Conference Committee

Agnese Di Riccio is a PhD student in the Philosophy department at the New School for Social Research. Her areas of interest include German Idealism, Critical Theory, and philosophies of imagination. She is currently working on a dissertation on the interaction of imaginary and nature under climate change. 

Miranda Young is a PhD student in the Philosophy department at the New School for Social Research.  Her areas of interest are critical philosophy of race decolonial feminism, and narrative theory. She studies the role of narrative in political movements, particularly in feminist and anti-racist movements. 

Jack Condie is an MA student in the Philosophy department at the New School for Social Research. He works primarily on Plato and the role narrative dialogue plays in establishing the self.

Jacqueline Liu is a MA student in the Philosophy department at The New School for Social Research. She works at the intersection of Hong Kong culture and politics, with interests in visual media, postcoloniality, democracy, and law. 

Lena Nowak-Laird is an MA student in the New School for Social Research’s philosophy department. Her main interests are at the intersection of feminist, decolonial, indigenous, and environmental philosophy; she is particularly interested in the decolonial feminist concept of body-territory.

Mariam Matar is an Egyptian/British Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. Her research focuses are on critical theory, decolonial theory, feminist theory, and abolitionism. Most recently, she has been working on conceptualizing mass dehumanization as a form of social death in refugee camps and prisons. 

Marie Loslier Simon is a graduate student in the Philosophy department at the New School for Social Research, after an M.A at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of feminist philosophy and the Frankfurt School (especially Theodor W. Adorno), with a focus on gender theories and ecofeminism. 

Matteo Burrell received his BA from St. John’s College Annapolis in 2019.  He is currently a graduate student in the philosophy department at The New School for Social Research, where his work focuses on how inherited paradigms and cultural perceptions shape linguistic interaction, and how the intersubjective space that unfolds in dialogue affects what has room to be spoken, recognized, and understood.  

Rosa Martins is an MA student in the Philosophy department at the New School for Social Research. Her areas of interest include the first generation of the Frankfurt School, Marx, early modern moral and political philosophy, and thinking about the question of freedom in history.