1. 2/80, University of Texas, Austin, "Poetry of the Spanish Baroque"

2. 2/80, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Forms of Theatre in Calderón"

3. 3/80, Columbia University, "Calderón and the Limits of Illusion"

4. 2/81, University of Toronto, "Morality in Calderón and the Baroque," International Symposium on Calderón and the Baroque Tradition 

5. 5/81, University of San Diego, "Calderón's Idea of a Theatre" 

6. 3/82, "Cervantes and the Picaresque," UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 

7. 4/82, "Dostoevsky's Morals," University of Toronto Conference on Literature and Moral Philosophy 

8. 11/83, "Perspectivism and the Conflict of Values in Don Quixote," Columbia University

9. 4/83, "Philosophy and the Novel," University of Montreal, Xth International Conference in Aesthetics 

10. 11/83, "Deconstruction and Skepticism," New York UniversityComparative Literature Colloquium

11. 3/84, "Skepticism and Criteria in Literature and Philosophy," Universita di Torino 

12. 4/84, "Skepticism and Deconstruction," Cambridge University

13. 4/84, "Morality and Theatre in Calderón," Oxford University

14. 5/84, "Skepticism and Absorption in the Baroque," University of Edinburgh

15. 12/84, Cervantes Society of America, "Genre Definition and Multiplicity in Don Quixote" (MLA convention) 

16. 4/85, "Ortega y Gasset:  Between Philosophy and Literature," Hofstra University

17. 12/85, "Transformations of the Cid," MLA convention 

18. 12/85, "From Frankfurt to Wittgenstein," MLA convention

19. 4/86, "Genealogies of Modernism," UCB Comparative Literature Colloquium

20. 12/85, Cervantes Society of America(MLA meeting), "Genre Definition and Multiplicity in Cervantes"

21. 4/86, "The Genealogy of Pragmatism," IAPL conference, University of Washington, Seattle

22. 2/87, "Narration and Modernity," Vanderbilt University

23. 9/87, "Narration and Totality," SUNY, Stony Brook

24. 12/87, "Jürgen Habermas:  Modernism versus Postmodernism," MLA convention

25. 12/87 "Cervantes and Lukács," MLA Convention 

26. 1/88, "Cervantes and Historical Change," University of Pennsylvania

27. 4/88, "The Politics of Images," IAPL conference, University of Notre Dame

28. 7/88, "Narration and Totality," XIth International Congress in Aesthetics, Nottingham, England

29. 5/88, "What is Comparative Literature?" UCB departmental symposium presentation 

30. 5/88, "History, Theory, Postmodernity," IAPL Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence

31. 5/88, "The Foreign Languages at Berkeley," panel presentation on "The Form and Content of Departments"

32. 10/88, University of Washington (Seattle) Colloquium on Philosophy and Literature:  "Narration and Totality"

33. 10/88, "The Revolt of the Masses:  Ortega's Critique of Modernity," Dept. of Romance Languages, University of Washington, Seattle

34. 2/89, "Narration and Totality (Part II)," Dept. of Rhetoric Colloquium, UC Berkeley

35. 2/89, "The Revolt of the Masses:  Ortega's Critique of Modernity," University of Indiana, Bloomington

36. 2/89, "Ortega's Critique of Modernity," Stanford University                     

37. 4/89, Endowed College Lecture:  "Narration and Totality," Williams College

38. 4/89, Geddes Lecture (endowed lecture), Boston University: "Narration and Totality," 

39. 10/89, "Aesthetic Liberalism," American Society for Aesthetics

40. 10/89, Haverford College Distinguished Lecture Series: "Ortega and the Question of Modernity" 

41. 10/89, Swarthmore College, Dept. of Philosophy:  "The Discourses of Modernity"

42. 10/89, Temple University, Departments of Philosophy and English: "Lukács' Theory of the Novel and the Problem of Modernity"

43. 5/89 "The Disenchantment of the World:  Max Weber's Critique of Modernity," IAPL Conference, Emory University

44. 7/89, "Reason and Romance," NEH International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Dartmouth College

45. 3/90, Humanities West (with KQED Radio) "The New and the Old:  The Theatre of the Golden Age" 

46. 4/90, "The Politics of Skepticism," International Symposium on La vida es sueño, Penn State University

47. 4/90, Seminar on "Rethinking Dualism," IAPL Conference, U.C. Irvine

48. 10/90 "The Ethics of Enlightenment:  Goya and Kant," Carleton College

49. 10/90 "The Archaeology of Desire in Don Quixote," University of Minnesota

50. 12/90 "Reason and Romance," MLA Convention (Chicago) 

51. 4/91 "Secularization and Literary Self-Assertion in Don Quixote," University of Pennsylvania Colloquium on Cultural Authority:  Literary Continuation in Renaissance Spain

52.  12/91, "La Teoría de la Modernidad," Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Barcelona

53.  12/91, "Las Consecuencias de la Modernidad," Departamento de Filosofía, Universidad de Barcelona 

54.  3/92, "The Disenchantment of the World," Departments of English and Philosophy, Trinity University

55.  3/92, "The Re-Enchantment of the World," Departments of English and Philosophy, Trinity University

56.  12/93, "The Language of Value in Conrad," Keynote Address, The Joseph Conrad Society

57.  3/94, "History and Modernity in Golden Age Spain," Duke University, Department of Romance Studies

58.  3/94 "Questioning and History:  The Question of Enlightenment," Plenary Address at the conference on Rhetoric and Argumentation, sponsored by the Centre Europeén pour l'Etude de l'Argumentation (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels)

59.  12/94, "Quevedo and the Politics of Anti-Modernism," special session on Quevedo, MLA convention, San Diego. 

