Presentations

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Presentation: Other The Administrative Life

Using Obsidian Notes to Create Context and Connection for Meaningful Productivity

As many of you know, I find joy in refining the system that shapes the way I work and in sharing my approach here on the Long Road blog. So let this be the latest…

Christopher LongJanuary 19, 2024

Presentations

Values-Enacted Leadership

The themes of the 2022 Honors Leadership Conference were: Building Community, Being a Scholar, and Presenting Yourself. In my opening remarks to our first-year honors students, I focused on values-enacted leadership and the importance of…

Christopher LongMarch 20, 2022

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Presentation: Other The Administrative Life

From Productivity to Meaningful Work

Six years have past since I wrote A Few Notes on Productivity, a post that outlined my approach to productivity in academic and administrative life. More than 11 years have somehow passed since I wrote…

Christopher LongApril 2, 2021

Presentation: Academic Vita

Imagining a Different Future

What follows was crafted for an MSU Honors College panel discussion entitled "Sharper Focus/Wider Lens" on March 8, 2021 focusing on culture change in higher education and at Michigan State University. A video of the…

Christopher LongMarch 8, 2021

Presentations The Liberal Arts The Long Road

Indicators of Excellence in the Liberal Arts

The following reflections are offered in the context of the opening colloquium of the College and Beyond II: Liberal Arts & Life series. #collegeandbeyondii The current pandemic is an apocalypse — an uncovering. It reveals at once…

Christopher LongSeptember 15, 2020

Presentation: Interactive Presentations The Long Road

The Transformative Power of Publishing

Earlier this summer, I had the honor of offering the closing keynote address of the 2019 Association of University Presses annual conference held in Detroit. The address was entitled The Transformative Power of Publishing, and…

Christopher LongAugust 5, 2019

Presentation: Academic The Liberal Arts Vita

AGLS Keynote – Practicing the Arts of Liberty

At the heart of my keynote address to the 2018 Association of General and Liberal Studies in Pittsburgh, PA is this idea: The intellectual and ethical habits we need to transform higher education are the…

Christopher LongSeptember 22, 2018

Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Toxicity, Metrics, and Academic Life

The second Radical Open Access conference was held on June 26-7, 2018 at Coventry University on the "Ethics of Care." I participated from a distance via Skype, delivering a tweet storm style presentation based on…

Christopher LongJune 27, 2018

Presentation: Interactive Presentations

ADFL Plenary Panel: International Digital Public Humanities

The 2018 Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Summer Session North was hosted by the College of Arts & Letters at Michigan State University May 30-June 2, 2018. I was invited to participate on a…

Christopher LongJune 2, 2018

Presentation: Interactive Presentations

Creating and Sustaining Digital Scholarly Communities

The Academy for Teaching and Learning at Baylor University invited me to give two talks on the value of creating and nurturing online digital scholarly communities on April 19, 2018. The two presentations afforded me…

Christopher LongApril 19, 2018

Presentation: Academic

Bianchi’s the Feminine Symptom – A Response

This is the text of the response I made to Emanuela Bianchi, The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos, (New York: Fordham University Press, 2014) at the 2016 meeting of the Society for…

Christopher LongOctober 21, 2016

Presentation: Academic Presentations The Long Road Vita

Going Viral with Your Scholarship

Sharing your work online, especially in its early phases of development, can open new paths of inquiry and establish connections with scholars who can enrich your work.

Christopher LongMay 10, 2016

Presentation: Interactive Presentations The Liberal Arts The Long Road Vita

Tweeting the Liberal Arts @Muhlenberg #MCLA16

In his inaugural address as president of the college he founded, Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg spoke of the values that animate the institution: "We do not regard an education as complete that aims only at improving the intellect,”…

Christopher LongFebruary 1, 2016

Presentation: Interactive The Long Road

Is Reading Writing?

Un-Keynote Address: The Writing in Digital Environments/Eastern Michigan Un-Conference, October 12, 2015.

