Conference Presentations “Another Brick in the Wall: The Madhyamaka Buddhist Approach to Anger” Walls: Thinking Through Insularity, the 12th East/West Philosopher’s Conference (EWPC) May 22-29, 2024 (rescheduled) “The Virtue of Not-Knowing: Simone De Beauvoir and Auto-Deconstruction” Panel at the 2023 American Philosophical Association Central Conference, Denver Feb 22-25, 2023. “The Future of Non-Violence” At the Concerned Philosophers for Peace 35th Annual Conference, “Power in Crisis” at the University of New Mexico October 20-22, 2022 “Je TsongKhapa, Judith Butler, and Deconstruing Sex” At the Concerned Philosophers for Peace 35th Annual Conference, “Power in Crisis” at the University of New Mexico October 20-22, 2022 “Left Cynicism, Cheekiness, and Satire” Panel at the 2022 American Philosophical Association Eastern Conference, Baltimore, January 3-8, 2022. “The Virtue of Not-Knowing: Hannah Arendt and Auto-Deconstruction” At the Concerned Philosophers for Peace 34th Annual Conference, “Fragile Lands, Power Politics: Effects of Violence and Injustice on People, Politics, and the Environment, October 29-30, 2021, online “Resistance and Persistence” Panel Chair at the Concerned Philosophers for Peace 34th Annual Conference, “Fragile Lands, Power Politics: Effects of Violence and Injustice on People, Politics, and the Environment, October 29-30, 2021, online “Anger’s Role in Peace and Justice” Panel at the 2021 American Philosophical Association Central Conference, New Orleans February 24, 2021, online. “Satyagraha and the Post-Structuralist Psychoanalytic Subject: A defense of Judith Butler’s On The Force of Nonviolence: An Ethico-Political Bind” At the Concerned Philosophers for Peace 33rd Annual Conference “Hopes for Peace in Dark Times” at California State University at Fresno, January 29th, 2021. “Environmental Issues” Panel Chair at the Concerned Philosophers for Peace 33rd Annual Conference “Hopes for Peace in Dark Times” at California State University at Fresno, January 29th, 2021. “The Unintelligibility of Self, Skillful Mourning, and Non-Violence” Concerned Philosophers for Peace Group Session at the 2021 American Philosophical Association Eastern Conference, New York (ONLINE), Jan 9, 2021. “Whiteness as a Racial identity” Organized with Bentley University Worldview and Global Perspective initiative and the Black United Body Organization, Bentley University, February 2020. “Skin Deep: The Sexualized Psychoanalytic/Foucauldian Subject, Political Agency, and Brian Glazer’s Under the Skin” Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Group session, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 26-29, 2020 “Reparations and Affirmative action in the USA and Africa” Public seminar organized with Bentley University Worldview and Global Perspective initiative, Bentley University, November 2019. “Can Anger be Justified? Ārya Śāntideva on Anger and its Antidotes” At the Concerned Philosophers for Peace 32nd Annual Conference University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, October 18-20, 2019 “Embracing Chullachaqui: Ciro Guerra's Embrace of The Serpent and Judith Butler’s Post-Colonial Ethics” Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Group session, American Philosophical Association Western Division Meeting, Vancouver, February 2019 “Mourning Chullachaqui: Sanctifying Genocidal Loss Through a Heideggerian Reading of Ciro Guerra's Embrace of The Serpent," Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Group session, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Denver, February 2019 “Becoming Chickadee: Chief Plenty Coups’ Anti-Genocidal Ethics” Concerned Philosophers for Peace 31st Annual Conference University of Colorado, Boulder, October 18-20, 2018 “Cynical Apocalypticism: The Zombie Myth,” Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts Colloquium, American Philosophical Association Central Division Meeting, Chicago, February 2018. “Ideological Vulnerability and the Philosophy of Race” Keynote presentation at McMaster University Graduate Philosophy conference, Hamilton, Canada, 2017. “The Merits of Racial Satire,” Uehiro Cross Currents comparative philosophy conference, University of Hawai’i at Manôa, March 2017. “The Politics of Teaching Politics,” Social Justice in the Classroom conference University of New Mexico, October 2017. “Ironic Feminism, Cynicism, and Popular culture” 37th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association conference, Albuquerque NM, February 2016. “The socio-political implications of Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra” Interdisciplinary Religion and Politics Colloquia, University of New Mexico, March 2015. “The Rise of Cynical Irony” Uehiro Cross Currents comparative Philosophy conference, University of Hawai’i at Manôa, March 2015. “Addressing Contemporary Cynicism,” Uehiro Cross Currents comparative philosophy conference, University of Hawai’i at Manôa, March 2014. “Emptiness and Compassion: Creating the Appropriate Context for Śūnyatā-Yoga,” Uehiro Cross Currents comparative Philosophy conference, University of Hawai’i at Manôa, March 2013.