'Several of the most provocative, insightful scholars at the intersection of religion and literature will be participating on a panel entitled "Literature and Secularization" (Friday, 3:30-4:45, WSCC 617). Facilitated by Susannah Brietz Monta (Notre Dame, and editor of Religion and Literature), this roundtable will feature Lori Branch (Iowa, author of Rituals of Spontaneity); John Cox (Hope College, Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith); Tracy Fessenden (Arizona State, Culture and Redemption); William Franke (Vanderbilt, Poetry and Apocalypse); Colin Lovell Jager (Rutgers, New Brunswick, The Book of God); and Michael W. Kaufmann (Temple, coordinator of recent Religion and Literature forum, "Locating the Postsecular").'

--Everett Hamner,  http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2011_12_01_archive.html

“Reading Emily Dickinson: Three Approaches to One of her Poems,”
with linguist Martin Montgomery and translator Zhang Meifang,
      University of Macao, Department of English Seminar Series, October 21, 2011

William Franke, “Le commencement et la fin de la philosophie dans le mysticisme apophatique : de Platon au postmodernisme”  [The Beginning and the End of Philosophy in Apophatic Mysticism : From Plato to Postmodernism]. August 27, 2011

CERISY-la-Salle (France) Colloque: « Philosophie et Mystique: Autour de Stanislas Breton », August 25-September 1, 2011

"Letargo and the Argo": Total Forgetting as the Moment of Truth at the Climax
of Dante’s Divine Comedy and the Christian Epic Tradition

William Franke (Nashville, TN)

           „Wahrheit ist immer auch unwahr” (“Truth is always also untrue“)

12th International Conference of the ISSEI (International Society for the Study of European Ideas):
"Thought in Science and Fiction"
Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey
August 2-4, 2010

 Wednesday, August 4, 2010, afternoon sessions, 1:30 – 5:00:

Plenary Session – William Franke,   The Scientific Paradigm and the Poetic Epistemology of the Humanities — Blue Hall, 1:30 pm.