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Papers Read (174)

Keynote addresses, distinguished or visiting professorships (12) top

• “3Diocy,” keynote at “The Digital Generation: self-representation, urban mythology and cultural practices” international conference. Babeş-Bolyai Univ, Cluj, Sept. 17, 2011
• “Don’t Preach, Teach!”, keynote address, the ninth RATE (Romanian Associations of Teachers of English) conference, Bucharest, Nov. 2, 2008
• “Anthropomorphine revisited,” debate at the “Phantasma” Center for Imagination Studies, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, May 31, 2007
• “Don Global in the Stands: Soccer vs. American Football. A cultural-studies approach to two models of globalization,” visiting professorship, University of Sydney, April 30, 2007
• “Saited cities. From city walls to scare quotes. Biely’s St. Petersburg and Borges’ Buenos Aires,” same as above, May 2, 2007
• “The Mechanics of Revolution. Revolution as parricide, infanticide and suicide in Kant, Sade, Büchner, Michelet, and Lenin,” same as above, May 3, 2007
• “The Fist of Risk (2),” Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Distinguished Visiting Speaker, Jan. 26, 2006
• “Deleuze and Counting,” University of Calgary, Distinguished Research Visiting Fellow, Jan., 25, 2006
• “I Dent, therefore We Are,” “Identity and Community” conference, UWO, May 25, 2005
• “Ball&. Rituals of violent ricochets.” Distinguished speaker series address, Humanities Research Group, University of Windsor, Jan. 23, 2004
• “Ten Pieces of Advice for Writers Young and Not So Young,” round-table with Carlos Fuentes, Brown University, April 18, 2001
• “Antithesis and Prosthesis. Undialectical arming.” Keynote address at the “Compare This!” graduate student colloquium, U. of Toronto, April 13, 2000

Papers Read (138) top

• “Babelante,” Festival of European Poetry at the Guadalajara International Book Fair; with David LeBreton (France), and Magnus William-Olsson (Sweden); moderator Sandra Lorenzano (Argentina), FIL, Guadalajara, Nov, 29, 2011
• “Vividolence.” Theory sessions, CSTC, UWO, Oct. 28, 2011 (respondents Adina Arvatu and Leo Stan)
• “From Split Hairs to Split Seconds.” “Rereading Faces. Matei Călinescu and the Fates of Comparative Literature” conference. UWO, Oct. 22, 2011
• “Legitimacy without a Law.” “Legitimation of Literature in Totalitarian Regimes” international conference. Transilvania University of Braşov, Romania, June 17, 2011
• “Out of Guilt. Digital Musings on Intercoloniality.” “Re-writing/Re-memory: History Reflected in Literature at the Junction of the Colonial/Postcolonial” conference. University of Lisbon, June 7, 2011
• “Suppose Crisis Were a Woman: Then What?” “VIII Forum-România: Leben mit der Krise, ” RCI/University of Vienna, Nov. 26, 2010
• “Small and Kicking.” “European Visions. Small Cinemas in Transition” conference, UWO, June 29-July 2, 2010
• “Tov. Nimic” (Comrade Nothing). “Tradition vs. Communism” colloquium. Sighet (Romania) Memorial of the Victims of Communism, May 28, 2010
• “Criză, monşer! Dar literatura?” (How’s literature faring in times of crisis, dear?). University of Baia Mare, May 27. 2010
• “Fraternity, Modernity.” MLL colloquium series, UWO, April 1, 2010
• “The Re-enchantment of the World.” Public lecture opening the course “Verbal Magic,” UWO, Jan. 14, 2010
• “Ionesco: Mind as a Second Language.” Colgate University, N.Y., Nov. 10, 2009
• “Sensorship.” Comparative Literature Forum, UWO, Oct. 1, 2009
  
