Selected Conference Presentations
“Global Human Rights Direct: Disrupting Hegemonic Discourses through the Voices of the Marginalized” Presented at The Social Practice of Human Rights: Charting the Frontiers of Research and Advocacy. University of Dayton. October 2015.
“The Joys of Political Theory” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, April 2015.
“Commodifying Incarcerated Bodies in the U.S., Israel, and Beyond” Presented at Open Embodiments: Locating Somatachnics in Tucson, Tucson, April 2015. With Leonard Hammer.
“Navigating Fluid States of Exception at the U.S.-Mexico Border” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2014.
“Joyful Human Rights Martyrs” Presented at “Human Rights and Change,” ISA Human Rights Joint Conference, Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2014.
“From Ethics to Justice: Phenomenologies of the Saturated and Joyful Other" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Levinas Society, Ocean City, MD, May 2014.
“The Role of Sinister Joy in Human Rights Abuses: A Reconsideration of Evil in the Light of Joyful Human Rights” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2013.
“Joyful Human Rights” Presented at the American Sociological Association Pre-Conference: “Theories and Practices of Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Jouissance and Social Movements” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Human Rights: Abuses, Trauma, and Enjoyment” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA, April 2012.
"An Ethnographic Study of the Rhetoric versus Reality in the Implementation of Human Rights Relief for the Most Vulnerable Immigrants" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011.
“Learning to Learn from the Voice of the Other” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.
“Vulnerability, Marginalized Others, and Asylum Law” Presented at the Workshop “Masking and Manipulating Vulnerability” Emory University School of Law, March 2011.
“What’s Wrong with Infant Mortality? From ‘Objective’ Measure to Social Suffering” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2010, with Monica J. Casper.
“Re-Presentation: The Difficulties in Speaking for the Other in Recent Women’s Rights Theatre” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New York City, February 2009. With Sarah Daniels.
“Kenosis, Hunger, Secular Ethics, and Human Rights” Presented at the Annual Conference of the North American Levinas Society, Seattle University, September 2008.
“Arendt, Little Rock, and the Cauterization of the Other” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV. March 2008.
“Transcendental Justice, Democratic Iterations, and L’Affaire du Foulard.”
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Chicago, IL, November 2007.
“Self-Ascription and Group-Specific Rights: The Definition of Particular Social Groups in U.S. Asylum Law.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Theory, University of Western Ontario, October 2007.
“Levinas and Heteronomic Human Rights Law.” Second Annual Meeting of the North American Levinas Society, Purdue University, June 2007.
“Derrida, Benhabib, and Sahin: The Violence of Law, Democratic Iterations, and L’affaire du Foulard.” Annual Conference of the Association of Political Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, November 2006.
“Transcendental Justice, Law, and Democracy and L’affaire du Foulard.” Centennial Conference on Levinas and Law, McGill University Montreal, September 2006.
“The Post-Levinasian Heteronomic (Political) Philosophies of Enrique Dussel.” Presented at the First Annual Conference of the North American Levinas Society, Purdue University, May 2006.
“Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez.” J. Paul Taylor Symposium on Social Justice: Justice for Women, New Mexico State University, March 2006.
“Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez in U.S. Federal Courts under the Alien Tort Claims Act.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 2006 with Kelly Kaufman (UG).
“Rights after Heidegger: Phenomenologies/Hermeneutics of the Event in Heidegger, Voegelin, Badiou, and Marion.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C. August 2005.
“Toward a Concrete Universalism of the Other in International Human Rights Law: Theoretical and Legal Approaches.” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Oakland, CA, March 2005.
“Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez.” Migrants, Justice and the Border Event at Arizona State University, Spring 2005, with Kyle Navarette.
“Concrete Universalisms? The Political Philosophies of Regional Human Rights Courts.” Annual Conference of the Association of Political Theory, November 2004, Colorado Springs, CO.
“Establishing the Legitimacy of a Human Rights Court: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.” Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, February 2003.
“A Postmodern Anti-Foundational Foundation for Human Rights.” Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2001.
“Levinas and Voegelin on the “Foundations” of Politics and Ethics: Transcendence and Immanence Reconsidered.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September, 2000.
“The Postmodern Turn to Hospitality: Levinas, Kristeva, and Derrida on the Move from Ethics to Politics.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, GA, November 4, 1999.
“Why Tell This Long Story about the Face? Levinas and Liberal Political Thought.”
Addressing Levinas: Ethics, Phenomenology, and the Judaic Tradition. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, October 16, 1999.
"Zionism, Place, and the Other: Toward a Levinasian International Relations.” Face to Face with the Real World: Contemporary Applications of Levinas, Canton, OH, March 19, 1999.
“Levinas and Kant on the Transference of Altruistic Ethics to the Political Realm.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, October 30, 1998.
“The Joys of Political Theory” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, April 2015.
“Commodifying Incarcerated Bodies in the U.S., Israel, and Beyond” Presented at Open Embodiments: Locating Somatachnics in Tucson, Tucson, April 2015. With Leonard Hammer.
“Navigating Fluid States of Exception at the U.S.-Mexico Border” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 2014.
“Joyful Human Rights Martyrs” Presented at “Human Rights and Change,” ISA Human Rights Joint Conference, Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey, June 2014.
“From Ethics to Justice: Phenomenologies of the Saturated and Joyful Other" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Levinas Society, Ocean City, MD, May 2014.
“The Role of Sinister Joy in Human Rights Abuses: A Reconsideration of Evil in the Light of Joyful Human Rights” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, April 2013.
“Joyful Human Rights” Presented at the American Sociological Association Pre-Conference: “Theories and Practices of Human Rights: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue,” Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Jouissance and Social Movements” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Denver, CO, August 2012.
“Human Rights: Abuses, Trauma, and Enjoyment” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association. San Diego, CA, April 2012.
"An Ethnographic Study of the Rhetoric versus Reality in the Implementation of Human Rights Relief for the Most Vulnerable Immigrants" Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, September 2011.
“Learning to Learn from the Voice of the Other” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, Las Vegas, NV, August 2011.
“Vulnerability, Marginalized Others, and Asylum Law” Presented at the Workshop “Masking and Manipulating Vulnerability” Emory University School of Law, March 2011.
“What’s Wrong with Infant Mortality? From ‘Objective’ Measure to Social Suffering” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, February 2010, with Monica J. Casper.
“Re-Presentation: The Difficulties in Speaking for the Other in Recent Women’s Rights Theatre” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, New York City, February 2009. With Sarah Daniels.
“Kenosis, Hunger, Secular Ethics, and Human Rights” Presented at the Annual Conference of the North American Levinas Society, Seattle University, September 2008.
“Arendt, Little Rock, and the Cauterization of the Other” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV. March 2008.
“Transcendental Justice, Democratic Iterations, and L’Affaire du Foulard.”
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential
Philosophy, Chicago, IL, November 2007.
“Self-Ascription and Group-Specific Rights: The Definition of Particular Social Groups in U.S. Asylum Law.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Political Theory, University of Western Ontario, October 2007.
“Levinas and Heteronomic Human Rights Law.” Second Annual Meeting of the North American Levinas Society, Purdue University, June 2007.
“Derrida, Benhabib, and Sahin: The Violence of Law, Democratic Iterations, and L’affaire du Foulard.” Annual Conference of the Association of Political Theory, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, November 2006.
“Transcendental Justice, Law, and Democracy and L’affaire du Foulard.” Centennial Conference on Levinas and Law, McGill University Montreal, September 2006.
“The Post-Levinasian Heteronomic (Political) Philosophies of Enrique Dussel.” Presented at the First Annual Conference of the North American Levinas Society, Purdue University, May 2006.
“Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez.” J. Paul Taylor Symposium on Social Justice: Justice for Women, New Mexico State University, March 2006.
“Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez in U.S. Federal Courts under the Alien Tort Claims Act.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, CA, March 2006 with Kelly Kaufman (UG).
“Rights after Heidegger: Phenomenologies/Hermeneutics of the Event in Heidegger, Voegelin, Badiou, and Marion.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C. August 2005.
“Toward a Concrete Universalism of the Other in International Human Rights Law: Theoretical and Legal Approaches.” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Oakland, CA, March 2005.
“Innovative Transnational Remedies for the Women of Ciudad Juárez.” Migrants, Justice and the Border Event at Arizona State University, Spring 2005, with Kyle Navarette.
“Concrete Universalisms? The Political Philosophies of Regional Human Rights Courts.” Annual Conference of the Association of Political Theory, November 2004, Colorado Springs, CO.
“Establishing the Legitimacy of a Human Rights Court: Lessons from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.” Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, February 2003.
“A Postmodern Anti-Foundational Foundation for Human Rights.” Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, March 2001.
“Levinas and Voegelin on the “Foundations” of Politics and Ethics: Transcendence and Immanence Reconsidered.” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September, 2000.
“The Postmodern Turn to Hospitality: Levinas, Kristeva, and Derrida on the Move from Ethics to Politics.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, GA, November 4, 1999.
“Why Tell This Long Story about the Face? Levinas and Liberal Political Thought.”
Addressing Levinas: Ethics, Phenomenology, and the Judaic Tradition. Emory University, Atlanta, GA, October 16, 1999.
"Zionism, Place, and the Other: Toward a Levinasian International Relations.” Face to Face with the Real World: Contemporary Applications of Levinas, Canton, OH, March 19, 1999.
“Levinas and Kant on the Transference of Altruistic Ethics to the Political Realm.” Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, October 30, 1998.
