On May 25, 2010 collaborated with the Visual Arts Department of UCSD to present the Garage Talk ‘Cultures & Truths’ with world-renowned French philosopher Alain Badiou. Trained as a mathematician, Alain Badiou is one of the most original French philosophers today. Influenced by Plato, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, he is an outspoken critic of both the analytic as well as the postmodern schools of thoughts.

On April 10, 2007, the haudenschildGarage collaborated with the Visual Arts Department of UCSD to present a Garage Talk with Walid Raad on his project The Loudest Muttering is Over: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive.

On November 15, 2006 the haudenschildGarage held a FUEL4TALK for the Slovenian sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek, invited by the Visual Arts Department of UCSD. This event followed Zizek’s lecture, Politics Between Fear and Terror, at UCSD.

On June 11, 2006 the haudenschildGarage collaborated with the Visual Arts Department of UCSD, inSite and Casa Familiar to present the Political Equator I Conferences: Urbanities of Labor and Surveillance.

On March 3, 2006 the haudenschildGarage presented the panel Alternative Universes in collaboration with the Visual Arts Department of UCSD with Renoud Proch; Nate Harrison; Mario Ybarra Jr.; Sergio de la Torre; moderated by C. Ondine Chavoya.

On December 9, 2005 the haudenschildGarage presented a Garage Talk in conjunction with UCSD conference that dealt with the problems and efforts to resolve Cuban cultural life in the period following the collapse of the Soviet Union.