Selected Presentations

Epimelesthai Sautou: Exercises in the Middle Voice
04-04-2025

Workshop Exercise: Forming Bodies, Selves, Disciplines, organized by Susan Morrow and Patrick Hohlweck, Princeton University

https://german.princeton.edu/whats-on/events/past/exercise-forming-bodies-selves-disciplines

Attention to the Sublime
02-07-2025

Guest Lecture at First Friday colloquium organized by the “Friends of Attention” Collective

https://friendsofattention.org/first-fridays-2025/

Nexus Rerum: Ecopoetics in the Eighteenth Century (Baumgarten, Brockes, Meier)
09-22-2023
Location:
Johns Hopkins University; RTH Aachen

Transatlantic Digital Workshop on Ecopoetics

This talk focuses on Alexander G. Baumgarten, who coined the term “aesthetics” in its modern sense and founded aesthetics as a new philosophical discipline around the middle of the eighteenth century. The talk shows that Baumgarten’s foundation of aesthetics involved motives that can be…

Nexus/Zusammenhang: Rethinking Interconnectivity with Leibniz (Workshop)
04-14-2023
Location:
Princeton University

Interdisciplinary workshop at Princeton University organized by Johannes Wankhammer with Alexandra Heimes (Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung, Berlin) and Ross Shields (ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry).

Alexander Baumgarten's Aesthetics of Connectivity
06-08-2022

Aesthetics and Idealism in the Age of Goethe, Conference of the…

Natur als Gelände: Vorübungen zu einer Ästhetik des Anthropozäns in Frischs Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän
04-15-2021
Alptraum(a): Alps, Summits and Borderlands in German-speaking Culture, Institute of Modern Languages Research
The Senses Do Judge: A. G. Baumgarten’s Theory of Aesthetic Judgment
04-07-2021
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting
Aesthetic Habitus: Baumgarten as a Theorist of Techniques of the Body
10-03-2019
German Studies Association Annual Convention, Seminar Contribution, Portland, OR
Working on Oneself: Enlightenment Disciplines of Attention
09-29-2018

German Studies Association Annual Convention, Pittsburgh, PA

Presented in a panel series on Work.Ethics (co-organized with Paul Fleming and Nathan Taylor)

The Nature of Critique
04-20-2018
The Binghamton University German Studies Colloquium -- BUGSC IX: News from Nature / Nachrichten aus der Natur