CONFERENCES, LECTURES AND SEMINARS

• 19-22 June 2011, Hartman Philosophical Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem, Israel
• 22 February 2011, Tel Aviv University, Minerva Center Seminar. Presentation: "The Concept of Crisis in Hannah Arendt's Thought."
• 27-28 December 2010, University of Ben Gurion, Israel, "Levinas Facing Biblical Figures." Presentation: "Levinas and the Unnamed Balaam."
• 17 December 2010, French Institute, Tel Aviv. Presentation: "Levinas and Subjectivity."
• 8-10 June 2010, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland, "Senses of the Political." Presentation: "Art and Politics in Cosmopolitan Times."
  
• 18 March 2010, University of Haifa, Israel, "The Crisis of the Israel Democracy." Presentation: "Two Issues about the demos of Democracy."
• 10 March 2010, University of Tel Aviv, Israel, "Origins of Totalitarianism: First Reading in Hebrew," Presentation: "Otherness and Responsibility in Arendt's Book, Anti-Semitism."
• 14-18 February 2010, Hartman Theology Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem (Israel)
• 8-10 December 2009, Van Leer, Jerusalem, Israel. "The Gift of the Land and the Fate of the Canaanites." Presentation: "Emmanuel Levinas on Canaanites and Zionism."
• 25-27 November 2009, French Institute of Tel Aviv, and University of Ben Gurion, Israel. "French Philosophy in Israel." Presentation: "Derrida: Language and Politics in the Israeli Context."
• 17-18 November 2009, University of Haifa. "Meaning in Judaism." Presentation: "Meaning and Interpretation."
• 12 July 2009, Van Leer, Jerusalem, Seminar "Knowledge, Society and Spirituality." Presentation: "Hannah Arendt between Existentialism and Postmodernism."
  
• 28 June-2 July 2009, Hartman Philosophical Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem (Israel).
• 1-4 June 2009, University of Bologna, Italy. "Between Shem and Japhet: Horizon and Limits of Jewish Philosophy," Presentation: "Derrida between Abraham and Oedipus: A Question of Interpretation."
• 22-26 February 2009, Hartman Theological Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem (Israel).
• 11 December 2008, University of Haifa. Colloquium: "The Arab Minority in the Israeli Narrative."
• 4 December 2008, London School of Economics, London (UK). "Ethics, Politics and the State of Israel." Presentation: "The State of Israel in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas." 
• 11 September 2008, Center for Jewish History, NYC (USA). "Renewing the Colloque: Celebrating Levinas' Talmudic Readings @ 50." Presentation: "Levinas' Ethics and Sanhedrin 73a." 
• 1-3 June 2008, French Institute, Tel Aviv (Israel), “Levinas and Derrida: A Proximity in Difference,” Presentation: “Levinas and Derrida: On Translation." 
• 9-10 April 2008, University of Tel Aviv (Israel), “Political Philosophy Beyond the Liberal Thought,” Presentation: “On Hospitality.” 
• 2 December 2007: Dean Ernest Schwarcz Annual Lecture, Center for Jewish Studies, Queens College, CUNY, USA. "The State of Israel in the Philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas."
• June 2007, Hartman Philosophical Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem (Israel)
• 11-13 June 2007, Association for Israeli Studies, Open University, Raanana (Israel), Presentation: "Scholem and Derrida on the Hebrew Language" 
• 17-19 April 2007, International Conference, "Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition," University of Bar Ilan (Israel). Presentation: "Arendt: About Homes and Refuges." 
• 28 February 2007: Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel). Seminar in the History of Political Thought. Presentation: "Levinas, Conquest and Cities of Refuge." 
• 18-22 February 2007, Hartman Theological Conference, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem (Israel).
• 27-30 December 2006. American Philosophical Association, Washington, D.C. (USA). Moderator: Hegel Session. 
• 9-11 November 2006. Northern Political Science Association, Boston (USA). Respondent: "Political Thought in Jewish Philosophy." 
• 30 August-3 September 2006. APSA Annual Conference, Philadelphia (USA). Presentation: "Hobbes and Corneille on Political Representation."
• 19-25 July 2006. International Levinas Conference, "Un Sie`cle avec Levinas : Levinas en he'ritage, " Cluny (France). Presentation : "Levinas et l'hospitalite' des villes-refuges."

• 15 May 2006: University of Bar Ilan (Israel). Department of Philosophy. Seminar: "Derrida, the Last Jew."

  Presentation: "Jacques Derrida and Primo Levi: Raiders of the Lost Name."

• ECPR Nicosia 25-30 April 2006. Director of Workshop 14: "Truth, Representation and Politics." Presentation: "Politics and the Representation of Hospitality."
• International Levinas Conference, University of Freiburg, Germany--University of Strasbourg, France. 13-18 February 2006. Presentation: "La me'moire et l'art d'e'crire chez Le'vinas."
• International Levinas Conference, Institute of Graduate Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 16-20 January 2006. Presentation: "Retour, retournement et souffrance chez Le'vinas"

• 8 January 2006: University of Tel Aviv, Department of Political Science. Seminar: "Political Theory." Presentation: "Derrida and Voltaire on Hospitality."

• The Cegla Conference, "Critical Modernities: Politics and Law beyond the Liberal Imagination," University of Tel Aviv, Faculty of Law, 28-30 December 2005. Respondent to Marc Antaki's paper: "The Critical Modernism of Hannah Arendt."
• Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Washington DC, USA, 18-20 December 2005. Presentation: "Did Derrida read Candide?"
• The Israel Democracy Institute. Symposium: "Religious Texts and the Political Order." Jerusalem, 30 May 2004. Presentation: "Colonialism, Hospitality and Religious References in Camus' 'The Guest'."
• Second Tampere Conference on Narrative, "Narrative, Ideology and Myth," Tampere, Finland, 24-28 June 2003. Presentation: "Freedom and Utopia in Eliot's Daniel Deronda."
• Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Cork, Ireland, 11-14 September 2002. Presentation: "Representing the Other: Benjamin, Levinas and the Trace of the Poor."
• ISSEI, VIII International Conference: "European Culture in a Changing World: Between Nationalism and Globalism." Aberystwyth (Wales), 22-27 July 2002. Presentation: "Cosmopolitan Itineraries and Territorial Transgressions in the Political Thought of Arendt and Levinas."
• Advanced Studies Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Symposium: "Narrative in Social Sciences," 10 January 2002. Respondent to Matti Hyvarinen's paper "Living Dangerous Narratives: Paul Auster as a Narrative Theorist"
• The Porter Institute, Tel Aviv University, Symposium: "Testimony and the Instrumentalization of the Past." 29 November 2001. Presentation: "Reporting and Storytelling: Eichmann in Jerusalem as Political Testimony"
• Pan European/ISA Conference, Canterbury (Kent), 6-8 September 2001. Presentation: "Representation between Past and Future. Arendt's Concept of Political Responsibility."
• University of Jyvaskyla. Symposium: "Politics Revisited," Jyvaskyla, Finland, 6-8 Dec, 2000. Presentation: "Illuminating Inheritance. Benjamin's Influence on Arendt's Political Storytelling"
• British Political Science Association Annual Conference, London, LSE, 10-13 April 2000. Presentation: "Illuminating Inheritance. Benjamin's Influence on Arendt's Political Storytelling"
• ECPR Mannheim 26-31 March 1999. Presentation: "The Poetic Nature of Political Disclosure. Hannah Arendt's Storytelling." Candidate to 1999 Wildenmann Prize.