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KEYNOTES – For International Academic Associations \/ Research Institutes
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Vienna, May 22, 202<\/span>5<\/a><\/h2>\n

*”Pandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature: The Hope for Planetary Salvation,”\u00a0Keynote Lecture for 8th World Conference on Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Education<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Krakow, March 7, 2025<\/a><\/h2>\n

Keynote Lecture: “Medieval Origins of the Question Concerning Technology and its Contemporary Apocalypses”<\/a><\/strong>
\nINTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:<\/strong>
\nAPOCALYPSE NOW? TECHNOLOGY AND EXISTENTIAL THREATS, IGNATIANUM UNIVERSITY IN CRACOW, March 7, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

Videorecording of lecture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Videorecording of lecture \u2013 Google Drive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Bras (France) – Dante conf\u00e9rances<\/a>, January-March 2025<\/h2>\n

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Bras – Dante conf\u00e9rances<\/a><\/p>\n

Navarra (Spain)<\/strong> January, 2025\u00a0 \u00a0Seminarios Filosofia Navarra 2024-2025<\/a><\/h2>\n

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3 seminars on Identity Politics and Justice, Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, University of Navarra:
\n1) From Revolution to Religion: The Woke Revolution\u2019s Founding of Social and Political Power on a Religion of Victimhood, January 21, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

William Franke, Revolution to Religion, University of Navarra (pt. 1)<\/a>
\nWilliam Franke, Revolution to Religion (pt. 2)<\/a>
\nWilliam Franke, Revolution to Religion, University of Navarra (pt. 3)<\/a><\/p>\n

2) Identity versus Universality: The Universality of What is Not, January 23, 2025<\/strong>
\nWilliam Franke, Identity versus Universality, Navarra (pt 1) – YouTube<\/a>
\nWilliam Franke, Identity versus Universality: The Universality of What is Not (pt 2 Q&A)<\/a><\/p>\n

3) Transcending Power Politics Negatively: Kenosis as the Apophatic Solution to Societal Conflict, January 24, 2025<\/strong>
\nTranscending Power Politics Negatively: Kenosis as the Apophatic Solution to Societal Conflict pt. 1 – YouTube<\/a>
\nTranscending Power Politics Negatively Kenosis as Apophatic Solution to Societal Conflict (pt 2 Q&A)<\/a><\/p>\n

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London (UK), July 13, 2024<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

*Featured Speaker<\/strong> for A Dante Conversation with John Took and David Mcleod Black, moderator Aaron B. Daniels, Psychology & the Other London Conference, Northeastern University\u2019s London Campus, Devon House, St. Katherine\u2019s Docks, London, England, July 13-14, 2024<\/span><\/h3>\n

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Florence Italy, May-June, 2024<\/u><\/a><\/h2>\n

The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa i Tatti)<\/a><\/u>, William Franke | I Tatti | The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies<\/a>,\u00a0Francesco de Dombrowski Visiting Professor, Florence<\/a>, Italy, Spring, 2024<\/h2>\n

Pavia, Italy, May 2, 2024<\/a><\/h2>\n

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\u201cPolitiche identitarie e giustizia sociale: Come rifondare l’etica e la politica dopo la rivoluzione woke<\/span><\/a>,\u201d\u00a0<\/span>Collegio Fratelli Cairoli<\/a>, Facolt\u00e0 di Filosofia, University of Pavia,\u00a0<\/span>May 2, 2024<\/span><\/h2>\n

Collegio Fratelli Cairoli – POLITICHE IDENTITARIE E GIUSTIZIA SOCIALE – COME RIFONDARE L’ETICA DOPO LA RIVOLUZIONE WOKE<\/a><\/p>\n

Videorecording of Lecture: “Come rifondare l’etica e la politica dopo la rivoluzione woke”?<\/a><\/p>\n

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Paris, December 15, 2023<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cK\u00e9nose et wokisme : une alternative \u00e0 l’instrumentalisation de la justice sociale\u201d [\u201cKenosis and Wokisme: An Alternative to the Weaponizing of Social Justice\u201d],\u00a0Symposium on Ren\u00e9 Girard and the Bible: \u00ab\u00a0Girard, Lecteur de l’\u00c9criture \u00bb, Coll\u00e8ge des Bernardins, Paris,<\/a> France, December 15, 2023<\/span><\/h2>\n

Videorecording of Lecture\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

William Franke, Conf\u00e9rence sur le Wokisme \u00e0 Paris (youtube.com)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Boston, October 5-9, 2023<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

Invited\u00a0Address for the Third Dante Salon at Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston College, October 5-9, 2023\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Videorecording of Boston College Vita Nuova lecture<\/a>:\u00a0William Franke, “Dante\u2019s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation” (youtube.com)<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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William Franke, “Dante\u2019s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation”<\/a><\/div>\n
This lecture presents Dante\u2019s youthful work the Vita Nuova (The New Life) as the inaugural work of modern phenomenology and as fully revealing of the latter\u2019…<\/div>\n
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Krakow, Poland, June 26- July 2, 2023<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

