Lectures at Conferences

"Understanding Text That Moves," Keynotes at International Symposium e-poetry, Barcelona, May 24-27, 2009

"Autor und digitale Medien: Eine unvollständige Phänomenologie," Postgraduate-Symposium Medien der Autorschaft, University of Fribourg, May 14-17, 2009

"Theatricalization of Everyday Life in Digital Environments," workshop between Brown University and the Free University Berlin Theatricality and Performance, Brown University, March 13-14, 2009

"Event and Meaning. Reading Interactive Installations in the Light of Art History," International Conference Beyond the Screen. Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces and Genres, University of Siegen, November 20-21, 2008

'Eating Text': The Life of Words as Image, Sound and Action, International Conference Intermedial Literature: Concerning Image, Sound and Word in Contemporary Literature, Cornell University, September 25-27, 2008

Mapping and Cannibalism. How technology eats language by transforming it to other media, International Conference Transmediality and Transculturality, University of Mainz, December 6-9, 2007

Double Coding: (re)mediating Text in Interactive Environments, International Conference Remediating Literature, University of Utrecht, July 4-6, 2007

Digital Literature, Installation, Poetry: Listening Post, E-Poetry Festival, Paris, Mai 2007

Literatur, Bildende Kunst, Event? Grenzphänomene in den neuen Medien, Grenzen der Literatur, Kloster Irsee, März 2006

Mapping Art as Cultural Form in Postmodern Times, Digital Art and Culture Conference, Copenhagen, Dezember 2005

"Holopoetry, Biopoetry und digitale Literatur. Parameter einer Annäherung," Net-literature. Changes in literary communication, University of Siegen, November 2004

"Transversality and Transmediality: Art Projects Bridging Off and Online World," L'art a-t-il besoin du numérique?, Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle, July 2004

"Concrete Poetry in Digital Media," Under Construction. Digital literatures and theoretical approaches, Open University of Catalonia (UOC), Barcelona, April 2004

"Vom Tod des Autors und den Überlebenschancen des Lesers," International Conference Grenzen der Interaktivität, University of Gießen, November 14, 2003

"Narration und Autorschaft in digitalen Medien," Narrationen in der Medienkunst. Fachtagung für Dozierende und Studierende der Schweizer Kunsthochschulen, Zürich, May 22, 2003

"Concrete Poetry in Transition," E-Poetry Festival 2003, University of West Virginia, April 23-26, 2003

"Death of the Author? Death of the Reader!", MLA Convention NYC, December 27.-30., 2002, Panal: Digital Narrativity

"Transmediale Autorenschaft oder: Wie man aus obszönen Readymades des Internet Offline-Kunst macht," SchnittStellen: 1. Basler Kongress für Medienwissenschaft (IfM), University of Basel, July 2002.

"Death of the Author? Death of the Reader!", Symposium p0es1s - poetics of digital text, Universität Erfurt, September 27-28, 2001

"Text als Bild, Bild als Text," Symposium Image and Word, Littérature et atelier de réflexion contemporaine, Romainmôtier (Schweiz), March 10, 2001

"Der versteckte Text: Aspekte digitaler Bilder", Forum Ästhetik digitaler Literatur, Universität Kassel, October 20-22, 2000

"When Literature goes Multimedia. Three German Examples", Digital Art and Culture Conference, Universität Bergen/Norwegen, August 2-4, 2000

"Towards a Poetics of Hyperfiction" (Workshop-Contribution), Hypertext Conference, Universität Darmstadt, February 21-25, 1999 (www.wordcircuits.com/htww/simanowski1.htm).

"Labyrinth und Ordnung - Jean Paul und die Kategorie der Nation um 1800," Twenty-Second Annual Conference of German Studies Association, Salt Lake City, October 8-11, 1998.

"Herders Wille zur Nation," Conference on "Natur und Geschichte als Identifikations- und Differenzierungsfelder von Literaturen in internationalen und nationalen Zusammenhängen," Universität Göttingen, February 12-14, 1998.

"Die methodischen Grundlagen des Nationalismus am Beispiel Johann Gottfried Herder," Conference on "Nationale Identität in der deutschen Literatur," Universytet Lodz, October 2-5, 1997.

"Der virtuelle Salon," Conference on "Der literarische Salon als Drehscheibe informeller internationaler Beziehungen und Kontakte," Universität Tblissi, August 31-September 5, 1997.

"Jean Pauls Haltung zum deutschen Nationalismus vor dem Hintergrund seiner epistemischen Bekenntnisse," Conference on "Kulturelle Grenzziehungen im Spiegel der Literaturen: Nationalismus, Regionalismus, Fundamentalismus," Universität Göttingen, July 10-12, 1997.

"Die Wende der DDR im Zeichen eines doppelten Kulturkonflikts auf der internationalen," Conference on "Verlust und Suche nach nationaler Identität. Das Problem der Nationalität aus germanistischer Perspektive," Universytet Opolski, November 15-18, 1996.

"Das Glück des Genitivs: Die Verteidigung der Zerstreuung aus anthropologischer Sicht am Beispiel des 'Trivialautors' Christian August Vulpius," Twentieth Annual Conference of German Studies Assoziation, Seattle October 10-13, 1996.

