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 University Comparative Literature Colloquium
11. 3/84, "Skepticism and Criteria in Literature and Philosophy," Università 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 Con Quixote" (MLA meeting)
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, Department of Romance Languages: "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, Naufpaktos (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, EALC/ALS 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, Aristotle on Tragedy,” Stanford University
96. “Beauty Betrayed,” Plenary Address, XVICongresso Internacional de Estetica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
97. 6/04 “Imagen, Iconoclasma, y Modernidad en Don Quijote” Barcelona, Forum 2004
98. 5/05 “Image and Iconoclasm in Don Quijote,” University of Oregon, Eugene. May, 2005.
99. 6/06 “Text and Image After Plato,” Sichuan University, Chinese Society for Aesthetics and IAA Joint Conference, Chengdu, China.
100. 09/06 “Sense and Concept in Aesthetic Theory.” Plenary address, III Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics” (Portorož).
101. 04/07 “Tragedy and Philosophy,” Annual Notre Dame Lecture, Notre Dame University.
102. 07/08 “Romantic Politics and Revolutionary Art,” International Association for Aesthetics Conference, Ankara, Turkey
103. 05/08 “Three Lectures on the Rhetoric of the Image,” Primorska University, Koper (Capodistria)