recent presentations

"need or gift?  ebreo and levinas on love," renaissance society of america, march 19-21, 2009, ucla and the getty museum, los angeles (panel on "leone ebreo's dialoghi:  new perspectives") (forthcoming)

"glory and the sacred," north american levinas society (nals), september 2, 2008, seattle university (forthcoming)

"the eternal and the new:  socrates and levinas on desire and need," levinas research seminar, université de montréal,
montreal, quebec, canada, may 16-18, 2008

comment on "taking responsibilities seriously:  levinas and human rights" by scott davidson, levinas research seminar,
mcmaster university, hamilton, ontario, canada, march 23-25, 2007

"the eternal and the new:  socrates and levinas on desire and need," department colloquium, department of philosophy, university of nevada, reno, september 18, 2006  |  "corinne painter on aristotle and animals," a comment on "a critical appropriation of aristotle's conception of the non-moral status of the animal," ancient philosophy society, depaul university, chicago, april 20-22, 2006

discussion leader, silvia benso's "levinas:  another ascetic priest?",  levinas research seminar, assumption college, worcester, massachusetts, september 24, 2005  |  "plato and levinas on freedom:  an encounter," iapl (international association for philosophy and literature), helsinki, finland, june 6, 2005 (organized session entitled "levinas encountering the ancients")

discussion of hermann cohen's ethics of maimonides, cpjc,  (society for continental philosophy in a jewish context), october 30, 2004