Invited Presentations
“Inseparability and Communion: Figures of We-Experience in Beauvoir’s Fiction,” I and We: Literary Texts and the Constitution of Shared Identities Conference, Center for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen, June 12, 2021.
“How Does Your Mind Grasp Your Body? Recovering Phenomenological Figures in The Second Sex,” Keynote lecture, De Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century Conference, Institute of Philosophy, Leuven, Belgium, June 2, 2021.
“Why The Second Sex Is Not about Gender: Phenomenology, Sexual Difference, and the (Mis)translation of Se faire femme,” Wellesley College Maison Française Spring Speaker Series, April 14, 2021.
“The Subject(s) of Panpsychism: A Phenomenology of Empty, Extended, and Doubled Selves,” Center for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen, December 4, 2018.
“Why Feminism Entails Panpsychism,” Workshop on Gender and Philosophy, M.I.T., Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 9, 2017.
“Why Feminism Entails Panpsychism,” Colorado College Philosophy Colloquium Series, Colorado Springs, Colorado, October 31, 2017.
“Becoming Woman and Becoming a Woman: Deleuze and Beauvoir,” The Politics of Desire: Deleuze Foucault, and Psychoanalysis, Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts, September 8, 2017.
“Ethical Experience and Our Attitudes Toward the Other: The Phenomenology of Levinas,” An 8-hour workshop providing CEUs, co-directed withDaniel Jones at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, July 8, 2017; April 30, 2016; January 17, 2015; October 25, 2013, September 29, 2012.
“Why Feminism Entails Panpsychism,” Invited Symposium on Feminism and Philosophy of Mind, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Main Program, Seattle, April 13, 2017.
Book Symposium on Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue, ed. Jennifer McWeeny and Ashby Butnor, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Group Program, Seattle, April 12, 2017.
“Flesh Possessed: On the Promiscuity of Subjectivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology,” Forty-first Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Brock University, St. Catharine’s, Ontario, September 24, 2016.
“Whose Desire Is This That I Experience? Flesh, Vulnerability, and the Extended Subject,” Phenomenology and Vulnerability Conference, The New School for Social Research, New York, May 5, 2016.
“The Continuing Relevance of Margaret Cavendish,” Skidmore College Senior Philosophy Seminar Speaker Series, Saratoga Springs, New York, March 23, 2016.
“Bad Faith, False Consciousness, and se faire objet: Complicit and Resistant Consciousness under Oppression,” University of Macau, Taipa, Macau, China, February 22, 2016.
“Carnal Metaphors: A Eulogy and a Birth for Language,” Embodying Philosophy: Embodied Meaning, Mind, and Value Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, April 25, 2015.
“The Colonial, Catholic Body: Identity and Self-Relation in Mexican and Irish Diasporas,” Gloria Anzaldúa Speaker of 2013, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, March 21, 2013.
“Embodied Pedagogy: Incorporating Gestalt Techniques and Decolonial Practice in the Women’s Studies Classroom,” Women’s History Month Scholar in Residence, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, March 9, 2012.
“The Reversible Flesh of Women and Nonhuman Animals: Rethinking Bodily Connection and Difference in Feminist Theory,” Women’s History Month Scholar in Residence, Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, March 8, 2012.
“Sounding Depth with the North Atlantic Right Whale and Merleau-Ponty,” Philosophy Speaker Series, Kennisaw State University, Atlanta, Georgia, April 26, 2011.
“Moving from Intersectionality to Reversibility in Feminist Theory,” Dean’s Speaker Series, Binghamton University, March 17, 2011.
“Sounding Depth with the North Atlantic Right Whale and Merleau-Ponty,” Rethinking the Nonhuman Workshop: Asian, Continental, and Comparative Perspectives, University of Alberta, Edmonton, October 2, 2010.
“Embodied Awareness and Group Solidarity,” Bridging Traditions: 2010 Women in Philosophy Workshop, Goucher College, March 5, 2010
“Mind-Body Dualism and Gestalt Therapy: Becoming Aware of Our Own Ontological Commitments,” The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, February 4, 2010.
“Getting to the Heart of the Matter: Why You Should Choose an Emotional Life,” Slippery Rock University Philosophy Department Fall Speaker, Slippery Rock, PA, October 26, 2006.
“Is Cyborg Politics Ecofeminist Activism?” XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Invited Graduate Student Session, Istanbul, Turkey, August 17, 2003.
Refereed Presentations
“The (Mis)translation of Se faire: Evacuating Phenomenology and Agency from The Second Sex,” Le Deuxième Sexe 70 Years On: Reading Beauvoir Around the World, Emory University, Atlanta, October 26, 2019.
“The Psychology of Emancipatory Desire: Beauvoir on Sade, Fanon on Interracial Desire, and Horkheimer and Adorno on Juliette,” Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II, George Washington University, June 3, 2019
“The Irish Dirty Protest and Hunger Strikes (1979-1981): Barbarism, Resistance, and the Colonial/Modern Gender System,” Decolonial Feminisms Conference, PA, May 12, 2018.
“The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Main Program, San Diego, March 2018.
“The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty’s Ontology,” Forty-second Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Albuquerque, November 4, 2017.
“The Intimate Politics of Flesh: Ontological Heterogeneity and Desire in The Second Sex,” International Simone de Beauvoir Society Annual Meeting, University of Wisconsin, Superior, Superior, Wisconsin, June 22, 2016.
“Speaking Face to Face/Hablando Cara a Cara: The Visionary Philosophy of Maria Lugones,” Roundtable Discussion, National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 13, 2015.
“The Colonial, Catholic Body: Ontologies of Oppression and Resistance in the Chicana-Irish Borderlands,” Latina/o Critical and Comparative Studies Group, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 23, 2014.
“Liberating Traditions: Asian Religions and Transnational Feminisms,” a roundtable discussion on Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue, ed. Jennifer McWeeny and Ashby Butnor, Asian, North American Religion, Culture, and Society Group, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 22, 2014.
“Woman and Adversity,” Thirty-ninth Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Geneva, August 29, 2014.
“Becoming Woman, Becoming Flesh: Ontological Multiplicity as Resistance in Beauvoir’s The Second Sex,” Annual Meeting of International Association of Women Philosophers, Madrid, June 26, 2014.
“Living, Knowing Bodies: Margaret Cavendish’s Seventeenth Century Feminist Materialism,” Mattering: Feminism, Science, and Materialism Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, February 15, 2013.
“Merleau-Ponty’s ‘Flesh’ is Actually Beauvoir’s Concept: The Solitude of Immanence and the Flesh of the Woman-Other,” Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, New York City, September 20, 2012.
“The Phenomenology of Mobility: How Cognition is Tied to Movement in the Philosophies of Lugones and Merleau-Ponty,” Roundtable on Latina Feminism, University Heights, Ohio, April 27, 2012.
“How Can I Be Sexist, Racist, and Heterosexist and Not Even Know It?” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Group Program, Washington, D.C., December 28, 2011.
“Life, Flesh, and Materiality,” Thirty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Fargo, North Dakota, September 16, 2011.
“A Decolonial Mode of Consciousness: Praxical Thinking in María Lugones’s Pilgrimages/ Peregrinajes” (with Pedro di Pietro), Fourth Annual Roundtable on Latina Feminism, University Heights, Ohio, April 30, 2011.
“Locating Worlds of Sense on the Streetwalker’s Body,” National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 12, 2010.
“Embodied Pedagogy Workshop: Using Gestalt Techniques and Decolonial Practice in the Classroom” (with Chela Sandoval), National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, November 12, 2010.
“Streetwalker Knowing: A Study of Depth and Movement in Lugones and Merleau-Ponty,” Thirty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle, Asheville, North Carolina, September 24, 2010.
“Complicating Intersectionality: The Relationship between Women of Color and Nonhuman Animals,” National Women’s Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, November 13, 2009.
“Interspecies Intersectionality: The Relationship between Women and Nonhuman Animals,” Association for Feminist Ethics and Social Theory, Clearwater Beach, Florida, September 25, 2009.
“When Life Exceeds Language: Murder and Emotion in Beauvoir’s L’Invitée,” Society for Phenomenological and Existential Philosophy, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 17, 2008.
“Feminism, Veganism, Anti-Classism, and Anti-Racism: Theorizing Interlocking Oppressions from the Perspective of Resistance,” International Society for Environmental Philosophy Annual Meeting, Eugene, Oregon, June 21, 2008.
“The Epistemology of Margaret Cavendish: A Seventeenth Century Theory of Embodied Cognition,” Society for Analytical Feminism Annual Meeting, Lexington, Kentucky, April 4, 2008.
“Experiencing Anger, Recognizing Injustice: A Study in Feminist and Buddhist Perspectives,” Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, Plenary Session, Pacific Grove, California, June 10, 2007.
“Experiencing Anger, Recognizing Injustice: Epistemology in the Borderlands,” Second Annual Roundtable on Latina Feminism, University Heights, Ohio, April 21, 2007.
“Knowing the Unique Particularity of the Other (In the Midst of the Distortions of Representation),” Feminist Epistemology Metaphysics Methodologies and Science Studies Conference, Tempe, Arizona, February 9, 2007.
“Knowing without Representation: From Beauvoir and Levinas to Haraway and Butler,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Group Program, Washington, D.C., December 29, 2006.
“Margaret Cavendish and the Metaphysics/Epistemology of Non-Duality,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Group Program, Washington, D.C., December 28, 2006.
“Emotional Intentionality: Living Meaning in Emotional Experiences,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, Main Program, New York, New York, December 30, 2005.
“Remembering the Fiery Liquid: Sedimentation and Signification in Nietzsche and Derrida,” Collegium Phaenomenologicum Participants’ Conference, Citta di Castello, Italy, July 10, 2005.
“The Need for Emotional Knowers in a Pluralistic World,” Ninth East West Philosopher’s Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i, June 2, 2005.
“Love, Theory, and Politics: Critical Trinities in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Mandarins,” American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Group Program, December 2004.
“Origins of Otherness: A Juxtaposition of Simone de Beauvoir and Emmanuel Levinas,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Main Program, March 27, 2004. Winner of Outstanding Paper by a Graduate Student Award.
“The Disadvantages of Radical Alterity for a Comparative Methodology,” XXIst World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul, Turkey, August 11, 2003.
“Knowing Emerson: Emerson’s Post-Epistemology,” American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Annual Meeting, Group Program, March 27, 2003.
“Feminist Philosophy and Confucianism: Toward Philosophies that Foster Unique Identities,” University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, School of Asian and Pacific Studies Annual Conference, Honolulu, Hawai’i, April 2000.