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“Critical Phenomenology and the Problem of Ideology,” Post-Doc Circle on Critical Phenomenology. Helsinki University of Arts, May 19, 2025.
“Intersectional Critiques of Capitalism,” Confronting (Bio)Capitalism: Critique, Feminism, and Ecology. Johanna Oksala’s Contributions to Foucault Studies and Beyond. Center of Philosophy, University of Lisbon, May 13, 2025.
“Rethinking the Political at the End of the World,” 3rd Critical Emancipations Conference. Institute of Philosophy Leuven KU, May 9-10, 2025.
“Ecological Critiques of Capitalism,” Crisis, Critique, and Social Transformation: Celebrating Nancy Fraser and Eli Zaretsky, The New School for Social Research, April 10-12, 2025.
“Critical Phenomenology and the Problem of Ideology.” Rackham Working Group (Race, Gender, and Feminist Philosophy), Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Feb 14, 2025.
“Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology.” Vrieje Universitet Amsterdam, Nov 26, 2024.
“Purple Brains: Feminism at the Limits of Philosophy,” roundtable with Annelies Kleinherenbrink, Alex Thinius and Rose Trappes. Radboud University, Nijmegen, Nov 22, 2024.
“On Being a Feminist Philosopher: Johanna Oksala in Conversation.” Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, NYC, Nov 1, 2024.
“The Future of Left Thought: Marx and Foucault on Power.” Foucault and Marx: Ambivalences, Legacies and Future Struggles. University of Vienna, Oct 18-19, 2024.
“Feminist, Capitalism, and Ecology.” A book panel on Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology (commentators Dan Boscov-Ellen and Nancy Tuana). Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 62nd Annual Meeting. Rochester Institute of Technology, Sep 26-28, 2024.
“Social Critique at a Crossroads: Marxism and Critical Phenomenology.” Resistant Temporalities. Villanova University, Sep 20, 2024.
“Foucault and Critiques of Neoliberalism.” Central University of Punjab, India, Aug 22, 2024.
“Foucault’s Revision of Ideology Critique.” Foucault 40 Years After. Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, May 27-29, 2024.
“Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology.” A book panel on Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology (commentators Nancy Fraser, Romy Opperman, and Alissa Battistoni). The New School for Social Research, New York, Apr 25, 2024.
“Cannibal Capitalism.” A response to Nancy Fraser’s Cannibal Capitalism. Questioning the Present. The Center for Transcultural Studies (CTS) and The Center for Global Culture and Communication (CGCC), Northwestern University, Chicago, Apr 5, 2024.
“The Existential Threat of Climate Change: From Climate Anxiety to Post-Nihilist Politics.” Discussion at the Phenomenology Seminar, UCLA, Los Angeles, Mar 21, 2024.
“Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology.” A book panel on Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology (commentator Nicholas Smith), Södertörn University, Stockholm, Dec 15, 2023.
“A Foucauldian Critique of Capitalism: Revising Ideology in ‘Truth and Juridical Forms.'” Michel Foucault: La verdad y las formas jurídicas, University of Buenos Aires, Nov 13-17, 2023.
“Beauvoir on Right-Wing Thought.” Conference of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society, University of Helsinki, Aug 16-19, 2023.
“Is It Wrong for Feminists to Pay for Housework?” The London Feminist Philosophy Conference, King’s College London, Jun 15-16, 2023.
“Social Critique at a Crossroads: Marxism and Critical Phenomenology.” Critical phenomenology of the we, University of Copenhagen, Jun 1-2, 2023.
“Social Critique at a Crossroads: Marxism and Critical Phenomenology.” Critical Temporalities, The New School for Social Research and University of Vienna, Mar 24, 2023.
“Response to Daniel J. Smith’s ‘A Goose Woke Up the Sleeping Philosophers’: Foucault on Political Historicism in the English Revolution.” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 60th Annual Meeting, Texas A&M University, Oct 13-15, 2022.
