Conference Papers and Invited Lectures

    1. ‘Demanding History’, plenary paper to OLR/Southampton conference on history and post- structuralism, 1983
    2. ‘The Perfect Cheat: Locke and Empiricism’s Rhetoric’, paper to Leeds conference ‘The Literal and the Figural’, 1984
    3. ‘Post’, Westfield College Anglo-French conference on literary theory, 1984
    4. ‘Of Colleges and Philosophy’, discussion with Jacques Derrida, ICA, London, November 1985
    5. ‘Politiques de la poste, ou la pensée “post-”’ lecture to Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, February 1986; revised version forms part of Dudding
    6. ‘“Ces petits différends”: Lyotard and Horace’, closing plenary paper to ‘Judging Lyotard’ conference, University of Warwick, 1987
    7. ‘La théorie dans tous ses états’, University of California, Irvine conference, ‘The States of Theory’, 1987 (unpublished)
    8. ‘The Rationality of Postmodern Relativity’, 1987 Architectural Association conference, ‘The Relative and the Rational’ (revised version including 10.9 below included in 1.5 above)
    9. ‘Deconstruction and the Postmodern’, International Symposium on Deconstruction, Tate Gallery, March 1988
    10. ‘Towards a Criticism of the Future’, plenary paper delivered to 1988 IAPL conference, University of Warwick
    11. ‘Le droit de citer’, paper to Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, March 1989, conference on quotation (unpublished)
    12. ‘La traversée de la frontière’, ‘Journées du collège’ conference, Collège international de philosophie, Paris, March 1989 (unpublished)
    13. ‘Frontiers’, Architectural Association conference, ‘Nationality and Nationalism in Architecture’, London,  May 1989 (unpublished)
    14. ‘Frontiers: Rousseau, Kant and Perpetual Peace’, paper delivered to the Finnish University English Departments’ ‘Language and Power’ conference, Tampere, March 1990, and to the Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, September 1990 (unpublished)
    15. ‘Mosaïque: politiques et frontières de la déconstruction’, Colloque de Royaumont, ‘En hommage à Jacques Derrida’, December 1990
    16. ‘Membranes’, Freud Museum ‘Speculations’ series, February 1991
    17. ‘Politics and Frontiers of Deconstruction’, ICA conference on Enlightenment and Tradition, February 1991 (unpublished)
    18. ‘Democratising Democracy’, ‘Borderlines’ conference, University of Sussex, March 1991 (unpublished)
    19. ‘Because the World is Round’, Georges Bataille International Symposium, London, May 1991
    20. ‘La chienne’, International Colloquium on Baudelaire’s Prose Poetry, University of Sussex, May 1991
    21. ‘After the event’, ‘Afterwords’ conference, Columbia University School of Architecture, New York, November 1991
    22. ‘The Frontier: Between Kant and Hegel’, paper to ‘A very, very new idea of Enlightenment...’ conference, Utrecht, December 1991
    23. ‘La frontière infranchissable’, opening plenary paper to ‘La traversée des frontières’ conference, Cerisy-la-Salle, July 1992
    24. ‘Less than Zero: l’Age Nouvel’, paper to ICA conference on Jean Nouvel, London, May 1993
    25. ‘Lecture: de Georges Bataille’, paper to ‘Bataille après tout’ conference, Orléans, November 1993
    26. ‘Derrida and Lyotard: Different Singularities’, paper to ‘Lyotard: Onmenselijkheid en Sensibiliteit’ conference, Utrecht, January 1994
    27. ‘Lyotard and “the jews”’, paper to ‘Culture, Modernity and the “Jew”’ conference, Birkbeck College, University of London, May 1994
    28. ‘Pour le temps, contre (le) temps’, paper given at launch of journal Le Contretemps, Paris, February 1995
    29. ‘X’, keynote address to ‘Applied Derrida’ conference, University of Luton, July 1995
    30. ‘De la fiction transcendentale’, plenary paper to ‘Passions de la littérature’ conference, Université de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, July 1995
    31. ‘R.I.P.’, plenary paper to ‘Futures’ conference, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, September 1995, repeated as keynote address at ‘The Criticism of the Future’ conference, University of Kent at Canterbury, July 1997
    32. ‘Frontiers of Literature and Philosophy’, professorial lecture, University of Sussex, June 1996 (Culture Machine, 2 (2000) [unpaginated e-journal] at http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk)
    33. ‘Inter’, plenary paper to ‘Post-theory’ conference, University of Glasgow, July 1996
    34. ‘Circanalyse’, paper to ‘Depuis Lacan’ conference, Cerisy-la-Salle, July 1996
    35. ‘A Life in Philosophy’ (with Jacques Derrida), discussion at ‘Thinking Lives’ conference, New York University, October 1996
