Presentations

Invited Presentations

  1. Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, Internal Colonialism: The Case of Puerto Ricans. Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Gender Faculty Colloquium Series, Bucknell University, October 4, 2022
  2. Partial Legitimacy and the Constitution of Race in the United States. Philosophy & Religion Club, American University, September 29, 2022
  3. Neither Race nor Ethnicity: Latinidad as a Multidirectional Social Affordance (with Alejandro Arango). Gonzaga University, March 26, 2021
  4. Two or Three Moments of Decolonization: Amílcar Cabral on Revolution and Culture. Bucknell University, January 22, 2019
  5. The Unmaking of Politics. Bucknell University, January 30, 2018
  6. Toward Some Normative Implications of Political Resistance. Humanities Symposium, Bucknell University, April 11, 2017
  7. Conceptualizing Resistance: The Spaces and Places of Politics. Wellesley College Philosophy Department, May 10, 2016
  8. Between Equality and Resistance: An Outline of Fractured Social Holism.Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University, April 10, 2015

Invited Conference Presentations

  1. The Anti-Colonial Political Philosophy of the Young Lords. Workshop on Anti-Colonial Philosophy and its History, Union College, 2024
  2. Afro-Latinidad, Affordances, and Anticolonialism (with Alejandro Arango). Meeting of the APA Committee for Hispanic/Latinx Issues in Philosophy at the Eastern APA, Montreal, 2023
  3. Representation: For Who? For What? Meeting of North American Society for Social Philosophy at the Pacific APA, Vancouver, 2022
  4. The Sovereignty of Language and the Threat of Revolution in Leviathan. Meeting of The Radical Philosophy Association at the Central APA, Chicago, 2014

Refereed Conference Presentations

  1. The Political Ontology of The Young Lords Party. 9th Latinx Philosophy Conference, State College (PA), 2025.
  2. Puerto Ricans and Latinidad: Race and Politics of The Young Lords Party. 7th Latinx Philosophy Conference, Philadelphia, 2023.
  3. Afro-Latinidad, Affordances, and Anticolonialism (with Alejandro Arango). Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Conference, Denver, 2023.
  4. Social Identities as Social Affordances (with Alejandro Arango). Social Ontology Conference, Vienna/virtual, 2022
  5. Internal Colonialism and Violent Resistance,  39th International Social Philosophy Conference, Aston (PA), 2022
  6. Afro-Latinidad in an Anticolonial Key as Crucial for an Account of Latinidad in The U.S. (with Alejandro Arango). Latinx Philosophy Conference, virtual, 2022
  7. Social Identities as Social Affordances (with Alejandro Arango). Critical Social Ontology Workshop, virtual, 2022
  8. Neither Race nor Ethnicity: Latinidad as a Social Affordance (with Alejandro Arango). Northwest Philosophy Conference, Portland, (OR) 2021
  9. Self-Defense in the Face of Catastrophe: Dialogues in Non-Non-Violence (with P. Khalil Saucier). 14th Biennial Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association, virtual, 2021 [rescheduled from San Jose, 2020, postponed due to COVID19]
  10. Neither Race nor Ethnicity: Latinidad as a Social Affordance (with Alejandro Arango). Social Ontology Conference, virtual, 2021
  11. Just Revolutionary Violence in Legitimate States. MANCEPT Workshop, Manchester Centre for Political Theory, Manchester (UK), 2019
  12. Legitimacy as Inferential Endorsement: Accounting for Power. Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, Newcastle (UK), 2019
  13. Legitimacy as Inferential Endorsement: Accounting for Power. 36th International Social Philosophy Conference, San Francisco, 2019
  14. Partial Legitimacy and the Modes of Just Resistance. MANCEPT Workshop, Manchester Centre for Political Theory, Manchester (UK), 2018
  15. Parsing Ideology Critique. 35th International Social Philosophy Conference, Rochester (MI), 2018
  16. Legitimacy & Revolt: A Realist Alternative. 34th International Social Philosophy Conference, Chicago, 2017
  17. Legitimacy & Revolt: A Realist Alternative. Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, Sheffield (UK), 2017
  18. Culture, Violence, and Two Moments of Decolonization. Caribbean Philosophical Association Conference, New York, 2017
  19. The Deceptions of Silent Authority: Tutor, Legislator, and the Function of Lies. 20th Biennial Colloquium of the Rousseau Association, Gainesville (FL), 2017
  20. Clarifying Realism: The Role of Resistance in Legitimacy.” 33rd International Social Philosophy Conference, Ottawa, 2016
  21. Rousseau Was Right: Democracy, Resistance, & the General Will. Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, London, 2016
  22. Realism, Resistance, and Democracy.Association for Social and Political Philosophy Conference, Amsterdam, 2015
  23. First and Second-Order Public Problems in the Philosophy of John Dewey. Advancing Public Philosophy Conference, San Francisco, 2015
  24. Fractured Social Holism: A Pragmatist Political Philosophy of Emancipation.Emancipation: Challenges at the Intersection of American and European Philosophy, New York City, 2015
  25. Jacques Rancière and the Place of the Political. 5th Annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, 2013
  26. Ernesto Laclau and the Possibilities of Populism. XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 2013
  27. The Normative and the Natural in Rousseau’s Second Discourse. 29th International Social Philosophy Conference, Boston, 2012
  28. A Plateau Beyond Memory: Toward a Deleuzian Understanding of Love. 2nd Annual meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, San Francisco, 2010
  29. Encountering a Philosophical Friend: Derrida Does Da-Sein. 5th Annual meeting of the Continental and Comparative Philosophy Circle, Honolulu, 2010
  30. On Derrida and Huayan: Evocations of a Ghostly Ethics. 4th Annual meeting of the Continental and Comparative Philosophy Circle, Asilomar (CA), 2009

Commentaries

  1. Colin Hickey, The Normative Landscape of Climate Disobedience. APA Eastern Division Meeting, Montreal, 2023
  2. Chong-Min Lim, Vandalizing Tainted Commemorations. APA Pacific Division Meeting, Vancouver, 2022
  3. Lidal Dror, Social Location as Justification: Examining the Socially Marginalized’s Claim to Epistemic Advantage. APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia, 2020