• “Watch, Bond, but Don't Touch!” ICLA Literary Theory Committee Workshop, “The Aesthetization of Emotion,” University of Sydney, June, 14, 2009
• “Securing What? The Romanian Securitate twenty years after (and counting).” Plenary address at “The Ghosts of the Past: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Communism in Eastern Europe.”  University of East London, Docklands Campus, June 11, 2009
• “Slowlidarity.” “Children of the Revolution - SOLIDARITY/Solidarities” conference, University College, London UK, June 6, 2009
• “Ave, victi!” Colloquy “Comunismul în oglinda celor 20 de ani” (Communism in the mirror of the last twenty years). Memorialul Victimelor Comunismului şi a Rezistenţei Anticomuniste, Sighet, Romania, May 29, 2009
• “Literaturile emergente în era eclipsei scrisului” (Emergent literatures in the age of the eclipse of writing), Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, May 21, 2009
• “Muntele şi arhipelagul. Literatura română în două oglinzi” (The mountain and the archipelago. Romanian literature between two mirrors). Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest, May 20, 2009
• First Cry, then Kiss (Brancusi’s early work at the AGO; a trilingual performance in language sculpture). Art Gallery of Ontario, March 1, 2009
• Film presentations, Q&A, Second Romanian Film Festival in Toronto, Feb. 13-15, 2009
• “Equistasis.” Public lecture opening the graduate course “Mysticism and Literature,” Comparative Literature program, UWO, Jan. 8, 2009
• “Defeated Generals.” MLA Convention, Session 287, “Romania in the Cold War Culture,” San Francisco, December 28, 2008
• “Despre captivitatea limbii” (On the captivity of language), Faculty of Letters, Bucharest U., Nov.4, 2008
• “Sell Caragiale. Buy Wilde,” workshop, the ninth RATE conference, Bucharest, Nov. 2, 2008
• “The Battle of the Brands,” “National Literatures in the Age of Globalization. The Issue of the Canon,” Faculty of Letters, U. of Bucharest, Oct. 31, 2008
• “How to get a doctorate in the Bologna climate,” University of Timişoara, Oct. 25, 2008
• “(E)migraţie fără exil” ((Em)migration without exile), University of Baia Mare, Oct. 23, 2008
• “E-vent” Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Oct. 17, 2008
• “Agape erotice” (Eros and consumption),” Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Oct. 15, 2008
• “Writing, reading and teaching literature across the borders,” RCI, New York, Sept. 26, 2008
• “Superbia, Suburbia.” “Responding to Cosmopolitanism: the new identities of literary theory” Annual Colloquium of the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, Ljubljana, June 6, 2008
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• “Nowthing,” Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, UWO, March 4, 2008
• “Film and Complit,” Comparative Literature Graduate Student Union, Centre for Comparative Literature, U. of Toronto, Feb. 29, 2008
• “Traumart,” panel “Apocalypse – Now what? Art after political trauma,” with Adrian Blackwell, Gerald McMaster, Mario DiPaulantonio; moderator Georgiana Uhlyarik (AGO). Mercer Union, Toronto, Jan. 31, 2008 http://www.akimbo.biz/exhibitions/index.php?id=9549
• “The Fates on Comparative Literature,” Comparative Literature Department, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania, May 30, 2007
• “L i t & r a r e t é, “  “Le savoir – qu’est-ce que la littérature en sait?” atelier, Département de littérature comparée, Université de Montréal, April 16, 2007
• “How We Are Untranslatable and How Nobody’s There to Care,” “Turning Tables and Tapestries…” The New York Literary Translation Festival, Nov. 17, 2006
• “Globalkanism for the Weak, the Strong, and the Yankee,” idem, Nov. 18, 2006
• “An Astrocentric Universe,” Umeå University, Sweden, June 9, 2006
• Panelist, round table “Eclipse,” The Eighth Annual Graduate Student Conference, Modern Languages Dept., UWO, April 8, 2006
• “Le­­­___ point de Dieu,” Université de Montréal, March, 2006
• “Do Numbers Count?,” Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, Jan. 26, 2006
