Presentations

Here is a list of my academic presentations. Some of them went better than others. If for some strange reason anyone would like a copy of the PowerPoint file for one or more of these then please feel free to email me (contact info on the home page).

1. Oberg, A. (2023, October).「ホセア書１２章４－５節：四つの現象学的な読み方」(This talk was given in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: "Hosea 12.4-5: Four Phenomenological Readings".) Presented at the 20th Annual Japan Society for Jewish Studies Conference, Tokyo, Japan. 
2. Oberg, A. (2023, July). 「マイノリティって何？」(This talk was given in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: “What is a Minority?”.) Presented as a full school gathering at the Niyodo Public Junior High School in Niyodogawa Town, Kochi Prefecture, Japan
3. Oberg, A. (2023, May). Reading the Bible Philosophically: Exploring Genesis’ First Creation Account. This talk was given in English with Japanese translation. The Japanese title (slightly altered from the English) is:「西洋思想の根源をたどる―聖書の創生ものがたりを哲学する」。Presented at the International Japan Lecture Series hosted by the University of Kochi, Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
4. Oberg, A. (2022, December). 「自己って何？」 (This talk was given in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: “What Is the Self?”.) Presented at the Motoyama Public Lecture Series “Night University” in Motoyama Town, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
5. Oberg, A. (2022, October). 「我らをこころみにあわせず」：「主の祈り」の比較読解に基づく考察。 (This talk was given in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: “Do Not Lead Us into Temptation”: Some Thoughts from Comparative Readings of the “Lord’s Prayer/Our Father”.) Presented at the 23rd Annual Japan Association of Religion and Ethics Conference, Kyoto, Japan. (online)
6. Oberg, A. (2022, February). The Self as Source and Destination for Understanding the Metaphysics of Religious Experiences. Presented at the American Philosophical Association’s Central Division Meeting 2022, Chicago, USA. Also served as co-chair for the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience’s two panels at the conference. (hybrid in-person, online)
7. Oberg, A. (2021, October). 墓地から生活世界を探究する―四国での最初の隠れキリシタン (This talk was giving in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: Exploring a Lifeworld through a Gravesite: Shikoku’s First Hidden Chrisitians.) Presented at the 22nd Annual Japan Association of Religion and Ethics Conference, Kyoto, Japan. (online)
8. Oberg, A. (2021, May). Hidden Ideas in Hidden Christian Shikoku: Phenomenology, psychology, ethics. Presented at the 13th Annual Japan Association for Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Conference, Nagoya, Japan. (online)
9. Oberg, A. (2021, March). The Intuitive Self and Identitarian Threats: Short-circuiting Automatic Reactions. Presented at the Denial Interrupted: Conspiracy, Honesty and Finding Our Way Digital Conference hosted by the Westar Institute, Salem, Oregon, USA. (online)
10. Oberg, A. (2020, October). Moses Sitting Zen: Buddhism’s ‘No’, Judaism’s ‘Yes’: Some thoughts on life affirmation via selected Hebrew narratives. Presented at the 21st Annual Japan Association of Religion and Ethics Conference, Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan. (online)
11. Oberg, A. (2020, September). Pandemics, Religion, Intuitions: Reducing the concept of divinity. Presented at the (Ir)Rationality and Religiosity During Pandemics: Phenomenological Criticism SOPHERE (Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience) Supplemental Research Webinar, hosted by the University of Vienna, Austria. (online)
    
12. Oberg, A. (2019, November). 浦上崩れと土佐 (This talk was given in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: The Urakami "Fourth Wave" Persecution and the Tosa Domain.) Presented at the 民話について考える：言語文化の視座から (Thinking about Folklore: From the Viewpoint of Linguistic Culture) public symposium hosted by the University of Kochi, Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan. The university later published a booklet of summaries of the various talks, the document I prepared for this can be found here: "The Urakami 'Fourth Wave' Persecution and the Tosa Domain: Hidden Christians, Maria Kannon statues, and the flow of history and faith".
13. Oberg, A. (2019, November). 江戸時代の隠れキリシタン (This talk was given in Japanese and English, the English translation of the title is: Hidden Christians of the Edo Period.) Invited lecture given to the Kochi Systematized Goodwill Guide Club, Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
14. Oberg, A. (2019, October). Being dying: Approaches to death and the question of finding meaning in life. Presented at the Second International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, Tokyo, Japan.
15. Oberg, A. (2019, April). Reading (into) short poetry: A phenomenological perspective. Presented at the 11th Annual Japan Association for Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Conference, Kyoto, Japan.
16. Oberg, A. (2018, September). 人に価格を付けるな：ポスト資本主義からの概念 (This talk was given in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: On not pricing people: Ideas from postcapitalism.) Presented at the 水俣病と現代社会高知からのアプローチ (Minamata Disease and Contemporary Culture: An Approach from Kochi) public lecture series in conjunction with the Japan Association for Contemporary and Applied Philosophy, hosted by the University of Kochi, Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
17. Oberg, A. (2018, August). Saying yes, or Anti anti-natalism. Presented at the Meaning in/of Life International Conference, Sapporo, Japan.
18. Oberg, A. (2018, April). Room to breathe: Freeing contemporary philosophy of its science and engineering baggage. Presented at the 10th Annual Japan Association for Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Conference, Nagoya, Japan.
19. Oberg, A. (2017, December). AI and the possibility of a robotic "self": The (no)self in Buddhism and implications for self-artificiality and self-generation. Presented at the Buddhism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution International Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
20. Oberg, A. (2017, June). Once we have discovered: Postcapitalism and a sustainable future. Invited lecture given to Kochi University of Technology’s Research Center for Future Design. Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
21. Oberg, A. (2017, May). Turning off the Terminator: Consciousness, the self and the modern quest for living AI. Presented at the Self: Between Consciousness and Non-Being International Conference, Sapporo, Japan.
22. Oberg, A. (2017, February). Is the idea of the thing in the thing itself?: The ethics of technology transfer and “onsite reverse innovation”. Invited lecture given to Hiroshima University's Graduate School for International Development and Cooperation's Taoyaka Program faculty and students, Higashi-Hiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
23. Oberg, A. (2016, October). How should we regard our fast approaching deaths? Presented at the 10th International Conference on Applied Ethics, Sapporo, Japan.
24. Oberg, A. (2016, May). Epicurus was right (sort of): Thinking about death. Presented at the 8th Annual Japan Association for Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Conference, Tokyo, Japan.
25. Oberg, A. (2015, July). 自然災害と予知不可能な死：私たち自身の死について考えるためのよい方法はあるのか？ (This talk was given in Japanese, the English translation of the title is: Natural disasters and death’s unpredictability: Is there a good way to think about our own deaths?) Presented to the International Research Center for Philosophy, Tokyo, Japan.
26. Oberg, A. (2015, May). Searching for a better definition of the self. Presented at the Self and (its) Realization(s) International Conference, Sapporo, Japan.
27. Oberg, A. (2014, October-November). Beating the bystander effect: Surveillance, moral behavior, and the self. Presented at the 9th International Conference on Applied Ethics, Sapporo, Japan.
28. Oberg, A. (2014, June). TEDagogy: Using TED Talks to build critical thinking skills. Presented at the National JALT CALL Conference, Nagoya, Japan.
29. Oberg, A. (2014, May). After the Snowden leaks: Considering government surveillance from a broader perspective. Presented at the 6th Annual Japan Association for Contemporary and Applied Philosophy Conference, Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.
30. Oberg, A. (2013, July). This has got nothing to do with George. Presented at the 2013 Joint Meeting of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy and the Australasian Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Singapore, Singapore.
31. Oberg, A. (2012, May). Analysis of a student-centered mobile learning approach. Presented at the International CALL 2012 Conference, Taichung, Taiwan.
32. Oberg, A. (2012, February). Receptive and productive vocabulary acquisition: Examining the processing time required and searching for hints of a memory threshold. Presented at the International CamTESOL Conference, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
33. Oberg, A. & Daniels, P. (2011, June). Self-paced study via the iPod Touch: Research report. Co-presented at the National JALT CALL Conference, Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan.
34. Oberg, A. (2010, February). Applying Moodle software-based quizzes and surveys to the classroom environment. Presented at the Winter East Shikoku JALT Conference, Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
35. Oberg, A. (2008, February). Effectively using multi-media materials in a CALL setting. Presented at the Winter East Shikoku JALT Conference, Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.
36. Oberg, A. (2007, September). Teaching vocabulary to low-level learners. Presented at the Fall East Shikoku JALT Conference, Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, Japan.