A. INVITED RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS
Workshop on New Approaches to Social Contract Theory, Chapman University (U.S.); Workshop on Issues in Contemporary Contractualism, ETH Zürich (Switzerland); PPE Research Seminar, Arizona State University (U.S.); New Orleans Political Economy Roundtable, University of New Orleans (U.S.); Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna (Austria); Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy, Chapman University (U.S.); Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo (U.S.); Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics, Georgetown University (U.S.); Department of Philosophy, University of Massachusetts Lowell (U.S.); Department of Philosophy, University of Bayreuth (Germany); Peter Loescher Chair of Business Ethics, Technical University Munich (Germany); Department of Philosophy, University of Hamburg (Germany); Department of Philosophy, University of Groningen (Netherlands); Department of Philosophy, University of Graz (Austria); Alexis de Tocqueville Project in Law, Liberty, and Morality, University of New Orleans (U.S.); Department of Philosophy and Department of Economics, University of Hamburg (Germany); Department of Philosophy and Center for the Philosophy of Freedom, University of Arizona (U.S.); PPE Program, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.S.); Department of Philosophy, University of York (U.K.); Institute of Political Science, TU Darmstadt (Germany); Institute of Philosophy, University of Regensburg (Germany); Department of Philosophy, University of Cape Town (South Africa); Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul (Turkey); Institute of Philosophy, University of Bayreuth (Germany); Department of Philosophy, Seoul National University (South Korea); Department of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham (U.S.); Murphy Institute at Tulane University, New Orleans (U.S).
B. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Third Annual Markets & Society Conference, Falls Church (U.S.); Second Annual Markets & Society Conference, Falls Church (U.S.); 92nd APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Diego (U.S.); Second PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans (U.S.); 114th APA Eastern Division Meeting, Savannah (U.S.); First PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans (U.S.); 90th APA Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco (U.S.); 111th APA Central Division Meeting, Chicago (U.S.); 110th APA Central Division Meeting, New Orleans (U.S.); 12th ISUS Conference, Stern School of Business, New York University (U.S.); Eleventh Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, University of Pisa (Italy); Conference on Contractarian Moral Theory, York University, Toronto (Canada); 2011 SOPHA Conference, University of Geneva (Switzerland); GAP 7, Institute of Philosophy, University of Bremen (Germany); 10th ISUS Conference, University of California, Berkeley (U.S.); First Annual Rocky Mountain Ethics Congress, University of Colorado at Boulder (U.S.); Masterclass in Normative Moral Theory, University of Reading (U.K.); Fourth Conference in Political Philosophy, Centre for Social Philosophy, University of Pavia (Italy); Brave New World Conference, MANCEPT, University of Manchester (U.K.); ENFA-3, Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon (Portugal); First Annual Postgraduate Conference in Philosophy, University College Cork (Ireland); Eighth Annual Graduate Conference in Political Theory, University of Warwick (U.K.).
C. PUBLIC LECTURES, PANEL DISCUSSIONS, AND OUTREACH
Presenter, PPE Talk Series, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (Germany); Panel moderator, Sixth Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Society Meeting, New Orleans (U.S.); Panel discussant, Promotion to Professor Workshop, Provost’s Office, Virginia Tech; Co-moderator of an interview, “America, Race, and Democracy” Series, organized by the Office of Inclusion and Diversity, the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, the Academy of Transdisciplinary Studies, and the Equity and Social Disparity in the Human Condition Destination Area, Virginia Tech; Panel discussant, “Political Economy: The Intersection of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science,” Coffee with the Chair, Department of Economics, Virginia Tech; Panel discussant, “Philosophy Outside of Its Discipline,” Pro-seminar, Department of Philosophy, Virginia Tech; Panel chair, ASPECT Annual Graduate Conference, “Rethinking Otherness in the Age of Neoliberalism,” Virginia Tech; Presenter, ASPECT Books Series, Virginia Tech; Discussant, ASPECT Annual Graduate Conference, “Interdisciplinarity in the Humanities and Social Sciences”; Panel chair, ASPECT Annual Graduate Conference, “Aesthetics, Politics, and Ethics in Fractured Times,” Virginia Tech; Panel discussant, “PPE Programs, the University, and Society: History, Purpose, and Influence,” PPE Society Meeting, New Orleans (U.S.); Public talk, Economics Club, Virginia Tech; Guest speaker, Pre-Tenure Breakfast Meeting, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech; Panel chair, ASPECT Annual Graduate Conference, “Representations of Resistance,” Virginia Tech; Panel discussant, “Navigating the Job Search,” ASPECT Student Association, Virginia Tech; Guest lecture, World Philosophy Day, Public Library; Panel chair, ASPECT Annual Graduate Conference,“Critical Ecologies: Digital Habitats, Material Governance, and Global Inequalities,” Virginia Tech; Public lecture, The Price of Inequality, Public Library; Panel chair, ASPECT Annual Graduate Conference, “Border Crossings: Transnationality, Citizenship, and Identity in Theory and Practice,” Virginia Tech; Guest lecture, “Justice as a Virtue”, Language and Culture Institute, Virginia Tech; Public lecture, “The Significance of Philosophy for the Public,” Public Library; Panel discussant, Second Annual Interdisciplinary Research Symposium, Interdisciplinary Research Honor Society Iota Delta Rho, Virginia Tech; Judge, Mid-Atlantic Regional Ethics Bowl, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.S.).
D. ORGANIZATION OF RESEARCH EVENTS
At Virginia Tech, together with colleagues and students, I have organized or overseen more than sixty-five professional guest speaker talks, lectures, panel discussions, conferences, and workshops for faculty, as well as numerous student-centered and extracurricular events. Many of these events have been aimed at creating a vibrant and intellectually engaging PPE community that integrates research and teaching. Here is more information about some of these events:
