I am happy to lecture in German or Spanish.
Invited talks
“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.
“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
“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 25th 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“Cavell’s unpublished collection Here and There,” with Nancy Bauer and Sandra Laugier, at the colloquium “Constellations of the Ordinary,” Pontifica Universidad Católica del Peru,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 42nd 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.
“The Horrific History of Comparisons Between Cognitive Disability and Animality (and How to Move Past It)” the 2nd Annual Ethics, Law and Society Lecture at the University of South Dakota, April 2018.
“Race and Animals: Reflections on a Contested Comparison,” the inaugural lecture of the Bard College “Thinking Animals Initiative,” April 2018.
“Race and Animals: Reflections on a Contested Comparison,” Keynote lecture at the conference, “Sentience, Vulnerability and Recognition,” sponsored by the University College Dublin Philosophy Department and Center on Ethics and Public Life, Dublin, Ireland, March 2018.
“The Unhappy Marriage of Animality and Cognitive Disability,” a presentation at the Talking Animals, Philosophy and Law Series, Cambridge University, England, March 2018.
“Animality, Cognitive Disability and Basic Human Equality,” Philosophy Institute, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany, February 2018.
“The Horrific History of Comparisons between Animality and Cognitive Disability (and How to Move Past it),” Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University, February 2018.
“The Horrific History of Comparisons between Animals and Human Beings with Cognitive Disabilities (and How to Move Past it),” Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Princeton, NJ, November 2017.
“The Empirical Task of Ethics,” presented at a workshop on “Die Nature der Lebensformen” at the Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Munich, Germany, November 2017.
“Cognitive Disability, Moral Status and Animals,” presented at the “2017 Tennessee Values and Agency Conference Philosophy of Disability—Perspectives, Challenges and Aspirations,” Philosophy Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 2017.
“Wittgenstein Goes to Frankfurt (and finds something useful to say)” and “Objectivity,” presented at the Workshop “Dialectics of Progress: Critical Theory and Social Change,” at the New School for Social Research together with Humboldt University, the Heuss Foundation and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, October 2017.
“Humanistic Thought as a Route to the Value of Humanity,” Keynote at a conference on the “Conflict of the Faculties” at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru, September 2017.
“The Animal Question in Ethics: The Case of the Fur Industry,” at a conference on “The Ethics of Fur,” Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, July 2017.
“The Methodological is Political,” Keynote at a conference on “Feminist Philosophy and Methodological Commitments,” at Humboldt University, Germany, July 2017.
“Winch and Immanent Critique,” Keynote lecture at the Conference, “Truth and Politics and Metaphysics: Celebrating the Work of Peter Winch” at King’s College London, June 2017.
“Moral Status and Cognitive Disability,” at the Wittgenstein Workshop at the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago, May 2017.
“Cavell and the Politics of the Current Moment,” at the conference “Changing Politics: Conversations with Stanley Cavell,” at the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University, March 2017.
“Cognitive Disability and Moral Status,” at the Philosophy Department at the University of Texas, Austin, March 2017.
“Cognitive Disability and Moral Status,” Session of the Society for Philosophy and Disability, Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, MD January 2017.
For the full list, see my CV here.
Upcoming Engagements
Lecture at the Philosophy Department, University of Michigan, April 7th, 2023.
Lecture at a conference on Wittgenstein and Rorty at University of Paris-1, April 15, 2023.
Presentation at the Weissbourd Symposium, with Lori Gruen, an annual event of the University of Chicago Society of Fellows, May 5, 2023.
Keynote at a conference on “Possibilities, Impossibilities, and Conflict in Ethics,” at the Centre for Ethics, Pardubice, Czech Republic, June 1-2, 2023.
Presentation at a workshop on Ideology Critique, Humboldt University, Berlin, June 27, 2023.
NYU Colloquium in Legal, Political, and Social Philosophy, Fall 2023.
Lecture at the Philosophy Department, Vanderbilt University, Spring 2024.
Get in Touch
crarya@newschool.edu
alice.crary@regents.ox.ac.uk
Alice Crary 