Invited Talks
Power and selfhood: A reconsideration of power relations in light of Merleau-Ponty
APA -- Central Divison, invited panel: "The future of phenomenology." New Orleans, 22 February 2024.
Describing the project of critical phenomenology: challenges and promises
Critical and political phenomenology in debate. Cologne University (online talk), 16 October 2023.
“A contradiction within reason." The intentionality of feeling and the precariousness of the embodied self in Hegel’s Anthropology
How does Spirit relate to Nature? Hegelian Perspectives. Boston University, 14 October 2023.
Apperception, Self-Reference, and Self-Consciousness. Hegel’s Response to Kant’s Transcendental Arguments
Australian Hegel Society (online talk), 20 July 2023.
"Nothing comes about without interest." On Hegel's account of moral motivation
APA - Pacific Division, Meeting of the Karl Jaspers Society. San Francisco, 7 April 2023.
The phenomenology of habit between incorporation and sedimentation
Aesthetic Habits, Humboldt Kolleg - University of Turin, 15 June 2022 (online)
Habit and Social Perception
Phenomenological Approaches to Social Perception, University of Montreal, 6-8 April 2022.
Escaping subjectivity in Proust and Hegel
Response to Robert Pippin's Philosophy by Other Means, Harvard University (online workshop), 25 February 2022
Sedimentation and Ethical Memory in Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit
New York German Idealism Workshop, The New School & Columbia University (online workshop), 15 October 2021
The ethical implications of attention: Husserl, Iris Murdoch, and D.F. Wallace
Sussex Philosophy Society (online workshop), 30 April 2021
Social sensitivity and the Ethics of Attention
Modes of Attention, Freiburg University (online workshop), 27-29 July 2020.
Towards a Phenomenological Account of Social Sensitivity
Phenomenology Workshop - Phenomenology of Body Consciousness, Boston College, February 27-28 2020.
Habit and Social Sensitivity
Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II, Washington D.C., June 3-5 2019.
Empathy and Practical Reason
Empathy, Illness, and Vulnerability, UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life, 16 November 2018.
Husserl’s Account of Position-Taking and its Relevance for Social Attention
Reinach and the Phenomenology of the Social World, University of Lisbon, 16 October 2018.
Situating Habit and Attention. A Phenomenological Take on the Landscape of Affordances
A workshop on and with Tony Chemero, UCD, 28 June 2018.
Sedimentation, Memory, and the Self. On Hegel’s Account of Absolute Knowledge
Absolute Knowing and Presuppositionless Science: Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic, Oxford, 16 June 2018.
Genesi e sedimentazione. Riflessioni sul metodo della filosofia hegeliana
University of Padua, 6 June 2018.
"The Soul is not a Smithy". Exploring the Concept of Emotional Space in Phenomenology and Literature, Phenomenology and Art, NUI Galway, 5 March 2018.
Hegel and The City of Glass. Commenting on Hegel and the identity theory of truth
University of Padua, 16th December 2016.
The Spasm of Spontaneity between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
IISF – Scuola di Roma, International House of Women in Rome, June 2014.
Is Hegel’s Metaphysics a Philosophy of Embodiment?
Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics, Warwick, 2 May 2014.
The Place of Habit in Hegel’s Psychology
Exploring Hegel’s Psychology, Oxford, 12 December 2012
Causality, Violence and Memory. On the Genesis of the Concept in the Science of Logic
System and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, University of Pavia, 12-13 December 2012.
APA -- Central Divison, invited panel: "The future of phenomenology." New Orleans, 22 February 2024.
Describing the project of critical phenomenology: challenges and promises
Critical and political phenomenology in debate. Cologne University (online talk), 16 October 2023.
“A contradiction within reason." The intentionality of feeling and the precariousness of the embodied self in Hegel’s Anthropology
How does Spirit relate to Nature? Hegelian Perspectives. Boston University, 14 October 2023.