• “The Fist of Risk (1),” Universiteit van Amsterdam, Oct. 27, 2005
• “Une théorie approximative de la cérémonie,” Colloque international « La cérémonie : entre le protocolaire et l’intime », UWO, Oct. 7, 2005
• “I cannot find the labyrinth. Borges disoriented.” University of Copenhagen, April 27, 2005
• “Ego West! The Essay as Travel and Exile in María Zambrano and E.M. Cioran.” Brown University, April 22, 2005
• “Sí, sí,” intervention, the panel “Wear on No NO,” UWO, April 8, 2005
• “Lottophysics.” “Gambling Theory” conference, UWO, 15 Oct. 2004
• “Sketchy entropology,” “The Most Dangerous Thing” round table at the “Gambling Theory” conference, UWO, 13 Oct. 2004
• “A void. Elements of a baroque political theology.” “Is It Baroque?/¿Es esto (el) barroco?” colloquium, UWO, March 12, 2004
• Panelist, “Small, smaller, gone…” round table. The Sixth Annual Graduate Student Conference, “On Things Atomic,” UWO, February 14, 2004
• “Language and fragrance.” University of Windsor, Jan. 23, 2004
• Panelist, “Ed Said: Even with the Odds” round table. UWO, 14 Nov., 2003
• “Pax atlantica. TransA para noniños.” “Crítica y literatura: América latina sin fronteras” conference, U.N.A.M., Mexico City, May 7, 2003
• Borges à quatre mains et à deux voix. A Dialogue with Matei Călinescu” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 1/2002-03), Modern Languages Dept., UWO, Nov. 11, 2002
• “Globalkanism.” “The Balkans: Mapping Identities (18th –21st c.)” Nexus conference, Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Oct. 18, 2002
• “Transatlantiquidades.” The Transatlantic Seminar, Modern Languages Dept., UWO, Oct. 4, 2002
• “The I-doll. Fourth person and grace in Kleist.” ICLA Conference, U. Georgia, Athens, June 7, 2002
• “History: a ménage à trois,” Romanian Cultural Center, New York City, Apr. 22, 2002
• “Melticulturalism & the Second World” Central European University, Budapest, March 5, 2002
• Panelist, round table “To the Bone (limits of consumption)”; the “Tasty Texts and Litterature: Discourses on Consumption,” UWO, Feb. 15, 2002
• Panelist, round table “Terror, War & Blind TV” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 1/2001-02. Modern Languages Department, UWO, Nov. 15, 2001
• “Cannibals, Voyeurs, and Critics,” Public lecture opening the Fundamentals of Comparative Literature course, UWO, Modern Languages Dept., Sept 25, 2001
• “Renaissance Hermeticism and the Origins of Hermeneutics,” Spanish Department, Brown University, April 19, 2001
• “Get the West Out of Here! Globalization in Eastern Europe,” Penn State University, Comparative Literature Department, April 17, 2001
• “Myth and Habit,” Penn State University, Comparative Literature Department, April 16, 2001
• Panelist, round table “Techno: When and How?” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 2/2000-01; Modern Languages Department, UWO, March 27, 2001
• Panelist, round table “Death of Literature,” The Third Annual Graduate Student Conference, Modern Languages Dept., UWO, February 9, 2001
• Panelist, round table “The State as Textual Shifter” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 1/2000-01). Modern Languages Department, UWO, February 7, 2001
• “Imagine This, as That Shall Happen. Recent Twists in the Romanian Cultural Imaginary.” Romanian Cultural Center, New York City, Nov. 17, 2000
• “Texts Made of Texts. Literary History in Borges.” Introductory public lecture to the “Borges and Intertextuality” graduate course, UWO, September 15, 2000
• “No Analogy. Patterns of Thought in Comparative Literature.” Introductory public lecture to the “Fundamentals of Comparative Literature” graduate course, UWO, September 12, 2000
• “Hermeneutical Supplements and Prostheses.” Dept. of Modern Languages, U. of Cape Town, August 21, 2000
• “A Last Word.” The 16th Congress of the ICLA, UNISA, Pretoria, August 18, 2000
• “Complit Is What?” The 16th Congress of the ICLA, UNISA, Pretoria, August 14, 2000
• “Anthropomorphine.” Modern Languages Department Colloquia, UWO, March 14, 2000
• “The Consequence of Its Consequences.” “Deconstruction Reading Politics” conference, Staffordshire University, Stoke on Trent, UK, July 26, 1999
