June 13 and 14 2024

XXIIIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Alghero, Sardegna, on “Ancient Critiques of Democracy and Their Contemporary Relevance”
(together with Diego Zucca, Università di Sassari)
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March 7-9 2023

The Literary, Historical, and Philosophical Sources of Machiavelli’s Thought and Works Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Center for the European Dialogue, Lake Como (together with Francesca Russo, Napoli, and Stefano Saracino, Jena)
https://www.villavigoni.eu/event/
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June 18 and 19 2021

Initial Online-Workshop on the Ethics of Conversation and Disagreement (together with Martine Prange, University of Tilburg)
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Nov 30-Dec. 1 2019

International conference on “Friedrich Nietzsche und die ‘Magie des Extrems’” at Evangelische Akademie Tutzing (https://www.ev-akademie-tutzing.de/) (together with Jochen Wagner, Henning Ottmann, and Andreas Urs Sommer)
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June 11 and 12 2018

International Conference on “Kant, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and the Impossibility of a Rational Grounding of Values” at Bogazici University, Istanbul
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16-18 December 2015

International conference on Plato’s “Laws” at Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany
See program

22 November 2014

International colloquium on “Theories of the Good Life” at Bogazici University, Istanbul
See program
Listen to part of Manuel Knoll's lecture on Hedonism

5-6 December 2013

International conference on Michael Walzer’s “Spheres of Justice” at the Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany
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6-8 June 2013

International conference “Pluralism and Conflict: Distributive Justice beyond Rawls and Consensus” at Fatih University, Istanbul
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5-7 September 2012

Workshop on "Nietzsche and Political Theory" at MANCEPT 2012 (University of Manchester, https://manceptworkshops2012 )
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30 January - 1 February 2012

International conference on the Renaissance Thought of the State
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See pictures from the conference
See a report on the conference in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feb 4 2012, p. 16

16-17 December 2009

International conference on Niccolò Machiavelli
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October 11-13 2024

Meeting for the 5th Anniversary of the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation. Scarritt Bennett Center, Nashville, Tennessee
presentation: Hedonistic Orientation. Pleasure and Pain as Natural Sources of Orientation for a Good Life

October 3-5 2024

“Methods in Aristotelian Tradition”
International Conference of the Department of Philosophy of Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic)
presentation: Machiavelli and Hobbes on the Appropriate Method for Political Philosophy. With or Against Aristotle?
See program

June 13 and 14 2024

XXIIIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Alghero, Sardegna, on “Ancient Critiques of Democracy and Their Contemporary Relevance”
presentation: Ancient and Contemporary Critiques of Democracy

May 25 2024

The 5th Edition of the National Conference “Human Nature, Culture, Technology” (NUCT 2024). Work and Leisure in the Posthuman Convergence
presentation: Work, Leisure, and the Good Life. A Hedonistic Approach
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May 17 2024

Workshop on Political Philosophy (Universities of Bursa, Turkey and Wroclaw, Poland)
presentation: Nietzsche’s Alleged Two Political Philosophies: Aristocracy or Democracy?

May 25-26 2023

XXIIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) on “The Book of Political Science: Structure, Hierarchy and Recipient from Antiquity to the Middles Ages”
presentation: The Indebtedness of Machiavelli’s Method and Conception of Political Science to Aristotle’s “Politics”
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March 7-9 2023

The Literary, Historical, and Philosophical Sources of Machiavelli’s Thought and Works International Conference at Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Center for the European Dialogue, Lake Como
presentation: The Indebtedness of Machiavelli’s Method and Conception of Political Science to Aristotle’s “Politics”
https://www.villavigoni.eu/event/
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Nov. 26 2022

“Nietzsche’s Cheerful Philosophy ”
Conference of Felsefe Kültür Sanat Derneği (FKSD) in Ankara
presentation: Nietzsche on the Art of Living
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Nov. 17-18 2022

“Kritische Theorie: Verstehen in den heutigen Gesellschaften”
International Conference of the Department of Sociology of Turkish-German University Istanbul
presentation: Leiden und Lust. Wie lassen sich die heutigen sozialen Krisen aus der Perspektive der kritischen Theorie verstehen und überwinden?
See poster 1
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Oct. 6-8 2022

“Teleology in Aristotelian Tradition”
International Conference of the Department of Philosophy of Palacky University Olomouc (Czech Republic) in Collaboration with the Czech Society for the Study of Aristotle
presentation: Teleology in Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy
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May 20-21 2022

XXIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic (Jan Evangelista Purkyne University) on “Non-citizens in the City. Strategies of Differentiation and Integration in Ancient Political and Practice”
presentation: Non-citizens in Plato’s Magnesia: Slaves, Foreigners, and the Disagreement on the Status of Women Disagreements
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May 12 2022

JOURNÉES D’ÉTUDES PASSIONS POLITIQUES
Centre Léon Robin / Sorbonne Université
presentation: Understanding ‘stasis’. The function of indignation and anger in Aristotle’s theory of civil war
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Nov. 18-20 2021

Università degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Storia Culture Civiltà
“Le emozioni nelle poleis”
presentation: Political Disagreements as Cause of Moral Outrage. Aristotle as Founder of a Theory of Moral and Political Disagreements
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Nov. 12 2021