60.  2/95, "Communication and Transformation in Kant and Arendt," Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. 

61.  2/95, "Instinct and Object:  Subjectivity and Speech-Act in Garcilaso de la Vega," UC Santa Cruz, Bay Area Early Modern Studies Group. 

62.  3/95, "Aesthetics and Politics in Kant and Arendt," Centre for Critical Theory, Program in Social and Political Thought, University of Western Ontario.

63.  3/95, "Communication and Transformation in Kant and Arendt," Program in Social and Political Thought, York University (Canada) 

64.  5/96, "Beyond Form:  Aesthetics, Ideology, and Iconoclasm in Don Quixote," UCLA, invited paper at the conference "Cervantes and his Postmodern Constituencies." 

65.  10/96, "The Authority of Taste in Gracián," Dept. of Literature, UC San Diego

66.  1/97, "Gracián and the Invention of Taste," Stanford University

67.  2/98,  "Humanities at Century's End:  Communication and Transformation," UC San Diego

68.  2/98:  Yale University, "The Invention of Taste in Gracián" 

69.  2/98:  UCSD:  "Humanities at Century's End:  Communication and Transformation" 

70.  2/98:  University of Chicago:  "The Invention of Taste in Gracián"

71.  4/97:  ACLA Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, "Aesthetic Qualities Across Media" 

72.  10/31 “Response to Arthur Danto on the Future of Art,” UC Berkeley, Townsend Center for the Humanities Forum 

73.  8/98 “The Difficulty of Judgment,” XIV International Congress of Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

74.  11/98 “Aesthetic Reflection and Narrative Form: From Spiritual Biography to Universal History,” University of Heidelberg, Graduierten Kolleg “Religion und Normativität” 

75.  3/31/99 “Consequences of Enlightenment: Critical Response,” American Society for Aesthetics, Pacific Division Conference, Asilomar CA. 

76.  10/99 “Borges: Mimesis and Modernism,” SUNY Buffalo, Departments of Philosophy and Comparative Literature 

77.  6/00 “Tragedy and Sublimity,” University of Umeå, Umeå (Sweden) 

78.  6/00  “Philosophy of Culture and Theory of the Baroque,” Society for Aesthetics, National Academy of Arts and Sciences, Ljubljana (Slovenia) 

79.  9/00 “Sublimitas y barroco en algunas obras de Calderón,” Universidad de Navarra, “Calderón 2000," Pamplona (Spain) 

80.  10/00 “Cervantes, Platón y Aristóteles: Literatura y ‘Phronesis,’” IV Congreso Internacional de Cervantistas, Nafpaktos (Greece) 

81.  10/00: “The Ends of Art,” American Society for Aesthetics, Reno, NV

82.  6/01: “Aesthetic Agency,” University of Bergen (Norway), Nordic Society for Aesthetics 

83.  8/01 IV International Congress of Aesthetics, Tokyo, Japan, Plenary Session:  “Heidegger, Adorno, and the Inheritance of Romanticism” 

84.  10/01, Association of Literary Scholars and Critics (ALSC) conference, “Not a Laughing Matter: How Don Quixote Became a Funny Book.”  

85.  2/02 “Artists and Intellectuals” ARC Panel Presentation, UC Bekeley 

86.  3/02 “Cervantean Self-Fashioning: Composition for Two Hands,” University of Tulsa

87.  3/02 Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Honors seminar, University of Tulsa

88.  3/02 Faculty Seminar ”Philosophy of Culture and Theory of the Baroque,” University of Tulsa

89.  3/02 “Body and Voice in ‘Daughters of the Dust,’” University of Copenhagen, EALCALS plenary conference talk 

90.  4/02  “Tragedy and Enlightenment,” Dept. of Comparative Literature, Univ. Of Copenhagen

91.  4/02  “Don Juan Tenorio,” seminar, Department of Romance Languages, Univ. Of Copenhagen

92.  11/02  “Hegemony in Aesthetic Theory,” Slovenian Society for Aesthetics, Ljubljana, Slovenia

93.  12/02 Wittgenstein and the Middle Voices,” MLA Annual Convention New York, NY

94. 06/03  “Beauty Betrayed,” King’s College, Cambridge (UK) 

95.  2/04 “Arendt on Action; cf. Aristotle on Tragedy,” Stanford University

96.  6/04 “Image, Iconoclasma, y Modernidad en Don QuijoteBarcelona, Forum 2004 

97.  5/05 “Image and Iconoclasm in Don Quijote,University of Oregon, Eugene.  May, 2005

98.  6/06 “Text and Image After Plato,” Sichuan Normal University, Chinese Society for Aesthetics and IAA conference, Chengdu, China, June 2006. 

99.  09/06 “Sense and Concept in Aesthetic Theory.” Plenary address, III Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics” (Portorož).

Radio Interview

National Public Radio "Forum" with Michael Krasny (Feb., 2008) on "The Age of American Unreason"