upcoming talks and lectures

upcoming

• 25 January, 2023 — “Crisis, Critique, and Abolitionist Futures,” Prefiguring Democratic Futures, Radical Democracy Colloquium, University of Vienna (remote)

past

• 15 October, 2022 — Invited Respondent for The Politics of Inquiry, by Perry Zurn (University of Minnesota Press), Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, College Station, TX.
• 20 August, 2022 — Book Launch & Workshop for Abolitionismus. Ein Reader (Suhrkamp, 2022), Berlin.
• 20 July, 2022 — “Voting Rights for Incarcerated Californians,” (w/ Romarilyn Ralston & Brady Heiner), California on the Ballot (Season 2), California Humanities.
• 18 Februrary, 2022 — “Decarceral Communities and Abolitionist Legacies,” DePaul University Graduate Student Philosophy Conference.
• 5 November, 2021 — “World-building on or with the Land? Learning Anticolonial critique from Beavers and their Blockades,” (w/ Dr. Sarah Tyson), Political Theory Colloquium, University of Virginia.
• October, 2021 — Who’s (Still) Afraid of Critical Race Theory,” Loyola Marymount University.
• 20 October, 2021 — “Which Margins Matter? Recent Developments in Criminal Disenfranchisement,” Political Science & International Relations Learning Community, Loyola Marymount University.
• 13 November, 2020 — Abolitionist Futurities, An Introduction to Abolition (Course), University of Southern California.
• 28 October, 2020 — Celebrating Queerstory: Intersections on LGBTQ+ History, BLM, and the November Ballot, LGBTQ Faculty and Staff Network, Loyola Marymount University
• 28 October, 2020 — Reflections on Justice: California Prisons Alternative Break, Bellarmine Forum, Loyola Marymount University
• 27 October, 2020 — “Politics of Prison Abolition” (Course), University of the District of Columbia, Oct. 27, 2020.
• 30 September, 2020 — What if “defund the police” is really a public health project? (w/ Kate Schnippel Bistline, Everytown for Gun Safety), Wells Scholars Program, Indiana University.
• 3 December, 2019, Abolishing Carceral Society (Issue 1 Launch), Faculty Pub Night, LMU Library, Los Angeles, CA.
• 24 October, 2019 — Invited Commentator, First Book Manuscript Workshop, APT, Irvine, CA.
• 5-6 April 2019 — Empire By Its Other Names, Columbia University
• 28, March 2019 — Rights, Reform, and Histories of Resistance, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Loyola Marymount University,
• 22-23 March 2019 — Doing Democracy Differently, McMaster University
• 28 February 2019 — What is Abolition Today?, Diablo Valley College
• 27 September 2018 — Invited Commentator, Maxwell Lectures in Political Theory, University of Utah
• 20 October 2018 — Mass Incarceration and Philosophy, Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy, State College, PA.
• 8 February, 2018 — Criminology Seminar Series, Birkbeck School of Law, University of London
• 17 January, 2018 — Research Seminar, University of Warwick, School of Law
• October, 21 2017 — Invited Speaker, Scholar Session for Ladelle McWhorter, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN.
• October 14, 2017 — Beyond the Bars LA, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
• September, 2017 — Invited Participant, Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
• February 23, 2017 — Theorizing Rowan, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
• February 15, 2017 — Interrogating Incarceration: Mercy and the PIC,” Academy of Catholic Thought and Imagination, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA.
• February 9, 2017 — Political Theory Workshop, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
• December 5, 2016 — “Abolitionist Killjoys and the Social Life of Social Death,” Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ.
• September 15-17, 2016 — Spindel Conference, “Temporalities of Philosophical Inquiry: Critical Histories of the Present,” Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN.
• April 26, 2016 — “Do Prisons Prevent Us from Achieving Gender and Racial Justice?” Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA.
• April, 10, 2016 — “The Punitive Society and the GIP,” Columbia University, New York, NY.
• April 8, 2016 — Thinking Privilege,  Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities, Haverford College, Haverford, PA.
• October 13, 2015 — The Problematic (and Racist) Nature of a Colorblind Ideology (w/ Adam Fingerhut) at “Pizza and Politics,” LMU, Los Angeles, CA.
• October 5, 2015 — Department of Philosophy, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA.
• April 17, 2015 — University of Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium, Minneapolis, MN.
• April 30, 2015 — University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA.
• April 4, 2015 — Author Meets Critics Roundtable @ 2015 WPSA Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
• March 30, 2015 — St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY.
• February 27, 2015 — Keynote Lecture @ University of Memphis, Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference, “Beyond Bars: The Future of Prisons,”
• February 19, 2015 — The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.
• February 16, 2015 — “My Name is My Name Podcast, Episode 11”
• February 16, 2015 — La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA.
• January 20, 2015 — LMU Library Faculty Pub Night, Los Angeles, CA.
• November 19, 2014 — Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA.