Presentations
Keynote Addresses
Keynote Speaker (one of two) for Lecture Series, "The Politics of Home," held at the University of Vienna (via zoom). Paper entitled, "American Racial Politics and 'Being-at-Home.'" January 18, 2024.
Keynote Speaker for "The Ethics of Remembering/Re-membering Trauma Conference." The Rock Ethics Insititute, Penn State University. Paper entitled, "The Traumatized Black Body and the Lie of White 'Innocence.'" August 4, 2022.
Keynote Speaker (one of three) for the 11th Meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle: Thresholds of Sexual Difference, at Mercer University. The two other Keynote Speakers were Lynne Huffer and Kristin Sampson. Paper entitled, "The Violence of Whiteness: Irigarayan Wonder?" May 20, 2022.
Keynote Speaker (one of three) for the conference entitled, "In the Wake of the Plague: Eros and Mourning," at Dartmouth College. The two other Keynote Speakers were Arlene Saxonhouse and Slavoj Zizek. My paper was entitled, "Whiteness as Plague." April 23, 2022.
Keynote Speaker for the Benjamin Rabinowitz Symposium in Medical Ethics on "Race, Health and Justice" at the University of Washington (philosophy Department). My Paper: "The Black Body and the Trauma of Whiteness." April 15, 2022.
Keynote Speaker for the South Carolina Society for Philosophy and the North Carolina Philosophical Society at Converse University. Paper: "Black Embodiment and the Violence of Whiteness." March 26, 2022.
Keynote speaker for the 5th Conference of the International Alfred Schutz Circle for Phenomenology and Interpretive Sociology. Theme: "The Experience of the Stranger: The Struggle to Find a Home and the Struggle to Welcome the Stranger." Paper: "The Danger of White Innocence." June 4, 2021.
Keynote Speaker for the theme: Racial Equity and Religions. The event was hosted by the Consortium for Christian-Muslim Dialogue & the Duquesne University Interfaith Student Organization. My talk explored the question of whiteness, religiosity, and racism. March 18, 2021.
Keynote Speaker, and second presenter, of the launch at Humboldt State University's Presidential Speaker Series. Entitled talk: "Between Pessimism and Optimism: White Crisis." March 10, 2021.
Keynote Speaker (and in conversation with Gail Lewis). Talk entitled, "A Letter of Love: An Encounter with White Backlash." Conference theme: Building the Anti-Racist Classroom. Sponsored by BARC and The Center for Research on Equality and Diversity (CRED) at Queen Mary University of London. October 25, 2019.
Keynote Speaker at Villanova University's 21st International Conference on Ethics Across the Curriculum. Theme: Race and Justice in America. Talk entitled, "White Backlash: White Innocence?" October 11, 2019.
Keynote Speaker at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, France. Conference on whiteness. Talk entitled, "The End of White Innocence." October 4, 2019.
Keynote Speaker at the University of Pennsylvania. Talk Title: "A Letter of Love and White Backlash." The event was sponsored by The Slought Foundation, The School of Social Policy and Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, The Alice Paul Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, and Penn's New Student Orientation initiative. April 18, 2019.
Keynote Speaker at Clemson University's Embodiment and Race Conference. Talk Title: "Whiteness, Racism, and Bodily 'Edges.'" April 12, 2019.
Keynote Speaker for the 24th Annual Meeting of the North American Sartre Society. Theme of conference: Existentialism and Resistance. Talk title: "No Exist and the End of White Innocence," October 27, 2018.
Keynote Speaker for LaGuardia Community College's 8th CUNY Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, April 20, 2018.
Keynote Speaker for "HBCUs and Philosophy IV Conference: Philosophy, Race, and Resistance" held at Morgan State University. Talk entitled, "A Letter of Love: An Encounter with White Backlash." April 7, 2018.
Keynote Speaker for "A Day for Learning and Speaking Out: Resistance, Protest, and Civil Disobedience" held at Duquesne University. Talked entitled, "My Letter to White America: The Toll of Resistance." March 21, 2018.
Keynote Speaker for "A Night of Philosophy & Ideas." Co-presented by the Brooklyn Public Library and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. Talk entitled, "The Practice of Philosophy in an Age of Moral Crisis." January 27, 2018.