    36. ‘Transcendental Force and Moral Necessity’, All Souls College, Oxford, January 1997 (unpublished)
    37. ‘Other Headings’, paper to the ‘Future of Europe’ conference, University of Kent at Canterbury, February 1997
    38. ‘Shelf Life: Virtual Death in William Gibson’, paper to ‘Phantom FX’ conference, University of Stirling, May 1997, shorter version given to 3o Congreso Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, Lisbon, March 1998 (see 44 below)
    39. ‘Faire Semblant’, plenary paper to the 50th Anniversary conference of the Society for French Studies, Paris, September 1997 (included in 2.3 above)
    40. ‘The Very Idea of a Centre for Modern French Thought’, inaugural paper of the Centre for Modern French Thought, University of Sussex, October 1997
    41. ‘Kant’s Veiled Secrets’, lecture to Slade Centre for the History and Theory of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London, October 1997 (unpublished)
    42. ‘Forever Friends’, plenary paper to ‘Politics, Friendship and “Democracy to come”‘ conference, ICA, London, November 1997
    43. ‘Forget to Remember, Remember to Forget: Sade avec Kant’, paper to ‘Sade and his Legacy’ conference, University of North London, November, 1997 (included in 2.3 above)
    44. ‘Shelf Life’ (shorter version of 10.38 above), 3o Congreso Nacional da Associação Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, Lisbon, March 1998
    45. ‘Almost the End’, Sussex University Centre for Modern French Thought ‘Critique and Deconstruction’ conference, July 1998 (longer version given at University of Nottingham, November 1998, and at Philosophy Department Seminars, Universities of Memphis and Vanderbilt (Nashville), April 1999)
    46.  ‘Des Phrases’, remarks made to 15e Assises de la traduction littéraire, Arles, November 1998 (abbreviated transcription in Quinzième assises de la traduction littéraire (Arles, 1998) (Arles: Actes Sud, 2000), 215-6)
    47. ‘Is it Time?’, paper to ‘The Moment’ conference, University of Warwick, November 1998 (repeated to English and Comparative Literature Faculty/Graduate Seminar, State University of New York (Albany), April 1999)
    48. ‘Avant’, paper to ‘Hommage à Jean-François Lyotard’ conference, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, March 1999
    49. ‘Before’ (revised English version of 48, above), keynote address to ‘Remembering Lyotard’ conference, Humanities Institute, SUNY Stony Brook, April 1999
    50. ‘For the Sake of Argument (Up to a Point)’, paper to Reading University ‘Arguing with Derrida’ conference, May 1999
    51. ‘Demo’, keynote paper to ‘Deconstruction Reading Politics’ conference, University of Staffordshire, July 1999
    52. ‘Childish Things’, paper to Jean-François Lyotard Colloquium, Emory University, Atlanta, October 1999
    53. ‘Double Tonguing: Derrida’s Monolingualism’, inaugural lecture and seminar to Aberdeen University seminar on ‘Culture and Power in the Global System’, November 1999
    54. ‘…you meant’; paper to ‘Derrida’s Arguments’ conference, Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, March 2000
    55. ‘Wordswords’, paper to final plenary session, ‘Crossing Disciplines’, IAPL conference, SUNY (Stony Brook), May 2000
    56. ‘The Illusion of a Future’, paper to 20th annual conference of the Fundación Méxicana de Psícoanalisis (with 12 hours of seminars), July 2000
    57.  ‘Endearments: Both Ends of the Book and the Beginning of Reading’, Book/ends international conference, State University of New York, Albany, October 2000
    58. ‘Selflessness’, paper to ‘Back to Barthes’ conference, Yale University, December 2000
    59. ‘Reading Time’, invited lecture at Emory University, Atlanta, March 2001
    60. ‘On Fetishism in Glas’, paper to ‘Glossing Glas’ symposium, Kolding, Denmark, May 2001
    61. ‘Superanus’, paper to Journées Philosophie-Psychanalyse de Castries conference on ‘La Souveraineté’, Château de Castries, July 2001
    62. ‘Le livre réel’, paper to Colloque de Cerisy on ‘Le livre imaginaire’, Cerisy-la-Salle, August 2001
    63. ‘Time — for the Truth’, paper to ‘Religion and Postmodernism’ conference, Villanova University, September 2001
    64. ‘Personal Growth’, lecture to University of Sussex, November 2001
    65. ‘Enough About Me (With All Due Respect): Response to Robert Pippin’, Emory University Department of Philosophy, April 2002
    66. ‘La démocritie à venir’, closing plenary paper to Colloque de Cerisy, ‘La démocratie à venir (à partir de Jacques Derrida)’, Cerisy-la-Salle, July 2002
    67. ‘The Illusion of a Future’ (revised version of 56, above), lecture to Emory University Psychoanalytic Studies Program, September 2002
    68. ‘The Matter with Democracy’, paper to ‘Politics and Filiation V’ conference, SUNY Stony Brook, November 2002
    69. ‘Infancy and Gelassenheit: Response to Christopher Fynsk’, Keynote response, ‘Encountering Infancy’ conference, Emory University, March 2003
    70. ‘Deconstruction and Ethics’, lecture and interview-discussion to Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 10, 2003
    71. ‘L’invincible honte’, Colloque de Cerisy, ‘Lire, Ecrire la Honte’, June 2003
    72. ‘La souveraineté défaillante’, Conference ‘A Soberania’, Coimbra, Portugal, November 2003
    73. ‘Reading Time’, Invited lecture to French Department, University of Minnesota, March 2004 (revised version of 59, above)
    74. ‘Not Half, No End…’, contribution to seminar with Jacques Derrida, Queen Mary, London, July 2004
    75. ‘La Philosophie de Pascal Quignard’, Colloque de Cerisy, July 2004
    76. ‘Reading Time’ (modified version of 73, above), invited lecture to French Department, Columbia University, November 2004
    77. ‘In the Event’, invited lecture to Tate Gallery (London) series For Derrida, February 2005
    78. ‘Jacques Derrida…a Life’, paper presented to Georgetown Unversity conference Derrida, cosa mentale, April 2005; also presented to SPEP Derrida Memorial Panel, Salt Lake City, October 2005 (unpublished)
    79. ‘Fabulous Democracy’, Literature and Democracy conference, Cornell University, April 2005 (unpublished)
    80. ‘That’s Life’, paper to international conference on Jacques Derrida, La Bretesche, France, June 2005 (unpublished)
    81. ‘Foundations’, invited lecture to Derrida: pasiones institucionales conference, UNAM, Mexico City, October 2005
    82. ‘Sovereign Stupidity’, invited paper presented to conference Derrida, the time of the political, Berkeley, February 2006 (and participation in closing Round Table)
    83. ‘Derrida’s “Eighteenth Century”’, invited paper to American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, panel on ‘Derrida’s Eighteenth Century’ (and participation in Round Table),  Montreal, April 1, 2006
    84. ‘Sovereign Stupidity and Auto-immunity’, invited lecture to The University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, April 6, 2006
    85. ‘The Limits of My Language’, Boston College Philosophy Department, invited Keynote address to Graduate Student Conference ‘On Language’, April 9, 2006
    86. ‘Reading Writing’: invited one-week course (3 3-hr sessions) on Derrida’s ‘La Pharmacie de Platon’, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Città di Castello, Italy, July 2006 (unpublished)
    87. ‘For Better and for Worse’, invited paper to ‘Who? Or What?—Jacques Derrida’ conference at University of Florida, Gainesville, October 9-10, 2006
    88. ‘Foundations’, [revised version of 10.81 above] Invited Jacques Derrida Memorial Lecture, University of Pécs, Hungary, November 20, 2006
    89. ‘Jacques Derrida en Amérique’, invited talk to conference organized by the Bibliothèque Nationale d’Algérie, Algiers, November 25, 2006
    90. ‘Seize ans après’; presentation to Hélène Cixous’s seminar, Université de Paris VIII, February 17, 2007
    91. ‘Jacques Derrida et l’autre langue’, invited contribution to round table ‘L’Etranger dans la langue’, Salon International du Livre, Tanger, Morocco, March 2, 2007
    92. ‘Handshake’, invited paper to ‘Touching On : Derrida and Nancy’ conference, University of Leeds, March 8-9, 2007
    93. ‘Geography’, invited paper to SUNY Albany conference ‘Hélène Cixous, Written Initials—Ultimate Plays’, April 2007
    94. ‘The Politics of Politics’, invited inaugural lecture to University of Sussex Centre for Philosophy and Literature, May 2007
    95. ‘Speed Reading (Geography II)’, invited paper to ‘Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida: their psychoanalyses’ conference, University of Leeds, June 2007
    96. ‘Scatter’, invited lecture to Department of Comparative Literature, SUNY (Buffalo), April 3, 2008
    97. ‘Half-Life’, invited contribution to seminar ‘Jacques Derrida and the singular event of psychoanalysis’, ACLA annual meeting, Long Beach, April 25, 2008
    98. ‘Mésanges’, invited plenary paper to international conference on Hélène Cixous, ‘Croire rêver—arts de pensée’, Paris, June 17, 2008
    99. ‘Figure Discourse’, invited contribution to Special Session on the work of Jean-François Lyotard, SPEP annual meeting, Pittsburgh, October 16, 2008
    100. ‘Politique, Derrida!’, opening plenary lecture to ‘Derrida Politique’ conference, Paris, December 13, 2008