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CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Paper: “Heidegger, Ontological Blackness, and the Hermeneutics of Identity”
2014 Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference VII
Fort Worth, TX
October 22-24, 2014
Paper: “Making the Metaphysical into the Ontological: How the Metaphysical Poets Use Hermeneutics to Express Ontologies of Language.”
22nd Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Conference
Phoenix, AZ
February 4-6, 2016
Paper: “Three Hitchcockian Blondes and Heidegger’s Aletheia: Philosophizing Unconcealment in North by Northwest, Vertigo, and Marnie”
37th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference
Albuquerque, NM
February 10-13, 2016
Paper: “Rhizomes, Plateaus, and the Heideggerian Dasein”
Encountering the Unexpected: Glitches, (Dis)placements, and Marginalia: Syracuse University Department of Religion Graduate Student Conference
Syracuse, NY
March 25-26, 2016
Paper: “‘It is most lamentable to behold’: Performing Platonic Epistemology, the Death of Falstaff, and the Maturation of Prince Hal in three Henry Plays”
Blackfriars X Southwest Conference
Austin, TX
April 8-10, 2016
Paper: “Derrida, ‘Freeplay,’ and Structure: The Roles of Metaphysics and Ontology in the Heideggerian Project of Deconstruction”
UNT GSEA Critical Voices Conference
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
April 9, 2016
Paper: “Derrida, Reontologizing Race, and a Call for Deontology”
2016 Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference VIII
Kent State University
Kent, OH
September 21-23, 2016
Paper: “‘Modes of Being’ in the Worlds of A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
The 40th Annual Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference
Wright State University
Dayton, OH
October 20-22, 2016
Paper: “The Cruel Hand and the Perennial Crisis of the Black Intellectual in the Post-Obama Age”
Philosophy Born of Struggle XXIII
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX
November 3-5, 2016
Paper: “Donald Davidson’s Epistemology Externalized, Heidegger’s Aletheia, and the Existence of Natural Language”
Is There Such a Thing as a Language?: 30 Years after “A Nice Derangement”
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
November 18-19, 2016
Paper: “Late Medieval Philosophy and the Epistemological Situation in John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion”
23rd Annual Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) Conference
Phoenix, AZ
February 9-11, 2017
Paper: “Reontologizing the Concept of Race: Saldanha and Philosophizing the Epistemological Problem against Cultural Identity and Ideological Textualization”
38th Annual Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) Conference
Albuquerque, NM
February 15-18, 2017
Paper: “Two Posthumanisms: A Difference in ‘What It Means to be Human’ in the Posthumanist Forms of Bruno Latour and Rosi Braidotti”
2017 Rice Symposium: “Redrawing Forms: Energy, Media, Science, and Life”
Rice University
Houston, TX
February 17-18, 2017
Paper: “Deontologizing Animality’s Ethical Standing: Using Heidegger’s Enframing to Think the Posthumanist Thought of Cary Wolfe’s Biopolitical Frame”
The First Annual Post-Human Network Graduate Student Conference: “Experiencing the Post-Human”
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
March 24-25, 2017
Paper: “(Post)humanizing Heidegger: Reading the ‘Letter on Humanism’ as a Proto-Posthumanist Text”
The 12th Annual Meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle
Arizona State University, West Campus
Phoenix, AZ
March 30-April 1, 2017
Paper: “Subalternity, the Speaking of the Subaltern, and the Opening for Decoloniality: Critiquing the Rationality of Spivak’s Post-Coloniality in Light of Mignolo’s Approach to De-Linking”
The 17th Annual Africa Conference
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
March 31- April 2, 2017
Paper: “State of the Existentially-Exceptional: Agamben’s Biopolitics and Heidegger’s Ek-sistence”
What is Life? Conference-Experience
University of Oregon
Portland, OR
April 6-8, 2017
Paper: “Animality and Nakedness as a Sixth Cartesian Meditation: Bracketing Husserl’s Phenomenology in Jacques Derrida’s The Animal That Therefore I Am”
5th Annual EGSA Conference: “Negotiating Space and Place in Troubled Times”
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX
April 7, 2017
Paper: “Demythologizing Othello’s Jealousy: Shakespeare’s Notion of Blackness and the Moorish Myth”
Exploring the Renaissance 2017: An International Conference
South-Central Renaissance Conference
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
April 20-22, 2017
Paper: “The Materialities of Ideology: Reading Althusser’s Ideological State Apparatus as the Intersectionality of Culture, Identity, and Memory”
2017 UNT Critical Voices Conference
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
April 21-23, 2017
Paper: “The Metaphysics of Othello: Issues of Being and Appearance of ‘Black’ Skin in Shakespeare’s Early Modern Venice”
2018 SCMLA
San Antonio, TX
October 11-14, 2018
Paper: “Teaching Shakespeare's Philosophy of Race as Metaphysics and Posthumanism: Othello and Shylock in the Early-Modern British Imagination”
REP IX 2018
Austin, TX
October 23-25, 2018
Paper: “William Blake's Philosophy of Aesthetics”
South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Magnolia Hotel
Dallas, TX
February 21-23, 2019
Paper: “De-Colonizing the Public Black Intellectual”
Fugitive Futures
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
February 28 - March 2, 2019
Paper: “James Cone's The Cross and the Lynching Tree”
American Academy of Religion (AAR): Southwest Region
Irving, TX
March 8-10, 2019
Paper: “The Bull in the China Shop: How Hitchcock and Welles Use the Blonde Femme Fatale as the Symptom of Man”
The Fifties and Pop/Visual Culture: Film, Television and Beyond Conference
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth, TX
November 9-10, 2018