Invited Lectures
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"On the Genius of a Nation: W. E. B. Du Bois in Berlin"
Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft, Berlin / Dartmouth College, October 2024
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“Questions of Method: Synchronizing and Anachronizing W. E. B. Du Bois”
Hegel (anti)kolonial workshop, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, November 2023
“The Movement of Power: W. E. B. Du Bois at the Opera”
Mississippi State University, Department of Classical and Modern Languages, April 2021
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“Reason Has Its Epochs: Schiller and the Logic of Closure in Hegel’s Phenomenology” (with Rebecca Comay as respondent)
New York University, German Department, May 2019
“The Voice of Time: Classical German Thought and the Ethics of Progress in W. E. B. Du Bois’s Souls of Black Folk”
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, W. E. B. Du Bois Center, February 2018; Montclair State University, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, January 2018
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“From Morphology to Structuralism: Goethe, Lévi-Strauss, and the Sciences of the Concrete”
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology, March 2017
“On Faust and The Souls of Black Folk: Goethe, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Ethics of Progress”
The College of William & Mary, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, February 2016
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Symposia, Panels, Workshops, and Reading Groups Organized
(selected)
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Race & Imperialism Reading Group (online)
Goethe Society of North America, 2021–present (founder and coordinator)
“Race Theory in Classical German Thought: Kant, Herder, Hegel”
German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, October 2018 (seminar co-convener with Sally Gray)
“Goethean Thought in the Twentieth Century”
Goethe Society of North America, University Park, PA, November 2017 (panel convener)
“Goethean Thought (1): Epistemology” and “Goethean Thought (2): Literature, Theater, Art”
German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, October 2017 (panel co-convener with Fritz Breithaupt)
Workshop on the history of morphology, structuralism, and anthropology
University of California, Berkeley, Department of Anthropology, March 2017 (conducted workshop)
“Goethean Thought: A Symposium”
UCLA, Department of Germanic Languages, November 2012 (conference convener)
“Blackness, Germany, and the Concept of Race”
UCLA, Department of Germanic Languages, April 2012 (conference convener)
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