Presentations

Conferences (blind-review)

  • “The Importance of Legopolitics Today”. Foucault Circle, Emory, ATL, GA, May 14, 2022
  • “Language & Its Relations to the Other Symbolic Forms”. Future of Cassirer Roundtable. Central APA Meeting, Chicago, IL, February 11, 2022
  • “Figuring, Disfiguring, and Refiguring Political Subjectivity: Homo Sacer, Habeas Viscus, Homo Magus”. philoSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism, Nashville, TN, May 14-17, 2020 (conference cancelled)
  • “The State of Example: Exemplary Sovereignty and Bare Speech in Plato’s Laws“. Society for Phenomenology of Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, PA, Oct 31-Nov 2, 2019
  • “From a Priori History to Paradigmatic Ontology: Re-considering Philosophical Archaeology from Kant to Agamben”. Foucault Circle, Easton, MA, April 5-7, 2019.
  • “Without Provenance: Doing Ethics in the Photo Archives of the USHMM”. World Phenomenology Institute 42nd Annual Cambridge Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 13-15, 2018 (unable to attend)
  • “Homo Sacer, Homo Magus, and the Ethics of Philosophical Archaeology.” Society for Phenomenology of Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Salt Lake City, UT, October 20-22, 2016
  • “Myth, Primitive Sign, Poetry: From Cassirer to Heidegger.” Heidegger Circle, Atlanta, Georgia, October 8, 2015
  • “Political Myth and Its Interruption.” Conference in Metaphilosophy, Eötvös József Collegium, Budapest, Hungary, February 13-15, 2015
  • “Human and Animal Language in Hegel and Herder.” International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP), Eugene, OR, October 26-28, 2013
  • “Heidegger and Cassirer on Magical Signs and Primitive Language.” Participants’ Conference, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 6-7, 2013
  • “Spaces of the Self: Foucault and Goffman on the Micro-physics of Discipline.” Rethinking Prisons, Vanderbilt University, May 3, 2013
  • “Tragedy of Tragedies: The Gods as Tragic Heroes in Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit.” SPEP, Philadelphia, PA, October 20, 2011
  • “Agamben on the Unnecessary Violence of Language.” Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, April 15, 2011

Invited Talks

  • “Dialogues with AI.” A Conversation with Chi Rainer Bornfree. The Philosopher, November 7, 2022.
  • “The Dangers of Political Myth: Past and Present.” Inaugural Lecture, Peace, Justice, and Human Rights Colloquium Series, Florida Atlantic University, November 3, 2016
  • “Führer and Witness: Two figures of Myth-making.” Given as Junior Lecturer, Summer School in Philosophy and Society, Antwerp University, Belgium, August 30, 2016
  • “The Nazi War on Language.” The Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, Washington, D.C., March 16, 2016

Workshop Presentations

  • “Social Contract Gaming.” American Association of Philosophy Teachers, July 2021 (cancelled)
  • “Biopolitics to Legopolitics.” Foucault Feminist Workshop, Nov 13-15, 2020
  • Discussion Leader, Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July, 2019
  • “Teaching the Philosophy of Images using The Photographer’s Playbook.” The American Association of Philosophy Teachers, July 25-29, 2018
  • “Learning to See: Cellphone Photography and Citizenship.” Philosophy Without Teachers Residency, Elon University, Greensboro, NC, June 6, 2016
  • “Political Myth in Cassirer and Foucault.” Atelier de Théorie Critique, Sorbonne, Paris, France, July 6-24, 2015
  • “Heidegger and Cassirer on Magical Signs and Primitive Language.” Collegium Phaenomenologicum, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 6-7, 2013
     
     

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