Selected Conference and Seminar Talks

• 'Linguistic Justice for Emigrants: Protecting Language Interests Away from Home' (paper co-authored with Chiara De Lazzari), workshop on Linguistic justice and Migration, KU Leuven, 15-16 September 2021.

• ‘Educating Citizens to Public Reason: What Can We Learn from Interreligious Dialogue?’ (paper co-authored with Aurélia Bardon and Steven T. Zech), Association for Social and Political Philosophy Online Workshop Crises of Liberalism?, Royal Holloway, University of London, 9 July 2021.

• ‘Disaggregating civility’ (paper co-authored with Steven Zech), University of Milan, February 2020.

• ‘Public Reason, Compulsory Voting and Australian Democracy’, POLIETHICS—Seminario genovese di Etica e Politica, University of Genoa, 14 February 2020.

• 'Citizenship, Language and Exclusion' (paper co-authored with Louisa Willoughby), workshop on Linguistic Rights and Duties of Migrants, KU Leuven, 23-24 September 2019.

• ‘Free Speech, Bound Language’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), University of Geneva, 10 December 2018.

• ‘Compulsory voting and Partisanship’, workshop on Rethinking Compulsory Voting, University of Geneva, 8 December 2018.

• ‘Free Speech, Bound Language’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), LSE, London, 6 December 2018.

• ‘Multilingual Parties and the Ethics of Partisanship’, paper co-authored with Nenad Stojanović (University of Geneva), Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance Seminar Series, University of Canberra, 20 November 2018.

• ‘Free Speech: A Relational Defence (paper co-authored with Jonathan Seglow), Moral, Social and Political Theory Seminar, Australian National University, Canberra, 19 November 2018.

• ‘Food Sovereignty, Territory and Place Between Multiculturalism and Republicanism, symposium on Food and Place, Food and Displace, Flinders University, Adelaide, 9 November 2018.

• ‘Opportunity Pluralism and Children’s Health’ (paper co-authored with Gideon Calder), Berman Institute Seminar Series, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 29 October 2018.

• 'Paternalism, Perfectionism and Healthy Eating Policy’, Eighth International Conference on Food Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 25-26 October 2018.

• ‘Opportunity Pluralism and Children’s Health’ (paper co-authored with Gideon Calder), Philosophy & Bioethics Staff Seminar Series, Monash University, 12 October 2018.

• ‘Opportunity Pluralism and Children’s Health’ (paper co-authored with Gideon Calder), Centre for Health Policy Seminar, University of Melbourne, 28 August 2018.

• ‘Republicanism, Democracy and Electoral Design’, IPSA 25th World Congress of Political Science 21-25 July 2018, Brisbane, Australia.

• ‘Theorizing Multilingual Partisanship’ (paper co-authored with Nenad Stojanović), IPSA 25th World Congress of Political Science 21-25 July 2018, Brisbane, Australia.

• ‘Sound Reasoning: Why Accent Bias Matters for Democratic Theory’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), Politics and International Relations Seminar Series, Monash University, 18 April 2018.

• ‘“Esperantizing” English? Van Parijsian Linguistic Justice after Brexit’, workshop on ‘Linguistic Justice: Philosophy, Politics and Practice’, Cardiff University, 5-6 December 2017.

• ‘Food Sovereignty and Non-Domination in Diverse Societies’, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University, Montréal, 3 May 2017.

• ‘Healthy Eating Policy and Neutrality of Justifications in Diverse Societies’ (paper co-authored with Anne Barnhill), Centre de recherche en éthique de l’Université de Montréal (CRÉUM), 2 May 2017.

• ‘Aural Morality: Accent and the Democratic Soundscape’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 12 April 2017.

• ‘Reconciling Liberal Neutrality and Healthy Eating Policy’ (paper co-authored with Anne Barnhill), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 11 April 2017.

• ‘Republicanism and Food Sovereignty in Diverse Societies’, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, 10 April 2017.

• ‘“Esperantizing” English? Brexit and the Language Policy of the European Union’, ESRC-funded workshop on ‘Brexit, English, and the Language Policy of the European Union’, Cardiff University, 10 March 2017.

• ‘What’s Harmful about Speech that Offends People because of Their Religion?’ (paper co-authored with Jonathan Seglow), workshop on ‘Religion, Hate and Offence in a Changing world’, Cardiff University, 14-15 December 2016.

• ‘Aural Morality: Accent and the Democratic Soundscape’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), Workshop on Putting Deliberation in Its Place?, University of Westminster, 10 December 2016.

• ‘The Architecture of Public Reason: Deliberation and Public Justification in the Contemporary City’, (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), Philosophy of the City Conference, University of San Francisco, 17-19 November 2016.

• ‘Aural Morality: Accent and the Democratic Soundscape’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), Philosophy Research Group, Cardiff University, 12 October 2016.

• ‘Liberal Neutrality, Public Health and Food Policy’ (paper co-authored with Anne Barnhill), Wellcome Trust-funded workshop on Promoting Health through Food Policy in Diverse Societies, Cardiff University, 14-15 September 2016.

• ‘Scientific Reasons, Accessibility, and Public Reason’ (paper co-authored with Gabriele Badano), MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 7-9 September 2016.

• ‘Electoral Systems and Public Reason’, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 7-9 September 2016.

