Recent Invited Talks

“The Power of Ignorance”. Invited Plenary Session Speaker at the Conference “Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance”. Penn State University, March 2004.

“‘They Treated Him Well’: Embodied Subjectivity and the Politics of Difference”. At the First Plenary Roundtable, IAPh Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, June 2004.

“Fact, Fiction and the Politics of Knowledge”. Keynote Address at the Inaugural FEMMSS conference (Feminist Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methods and Science Studies). University of Washington, Seattle, November 2004.

“The Impact of Feminist Studies for the Humanities”. To the Program in Women’s Studies and the Department of Philosophy. University of Guelph, March 2005.

“Ecological Thinking”. Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, March 2005.
“Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?”. Keynote address at the Ontario Philosophy Teachers Association conference, Toronto, Ontario, May 2006.

Canadian Philosophical Association Symposium on my book Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location. “Response to My Readers”. York University, June 2006.

“‘They Treated Him Well’: Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge”. Keynote address to the Graduate Student Conference on Philosophy of Education (GSCOPE), Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, October 2006.

“Ecological Thinking” at the Brown Bag seminar series, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, October 2006.

“Images of Expertise: Women, Science, and the Politics of Representation”, Keynote Address at the conference “Heresy, Blasphemy, and Freedom of Expression”, University of Central Florida, Orlando, January 2007.

“Advocacy, Negotiation, and the Politics of Unknowing”, Keynote Address at the FEMMSS (Feminist Epistemology, Metaphysics, Method, and Science Studies) conference, Arizona State University, Phoenix Arizona, February 2007.

“Rereading Ecological Thinking.” American Philosophical Association Pacific Division, Symposium on my book Ecological Thinking: The Politics of Epistemic Location. San Francisco, April 2007.

“Advocacy, Negotiation, and the Politics of Unknowing”. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture, Keele University, UK, May 2007.

“‘They Treated Him Well’: Fact, Fiction and the Politics of Knowledge”. Keynote address at the conference Ethics in Epistemology, Twente University, Enschede, Netherlands, May 2007.

“The Politics of Unknowing”. Public Lecture, at Collingwood College, University of Durham, June 2007.

The Politics of Unknowing”. Nancy’s Chair Public Lecture, Mount Saint Vincent University, September 2007.

“Advocacy, Negotiation, and the Politics of Unknowing”. Plenary session address at the Spindel Conference, Memphis Tennessee, October 2007.

“They Treated Him Well: Fact, Fiction and the Politics of Knowledge”, Department of Philosophy Colloquium, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, January 2008.

“Thinking Ecologically: The Legacy of Rachel Carson” In the Women’s Studies and Philosophy Lecture Series, Loyola University, Chicago, April 2008.

“Adriana Cavarero and the Instituted Social Imaginary”, at the symposium “Canadian and Italian Feminists in Dialogue”, McGill Centre for Research and Teaching on Women and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Montreal, September 2008.

Thinking Ecologically: The Influence of Val Plumwood”, following my reading of the keynote address Val Plumwood (d. 2008) was to have delivered, Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, University of Windsor, October 2008.

The Twenty-fifth Annual Hanna Lectures at Hamline University, Saint Paul, Minnesota: October 2008:
      Lecture 1: “The Power of Social Imaginaries: Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge”
      Lecture 2: “The Power of Social Imaginaries: Rethinking Vulnerability”

“Ecological Thinking as Interdisciplinary Practice: Situation, Silence, and Scepticism”. Symposium on Interdisciplinarity, Athabasca University, Edmonton, November 2008.

“Teratologies: A Tribute to Nancy Tuana”. In honour of Dr. Nancy Tuana, American Society for Women in Philosophy’s Distinguished Woman Philosopher for 2008, at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division, Philadelphia, 2008.

“The Politics of Unknowing”. Keynote address at the Evolution, the Environment, and Responsible Knowledge Conference at University of Central Florida, January 2009.

“Thinking Ecologically: The Legacy of Rachel Carson”. Inaugural Lecture in the series “Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy at York”, February 2009.

“Thinking Ecologically: The Legacy of Rachel Carson”. At the Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pullman WA & Moscow ID, May 2009.

Recent, Selected Conference Presentations

“Epistemological Interactions: Individuals, Communities and the Politics of Knowledge”. Panel presentation at the Philosophy of Science Association Conference, Austin, Texas November 2004.

“Credibility, Empathy, Vulnerability, and the Politics of Knowledge”. Presentation to Nursing Students, York University, March, 2005.

“Vulnerability, Evidence, and Trust: Issues for Moral Epistemology”. To the Research Colloquium on Narrative and Naturalized Bioethics, Michigan State University at East Lansing, May, 2005.

“Vulnerability, Particularity and “the States We’re In”. At the PSA Annual Conference, University of Edinburgh, February 2006.

“Vulnerability, Particularity, Advocacy, and Trust”. At the XII Symposium of the IAPh (International Assoziation der Philosophinnen). Rome, Universita Roma Tre, August 2006.

“Reason, Imagination, and the Unthought: A Tribute to Genevieve Lloyd”. At the American Philosophical Division Eastern Division Conference, December 2006.

“Time to Know”. At the panel on Social Epistemology at the FEMMSS conference, Phoenix Arizona, February 2006.

“Reading Biology Ecologically”. Contribution to the panel on New Directions in Biology at the American Philosophical Association Pacific Division conference, April 2007.

“Images of Expertise: Women, Science, and the Politics of Representation” to the Women’s Studies program, Dalhousie University, November 2007.

“Images of Expertise: Women, Science, and the Politics of Representation”, to the Women’s Studies program, Memorial University of Newfoundland, December 2007.

“Rereading Rachel Carson”, Faculty Dialogue Series, Mount Saint Vincent University, February 2008.

“Rereading Rachel Carson” in the Women’s Studies Lecture Series, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, March 12-13, 2008.

“Particularity and Uniqueness: The Politics of Testimony”. At the FEMMSS conference, University of South Carolina, March 2009.