“The Subject of Capitalism: From Marx to Foucault.” 14th International Critical Theory Conference, John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago, Rome, May 16-18, 2022.
“Beyond Neoliberal Realism: Foucault’s Late Politics.” Graduate Conference in Political Theory, Loyola University Chicago and New School for Social Research, Apr 14-15, 2022.
“Simone de Beauvoir as a Critical Phenomenologist.” Phenomenology and Feminism: Thinking with Beauvoir and Beyond, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris, Mar 18-19, 2022.
“Phenomenology as Social Critique: Rethinking the Reduction.” Performing Embodiment: Practices of Reduction, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, Feb 24-25, 2022.
“Climate Change as an Existential Threat: Environmental Politics in the Shadow of Nihilism.” Department of Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago, Feb 11, 2022.
“The Subjects of Capitalism: From Marx to Foucault.” Warwick Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar, University of Warwick, UK, Nov 16, 2021.
“The Subjects of Capitalism: From Marx to Foucault.” XII Michel Foucault International Colloquium: Becoming of Thought and Multiplication of Practices, University of São Paulo, Oct 19, 2021.
“Can Gender Subordination be Eliminated in Capitalism?” Feminist Continental Philosophy Seminar, University of Stockholm, April 16, 2021.
“Climate Change: An Existential Threat.” LUC 150th Anniversary Scholar Series, Loyola University Chicago. March 30, 2021.
“Feminism, Capitalism, and Ecology.” The von Wright and Wittgenstein research seminar, Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki. Nov 10, 2020.
“What is Critical Phenomenology?” Loyola University Chicago – Marquette University Online Workshop in Phenomenology. Oct 24, 2020. Keynote address.
‘Ecofeminism at the End of Nature.’ Annual Colloquium of the Philosophical Society of Finland. University of Helsinki. Jan 9-10, 2020. Keynote address.
‘Feminist Ecopolitics at the End of Nature.’ Interpreting the Anthropocene. Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. June 27-28, 2019.
‘Feminism against Neoliberalism: Questioning the Political with Wendy Brown.’ Power, Neoliberalism, and the Reinvention of Politics: The Feminist Critical Theory of Wendy Brown. Penn State University. April 19-20, 2019.
‘Is it wrong for feminists to pay other women for housework?’ Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA. April 28, 2019.
‘Neoliberal Subjects: Wendy Brown’s critique of Foucault.’ Foucault, Neoliberalism, and Ideology. The New School for Social Research. April 27, 2019.
‘Feminist Ecopolitics at the End of Nature.’ Ecologies of Gender. Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, Nov 1–2, 2018.
‘Feminist Ecopolitics at the End of Nature.’ Feminism, Carceral Sovereignties, and Environmental Justice. George Mason University, USA, Oct 10, 2018.
‘Feminist and Queer Politics against Neoliberalism.’ Queer Forum, Human Rights Education and Monitoring Center (EMC), Tbilisi, Georgia. January 12–14, 2018.
‘Feminist Experiences.’ A book panel on Feminist Experiences: Foucaudian and Phenomenological Investigations. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 56th Annual Meeting, University of Memphis, USA. October 19–21, 2017.
Speaker in a book panel on Feminism, Capitalism, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser (with Richard J. Bernstein, Eli Zaretsky, and Nancy Fraser). The New School for Social Research, USA. October 4, 2017.
‘Feminist Experiences.’ A book panel on Feminist Experiences: Foucaudian and Phenomenological Investigations. The Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 15th Annual Conference. University of Trondheim, Norway. June 15–17, 2017.
‘Feminism against Biocapitalism’, Critical and Visual Studies Symposium Series, Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute, USA, Nov 29, 2016.
‘The Birth of Austerity’, Collective Resistance with and beyond Foucault. Research in Political Philosophy Leuven (RIPPLE), KU Leuven, Belgium, Nov 17–18, 2016.
‘Feminism against Biocapitalism’, Philosophy and Social Science Conference, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic, May 18-21, 2016.
