Upcoming

How Can Art Fail?
Lunch Lecture
Utrecht University
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies
November 10, 2026
Aristotle and Theophrastus on the Socio-Political Function and Virtue of the Elderly (with Mor Segev)
Philosophy of Aging in Ancient Greece
University of Patras
Oct 16– 17, 2026
What was Ancient about Enlightenment Dialogues? Conversation, Instruction, and the Genre of Philosophy
Keynote lecture
Reception of Ancient Philosophers from the Early Modern Period to the Enlightenment
Rotterdam University
Sept 30–Oct 1, 2026

Past

Can Literary Forms be Gendered? Early Modern Women's Poetry and Beyond
Workshop
Thinking in Many Forms: Gender, Genres, and Practices of Philosophy
Summer School, University of Copenhagen
August 24–28, 2026
Can a Character Sketch be Philosophy?
Keynote lecture
Thinking in Many Forms: Gender, Genres, and Practices of Philosophy
Summer School, University of Copenhagen
August 24–28, 2026
The Fascist Unconcsious
Colloquium of Manon Garcia
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
June 30, 2026
Methodological Vice
History of Philosophy Seminar
Opening remarks at the 17th Annual Graduate Conference in the History of Political Thought, London
June 11, 2026
Can Art have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics
History of Philosophy Seminar
Utrecht University
May 21, 2026
The Fascist Unconscious
Philosophy and Social Science
Villa Lana, Prague
May 13, 2026
The Fascist Unconscious
Political Theory Seminar
University of Amsterdam
April 24, 2026
Who's Afraid of Human Nature?
Utrecht Night of Philosophy
April 15, 2026
What Happened to Marxist Aesthetics?
IHR Early Career Seminar
London
March 25, 2026
Can Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics
Literature and Philosophy Workshop
University of Chicago
March 23, 2026
Book talk: The Character Sketch as Philosophy
McGill University
March 16, 2026
Who Cares about Flat Characters?
Novel Theory Seminar
Mahindra Humanities Center
Harvard University
March 10, 2026
Types or Blurs? Character and Subjectivity in Contemporary Fiction
ACLA
Montreal
February 28, 2026
A Theory of the Online Forum
Political Theory Workshop
Johns Hopkins University
February 26, 2026
Book Talk: The Character Sketch as Philosophy
Political Science Department
Boston College
February 11, 2026
The History of a Book: The Character Sketch as Philosophy
Renaissance Colloquium
English Department
Harvard University
February 10, 2026
Can Art Have a Purpose? A Response from Aristotle's Poetics
Political Thought and Intellectual History Seminar
Cambridge University
February 2, 2026
Book Talk: The Character Sketch as Philosophy
Philosophy Café
Utrecht
January 27, 2026
Can Sex Work Be Emancipatory?
WoGAP
MIT
January 8, 2026
Book Talk: The Character Sketch as Philosophy
Queen Mary University of London
London
December 5, 2025
Marxism, Fascism and the Unconscious
Historical Materialism
London
November 6–9, 2025
Book Talk: The Character Sketch as Philosophy
Making of Modernity
Department of Philosophy
Erasmus University Rotterdam
October 15, 2025
On the Choice of Original Ethical Event
Association for Philosophy and Literature
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
August 20–22, 2025
What is Political Aesthetics? Comparing Liberal and Fascist Models
PPE Society
King's College London
July 18, 2025
Can Sex Work Be Unalienated?
After the End of History: Dialectics, Teleology and Possible New Universalisms
Tsinghua University, Beijing
June 7–8, 2025
The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Reading Theophrastus in Early Modern Europe
Boston Area Enlightenment Workshop
Boston University
April 30, 2025
Socialism as Fictional Experimentalism
ECPR Standing Group in Political Theory
Online
April 9, 2025
Three Political Aesthetics
Midwest Political Science Association
Chicago
April 3–6, 2025
La Bruyère’s Theophrastus: Inventing Moral Satire
Renaissance Studies Association
Boston
March 20–22, 2025
Late Fascist Aesthetics: A Theory of the Online Forum
Center for European Studies
Harvard University
March 12, 2025
David Hume and the Character Sketch
American Philosophical Association
Online
February 21, 2025
The Character Sketch as Political Knowledge
American Historical Association
New York
January 4, 2025
Representing Ordinary Vices: Theophrastus in Early Modern Europe
Séminaire Locke
Sorbonne Université, Paris
December 17, 2024
Late Fascist Aesthetics: Rethinking the Forum
New Perspectives on Art and Society
Harvard Center for European Studies
December 3, 2024
Hermeneutical Injustice and Strategic Thinking in the New Sex Wars
(with Micol Bez)
Workshop on Language, Knowledge, and Deep Disagreement
Tilbury University
December 3, 2024
The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Reading Theophrastus in Early Modern Europe
Early Modern Workshop
Harvard University
November 19, 2024
Representing Ordinary Vices: Theophrastus in Early Modern Europe
Vice Theory: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
University of New Brunswick
October 18–19, 2024
Can Literature Make You Less Racist?
American Political Science Association
Philadelphia
September 5–8, 2024
Trouble in Marxist Aesthetics, Post-doc Development Workshop in the History of Political Thought
Queen Mary University of London
June 11, 2024
David Hume and Theophrastus
Annual Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies
University of South Florida
April 19–21, 2024
The Use of Character Types within Hermeneutical Justice,
Annual Southwest Graduate Philosophy Conference
Arizona State University
April 12–13, 2024
The Choice of Original Ethical Event
Great Lakes Philosophy Conference: Blame and Forgiveness
Online
April 12–14, 2024
Manuscript Workshop: Ethical Icons: Sketching Character in Early Modern Europe.
Britain & Ireland Association for Political Thought Conference
University of Cambridge
January 4–6, 2024
Discussant for panel on “Politics and Literature.”
Association for Political Theory
New York
October 12–14, 2023
Socialism as Fictional Experimentalism
Association for Political Theory Conference
New York
October 12–14, 2023
Discussant for Manon Garcia, The Joy of Consent: A Philosophy of Good Sex
Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
Harvard University
October 3, 2023
An Attempt to Map Literary Theory
Harvard Society of Fellows
June 6, 2023
Why Sociology Needs Critical Theory: Vivek Chibber and the Cultural Turn
Philosophy and Social Science, Vila Lanna
Prague
May 10–14, 2023
Poetry and Persuasion: Contextualizing Skinner’s Style
The Future of Intellectual History: A Celebration of Quentin Skinner's London Years
Queen Mary University of London
May 10, 2023
Liberal Aesthetics and the Ethical Turn
Éthique et littérature aujourd’hui
Université de Strasbourg
March 23–24, 2023
The Character Sketch: A Philosophical Puzzle
Harvard Society of Fellows
March 3, 2023