• “Donner la main (le petit doigt y compris).” “La Main/The Hand” conference, French Department, UWO, March 19, 1999
• “Sniffiers: Fragrance and Language Proper.” Modern Languages Department Colloquia, UWO, March 16, 1999
• Panelist, round table “Suffering and Irony: two modes of knowledge” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 1/1998-9, Modern Languages Department, UWO, December 2, 1998
• “Exile Ain’t the Same.” 18th ICLA conference. U. of Athens, Greece, Nov. 10, 1998
• “Holes in the Map. Lapses in Central-European Literatures.” U. of Georgia, Athens, Oct. 2, 1998
• Rapporteur et participant, table ronde, “Règles du genre et inventions du génie au XIXe siècle” colloquium. UWO, September 19, 1998
• “The Fiction of Plenty. Romanian Culture and the Production of Lack.” The “Romanian Culture in the Western Context” conference. University of Vienna, May 7, 1998
• “Point of View and Departure. Narratology on the Cutting Edge.” Dept. of Romanian Literature, U. of Bucharest, May 5, 1998
• “In the Event.” The “Histories of Theory” conference, Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, UWO, April 18, 1998
• Panelist, the round table “Exitographies. Style and Life” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 3/1997-8). Modern Languages Department, UWO, March 31, 1998
• “Magic Framing in the Renaissance.” The “Frame and Framing in Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Culture,” UWO, March 7, 1998
• Panelist, round table “The Turn of the Lyric Screw” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 2/1997-8). Modern Languages Department, UWO, December 2, 1997
• Panelist, round table “To Swear and Protect” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 1/1997-8). Modern Languages Department, UWO, Oct. 28, 1997
• “Deleuzian Mappings of Central Europe.” Workshop “A Comparative History of East-Central European Literatures.” The 15th Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association, U. of Leiden, the Netherlands, August 20, 1997
• Various interventions at round-tables, improvisations, and brainstorming sessions at the Conference “The Future of the Humanities in Europe and the Americas,” U. of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, July 29-August 1, 1997
• Panelist, round table “Translation without Excuses” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 2/1996-7). Modern Languages Department, UWO, March 15, 1997
• “Noostalgy.” Intervention at the “Melancholia” round table.  Massey College, U. of Toronto, Nov. 28, 1996
• Panelist, round table “Playing with Pale Fire” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 1/1996-7). Modern Languages Department, UWO, Nov. 6, 1996
• “Utopian Spaces and Places.” Centre for Comparative Literature, U. of Toronto, March 29, 1996
• “Julian the Administrator. Knowledge Displaced in the Academia.” Modern Languages Department Colloquia, UWO, March 26, 1996
• “Teresa in nuce. Visions in Avila.” AATSP Colloquium. UWO, March 23, 1996
• Panelist, the “Interdisciplinary Studies and/in the Faculty of Arts: Where to from here?” panel, UWO, March 12, 1996
• Panelist, round table “Fragments in Romanticism” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 4/1995-6). Modern Languages Department, UWO, March 6, 1996
• “Eye~I~Aye. The Emergence of Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry.” “The Past at Present” conference, UWO, March 2, 1996
• Panelist, round table “Don Quixote, Sancho, and Bakhtin” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 3/1995-6). Modern Languages Department, UWO, Jan. 24, 1996
• Panelist, round table “The Non-Concept of Tragedy” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 2/1995-6). Modern Languages Department, UWO, Nov. 29, 1995
• Panelist, round table “The Emergence of the Aesthetic: Kant, Benjamin, Bakhtin,” (Tables-rondes sans fondements, 1/1995-6). Modern Languages Department, UWO, Nov. 1, 1995
• Final report and conclusions,  international colloquium “Le discours scientifique comme porteur de préjugés?/Scientific Discourse as Prejudice-Carrier?” French Department, UWO, Oct. 8, 1995
