2024

• Gavin Rae. "Constructing the Self through Shock-Experiences: Lessons from Phenomenology and Psychoanalytic Theory." Invited presentation to the Society for European Philosophy Annual Conference, Cardiff University, Wales, 02-04 July, 2024.
• Gavin Rae. "From Reason and Madness to Difference and Critique: Rethinking the Derrida–Foucault debate." Invited presentation to the ‘8^th Derrida Today Conference,’ National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece, 10-14 June, 2024.
• Valeria Campos-Salvaterra. "Critique and Gastronomy: Notes for an Analogical Realism." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Carolyn Eichner. "Anarchism, Indigeneity, and Reason: Louise Michel’s Construction of Radical Pedagogy." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Kennan Ferguson. "Which Way, Computational Singularity?" Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Sacha Golob. "So Very Tired: The Nature and Ethics of Exhaustion." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Emma Ingala. "What Can an Image (of the Body) Do?: Reason, Images, and Materiality." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• James R, Martel. "Is there a Materiality to Reason?" Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Ramón Macho. "Deconstruction and Ethnocentrism: On Derrida's Generalized Writing." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "“From Name to Nomos”: the Name as Institution in Derrida." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Gavin Rae. "The Dialectic of Enlightenment and Freudian Drive Theory: The Irrational Ground of Reason and Political Agency." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Hannah Richter. "Post–Truth Populism and the Enjoyment of Not–Knowing." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Liesbeth Schoonheim. "Hope beyond the Anthropocene: From Denialist Optimism to Affirmative Pessimism." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.
• Ashley Woodward. "Informationcritique, between Reason and Desire." Invited presentation to the "Critical Theory and Reason" conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 05-06 March, 2024.

 

2023

• Cillian Ó Fathaigh. “Derrida's Institutional Engagements: Homo-Hegemony and Democracy.” Invited presentation to the "Colloquium for Political Theory," "University of Bremen, Germany, 6 June 2023.
• Ramón Macho, “Is Travel a Supplement? Derrida and the Foundation of Anthropology,” presented at the 'Colloque internationale: Derrida et le XVIIIe siècle,’ École normale de Lyon, France, 12 May 2023.

• Ramón Macho, "Apocalypse and Modernity: On the Tone of J. Derrida," presented at the 'Balances de una condición y pertinencias de un concepto' colloquium, Universidad de Deusto, Spain, 31 March 2023.

• Gavin Rae, "Disruptive Genealogies: Evil, History, and the Problem of Secularization." Invited keynote speaker at 'The Language of Evil and its Uses and Abuses Today' conference, University of Sussex, England, 25 March 2023.

 

2022

• James Martel, “Can Capitalism Ever Not Be Evil?,” presented at the ‘Evil Corporation Symposium,’ University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 11-12^th December, 2022.

• Ricardo Mendoza-Canales, “Standpoints: Ideology, Critique and Post-Truth," presented at the 'Verdad versus post-verdad: Investigación fenomenológico-hermenêutica,' seminar, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 25th November, 2022.
• Liesbeth Schoonheim, “Private Faces in Public Spaces…..,” presented at the ‘Arendt on Masks, Confession, and Social Roles’ conference, Basel University, Switzerland, 7-8^th November, 2022.
• Carolyn J. Eichner, "

  On Violence in the New French Empire: A Roundtable,” presented at the Western Society for French History, Victoria, BC, Canada, November 2022.

• James Martel, “When the Killing Law Stops Killing: Thoughts About Furman,” presented at the ‘Conference on Furman at 50,’ Amherst College, USA, 22^nd and 23^rd October. 2022.
• Ricardo Mendoza-Canales, "Seeing without Believing: Imagination, Phantasy and ‘As if’ Consciousness," presented to the 'Phénoméne et Image' colloquium, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 1st October, 2022.
• Ricardo Mendoza-Canales, “The ‘Adventures of Experience’: Genesis and Institution,” presented at the "'Merleau-Ponty: Institution-Ontology-Politics' conference, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 26-28th September, 2022.
• Ashley Woodward, "Nietzsche and Computing,” presented to the 'Science, Art, Life: 27 th Annual Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society,' University of Dundee, Scotland, 16-17th September, 2022.

• James Martel, “Lessons from the Spanish Revolution: the limitations of anarchosyndicalism,” presented to the ‘American Political Science Association,’ Montreal, Canada, 14^th-18^th September, 2022.

• James Martel, “My Kingdom for a Shirt: Untrammeled anarchism and atheism in Benjamin and Kakfa,” presented to the ‘American Political Science Association,’ Montreal, Canada, 14^th-18^th September, 2022.