IPS International Plato Society<\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cTaking Letters Literally and Figuring the Unsayable: Plato\u2019s Apophatic Legacy,\u201d\u00a0GUEST LECTURE\u00a0<\/strong>for 7<\/a>th Platonic Summer Seminar: \u1f04\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1 \u03b4\u03cc\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1,<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Lanckorona (Krakao), Poland, June 25-August 2, 2023<\/span><\/h2>\n
Plato\u2019s Apophatic Legacy: Taking Letters Literally and Figuring the Unsayable. (youtube.com)<\/a><\/div>\n
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Plato\u2019s Apophatic Legacy: Taking Letters Literally and Figuring the Unsayable.<\/a><\/div>\n
GUEST LECTURE for 7th Platonic Summer Seminar: \u1f04\u03b3\u03c1\u03b1\u03c6\u03b1 \u03b4\u03cc\u03b3\u03bc\u03b1\u03c4\u03b1, Lanckorona (Krakow), Poland, June 25-July 2, 2023<\/div>\n
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Warsaw, Poland, May 11, 2023<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cTransmedial Transmissions: Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Cult of the ‘Vita Nova,’\u201d\u00a0<\/span>FEATURED LECTURE<\/strong> for the International Seminar in Philosophy, Architecture, Education, and Legislation: The Truth of\/in Painting, Philosophy Department, University of Warsaw [via Google meet]<\/span><\/h2>\n

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\u00a0Warwick, England, April 13-14, 2023<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\u00a0\u201cPandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature and Indigenous Salvation,\u201d\u00a0KEYNOTE SPEECH <\/strong><\/a>for Processing the Pandemic III: Hope,<\/a> University of Warwick, Warwick, England, April 13-14, 2023<\/span><\/h2>\n

Call for Proposals_ Processing the Pandemic III<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Franke Lecture, \u201cPandemics and Apocalypse in World Literature,\u201d University of Warwick, April, 2023<\/a><\/div>\n
KEYNOTE SPEECH for Symposium on \u201cProcessing the Pandemic III: Hope,\u201dInterdisciplinary Approaches to Emotions in the Wake of COVID19,Center for Renaissance St…<\/div>\n
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\u00a0Kuwait, February 7-9, 2023\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n

*\u201cUnaying Wokeism, or the Role of Self-Critique in Judging Others\u201d\u00a0KEYNOTE SPEECH <\/strong><\/a> Home | GUST International Conference 2023<\/a>\u00a0Gulf University of Science and Technology, Mubarak Al-Abdullah, Kuwait, February 7-9, 2023\u00a0 <\/span><\/h2>\n

Conference Program – Kuwait HL<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

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\"11<\/a>Apophatic Ethics as an Alternative to Identity Politics, or How to Avoid Wokeism\u00a0GUST Newsletter mini-version<\/p>\n

Newsletter | The Global Studies Center at Gulf University for Science and Technology (gust.edu.kw)<\/a><\/p>\n

Nashville (USA) November 2022<\/span><\/h2>\n

*\u201cDante\u2019s New Life for Poetic Language as Theological Revelation in a Modern Secular Key,\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/span>Inaugural Lecture for Annual Dante Lecture Series, Vanderbilt University,\u00a0<\/span>November 29, 2022, Nashville, Tennessee\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n

Berlin May 2022<\/span><\/h2>\n

*\u201cSelf-Reflection and Reduction in the Language of Lyric,\u201d Reduction Lecture Series, ICI (Institute for Cultural Inquiry) Berlin, May 16, 2022<\/a><\/h2>\n

Introduction by Manuele Gragnolati<\/a><\/h2>\n

Discussion<\/a><\/h2>\n

\"Talk<\/p>\n

*\u201cSelf-reflection and the Other in Dante\u2019s “Paradiso,”\u201d Plenary Address for the Dante Salon at Psychology and the Other Conference, Boston College, September 17-19, 2021<\/span><\/h2>\n

\"Dante<\/a><\/p>\n

University of Frankfurt, October, 2021<\/h2>\n

“Conversazione con Francesco Giusti sul linguaggio lirical nel Paradiso”<\/a>
\nPublic Debate on William Franke’s Dante\u2019s Paradiso and the Theological Origins of Modern Thought: Towards a Philosophy of Self-Reflection, With critique by Francesco Giusti, Moderator Christine Ott, Comparative Literature, University of Frankfurt, Germany, June 25, 2021<\/h2>\n

University of Anbar, Iraq, May 2020<\/span><\/h2>\n

*\u201cMuch Virtue in Vagueness: Premonition of the Eternal and Encountering t he Other\u201d Keynote Speech for Literary Workshop on: \u201cObsession with Eternity and Challenges of the Other,\u201d\u00a0<\/a>Departments of Arabic and English, College of Arts,\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 University of Anbar, Iraq,\u00a0May 11, 2020 (online conference)\u00a0 \u00a0Intervention starts at 1:25:51 in videorecording<\/h2>\n

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Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts\u00a0 October 2019<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

“Dante and Phenomenology”:<\/a> PLENARY ADDRESS with respondent for \u201cPsychology and the Other 2019 Conference,\u201d <\/a>section on “Dante and Phenomenology,\u201d Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, October 4-6, 2019<\/h2>\n

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Xi’an, Xianxi, China\u00a0 September 2019<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201c<\/a>Religion, Culture, and Art: Their Common Matrix,\u201d KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong> for ICRCA International Conference on Religion, Culture, and Art<\/a>, MIGCCA (Modern International Green Culture Communication Association), (Co-Organizers: University of Zagreb, Yun Tech, University of Glasgow), Xi\u2019an, China, September 21-22, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

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Taiwan (Greater China)\u00a0 October 2018<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n

\u201cFrom Blake\u2019s \u2018Eternal Great Humanity Divine\u2019 to Confucian J\u016bnz\u01d0 \u541b\u5b50: Apophatic Paths between Post- and Pre-Modern Secularity and Divinity,\u201d KEYNOTE SPEECH<\/strong><\/a> for Conference \u201cBetween Humanity and Divinity: In Literature, Art, Religion and Culture\u201d of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (TACMRS)<\/a> National Chi Nan University, Taiwan, October 19-20, 2018<\/h2>\n