Keynote Speaker at the Royal College of Art, London, UK. Conference entitled, What Should White Culture Do? Title of Talk: "Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Breakdown of Whiteness." November 11, 2017.
Keynote Speaker for the Inaugural Donald Blake Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture at Walla Walla University, April 20, 2017.
Keynote Speaker for Speaking the Unspeakable: A Conversation on Colorblindness, Racism, and Antiracism at Arizona State University. Talk entitled: "Removing the Mask of Whiteness." February 17, 2017.
Keynote Speaker of the MLK Convocation at Le Moyne College, January 26, 2017.
Keynote Speaker for the Annual MLK Community Service Award, Emory University, January 19, 2017.
Keynote Speaker for the Southern Illinois University, Edwardville's 11th Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference. Talk entitled: "Dear White America." October 21, 2016.
Keynote Speaker for The Joyce Mitchell Cook Conference. Yale University. Talk entitled: "Joyce Mitchell Cook: Autobiographical and Philosophical Fragments." December 4, 2015.
Keynote speaker for The California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race. University of Dayton. Talk entitled, "Bodies that can't Breathe: How does it Feel to be a Problem?" October 24, 2015.
Keynote speaker for the English Graduate Organization's Annual Interdisciplinary Conference. Talk entitled, "Whiteness and the Ontological Inequality of the Black Body." Indiana University of Pennsylvania, March, 2014.
Keynote speaker for the Society of Adventist Philosophers. "Speaking from Behind the Veil: Whiteness as Anti-Theological." The conference theme was Essentialism: Adventism and Questions of Race and Gender. November, 21, 2013.
Keynote speaker for the Philosophy Department at Villanova University. "Theorizing Racial Embodiment Within Everyday Spaces," Villanova University, September 20, 2013.
Keynote Speaker ("Racism as an Obstacle to Unity") for the Annual OMA Unity Banquet and Scholarship Benefit, April 12, 2013.
Keynote speaker for the Kent State University May 4th Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Twentieth Anniversary. Paper entitled: "How it Feels to be a Racial Problem." Kent State University, March 16, 2013.
Keynote speaker for the Inaugural Frederick Douglass Philosophy Conference. Paper entitled: "Coming Lithe into the World and Being a Black Philosopher." West Chester University, October, 26, 2012.
Keynote speaker for the Iowa Philosophical Society Conference. Paper entitled: "White Gazes: The Gift and Problem of Seeing Differently." Drake University, October 20, 2012.
Keynote speaker for Philosopher Bill Bywater's retirement at Allegheny College, "Courageous Listening and the Importance of a White Ally," April 20, 2012.
Keynote speaker for the annual meeting of the University Council for Educational Administration. Paper entitled: -Educational Leadership and the Color-Line,' November 18, 2011.
Keynote speaker at the North American Undergraduate Conference in Religion and Philosophy held at Saint Francis University. Theme of conference: -Race in America.' March 25, 2011.
Keynote address (-King on Radical Love-) for -An Evening of Prayer, Song, and Inspiration in Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.' at Duquesne University, January 21, 2008.
Speaking at "A Night of Philosophy & Ideas," January 27, 2018.
Invited Presentations
Invited as lead speaker for the annual Consortium for Christian–Muslim Dialogue at Duquesne University. The theme of this year's Consortium explored the abuses of religion through a discussion of my co-edited book, In Sheep's Clothing: The Idolatry of White Christian Nationalism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024). The Consortium involved a panel discussion with three scholar-contributors to the text: Brock Bahler, Anna Floerke Scheid, and Elisabeth Vasko. April 9, 2024.
Invited to deliver the 25th Anniversary of the Seymour Riklin Memorial Lecture, an Endowed Lecture series in Philosophy at Wayne State University that brings in speakers on topics of broad public interest throughout the Humanities and the broader community: Paper topic: "African American Philosophy: Philosophical Reflection Under the Weight of Anti-Blackness." October 5, 2023.
Invited by the Philosophy Department at McGill University to give a talk on "The Spectacular and Subtle Violence of Whiteness." September 18, 2023.
Invited by Dr. Joel Givens to discuss my concept of an "ontology of no edges" within the context of his ethics course for graduate students pursuing the field of counseling at Purdue University Fort Wayne, July 6, 2023.
