Invited Presentations:
“Afro-Latinidad, Affordances, and Anticolonialism” (with Alejandro Arango). Meeting of the APA Committee for Hispanic/Latinx Issues in Philosophy at the Eastern APA, Montreal, 2023
“Representation: For Who? For What?” Meeting of North American Society for Social Philosophy at the Pacific APA, Vancouver, 2022
“Neither Race nor Ethnicity: Latinidad as a Multidirectional Social Affordance” (with Alejandro Arango). Gonzaga University, March 26, 2021
“Two or Three Moments of Decolonization: Amílcar Cabral on Revolution and Culture.” Bucknell University, January 22, 2019
“The Unmaking of Politics.” Bucknell University, January 30, 2018
“Toward Some Normative Implications of Political Resistance.” Bucknell University Humanities Symposium, April 11, 2017
“Conceptualizing Resistance: The Spaces and Places of Politics.” Wellesley College Philosophy Department, May 10, 2016
“Between Equality and Resistance: An Outline of Fractured Social Holism.” Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, April 10, 2015
Refereed Conference Presentations:
“Puerto Ricans and Latinidad: Race and Politics of The Young Lords Party.” 7th Latinx Philosophy Conference, Philadelphia, 2023.
“Afro-Latinidad, Affordances, and Anticolonialism” (with Alejandro Arango). Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Conference, Denver, 2023.
“Social Identities as Social Affordances” (with Alejandro Arango). Social Ontology Conference, Vienna/virtual, 2022
“Internal Colonialism and Violent Resistance,” 39th International Social Philosophy Conference, Aston (PA), 2021
“Afro-Latinidad in an Anticolonial Key as Crucial for an Account of Latinidad in The U.S.” (with Alejandro Arango). Latinx Philosophy Conference, virtual, 2021
“Social Identities as Social Affordances” (with Alejandro Arango). Critical Social Ontology Workshop, virtual, 2021
“Neither Race nor Ethnicity: Latinidad as a Social Affordance” (with Alejandro Arango). Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland, (OR) 2021
“Self-Defense in the Face of Catastrophe: Dialogues in Non-Non-Violence” (with P. Khalil Saucier). 14th Biennial Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association, virtual, 2021 [rescheduled from San Jose, 2020, postponed due to COVID19]
“Neither Race nor Ethnicity: Latinidad as a Social Affordance” (with Alejandro Arango). Social Ontology Conference, virtual, 2021
“Just Revolutionary Violence in Legitimate States.” MANCEPT Workshop, Manchester Centre for Political Theory, Manchester (UK), 2019
“Legitimacy as Inferential Endorsement: Accounting for Power.” Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, Newcastle (UK), 2019
“Legitimacy as Inferential Endorsement: Accounting for Power.” 36th International Social Philosophy Conference, San Francisco, 2019
“Partial Legitimacy and the Modes of Just Resistance.” MANCEPT Workshop, Manchester Centre for Political Theory, Manchester (UK), 2018
“Parsing Ideology Critique.” 35thInternational Social Philosophy Conference, hosted by the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Rochester (MI), 2018
“Legitimacy & Revolt: A Realist Alternative.” 34thInternational Social Philosophy Conference, hosted by the North American Society for Social Philosophy,Chicago, 2017
“Legitimacy & Revolt: A Realist Alternative.” Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, Sheffield (UK), 2017
“Culture, Violence, and Two Moments of Decolonization.” Caribbean Philosophical Association Conference, New York, 2017
“The Deceptions of Silent Authority: Tutor, Legislator, and the Function of Lies.” 20th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Gainesville (FL), 2017
“Clarifying Realism: The Role of Resistance In Legitimacy.” 33rdInternational Social Philosophy Conference, hosted by the North American Society for Social Philosophy,Ottawa, 2016
“Rousseau Was Right: Democracy, Resistance, & the General Will.” Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, London, 2016
“Realism, Resistance, and Democracy.”Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, Amsterdam, 2015
“First and Second-Order Public Problems In the Philosophy of John Dewey.” Advancing Public Philosophy Conference, San Francisco, 2015
“Fractured Social Holism: A Pragmatist Political Philosophy of Emancipation.”Emancipation: Challenges at the Intersection of American and European Philosophy, New York City, 2015
“The Sovereignty of Language and the Threat of Revolution in Leviathan.” Meeting of The Radical Philosophy Association at the Central APA, Chicago, 2014
“Ernesto Laclau and the Possibilities of Populism.” XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 2013
“Jacques Rancière and the Place of the Political.” The 5thAnnual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, 2013
“The Normative and the Natural in Rousseau’s Second Discourse.” 29thInternational Social Philosophy Conference, hosted by the NorthAmerican Society for Social Philosophy, Boston, 2012
“A Plateau Beyond Memory: Toward a Deleuzian Understanding of Love.” The 2ndAnnual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, 2010
“Encountering a Philosophical Friend: Derrida Does Da-Sein.” The 5thAnnual meeting of the Continental and Comparative Philosophy Circle, Honolulu, 2010
“On Derrida and Huayan: Evocations of a Ghostly Ethics.” The 4thAnnual meeting of the Continental and Comparative Philosophy Circle, Asilomar (CA) 2009