Whether I'm presenting a paper at an academic conference or speaking to an audience outside of my home discipline, I enjoy bringing philosophical ideas to life and connecting with my listeners. Below you'll find a list of my academic talks and public presentations.
Academic Presentations:
Comments:
Panels, Teaching, and Public Presentations:
Academic Presentations:
- "Eating, Cooking, and the Ethics of Self-Care," Philosophy Department, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, April 2024
- Keynote Address: "Race, Bodily Alienation, and the Politics of Self-Care," Social Justice and Oppression Workshop, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, February 2024
- "The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Tyranny of Slenderness Twenty Years Later,” American Society for Aesthetics, Arlington, VA, November 2023
- Keynote Address: "Embodying Bias,” Implicit Bias: What Are We Missing? Workshop, Munich School of Philosophy, Munich, Germany, October 2023
- "Body Image and the Ethics of Self-Care," American Society for Existential Phenomenology, Harvard University, June 2023
- "How Can We Embody Self-Care? Lessons from the Body Positivity Movement," University of Alabama, Huntsville, March 2023
- "How Can We Embody Self-Care? Lessons from the Body Positivity Movement," Mudd Center for Ethics, Washington and Lee University, March 2023
- "The Future of Black and Asian Solidarities," Central APA, February 2023
- "The Future of Black and Asian Solidarities," Florida Philosophical Association, February 2023
- "The Future of Black and Asian Solidarities," American Philosophies Forum, April 2022
- "Is Justice Required for Happiness? – Lessons from Feminist Theory,'' Science of Ethics and Happiness Project, Casina Pio IV, Vatican City, February 2022
- "The Social Construction of the White Body," Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, November 2021
- "Fearing the Future: Is Life Worth Living in the Anthropocene?" University of Tampa, November 2021
- “Phenomenology at the Intersection of Gender and Race," Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, May 2021
- "Fearing the Future: Is Life Worth Living in the Anthropocene?" American Philosophies Forum, April 2021
- "Phenomenology at the Intersection of Gender and Race," Cultural Life Program, Furman University, October 2020
- “Body Positivity: What Is It? What Do We Want It to Be?,” Department of Philosophy, University of Miami, November 2019
- “‘What Are You?’ – Addressing Racial Ambiguity,” Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, May 2019
- “‘What Are You?’ - Reflections on the Phenomenology of Mixed-Race Experience,” Eastern APA, January 2019
- “Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminist Art of Living,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 2018
- “Feminist Pornography: What Would Simone de Beauvoir Say?” 25th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, October 2018
- “ ‘What Are You?’ – Addressing Racial Ambiguity,” California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, October 2018
- “Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: Mindfulness Meditation as an Intervention,” The Logic of Racial Practice: Embodied Cognition, Habitus, and Implicit Bias Symposium, University of Pittsburgh, April 2018
- “ ‘The Audacity of Hope: Reclaiming Obama’s Optimism in the Trump Era,” American Philosophies Forum, April 2018
- “‘What Are You?’ – Alienation and Objectification in Mixed-Race Experience,” Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, January 2018
- “Anatomy of the Thigh Gap,” Eastern APA, January 2018
- “In Simone de Beauvoir’s Footsteps: A Philosophy of Walking,” Philosophy Department, Pennsylvania State University, November 2017
- “Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir’s Art of Living,” 24th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, June 2017
- “Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits: The Practice of Mindfulness,” Mentoring Workshop for Pre-tenure Women in Philosophy, June 2017
- “In Simone de Beauvoir’s Footsteps: Feminism Embodied,” GEA Humanities Faculty Lecture, Florida International University, April 2017
- “Reforming Racializing Bodily Habits,” philoSOPHIA, March 2017
- “Embodying Resistance to Racial Oppressions,” CUNY Graduate Center MAPshop, February 2016
- “Embodying Resistance to Racial Oppressions,” Rock Ethics Institute, Pennsylvania State University, October 2015
- “Anatomy of the Thigh Gap,” Workshop on Feminist Ontology, MIT, October 2015
- “Alienation and Objectification in the Works of Beauvoir and Fanon,” Diverse Lineages of Existentialism Conference, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, June 2014
- “Alienation and Objectification in the Works of Beauvoir and Fanon,” European Philosophy Workshop, Harvard University, December 2013
Comments:
- Comments on Manon Garcia’s We Are Not Born Submissive, Eastern APA, January 2022
- Comments on Nathalie Nya’s Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, September 2021
- Comments for Body Politics: African American and Latinx Feminist Cultures of Resistance, Florida International University, November 2020
- Comments on Nick Wiltsher’s “The Aesthetic Constitution of Genders,” Southern Aesthetics Workshop II, September 2020
Panels, Teaching, and Public Presentations:
- "Anger." Department of Logic, Philosophy, and Scientific Method, London School of Economics, January 2022
- "Existentialism as a Way of Life," Department of Philosophy, Wesleyan University, November 2021
- “Body Positivity: What Is It? What Do We Want It to Be?” Philosophy in an Inclusive Key, June 2021
- “Nietzsche.” Composer in the Crossfire: Reassessing the Music of Nietzsche’s ‘St.Peter,’ Florida International University, March 2020
- “Body Positivity: What Is It? What Do We Want It to Be?” Fluid Lines: Symposium on the Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality, Miami-Dade College, March 2020
- “How to Become Happier? Live Like Aristotle!” More Fun Than Cheating: Creative Course Design to Foster Student Engagement, Florida International University, October 2019
- “Mindfulness in the Classroom,” Second Annual Inclusiveness Seminar, University of Miami, April 2017
- "Embodying Resistance to Resistance to Oppression." Harvard Horizons Symposium, May 2015.