Invited to comment on philosophy graduate student Spencer Nabors' paper entitled, "Embodied Interpellation." The MMUF Grad Research Panel, Northwestern University, May 19, 2023.
Invited as Fox Center Senior Fellow (The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, 2021-2022) to provide 4 lectures on "Reading James Baldwin: Race, Love, and Humanism" through the Great Works Seminar, March 16, 23, 30 and April 6, 2023.
Invited by Dr. Eric Lewis to discuss my thoughts on the work of bell hooks in his course on "Critical Philosophy of Race," at McGill University, March 14, 2023.
Invited by Dr. Eric Lewis to discuss my book, Look, A White! in his course "Introduction to Philosophy of Race" at McGill University, October 20, 2022.
Invited to give a talk entitled "Racism in America" at All Saints Floreat Uniting Church, Western Australia. June 22, 2022.
Invited to give a talk for the Philosophy Speaker Series at Texas A & M University-Commerce. My Paper: "Black Bodies and the Weight of Whiteness." April 28, 2022.
Invited to moderate/chair "Virtual Panel: Reflections on the Life and Thought of Charles Mills." Sponsored by the Western Political Science Association, March 10, 2022.
Invited to give a talk at the University of Texas at Austin's Minorities and Philosophy Chapter entitled, "The Social and Phenomenological Weight of Anti-Black Racism," March 2, 2022.
As part of their educational series, the "Facing Systemic Racism Committee" of East Liberty Presbyterian Church invited me to give a talk entitled, "Telling the Truth." Pittsburgh, PA. November 14, 2021.
Invited to give a talk to members of the United States Air Force Academy on my published chapter, "Guidelines for Whites Teaching About Whiteness," October 21, 2021.
Invited to moderate Helen Ngo's Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Book Session. Title of book, "The Habits of Racism: A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment," September 24, 2021.
Invited to give a Lecture Presentation entitled "The Taste of Hemlock: White Racist Backlash" at Cornell University's School of Criticism and Theory, July 12, 2021.
Invited to give Collegium Paper on the "Elevator Effect" at Cornell University's School of Criticism and Theory, June 24, 2021.
Invited (via zoom) to give a discussion on Whiteness and Racism in the Classroom, and Backstage Racism, in Narrative Medicine at UNC School of Medicine, June 10, 2021.
Invited (via zoom) to give a talk about white privilege to the Mechanical Contractors Association of America (MCAA) Diversity Initiative with Todd Mealy. May 11, 2021.
Invited (via zoom) by The Center for Interpretive and Qualitative Research (CIQR) at Duquesne University to be part of a panel entitled, "Interpretations and Meanings of White Supremacy: Anti-Black, Anti-Asian, and other Racisms in the Era of BLM." Title talk, "The Lie of White Innocence," April 22, 2021.
Invited (via zoom) to discuss the normative logics of whiteness through a four-part Program in Narrative Medicine at UNC School of Medicine: A New Approach for Anti-Racism in Medical Education," April 16, 2021.
Invited (via zoom) to give a talk at the Fourth Collegium at the University of Georgia's Philosophy Department's Kleiner Lecture Series. "The Force of Love in the Face of White Supremacy," April 9, 2021.
Invited (via zoom) as the Spotlight Speaker at Valdosta State University's Symposium Week. "The Violence of Whiteness," April 6, 2021.
Invited (one of three) speakers at the Graduate Philosophy Annual Spring Colloquium at the University of Michigan. Theme: "Between I and We: Structures, Indviduals, and Power. Paper Entitled: "Between I and We: The Binary Structure of White Innocence," March 5, 2021.
Invited as Guest Speaker for the Speaker Series on philosophy of race at McMaster University, hosted by the Philosophy Department and Gender Studies and Feminist Research. Talk entitled, "Unmasking the Problem of White Innocence," February 26, 2021.
Invited paper presented at the North American Society for Social Philosophy on the theme, "Education and Racial Literacy." Paper entitled, "Racial Literacy and the Lie of Whiteness." APA Central Division, February 23, 2021.
Invited as featured Speaker at the 14th Annual Virtual Human Rights Film Series at Duquesne University. Discussion of John Lewis: Get in the Way, the first major documentary biography of John Lewis, February 1, 2021.
