UPCOMING — 16 October 2026
Outdoor Sports and the Embodied Experience of Meaning in Nature. 15th Annual International Conference of Czech Philosophy of Sport. Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
27 August 2025
Flow as Mediated Immediacy: Helmuth Plessner and the Philosophy of Nature Sports. 52nd Annual Meeting of The International Association for the Philosophy of Sport (IAPS), Odense, Denmark.
10 June 2025
Physical Activity and the Experience of Beauty, Value, and Meaning in Nature. International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) XVI International Summer Conference, Experiencing Environments—Human Perspectives in the Changing World. Lahti, Finland.
21 May 2025
Loving Nature: Simple Joy, Appreciative Joy, and Wonder. Annual conference of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP): Phenomenology and Nature (online).
5 Feb 2025
Wonder at the Unfathomable as an Experience of Meaning. Research Colloquium of the Section Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, Heidelberg University.
12 September 2024
Wonder and Appreciation as Distinctly Human. Conference: Philosophical Anthropology and Biology: Between History and Evolution. University of Hradec Králové.
18 May 2018
Widerstand jenseits der Erfahrung. Oder: was uns töten kann, ist wirklich. Workshop: Widerstand und Erfahrung. Humboldt University, Berlin.
11 September 2015
Lebenswelt und physische Realität [Lifeworld and Physical Reality]. Conference: Lebenswelt und Lebensform: Tagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung. University of Koblenz-Landau, Campus Landau.
25 March 2015
Exzentrizität, Dingstruktur und der Leib als Subjekt und Objekt. Conference: Tier, Mensch, Verhalten. University of Kassel.
23 July 2014
Commentary to Etienne Bimbenet’s presentation Ce que le langage fait à la vie: quelques ressources phénoménologiques [What Language Does with Life: Some Phenomenological Resources]. École dʼété de lʼUniversité Franco-Allemande, La vie dans l’homme ou l’homme dans la vie? École normale supérieure de Paris.
13 December 2013
De distantie tot het eigen lichaam: een vergelijking tussen Merleau-Ponty en Plessner [The distance to the Body Proper: A Comparison between Merleau-Ponty and Plessner]. Annual Meeting of the Dutch Society for Phenomenological Research, Wageningen University, the Netherlands.
21 May 2012
Does Nature Fit into the Immanent Frame?: Comparing “A Secular Age” to “Sources of the Self”. Workshop with Charles Taylor: Sources of the Self in a Secular Age, University of Potsdam.
26 March 2011
Phenomenal Space and Physical Space: A Comparison between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Helmuth Plessner. University of Kentucky 14th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference on Place, Space, and Spatiality.
5 March 2011
External World and the Other Person: The Structure of the Social World according to Helmuth Plessner. Fourth Annual USF Graduate Student Conference: Ipseity and Alterity: Dialectics and Distances between Self and Other, University of South Florida, Tampa.
16 November 2010
Zu Christoph Menkes “Autonomie und Befreiung” [On Christoph Menke’s “Autonomy and Liberation”]. Workshop: Christoph Menkes“Kraft und Autonomie”. Research group Lebensformen und Lebenswissen, Potsdam.
21 January 2010
Maschine und Organismus in Canguilhems “Maschine und Organismus”. [Machine and Organism in Canguilhem’s “Machine and Organism”]. Workshop: Georges Canguilhem: Die Erkenntnis des Lebens. Research group Lebensformen und Lebenswissen, Potsdam.
17 September 2009
Plessner and the Mathematical-Physical Perspective. Conference: Artificial by Nature: IVth International Plessner Conference, Rotterdam.
9 June 2009
From “Sources of the Self” to “A Secular Age”: The Development in Taylor’s Concept of Transcendence. Conference: “A Secular Age”: Tracing the Contours of Religion and Belief. Mater Dei Institute of Education, Dublin.
22 March 2005
Theater und Transzendenz. Plessner und die Frage nach einem letzten Weltgrund [Theater and Transcendence: Plessner and the Question Concerning the Final Ground of the World]. Plessner Workshop, Helmuth Plessner Society, Dresden.