Papers and Conferences
Papers
“‘Curieuse de savoir’: Knowledge, Seduction and Female Sensation in Diderot”. ACLA Annual Conference, 9-11 April 2021, Montreal (online).
“Rasende Ritter und verwundete Hirten”. Workshop “Transformationen des Abenteuers in der Frühen Neuzeit”. 10 December 2020, LMU Munich (online).
“Die Abenteuerzeit des Lesens: Unterbrochene Handlungsfäden in Ariostos Orlando furioso“. Annual conference “Triebökonomien des Abenteuers”. 24 - 25 January 2020, LMU Munich.
“‘Trovò fra gli altri quel fatale a caso’: avventura e contingenza nel Furioso”. Seminario d’interpretazione testuale, Università di Pisa. 28 October 2019.
“Die Geburt der Kontingenz aus dem Geist des Abenteuers. Zur Geschichte eines Erzählschemas zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit”. Convention of the German Society for Romance Studies 2019: Rebuilding, Reconstructing, Renewing. 29 September to 2 October 2019, Kassel.
“The Power of the Imagination and the Poetics of Genre: Shaftesbury, Diderot, Goethe”. ISECS International Congress on the Enlightenment. 15 - 19 July 2019, Edinburgh.
“L’avventura e la ferita: storia di una relazione paradossale”. Guest lecture at the Scuola Normale Superiore. 14 May 2019.
“Narratologische Hybridität: Abenteuerlichkeit und epische Schließung im Orlando Furioso”. Convention of the German Society for Italian Studies 2018: Ibridità e norma. 01 - 03 March 2018, Mainz.
“The Philosophy of Singularity: From Condillac to Diderot”. Annual conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 03 - 05 January 2018, Oxford.
“L’esthétique de la singularité: abstraction et figuration du personnage chez Condillac et Diderot”. Diderot and 18th-Century Human Simulacra, 05 October 2017, FU Berlin.
“La différence mimétique. Imitation humaine et animale chez Buffon, Condillac et Diderot”. Convention of the German Society for French Studies 2016: Liaisons frontalières. 28 September - 01 October 2016, Saarbrücken.
“De la connaissance de soi-même à l’aliénation d’esprit. Sur l’emploi du soliloque chez Shaftesbury et Diderot”. Early Modern French Seminar, University of Oxford. 18 February 2016.
“Aping the Master. Voltaire Pastiches in Nineteenth-Century France”. Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting. Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis, 29 - 31 October 2015, LMU Munich.
“Vom kritischen Potential des Erzählens. Mimesis und Mimikry in der Philosophie Shaftesburys”. Annual meeting of the German Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (DGEJ) 2015: Narrating Enlightenment and Enlightenment Narrative. 28 - 30 September 2015, Halle.
“Mimicry Under Control. Philosophy and Imagination in Shaftesbury”. 14th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 30 - 31 July 2015, Rotterdam.
“Spaziergang im Labyrinth. Philosophische Methode und literarische Aporie bei Condillac und Diderot”. Convention of the German Society for Romance Studies 2015: Romance Studies and Economy. 26 - 29 July 2015, Mannheim.
“Condillac et l’imaginaire épistémologique”. Université Paris-Sorbonne, 23 May 2015.
“Abstraktion und Tropus. Versuche (un-)imaginativen Denkens bei Condillac”. Ruhr University Bochum, 16 January 2015.
“Illusion d’optique et ruse rhétorique dans la Lettre sur les aveugles de Diderot”. La bêtise des yeux. Illusions des sens et épistémologie visuelle au 18ème siècle, 6 - 7 November 2014, Neuchâtel.
“Catroptic Rhetorics in Shaftesbury and Diderot”. Mimetic Surfaces. Reflections on Mirrors in the Arts, 14 - 15. July 2014, LMU Munich.
“Rewriting Salvation History. The Gesture of Extended Arms in Flaubert’s Éducation sentimentale”. NeMLA 2014 Convention, 3 - 6 April 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
“Täuschungsfiguren in Diderots Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de ceux qui voient”. 30th Meeting for Early Career Scholars in Romance Languages: Romance Spaces. 27 - 29 March 2014, University of Bern.
“Le libertinage du lecteur chez Sade. Entre identification et victimisation”. Sade, l’inconnu? Nouvelles approches critiques, 24- 25 May 2013, Ertegun House, University of Oxford.
“Gewalt als Grenzüberschreitung. Der Marquis de Sade und die empfindsame Literatur”. 3rd Meeting for Early Career Scholars in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory: Literature and Violence. 27- 29 April 2012, LMU Munich.
Conferences Organized
Workshop “Transformations of Adventure in the Early Modern Period”. 10 December 2021, LMU Munich/online (together with Martin von Koppenfels).
Workshop “Narrative Forms of Adventure”. 21 June - 22 June 2018, LMU Munich (together with Martin von Koppenfels, Susanne Gödde and Wolfram Ette).
Animal Mimesis. Intersections of Aesthetics and Anthropology. 30 June - 01 July 2016, LMU Munich (together with Antonio Chemotti and Katharina Krcal). Listen to podcasts
Faking, Forging, Counterfeiting. Discredited Practices at the Margins of Mimesis. 29 - 31 October 2015, LMU Munich (together with other Ph.D. candidates of the IDP Mimesis).
Mimetic Surfaces. Reflections on Mirrors in the Arts. 14 -15 July 2014, LMU Munich (together with other Ph.D. candidates of the IDP Mimesis).
Sade, l’inconnu? Nouvelles approches critiques. 24 -25 May 2013, University of Oxford (together with Nicholas Cronk). Listen to podcasts