Conference Talks
Presenter, “Rethinking Feminist Revolutionary Agency with Althusser and De Beauvoir,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Vancouver, Canada, March 2024
Presenter, “Authoritarian Family Structures and the Resurgence of the Extremist Right," American Political Science Association Conference (APSA), Los Angeles, USA, September 2023 (online participation)
Presenter,"Stepping into Malaise: Trump's Incitement to Violence," International Political Science Association World Congress (IPSA), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 2023
Presenter, “Castration Anxiety and the Extremist Right,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Portland, OR, March 2022
Presenter, “The Extremist Right in Europe: APsychoanalytic Critical Theory Approach,” American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific Division Conference (virtual), April 2021
Presenter,"Narcissistic Love: Understanding the Rise of the Far Right with Early Frankfurt School Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Thought," Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2019
Presenter,"Intersectionality and Critical Theory: A Conversation to Rethink Feminist Political Subjectivity," 12th International Critical Theory Conference in Rome, Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, Rome, Italy, May 2019
Presenter,"Narcissistic Love: Understanding the Rise of the Far Right with Early Frankfurt School Critical Theory and Psychoanalytic Thought," Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, June 2019
"Adorno and Freud meet Kazuo Ishiguro: The Rise of the Far Right from a Psychoanalytic and Critical Theory Perspective," Western Political Science Association (WPSA), San Diego, CA, April 2019
Presenter, “A Festival for Frustrated Egos: The Rise of Trump from an Early Frankfurt School Critical Theory Perspective”, Northeastern Political Science Association Conference (NPSA), Philadelphia, PA, November 2017
Presenter, “Mourning Denied: The Living Dead,” International Critical Theory and Social Justice Conference, Rome, Italy, May 2017
Presenter, “The Repression of Unconscious Guilt: The Staging of Bernhard’s Heldenplatz Reconsidered,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 2017
Presenter, “Rethinking Power and Agency in Greek Tragedy,” Association for Political Theory (APT), Columbus, OH, October 2016
Presenter, “Ich fühle mich nicht schuldig (I do not feel guilty): From Doubts to Murder,” American Political Science Association (APSA), Philadelphia, PA, September 2016
Presenter, “Female Resistance or the Politics of Death? Rethinking Antigone,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), San Diego, CA, March 2016
Presenter, “Suffering and Socio-Political Transformation,” Association for Political Theory (APT), Boulder, CO, October 2015
Presenter, “Working Through the Past,” American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco, CA, September 2015
Presenter, “Rethinking Totalitarian Power,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Las Vegas, NV, April 2015
Presenter, “Critical Theory and the Challenge to Totalitarian Power,” Radical Philosophy Association (RPA), Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, November 2014
Presenter, “Arendt, Adorno and Guilt,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA), Seattle, WA, April 2014
Presenter, “Critical Theory and Revolution,” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference (NPSA), Philadelphia, PA, November 2013
Presenter, “Luxemburg, Adorno and Socio-Political Transformation,” Critical Theory and Social Justice Conference, Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, Rome, Italy, May 2013
Presenter, “Feminist Socio-Political Transformation,” Western Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting (WPSA), Los Angeles, CA, March 2013
Presenter, “Adorno, Power and Radical Socio-Political Transformation,” Radical Philosophy Conference (RPA), Buffalo, NY, October 11-14, 2012
Presenter, “The Limits of Power and the Possibility of Feminist Agency,” American Political Science Association Conference (APSA), New Orleans, LA, August-September 2012
Presenter, “Rethinking Agamben’s State of Exception: The Sacred Woman,” American Political Science Association Conference (APSA), Seattle, WA, September 2011
Presenter, “Unconscious Mechanism of Oppression and the Discourse of Rights,” American Political Science Association Conference (APSA), Seattle, WA, September 2011
Presenter, “Rethinking Socio-Political Transformation: Negative Dialectics and Deconstructions,” Critical Theory and Social Justice Conference, Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, Rome, Italy, May 2011
Presenter, “Adorno, Derrida, and the Possibilities of a Feminist Transformative Politics,” American Political Science Association Conference (APSA), Washington DC, September, 2010
Presenter, “The Dialectics of Adorno and Marcuse: Toward a Radical Political Praxis,” Northern Political Science Association Conference (NPSA), Philadelphia, PA, November 2009
Presenter, “Adorno, Derrida and the Problem of the Political Subject,” Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA, November 2009
Presenter, “Marx, Adorno and the Theoretical Challenge to a Pseudo-Praxis,” American Political Science Association (APSA), Toronto, Cananda, September 2009
Presenter, “Continental Theory and the Political Praxis of Change,” Western Political Science Association annual conference, Vancouver, Canada, March 2009
Presenter, “The Politics of Misrecognition: A Feminist Critique,” American Political Science Association Conference (APSA), Boston, MA, August 2008
Presenter, “The Im-possibilities of the Feminist Subject,” International Social Philosophy Conference, Portland, OR, July 2008
Presenter, “A Theoretical Outline of the Subject,” Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL, April 2008
Presenter, “Towards a Radical Feminist Political Theory,” National Women’s Studies Association Conference (NWSA), St. Charles, IL, June 2007
Presenter, “The Lacanian Real: A Central Concept for Political Theory,” Northeastern Political Science Association Conference (NPSA), Boston, MA, November 2006
Presenter, “Justice and the Unconscious,” American Political Science Association Conference (APSA), Washington DC, September 2005
Presenter, “Mastery over the Female Body: Fears, Desires and Fantasies in the Early Marx,” Rethinking Marxism Conference, Amherst, MA, November 2003
Presenter, “A Feminist Critique of Pierre Bourdieu’s Social and Political Thought,” Political Science Graduate Student Conference, Yale University, May 2002
Presenter, “Rethinking Marx’s, Weber’s and Bourdieu’s Class Concepts,” Women in Political Studies Interdisciplinary Conference, The New School for Social Research, March 2001
Presenter, “Gender, Class and Democracy,” Social Movements and Organizing Conference, Columbia University, April 2000
Presenter, “The Return of the Working-Classed and Gendered Subject: Class and Gender Politics in the Academy,” Political Science Graduate Student Conference, The New School for Social Research, May 1999