UPCOMING TALKS
December 2021
- Integrations: The Struggle for Racial Equality and Civic Renewal in Public Education (with Zoe Burkholder), colloquium in Philosophy and History programs, Teachers College.
RECENT TALKS
February 2020
September 2019
July 2019
April 2019
November 2018
- “School Integration cannot bring about Educational Equality but is the Essential Foundation for Civic Education in a Multiracial Democracy,” conference on Philosophy and Race, University of San Diego (virtual)
September 2019
- "The Absence of Social and Political Structuring of Defective Attention in Murdoch’s View of Obstacles to Loving Perception," conference on Iris Murdoch's Moral Philosophy, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, CA
July 2019
- "The Absence of Social and Political Structuring of Defective Attention in Murdoch’s View of Obstacles to Just Perception," Iris Murdoch Centennial conference, St. Anne's College, Oxford Univ.
April 2019
- "How Philosophy Can Help Us Understand Race, Ethnicity, and Identity," Keynote Address at Emmanuel College Undergraduate Philosophy Conference
November 2018
- “Educational Justice in Higher Education from a non-elite perspective,” session on Philosophical Perspectives on Power and Higher Educational Policy: Access, Autonomy, Freedom, and Ethics, American Society for Higher Education (ASHE), Tampa, FL
June 2017
- 4 talks at Chinese Foreign Affairs University (CFAU), Beijing, June 2017: "Race, Ethnicity, and Pan-ethnicity as Social Groups and Personal Identities in the US," "Moral Education About Race in the Film 'Crash'." "The 2016 Academy Award-Nominated Films," "Race, Racial Identity, and Racial Inequality in Brazil and the US"
March 2017
- “Failing to Experience Black Humanity in Lethal Police Encounters,” Virtue, Emotion, and Imagination in Legal Reasoning conference, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas,, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), March 2017
- “Neoliberal Philosophy and Practice in Educational Reform: Marketizing, Consumerism, and Civic Value,” presentation to Education department, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, March 2017
December 2016
October 2016
- “Neoliberalism and civic purposes in education,” Association for Moral Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dec 8, 8:30 AM
- ”Color blindness in the US and non-racialism in South Africa as civic ideals,” Association for Moral Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Dec 8, panel presentation on race and civic education, 5:00 PM
October 2016
- “Neoliberal philosophy and practice and its influence on education reform,” New England Philosophy of Education Society, University of New Hampshire
August 2016
- “Biology, Religion, and Culture in Racial Thought and Racial Domination in South Africa and the US”, Keynote address, Rocky Mountain Ethics Conference, University of Colorado Boulder.
- Panel presentation on affirmative action, Center for Values and Social Policy, University of Colorado Boulder.
- "Teaching a high school course on race and racism," University of Colorado Boulder School of Education.
June 2016
- “Biology, Religion, and Culture in Racial Thought and Racial Domination in South Africa and the US,” Workshop on Race and Racism: Exploring Racial Injustice (organized in honor of Bernard Boxill), Stonehill College, MA, June 2016
April 2016
April 2016
- April 21, 2016-Panel presentation on Elizabeth Anderson’s Imperative of Integration (other panelists: M. Perina, J.L.A. Garcia, response by Anderson),
Location: University of Massachusetts Boston. Chancellor’s Conference Room, 3rd floor, Quinn Building, 10:15-12:00 Download Presentation [.docx]
March 2016
- Panel presentation on Naomi Zack’s White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Profiling and Homicide, Central Division APA
- Panel presentation on neoliberalism and civic education, at Philosophy of Education Society annual conference.