‘Capitalist Forms of Subjectivity: Foucault between Psychoanalysis and Marxism’, Lacan contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Universalism, Politics. American University in Beirut, Lebanon, December 2–4, 2015.
‘Political Philosophy in the Era of Climate Change’, Department of Philosophy, University of Leuven, Belgium, November 5, 2015.
‘Capitalist Forms of Subjectivity’, Political Philosophy Research Group (RIPPLE), University of Leuven, Belgium, November 4, 2015.
‘Political Philosophy in the Era of Climate Change’, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 28, 2015.
‘The Problem of Power’, Symposium: Meeting the Other, Research Pavilion of the Helsinki University of Arts, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. May 30, 2015.
‘Affective Labour and Feminist Politics’, Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 13th Annual Conference, Södertörn University, Sweden. April 23–25, 2015.
‘Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality’, Department of Politics, The New School for Social Research, USA. February 24, 2015.
‘Political Subjects in the Era of Climate Change’, Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA. December 4, 2014.
‘Affective Labor and Feminist Politics’, Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, USA, November 18, 2014.
‘Affective Labor, Feminist Politics, and Capitalist Crisis’, Rethinking Crisis: Democracy, Ecology, Society Conference, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, November 4–5, 2014.
‘Cosmopolitan Subjects and the Anthropocene’, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 53rd Annual Meeting, Loyola University New Orleans, USA. October 23–25, 2014.
‘Affective Labor and Feminist Politics’, Department of Philosophy, Williams College, USA. September 25, 2014.
‘Productive Power and the Feminine Subject’, Power, Pedagogy, and Philosophy’s ‘Woman Problem’. The 9^th Annual Colloquium of People in Support of Women in Philosophy. The New School for Social Research, New York. May 8-10, 2014.
‘Affective Labor and Feminist Politics’, Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA. March 6, 2014.
‘Expressions of War: A Response to Todd May’, Questioning Power: Politics and Philosophy Graduate Conference. The New School for Social Research, New York. March 20–21, 2014.
‘Feminisms of the Left: On Gender, Marxism and Capitalism’, a roundtable with Nancy Fraser and Cinzia Arruzza. The New School for Social Research, New York. April 8, 2014.
‘State Violence and Biopolitical Governmentality’, Department of Philosophy, George Mason University, Washington D.C., USA. November 19, 2013.
‘Foucault, Politics, and Violence’, respondent in the book panel on Foucault, Politics, and Violence, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 52nd Annual Meeting, University of Oregon, USA. October 24–26, 2013.
‘Neoliberal Governmentality and Normative Femininity’. The 23^rd World Congress of Philosophy. University of Athens, Greece. August 4-10, 2013.
‘What is Political Philosophy?’ Materialities and Materialisms in Contemporary Thought: Ontology, Politics, Technology. University of Helsinki, Finland. June 14-15, 2013.
‘Feminist Politics of Inheritance’, Feminist Thought – Politics of Concepts: 5^th Christina Conference on Gender Studies. University of Helsinki, Finland. May 23-25, 2013.
‘Lived Experience: A Conversation between Johanna Oksala and Cressida Heyes’. Bios: Feminist Philosophies of Life. PhiloSOPHIA: a feminist society 7^th Annual Meeting. University of Alberta, Banff, Canada. May 2-5, 2013.
‘Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality’. The Research Centre in Critical Thought, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. March 6, 2013.
‘In Defense of Experience’. The Center for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. March 7, 2013.
‘Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality’. Goldsmiths University, London, UK. February 26, 2013.
‘In Defense of Experience’. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 51st Annual Meeting. Rochester Institute of Technology and Nazareth College, Rochester, USA. November 1–3, 2012.
‘Foucault and the Management of State Violence., Plurality, Violence , Justice, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Finland. October 12–14, 2012.
‘Foucault, Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality’. Society for European Philosophy. Manchester Metropolitan University. September 5–7, 2012.
‘Foucault, Feminism and Neoliberal Governmentality’. Department of Philosophy Annual Conference, Critical Theories. Villanova University. March 30–31, 2012.
