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…

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