   

• Liesbeth Schoonheim, "Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions and Sociality,” presented at the ‘British Society for Phenomenology Annual Conference,’ University of Exeter, England, 30 August-1^st September, 2022.

• James Martel, “Why we need Benjamin (and Mariátegui) more than ever,” presented to the ‘Study of Religions Seminar Series,’ University of Cape Town, South Africa, 24^th August, 2022.

• James Martel, “An analysis of Marx’s 18^th Brumaire applied to the January 6^th insurrection,” presented at the ‘Law and Society’ conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 16^th July, 2022.

• James Martel, “Juju (Bodies of Belief),” for “Bodies Un-Protected,” Künstlerhaus Mousunturm,  Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 8^th and 9^th July, 2022

   

• James Martel, “Take Five,” presented in conjunction with Bharati Kapadia and Abeer Khan’s film “How do I show the ocean space you carried inside you?”  for “Bodies Un-Protected,” Künstlerhaus Mousunturm,  Frankfurt am Main, Germany, July 8^th and 9^th  2022.

• James Martel, “A Law for the Living” presented to the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Emory School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 16^th-17^th June, 2022.

• James Martel, “Legal Beginnings: Thinking about the ‘Dawn of Everything’,” presented to the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Emory School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 16^th-17^th June, 2022.

   

• James Martel, “Peter Fitzpatrick: bending but not breaking the law,” presented to the Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities, Emory School of Law, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 16^th-17^th June, 2022.

• Carolyn Eichner. "French Feminism, Whiteness, and the American West: Considering 19th-Century Borders." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.
• Kennan Ferguson. "Why Did We Think Only Humans had Politics?" Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.
• Emma Ingala. "Philosophy in the Threshold." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.
• Rosine Kelz. "The Boundaries of the Human and the Issue of Community and Difference in Moral and Political Thought." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.

• Ricardo Mendoza-Canales. "Absence as Threshold: Visibility in Politics and Aesthetics." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.

• Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "No Accounting for Taste”: Aesthesis and Decolonial Thought." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.

• Gavin Rae, "Fear, the Intolerable, and Abjection: Shock-experiences and Self-transformation." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.

• Liesbeth Schoonheim. "

  The Spatiality of Legal Orders: Re-reading Arendt as a Critical Phenomenologist." Invited presentation to the 'Philosophy across Borders' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 08 June 2022.

• Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Aesthesis: The Limits of Aesthetic Reason." Invited presentation to the 'The Limits of Reason' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 01 June 2022.
• Gavin Rae, "The Ontogenesis of Reason: Castoriadis on the Limits of Identity Thinking." Invited presentation to the 'The Limits of Reason' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 01 June 2022.

• James Martel, “How Plagues Deal Out Life as Well as Death,” presented to the ‘Living with Pandemics conference, co-sponsored by Northwestern University and the École Normale Supérieure, Evanston, IL., USA, May 27th, 2022.

• Liesbeth Schoonheim, “People on Streets: Critical Phenomenologies of Embodied Resistance,” Paderborn University, Germany, 12-14 May, 2022.
• Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Digital Public Space? Philosophical and Political Problems." Invited presentation to the 'CEIVINDICO: Challenges to European Identities and Values in Digital Communities,' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 12-13 May 2022.
• Carolyn J. Eichner, "

  Many Paths to Justice, Many Types of Justice to be Pursued: The Commune as Multidimensional Map to Egalitarianism,” Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 2022.

• Carolyn J. Eichner, "From the Commune to Communalism?: The Paris Commune and its Meaning for Democratic Theory and Practice," Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, May 2022.
• Ashley Woodward, "Who is the Subject of the Law?,” presented to the 'Law, Technology and the Human' conference, University of Kent, England, 7-8th April, 2022.

• James Martel, “Legal Furniture: Kafka on nightstands, benches and the Law,” presented to the ‘Law, Technology and the Human’ conference, Kent Law School, England, UK, 6-7th April, 2022.

• James Martel, “Bodies Unclosed,” in collaboration with Bharati Kapadia, G5A Warehouse performance space, Mumbai, India, March 29th, 2022.

• Liesbeth Schoonheim, “The Spatiality of Legal Orders: Re-Reading Hannah Arendt as a Critical Phenomenologist,” presented at the ‘Hannah Arendt Workshop,’ Leiden University, Belgium, 29 March, 2022.

• James Martel, “Material and Immaterial Rights,” presented to the CUNY Graduate Center Political Theory colloquium, New York, USA, 4th March, 2022.

