I liked continental realism before it became cool

I'm going to move heaven and earth to try to attend these:

1. "Translating Realism" at Notre Dame (featuring: Adrian Johnston (University of New Mexico), Dorothea Olkowski (UCCS/Rotman Institute), Michael Naas (Depaul)),  
2. "The Return of Speculative Philosophy" at the University of Toronto (featuring Rebecca Comay).

There's a particular kind of validation where the stuff you've been digging starts to gain traction, though one must avoid the music fan trope of accusing the now popular thinkers of "selling out" at exactly the moment this happens.