"Goethe und Cyberspace," Conference on "Außenperspektiven: German Studies versus Germanistik in der theoretischen Diskussion," Universität Jena, May 6-7, 1996.

"Bürger-Künstler-Problematik bei Novalis," Conference on "Alltag und Öffentlichkeit," Universität Jena, June 1990.

"Utopiebildung in der Frühromantik," Conference on "Französische Revolution und Deutsche Literatur," Universität Jena, June 1988.

Lectures Invited

"Poesie als Torso? Der Autor im computergenerierten Text," University of Dortmund, June 18, 2009

"Die Verwandlung der Schrift in Kunst: Rede als Bild, Sound und Aktion," University of Fribourg, November 26, 2008

"Digital Media in Event Society," Goethe Institute Boston, September 30, 2008

"'Eating Text': The Life of Words as Image, Sound and Action," Goethe Institute Boston, September 23, 2008

"Statistik als Kunst? Mapping als postmoderner Naturalismus," University of Darmstadt, October 18, 2006

"Vom Schreiben im Netz," PEN-Convention Schriftsteller in der Mediengesellschaft, Berlin, March 24, 2006

"Digitale Literatur," Digitales Wissen in der Wissensgesellschaft der Zukunft. Ein Workshop des Graduiertenkollegs Kunst und Technik, Universität Hamburg, June 16, 2005

"Digital Literature," Vanderbilt University, March 30, 2005

"Die Kinetisierung konkreter Poesie," Universität Gesamthochschule Siegen, May 26, 2003

"Interfictions - Digitale Literatur," Universität Basel, February 4, 2003

"Die Kinetisierung konkreter Poesie," Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung Basel, February 4, 2003

"Digital Writing: Kinetic Concrete Poetry," University of Buffalo, January 23, 2003

"Digital Writing: Kinetic Concrete Poetry," Brown University, Department of German Studies, January 28, 2002

"Lesen, Sehen, Klicken: Die Kinetisierung konkreter Poesie, " University of Hamburg, 2002

"Digital Literature: From Hypertext to Interfiction," University of Buffalo, 2002.

"Digital Aesthetics. Features, Types, Predecessors and Prospects," University of Washington, Seattle, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media, March 7, 2002

"Digitale Ästhetik", University of Washington, Seattle, Department of Germanics, November 16, 2001.

"German Experiments in Digital Literature," MIT, Comparative Media Studies Program, March 30, 2000

"When Literature meets the Web," Goethe Institut Boston, February 22, 2000

"When Literature meets the Web," Harvard University, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, February 18, 2000

"Perspektiven einer Ästhetik der digitalen Literature," Harvard University, Department of Germanic Languages & Literatures, May 6, 1999

"Aspekte einer Rezension literarischer Hypertexte," Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Deutsche und Niederländische Philologie, February 16, 1999.

"Hypertext in Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft," Universität Göttingen, Deutsches Seminar, February 12, 1999.

"Hypertext in Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft," Universität Bonn, Germanistisches Seminar, February 8, 1999.

"Die Wende der DDR als doppelter Kulturkonflikt," Universität Fès, Deutsches Institut, October 1997.

"Witz oder Ernst. Epistemische Okkupation und Nationalismus in Fichtes Reden an die deutschen Nation und bei Jean Paul," Universität Rabat, Deutsches Institut, October 1997.

"Cyberspace und Architektur," Hochschule für Architektur Weimar, December 1996.

"Die Schwierigkeiten, Trivialliteratur zu bestimmen," Universytet Torun, Filologia Germanska, December 1996.

Non-Academic Appearances

Panel Discussion on writers in media society ["Kapitulation oder neue Herausforderung? - Schriftsteller in der Mediengesllschaft"], 26. Erlanger Poetry Festival, August 2006

Panel Discussion on writers in media society ["Schriftsteller in der Mediengesellschaft"], PEN-Tagung, Berlin, März 2006

Panel Discussion on Net-Literature ["Zwischen Netzliteratur und Literatur im Netz Hyperfiction - Schreiben im Netz"], 21. Erlanger Poetenfest, August 23.-26, 2001

Panel Discussion on Hypertext, Solothurner Literaturtage, Mai 25.-27, 2001

Moderation Panel Dicsussion on digital literature, Literatur Festival Luzern, März 28 - April 1, 2001

Panel Discussion on print and digital media ["Zwischen Gutenberg und Gates"], 20. Erlanger Poetenfest, August 24-27, 2000

Radio-Appearances

BR 2: June 19, 2009, 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM: Artmix-Gespräch, Interview on book Digitale Medien in der Erlebnisgesellschaft

BR 2: February 08, 2009, 10 PM - 11 PM: Zündfunk, Interview on event culture [Denken ist geil. Überleben in der digitalen Spaßgesellschaft]

DRS 2: May 25, 2001, 11 AM - 11:30 AM, Reflexe, Interview on Hyperfiction.

Radio 1: July 29, 2000, 9 PM - 11 PM, Zwei auf Eins, Interview on Internet-Culture.