Peer-Reviewed Conference Presentations
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“Ethics, Undermined and Undergirded: Levinas and Kierkegaard.” International Kierkegaard Conference, June 2026.
“Levinas on Poetic Language and Ontological Description.” Modern Language Association, Northeast, March 2026.
“The Petrified Present: On Cartesian Time.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, October 2025.
“Levinas and the Theology of Continuous Creation.” American Academy of Religion, Upper Midwest, April 2025.
“Levinas, Descartes, and Continuous Creation.” North Texas Philosophical Association, March 2025.
“Reality and Its Accomplishment in Levinas.” Metaphysical Society of America, March 2025.
“The Memory of the Immemorial.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, September 2024.
“Two Senses of Deformalization in Levinas.” Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas, July 2024.
“Levinas on Temporal Solipsism.” Centro Brasileiro de Estudos Levinasianos, June 2024.
“Levinas on Semantic Separation.” Société Internationale de Recherche Emmanuel Levinas, July 2023.
“The Homelessness of Eros: Levinas with Plato.” Ancient Philosophy Society, April 2023.
“The Alibi of Metaphysics.” Metaphysical Society of America, March 2023.
“Ethics as the Mediation of Ontology.” Summer Conference in Continental Ethics: Levinas, June 2022.
“Levinas, Plato, and the Metaphysics of Separation.” Metaphysical Society of America, March 2022.
“Peirce’s Imaginative Community.” APA Eastern Division, Charles S. Peirce Society Session, January 2022.
“Human Reciprocity and Divine Asymmetry.” North American Levinas Society, July 2021.
“Levinas’s Wounded Speech.” North American Levinas Society, July 2019.
“Divine Polyvalence: God and Metaphor in Levinas and Eriugena.” Mystical Theology Network, March 2019.
“The Epiphany of the Face: Levinas and the Ethical-Religious Attitude.” San Diego State University, October 2015.
Departmental Lectures
“Existence Rejuvenates Itself: Notes on Hope.” Chapel Talk, Augsburg University, October 2025.
“Approaches to Ethical Thinking.” Guest Lecture for “Sex, Race, and Ecology,” Augsburg University, February 2025.
“Husserl and His Critics.” Guest Lecture for “What is Modernity,” Habib University, November 2024.
“Kierkegaard and the Task of a Lifetime.” Teaching Demonstration, Augsburg University, November 2023.
“Levinas on Creation Ex Nihilo.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University, September 2022.
“Levinas, Plato, and the Metaphysics of Separation.” PHC&E Seminar, Tilburg University, April 2022.
“Two Aporias in Levinas’s Politics.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University, September 2021.
“Freedom and Praxis in Plotinus’s Ennead 6.8.1-6.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University, September 2020.
“Levinas Reading Descartes.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University, September 2019.
“God and Language in Levinas’s Theory of Metaphor.” Friday Philosophy Forum, Emory University, April 2019.
“Ethics as First Philosophy: Responses to Skepticism in Levinas and Cavell.” Middlebury College, April 2018.
