Upcoming Events
“Narcissus in Bloom: Hyper-Individualism and Identity Retreat"
Historical Materialism Conference. Barcelona, Spain.
(summer 2026)
Past Events
Keynote Speaker
2022
McNair & ROP Emerging Scholars Ceremony
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
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2021
"Wilson Usedo: Si Se Puede" Award Recipient
& Class of 2021 Graduation Ceremony
Latino Cultural Center
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
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Invited Talks (non-exhaustive)
2026
Paul Gomberg’s “Anti-Racism as Communism” [Author Meets Critics panel].
Marxism and Philosophy Association session.
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD.
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2022
“Why Colonization is an Oversimplified Story of Hispanidad”
Hispanic Heritage Month Speaker Series
Scottsdale Community College, Scottsdale, AZ.
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2022
“Binti and Africanfuturism”
Center for Ethics.
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA.
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2021
“Mujerista Ethics: Reimagining Self-Ownership”
Phil/Rels Conversations: Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies.
Ball State University, Muncie, IN.
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2021
“The Non-Hispanic "Hispanics: Gitanos Adding more Complexity to the Ethnorace”
Hispanic Heritage Month Series: Latinx & Latin American Studies, and Department of Philosophy.
SUNY (State University of New York), Cortland, NY.
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2020
"How Does Capitalism Create an Identity Crisis for Our Species?"
PurSysT (Purdue Systems Thinkers) Colloquium Series.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
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2018
“The Double-Standard of Nomadism: Who’s Allowed to Move? On Gitanos ("Gypsies") of Spain,”
RPA Panel: Radical and Indigenous Philosophy.
American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division, Chicago, IL.
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Presentations (non-exhaustive)​
2025
“Afropessimism’s Mistaken Social Ontology: Toward a Materialist Analysis of Anti-Black Racism,”
The Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology (SPINE).
Villanova University, Villanova, PA
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2025
“Marxism, Indigenous Philosophy, and Ecological Solidarities: Rethinking Nature as a Worker,”
The Power of Marxist Thought Conference.
York University, Toronto, Canada.
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2025
“To Whither or Flourish: What we can learn from Marx and Plants about Living a Good Life,”
Phenomenologies of Mental Health, Well-Being, and Flourishing.
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA.
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2024
“Essentialism & Totalizing Systems for the Sake of Solidarity,”
Solidarity and Class Struggle: 16th Biennial Conference of the Radical Philosophy Association.
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
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2023
"If Marx Knew About the Microbiome"
American Philosophical Association (Pacific Division)
San Francisco, CA
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2022
“Bread for the Body, Roses for the Soul: The Revolution Must Demand Health,”
Radical Philosophy Association 15th Biennial Conference: “The Point is to Change it”.
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL.
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2020
“Teaching Philosophy of Race,”
Philosophy of Education Society
Pittsburg, PA.
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2017
“The Womanist and Mujerista Critique of Self-Ownership,”
Inclusive Philosophies Conference
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
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2016
"The Fetishization of Individual Freedom: How a False Social Ontology Has Taken Over the World, and What Can Be Put in Its Place,"
12th Biennial RPA Conference: 21st-Century Socialism, Concepts and Visions.
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.​
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2015
“Organizing the Precariat Class as a Strategy for Systemic Transformation,”
Renovación Socialista y Crisis Capitalista conference.
University of Havana, Havana, Cuba.
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2013
“Deterritorializing Paris: The Situationist International as a Nomadic War Machine,”
Stony Brook University Philosophy and the Arts Conference.
Stony Brook University, New York, NY.
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2013
“The Paris Commune,”
International Socialist Organization Lecture Series.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
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2012
“An Analysis of Creativity as a Cure to the Existential Crisis,”
The 13th National Conference for McNair Scholars.
University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
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Commentator
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2023
J. Reese Faust’s “John Brown Did Nothing Wrong: A Critical Legal Theory of Whiteness”
Philadelphia Normative Philosophy conference
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
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2019
Victor Guerra’s “How to Deal with Kant’s Racism: In and Out of the Classroom”
Race and Education Panel. American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division
New York, NY.
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2020
Elvira Basevich's "What is an Anti-Racist Philosophy of Race in Kant and Hegel?"
Hegel and the Unity of Science Conference.
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
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Panels Organized & Chaired
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2026
[organized] “Social Reproduction Theory”. (RPA affiliate group session)
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division. Baltimore, MD.
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2024
[organized] "Anti-Racist and Anti-Fascist Internationalism" (RPA affiliate group session)
American Philosophical Association (APA) Eastern Division. New York, NY.
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2019
[chaired] Author Meets Critics: Linda Martin Alcoff’s “Rape and Resistance”
American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Division. Denver, CO.
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2016
[chaired] Panel: “Non-Violence and Suffering,”
12th Biennial RPA Conference: 21st-Century Socialism, Concepts and Visions.
University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
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2016
[chaired] Panel: “Power, Violence, and Vulnerability”
Philosophy Born of Struggle. Theorizing within Revolt: Black Power, Black Life, & Black Thought -
The Role of Africana Philosophy in 21st Century Struggles.
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
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