‘In Defense of Experience’. Feminist Research Speakers Series, 2012 Annual Public Lecture, The Women’s Studies Program, University of Alberta, Canada. March 22, 2012.
‘In Defense of Experience’. Department of Gender Studies, University of Uppsala. Feb 1, 2012.
‘A Politics of Truth’. Roundtable on Michel Foucault with Frederic Gros. DePaul University, Chicago, USA. October 18, 2011.
‘Foucault’s Rethinking of Power’. Public Lecture at Northwestern University, USA. October 13, 2011.
‘Feminist Politics of Memory’. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 50th Annual Meeting. Villanova University and Penn State University, Philadelphia, USA. October 19–20, 2011.
‘Neoliberal Bodies and Feminist Subjects’. Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in Sciences and Art. University of Edinburgh, UK, May 28–29, 2011. Keynote speaker.
‘What is Political Philosophy?’ Foucault Circle, 11th Annual Meeting, University of Alberta, Canada. March 25–27, 2011.
‘The Neoliberal Subject of Feminism’. The British Society for Phenomenology. St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK. April 15–17, 2011.
‘Feminist Politics of Memory’. Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 9th Annual Conference, University of Reykjavik, Iceland. April 28–30, 2011.
‘Feminist Phenomenology’. A roundtable on feminist phenomenology, Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 9th Annual Conference, University of Reykjavik, Iceland. April 28–30, 2011.
‘What is Political Philosophy?’ Symposium, The Government of Self and Others: On Foucault’s Lectures at the Collège de France, 1982–3. Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), Kingston University, London, UK. December 2, 2010.
‘Rethinking Violence: Foucault on Terror and Political Spirituality’. Single paper with an appointed respondent, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 49th Annual Meeting, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. November 4–6, 2010.
‘Rethinking Violence: Foucault on Terror and Political Spirituality’. Politics of Contingency, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. August 12–13, 2010.
‘Foucault, Machiavelli and the Politics of Truth’. Society for European Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago, John Rome Centre, Rome, Italy. July 7–10, 2010.
‘Foucault on Freedom’. A book panel on Foucault on Freedom, The British Society for Phenomenology – Phenomenology and French Epistemology. St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, UK. April 9–11, 2010.
‘Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity’. Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Emory University, Atlanta, USA. January 14, 2010.
‘Violence and the Biopolitics of Modernity’. Department of Philosophy, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA. January 8, 2010.
‘Neoliberalism and Biopolitical Governmentality’. The American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Annual Meeting, New York, USA. December 27–30, 2009.
‘State Violence, Governmentality and the Recession of the Law’. Theorising Violence, University of Salford, Manchester, UK. October 30, 2009.
‘The Sexual Body’. Theoria Discussions, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK. October 9, 2009.
‘The Political Ontology of Neoliberalism’. The Politics of Life: Michel Foucault and the Biopolitics of Modernity, Södertörn University and IASPIS, Sweden. September 3–5, 2009.
‘Sexual Experience: Foucault, phenomenology and feminist theory’. Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 7th Annual Conference, University of Tampere, Finland. April 23–25, 2009.
‘Sexual Experience: Foucault, phenomenology and feminist theory’. Sexual Selves – A Conference on Sexuality and Sexual Identity. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. May 1–3, 2009.
‘Foucault, Neoliberalism and Political Violence’. Foucault Circle, 9th Annual Meeting, DePaul University, USA. March 6–8, 2009.
‘Foucault, Neoliberalism and Political Violence’. Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA. February 19, 2009.
‘Foucault, Neoliberalism and Political Violence’. Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK. February 3, 2009.
‘The Violence of Neoliberalism: A Foucaudian Response’. Society for European Philosophy, University College Dublin, Ireland. August 29–31, 2008.
‘Foucault beyond Foucault’. A book panel on Jeffrey Nealon’s Foucault beyond Foucault, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 47th Annual Meeting, Duquesne University, USA. October 16–18, 2008.
