Lectures

Upcoming talks

Prospéro Seminar, Brussels, January 9, 2026

Wittgenstein Seminar, EXeCO laboratory at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, early 2026

Oxford Critical Theory Workshop, Oxford, UK, January 22, 2026

With Sandra Laugier at Maison Suger, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, France, February 5, 2026, “Wittgenstein et la Politique”

The Linda Singer Memorial Lecture, Miami University, Ohio, April 9-10, 2026

Lecture for the Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies Consortium, Technical University Delft and Utrecht University, funded by the Dutch Research Council, April 17, 2026

Recent Invited talks

“La Menace du Techno-Fascisme,” at the conference, “La démocratie américaine est-elle en péril ? Regards pluridisciplinaires,” l’ISJPS (Institut des Sciences Juridique et Philosophique de la Sorbonne), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, December 2025

Workshop, “Crossroads in the political philosophy of language,” VLC Philosophy Lab, University of Valencia Spain, November 2025

“If you’re not outraged about AI, you’re not paying attention: philosophy in the time of techno-fascism.” Royal Institute of Philosophy’s Annual Public Lecture (centenary year), School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland, October, 2025

“Left Wittgensteinian,” keynote of the 46^th International Wittgenstein Symposium, “Wittgenstein and Feminism,” Kirchberg, Austria, August 2025.

“Animals and Wonder,” Sarah Lawrence College, April 2025.

“Wittgenstein and the Politics of Interpretation,” Moral Sciences Club, Cambridge University, UK, March 2025.

“What is Climate Justice?” MCR Speaker Series, Regent’s Park College, Oxford University, UK, March 2025.

“The Political Wittgenstein,” Philosophy Department, Georgetown University, February 2025.

“Wittgenstein and the Politics of Interpretation,” a workshop on “The Politics of Analytic Philosophy,” Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, December 2024.

“All Justice is Animal Justice,” Department of Philosophy, Porto University, Porto, Portugal, December 2024.

“Ecology and Gender,” Philosophy Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, an event with Sandra Laugier and Piergiorgio Donatelli, on Ecology, Vulnerability, and Feminism, December 2024.

“All Justice is Animal Justice.” The 2^nd annual Henrik Steffens Lecture, University of Stavanger, Norway, November, 2024.

“Animals and Wonder,” Keynote at the conference, “At the Limits of Imagination: Otherness in Human and Nonhuman Animals,” University of Vienna, Austria, September 2024.

“Ordinary Language Philosophy’s Liberating Motifs,” at a workshop on “Ordinary Language Philosophy today” at Maison Française Oxford, May 2024.

“All Justice is Animal Justice,” The Annual Social Justice Lecture at Wesleyan University, March 2024.

“Objectivity’s Politics,” Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University, February 2024.

“Objectivity’s Politics,” Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, November 2023.

“The Toxic Ideology of Longtermism,” Ideology Workshop, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June 2023.

“Political Possibilities,” Keynote at a conference on “Possibilities, Impossibilities, and Conflict in Ethics,” at the Centre for Ethics, Pardubice, Czech Republic, June 1, 2023.

“Animal Crisis—a Call for Animal Justice,” with Lori Gruen, at the Annual Weissbourd Conference, “Ethics and Nature in a Time of Crisis,” University of Chicago, May 2023.

“Rorty, Objectivity, Politics,” at the conference “Le Wittgenstein de Richard Rorty: Jeux de Langage et Pragmatism,” at the Philosophy Department, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, April 2023.

“Critical Animal Theory and the Food System,” with Lori Gruen, at the workshop, “Food, Ethics, Politics,” University Center for Human Values, Princeton, December 2-3 2022.

“The Art of Revolution: Stanley Cavell’s ‘Impressions of Revolution’,” An International Conference, “Celebrating Stanley Cavell, Here and There: Sites of Philosophy,” École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris 5e, 45 Rue d’Ulm, Salle Dussane, June 29-30 2022.

“Animal Crisis: A book talk with Lori Gruen and Alice Crary,” lecture for the Law, Ethics & Animals Program’s speaker series, in collaboration with the Yale Sustainable Food Program, at Yale Law School, March 2022.

“Critical Animal Theory and the Food System,” with Lori Gruen, at the workshop, “Food, Ethics, Politics,” University Center for Human Values, Princeton, December 2-3 2022.

“Ética y Política Ecofeminista,” lecture for the series “Las Filósofas—Corrientes Actuales de la Filosofía,” Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, November 2021.

“Objectivity’s Politics,” keynote at the 25^th Oxford Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, Oxford, November 2021.

“Objectivity’s Politics,” keynote at the seminar series “Objectivity in the Humanities,” Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities, New York, October 2021.

“Cavell’s unpublished collection Here and There,” with Nancy Bauer and Sandra Laugier, at the colloquium “Constellations of the Ordinary,” Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru, Centro de Estudios Filosóficos, Lima, Peru, June 2021.

“An Epitaph for Effective Altruism,” Philosophy Colloquium, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, April 2021.

“Following in the Footsteps of Ecofeminists,” keynote at the International Conference and Graduate Workshops, “Wittgenstein and Feminism,” Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, March 2021.

“Animal Crisis,” with Lori Gruen, presentation at the inaugural meeting of the Harvard-Yale Animal Ethics Faculty Seminar, March 2021.

“Against Effective Altruism,” Philosophy Department, University of East Anglia, zoom-format, February 2021.

“Objectivity,” Workshop on Social and Political Philosophy of Language, based at Cambridge University, zoom-based, November 2020.

“Letter to a Young Philosopher: Don’t Become an Effective Altruist,” [via zoom] at Oxford Public Philosophy (opp), Oxford University, June 2020.

“Dehumanization and the Question of Animals,” [via zoom] at Arglab, Nova Institute of Philosophy, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2020.

“Why we Should be Reading Diamond on Animal Ethics: Seeing Animal Suffering,” keynote at the conference “Contextual Ethics,” University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, November 2019.

“Recovering the Core of Critique,” Paris-1, Sorbonne, at a panel on “Forms of Life and Social Criticism” with Rahel Jaeggi and Estelle Fararrese, October 2019.

“Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory,” Plenary lecture at the conference “Crisis and Critique: Philosophical Analysis and Current Events,” the 42^nd International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, Austria, August 2019.

“Literature as a Guide to Seeing Animal Suffering,” keynote at the conference Open Minds XIV, University of Manchester, England, August 2019.

“Ethics and Animals: Why we need a wider ethical naturalism,” presentation at the seminar “Appeals to Nature,” All Souls College, Oxford, June 2019.

“Wittgenstein Does Critical Theory,” School of Philosophy and Art History, University of Essex, England, May 2019.

“Why Liberating Critical Thought Needs to Include Animals,” presented at “Social Visibility, a Workshop on Critique and Social Justice,” Vanderbilt University, April 2019.

“Who’s Afraid of Ordinary Language Philosophy? A Plea for Reviving a Wrongly Reviled Philosophical Tradition” (discussion of a manuscript co-authored with Joel de Lara), presented at the Séminaire Wittgenstein 2018-2019, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, January 2019.

“Menschen, Tieren, Ideologien: Eine Kritische Perspektive,” Philosophy Department, University Vienna, together with the Messerli Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria, December 2018.

“For my teacher, Stanley Cavell,” address at a memorial event, “Celebrating the Life and Work of Stanley Cavell,” Philosophy Department, Harvard University, November 2018.

“Feminist Theory as an Exercise of Encountering the World Inside Ethics,” Keynote for the annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, which was organized around themes from my work under the heading of “Feminist Philosophy: Insiders and Outsiders,” at Cape Breton University, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 2018.

“Why Animals Matter for Ethics and Critical Social Thought,” Lecture for Cape Breton University’s Animal Ethics Project, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, September 2018.

“Race and Animals: Wittgensteinian Reflections on a Contested Comparison,” Keynote lecture for the British Wittgenstein Association, July 2018, University College London, UK.

“The Role of Animals in Radical Social Thought: Animalizing Ideologies and the Question of Critique,” full session of the second annual International Critical Theory Summer School (“Re-Thinking Ideology”), Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 2018.

“Menschen, Tieren, Ideologien: Eine Kritische Perspektive,” special lecture at the graduation ceremony for the Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, July 2018.

“The Horrific History of Comparisons Between Cognitive Disability and Animality (and How to Move Past It),” Guest lecture at the Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv and the Institut für Philosophie, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 2018.

“The Methodological is Political: What’s the matter with ‘analytic feminism’?” The Ronald Suter Distinguished Guest Lectureship, Michigan State University, April 2018.

For other professional activities, see my CV here.

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