Invited Talks
“States as Minds in Spinoza's Political Treatise.” Chicago Modern Philosophy Roundtable Spring, May 2025.
“International Relations, War, and the State in Spinoza.” IRH EM Phil Workshop, April 2025.
“Deleuze on Spinoza's Semiotics.” University of Wisconsin-Madison Modernism/Contemporary English Colloquium, March 2025.
“Spinoza on the State’s Power for War in the Political Treatise.” Colloquium at Marquette University, November 2024.
“The Martial Virtue of States in Spinoza’s Political Treatise.” Monday Seminar presentation for the Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison, September 2024.
“Radical Idealism: Gueroult on Philosophical Systems and the Hist. of Phil.” French and Francophone Phil. Today, LSU, April 2024.
“Spinoza on War.” Tulane German Philosophy Workshop, March 2024.
“Contemporary French Spinozism.” Ogden Honors College, LSU, March 2022.
“Spinoza’s Substance Monism.” Graduate Seminar in Metaphysics, Tulane, 2022.
“Spinoza’s Monism among the British Idealists: The Case of H. H. Joachim.” Societas Spinozana Seminar, December 2021.
“Spinoza’s Reign of Ignorance Thesis.” Spinoza and Early Modern Philosophy. A Virtual Workshop from Johns Hopkins, May 2021.
“Spinoza’s Reign of Ignorance Thesis.” Princeton-Bucharest Virtual Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, 2021.
“François Lamy : une réfutation cartésienne de l’Éthique.” Spinoza à Paris 8, May 2019.
“Spinoza and Judaism in the French Context.” Sixth Annual Franco-American Workshop on Modern Philosophy, University of Michigan, June 2018.
“Revisiting the Della Rocca-Garber Spinoza Debate.” La philosophie ventriloque, Université Aix-Marseille, February 2018.
“Gaddis et la volonté de puissance.” Littérature-Philosophie 2015, Université Paris 8, 2015.
Refereed Talks
“States as Minds in Spinoza’s Political Treatise.” Colloquium paper, APA Pacific Main Program, April 2025.
“Spinoza’s Reflections on War.” Wisconsin Philosophical Association Meeting, April 2025.
“Spinoza on Stupidity.” North American Spinoza Society at the APA Central 2020.
“Spinoza on Stupidity.” Australasian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Queensland, November 2019.
“Spinoza on Stupidity: Persistent Ignorance and the Power of False Ideas.” 2nd Berlin-Hamburg Workshop in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Hamburg, June 2019.
“Spinoza on Stupidity: Persistent Ignorance and the Power of False Ideas.” 6th Finnish-Hungarian Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, University of Helsinki, June 2019.
“Degrees of Freedom, Self-Determination, and Pessimism in Spinoza.” Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, University College Dublin, September 2018.
“Spinoza’s Account of Body-Body Causation in DPP.” APA Central Meeting, 2018.
“Spinoza and the Transformation of Bodies.” Transforming Bodies Conference, Cornell University, April 2017.
“In What Sense is Spinoza’s Free Man Religious?.” APA Central Meeting, March 2017.
“Strauss on Spinoza’s Ambiguity: Persecution of Truth, Truth of Persecution.” Spinoza politico tra antico e moderno, Università degli Studi di Milano, January 2016.
“La modulation spinoziste: Pour se purifier de la pureté.” Modulation-Deleuze, University of Szeged, December 2015.
“Quand “Et” ne suffirait pas : À propos de l’usage d’un trait d’union dans le titre du Tractatus Theologico-Politicus de Spinoza.” Journées doctorales Franco-japonaises “Et”, Université Paris 8, March 2014.
Comments, Chairing
Comments on Tucker, North American Spinoza Society Meeting Spring, May 2025.
Chair for Hume (Ben Moshe) and Spinoza (Zhou) symposium, “Sympathy and Conatus.” APA Central Online 2025.
Comments on Jacob Sheehan paper, “Descartes on Self-Knowledge.” APA Eastern Main Program, January 2025.
Comments on Leonard Kahn paper, “Humanitarian military intervention.” APA Central Meeting of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, February 2024.
Chair for Cunningham colloquium, “Reid’s aesthetics.” APA Central Main Program, February 2024.
Chair for Forsman colloquium, “Teresa’s demons.” APA Pacific Main Program, 2023.
Chair for panel on “French Spinozism and its Discontents.” Virtual SPEP 2021.
Chair for invited symposium “Biopolitics and Covid-19.” Virtual APA Central 2021.
Comments on Moauro, “The Value of the Affects in Spinoza.” UPenn Virtual Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy, August 2020.
Comments on Ferguson “Spinoza on the Priority of Part to Whole.” APA Central, February 2018.
Comments on Peterman, “Spinoza on Embodiment.” Spinoza France États-Unis, Université Paris 1 and Université Paris 8, June 2016.