Recent and upcoming presentations

Conferences:

“‘Chaos sive Natura,’ or Nietzsche’s Critique of Spinoza’s Naturalism.” North American Nietzsche Society. University of New Mexico. November 2024.

“TBA.” Conference on Solomon Maimon. Universität Heidelberg. September 2024.

“Martin Luther King, Jr. and Hegel on History and Contradiction.” Association for Global Political Thought. Princeton University. April 2024.

“King and Hegel on History and Contradiction.” American Philosophical Association Conference (Central: Invited Session). February 2024.

“Spinoza and Two Medieval Jewish Predecessors on Error.” 1st Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University. December 2023.

“King and Nietzsche on Christianity.” British Society for the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University. September 2023.

“Maimon on Right and Power.” Kantian Foundations of Democracy Conference. University of Oslo. August 2023.

“Günderrode and Spinoza on Freedom and Death.” Enlightenment to Romanticism: Women at the Turning Point. Western University. October 2022.

“King and Hegel on History and Contradiction.” Hegel Society of Great Britain Conference. Oxford University. September 2022.

“Medieval Jewish Predecessors to Spinoza’s Practical Thought.” Société Internationale pour l’Etude de la Philosophie Médiévale Congress. Paris, FR. August 2022.

“King and Hegel on History and Contradiction.” Beyond Idealism Conference. University of Sheffield. July 2022.

“Günderrode and Spinoza on Freedom and Death.” American Philosophical Association Conference (Central: Colloquium Session). February 2022.

“Günderrode and Spinoza on Freedom and Death.” New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy Conference. Universität Paderborn. February 2022.

“Goethe’s Naturalism.” Atkins Conference of the Goethe Society of North America. University of Chicago. November 2021.

“Lou Salomé, Nietzsche, and Spinoza on Liberation.” North American Nietzsche Society Biennial Conference. Georgia State University. October 2021.

“Caroline Michaelis-Böhmer-Schlegel-Schelling and Understanding.” German Studies Association Annual Conference. Indianapolis, IN. September 2021.

“Hegel and Spinoza on Right.” 33rd International Hegel Congress. University of Warsaw. June 2021.

“Spinoza and Etiology.” American Philosophical Association Conference (Pacific: Colloquium Session). April 2021.

Invited talks: 

“‘Reading Spinoza in the Ghetto’ and the Metaphysical Overview Effect.” Hopkins-Chicago Seminar in Jewish Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University. March 2024. 

“‘Chaos sive Natura’: Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Naturalism.” Vanderbilt Modern Philosophy Colloquium. Vanderbilt University. February 2024. [Link recording]

“Why Nietzsche Rejects Genealogical Debunking.” Princeton Human Values Forum. Princeton University. November 2023.

“‘Chaos sive Natura’: Nietzsche, Spinoza, and Naturalism.” Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Alba Iulia, RO. July 2023.

“Spinoza, Hegel, and King on Political Change.” APA Baumgardt Memorial Lecture, Leo Baeck Institute. New York, NY. February 2023.

“Medieval Jewish Predecessors to Spinoza’s Practical Thought.” Les Lumières (Seminar: Buchenau). Université Paris VIII. April 2022.

“Günderrode and Spinoza on Freedom and Death.” Vanderbilt Modern Philosophy Colloquium. Vanderbilt University. March 2022.

“King and Hegel on History and Contradiction.” Hegel and Black History Workshop. Berlin, DE. February 2022. [Link homepage]

“Nietzsche and Spinoza on Power and Right.” Spinoza and Early Modern Philosophy Workshop. Johns Hopkins University. July 2021. [Co-organizer]

Comments:

Session on Malebranche’s psychology. ENS-Paris. January 2024. 

Session on Rosenzweig’s political-philosophical writings. Jewish Studies Workshop. Princeton University. March 2023.

Book panel on When Spinoza Met Marx (Tracie Matysik). University of Texas, Austin. November 2022.

Book panel on Hegel’s Concept of Life (Karen Ng). Vanderbilt University. April 2021. [Link recording]

Session on Hegel and laws of nature. American Philosophical Association Conference (Eastern: Main program). January 2021.