Christopher LongOctober 12, 2015

Presentation: Interactive

Performing Collaborative Scholarship

In this interactive keynote address for the Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference: Collaborating Digitally, I articulate a model of collaborative scholarship in Philosophy that has enabled me to bring undergraduate students and a wider community of…

Christopher LongNovember 13, 2014

Presentation: Academic Vita

Philosophy and the Networked Public

Philosophy has always been a public activity, although its relationship with the public and its own public nature have long been fraught with anxiety for philosophy and the public both. At this year’s Society for…

Christopher LongOctober 23, 2014

Presentations Vita

The Ethics of Philosophy in a Digital Age

To honor the work of Richard J. Bernstein, a group of colleagues and former students will gather at Stony Brook University for a conference entitled, Thinking the Plural: Richard J. Bernstein's Contribution to American Philosophy.…

Christopher LongSeptember 26, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

AltAc and the Engaged PhD

Without diminishing the centrality of the PhD research endeavor, how can we cultivate more engaged graduate students? This presentation situates the graduate research endeavor in its wider institutional and public context and suggests two concrete…

Christopher LongSeptember 15, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Socratic and Platonic Politics

This presentation argues that there is a difference, and a similarity, between the ways Socrates and Plato practice politics. Socratic politics, as depicted in Plato's dialogues, may be characterized as the practice of using spoken…

Christopher LongSeptember 5, 2014

Presentations The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

The Public Philosophy Journal at #DH2014

In this poster session, we present the project of the Public Philosophy Journal and our plans for cultivating a community of engaged scholars to sustain it. At the session, we explain our motivations for designing…

Christopher LongJuly 10, 2014

Presentation: Interactive Presentation: Other Presentations The Graduate Experience Vita

Cultivating an Online Scholarly Presence

Graduate students are often confronted with conflicting advice about how much of their academic work they should share publicly online. Although there are good reasons to consider carefully what one shares and how, graduate students…

Christopher LongMarch 27, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Keynote Address: Socrates and the Politics of Finitude at #PCAP14

In this interactive keynote address to the Pennsylvania Circle of Ancient Philosophy hosted by Villanova University, I argue that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue. We tweeted the keynote and the entire PCAP…

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Following the Footprints of Aristotle: On Kosman's The Activity of Being

Aristotle’s thinking is peripatetic. It moves along paths, some of which are well-worn, others newly cleared by the creative elasticity of his thinking. It pursues questions by traversing along a course for a stretch, on…

Christopher LongMarch 6, 2014

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive The Public Philosophy Journal Vita

Public Digital Scholarship: The @PubPhilJ at the #APAEastern

This presentation on the Public Philosophy Journal, invited by the APA Committee on Public Philosophy, provides an update on the status of the development of the open access, open peer review journal. However difficult it…

Christopher LongDecember 29, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Socrates, Plato and Digital Scholarship at #ECDS

The Emory Center for Digital Scholarship asked me to give a version of the presentation at gave at #DH2013 last summer entitled eBook as Ecosystem of Digital Scholarship Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the…

Christopher LongSeptember 25, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Interactive Presentations Vita

Reading the Death of Socrates

Returning to Wittenberg for the first time since graduating in 1991, I gave an interactive, live-tweeted, lecture on Reading the Death of Socrates. The paper argues that the Phaedo is Plato's most eloquent political dialogue,…

Christopher LongSeptember 19, 2013

Digital Humanities Presentation: Academic Vita

Performative Publication in a Digital Age

New affordances in dynamic modes of digital scholarly communication have enabled authors to tailor the content of our texts to the forms in which they appear in public. This presentation focuses on two performative publication…

Christopher LongAugust 14, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

eBook as Ecosystem of Scholarly Communication

Socratic and Platonic Political Philosophy: Practicing the Politics of Reading (forthcoming Cambridge University Press) is an enhanced digital book that attempts to use digital media technology to cultivate the political practice of collaborative reading for…

Christopher LongJuly 19, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

The Politics of Reading … in China

NANJING, China - I must admit, I am a bit uneasy about delivering this talk on Plato and the Politics of Reading here at Nanjing University. You see, I am simply not sure what it…

Christopher LongMay 22, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Putting the Liberal Arts into Practice @NewmanU

The Liberal Arts are not so much a set of disciplines to be studied as they are a set of habits to be practiced. This is the central point and main theme around which my…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

PPJ Workshop at PPN13

Publicness and collaboration are two of the virtues we hope the Public Philosophy Journal will embody. To that end, we want the creation and development of the journal to put those virtues into practice. So,…

Christopher LongMarch 16, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Public Philosophy in Digital Dialogue

There is a difference between the ways Socrates turns those with whom he speaks in Plato's dialogues to consider questions of justice, beauty and the good and the ways Plato's writing turns his readers to…

Christopher LongMarch 15, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Public Philosophy Journal

Philosophy is often mistakenly viewed as distant from public life, secluded in the Ivory Tower away from the public concerns of civil society. However, the affordances of digital scholarly communication have enabled philosophers increasingly to…

Christopher LongFebruary 15, 2013

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Keynote Address: Liberal Arts and Politics

From its earliest articulation in Ancient Greek thinking, the first principle and ultimate end of an education in the liberal arts has always been to live an excellent human life. Because, however, human life can…

Christopher LongNovember 27, 2012

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Plato and the Politics of Reading

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - To give a lecture on the politics of collaborative reading without inviting one's listeners to become active participants would be a performative contradiction. So, in this lecture, Plato and the Politics…

Christopher LongOctober 21, 2012

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

On Touch and Life in the De Anima

CITTÀ DI CASTELLO, Umbria, Italy - Late last year, I received a very kind set of questions from Matteo Cosci, a PhD student in Italy at the University of Padua, about my book Aristotle on…

Christopher LongJuly 24, 2012

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

HASTAC 2011: Digital Scholarship and the Institutional Structure

ANN ARBOR, MI - The story I told at the 2011 meeting of the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC) conference is rooted in my pedagogical practices of using digital media technology to…

Christopher LongDecember 2, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Philosophy and the Digital Public

Rembrandt's Philosopher in Meditation WASHINGTON, DC - Today at the Advancing Public Philosophy Conference hosted by the Public Philosophy Network, Cori Wong, a graduate student in the Philosophy Department at Penn State, and I are…

Christopher LongOctober 7, 2011

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

New Cultures of Scholarship

Chris and Emma STATE COLLEGE, PA - In my keynote address at the inaugural Liberal Arts Scholarship and Technology Summit, I discuss how the transition from print literacy to digital literacy is transforming the nature…

Christopher LongAugust 14, 2011

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Collaborative Research in Philosophy

Today in the Foster Auditorium of the Pattee/Paterno Library, my undergraduate research assistant, Lisa Lotito, and I gave a presentation about the workflow we use in doing philosophical research. I have written in some detail…

Christopher LongJuly 21, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Platonic Writing and the Practice of Death

FREIBURG, GERMANY - Today at the Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, I presented a paper entitled The Politics of Finitude in Plato's Phaedo at the 2011 Freiburger Hermeneutisches Kolloquium, whose theme was Hermeneutik (in) der…

Christopher LongJuly 2, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

"The Politics of Truth" at University of Kansas

LAWRENCE, KS - The paper I presented here today, entitled The Politics of Truth, argued that Socratic politics is a matter of speaking truth with a concern for justice and the good. I suggested further…

Christopher LongApril 25, 2011

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Liberal Arts in a Time of Crisis

Pharmakon Originally uploaded by cplong11 STATE COLLEGE, PA - These remarks were delivered at the 2011 Symposium of the Center for American Literary Studies: Crisis? Whose Crisis? What Crisis? Imagine that you are a graduate…

Christopher LongApril 22, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Recognition and Responses Vita

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Premiers at Sundance

SUNDANCE, UT - Today there was a panel on my book, Aristotle on the Nature of Truth, at the Ancient Philosophy Society held this year at Sundance in Utah. The panel included Will McNeill, Professor…

Christopher LongApril 14, 2011

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Curating Your Digital Vita

Socrates, Alcibiades and Agathon Originally uploaded by cplong11 WACO, Texas -- During my visit to Baylor this week, I guest taught Anne Schultz's class on Plato's Symposium and joined the Academy for Teaching and Learning to speak…

Christopher LongMarch 29, 2011

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Institutional Transformation

The annual Teaching and Learning with Technology Symposium held yesterday at the Penn Stater had an intensity to it that I had not experienced in years past. The energy and excitement we felt so palpably…

Christopher LongMarch 27, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

BACAP Presentation: Attempting the Political Art

BOSTON, MA - The main thesis of the paper I delivered today at the Boston Area Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy is that the practice of Socratic political speaking and the practice of Platonic political writing…

Christopher LongMarch 17, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Seminar: Academic Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Socrates, Plato and the Politics of Truth

Next week I am giving a lecture on Plato's Gorgias at Boston College for the Boston Area Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy. The title of the lecture is Attempting the Political Art. Prior to the lecture,…

Christopher LongMarch 11, 2011

Presentation: Academic Presentations Socratic and Platonic Politics Vita

Seminar on the Apology in Bogotá

Seminar on the Apology Originally uploaded by cplong11 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA - Today I gave a seminar on Plato's Apology at the Universidad de los Andes to graduate and undergraduate students and faculty. The seminar was…

Christopher LongFebruary 25, 2011

Aristotle on the Nature of Truth Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Aristotle's Phenomenology in Colombia

At the Universidad de los Andes Originally uploaded by cplong11 BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA - This evening I gave a public lecture at the Universidad de los Andes entitled Aristotle's Phenomenology of Truth in which I articulate…

Christopher LongFebruary 24, 2011

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

CAS Teaching with Technology Workshop

journalism students using macs apple Originally uploaded by chris.corwin In my ongoing attempts to think more reflectively and act more deliberately about teaching and learning with technology, I am speaking with a group of graduate…

Christopher LongSeptember 17, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Teaching Philosophy with Technology Workshop

Colorful Prometheus Originally uploaded by Allison Harger This workshop, for graduate students in the Philosophy Department at Penn State, focuses on using social media technologies to cultivate cooperative communities of learning in Philosophy courses. Its…

Christopher LongAugust 23, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Reflections on the Hacking Pedagogy Presentation

LDSC37 Originally uploaded by docZox My friend and colleague, Cole Camplese, and I gave a joint presentation on a collaborative project we have developed called "Hacking Pedagogy." The idea is to open a digital space…

Christopher LongJuly 21, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Teaching the Ethics of Dialogue

Last Fall I gave a presentation to faculty in the Rock Ethics Institute entitled The Ethics of Blogging Ethics in which I outline some of the main pedagogical benefits of adopting an open blog as…

Christopher LongMay 18, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

World Campus 2010 Commencement Address: Milestones

We gather here today to celebrate a milestone in the lives of each of our graduates. To arrive at a milestone, however, is a rather peculiar thing. For a milestone is less a destination, than…

Christopher LongMay 15, 2010

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Crisis of Community Paper at the 2010 APS

EAST LANSING, MI It was particularly poignant for me to give a paper on the nature of Socratic political community at the tenth annual meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. The APS has been for…

Christopher LongApril 25, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Relinquish Control, Empower Engagement

In this presentation to the Teaching Forum of the Department of Sociology and Crime, Law, and Justice, I emphasize how relinquishing control of assignment topics in a course can open a space for students to…

Christopher LongApril 15, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

TLT Symposium 2010: Teaching and Learning in Digital Dialogue

Today students from my Fall 2009 Philosophy 20, Ancient Greek Philosophy, course present a short video that seeks to express something of the learning community that grew when we did all our writing in the…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Brief Reflection on the Essence of Technology

Consider the following two passages, written in the wake of the enormous technological advances of the early 20th century: "Technology is ... no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed…

Christopher LongMarch 26, 2010

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

PRC Talk on Oedipus

In the wake of a paper on Oedipus and his relationship with his daughters in Oedipus at Colonus I gave at the Philosophy Research Colloquium, I have put together some thoughts for how I will…

Christopher LongMarch 6, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Teaching and Learning in Digital Dialogue

This presentation was developed for a panel entitled "Engaging with New Technologies" at the 2010 Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.Shortened URL: http://tinyurl.com/LongBlogAPA

Christopher LongFebruary 17, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Invitation to Participation

As I begin as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies at the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State, I have been thinking about how to articulate the power of social media to those who…

Christopher LongJanuary 31, 2010

Presentation: Other Presentations Vita

Engaged Learning with Technology

OREM, UT - I was asked to address a group of faculty at the Utah Valley University, where there is a strong commitment to engaged learning. In the presentation that follows, I offer a model…

Christopher LongNovember 17, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Sophocles in Utah

SUNDANCE, UT - Today I participated on a panel for the honors program at the Utah Valley University, whose director, Michael Shaw, invited Marina McCoy and me to present papers for a panel dedicated to…

Christopher LongNovember 16, 2009

Morning light on Old Main at Penn State University

Presentation: Other Presentations The Graduate Experience The Long Road

Time Management for Graduate Students

One of the most difficult things for new Graduate Students to manage effectively is their time. This is in large part because graduate study has built into it large segments of unstructured time that can…

Christopher LongNovember 9, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

IT Faculty Advisory Committee Presentation

Two weeks ago, I was asked to present my model for Integrating Teaching and Research with Technology. Although today I return to that material in my presentation to the University Information Technology Faculty Advisory Committee,…

Christopher LongNovember 2, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

The Philosophy Job Market in Today's Economy

ARLINGTON, VA - The search for a job in any field in the midst of an economic downturn can be harrowing; for those seeking jobs in a field like Philosophy where even in good economic…

Christopher LongOctober 30, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Integrating Teaching and Research with Technology

This presentation is based on two insights that have grown over time but came into sharp focus over the summer of 2009 during which time I was a faculty fellow at Teaching and Learning with…

Christopher LongOctober 13, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

On Saying the Beautiful in Light of the Good

ALTOONA, PA - Today I gave the keynote address at the West Virginia Philosophical Society being held at Penn State Altoona. This presentation is drawn from the penultimate chapter of the manuscript for my book,…

Christopher LongOctober 9, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Learning Design Summer Camp Panel

STATE COLLEGE, PA - As one of the Teaching and Learning with Technology summer faculty fellows, I am on a panel at the 2009 Learning Design Summer Camp that focuses on new forms of digital…

Christopher LongJuly 21, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Blogs and Assessment

This post is designed to facilitate a round table discussion of using blogs for assessment at the 2009 Penn State Assessment Conference: Putting Your Assessment Plan to Work. Over the past four years, I have…

Christopher LongJanuary 7, 2009

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

The Metaphysics of Truth

PHILADELPHIA, PA - Today I presented a paper entitled The Metaphysics of Truth at the annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America at the American Philosophical Association's 2008 Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia, PA.The…

Christopher LongDecember 30, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

The Saying of Things

NEW YORK CITY - Today I returned to the New School to present what will be the first chapter of my forthcoming book, The Saying of Things: The Truth of Nature and the Nature of…

Christopher LongDecember 4, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

The Ethics of Truth

HARTFORD, CT -- Today I gave a paper here at Trinity College on the nature of truth in Aristotle entitled, "The Ethics of Truth: Saying It Like It Is". The presentation sought in part to…

Christopher LongNovember 17, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Between Natality and Mortality

PITTSBURGH, PA - A panel on the work of Reiner Schürmann entitled "Philosophy-to-come: Reading Reiner Schürmann" was held today at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existentialist Philosophy. The panel included…

Christopher LongOctober 18, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Designs on e-Learning

This September I will be presenting at the Designs on e-Learning Conference held here at Penn State. My presentation is entitled Blogging and Podcasting the Liberal Arts (the link is to the blog post on which…

Christopher LongJuly 14, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

Ontological Response-Ability and the Ethics of Truth

FREIBURG, GERMANY - Today I present a paper entitled Ontological Response-Ability and the Ethics of Truth at a conference jointly organized by the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Pennsylvania State University.The paper will outline some of the…

Christopher LongJune 19, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

APS Presentation on Schürmann

In April, I will give a paper entitled "The Duplicity of Beginning: Schürmann, Aristotle and the Origins of Metaphysics" at the Eighth Annual Independent Meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, which will meet this year…

Christopher LongFebruary 19, 2008

Presentation: Academic Presentations Vita

SAAP 2008 Presentation

My paper on Woodbridge's reading of Aristotle entitled "The Natural History of the Soul" has been accepted for the 2008 meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. The paper is part of…

Christopher LongNovember 18, 2007

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