Invited through the "Racism & Criminal Justice Reading Series," founded by Dr. Roger Schaefer and Sponsored by Central Washington University Libraries, to discuss my book, Black Bodies, White Gazes, December 8, 2020.
Invited to give the Inaugural Lecture for the Latin American Studies Program at Washington University zoom Lecture Series on Race and Ethnicity, which was Co-Sponsored by the Dean of Arts and Sciences; the Center for Race, Ethnicity and Equity at WashU and Revista de Estudios Hispánicos. Title of talk: "Black Bodies and the Lie of White Innocence," November 13, 2020.
Invited to give an online Classroom lecture/discussion at Rice University on my work regarding the ethical status of whiteness, November 11, 2020.
Invited to give online talk at the Roy W. Browning, SR. Faculty Development Symposium Series at Ottawa University. Title of Talk: "Naming Whiteness and Creating Dangerous Academic Spaces," November 5, 2020.
Invited to give an online classroom lecture/discussion at Claremont McKenna College on my work regarding race, racism, and whiteness, November 5, 2020.
Invited by the Student-Faculty Research Seminar on Critical Whiteness Studies at The College of New Jersey to give an online talk on white opacity and embeddedness, October 21, 2020.
Invited to give a talk at the Lillian E. Smith's Center's "Untangling Whiteness: Reflection and Action" Virtual Symposium. Title of talk: "Lillian Smith: Beyond the Innocence of Whiteness," October 15, 2020.
Invited to give an online talk through the Penn Bioethics Seminars Series within the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy's Division of Bioethics. Talk entitled, "The Structural Bind of Whiteness," October 6, 2020.
Invited to give an online talk by the Marin Academy in San Rafael, CA. Theme of talk: "Ethics, Race, and African American philosophy," October 1, 2020.
Invited by the School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, 2020 Online Summer, "Whiteness and the Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment," July 14, 2020.
Invited and hosted by Drexel University College of Nursing and Health Professions. "The Danger of White Innocence." February 26, 2020.
Invited to give the Provost's Distinguished Visiting Faculty Fellow Lecture. "White Backlash: On Being a Philosopher-Gadfly." University of Pennsylvania, February 21, 2020.
Invited by the MIRA (Mind-like Intelligence, Research, and Analysis) Group. "The White Gaze, Back Embodiment, and the Elevator Effect." University of Pennsylvania, February 4, 2020.
Invited with The New York Times Editor, Peter Catapano, to provide a workshop on writing Op-Eds. Sponsored by the Provost's Leadership Academy: thought Leadership through writing for major media, University of Pennsylvania, January 24, 2020.
Invited talk entitled, "Black Gift Giving and the Return of White Backlash." Sponsored by the Bill Bywater Fund for Social Justice Programming, Allegheny College. November 14, 2019.
Invited by the Office of Spiritual and Religious Life (OSRL) to discuss my philosophical work and spiritual life through the venue, "Off the Record." Emory University, November 7, 2019.
Invited to give the 2019 Allison Davis Lecture sponsored by the African American Studies Department at Northwestern University. Talk entitled, "The Loss of White Innocence." November 5, 2019.
Invited to give the 2019 Griffith Endowed Lecture: "Black Vulnerability and white Backlash." George Washington University, September 27, 2019.
Invited by SOPHIA: Series on Political Philosophy in Atlanta. Talk entitled, "Black Risk and white Backlash." Morehouse College, September 19, 2019.
In the capacity of a Montgomery Fellow at Dartmouth College (from July 8-12), I had the privilege of giving a talk entitled, "Philosophy as a Practice of Suffering and Hope." July 10, 2019.
Invited to Hamilton College to give a talk entitled, "A Letter of Love: And the Return of White Backlash. July 3,2019.
Invited by Cornell University's Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows, who every year invite a distinguished quest speaker to campus, to give a lecture on my book, Backlash. April 26, 2019.
Invited to give a talk on whiteness at the Emory University's Candler School of Theology, March 20, 2019.
Invited to give a talk entitled, "A Letter of Love: An Encounter with white Backlash." Smith College, February 21, 2019.
Invited to give a talk entitled, "Why Does Race Still Matter." The Festival of Ideas Speaker Series. Co-sponsored by the WVU Department of Philosophy and WVU Humanities Center, West Virginia University, November 27, 2018.
Invited (along with Dr. Gregory Ellison) to engage in a conversation about race. ThinkPosium, hosted by the Office of Equity and Inclusion, Emory University, October 19, 2018.
Invited to give talk entitled, "The Failure of White Vulnerability: the Failure to Listen," at the University of Georgia. The talk was sponsored by the College of Education's Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Department of Communication Sciences and Special Education, October 17, 2018.
Invited to give a talk entitled, "Gift Giving and the Violence of White Backlash," at McMaster University. The talk was co-sponsored by The Socrates Project, Paul R. MacPherson Institute for Leadership, and Innovation and Excellence in Teaching, October 3, 2018.
Invited to give talk, "Parrhesia and the Dangers of Racism," at the 77th Annual Meeting of The English Institute held at Yale University. This year's theme was "Truth Telling," September, 22, 2018.
Invited talk, "Gift Giving and the Violence of White Backlash," at UMass Lowell, September 17, 2018.
Invited talk on my book, Backlash, at Roger Williams University, September 17, 2018.
Invited talk, "A Letter of Love: An Encounter with white Backlash." Friday Night Guest Lecture at Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA, September 7, 2018.
Invited through Georgia Center For The Book to discuss my authored book Backlash at Decatur Library Auditorium, August 7, 2018.
Invited plenary talk entitled, "A Letter of Love: An Encounter with White Backlash," at the University of Pittsburgh. Conference entitled, "The Logic of Racial Practice: Embodiment, Habitus, and Implicit Bias Symposium, April 13, 2018.
Invited talk, "Philosophy: from Wondering to Suffering." Presented at Emory Center for Ethics at Emory University. March 26, 2018.
Invited to participate on a panel discussion involving race and the documentary "13TH." Sponsored by the National Truth and Reconciliation Commission Board of Advisors and Racism Awareness Project at the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, GA, March 17, 2018.
American Philosophical Association, Central Division panel presentation on the theme of policing. Paper entitled, "Policing the Black Body: Challenging the Hegemony of the white Gaze," February 23, 2018.
Invited by the Gwinnett County Public Library (in Snellville, GA) to give a Book Talk and Signing, February 10, 2018.
Invited to give a talk entitled, "Black Bodies and White Gazes: The Risk of Seeing Differently." A talk made possible by an anonymous donor who established the Philosopher's Stone Fund at Regis University. January 18, 2018.
Invited to give talk at Boston College's Conference: Educating for Modern Democracy. "The Anti-theological and Neo-liberal Problem of Whiteness: Toward an Ontology of No Edges." November 9, 2017.
Invited to give the Annual Mike Ryan Lecture at Kennesaw State University. "The Black Body Through the White Gaze." October 31, 2017.
Invited to give Plenary Talk at Psychology and the Other Conference. Talk entitled, "White Narratives and the Black Body: An Ethics of Un-Suturing and Bodies Without Edges." Respondent, Lynne Jacobs. October 15, 2017.
Invited by Wheaton College to give talk entitled, "'A Post-Racial America': White Gazes, Black Bodies." April 12, 2017.
"A Scream in the Night: White Racism as Anti-Theological." Lecture given at Dartmouth College and sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, Office of the Provost, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Philosophy Department, English Department, African and African American Studies, Masters of Liberal Studies, Associate Dean for Arts and Humanities, Nelson A. Rockefeller Center, Religion Department, August 14, 2017.
Invited by Bucknell University's The Griot Institute for Africana Studies. Theme: The Black Body (Re) Considered. "Dear White America," April 12, 2017.
Invited by Columbia University's Medical Center's Program in Narrative Medicine. Race, Violence, Justice: The need for Narrative. Plenary Lecture on "Dear White America" and counter-narratives, April 7-9, 2017.
"Feminist Future: Mutual Dialogue." With bell hooks, and Harry Brod, St. Norbert College, April 4, 2017.
"Black Bodies in a so-called Post-racial America." Invited by Fordham University Center for Ethics Education and the Graduate Student Association Masters in Ethics and Society, March 22, 2017.
"Fear of the Black Body: The Elevator Effect." Invited speaker by Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont. March 7, 2017.
American Philosophical Association Central Division. Invited Symposium: Body Aesthetics. Entitled paper, "The Black Body as Disgust and the Aesthetics of Un-suturing," March 2, 2017.
Invited to discuss with Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin (the parents of Trayvon Martin) their new book, The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin: Rest in Power. Event held at the Carter Center. February 7, 2017.
Invited by Davidson College to give Public Lecture regarding my work on Black Embodiment. February 2, 2017.
"How And Why I Teach The Way I Do." Everyday Democracy: Political Action Beyond the Ballot, sponsored by Global and Postcolonial Studies, Emory University, December 2, 2016.
"Whiteness, The Unmarked Norm: Thinking Across Disciplines." Sponsored by the Institute for the Liberal Arts at Emory University, November 17, 2016.
"White Privilege in the Classroom." Sponsored by The Office of Equity and Inclusion at Emory University, October 13, 2016.
"A Conversation with bell hooks." Invited by bell hooks and The bell hooks Institute at Berea College, Berea, KY, October, 10, 2016.
"Nigger is not my Name." The University of Oklahoma Women's and Gender Studies Program and Adult and Higher Education: Bodies that (Don't) Matter, Presidential Dream Course, October 4, 2016.
Invited to be part of a panel discussion at Stony Brook University's Bodies and Race Symposium. Talk entitled, "The Black Body and the Weight of the White Gaze." May 6, 2016.
Invited by Columbia University's Medical Center's Program in Narrative Medicine to give a talk entitled, "White Narratives and the Black Body: How it Feels to be a Black Problem." May 4, 2016.
"Fear of the Black Body: The Distorted Lens of Whiteness." Sponsored by the Agnes Scott Chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, Agnes Scott College, April 27, 2016.
"The Ferris E. Reynolds Lecture." Elon University, April 14, 2016.
"The Empty Knapsack: Doing Philosophy in Black." Panelist for the Thinking Privilege, 2016 Mellon Symposium, Haverford College, April 8, 2016.
Invited Panelist for the screening and critical discussion of Arthur Jafa's film, "Dreams are Colder than Death" at the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2, 2016.
"The Insidious Nature of Whiteness." Invited to give talk at The Philosophy Circle (Phi Sigma Tau). Emory University, March 22, 2016.
"The Black Body Through the White Gaze: On Being a 'White Problem.'" Invited speaker by University of North Carolina at Wilmington's Philosophy and Religion Department, the Race, Culture and Philosophy Speaker Series, and the Upperman African America Studies Center. February 26, 2016.
"The 'Dangerous' Black Body: The Violence of the White Gaze." Invited speaker at Haverford College by the Peace, Justice and Human Rights Program and the Distinguished Visitors Program, February 22, 2016.
"A Gift to White America: The Power of Un-suturing." Inaugural Philosophy Talk. Emory University, February 4, 2016.
"The Phenomenology of Feeling Like a 'Thing.'" Invited speaker at SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) on session entitled, Critical Philosophy of Race: Thinking Racism Phenomenologically, Culturally, Aesthetically, October 10, 2015.
Plenary speaker for The Twenty-First Century Body: Thinking Merleau-Ponty In and Out of Time. Talk entitled, "I can't Breathe: White Gazing, and the Need for White Un-Suturing." Worster Polytechnic Institute, October 1, 2015.
"How Does It Feel To Be a 'Black Problem'?" Invited speaker at Emerson College on the theme: "Adventures in Ethics, 2015-2016, On Race and Racism," September 22, 2015.
Invited talk entitled "The Black Male Body and the Problem of White Perception."Invited by the Department of Gender Studies at Slippery Rock University, March 18, 2015.
Invited to give the Annual WEB DuBois Lecture at George Mason University. This year's theme is "Policing the Body." Paper entitled, "White Perception as a Form of Policing Black Bodies." February 3, 2015.
Invited panelist (along with Connie Parker, President, NAACP, Pittsburgh Chapter, and Cameron McLay, Chief of Police, City of Pittsburgh) for the Human Rights Film Series. We discussed Tim Wise's film, White Like Me: Race, Power & White Privilege in America, January 22, 2015.
Paper presented for APA Committee on the Status of Black Philosophers: Book Launch at the APA Eastern. "On Developing Re-Framing the Practice of Philosophy." December 28, 2014.
