Recent and upcoming presentations

Conferences:

“Spinoza and Genealogy.” Rackham Early Modern Workshop. University of Michigan. April 2025.

“‘Chaos sive Natura,’ or Nietzsche’s Critique of Spinoza’s Naturalism.” Conference on Spinoza en el idealismo alemán. Universidad de Buenos Aires. March 2025.

“‘Reading Spinoza in the Ghetto’ and the Metaphysical Overview Effect.” Association for Jewish Studies. December 2024. 

“‘Chaos sive Natura,’ or Nietzsche’s Critique of Spinoza’s Naturalism.” North American Nietzsche Society. University of New Mexico. November 2024.

“Maimon on Right and Power.” Conference on Solomon Maimon. Universität Heidelberg. September 2024.

“Martin Luther King, Jr. and Hegel on History and Contradiction.” Association for Global Political Thought. Princeton University. April 2024.

“King and Hegel on History and Contradiction.” American Philosophical Association Conference (Central: Invited Session). February 2024.

“Spinoza and Two Medieval Jewish Predecessors on Error.” 1st Hopkins Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University. December 2023.

“King and Nietzsche on Christianity.” British Society for the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University. September 2023.

“Maimon on Right and Power.” Kantian Foundations of Democracy Conference. University of Oslo. August 2023.

Invited talks: 

“Nietzsche and Spinoza on Freedom.” Universidad de Buenos Aires. March 2025. 

“‘Reading Spinoza in the Ghetto’ and the Metaphysical Overview Effect.” Judaica Belgrano/Universidad de Buenos Aires. March 2025. 

“Genealogical Debunking as Gateway Drug.” Post-Kantian Working Group. Yale University. February 2025.

“‘Reading Spinoza in the Ghetto’ and the Metaphysical Overview Effect.” Hopkins-Chicago Seminar in Jewish Philosophy. Johns Hopkins University. March 2024. 

“‘Chaos sive Natura,’ or Nietzsche’s Critique of Spinoza’s Naturalism.” Vanderbilt Modern Philosophy Colloquium. Vanderbilt University. February 2024. [Link recording]

“Genealogical Debunking as Gateway Drug.” Princeton Human Values Forum. Princeton University. November 2023.

“‘Chaos sive Natura,’ or Nietzsche’s Critique of Spinoza’s Naturalism.” Princeton-Bucharest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy. Alba Iulia, RO. July 2023.

“Spinoza, Hegel, and King on Political Change.” APA Baumgardt Memorial Lecture, Leo Baeck Institute. New York, NY. February 2023.

Comments:

Session on Malebranche’s psychology. Descartes Forum. ENS-Paris. January 2024. 

Session on Rosenzweig’s political-philosophical writings. Jewish Studies Workshop. Princeton University. March 2023.

Book panel on When Spinoza Met Marx (Tracie Matysik). University of Texas, Austin. November 2022.