Presentations

 

(Invited as Lecture Series Speaker) 

 

“Der Asketismus der Wissenschaft: Nietzsches Kritik der wissenschaftlichen Praxis als 

Schlusswort von GM III (23-28)?” Berliner-Nietzsche-Colloquium (Technical University of 

Berlin, Germany, July 2014) 

 

“Nietzsche’s ‘Anti-Darwinism’: The Origins and Development of an Antagonism.” Barrett, 

The Honors College Lecture Series (Arizona State University, February 2010) 

 

“Nietzsche’s ‘Anti-Darwinism’: The Origins and Development of an Antagonism.” Visiting 

Darwin Scholars Lecture Series (University of North Carolina-Wilmington, February 2009) 

 

(International Conferences) 

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“Zarathustra’s Journey: Nietzsche’s Reconfiguration of the Human.” The XXIV World Congress of Philosophy (Peking University, Beijing, China, August 2018)

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“Was ist aus dem Nihilismus geworden?” (Conference organized by the editorial board of 

Nietzsche Studien; the island of Hiddensee near Greifswald, Germany, April 2013) 

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“Nietzschean Naturalism or a Postmodernist ‘Nietzsche’? A Polemical Response.” 

International Nietzsche Conference in Naumburg (Nietzsche Documentation Center/Naumburg, Germany, October 2012) 

 

“A Return to the Ancients: Nietzsche’s Excavation of the ‘Scientific’ Spirit of Antiquity.” 

Nietzsche Colloquium of Berlin: Nietzsche and Science (Technical University of Berlin, 

Germany, July 2010) 

 

“‘Diese englischen Psychologen—was wollen sie eigentlich?‘ Nietzsche’s Critique of the 

‘Historians of Morals.’” Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society 

(Cambridge University, UK, September 2005) 

 

“Translating Nietzsche’s Atheism(s): A World Beyond the Ethical Imperative.” Fourteenth 

Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (University of Sussex, UK, September 

2004) 

 

 “‘Höherer Réealismus’ or Philosophical Réealignment?: Nietzsche, Paul Rée, and the Search 

for a Tradition.’” Seventh Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society (St. Andrews, Scotland, September 1997)  

 

(U.S. Conferences) 

 

“’The Life-Defining Moment’: German Study-Abroad for the Next Generation of Students." 

(Education-Abroad Programs in German-Speaking Europe, Emory University, March 2013) 

 

“The Baader Meinhof Complex: Communicating the RAF Legacy in Germany.” Center of 

the Liberal Arts (University of Virginia, March 2011) 

 

“The Lives of Others: Classroom Approaches to the Film.” Association of the Teaching of 

Foreign Languages Conference (Boston, November 2010) 

 

“One Hundred Twenty Two Years Later: Reassessing the Nietzsche-Darwin Relationship.” 

American Philosophical Association Convention (New York City, December 2009) 

 

“The Lives of Others: Classroom Approaches to the Film.” Foreign Language Association of 

Virginia Conference (Richmond, October 2009) 

 

“A Reading of GM II, 1-5: Aspects of Nietzsche’s Challenge to Darwin’s Evolutionary 

Paradigm.” Nietzsche in New York (Hunter College, New York City, April 2009) 

 

“Zarathustra’s Prologue: An Anti-Evolutionary Reading of the Übermensch.” Society for 

Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Pittsburgh, PA, October 2008) 

 

“A ‘Species’ Apart: Nietzsche’s Challenge to the Darwinian Gattungsbegriff.” Mountain 

Interstate Foreign Language Conference (Roanoke, VA, October 2007) 

 

(Professional Presentations) 

 

Speech as President of Virginia-AATG at commemoration of Salem High School German 

Honors Society, Salem VA (June 2005) 

 

“A World of Opportunity: The AATG-PAD Program and Its Student Study Trips to 

Germany,” FLAVA, Richmond, VA (October 2005) 

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