Presentations

"Beauvoir's and Arendt's Sociopolitical Transformation of Classical Existential Phenomenology". 18th Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle, Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, Illinois, USA), March 2025*

“The Overcoming (Aufhebung) of Cultural Relativism by Hermeneutical Rationality”* (virtual). Conference Topic: Hermeneutic Rationality and the Future of the Humanities. Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal), November 2024

"Beauvoir’s Existentialist Ethics and Ross’s Ethical Pluralism: An Attempt at Integration". (i) Department of Philosophy, Moravian University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA), March 2022**; (ii) Department of Philosophy, College of William & Mary, February 2020**; (iii) Participants workshop of the 44th Session of the Collegium Phaenomenologicum. 2019 Topic: Critical Phenomenology – Rethinking Politics, Affect, and Normativity (Città di Castello, Italy), July 2019**; (iv) Invited participant, International Society for Phenomenological Studies (Kennebunkport, Maine, USA), July 2019** [Paper could not be presented there due to a scheduling conflict]; (v) Inaugural meeting of the Summer Conferences on Continental Ethics. 2019 Topic: Existentialist Ethics, West Virginia University (Morgantown, West Virginia, USA), June 2019*

"Heidegger and Arendt on Human Existence in the Public Realm: A Reevaluation”.* (i) 6th Meeting of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP). 2021 Topic: Phenomenology and Sociality. Institute Nova Revija for the Humanities (Ljubljana, Slovenia), December 2021 [Paper selected for, but could not be presented at, this conference due to COVID-19 pandemic constraints] (ii) 14th Meeting of the Hannah Arendt Circle, Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, USA), April 2021

"Doing Justice to the Other: A Comparative Assessment of Levinas’s and Gadamer’s Reflections on Alterity”. Annual joint meeting of the Society for European Philosophy and Forum for European Philosophy (SEP-FEP), University of Essex (Colchester, England), June 2018*

"The Productivity of Crisis and the Future of Philosophy”. Conference on “The Future of Philosophy”, International Philosophy Colloquia Evian, Free University Berlin (Berlin, Germany), June 2018*

"Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenological Compatibilism about Determinism and Freedom”. Workshop on “Phenomenology of Action and Volition”, Prague Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences (Prague, Czech Republic), May 2018*

"The Compatibility of Transcendental Philosophizing and Naturalism”. Workshop on “Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism”, Philosophy Division, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Industries, University of Parma (Parma, Italy), May 2018*

"Rouse's Conception of Practice Theory and Existential Phenomenology”. Conference on "Phenomenology and Practice Theory: Determining the Relationship”, FernUniversität Hagen (Hagen, Germany), September 2016* 

"Existentialist Social Theory? A Working Sketch". Workshop on "Existentialist Social Theory", Institute of Science and Art, and the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria), July 2016* 

"The Imminent Hidden and the Worldliness of the World: A Convergence in Later Wittgenstein’s and Early Heidegger’s Conceptions of the Aims and Method of Philosophy?” 37th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Analytical and Continental Philosophy -- Methods and Perspectives (Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria), August 2014*

"Sociality and Normativity in Early Heidegger and Later Wittgenstein”. Department of Philosophy, Connecticut College (New London, Connecticut, USA), March 2014**

"Concrete Interpersonal Encounters or Sharing a Common World: Which is More Fundamental in Phenomenological Approaches to Sociality?”.*  (i) North Carolina Philosophical Society, Annual Meeting, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA), February 2014  (ii) International Conference on “Discovering the ‘We’: The Phenomenology of Sociality”, Department of Philosophy, University College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland), May 2013

"Early Heidegger on Social Reality”. International workshop on Phenomenological Approaches to Social Reality, Institute for Philosophy, University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria), March 2013**

"Who is Afraid of das Man? Reflections on Early Heidegger’s Conception of Human Social Existence in Being and Time”. Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), May 2012*

“The Concept of Social Power in Nonideal Social Ontology vis-à-vis Critical Social Ontology”.* Social Ontology 2024 (a biennial meeting of   the International Social Ontology Society), Duke University (Durham, North Carolina, USA), July 2024

"Do You Have to Be One to Know One? A Hermeneutical Perspective”.** (i) Department of Focused Inquiry, Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Virginia, USA), March 2022; (ii) Department of Philosophy, Moravian University (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA), March 2022; (iii) Learning conference on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Mount Holyoke College (South Hadley, USA), March 2017; (iv) Cooper Union for the Advancement of Art and Science, New York (New York, USA), May 2016

"Positionality as the Ontology of Identity and Community: Alcoff’s Conception of Selfhood”.*  (i) Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II: Critical Race, Feminist, and Continental Philosophy, George Washington University (Washington, D.C., USA), June 2019 [Paper selected for, but could not be presented at, this conference due to a scheduling conflict]  (ii) Conference on “Identity and Community: Metaphysics, Politics, and Aesthetics”, Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, University of Warwick (Coventry, England), June 2018

"What is the Relevance of Social Ontology for Social Scientific Research?”.*  (i) Joint Meeting of the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (POSS-RT) & the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), University of Hannover (Hannover, Germany), August 2018  (ii) Social Ontology 2018 (the biennial meeting of the International Social Ontology Society), Tufts University (Medford, Massachusetts, USA), August 2018

"Methodological Localism and Critical Realism: Convergences and Divergences”. 18th Conference of the International Association for Critical Realism (IACR) on “Critical Realism: Reimagining Social Science”, University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame, Indiana, USA), July 2015*

"Haslanger's Critical Social Theory of Gender and Race from the Point of View of the Philosophy of Social Science”.*  (i) Joint Meeting of the Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable (POSS-RT) & the European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), University of Washington (Seattle, Washington, USA), May 2015  (ii) Conference on “Analyzing Social Wrongs: Workshop on Social Criticism in Analytic Philosophy”, Institute for Science and Art (Vienna, Austria), May 2015

"Site Social Ontology, Methodological Localism, and Social Causation”.  (i) John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York (CUNY) (Manhattan, New York, USA), February 2014**  (ii) European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS), University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark), September 2012*

"The Duality of Structure, the Process and Cycle of Structuration, and Mechanism-Based Explanations of Social Reality”. 3rd Conference of the European Network of Social Ontology (ENSO), University of Helsinki (Helsinki, Finland), October 2013*

"Problems of Circularity in Theories of Collective Intentionality”.*  (i) North Carolina Philosophical Society, Annual Meeting, East Carolina University (Greenville, North Carolina, USA), February 2013  (ii) Conference on “Social Ontology and Collective Intentionality”, Macquarie Centre for Values, Agency and Ethics, Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), May 2012 [Paper selected for this workshop, but could not be presented at it due to insufficient travel funding]

"Interpersonal Checking or Learning through Training? On the Social Basis of Normativity in Later Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”. (i) Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada), May 2012*  (ii) Department of Philosophy, Dickinson College (Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA), March 2012**