• Panelist, round table, “What Limits of Interdisciplinarity?” “Comparables. Limits of Interdisciplinarity in Contemporary Critical Discourses,” UWO, Sept. 30, 1995; with Dominic LaCapra, Linda Hutcheon, Brian Massumi and Tilottama Rajan
• “Desimaginación en fray Juan de la Cruz.” The 12th Congress of the International Association of Hispanists, U. of Birmingham, U.K., August 22, 1995
• “The Cooling of Bodies in Seventeenth-Century Scientific Thought.” Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria College, U. of Toronto, March 20, 1995
• “Mêmème. Précis (d’)amour.” “L’Imaginaire de la théorie” colloquium, French Department, UWO, March 19, 1995
• “Ritual at the Birth of Kitsch.” The Cultural Work of Ritual, Symbol, and the Other Conference, UWO, February 11, 1995
• “Organism Delivering a Body.” Modern Languages Department Colloquia, UWO, February 7, 1995
• “The Relevance of Rhetoric for Literary Studies.” Centre for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, January 16, 1995
• “Concept and concepto. Signs and Exchange in Baltasar Gracián.” MLA Convention, San Diego, December 27, 1994
• Panelist, round table “Mist is Coming to America (On The Cloud of Unknowing and “The Dark Night of the Soul”).” Modern Languages Department, UWO, November 10, 1994
• “A Taste for Grammar: Gracián’s Rhetoric.” International Colloquium “Ars rhetorica,” UWO, October 21, 1994
• “Dasterben. The Subject of Death in Foucault.” International Congress/Congrès international “Michel Foucault and Literature/Michel Foucault et la littérature,” Victoria College, U. of Toronto, October 16, 1994
• “Via negativa: Criticism and Theology.” Future Perspective in Literary Studies Forum, UWO, April 26, 1994
• “La brújula ebria. De Borges.” AATSP conference, Glendon College, York U., March 26, 1994
• “Space in No-Time. More’s Utopia.” The ‘Crossing the Boundaries/Franchir les disciplines: conference, UWO, March 12, 1994
• “Counting: Money and Stories.” Dept. of Modern Languages colloquia, UWO, February 16, 1994
• “Cortesano y cartesiano. Baltasar Gracián vivo en su Criticón.” Conferencia de la AATSP, UWO, October 30, 1993
• “Kafka and Derrida.” Department of Comparative Literature, U. of Bucharest, May 15, 1993
• “Auto-Bio-Graphein. St Teresa’s Life.” Department of Modern Languages, UWO, March 24, 1993
• “Hypnothesis on Death.” Victoria College, U. of Toronto, January 26, 1993
• “On Classical Romanian Literature.” Department of Modern Languages, UWO, Nov. 2, 1992
• “On Poststructuralism.” Dept. of Literary Theory, U. of Bucharest, July 1, 1992
• “Surfacing Image. St John of the Cross’ Spiritual Canticle on the Threshold of Modernity.” Department of Modern Languages, UWO, April 30, 1992
• “Opposition and Otherness in 17th-Century Mystical Literature.” Department of English, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, March 2, 1992
• “Le Mémorial de Pascal.” French, Spanish and Italian Dept., U. of Calgary, Feb. 8, 1992
• “Immemorabilia. Memory and Ecstasy in 16th-century Spanish Mystical Accounts.”  “Semiotics of Culture. A Conference in Honor of V.V. Ivanov,” Victoria College, March 8, 1991
• “Catchpenny Mysticism.” Centre for Comparative Literature, U. of Toronto, Feb. 20, 1991
• “The Media and the War.” Panel. Victoria College, U. of Toronto, January 30, 1991
• “Corpus Mysticum. Theological Aspects of Postmodern Critical Theory.” Literary Studies Week, Victoria College, U. of Toronto, January 28, 1991
• “Squaring Circles in Spy Novels. On John Le Carré.” Centre for Comparative Literature, U. of Toronto, October 15, 1990
• “Instituţia geniului” (the Institution of the Genius) The 15th Congress of the Romanian-American Academy of Science, Université de Montréal, June 14, 1990
• “Kitsch and Politics.” Centre for Comparative Literature Graduate Students Colloquium, U. of Toronto, May 15, 1990
• “Contemporary Romanian Poetry.” Centre for Comparative Literature, U. of Toronto, March 21, 1990
• “Le style de Cioran.”  “E.M. Cioran international symposium,” Bochum University, Feb. 8, 1987