Invited paper presented for American Association for the Philosophic Study of Society at the APA Eastern. "Trayvon Martin and Whiteness." December 28, 2014.
Invited talk entitled "The Perception of Black Bodies in 'Post-Racial' America." Invited by the Humanities Advisory Committee at Otterbein University, October 20, 2014.
Invited talk entitled "Fear of Black Bodies and the Problem of Whiteness" at St. Norbert College. The event was in collaboration with the Killeen Chair of Theology and Philosophy & the Cassandra Voss Center, April 1, 2014.
Invited talk entitled "Thinking about Whiteness and the Classroom: Through the Lens of bell hooks" at St. Norbert College, which was a closed faculty development luncheon event, which was Co-sponsored by Faculty Development & the Cassandra Voss Center, April 2, 2014.
Invited lecture entitled "Being Black, Being A 'Problem'" at La Salle University, through the Religion Department, March 14, 2014.
"Exploring Race in Predominantly White Classrooms." Invited speaker at Lebanon Valley College. The event was part of the College's effort to foster inclusive excellence. February 25, 2014.
"How it Feels to be a Racial Problem/Essence: An Elevator Encounter." Invited talk at the University of Connecticut through Neag School of Education and the Philosophy Department. March 3, 2014.
"Whiteness as Normative: The Black Body as a Problem." Invited speaker for the Philosophy Department at Syracuse University, January, 31, 2014.
Invited to give workshop on teaching race in the classroom for the School of Education at Syracuse University, January, 31, 2014.
Invited lecture entitled "Negating Black Personhood through the White Gaze" at Muhlenberg College, through the Women's & Gender Studies Forum: Freedom, Personhood, and Justice, October 22, 2013.
Invited facilitator for workshop entitled, "Talking About Race and Racism in the Classroom." Villanova University, September 20, 2013.
"Encountering Whiteness: The Black Body as the Dangerous Other." Featured Presentation for Belmont University's 12th Annual Humanities Symposium: Encountering Otherness. Belmont University, September 25, 2013.
"Black and White Bodies: An Encounter." Invited speaker for the Philosophy Department at the University of Oklahoma, September 27, 2013.
Invited lecture to Twelfth Grade Students: "Racist Gazes and the Case of Adam Goodes," Hale College, Western Australia, June 14, 2013.
Invited lecture to the Philosophy Club: "Rethinking Descartes' Project Through the Black Experience," Hale College, Western Australia, June 13, 2013.
Invited Speaker ("Whiteness as Normative: The Black Body as a Problem") for the Indigenous Studies Research Network Annual Seminar Series at Queensland University of Technology, June 7, 2013.
Diversity Scholar In Residence Public Lecture entitled: "Embeddedness and Opacity: Putting Whiteness in Crisis in Classroom Spaces," Allegheny College, April 9, 2013.
Invited to give the Chi Phi Biff Hoffman Lecture entitled: "Racial Embodiment." Bucknell University, April 4th, 2013.
Invited paper at the American Philosophical Association Central Division on the session theme: Philosophically Pursuing Trayvon Martin. Title of Paper: "Trayvon Martin: When Effortless Grace is Sacrificed on the Altar of the Image," February 21, 2013.
Invited Public Lecture Presentation, "Putting Whiteness in Crisis: White Gazes, Black Bodies," University of British Columbia, February 13, 2013.
Invited lecture (via video conference) to speak with Dr. Naomi Zack's Philosophy of Race (Graduate) course at the University of Oregon, October 9, 2012.
Invited paper, 'When Essence Precedes Existence: An Elevator Encounter,' for The Shula Lecture Series on Bodies and Identities, John Carroll University, April 13, 2012.
Invited paper, "How Can You Teach Me if You Don't Know Me: Embedded Racism and White Opacity" at the Philosophy of Education Society (PES), March 23, 2012.
Invited paper (entitled, 'Rap Therapy: Per-conditions') at the -One Mic, One Movement- Conference at Fordham University, February 4, 2012.
Invited paper (entitled, 'Whiteness, Racial Embodiment and the Challenges of -Diversity- in Higher Education-). Invited through the Bastian Foundation Diversity Lecture Series at Westminster College, January 1, 2012.
Invited paper (entitled, 'What it Feels like to be an Essence-) at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Washington, DC, on the philosophical theme of racial embodiment. December 29, 2011.