• Rosine Kelz, "

  New tools to save planetary life in the Anthropocene?: The biodiversity crisis and genome editing in nature conservation." Invited presentation to the 'Annual meeting of the German Political Science Association Working Group on Politics, Science, and Technology,' Bielefeld University/Technical University Munich, 3-4th March, 2022.

• Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Decolonizing the Syllabus: The Name and End of Deconstruction." Invited presentation to the 'Decolonialization and Poststructuralism' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 23rd February 2022.
• Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "The Sick Subject: Agency and Illness in the Poststructuralist Subject." Invited presentation to the 'Agency and Subjectivity: Rethinking Poststructuralism' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 26th January 2022.

• Gavin Rae, "Misunderstanding as a Condition of Collective Agency." Invited presentation to the 'Agency and Subjectivity: Rethinking Poststructuralism' conference, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 26th January 2022.

2021

• Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Performative Investigations: Speech Acts in Austin, Derrida & Searle." Invited presentation to the Department of Philosophy, Universita Vita-Salute San Raffaele Milan, Italy, 14 December 2021.

• James Martel, “Hobbes and the Power of Collective Prophecy,” for ‘Leviathan Unbound: Hobbes Across the Disciplines’ conference, University of California: Irvine, USA, 10th December, 2021.

• Cillian Ó Fathaigh, "Is there a Politics to Friendship? Derrida’s Critique of the Couple." Invited presentation to the ‘Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy’ conference, Bond University, Australia, 8-10 December 2021.
• Gavin Rae. "Derrida on the Ground of Politics." Invited presentation to the ‘Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy’ conference, Bond University, Australia, 8-10 December 2021.

• James Martel, “In the Beginning: Arche, Anarchism and Arendt,” presented to the ‘Politics of Beginning: Hannah Arendt Today’ conference, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile, 2nd December, 2021.

• Cillian Ó Fathaigh. "At Sea in Gaston Bachelard's Logosphere: Radio and the European Public Sphere." Invited presentation to the 'Periodicals as/in Media Constellations' conference hosted by the University of Cologne, Germany, 25-26 November 2021.
• Gavin Rae. "Castoriadis and the Creation of the Individual." Invited presentation to the ‘Philosophical Perspectives on Artistic Agency’ conference, Deakin University, Australia, 19 November 2021.

• Liesbeth Schoonheim, “The Spatiality of Legal Orders: Re-Reading Hannah Arendt as a Critical Phenomenologist,” Guest seminar at CAPPE, Brighton University, England, 17 November, 2021.

• Ricardo Mendoza-Canales, "Contours of Absence. Between Materiality and Imagination,” presented to the Praxis Seminar: Research Colloquium in Practical Philosophy, Centre of Philosophy, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, 16th November, 2021.

• James Martel, “Bodies Unclosed,” with Bharati Kapadia, part of ‘Bodies, Un-protected,’ Künstlerhaus Mousunturm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, November 10-15, 2021. 

• James Martel, “How the Law Makes itself ‘Real’ via the Transfer of Material Properties,” American Political Science Association, Seattle, USA, 2-3 October, 2021.

• James Martel, “The Stench of the Law,” American Political Science Association, Seattle, USA, 2-3 October, 2021.

• James Martel, “Affect, Material Rights, and the Miasmas of Law,” American Political Science Association, Seattle, USA, 2-3 October, 2021.

• Carolyn J. Eichner, “Whiteness, French Feminism, and 19th-Century America,” Western Society for French History, online conference, October 2021.

• Ricardo Mendoza-Canales, “¿Futuro pasado? Una hauntología de las imágenes ‘por venir’," presented to the XIII International Congress of the Spanish Society for Phenomenology (SEFE): “On the life of Time, Temporality, affection, meaning: Phenomenological perspectives,' University of Seville, Seville, Spain, 15-17th September, 2021.
• Ashley Woodward, "Nihilism and Information,” Society for European Philosophy conference, online, 15th September, 2021.
• Liesbeth Schoonheim, "Het lichaam in verzet: Contre-conduites en Bekentenissen van het vlees [The Body in Revolt: Counter-Conducts and Confessions of the Flesh],” presented at the ‘Symposium Foucaults Bekentenissen van het vlees,’ Radboud University, Netherlands, 12 September, 2021.
• Ashley Woodward, “Before the Law, After the Human,” Frankenlaw, Critical Legal Conference, University of Dundee, Scotland, 4th September, 2021.
• Carolyn J. Eichner, "

  Les femmes, genre, et la Commune,” Parlons Commune, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, September 2021.

• Carolyn J. Eicher, “La Pédagogie radicale de Louise Michel,” Penser la Commune, Paris, France, September 2021.