Invited talks and Conference Papers

 “Une solation juste posée: le philosophe et l’artiste boiteux (Nancy et Beckett), Nancynéma : Jean-Luc Nancy et l’Evidence du Film, Ecole Normale Supérieur/Paris-Saclay, Paris, 31.5 – 2.6, 2023.

“Scenes of Listening and Sonic Atmospheres in Stage and Multi-Media Adaptations of Beckett's How It Is and Joyce's Finnegans Wake,” Adapting Ireland, GIS EIRE, 2.05.2022

«Ecocritique: nature, environnement, atmosphère» Concepts en mouvement (séminaire ICD), 28.02.2022

 “Hear It Is: Scenes of Listening and Sonic Atmospheres in How It Is,” How It Is, Beckett Symposium Gare St. Lazare Ireland / The Beckett Research Centre, University of Reading, 4/03/21

“Of bombs and bugs, airplanes and birds and things that begin with the letter ‘M’” Le modernisme en errance / The Wanderings of Modernism, Sorbonne Université, Paris, Jan 2020.

 “Strange Couplings, French Connections, and Various Encounters of the Ground by Foot, Leg and Body,” International Yeats Society Annual Conference, Paris, December 2019 (undelivered).

 “Resisting Modernist Movements,” Troublesome Modernisms, British Association of Modernist Studies Annual Conference, London, June, 2019.

 “Stillness in the Midst of Revolutionary Storms,” Revolutions, Paris SAES/SEMS, June, 2018.

“Le corps en résonance,” Le corps à l'oeuvre (journée d'étude), Université de Tours, 19 avril, 2018.

 “À l'écoute de Simone Weil: La transposition du sens,”  Simone Weil, réception et transposition, University of Chicago / Centre Culturel International de Cérisy-la-Salle, France, August, 2017.

“The Revenge of the Ear: Dyadic Modernism and the Scene of Listening,” Société d'études modernistes, Institut du monde anglophones, Paris, France, 18 Nov 2016.

“Strange Resonance: Yeats, MacNeice, Muldoon,” Centre de Recherche Anglophone, Université de Paris X, Nanterre, Feb. 2015.

 “A coincidence of contraries: Beckett, Stockhausen and the materialities of sound on and around May ’68,” Research Seminar, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, March 19 2015.

“Jubilation ex nihilo: Beckett, Joyce,” Modernités’ Research Seminar, University of Bordeaux 3, France, 6 February 2015.

 “Irish Laughter, French Infections, German Doctors,” special panel on laughter (organiser), Society for French Studies 55th Annual Conference, University of Aberdeen, 1 July 2014.

“Simone Weil: Modern mystic or madwoman?” Women Modernists and Spirituality, Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, University of Stirling, 23 May, 2014.

“Resonance Forms: Emily Dickinson, Paul Muldoon, Robert Creeley,” Irish and American Poetry: A Symposium in honour of Michael Allen, 1 November 2013, Queens University, Belfast.

 “Yeats and the French connection: Seven Murmurs, Seven Woods,” Europe, Scottish Network of Modernist Studies, University of Glasgow, 19 Oct 2013.

“Boxes and Bubbles: Michel Serres and Peter Sloterdijk,” research seminar, Philosophy Department, University of Dundee, 18 September 2013.

“Shout, murmur, crash, hum:  Listening to time in Beckett and contemporary performance art,” Performance Studies International, Stanford University, 24 June 2013.

“The materialities of sound on and around May 1968,” special panel, Writing Materialities of Sound,  American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, University of Toronto, 7 April 2013.

“Joyce, Beckett and the Philosophical Anthropology of Laughter,” School of English and Critical Studies research seminar, University of Glasgow, 8 November, 2012.

“A Minimalist and a Maximalist: Beckett and Stockhausen on and around May ’68,” European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, University of Kent, 9 September 2012.

 Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, The University of Aberdeen, 22 March 2012.

 “The Sense of Water and the Resonance of the Image,” Symposium: A Breath for Nothing…,  Central St. Martin’s College of Art, London, June, 2012.

 “‘Will this never finish?’ Beckett and Modernism,” The Scottish Universities International Summer School (July, 2011 & July, 2012).

Music department research seminar, The University of Aberdeen, 9 Feb 2012.

“Listening: Jean-Luc Nancy and the anti-ocular turn,” Research Seminar, Department of Music and Musicology, University College Cork, January 2010.

“Laughter and the limits of identity,” Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, University College London, March 2009.

 “The Savage God: Yeats and the French Connection,” Yeats International Summer School,  August 2006.

“‘Tears and Laughter, so much Gaelic’?: Laughter as Oral Performance”Orality and Modern Irish Culture Conference, University of Galway, June 2006.

 “Laughter and the limits of identity,” Institute for Irish Studies Research Seminar Series, Queens University, Belfast, November, 2005.

 “In one ear and out the others: Beckett..Mahon.Muldoon.” Modern Language Association annual  conference. San Diego, December, 2003.

“Painful bodies, ear-aches, violent laughter: the invention of language in Céline and Beckett,” French and Comparative Literature Conference, Stanford University, February 2003.