City of Gotha, Germany
Book Presentation, Tilo Schabert, Collected Papers
presentation: Democracy and Liberty
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Oct. 8-9 2021

XXth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum (University of Macerata, Senigallia) on “Oikos nomos. Politics and Economics in Ancient Thought”
presentation: The Analysis of the Commodity and its Fair Exchange. A Comparison of Aristotle’s and Karl Marx’s Economic Theories
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June 18 and 19 2021

Initial Online-Workshop on the Ethics of Conversation and Disagreement (see program above)
presentation:Deep Disagreements on Values, Justice, and Moral Issues. The Need for an Ethics of Disagreement

April 29 2021

Workshop on “Geschichte als politische Ressource: Vergangenheitswissen und seine literarische (Re)Konstruktion im Athen des 4. Jhs. v. Chr.” at Tübingen University
presentation:Platons (Re)Konstruktion der Geschichte von Argos, Messene und Sparta. Geschichtliche Lehren für ein stabiles politisches System
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March 11-13 2020

International Conference “Disagreements. From Theory to Practice” at University of Tartu, Estonia
presentation: Deep Disagreements on Values, Justice, and Moral Issues. Towards an Ethics of Disagreement
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Sept. 21 2019

Annual Meeting of Görres-Gesellschaft at Paderborn University, Germany
presentation: Verfall und Stabilität politischer Ordnungen
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Sept. 12-14 2019

25th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society on “Nietzsche and Humanity: (Anti-)Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism” at Tilburg University, NL
presentation: Nietzsche’s Übermensch: a Political Reading
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Sept. 4-7 2019

General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) at University of Wroclaw
presentation: Deep Disagreements on Social and Political Justice: Their Meta-Ethical Relevance and the Need for a New Research Perspective
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July 4-5 2019

GANPH-Workshop on Plato’s and Aristotle’s Political Philosophy, Würzburg University, Germany
presentation: Die Gerechtigkeitstheorien von Platon und Aristotle. Ein Vergleich
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May 25-26 2019

XIXth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum (University of Pardubice) on “The Rule of People, the Rule of Law and the Role of Logos in the Public Sphere”
presentation: Sophistic Criticisms of the Rule of Law: A Comparison of Callicles and Thrasymachos
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26 October 2018

Ancient PhiIosophy Day at Koç University, Istanbul
presentation: Aristotle’s Politics: Philological and Philosophical Perspectives
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11 June 2018

International conference on “Kant, Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and the Impossibility of a Rational Grounding of Values” at Bogazici University, Istanbul
presentation: The Impossibility of a Rational Grounding of Values and Normative Theories: Max Weber on the Clash of Approaches to Ethics
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25-26 May 2018

XVIIIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum (Università degli Studi di Bologna) on „God, Religion and Society in Ancient Thought”
presentation: On the Rationalization of Ancient Greek Theology. From Hesiod to Plato and Aristotle
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2-4 May 2018

Istanbul International Congress on Philosophy, Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters
presentation: The Meta-Ethical Consequences of Deep Disagreements About Social and Political Justice
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16/17 March 2018

Symposium on the Dialectics of Social and Ecological Justice (on the occasion of Peter-Cornelius Mayer-Tasch’s 80th birthday), Schweisfurth Foundation Munich
presentation: Justice, Social Justice, and Justice Conflicts
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28 Feb-March 3 2018

Multifocal Approach: Does Reality Like Hiding? Università di Macerata
presentation: Nietzsche’s Perspectivism
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4/5 November 2017

Revolution 100 Years After – System, Geschichte, Struktur, Peformanz einer politische ökonomischen Theorie, organized by Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann, Munich University (LMU)
presentation: Aristoteles als Begründer der Theorie politischer Revolutionen
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26 October 2017

“Seminario Internactional “La Polis de los filósofos”, organized by Instituto des Estudios Clásicos “Lucio Anneo Séneca”, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
presentation: Nussbaum and Aristotle on Citizenship, Justice and Equality
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6 October 2017

“Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Critical Theory”, organized by Goethe-Institut Ankara
presentation: Kritische Theorie und Hedonismus. Zum normativ-ethischen Kern von Theodor W. Adornos Denken
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26-27 May 2017

XVIIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Barcelona (Universitat de Barcelona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya) on „Pain an Punishment in Ancient Thought”
presentation: Plato and Aristotle on the Role of Pleasure, Pain, and Punishment in Education
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27-29 June 2016

Annual Conference of the "Association for Social and Political Philosophy" at London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
presentation: Aristotle on Rebellion and Revolution
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26-28 May 2016

XVIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Bonn (Bonn University) on "Cosmopolitanism, Universalism, and Ius Gentium in Antiquity and their Continued Existence"
presentation: Plato and Aristotle on War and Peace
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16-18 December 2015

International conference on Plato's "Laws" at Akademie für Politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany
presentation: Plato's conception of the Mixed Constitution and its Aristocratic Character

29-30 May 2015

XVth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic (Jan Evangelista Purkyne University) on "Koina ta tón filón"
presentation: Aristotle's Critique of Plato's "Communist" Ideals
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26–28 March 2015

Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Berlin on Utopia
presentation: Machiavelli's Republican Utopia in the "Discourses"
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21 January 2015

International Colloquium “Ancient Political Philosophy”, organized by Christoph Horn in Bonn
presentation: Man as zoon politikon and zoon logon echon in Aristotle

21 November 2014

International colloquium on “Theories of the Good Life” at Bogazici University, Istanbul
presentation: Aristotelian Hedonism. Human Nature as a Foundation for a Hedonist Ethics

5-6 September 2014

XIVth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Milan (Università Milano-Bicocca) on „Princeps Legibus Solutus”
presentation: Disempowering the Leviathan: John Locke on the Rule of Law and the Separation of Powers
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10 December 2013

Niccolò Machiavelli. 500 Jahre Il Principe at Universität der Bundeswehr München
presentation: Max Webers Machiavelli-Rezeption. Die Konsequenzen des politischen Realismus für das Verhältnis von Politik und Ethik
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5-6 December 2013

International conference on Michael Walzer’s “Spheres of Justice” at the Akademie für Polische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany
presentation: Walzers “Sphären der Gerechtigkeit" als Antwort auf die Gerechtigkeitstheorien von Rawls und Nozick

28-29 November 2013

Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu Istanbul Seminerli: XXV, Yeditepe University, Istanbul
Aristotle’s Practical Philosophy: The Unity of Ethics and Political Philosophy

14-16 November 2013

International conference “Ancient Ideas in the Contemporary World. The Reception of the Ancient Political Theory in the Contemporary Political Philosophy” at Carlos III University Madrid
presentation: "How Aristotelian is Martha Nussbaum’s Capabilities Approach?”
See report

22-23 June 2013

Workshop on “What is social justice?” in Wildbad Kreuth (cooperation of Hanns Seidel Foundation with Munich School of Political Science)
presentation: The Theory of Complex Equality: Michael Walzer’s answer to Rawls

6-8 June 2013

International conference "Pluralism and Conflict: Distributive Justice beyond Rawls and Consensus" at Fatih University, Istanbul
presentation 1: Introduction to the topic of the conference
presentation 2 (together with Nurdane Şimşek): Does Rawls's First Principle of Justice Allow for Consensus?

29-30 April 2013

International Colloquium "Perspectives biologiques sur l'animal politique chez Aristotle" at Galatasary University, Istanbul
presentation: Aristotle's Arguments for his Political Anthropology and the Naturalness of the Polis

13-16 January 2013

Conference “Plato’s Nomoi“, Christoph Horn’s conference in Bonn for his cooperative commentary
presentation: The status of citizens, women, aliens, and slaves in Magnesia

16-18 November 2012

Conference “Sphären der Gerechtigkeit: Arbeit – Bildung – Chancen“ in the Akademie für Politische Bildung in Tutzing
presentation: Just Equality of Opportunity
See report

11-13 October 2012

II. International Philosophy Congress in Bursa, Turkey: “The City and Philosophy”
presentation: What is the Role of Philosophy in the City of Today. A Comparison of the Answers of Socrates, Plato and Socrates

5-7 September 2012

Workshop on "Nietzsche and Political Theory" in Manchester (MANCEPT 2012)
presentation: The Übermensch as social and political task

8-12 July 2012

22nd World Congress of Political Science (IPSA) in Madrid
presentation: An interpretation of Rawls's difference principle as the principle of the welfare state

25-26 May 2012
XIIth Meeting of the Collegium Politicum in Madrid
presentation: Die Bedeutung der distributiven Gerechtigkeit für die Verfassungslehre des Aristoteles

30 January - 1 February 2012

International conference on the Renaissance Thought of the State in Tutzing
presentation: Machiavellis anthropologische Staatsbegründung

11–15 September 2011

XXII. Triannual Conference of the German Philosophical Association (DGPhil) in Munich
presentation: Die Einheit der acht Bücher der “Politik” des Aristoteles

13–17 July 2011

International Conference of the International Political Science Association (section: Political Philosophy) in Sydney, Australia: Articulations of Justice II: Justice and Equality,
presentation: Aristotle & Nussbaum on Justice and Equality

30 June– 3 July 2011

International Conference on Nietzsches Philosophie des Unbewussten in Naumburg,
presentation: Nietzsche’s Theory of Thinking and his critique of the I as its subject

16–18 March 2011

Biannual Conference of the German Political Science Association (section: Political Theory) in Augsburg,
presentation: Die Macht des Kapitals

18–21 July 2010

International conference on Nietzsche's Philosophy of science in Berlin,
presentation: Nietzsches Kritik am wissenschaftlichen Willen zur Wahrheit

16–18 July 2010

Symposion on Negative Ethics in Frauenchiemsee (Prof. Henning Ottmann),
presentation: Eine negative Ethik des Denkens – Reflexionen im Anschluss an Martin Heidegger

25–27 June 2010

International conference of the International Political Science Association (section: Political Philosophy) in Jena: Articulations of Justice I: Justice and Liberty,
presentation: Michael Walzer on the Relation of Justice to Liberty