• ‘Political Parties, Religion, and the Idea of an Overlapping Consensus’, 2016 APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 1-4 September 2016.

• ‘Accentuated Power: Democracy, Diversity and Diction’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), IPSA 24th World Congress of Political Science, Poznań, 23-28 July 2016.

• ‘Partisanship, Conflicting Obligations and the Duty of Fair Play’, RAPT Workshop, University College London, 6 July 2016.

• ‘Political Parties and the Idea of an Overlapping Consensus’, Association for Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) Annual Conference, London School of Economics and Political Science, 27-29 June 2016.

• ‘Public Reason, Accountability, and the Division of Justificatory Labour’, University of Milan, 16 June 2016.

• ‘Public Reason and Electoral Systems’, I Mercoledì Filosofici del Maino, University of Pavia, 15 June 2016.

• ‘Hate Speech, Religion, and Non-domination’, Legal Theory Festival, University of Edinburgh, 2 June 2016.

• ‘Political Parties, Religion, and the Idea of an Overlapping Consensus’, International Colloquium on Enlightenment and Secularism, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, 20-22 May 2016.

• ‘Linguistic Diversity and Epistemic Injustice in a Mobile World’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), Conference on The Multicultural Question in a Mobile World, European University Institute, Florence, 7-8 April 2016.

• 'Partisan Speech, Hate Speech, and Political Legitimacy, Political Theory Working Group seminar, European University Institute, Florence, 6 April 2016.

• ‘Accent Differences and Epistemic Injustice in Liberal Democracies’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), PSA 66th Annual International Conference, Brighton, 21-23 March 2016.

• ‘Public Reason, Accountability, and the Division of Justificatory Labour’, Workshop on Religion and Public Justification, University College London, 28-29 January 2016.

• ‘Food Policy, Nutritionism and Public Justification’, HEAL Seminar Series, University of Southampton, 9 December 2015.

• ‘Can the State Tell Us What to Eat, and How?’, University of the West of England, 7 October 2015.

• ‘Food Policy, Nutritionism and Public Justification’, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 1-3 September 2015.

• ‘The Law of Multilingual Peoples: Applied Epistemology, Political Ethics and Linguistic Diversity’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), Society for Applied Philosophy (SAP) Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, 3-5 July 2015.

• ‘Partisanship and Hate Speech’, Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy (NJLP) and Association for Social and Political Philosophy (ASPP) Annual Conference, University of Amsterdam, 25-26 June 2015.

• ‘Pigments of Reality: Moral Cognition, Political Ethics and Linguistic Epistemology’ (paper co-authored with Yael Peled), conference on Moral Progress: Concept, Measurement, and Application, VU University Amsterdam, 24-25 June 2015.

• ‘Reasonable Political Parties, Religion, and the Idea of an Overlapping Consensus’, RAPT Conference on Religion in Political Philosophy, University College London, 10-12 June 2015.

• ‘Do Partisans Have Special Political Obligations?’, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Joint Sessions of Workshops, University of Warsaw, 29 March-2 April 2015.

• ‘Religion, Free Speech and Non-Domination’, CONCEPT Annual Conference 2014 on Republicanism and Secularism, University of Nottingham, 15-16 December 2014.

• ‘Food Labels, Autonomy and the Right (Not) to Know’, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, University of Glasgow, 3-6 September 2014.

• ‘Partisanship, Conflicting Obligations and the Duty of Fair Play’, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (ALSP) Annual Conference, University of Leeds, 1-2 July 2014.

• ‘Political Liberalism, Free Speech and Public Reason’, SAP-funded workshop on Religion and Public Life, Queen’s University Belfast, 15-16 May 2014.

• ‘Political Liberalism and Linguistic Diversity’, Ideals and Reality in Social Ethics Conference, University of South Wales, Caerleon Campus, 9-11 April 2014.

• ‘Legislating about Unhealthy Food: A Millian Approach’, MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 4-6 September 2013.

• ‘Partisanship and Public Reason’, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (ALSP) Annual Conference, University of Stirling, 24-25 June 2013.

• ‘Political Parties and Conflicting Obligations’, Political Theory Research Group Seminar, University of Edinburgh, 30 May 2012.

• ‘Political Liberalism, Distributive Justice and the Relationship between State and Religion’, Political Philosophy Group Seminar, University of Stirling, 12 October 2011.

• ‘Religion, Public Reason and Transnational Partisan Politics: Why Does the European Union Need a Strong European People’s Party?’, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General Conference, University of Potsdam, 10-12 September 2009.

• ‘Political Parties and the Limits of Political Liberalism’ (winner of the Postgraduate Competition), Northern Political Theory Association (NPTA) Annual Conference, University of Stirling, 20 February 2009.

• ‘Secularism, Religious Political Parties and Non-Constitutional Pluralism’, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Graduate Conference, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 25-27 August 2008.

• ‘Political Parties and the Limits of Political Liberalism’ (winner of the Conference Best Paper Prize), Political Studies Association (PSA), Central and North England (CANE) Graduate Conference, University of York, 17 November 2007.

• ‘Deliberative Perfectionism: Why Should We Talk About the Good?’, Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy, University of Pavia, 6-7 September 2007; Brave New World Conference in Political Theory, University of Manchester, 27-28 June 2007; UACES Workshop on Values and the European Union: Liberal Neutrality, Perfectionism, and Supranationalism, University of Edinburgh, 19-20 June 2007.