Papers Given
‘The poetic artifice of erotic experience in the works of Jacques and Alix Cleo Roubaud’,
Romance, Loves, Lures and Illusion Symposium, Chelsea School of Art and Design, May 1997
‘So what’s so good about Karen McCormack?: linguistic tactics of liberation in the work of contemporary women
Language poets’,
Sub Voicive Poetics Conference, Centre for English Studies, University of London, October 1997
‘The processes and practices of OULIPIAN poetics in Jacques Roubaud’s The Great Fire of London and Some Thing Black’,
for the critical theory component of the MA in Writing Studies, EdgeHill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, May 1998
‘Heinrich Anton Müller’s “Useless Machines”: an Essay in Tactical Thinking’,
People in Research Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2006
‘The story of the “larval subjects”: a paratactic narrative in Difference and Repetition’,
The Work of Gilles Deleuze Conference, Greenwich University, July 2006
‘Deleuze and sensation: the ethical apprenticeship of an aesthetic encounter’,
Day School on ‘Sensation’, Manchester Metropolitan University, February 2007
‘“Counter-actualisation” and the usability of expression in Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense',
Forum for European Philosophy Conference, Sussex University, September 2007
'Heinrich Anton Müller’s “useless machines”: an essay in tactical thinking’,
‘Thinking Beyond Deleuze’ Conference, Dundee University, April 2008
‘Responsibility without capability, responsibility within capability: the encounter with the “Other” in
Levinas and Deleuze’,
Politics and Ontology Conference, Queen Mary College,University of London, June 2008
‘Responsibility without capability, responsibility within capability: the encounter with the “Other” in
Levinas and Deleuze’,
International Deleuze Conference, Cardiff University, August 2008
‘The unformed-forming in Gerhard Richter’s “Abstract Paintings”’,
Mark Rothko’s ‘Seagram Murals’ Exhibition, Tate Liverpool, October 2010
‘Neither sublime nor beautiful: the aesthetics and ethics of dislocated place in the paintings of
Pete Clarke’,
Symposium on Painting, Arts in Perpetuity Trust London, May 2011
'The tension between painting and text in the collaborative work of Pete Clarke and Robert Sheppard', Symposium on Collaboration, Edge Hill University, April 2013
'The tension between painting and text in the collaborative work of Pete Clarke and Robert Sheppard', Writing into Art Conference, Strathclyde University, June 2013
'The poetics of making a difference in Sean Bonney's Document', London Conference in Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2014
'The tension between painting and text in the collaborative work of Pete Clarke and Robert Sheppard', Writing into Image Symposium, University College Cork, July 2014
'Beefheart as Poet', Digging Beefheart: A Symposium Exploring Beefheart 'as total artist', Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, November 2017
‘The poetic artifice of erotic experience in the works of Jacques and Alix Cleo Roubaud’,
Romance, Loves, Lures and Illusion Symposium, Chelsea School of Art and Design, May 1997
‘So what’s so good about Karen McCormack?: linguistic tactics of liberation in the work of contemporary women
Language poets’,
Sub Voicive Poetics Conference, Centre for English Studies, University of London, October 1997
‘The processes and practices of OULIPIAN poetics in Jacques Roubaud’s The Great Fire of London and Some Thing Black’,
for the critical theory component of the MA in Writing Studies, EdgeHill College of Higher Education, Ormskirk, May 1998
‘Heinrich Anton Müller’s “Useless Machines”: an Essay in Tactical Thinking’,
People in Research Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2006
‘The story of the “larval subjects”: a paratactic narrative in Difference and Repetition’,
The Work of Gilles Deleuze Conference, Greenwich University, July 2006
‘Deleuze and sensation: the ethical apprenticeship of an aesthetic encounter’,
Day School on ‘Sensation’, Manchester Metropolitan University, February 2007
‘“Counter-actualisation” and the usability of expression in Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense',
Forum for European Philosophy Conference, Sussex University, September 2007
'Heinrich Anton Müller’s “useless machines”: an essay in tactical thinking’,
‘Thinking Beyond Deleuze’ Conference, Dundee University, April 2008
‘Responsibility without capability, responsibility within capability: the encounter with the “Other” in
Levinas and Deleuze’,
Politics and Ontology Conference, Queen Mary College,University of London, June 2008
‘Responsibility without capability, responsibility within capability: the encounter with the “Other” in
Levinas and Deleuze’,
International Deleuze Conference, Cardiff University, August 2008
‘The unformed-forming in Gerhard Richter’s “Abstract Paintings”’,
Mark Rothko’s ‘Seagram Murals’ Exhibition, Tate Liverpool, October 2010
‘Neither sublime nor beautiful: the aesthetics and ethics of dislocated place in the paintings of
Pete Clarke’,
Symposium on Painting, Arts in Perpetuity Trust London, May 2011
'The tension between painting and text in the collaborative work of Pete Clarke and Robert Sheppard', Symposium on Collaboration, Edge Hill University, April 2013
'The tension between painting and text in the collaborative work of Pete Clarke and Robert Sheppard', Writing into Art Conference, Strathclyde University, June 2013
'The poetics of making a difference in Sean Bonney's Document', London Conference in Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London, June 2014
'The tension between painting and text in the collaborative work of Pete Clarke and Robert Sheppard', Writing into Image Symposium, University College Cork, July 2014
'Beefheart as Poet', Digging Beefheart: A Symposium Exploring Beefheart 'as total artist', Bluecoat Arts Centre, Liverpool, November 2017