Selected Talks

2024

“Merleau-Ponty on Sex, Gender, and the Span of the Body”

International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (October)

Critical Perspectives in Phenomenology Research Group, Toronto (June)

“Zhuangzi: The Course, The Course as Axis, and the Genuine Human,” Toronto Summer Seminar: The Buddha: Compassion and Emptiness, Toronto (June)

“Hegel on Ethicality, Conscience, and Colonialism”

Hegel Society of America, Boston University (October)

Toronto Metropolitan University (March)

University of Guelph (March)

2023

“A Phenomenological Account of the Conditions of Transnational Feminism”

Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto (November)

Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan (November)

“Hegel and Feminist Philosophy,” German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy Book Launch, Finnland Institut/Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (November)

“Wynter and Hegel on the Challenge of Human Self-Cognition,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University, October)

“‘The Civilization of the Universal’: The Intersectional, Decolonial, and Phenomenological Revision of Philosophy,” Hypatia 40th Anniversary Conference (Eugene, Oregon, September)

2022

“White Gaze as a Concept in Phenomenology”

Critical Perspectives in Phenomenology, Toronto (February)

Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy (Memorial University, October)

“The ‘Civilization of the Universal’: Intersectionality, Decoloniality, and the Phenomenological Revision of Philosophy,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (Texas A&M, October)

2021

“Hegel and Sylvia Wynter on the Problem of Human Self-Cognition,” Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Memorial University (October)

“Intimate Exposure: A Feminist, Phenomenological Consideration of Sexual Being-in-the-World”

Society for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, CPA (February)

Seminar: Critical Perspectives in Phenomenology, Toronto (August) 

“Ethical Life, Absolute Spirit, and Intercultural Communication,” Hegel Kongress, University of Warsaw, Poland (June, online)

“The ‘Civilization of the Universal’: Intersectionality, Decoloniality, and the Phenomenological Revision of Philosophy,” Seminar: Critical Perspectives in Phenomenology, Toronto (February)

2020

“Ethical Life and the Feminist Critic,” Atlantic Region Philosophers Association (October)

“The Challenges of Feminism,” Public Lecture Series, St. John’s, Newfoundland (February)

2019

“Between Weltanschauung and Weltwissenschaft: A Phenomenological Consideration of the Intersectional Critique of Feminism,” Department of Philosophy, Memorial University (Nov)

“Existential Phenomenology and the Challenge of Intersectionality,” Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II, George Washington University (June)

“The Decline of Royal Authority in Ibn Khaldûn's Muqaddimah,” Toronto Summer Seminar:  Character and Culture in the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldûn, Toronto (June)

2018

“The Right and the Righteous: Hegel on Confession, Forgiveness, and the Necessary Imperfection of Political Action,” Keynote Lecture, Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Mount Royal University (November 2018); Memorial University Philosophy Colloquium (September)

“Sartre and the Character of Collective Praxis,” Toronto Summer Seminar: Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason (June)

“Themes in Sophocles’ Antigone,” Classics and Conversation Hour, Department of Classics, Memorial University (March)

“Hegel on Tragedy and the Character of Freedom,” Keynote Lecture, Eastern Michigan University (March)

“Hegel and the Possibility of Intercultural Criticism,” Philosophy Colloquium, Pennsylvania State University (January)