Apperception, Self-Reference, and Self-Consciousness. Hegel’s Response to Kant’s Transcendental Arguments
Australian Hegel Society (online talk), 20 July 2023.
"Nothing comes about without interest." On Hegel's account of moral motivation
APA - Pacific Division, Meeting of the Karl Jaspers Society. San Francisco, 7 April 2023.
The phenomenology of habit between incorporation and sedimentation
Aesthetic Habits, Humboldt Kolleg - University of Turin, 15 June 2022 (online)
Habit and Social Perception
Phenomenological Approaches to Social Perception, University of Montreal, 6-8 April 2022.
Escaping subjectivity in Proust and Hegel
Response to Robert Pippin's Philosophy by Other Means, Harvard University (online workshop), 25 February 2022
Sedimentation and Ethical Memory in Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit
New York German Idealism Workshop, The New School & Columbia University (online workshop), 15 October 2021
The ethical implications of attention: Husserl, Iris Murdoch, and D.F. Wallace
Sussex Philosophy Society (online workshop), 30 April 2021
Social sensitivity and the Ethics of Attention
Modes of Attention, Freiburg University (online workshop), 27-29 July 2020.
Towards a Phenomenological Account of Social Sensitivity
Phenomenology Workshop - Phenomenology of Body Consciousness, Boston College, February 27-28 2020.
Habit and Social Sensitivity
Diverse Lineages of Existentialism II, Washington D.C., June 3-5 2019.
Empathy and Practical Reason
Empathy, Illness, and Vulnerability, UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life, 16 November 2018.
Husserl’s Account of Position-Taking and its Relevance for Social Attention
Reinach and the Phenomenology of the Social World, University of Lisbon, 16 October 2018.
Situating Habit and Attention. A Phenomenological Take on the Landscape of Affordances
A workshop on and with Tony Chemero, UCD, 28 June 2018.
Sedimentation, Memory, and the Self. On Hegel’s Account of Absolute Knowledge
Absolute Knowing and Presuppositionless Science: Hegel’s Phenomenology and Logic, Oxford, 16 June 2018.
Genesi e sedimentazione. Riflessioni sul metodo della filosofia hegeliana
University of Padua, 6 June 2018.
"The Soul is not a Smithy". Exploring the Concept of Emotional Space in Phenomenology and Literature, Phenomenology and Art, NUI Galway, 5 March 2018.
Hegel and The City of Glass. Commenting on Hegel and the identity theory of truth
University of Padua, 16th December 2016.
The Spasm of Spontaneity between Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
IISF – Scuola di Roma, International House of Women in Rome, June 2014.
Is Hegel’s Metaphysics a Philosophy of Embodiment?
Hegel’s Logic and Metaphysics, Warwick, 2 May 2014.
The Place of Habit in Hegel’s Psychology
Exploring Hegel’s Psychology, Oxford, 12 December 2012
Causality, Violence and Memory. On the Genesis of the Concept in the Science of Logic
System and Logic in Hegel's Philosophy, University of Pavia, 12-13 December 2012.
Peer-reviewed conference presentations
Husserl’s Account of Position-Taking and its Relevance for Social Sensitivity
Nordic Society of Phenomenology (NoSP), Copenhagen, 25 April 2019.
Beyond Empathy? Hannah Arendt on Respect and Belonging
Society for Women in Philosophy – Ireland (SWIP-I) Annual Conference, 18 May 2018.
Habit, Social Attention, and Practical Reason
Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, Durham, April 2018.
Character, Emotion, and Motivation
48th Meeting of the Husserl Circle, Crete 5-8 July 2017.
Habituality and Normativity. Towards a Revision of Naturalism
Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy, Sheffield, April 2017.
Habit and Social Sensitivity. Towards an Account of Habitual Embodied Agency
Issues in Contemporary Phenomenology. Warsaw, 23-26 March 2017.
Phenomenology, Empathy, and Pathologies of Self-Awareness
Bochum Spring School on Social Cognition, Emotion,and Joint Action, February 2017.
Habit, Style, and Social Norms
Society for Women in Philosophy – Ireland (SWIP-I), Galway, December 2016.
Habituality and Praxis. Hegel’s Account of Inhabitance
Hegel’s Philosophy of Action, University of Valencia, 10th November 2016.
Are Emotions a Matter of Character?
Aesthetics of Emotions. Art and the Cognitive Sciences, University of Milan, October 2016.
Is Phenomenology a Form of Empathy? An Inquiry into the Phenomenology of Obsessions
Annual conference of the British Society for Phenomenology, Manchester, 2 September 2016.
The Quest for Embodiment in Hegel’s Thought
Society of German Idealism in conjunction with APA Pacific Division,Vancouver, 4 April 2015.
The Structure of Empathy as Non-originary Experience
International Colloquium on Edith Stein, Cologne, 22 November 2014.
The Role of Embodiment in Edith Stein’s Account of Empathy
Venice Summer School in Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy, Venice 14th July 2014.
Memory and Self-Knowledge in Hegel's Philosophy
"Hegel gegen Hegel" XXIX. Internationaler Hegel-Kongress, Hegel-Gesellschaft, Instabul, 3-6 October 2012.
From Mechanism to Freedom: the Logic of Recognition in the Science of Logic
Recognition – German Idealism As Ongoing Challenge, Tilburg University, 28-29 June 2012.
Hegel's Strategy. The Concept of Causality Between Logic and Spirit
Zweck und Zweckmäßigkeit. Teleologie nach Kants Kritik, Berlin, 23-25 February 2012.
Self-Reference and Logical Memory in Hegel's Theory of the Concept
VI Congresso Internacional da Sociedade Hegel Brasileira: Rio de Janeiro, 5-7 November 2011.
Difference and Negation in Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
Young Researchers Conference on Classical German Philosophy, Amsterdam, 27 August 2010.
Departmental talks | Seminar presentations
Towards an account of social sensitivity
Habit and Social Experience, UCD, 7 December 2018.
Habit and Social Attention
Frontiers of Phenomenology, UCD, 14 December 2017.
Habit and Social Sensitivity
Phenomenology, Empathy, Intersubjectivity: New Approaches, UCD, 3 May 2017.
Radical Empathy and Pathologies of Self-Awareness
New Directions in Phenomenology, UCD Dublin, 27 January 2017.
Habit and Inhabitance. Hegel on Habituality and Ethical Life
Kant, Hegel, and the Embodiment of Pure Reason, UCD School of Philosophy, 3 May 2016.
Habituality and Normativity
International Workshop on Phenomenology: Intentionality and Normativity, UCD, Dublin 19 February 2016.
Some Remarks on For-me-ness and Empathy
A Workshop with Dan Zahavi, UCD, Dublin, 21 January 2015.
Habit and Embodiment in Hegel and Merleau-Ponty
Hegel and the Phenomenological Movement organised by Zetesis Research Group in Pisa, 12 June 2014.
Habit and Social Experience, UCD, 7 December 2018.
Habit and Social Attention
Frontiers of Phenomenology, UCD, 14 December 2017.
Habit and Social Sensitivity
Phenomenology, Empathy, Intersubjectivity: New Approaches, UCD, 3 May 2017.
Radical Empathy and Pathologies of Self-Awareness
New Directions in Phenomenology, UCD Dublin, 27 January 2017.
Habit and Inhabitance. Hegel on Habituality and Ethical Life
Kant, Hegel, and the Embodiment of Pure Reason, UCD School of Philosophy, 3 May 2016.
Habituality and Normativity
International Workshop on Phenomenology: Intentionality and Normativity, UCD, Dublin 19 February 2016.
Some Remarks on For-me-ness and Empathy
A Workshop with Dan Zahavi, UCD, Dublin, 21 January 2015.
Habit and Embodiment in Hegel and Merleau-Ponty
Hegel and the Phenomenological Movement organised by Zetesis Research Group in Pisa, 12 June 2014.