Invited lecture (via video conference) to speak to Dr. Naomi Zack's Philosophy of Race course at the University of Oregon. There were two lectures, one for graduate students and one for undergraduate students. May 9, 2011.
Invited paper at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division on the invited Symposium theme: Frederick Douglass, Slavery, the Existential Self. Title of paper: -Anti-Blackness, Whiteness as the Serious Man, and Douglass as Transcendence: An Existentialist Lens,' April 1, 2011.
Invited by The Society of Analytical Feminism to present a paper entitled, 'Narrative Descriptions from the Ground Up: Epistemological and Existential Importance- at the Eastern Division of the APA, December 29, 2010.
Invited lecture entitled -The Black Body through the Prism of Whiteness' at the University of Wittenberg, September 30, 2010.
Invited lecture entitled -Black Bodies and White Racialized Practices' at the University of Memphis, September 17, 2010.
Invited Lectures on Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Race to Twelfth Grade Students at Hale College, Western Australia, August 3, 2010.
Invited lecture entitled -Whiteness: Some Problems and Approaches' at the Equal Opportunity Commission, Western Australia, June 28, 2010.
Invited lecture entitled -White Gazes and the Construction of the Black Body: The Elevator Effect- at Murdoch University, Western Australia, May 19, 2010.
Invited lecture entitled -White Microtomy and Black Volatility: Where is my Body?- at the 10th Annual Philosophy Symposium at California State University, Fullerton, April 8-9, 2010.
Author-Meets-Critics American Philosophical Association Session/Conference on my authored book, Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race. Title: -Responses to my co-articulators.' December 30, 2009, New York, NY. The session was arranged by the Committee on Blacks in Philosophy.
Invited lecture entitled -White Gazes and the Volatile Black Body.' Guest at several classes to present my work to philosophy undergraduates, Alleghany College, November 9-12, 2009.
Invited presentation at the American Studies Association Conference entitled, The Past Future of Whiteness Studies: Studying Whiteness from an Ethnic Studies Perspective. "Whiteness and the Black Body: Implications for Doing Philosophy in Black," November 7, 2009.
Invited lecture and seminar entitled -The Black Male Body and the White Imaginary.' University of Kentucky, Women and Gender Studies Department, October 28-29, 2009.
Invited lecture entitled -White Looks/Black Bodies.' Applied Philosophy Lyceum, Middle Tennessee State University, Department of Philosophy, April 11, 2008.
Invited Lecture entitled -Living Whiteness, Living Blackness' at Johns Hopkins University, which was sponsored by the Center for Africana Studies' Seminar Series, March 6, 2007.
Invited lecture entitled -Race and the Black Body- at Slippery Rock University, which was sponsored by the SRU Center for Applied and Professional Ethics, Intercultural Programs and the Frederick Douglass Institute, 2007.
Invited Lecture on -Race: White Bodies, Black Bodies.' Res Cogitans Speaker Series at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, October 27, 2006.
Invited lecture on the embodied ramifications of race. Third Thursday Lecture Series at the University of Pittsburgh - Bradford Campus, September 29, 2006.
Invited panel discussion, "Black Women in/and the Profession of Philosophy," Committee on Blacks and Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Conference, December 28, 2005.
Invited Lecture on -Whiteness and the Black Body.' Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, November 1, 2005.
Invited Talk on "Three Smaller Movements: Philly, African-American philosophy, and Alain Locke." Temple University Conference on Africana Philosophy in Three Movements, April 7-8, 2005.
"Whiteness and the Return of the Black Body." Guest lecture at Duquesne University, Psychology Department, October 12, 2004.
"Cornel West and Race Matters." Guest lecture at Duquesne University, for Dr. Eleanor Holveck's Ethics class, 2002.
"The Meaning of African-American Philosophy Through the Qualitative Mode of Interviewing." Center of Interpretive and Qualitative Research, Duquesne University, April 19, 2001.
"A Foucauldian (Genealogical) Reading of Whiteness: The Production of the Black Body/Self and the Racial Pathology of Pecola Breedlove in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye." Guest lecture at Duquesne University, Psychology Department, October 9, 2000.
"Black Women and a Christological Hermeneutics of Location." Theology Graduate Colloquium, Duquesne University, October 19, 2000.