PRESENTATIONS
“Self-Preservation, Survival, and Climate Change: A Kantian View,” Kant’s Project of Enlightenment: XIV International Kant Kongress, Bonn, September 2024
“Does Kant Have a Theory of Sustainability?,” Institutskolloqium, Institute for Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, January 9, 2024
“Human Animality and the Paradox of Sustainability,” Let’s Talk About Sustainability, Stuttgart College of Media, November 29, 2023
“Anton Wilhelm Amo und Rassismus in der Geschichte der Philosophie,” Talkrunde Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Platz, Museum Hegel-Haus, Stuttgart, November 16, 2023
“Crooked Timber: Toward a Kantian Theory of Environmental Vulnerability,” Lisbon Kant Group Graduate Conference, September 4, 2023 (Keynote)
“On the Pre-History of Kant's Theory of Race: Comments on Lu-Adler's Kant, Race, and Racism,” Technische Universität Dresden, June 20, 2023
“Three Approaches to Kant and the Environment,” Forschungskolloqium, Institute for Philosophy, University of Stuttgart, May 24, 2023
“Das Tier in der Philosophie - von Aristoteles bis zur Gegenwart,” Philosophisches Café, Museum Hegel-Haus, Stuttgart, April 29, 2023
"Human Animality in Kant: Environmental Insights for Today,” Kant and the Environmental Crisis, North American Kant Society Virtual Lecture Series, March 16th, 2022
“Animality and Savagery in Kant’s Theory of Race,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Remote Conference, September 25th, 2021
“Beauvoir’s Hunting Hypothesis,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Remote Conference, October 10th, 2020
“An Indigenous Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation,” Endangered Species Coalition, National Wolf Call, May 19th, 2020 (Invited Consultation, with Lauren Eichler)
“Predatory Masculinity and Domestic Violence: A Beauvoirian Account,” philoSOPHIA, Nashville, TN, May 15th, 2020 (Cancelled due to COVID-19)
“Animality and Reason in Kant’s Theory of Race,” Agency, Responsibility & Rational Unity, University of Pittsburgh, February 1st, 2020
“From Environmental Ethics to Environmental Philosophy,” New Challenges in Environmental Philosophy—Contesting Boundaries, University of Oregon, January 16th, 2020
“Hunting as a Tool of Conservation and Genocide,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA, November 4th, 2019 (Presented with Lauren Eichler)
“Kant, Moscati, and the Status of Physiological Anthropology,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, PA, November 1st, 2019
“Hunting for Justice,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Pittsburgh, PA, October 31st, 2019 (Presented with Lauren Eichler)
“Rethinking Conservation for Inclusivity: An Indigenous Critique of the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation,” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Columbus, OH, March 15th, 2019 (Presented with Lauren Eichler and winner of the Ila and John Mellow Prize)
“Violence, Animality, and the Moral Law: Confronting a Kantian Legacy,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, State College, PA, October 19th, 2018
“Animalizing Edith Stein’s Ethics of Empathy,” Extensions of Stein: Empathy and Advocacy in Philosophy of Communication, Greensburg, PA, October 5th, 2018
“A History of Our Fear of Animals,” Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, October 28th, 2017
“A History of Animal Intelligence,” Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, May 6th, 2017
“A Historical Look at Human-Animal Transformation,” Transform-able Identity/ies, Corvallis, OR, March 11th, 2017
“Self-Preservation, Survival, and Climate Change: a Kantian View,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, UT, October 24th, 2016
“Kant on Animality, Race, and Sexual Difference,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Salt Lake City, UT, October 21st, 2016
“A History of Human-Animal Hybrids,” Eugene Public Library, Eugene, OR, October 29th, 2016
“Violence, Animality, and the Moral Law: Confronting a Kantian Legacy with Critical Theory,” German Studies Association, San Diego, CA, October 1st, 2016
“The Constancy of Human Animality in Kant’s Moscati Review,” North American Kant Society, Biannual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, May 28th, 2016
"Human Animality in the History of Philosophy,” Critical Animal Studies Symposium, Humboldt State University, April 29th, 2016
“Kant on Animality, Race, and Sexual Difference,” North American Kant Society, Southern Study Group, Athens, GA, February 20th, 2016 (Best Graduate Student Paper Award)
“Physical Education in Kant’s Lectures on Pedagogy,” Natur und Freiheit: XII. Internationaler Kant Kongress, Vienna, Austria, September 24th, 2015
“The Role of Animality in Kant’s Accounts of Human Racial and Sexual Difference,” philoSOPHIA: A Feminist Society, Atlanta, GA, May 15th, 2015
“Kant’s Animal–Rational Axis,” Tracking the Animal, Trinity College, April 18th, 2015
“Philosophy of History at the Birth of the Anthropocene,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy (Eastern APA), Philadelphia, PA, December 30th, 2014
“The Androcentric Dimension of the Anthropocene,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, New Orleans, LA, October 27th, 2014
“Animality and Normativity in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, New Orleans, LA, October 24th, 2014
“Irigaray and Beauvoir on the Animalization of Woman,” philoSOPHIA, State College, PA, May 3rd, 2014 (Best Graduate Student Paper Award)
“The Animal Beginning of Human History: Derrida’s Final Engagement with Kant,” Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Santa Barbara, CA, March 21st, 2014
“From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rorty’s Approach to Race and Racism,” Society for the Advancement of American Phil., Denver, CO, March 7th, 2014
“Schiller’s Challenge to the Superiority of Humans over Non-Human Animals,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Eugene, OR, October 27th, 2013
“Animality and Normativity in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature,” Crisis, Critique, Capitalism, Universität Luzern, Switzerland, October 15th, 2013
“From Philosophy of Race to Antiracist Politics: On Rorty’s Approach to Race and Racism,” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Estes Park, CO, July 22nd, 2013 (Best Graduate Student Paper Award)
“The Dialectic of Rationality and Animality in Kant’s Theory of Human Nature,” Defining the Human and the Animal, Eugene, OR, May 2nd, 2013
“Aristotle’s Politics of the Hunt,” Ancient Philosophy Society, South Bend, IN, April 6th, 2013
“Sacrificing the Animal, Ingesting the Father,” International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Rochester, NY, November 4th, 2012