2025

“Critical Sublimity and the Failure of Beauty,” Polemos: The Art of Theory conference, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College, N, NY (May 8-9, 2025)

“’Fluid in all aspects, except for race’: Blackness, at the limits of abstraction,” The Matter of Abstraction: Race, Gender, and Sexuality, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Convention, Chicago, April 2-6, 2025.

“’What can I hope?”’ Race, Abyssal Aesthetics, and the Failure of Beauty,”” German Studies: New Perspectives, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (February 20, 2025)

2024

 “’What can I hope?”’ Race, Abyssal Aesthetics, and the Failure of Beauty,” German Department at Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (November 11, 2024)

Roundtable panelist. Time and/as Waste: Luxuriance, Plasticity, Formlessness, Association for the Study of Arts of the Present, NY, NY, October 19, 2024.

“Sublime Encounters and Amphibious Imaginings,” Film and Visual Studies Research Workshop, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (April 18, 2024)

“Swimming in Ressentiment,” Institute for German Cultural Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (March 1, 2024)

2023

 “Becoming Amphibious, or the Question of Ethics in White Supremacist Worlding,” Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, US (March 23, 2023)

Co-chair and roundtable panelist. Abstraction and the Aesthetics of Movement: Questions and Methods for Media Ethics and Analysis, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Convention, Denver, April 2023.

2022

 “Amphibious Critique,” German Section and DAAD Colloquium, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (November 17, 2022)

 “Amphibious Critique, or Listening for the Sirens after the Catastrophe,” Department of German Studies Colloquium, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, US (April 1, 2022)

2021

“Towards a Nonjudgmental Aesthetics,” in the seminar Aesthetics Unbound, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, remote, April 2021.

“The Will-to-Breathe,” Diversity and Decolonization in the German Curriculum Annual Conference, remote, March 2021.

2020

“Black Sirens’ Song, or Listening for the Sirens after the Catastrophe,” Black German Studies and Critical Race Theory Workshop Series, Carolina-Duke Graduate Program in German Studies, Duke University (December 17, 2020)

“The Will-to-Breathe: Between Self-Preservation and Suicide,” Object One Conference, Dialectics Reading Group, University of Toronto, August 2020.

2019

“Between Land and Sea: Mythical Imagination and Ethical Emergence,” in the panel Matter, World Picture, University of Toronto, November 2019.

Participant. Summer Institute in Rhetoric and Public Culture on Media Aesthetics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, July 2019.

 “Folding Back History: Myth, Replication, and The Sneeze,” in the panel Remakes and Remediations, Experimental and Impossible, in Theory and Praxis, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Convention, Seattle, March 2019.

2018

Co-chair and Panelist. “‘Without Why’: Time-lapse Flowers and the Movement of Abstraction,” for the panel Nature Transformed: Time-Lapse, Mise-en-scène, and Environmental Experience, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Convention, Toronto, March 2018.

 “An Aesthetics of Embodied Imagination,” in the seminar New Approaches to Film Aesthetics, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Convention, Toronto, March 2018.

2017

“Impossible Visions: Embodied Imagination and the Movement of Reason,” Imagination und Möglichkeitsdenken Berkeley-Cologne Summer School, University of California, Berkeley, August 2017.

“We are not botanists!: Arthur Schopenhauer and the Aesthetics of Time-lapse Plants,” Challenges of Media Anthropology Princeton Weimar Summer School for Media Studies, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar—Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, June 2017.

2016

“‘Nothing was the same except the clouds’: Oskar Fischinger’s Walking from Munich to Berlin,” Slow Aesthetics and the Moving Image, Department of Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Chicago, April 2016.