosophy as the in-between
Presentation Seventh Annual Prize Essay Competition in European Philosophy from Kant to the Present. Question: How is Doing Philosophy Related to Doing the History of Philosophy? University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
Bullying the ‘Nerd’ or the Bullying ‘Nerd’, Abuse of Power and Manipulation in Higher Education
2nd Global Conference “Bullying and the Abuse of Power: from playground to international relations”, 8th – 10th November 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
The (bad) Example of the University
1st Global Conference “Bullying and the Abuse of Power: From the Playground to International Relations”, 6th – 8th November 2009, Salzburg, Austria
Is secularization cause of the ‘crisis’ of the university?
International Interdisciplinary conference “'A Secular Age': Tracing the Contours of Religion and Belief”, 8th – 11th June 2009, Mater Dei Institute of Education, City University Dublin. Dublin, Ireland
The Laughing Sisyphus
International Conference “DEUS RIDENS – The Redemptive Power of Humor in Religion”, 20th – 21st April 2009, University of Antwerp. Antwerp, Belgium
The empty space where God used to be
Roundtable discussion, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, UK
History’s helping hand – Towards a new understanding of the crisis in the ‘humanities’
Work-in-progress Seminar, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK