Presentations:
"Berlin and the Anxious Disavowal of Beijing Modernism: Architectural Polemics within Globalization" Oct. 31, 2011, Penn State University--live video broadcast:http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=df5ef66f9e3671ab83790eb0fd267fc3
“Empathy and Architecture—ten years after 9/11,” Columbia University, NY, October 6, 2011
"Market and Media in der europäischen Stadt: City Planning and the Public Sphere," Cornell University, April 30, 2011
“A New City for the Merchant Class: Urban Planning and World Mercantile Trade,” GermanStudies Association, Oakland, CA, October 8, 2010
“Goethes Begriff von Weltliteratur” Penn State –Freiburg Workshop, June 3-5, 2010
“Stores and Stories: The Spaces of German Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth- century,” Keynote Address, Inside/Out: Dress and Identity in German Literature, Performance and Art, University of Pennsylvania, February 5, 2010.
"Monuments as Subversive Architecture: Goethe and Hegel’s Gothic Connection," German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2009
“Hegel’s Architectural Transcendence,” German Studies Association, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Oct. 3, 2008
"Goethe's House: Architecture as latent Mythology in Benjamin," Modern Language Association, Chicago, Dec. 29, 2007
"Architectonics," Kolloquium für Architekturtheorie, Technical University, Berlin, Oct. 30, 2007
" The Private Life of Clothes, Wilhelm Meister and the End of Circulation," German Studies Association, San Diego, Oct. 5, 2007
“Discourse Analysis and the failed Erasure of Literary Autonomy,” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 29, 2006
“Overlooking Gender: Sophie Mereau's Portrayal of Bildung,” at Sophie Mereau verdichtet-Werk-Zeit-Raum, June 23, 2006, Universität Jena
“Watching Buildings with Goethe and Benjamin”, German Studies Association, September 30, 2005, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Is that all there is?" Architectural Drawing and the Disappointing Site, Goethe and Palladio,International Association of Word and Image Studies, September 24, 2005, University of Pennsylvania
“Empathy in Italy: Glory Regained through Architectural Tourism," ACLA, Penn State Unviersity, March 11, 2005
"The Architectonic of Knowledge in Kant and Vitruvius," Philosophy of Architecture/ Architecture of Philosophy, Bradford, UK July 10, 2004.
"Mode, Modernität und geschichtliches Bewußtsein im neunzehten Jahrhundert," Universität Dortmund, July 8, 2004
"Berlin Hochhäuser and the Liveable City," ACTFL Convention, Philadelphia, PA Nov. 21, 2003
"The Building in Bildung: Architectural Spectatorship in Goethe and Benjamin," Institute forGerman Cultural Studies, Cornell University, Sept 12, 2003
“From Architecure to Autonomy: Renaissance Beauty in neo-Classical Aesthetics,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY April 25, 2003
“Roman Excursions and Architectural Wonders: Eighteenth-Century Travel and German Aesthetic Theory” Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., April 5, 2003
“Urban Experience Below the Towers of Potsdamer Platz,” German Historical Institute & Columbia University Conference: “From Mainhattan to Manhattan, Architecture and Style in Trans-Atlantic Dialogue,” New York, March 7, 2003
“From Architecure to Autonomy: Renaissance Beauty in neo-Classical Aesthetics,” Modern Languages Association,” New York, December 2002
"Austro-Hungarian Ethnicity and the Cosmopolitan Dandyism of Adolf Loos," Modernist Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin, October 31, 2002
“Goethe as Architectural Spectator,” German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 6, 2002
“Exile or Sentimentalism: “Heimat” and the Threat of Internationalism in 19th Century Germany,” Seventh International Cultural Studies Symposium, Ege University,Izmir, Turkey, May 9 , 2002
"The Absolute English Gentleman: Adolf Loos's codification of Dandyism." American Comparative Literature Convention, April 15, 2002
“Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Enlightenment,” University of California, Long Beach, March 2, 2002
“Style Over Fashion: High Modernism’s Affinity with Weimar Classicism,” Stanford University, April 28, 2001
---- University of Pennsylvania, March 23, 2001
“The Plastic Art of Dressing in the Nude: Herder and the Sculpted Soldier,” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Study, St. John’s College, Oxford, January 5, 2001
----- MWASECS, Michigan State University, November 3, 2000
"Die Modernität Bertuchs Fassung der Mode," Sonderforschungsbereich Kolloquium: Das Journal des Luxus und der Moden: Kultur um 1800, University of Jena, June 8-9, 2000
"The Alienation of Adornment in Goethe's Early Lyric," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, April12-16, 2000
"Utopia and Masculine Beauty in Stifter's Brigitta," Modern language Association Convention,December, 1999
"Before Ethnicity: Enlightenment Patriotism in German-American Almanacs of the Early Republic," Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Oct. 14, 1999
"Mode als Geschichte: Cosmopolitan Self-Consciousness in Mass Culture Criticism," German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 8, 1999
"Schumann and Goethe's Faust," Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, July 24, 1999
“The Emperor’s New Clothes: Beauty and Discipline in Male Dress, July 29, 1999, Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland
“Object-Oriented Advertising in the Weimar Republic,” Poster Auctions International, November 7, 1998, New York
“The Dispersion of Fashion,” George Washington University, February 1998
“Classicism and the Origins of German Consumer Culture,” Bryn Mawr College, February 1998
“Paranoid Geography and the European Dispersion of Fashion,” December 12-13, 1997 Anthropological Association of Ireland, St. Patricks College, Maynooth, County Kildare
“Weimar Fashion and the Fear It Provoked,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Memphis, April 9-11, 1997
“The Birth and Denunciation of Consumer Culture in Weimar,” Davidson College Symposium, February 21-23, 1997
“The Tyranny of Fashion: An Allegory’s Domestication,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1996
“Fashion in Eighteenth-Century German Culture,” Respondent, Mid-West Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 7-9, 1996
“Mode and “Luxus”: Constituting the Fashionable Commodity within Germany’s Consumer Discourse,” Mid-West American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indianapolis, October 17-19, 1996
“Eighteenth-Century Fashion Journals and the Acceleration of Style,” Faculty Seminar on the History of the Book, Columbia University, October 15, 1996
“The Discipline of Elegance,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington,Kentucky, April 18-20, 1996
“Sophie Mereau and the Support of Domestic Feminism,” Modern Language Association National Convention, Chicago, December 27-30 1995
“A Night at the Opera or a Quiet Evening at Home: The Panopticon was never this much Fun,” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ottawa, Canada, September 7-10, 1995
"English Country Dress and Prussian Discipline," University of South Florida, De Bartolo Conference-- The Eighteenth-Century Male, February 16-18, 1995,
"Signs of Discipline: Clothing and Male Identity via Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" Cornell University, "Contesting Grounds: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to German Studies," October 22-23, 1994, (Keynote Speaker)
---- Brown University German Colloquium, October 27, 1994
"Fashion and the Enthusiastic Reception of Sentimentalism" German Studies Association National Convention, September 29-October 2, 1994
"Literary Fantasy and the Construction of Luxurious Interiors in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nußknacker und Mausekönig" September 1993, Nature, Spaces, Landscapes: Images and Concepts of Space in Intercultural Perspective, Queen's University
"Friendship as the Introduction to America: Percy Adlon's Baghdad Cafe and Wim Wenders' The American Friend" April 1993, "Film and American Culture" William and Mary College
“E.T.A. Hoffmann, Narrative and the Formation of Consumer Desire,” March 1992, Columbia University
"Restoring the Revolutionary: Heinrich Heine's Political Romanticism" Bucknell University, April 1990
"Nietzsche's Politics" Mid-South Philosophy Convention, Memphis Tennessee, March 1985
"Berlin and the Anxious Disavowal of Beijing Modernism: Architectural Polemics within Globalization" Oct. 31, 2011, Penn State University--live video broadcast:http://cnet.pegcentral.com/player.php?video=df5ef66f9e3671ab83790eb0fd267fc3
“Empathy and Architecture—ten years after 9/11,” Columbia University, NY, October 6, 2011
"Market and Media in der europäischen Stadt: City Planning and the Public Sphere," Cornell University, April 30, 2011
“A New City for the Merchant Class: Urban Planning and World Mercantile Trade,” GermanStudies Association, Oakland, CA, October 8, 2010
“Goethes Begriff von Weltliteratur” Penn State –Freiburg Workshop, June 3-5, 2010
“Stores and Stories: The Spaces of German Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the nineteenth- century,” Keynote Address, Inside/Out: Dress and Identity in German Literature, Performance and Art, University of Pennsylvania, February 5, 2010.
"Monuments as Subversive Architecture: Goethe and Hegel’s Gothic Connection," German Studies Association, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2009
“Hegel’s Architectural Transcendence,” German Studies Association, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Oct. 3, 2008
"Goethe's House: Architecture as latent Mythology in Benjamin," Modern Language Association, Chicago, Dec. 29, 2007
"Architectonics," Kolloquium für Architekturtheorie, Technical University, Berlin, Oct. 30, 2007
" The Private Life of Clothes, Wilhelm Meister and the End of Circulation," German Studies Association, San Diego, Oct. 5, 2007
“Discourse Analysis and the failed Erasure of Literary Autonomy,” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 29, 2006
“Overlooking Gender: Sophie Mereau's Portrayal of Bildung,” at Sophie Mereau verdichtet-Werk-Zeit-Raum, June 23, 2006, Universität Jena
“Watching Buildings with Goethe and Benjamin”, German Studies Association, September 30, 2005, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
"Is that all there is?" Architectural Drawing and the Disappointing Site, Goethe and Palladio,International Association of Word and Image Studies, September 24, 2005, University of Pennsylvania
“Empathy in Italy: Glory Regained through Architectural Tourism," ACLA, Penn State Unviersity, March 11, 2005
"The Architectonic of Knowledge in Kant and Vitruvius," Philosophy of Architecture/ Architecture of Philosophy, Bradford, UK July 10, 2004.
"Mode, Modernität und geschichtliches Bewußtsein im neunzehten Jahrhundert," Universität Dortmund, July 8, 2004
"Berlin Hochhäuser and the Liveable City," ACTFL Convention, Philadelphia, PA Nov. 21, 2003
"The Building in Bildung: Architectural Spectatorship in Goethe and Benjamin," Institute forGerman Cultural Studies, Cornell University, Sept 12, 2003
“From Architecure to Autonomy: Renaissance Beauty in neo-Classical Aesthetics,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington, KY April 25, 2003
“Roman Excursions and Architectural Wonders: Eighteenth-Century Travel and German Aesthetic Theory” Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., April 5, 2003
“Urban Experience Below the Towers of Potsdamer Platz,” German Historical Institute & Columbia University Conference: “From Mainhattan to Manhattan, Architecture and Style in Trans-Atlantic Dialogue,” New York, March 7, 2003
“From Architecure to Autonomy: Renaissance Beauty in neo-Classical Aesthetics,” Modern Languages Association,” New York, December 2002
"Austro-Hungarian Ethnicity and the Cosmopolitan Dandyism of Adolf Loos," Modernist Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin, October 31, 2002
“Goethe as Architectural Spectator,” German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 6, 2002
“Exile or Sentimentalism: “Heimat” and the Threat of Internationalism in 19th Century Germany,” Seventh International Cultural Studies Symposium, Ege University,Izmir, Turkey, May 9 , 2002
"The Absolute English Gentleman: Adolf Loos's codification of Dandyism." American Comparative Literature Convention, April 15, 2002
“Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Enlightenment,” University of California, Long Beach, March 2, 2002
“Style Over Fashion: High Modernism’s Affinity with Weimar Classicism,” Stanford University, April 28, 2001
---- University of Pennsylvania, March 23, 2001
“The Plastic Art of Dressing in the Nude: Herder and the Sculpted Soldier,” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Study, St. John’s College, Oxford, January 5, 2001
----- MWASECS, Michigan State University, November 3, 2000
"Die Modernität Bertuchs Fassung der Mode," Sonderforschungsbereich Kolloquium: Das Journal des Luxus und der Moden: Kultur um 1800, University of Jena, June 8-9, 2000
"The Alienation of Adornment in Goethe's Early Lyric," American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Philadelphia, April12-16, 2000
"Utopia and Masculine Beauty in Stifter's Brigitta," Modern language Association Convention,December, 1999
"Before Ethnicity: Enlightenment Patriotism in German-American Almanacs of the Early Republic," Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Oct. 14, 1999
"Mode als Geschichte: Cosmopolitan Self-Consciousness in Mass Culture Criticism," German Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 8, 1999
"Schumann and Goethe's Faust," Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, July 24, 1999
“The Emperor’s New Clothes: Beauty and Discipline in Male Dress, July 29, 1999, Tenth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Dublin, Ireland
“Object-Oriented Advertising in the Weimar Republic,” Poster Auctions International, November 7, 1998, New York
“The Dispersion of Fashion,” George Washington University, February 1998
“Classicism and the Origins of German Consumer Culture,” Bryn Mawr College, February 1998
“Paranoid Geography and the European Dispersion of Fashion,” December 12-13, 1997 Anthropological Association of Ireland, St. Patricks College, Maynooth, County Kildare
“Weimar Fashion and the Fear It Provoked,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Memphis, April 9-11, 1997
“The Birth and Denunciation of Consumer Culture in Weimar,” Davidson College Symposium, February 21-23, 1997
“The Tyranny of Fashion: An Allegory’s Domestication,” Modern Language Association, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1996
“Fashion in Eighteenth-Century German Culture,” Respondent, Mid-West Modern Language Association, Minneapolis, November 7-9, 1996
“Mode and “Luxus”: Constituting the Fashionable Commodity within Germany’s Consumer Discourse,” Mid-West American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Indianapolis, October 17-19, 1996
“Eighteenth-Century Fashion Journals and the Acceleration of Style,” Faculty Seminar on the History of the Book, Columbia University, October 15, 1996
“The Discipline of Elegance,” Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Lexington,Kentucky, April 18-20, 1996
“Sophie Mereau and the Support of Domestic Feminism,” Modern Language Association National Convention, Chicago, December 27-30 1995
“A Night at the Opera or a Quiet Evening at Home: The Panopticon was never this much Fun,” Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ottawa, Canada, September 7-10, 1995
"English Country Dress and Prussian Discipline," University of South Florida, De Bartolo Conference-- The Eighteenth-Century Male, February 16-18, 1995,
"Signs of Discipline: Clothing and Male Identity via Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers" Cornell University, "Contesting Grounds: Cross-disciplinary Approaches to German Studies," October 22-23, 1994, (Keynote Speaker)
---- Brown University German Colloquium, October 27, 1994
"Fashion and the Enthusiastic Reception of Sentimentalism" German Studies Association National Convention, September 29-October 2, 1994
"Literary Fantasy and the Construction of Luxurious Interiors in E.T.A. Hoffmann's Nußknacker und Mausekönig" September 1993, Nature, Spaces, Landscapes: Images and Concepts of Space in Intercultural Perspective, Queen's University
"Friendship as the Introduction to America: Percy Adlon's Baghdad Cafe and Wim Wenders' The American Friend" April 1993, "Film and American Culture" William and Mary College
“E.T.A. Hoffmann, Narrative and the Formation of Consumer Desire,” March 1992, Columbia University
"Restoring the Revolutionary: Heinrich Heine's Political Romanticism" Bucknell University, April 1990
"Nietzsche's Politics" Mid-South Philosophy Convention, Memphis Tennessee, March 1985
