Lectures / Papers
19 June 2019
Public Lecture at the Barenboim-Said-Akademie, Berlin:
“The White Republic and Black Memory.”
29 May 2019
Public Lecture at the Barenboim-Sad-Akademie, Berlin:
“The Politics of Forgetting and Remembering: Germany and Japan.”
15 May 2019
Public Lecture at the Barenboim-Said Akademie, Berlin, Germany:
“From Silence to Recognition: The Story of the German Processing of the Past.”
30 July 2018
Lecture at Universitas Al Azhar Indonesia, Jakarta:
“Donald Trump’s Wild West and his Critique of the EU.”
8 February 2017
Roundtable discussion at the International Cultural Center, UH + East-West-Center on:
“The ‘Keyword’ Fascism.”
2 February 2016
“Comparison between the German and Japanese Processing of Memory”, Symposium on “Historical Memory and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia,” UH Centers for Japanese and Korean Studies.
8 July 2016
Lecture at the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine:
“Terror and Memory.”
19 November 2015
Lecture at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand:
“Coming to Terms with the Past in Europe and Asia.”
18 November 2015
Lecture at Thammasat University, Rangsit Campus, Thailand:
“Terror and Memory: Beyond the Uniqueness of the Holocaust.”
17 November 2015
Lecture at Prince Songkla University, Pattani Campus, Thailand:
“Genocides: Political Origins versus Cultural Determinism.”
4 September 2015
Paper at the Annual American Political Science Association Meeting in San Francisco:
“The Disintegration of Traditional Civilizations.”
5 December 2014
UH Department of Political Science Colloquium:
“Terror and Memory: Beyond the Uniqueness of the Holocaust.”
24 November 2014
Symposium: 100 Years World War I. New Insights into a Global Catastrophe. Paper:
“The New Debate about the Beginning of WWI and Contemporary Parallels.” Iolani Palace.
21 March 2014
UH Department of Religion. Conference on “Violence, Non-Violence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present and Future.” Paper:
“Terror and Amnesia; The Processing of Memory of WWII in Japan and Germany.”
21 September 2013
UH Political Science Department Colloquium:
“Transcendence, Secularization, and Circumcision.”
15 December 2012
Nanjing Memorial. Nanjing, PRC. Paper:
“German and Japanese Memory of the Past.”
8 December 2012
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, München. Lecture:
„Eric Voegelin‘s Neue Wissenschaft der Politik.“
5 July 2012
Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, München. Lecture:
“Amerika, China und Europa im Jahr der amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahlen.”
19 July 2012
Attac, Flensburg, Germany: „Amerika, China und Europa im Jahr der amerikanischen Präsidentschaftswahlen.“
April 21 and 25, 2012
Beijing Normal University and Beijing Foreign Studies University Lecture:
“Mass Killing and Memory: The Processing of the Past after WWII in Germany and Japan.”
31 Aug. – 4 Sept. 2011
Annual APSA Meeting, Seattle, WA Eric Voegelin Society Panel Chair and Paper:
“The Origins of Evil and the Banality of its Perpetrators.”
21 July 2011
Jakarta State Islamic University, Jakarta.
“The Rebirth of Politics –1989 and the Follow-Up Equivalences.”
19 July 2011
Center for Cultural Studies, Institute of Indonesian Studies, Jakarta. Paper:
“Decline of the West: The Paralysis of Politics in the USA.”
30 May 2011
Der Club von Berlin, Germany.
“1989 and the Consequences.” and EU.”
13 – 15 January 2011
University of Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Conference:
“The Power to Heal, Ways and Obstacles to Reconciliation in Western and Eastern Traditions.” Paper: “From Denial to Recognition and Reconciliation: The Processing of the German Record of Evil.”
18 – 20 February 2010
University of Hong Kong, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. Conference:
“Translatio Imperii in the 3rd Millennium”. Paper: “On the Death of Civilizations.”
18 – 20 March 2010
University of Hong Kong, Conference:
“Revolutions: Finished and Unfinished, from Primal to Final.” Paper: “On the Ruins of Civilizations.”
1 November 2010
UH Philosophy Department: Grad. Class on Comparative Philosophies and Cultures on War and Peace; Lecture:
“Machiavelli on the Founding and Maintenance of Societies and the Meaning of History.”
15 – 22 March 2007
Jewish Museum in Berlin; Week on Darfur.
Keynote Address on Darfur: “Why Does Europe Neglect Conflicts and Wars in Africa?”
14 – 16 Oct. 2004
European University Institute, Florence, Italy Conference on Varieties of World Making: Europe and Beyond.
Paper: “Republic or Empire: On the American End and the European Beginning of Politics”.
11 Dec. 2002
University of Bremen, Germany.
Lecture: “On the Difficulties of Comparative Genocide Research.”
14 Dec. 2002
VI. Internationales Eric-Voegelin-Symposium, University of Erfurt, Germany.
Paper: “Voegelin’s Hitler”.
18 Dec. 2002
Club of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Lecture: “On the Difficulties of Comparative Genocide Research”.
29 Nov. – 1 Dec. 2001
Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Vienna.
Conference on Gnosticism and Modernity (Symposium in Commemoration of Eric Voegelin’s Centennial).
Paper: “Politische Religion versus Zivilgesellschaft” (Political Religion vs. Civil Society).
30 August 2001
University of San Francisco, Law School.
Participation in a Symposium on Eric Voegelin and Political Philosophy.
1 -5 September 1999
APSA-Meeting.
“The Arendt-Voegelin Controversy on Totalitarianism.”
15 – 17 April 1999
University of Pennsylvania, Conference on ‘The Future of German American History’.
Paper: “The Place of the Holocaust in the American Economy of Evil.”
1 – 6 November 1999
German-Polish Youth Congress in Gauting and Dachau, Germany.
Keynote Address: “Violence in Politics: Genocide.”
11 December 1997
Lecture at Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
“The Regimes of Terror: The Holocaust and the Cambodian Killing Fields.”
9 December 1997
Lecture at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
“On the Probability of a Clash of Civilizations.”
28 – 30 November 1997
Colloquium on Genocide in Modern History; Stuttgart-Hohenheim, Germany.
“Demozid und Politik.”
3 – 5 October 1997
Conference on Communities in Peril: The History and Memory of Crisis in Germany and Sweden; European University, Florence, Italy.
“Politics and Catastrophe: Why is the World so Obsessed with German History?”
14 – 17 September 1997
German-Polish Symposium on Antisemitic Stereotypes in Germany and Poland; Krakow, Poland.
“Der Holocaust als ‘Clash’ der Zivilisationen.”
31 Aug. – 3 Sept. 1995
The American Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago.
“Between Philosophy and Common Sense: Voegelin’s Evasion of Politics.”
23 – 25 June 1995
Berlin Colloquium (Hotel Kempinski, Berlin, Germany) on Entente or Alienation: The Anglo-Saxons, the French, the Germans — in a New World Order/Disorder.
1-3 September 1994
The American Political Science Association Meeting, New York.
Comments on Voegelin’s first book (On the Form of the American Mind, 1928) and his views on America.