Public addresses (27) top

• Discussion group leadership, “Literary Theory and the Sciences” workshop, Ludwig Maximilian Universität, Munich, June 30 June - July 2, 2011, organized by the ICLA Committee on Literary Theory, in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Studies (CASLMU)
• Book launching, Bogdan Ghiu, Countercrisis and Dadasein (Bucharest, Cartea românească, 2011), Cărtureşti/Verona bookstore, Bucharest, June 28, 2011
• Book launching, Pia Brânzeu (ed.), Space in Anglo-American Literatures, Timişoara, June 24, 2011
• Various film presentations, “The Fourth Annual Romanian Film Festival” in Toronto, May 21-22, 2011
• Response to Aarnoud Rommens’ “Antropofagia,” CSTC, UWO, Dec. 2, 2010
• “Matching Words.2” A poetry translation workshop with Nina Cassian. RCINY, New York City, June 25, 2010
• “Perishable Landscapes,” School of Landscape Architecture, Univ. of Bucharest, June 10, 2010
• “Matching Words.1” A poetry translation workshop with Nina Cassian. RCINY, New York City, May 11, 2010
• Response to Aileen House’s “Noir & Violence,” CSTC, UWO, March 15, 2010
• Panel organizer and participant, “Adapt-a-script,” “The Third Annual Romanian Film Festival” in Toronto / Royal Ontario Museum; with Jenny Punter, Tudor Giurgiu, and Adam Nayman, Feb. 4, 2010
• Various film presentations, “The Third Annual Romanian Film Festival” in Toronto, Feb. 5-7, 2010
• “In Memoriam: Matei Calinescu.” Romanian Cultural Institute, New York City, July 10, 2009
• “What to translate and how?” Workshop, Romanian Cultural Institute Translation Program, Bucharest, May 19, 2009
• “The Forgiven Submarine and Its Soulful Engineers.” On Ruxandra Cesereanu's and Andrei Codrescu's Forgiven Submarine (Boston: Black Widow Books, 2009); Romanian Cultural Institute, New York City, April 14, 2009
• La locura en el Quijote. Visiting lecture in the “Don Quijote” graduate class, Spanish program, UWO, March 23, 2009
• First Cry, then Kiss (Brancusi’s early work at the AGO; a bilingual performance in language sculpture). Art Gallery of Ontario, March 1, 2009 http://www.ago.net/First-Cry-then-Kiss-on-Brancusi; also a video project by Seb Campeanu: http://vimeo.com/3983338
• Introduction, presentations & QA, Second Romanian Film Festival in Toronto, Bloor Cinema & Innis College,Feb. 13-15, 2009 http://www.toroartsgroup.com/
• Book launch, Eu(l) artistul. Viaţa după supravieţuire (The Artist(ic) I. Life after survival; Bucharest: Cartea românească, 2008), by Bogdan Ghiu, Bucharest: “Club A,” May 29, 2008
• Book launch, Foxtrot XX (Bucharest: Cartea românească, 2008) by Răzvan Petrescu, Bucharest: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, May 21, 2008
  “Playing the Piano on the East River. A dialogue with Nina Cassian.” Romanian Cultural Institute, New York City, March 14, 2008
• Introduction, presentations & QA, “The First Annual Romanian Film Festival in Toronto,” Innis College, U. of Toronto, Feb. 1-3, 2008
• Panelist & presenter, “Romanian Cinema – the Golden Age” (The 2nd edition of the Romanian Film Festival in New York), Tribeca Cinemas, Dec. 1-3, 2007
• Book launch, Supa de ceapă/Soupe à l’oignon (Timişoara: Brumar, 2007), by Ioana Crăciunescu; The Bookarest fair, Bucharest, June 7, 2007
• “The Present as a One Sec Stand,” Tribeca Cinemas, NYC, Dec. 2 and 3, 2006
• “On contemporary Latin American Literature.” The “Carte şi arte” festival, Bucharest, “Piaţa universalităţii,” Aug. 7, 2003
• “Saintly Sacredness and a Cross-Eyed Fish,” Romanian Cultural Center, New York City, May 7, 2001
• “La force des poètes mal-armés.” Glendon College, York U., Toronto, March 10, 1990

N.b.: Approximately fifteen papers read at various congresses, conferences, symposia and colloquia of the Romanian Academy (Institutes of Linguistics, Literary History, Folklore and Psychology), national congresses of Romanian folklorists and anthropologists

 

TV WORK top

• “Ecran ’n ecran” (A Screen within a Screen). Six episodes of a TV-dialogue series with North American Romanian intellectual celebrities produced by the New York Romanian Cultural Institute (Spring, 2007) and broadcast by the Romanian National Television (TVR1) in Feb.-March, 2008 (Feb. 1, 15, 22, 29; Mar. 6, 11), and re-broadcast by TVR International (June 12 - July 17, 2008)
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WORKS IN PROGRESS (books only) top

• Poezoo
• Gambling Theory, ed., introduction and critical apparatus
• The Book of Points. A Ballet of Ricochets
• Deunamor
• Hypnotheses. Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Art
• The Age of Borges
• Tetra-Logia