Presentations

 “Sense and Sentimentality: On Grizzly Man and an Ecological Intimate Public”
– 81st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA), Arlington, VA—selected as recipient for Irene C. Hayes Travel Grant; grant declined, November 2023.
– 61st Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Toronto, October 2023.

 “Dualism and Disenchantment: Theodor Adorno and Val Plumwood on Nature”
– 27th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP), Toronto, October 2023.

“Adorno and Ecofeminist Ethics”
– 15th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome, Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, May 2023.
– 60th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Texas A&M, October 2022.
– 25th Annual Meeting for the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP), virtual, October 2021.

“Who’s Afraid of Earth Beings? De la Cadena and Federici on Shamans, Nature, and Capitalism”
– Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting (WPSA), San Francisco, April 2023.

“Mind-Body Dualism and Indigenous Place-Thought: Descartes and Watts on Nature”
– 14th Annual Meeting of philoSOPHIA, a Society for Continental Feminism, George Mason University, June 2022.
– Planetary Health and the Humanities Conference, The Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M, March 2022.

“Natural-History and Social Reproduction: On Federici, Adorno, and Nature”
– 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), virtual; co-organizer of panel, “Critical Theories and the Witch: Nature, Affect, History after Federici” September 2021.
– 14th Annual Meeting of philoSOPHIA, a Society for Continental Feminism, Nashville—canceled due to COVID-19, May 2020.

“Theodor Adorno and Yuriko Saito and ‘Appreciating Nature on Its Own Terms’”
– Central Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) session, virtual, February 2021.

 “Adorno and Benjamin on Natural Beauty and Historical Remembrance”
– American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Political Implications of the Poetics of Philosophy Seminar, Chicago (rescheduled due to pandemic), March 2023.
– 78th Annual American Society for Aesthetics Meeting (ASA), virtual—selected as recipient for Student Travel Grant, November 2020.
– 58th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Pittsburgh, October 2019.

“Walter Benjamin and the Allegorical Experience of Nature”
– 24th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP), virtual, October 2020.

“Hepburn and Adorno on the Aesthetic Experience of Nature”
– Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) session, Philadelphia, January 2020.

 “Faith and Freedom: Kant at the Boundary of Reason”
– 13th Annual International Kant Congress, University of Oslo, August 2019.

“The Ambivalence of Nature in Benjamin and Adorno”
– 12th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome, Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, May 2019.

 “Walter Benjamin on Human Transience”
– Claremont Annual Philosophy of Religion Conference on Humanity: An Endangered Idea?, Claremont Graduate University—Forum Humanum Fellow, February 2019.

“The Productive Imagination in Kant and Fichte”
– The Society for German Idealism and Romanticism (SGIR) and the North American Kant Society (NAKS), Joint Conference on Kantian Legacies in German Idealism and Romanticism, Stanford University—Graduate Student Paper of the Year Nominee, October 2017.

“Natural-History and Natural Beauty: Adorno on Objects, Social Truth, and  the Possibility of Progress”
– International Critical Theory Summer School, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, July 2017.

“The Translator as Shadow Figure in Benjamin’s Arcades Project
– Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Theory: Translation Theory Today, The Graduate Center, CUNY, May 2016.

“Tina Chanter and the Historical Urgency of Antigone”
– (Respondent)  People in Support of Women in Philosophy Third Annual Colloquium with Tina Chanter: “Who Owns Antigone? And What if Oedipus and Polynices Were Slaves?” The New School for Social Research, March 2010.