Recent Talks

• "Catharine Trotter Cockburn: Genre as Resistance?" co-authored with Kylie Shahar, Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender, Pacific APA, San Francisco CA, April 2025

• Comments on Alejandro Naranjo Sandoval’s paper, “Type Dualist, Heraclitean Monist,” Pacific APA, San Francisco CA, April 2025

• “How Turning to 17th Century Women Philosophers Can Help Us Make Sense of Epistemic Injustice Today,” Bucknell University Colloquium, April 2025

• “Locke on Persons and Personal Identity,” course lecture, Bucknell University, April 2025

• “Marie de Gournay: Epistemic Injustice Theorist of the 17th Century,” Prospective Student Weekend, UMN, March 2025

• “Epistemic Encagement: What is it?” Wheaton College course lecture, March 2025

• Engagement or Encagement?: Knowledge-Seeking, Then and Now, CCEC-sponsored Book Workshop, University of Minnesota, February 1-2, 2025

• “Locke on the Ontology of Persons,” guest lecture in Phil Bold’s class, UMN

• Comments on Kathryn Tabb’s book ms, Agents an Patients: Locke’s Ethics of Thinking, Bard College, July 24-25, 2024

• “Epistemically Encaged: A Snapshot of the Experiences of 17th Century Philosophers Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and Margaret Cavendish--& How Looking to the Past Can Help Us Better Understand the Challenges We Face as Knowers Today”
  Midwest Philosophy Colloquium series: “Expanding the Canon,” April 2024
  Works-in-Progress series, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, April 2024

• “The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of Philosophy,” University of Minnesota, Morris, April 2024

• “The Inverse Aristotle: Anna Maria van Schurman’s Syllogisms,” Grad recruitment mini-talk, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, March 2024

• “Elisabeth’s Acrobatics,” Claremont McKenna College guest class lecture, March 2024

• “Mary Astell’s Epistemology,” The Theorizing Early Modern Studies (TEMS) Collaborative, University of Minnesota, February 2024

• “Astell as Cartesian: A Cautionary Tale,” Recovering Early Modern Women’s Ideas: Texts and Contexts, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, December 2023

• “Repainting the Portrait of Catharine Trotter Cockburn,” Australasian Seminar in Early Modern  Philosophy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 2023 (blind peer reviewed)

• “Gournay: Epistemic Injustice Theorist,” Chicago Early Modern Roundtable, September 2023

• “Recontextualizing Locke on Gender and Education,” with Kylie Shahar, John Locke Society Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, June 2023 (blind peer reviewed)

• “Locke on Midwifery and Childbirth: A Sexist Epistemology?” Reproductive Justice Roundtable, UMN Center for Premodern Studies, April 2023

• “Past Perceptions & Perceiving the Past: A Philosopher’s Perspective,” Premodern Regional Colloquium, UMN Center for Premodern Studies, February 2023

• “Teaching a More Diverse and Inclusive History of Modern Course,” with Nancy Kendrick, Texas A&M , May 2022

• “Epistemic Injustice in the Early Modern Period,” Valerie Tiberius and Melissa Koenig’s Grand Challenge course, “Agents of Change: Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives,” April 2022

• “Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions,” with Nancy Kendrick, Macalester College, March 2022

• “Locke’s Prince and the Cobbler Thought Experiment,” Philosophy Illustrated OUP Launch Party, February 2022

• “Unheeded: Epistemic Harms Against Women, Then and Now,” TCUP, University of Minnesota, February 2022

• "The Correspondence Between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: Elisabeth's Toil," UMN Center for Premodern Studies Noontime Talk, November 2021

• "The Correspondence Between Descartes and Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia: Elisabeth's Toil," UIC Philosophy Department Colloquium, November 2021

• “Unheeded: Epistemic Harms Against Women, Then and Now," with Nancy Kendrick, New School for Social Research, October 2021

• "Locke on Midwifery and Childbirth: A Glimpse at a Sexist Epistemology?," Locke Workshop, Naples, Italy - June 2020 (postponed to June 2021/did not present due to scheduling conflict)

• Guest Lecture, Macalester College, March 2021, 2020, 2019 

• Comments on Geoffrey Gorham's "Locke on Space, Time, and God" and Stewart Duncan's "Locke, God, and Materialism," Eastern APA (NYC) January 2019

• "Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions,” Wake Forest colloquium, December 2018

• "Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions,” St. Kate's colloquium, November 2018

• "Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions,” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign colloquium, November 2018

• “What is Important About Biography?” with Nancy Kendrick, The New Historia Symposium: Female Biography - New School for Social Research, October 2018

• "Were Anna Maria van Schurman, Mary Astell, and Emilie du Chatelet Feminists?" New School for Social Research Enlightened Exchanges lecture, October 2018

• "Anna Maria van Schurman and Mary Astell on Logic and the Equality of the Sexes,” New York/New Jersey Early Modern Research Group, October 2018

• "Locke on Persons and Personal Identity,” Chicago Early Modern Round Table, September 2018

• "Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions,” Northeastern Illinois University, September 2018

• 2018 Locke Workshop, Mansfield College, Oxford UK July 16-18, 2018 (co-organized with Antonia LoLordo and Paul Lodge)

• "What We Can Learn from Tracing Reid's 'Brave Officer Objection' Back to Berkeley--and Beyond," International Berkeley Society Meeting, Newport, RI, June 2018

• "Anna Maria van Schurman and Mary Astell on Logic and the Equality of the Sexes," Feminist Philosophy and Formal Logic Workshop (co-hosted with Roy T. Cook), April 2018

• "Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions," Macalester College Colloquium, February 2018

• Comments on Geoffrey Gorham's "Locke on Space, Time, and God" and Stewart Duncan's "Locke, God, and Materialism," Eastern APA (Savannah, GA) January 2018

• "Recovering Early Modern Women Writers: Some Tensions," Eastern APA (Savannah, GA) January 2018

• "What Kind of Monist is Anne Finch Conway?" Wayne State Colloquium, November 2017

• "Locke's Use of Thought Experiments in His Discussion of Personal Identity,"American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Minneapolis, March 2017

• "The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of Philosophy,” University of Minnesota Department of Philosophy Weekly Meeting, January 2017

• "The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of Philosophy,” APA Committee on the Status of Women panel, "Women Do History of Philosophy - Recent Scholarship," Eastern APA Meeting, January 2017

• "The Visible and the Invisible: Feminist Recovery in the History of Philosophy" (co-authored with Nancy Kendrick), Recovering Women's Past conference, University of Edinburgh, September 2016

• "Locke on the Diachronic Identity of Persons and Substances," Concepts and Methods in Philosophy and History of Science Series, Ghent University, Belgium, January 2016 

• "Locke on the Diachronic Identity of Persons and Substances,” Early Modern Philosophy Seminar at Birkbeck, University of London, UK, January 2016

• "Locke on the Diachronic Identity of Persons and Substances,” Brooklyn College Late Antique-Medieval-Early Modern (LAMEM) Faculty Working Group, May 2016

• "Inherited Biases that Shape the Narrative of the Early Modern Debate Over Personal Identity and the Project of Reclamation,” The New School for Social Research, September 2015