Talks
Academic Talks
A selection of invited talks, keynotes, and conference presentations.
2026
- June 2026 “‘Ich werde, solange ich liebe, keinen Platz in der Welt finden’: Unlove, Depression and Structural Femicide in Günderrode and Bachmann” (talk)
Concepts of Love in Classical German Philosophy and Romanticism, Freie Universität Berlin - June 2026 “Melancholia and Affective Injustice” (invited lecture)
Graduiertenkolleg “Normativität, Kritik, Wandel”, Freie Universität Berlin - May 2026 “Deranged Habits” (invited talk)
Lecture series Politische Theorien vermeidbaren Leids, Colloquium Politicum, Universität Freiburg - March 2026 “Melancholia and Affective Injustice” (invited talk)
Health and Justice, joint colloquium ETH Zürich and University of Lucerne - February 2026 “Love and Its Reasons” (invited talk)
University College London - February 2026 “Recognition. Beyond the Standard Story” (invited contribution)
Roundtable, EHESS, Paris
2025
- December 2025 “Reise ans Ende der Liebe” (invited talk)
Philosophische Vortragsreihe Basel - September 2025 “Depression. A Social Philosophy” (keynote / invited lecturer)
Summer School CeSPeC 2025: [Meta]Soggetti. L’umano e il suo altro - September 2025 “Love Troubles. A Philosophy of Eros” (keynote address)
Vienna Humanities Festival 2025 - June 2025 “Il disagio della libertà. Diagnosi e cure, passioni e patologie della teoria critica oggi” (invited talk/keynote)
Workshop Fare critica sociale oggi. Con i francofortesi e oltre, University of Padua - May 2025 “Love Troubles. A Philosophy of Eros” (book workshop)
FU Berlin - May 2025 “Futurity and the Life of Critique. Romantic Wanderings in Critical Theory” (with Italo Testa)
Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference, Prague - March 2025 “Concrete Unfreedom. Depression, Habits and the Reproduction of Social Life” (invited talk)
International Workshop The Life and Death of Habits, Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens - March 2025 “Sadness as a Gift. Transference of Depression with Gloria Anzaldúa” (invited talk)
International Workshop The Politics of Transference, University of Bologna - February 2025 “Love Troubles. A Philosophy of Eros” (book symposium)
APA Central Meeting, online - February 2025 “Love Troubles. A Social Philosophy of Eros” (invited talk)
Institutskolloquium Philosophie, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
2024
- December 2024 “Liebe und Care” (Gespräch mit Cornelia Klinger)
Standpunkte. Feministische Philosoph:innen im Gespräch, FU Berlin - December 2024 “Depression. A Critical Theory” (invited talk/keynote)
International Conference Filosofia tra (auto)critica e trasformazione, University of Padua - October 2024 “Homesickness. Notes for a Critical Social Philosophy of Depression”
Seminario Nazionale di Teoria Critica, Parma - August 2024 “Critical Naturalism in Social Philosophy” (panel)
XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome - July 2024 “The X of Recognition: Projection, Lack, Transformation” (invited talk)
Workshop Critical Theories Today. Axel Honneth and the Frankfurt School(s), University of Amsterdam - June 2024 “Transforming Habits of Social Reproduction” (invited talk)
Workshop The Force of Habits, FU Berlin - June 2024 “Affective Injustice, Transformative Fury and the Desire for Recognition” (invited talk)
Workshop Faces of Affective Injustice, FU Berlin - June 2024 “Love Troubles. A Social Philosophy of Eros” (invited talk)
Workshop Love and Oppression, Radical Critical Theory Circle, Nisyros, Greece - May 2024 “Sex, Consent, Dissent after #MeToo”
Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference, Prague - March 2024 “Affective Injustice, Transformative Fury and the Desire for Recognition” (invited talk)
Lecture series Bittersweet, University of Bologna - March 2024 “Liebe und Gewalt” (invited talks)
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Munich and Stuttgart - January 2024 “Sex, Consent and Dissent: On Manon Garcia’s The Joy of Consent” (discussant)
Conference The Joy of Consent, FU Berlin - January 2024 “A Romantic Theory of Recognition. Friedrich Schlegel Revisited” (invited talk)
Institutskolloquium, Universität Potsdam - January 2024 “Love Troubles. A Social Philosophy of Eros” (invited talk)
Kolloquium für praktische Philosophie, FU Berlin
2023
- November 2023 “Affective Injustice and Transformative Fury” (invited talk)
IPW Lectures, Universität Wien - October 2023 “Between Anger and Hope: Emotions in Progress” (invited talk)
Political Theory/Philosophy Workshop, QUB Belfast (online) - May 2023 “Between Anger and Hope: Emotions in Progress”
Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference, Prague - March 2023 “Between Anger and Hope: Emotions in Progress” (invited talk)
Conference On Regression and the End of Progress, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa - January 2023 “On Anger and Hope” (invited talk)
Philosophie Kolloquium, Universität Konstanz
2022
- December 2022 “Reply to Critics” (roundtable)
Conference The Idea of Critical Naturalism, Paris-Nanterre - October 2022 “Transformative Habits of Reproduction” (invited talk/keynote)
Seminario Nazionale di Teoria Critica, Parma - June 2022 “Letteratura e affettività in un tempo di trasformazione” (invited talk)
Roundtable Politiche della Realtà, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples - May 2022 “Critical Naturalism”
Philosophy and Social Sciences Conference (Prague Conference), UCD, Dublin - April 2022 “Romances of Nature” (invited talk)
Conference Hegel’s Heritage: First Nature in Social Philosophy, Columbia University, New York
2021
- December 2021 “‘She Has Kissed Him with Her Freedom.’ On Eros and Freedom” (invited talk)
Public lectures, University of Lucerne - September 2021 “Erotische Freiheit” (invited talk)
Neubad, Lucerne - September 2021 “Progress, Critique, and Emotions”
MANCEPT Online Conference - April 2021 “Eros e libertà sociale” (invited talk)
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan - March 2021 “Eros and Social Transformations” (invited talk)
Philosophy Colloquium, ETH Zürich (online) - February 2021 “Submission. Around Manon Garcia’s Work” (invited discussant paper)
American Philosophical Association Central Division (virtual)
2020
- October 2020 “Love Troubles” (invited keynote; panel built around her work)
Seminario Nazionale di Teoria Critica, Pisa - February 2020 “Collective Emotions, Passions and Social Critique” (invited talk)
Conference Social Critique and the Concept of Nature, University of Lucerne