“The Aesthetics of Democracy,”
Political Theory Workshop
University of Chicago, March 2021
“Rousseau’s Silent Assemblies,”
Political Theory Workshop
University of Notre Dame, April 2020
“Liberal Egalitarianism’s ‘Gifts to the Demos”
Book Symposium on Katrina Forrester’s In the Shadow of Justice
Center for the Humanities, New York University, November 2019
“Populism and Racial Coalition,”
Conference: “For the Many: On the Prospects of Multiracial Populism”
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture (CSRPC)
University of Chicago, October 2019
“Beyond Democracy’s Imaginary Investments,”
Conference: “Democratic Interpellations”
University of California, Santa Cruz, October 2019
“Lincoln, Memory, Political Mythology,”
National Endowment for the Humanities Seminar
Cornell University, July 2019
“Political Theology and Popular Incarnation,”
Political Theory Workshop
University of Copenhagen, May 2019
“The People as Popular Manifestation,”
Conference: “People, Constituent Power, and Revolution,”
Uppsala University, May 2019
“The Trouble with ‘Populism,’”
Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace, and Justice Public Lecture
Uppsala University, May 2019
“Rousseau’s Silent Assemblies,”
Research Seminar in Political Philosophy (RIPPLE)
KU Leuven, May 2019
“The Trouble with ‘Populism’,”
Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity, and Society
Linköping University, May 2019
“The Aesthetics of Democracy,”
History of Political Thought Workshop
Stanford University, April 2019
“The People as Popular Manifestation”
Keynote Address. Duke Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Duke University, February 2019
“Democratic Theory and Populism,”
Conference: “Democracy in Decline? The Challenge of Global Populism”
University of Delaware, May 2018
“The People as Popular Manifestation”
A Night of Philosophy and Ideas
Brooklyn Public Library, January 2018
“The Problem of Popular Manifestation,”
Center for Globalization and Social Change
CUNY Graduate Center, October 2017
“Populism and Democratic Identification”
CGCC Summer Institute: Politics and Rhetoric of New Populisms
Northwestern University, July 17-20, 2017
“The Living Sovereign: Democratic Revolution and the Problem of Manifestation”
Conference: Images of Sovereignty
KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy, June 7-9, 2017
“Donald Trump’s ‘Populism’”
Conference: Prospects for American Democracy in the Age of Trump
Cornell University Law School, March 18, 2017
“Democratic Theory and Disembodiment,”
Conference: The Crisis of Collectivity
Northwestern University, November 4, 2016
“Democratic Heroism,”
Moral, Political, and Legal Theory Workshop
University of California, Berkeley, March 4, 2016
“The Poetry of the Barricades,”
Political Theory Workshop
Hunter College, February 17, 2016
“Publius and Prerogative,”
Conference: The Federalist in the 21st Century
University of Texas Law School, January 22-23, 2016
“Tocqueville’s Religious Dread,”
Political Philosophy Workshop
Brown University, November 12, 2015
“Tocqueville’s Religious Dread,”
Political Theory Workshop
Columbia University, October 7, 2015
“The Poetry and Politics of Langston Hughes,”
Conference: African American Political Thought: Past and Present
University of California, Los Angeles, May 14-17, 2015
Conference: Political Will
Cornell University, April 17-18, 2015
Conference: Political Concepts
Columbia University, March 6-7, 2015
“The Poetry of the Barricades,”
Political Theory Workshop
CUNY Graduate Center, February 2015
“Who will fight for public things? And how?”
Response to Bonnie Honig’s Maxwell Lecture in Political Theory and Contemporary Politics
University of Utah, November 20, 2014
Roundtable: “Radical Democracy In America: Recent Works by Jason Frank”
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)Susan McWilliams (Pomona College)Andrew Murphy (Rutgers University)
Jack Turner (University of Washington)
George Shulman (New York University)
Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association
Washington, D.C., August 2014
Conference: “Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Age of Revolution,”
Center for the Study of Representative Institutions
Yale University, October 2013
Constitution Day Public Lecture
The University of South Carolina, September 2013
Conference: “Sovereignty: Stages and Frontiers”
New York University, May 2013
Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Yale University, March 2013
“The Lyre of Orpheus: Aesthetics and Authority in Melville’s Billy Budd,”
Center for Global Culture and Communication
Northwestern University, December 4, 2012
Conference: “Tragic Vision, Democratic Hope: A Conference in Honor of J. Peter Euben,”
Duke University, November 9-10, 2012
Constitution Day Panel: “Foundings”Cornell Law School, September 19, 2012
Political Theory Workshop
Duke University, April 12, 2012
Conference: “Populism: Historical and Normative Aspects”
Center for Human Values,
Princeton University, February, 17, 2012
“Delightful Horror: Edmund Burke and the Aesthetics of Democratic Revolution,”
Political Theory Colloquium
University of California, Los Angeles, October 2011
Summer Institute: “Jacques Rancière: Politics and Media Aesthetics,”
Northwestern University, July 2011
Conference: “Konservative politische Kultur nach 1945 in Deutschland und den USA,”
Humboldt University, May 2011
Inaugural Lecture, Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Arts of Democracy,
Rutgers University, April 2011
ECPR Joint Session: “We, the People”: A New Object of Democratic Analysis,”
St. Gallen, Switzerland, April 2011
Symposium: “Judging History: Contemporary Perspectives on Leo Strauss,”
Cornell University, March 2011
Political Science Department ColloquiumThe New School for Social Research, March 8, 2011
“Delightful Horror: Edmund Burke and the Aesthetics of Democratic Revolution,”
Political Theory Workshop
University of Pennsylvania, March 2011
