Conference Presentations & Invited Talks

 

(2023, December 8). “Marx on the 8-Fold Path.” Invited Talk, Radical Philosophy Hour (Theme: Buddhism and Marxism). Guest Lecture.

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(2022, October 28–29). “Tanabe Hajime’s Metanoetics: Apologizing to the Future.” Invited Keynote Lecture, Asia-Japan Research Institute Philosophy Workshop (Theme: Kyoto School Philosophy and the Anthropocene), Ritsumeikan University. Keynote Speaker.

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(2022, November). “Freedom From Work: The Automatic Factory, Yes Please!” Radical Philosophy Association Annual Conference (Theme: The Point is to Change It), University of North Florida.

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(2021, December). “Tosaka Jun: Laughter in a Time of Tragedy.” 4th Annual International Society of East Asian Philosophy (Theme: Philosophies Around East Asian Seas), Kyoto University.

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(2021, January). “Nishida Kitarō and the Later Marx: Zettai Mu and Ground Rent.” American Philosophical Association, Panel: The Kyoto School and Social Reality. Virtual Attendee.

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(2019, October). “Aggressivity and Narcissistic Rage.” Lacan Ecrits Conference (Theme: 10th Anniversary of the Unabridged Translation of Ecrits), Duquesne University.

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(2019, March). “Anti-Fascist Ontology in Nishida Kitarō’s Active Intuition.” International Japanese Association of Philosophy (Theme: Why the Kyoto School Today?), King’s University College at Western University.

 

(2015, November). “Existence Before Essence: Anti-Essentialist Personhood.” The North American Sartre Society, East Stroudsburg University.

 

(2015, October). “Reading Irigaray, Reading Freud’s Degradation in Erotic Life.” Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society Conference (Theme: Borders), Rutgers University.

 

(2011, December). “Deconstructing the Human, all too Human Ethos.” Annual Graduate Student Ecology Conference, George Mason University.

 

(2011, October). “(Dis)Abling Time: Ableist Visions of Work.” Marcuse Society Conference (Theme: Critical Refusals), University of Pennsylvania.

 

(2011, June). “The Therapeutic Possibilities of Being Unproductive.” PsychOut 2011, New York City.

 

(2011, April). “Power in Spinoza’s Metaphysics: God and Pantheism.” Annual Broome Community College Applied Ethics Conference (Theme: Religion and Ethics), Broome Community College.

 

(2011, March). “(Dis)abling Time: Ableist Visions of Work.” Annual Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference (Theme: Time and Revolution), Binghamton University.

 

(2010, April). “Deconstructing a Humanist Ethos in Environmental Ethics.” Annual Broome Community College Applied Ethics Conference (Theme: Ecology), Broome Community College.

 

(2009, November). “George W. Bush’s Freedom Commission on Mental Health.” Annual Social Justice Conference, Binghamton University.

 

(2009, April). “Sex Addiction and Freud’s Debasement of the Love Object.” Association for Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, Rutgers University.

 

(2009, April). “Transversality and Bioethics.” Annual Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference (Theme: Technology, Technics), Binghamton University.

 

(2007, April). “Dialectics of Transgression.” Annual Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference (Theme: Transgressions), Binghamton University.