‘Discourses of Gendered Violence’. Department of English, University of Glasgow, UK. January 24, 2008.
‘Foucault’s Political Ontology’. Single paper with an appointed respondent, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 46th Annual Meeting, DePaul University, USA. November 8–10, 2007.
‘Foucault’s Political Ontology’. Society for European Philosophy, University of Sussex, UK. September 8–10, 2007.
‘The Management of State Violence’. The Politics of Theory, University of Aegean, Mytilini, Greece. June 11–12, 2007.
‘The Management of State Violence’. Department of English, University of Edinburgh, UK. October 26, 2007.
‘Foucault’s Political Ontology’. Department of Philosophy, University of Hull, UK. October 9, 2007.
‘Foucault on Freedom’. A book panel on Foucault on Freedom, Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 45th Annual Meeting, University of Philadelphia, USA. October 12–14, 2006.
‘Gender and Violence: Foucauldian Interventions’. The Body: Ethos and Ethics, An International Colloquium, The New School for Social Research and Hunter College, USA. October 5–7, 2006.
‘Kant and Foucault’s Historical Ontology’. Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 4th Annual Conference, University of Reykjavik, Iceland. April 23–25, 2006.
‘Foucault on Violence: The End of Critique?’ Foucault Circle, 6th Annual Meeting, University of Memphis, USA. February 24–26, 2006.
‘Foucault on Violence’. Department of Philosophy, The New School for Social Research, USA. April 27, 2006.
‘Foucault on Freedom’. Feminism, Democracy, Freedom, Centre de Cooperation Franco-Norvegienne en Sciences Sociale et Humaine, France. December 9, 2005.
‘Foucault on Violence’. Society for European Philosophy, What is Terror? University of Reading, UK. September 8–10, 2005.
‘Feminine Experience: Rethinking the phenomenology/post-structuralism debate’. Filosofidagarna, University of Uppsala, Sweden. June 9–11, 2005.
‘A Phenomenology of Gender’. Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 3rd Annual Meeting, University of Bergen, Norway. April 23–25, 2005.
‘Differences and Breathing Spaces: Toward Feminist Ontology’. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 43rd Annual Meeting, University of Memphis, USA. September 28–30, 2004.
‘Foucault’s Historical Ontology’. Phenomenological Readings of the History of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Sweden. March 12, 2004.
‘What is Feminist Phenomenology’. Nordic Society for Phenomenology, 2nd Annual Conference, Södertörns Högskola, Sweden. April 23–25, 2004.
‘The Freedom of Language: Foucault’s Archaeology of Literature’. Philosophical Reflections on Literature, University of Helsinki, Finland. August 5–7, 2004.
‘The Postmodern Loss of Identities’. Loss, Decline and Doom in the Baltic Sea Area, Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftkolleg, Greifswald, Germany. February 7–12, 2003.
‘Words and Things: The problem of language in phenomenology’. The Nordic Society for Phenomenology, University of Helsinki, Finland. April 25–27, 2003.
‘The Anarchic Other: The question of the subject in Foucault’. Philosophical Ethics Today, University of Aarhus, Denmark. May 8–10, 2003.
‘Is Feminist Phenomenology Possible?’ Alterity and Sex/Gender – Phenomenological Reflections in Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. June 13–15, 2003.
‘Anarchic Bodies: Foucault and the feminist question of experience’. Society for European Philosophy, University of Essex, UK. September 9–11, 2003.
‘Anarchic Bodies: The resistance of Foucault’s bodies and pleasures’. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 41st Annual Meeting, Loyola University Chicago, USA. September 10–12, 2002.
‘Foucault’s Philosophical Laughter: Intersubjectivity as language after Husserl’. International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), 26th Annual meeting, University of Rotterdam, Netherlands. June 4–8, 2002.
‘Female Freedom: Can the lived body be emancipated?’ Feminist Phenomenology, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands. February 8–10, 2002.
‘The Ethics of Silence’. