Talks, Events, & Public Engagement
For select videos, see the media page!
RECENT TALKS
"Loving Wisdom, Seeking Understanding: Gendered interlocutors and the pursuit of a philosophia spiritualis in late medieval Rhineland mystagogy", Workshop on "The Female Voice in Philosophical Conversations" (Rome, IT; May/June 2024)
"Philosophy, Theodicy, and the 'Purely Intellectual' Mode: Reorienting the Discourse", European Academy of Religion 2024 (Palermo, IT; May 2024)
“Forever Full, Eternally Empty: Meister Eckhart’s Pregnant God and the Spiritual Struggle of Miscarriage”, Conference on the History of the Philosophy of Pregnancy (Dayton, OH, USA; October 2023)
"Passivity and the Political: Discovering Mysticisms of Resistance", Workshop on Mysticism and its Critics (online /Duke Kunshan University)
"Via Transformativa: Reading Descartes’ Meditations as Mystagogy" (w/K.G. Phillips), 6th international conference of the European Society for Early Modern Philosophy (University of Copenhagen, DK; Theme: Rethinking the Narratives of Early Modern Philosophy)
"Rethinking Religious Epistemology"; Philosophy Department Colloquium (University of Michigan-Dearborn)
"Pregnant Metaphors: On (Re-)Conceiving the Divine in Philosophical Theology"; conference on fictionalism (Victoria University of Wellington, NZ)
"Living Loss: How Thinking About Miscarriage Can Help Us Do Better Philosophical Theology"; Center for Philosophy of Religion (University of Notre Dame, USA)
"Reading Descartes' Meditations as a Mystagogical Text" (w/K.G. Phillips); Cogtweeto Workshop, This but unironically: philosophical hot takes.
"Living Loss: An Embodied Philosophical Theology of Reproductive Grief"; Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association (online) - Video available upon request.
Guest lecture (online) on the topic of (anti-)theodicy for an upper-level philosophy of religion course at the University of Missouri (online; organizer: Kenneth Boyce)
Invited Comments (online) on Disability in Medieval Christian Philosophy and Theology, ed. Scott Williams; Authors Meet Critics Panel, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting
"The Problematic History of Religious & Mystical Experience and What We Can Do About It"; 2nd Colloquium of the Society for Equitable Philosophy of Religion - Video available upon request.
MEDIA APPEARANCES & PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
Blog Post (Aug 2019) for prae|faktisch: Ein Philosophieblog: "Das Theodizeeproblem oder ein Problem mit der Theodizee? Was passiert mit klassischen Fragen, wenn wir die Religionsphilosophie neu denken?" [The theodicy problem or a problem with theodicy? What happens to classical questions when we think differently about philosophy of religion?]
Blog contribution to the "Logia" series for Blogos (April 2019): "Undressing Philosophical Theology: Lessons from Mechthild of Magdeburg"
Moderator, Public Discussion Panel (July 2018): "Teaching Diversity in Philosophy", Workshop: Diversity in Philosophy (Konstanz, DE)
Blog contribution to "Philosophy Phridays" for The Daily Ant (Nov 2017): "Asshoppers and Grants: Playing at Being Human?"
Mini-workshop for first-generation university students (Oct 2017): "Selbstbewusst und Fair in den Seminaren: Aktive Teilnahme, respektvolle Diskussionskultur" (Konstanz, DE)
Moderator, Public Forum (June 2017): "Antimuslimischer Rassismus/Islamfeindlichkeit: Phänomen – Entwicklung – Auswirkung" (Konstanz, DE)
Featured Virtual Colloquium paper for The Prosblogion (May 2017): "With or Without You: 'Post-Metaphysical' Religion and the Religious Imagination"
Science Slam Presentation/Public Lecture (May 2017): "Ein Kanon in Bewegung? Diverse Gedanken über die Geschichte der Philosophie"/"Bewegende Bodenseemystik", 4th Annual Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft (Konstanz, DE)
Public Diversity Panel (Apr 2017): "Women in Academia" (Potchefstroom, ZA)
Moderated Discussion/Public Lecture (Jun 2016): "Denken als Beruf"/"Die mystische Theologie von Christus und die minnende Seele", Center for Advanced Studies Open House (Konstanz, DE)
Public Lecture (Apr 2016): "Wort und Bild in den Schriften Heinrich Seuses", Public Symposium on Die Spirituelle Philosophie Heinrich Seuses as part of the Suso Memorial Year 2016 (Konstanz, DE)
Interview (Jan 2016) on Religion and Sports for Religious Education Textbook (Helsinki, FI)
Featured guest on Iranian television program (IRIB 4), Letters from Reason (Oct 2015): "A Conversation about Self-Deception" (Tehran, IR)
Online Interview for the Prosblogion (Aug 2015): "Philosophers and their Religious Practices"
Lecture/Seminar (Apr 2012): "Selbsttäuschung und epistemische Irrationalität"; "Scham, Schuld und Autonomie bei Traumaüberlebenden" (Zentrum für Psychiatrie Reichenau, DE)
Lecture (Jul 2011): "Akteure, Patienten und die Rolle der Autonomie in der normativen Ethik", Symposium on Spannungsfeld Ethik und Psychiatrie (Haus Iberg, Maierhöfen, DE)
EVENTS ORGANIZED
Summer Academy: "Religion(en) Verstehen" (August 2018)
International Conference: "Expanding the Canon: Transitions and Transformations in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy" (July 2018)
Philosophy of Religion Panel: "New Directions for Analytic Philosophy of Religion?" (American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Nov 2017)
Fall Academy (co-organizer): "Religion(en) im Plural" (Schloss Neuhaus, Oct 2017)
Fall Academy (co-organizer): "Un/Endlichkeit" (Schloss Neuhaus, Oct 2016)
International Workshop: "Religious Pluralism and Disagreement" (University of Konstanz, Jun 2016)
Summer Academy (co-organizer): "Glaube/Faith" (Schloss Neuhaus, Aug 2015)
International Conference: Longing, Suffering, and Love in Mystical Theory and Practice (University of Konstanz, 2015)
Wildcard Panel: "Faith and Religious Participation" (AAR Annual Meeting, Nov 2014)
Summer Academy (co-organizer): "Religion der Sehnsucht" (Schloss Neuhaus, Aug 2014)
International Conference: The Role of Emotion in Religous Experience (University of Konstanz, 2014)
Philosophy of Religion Panel: "Atheist Religious Experience" (AAR Annual Meeting, Nov 2013)