“Paradigmatic Failure: Politics Without Guarantee in Plato’s Republic.” At Central Indiana Reading Group for Ancient Philosophy, November 21, 2013, Ball State University, Muncie Indiana.
Book Review of “Whose Antigone? The Tragic Marginalization of Society” by Tina Chanter, philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism, (6) Winter/Fall 2013, SUNY Press.
“Through Thick & Thin Blackness: A Response to “Black Identity and Collective Action: A Critique of Tommie Shelby’s We Who Are Dark” at the Indiana Philosophical Association, November 16, 2012, University of Indianapolis.
"Freedom in Community: Aristotle's Polis and Linklater's Actor's Quartet," in Mosaic 44 (1) 2011, 183-197.
Freud After Derrida at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada. October 6-9, 2010: Going after the Father: Plato's Apology of Socrates and the Freudian Intention of Aggression.
Lynching as Post-Traumatic Metaphor & the Terror of Freedom. Paper delivered at Fragmented Bodies of American Lynching: Religion, Politics, Representation, Haverford College, November 12 & 13, 2009.
Plato’s Apology: A Critique of Democracy. Paper delivered at Ball State University, Muncie Indiana, October 7, 2009.
"Paternal Authority in Plato’s Apology" Paper delivered at Södertörn University College, Stockholm, Sweden, September 18, 2009.
Freedom & the Phenomenological Voice. Paper presented at the Santorini Voice Symposium, Santorini, Greece, July 10, 2009.
Suffering the Loss of Nothing: Birthing a Body Politic in an Age of Chaos. Paper Presented at Movement of Nothingness Conference, University of Houston, April 4, 2008.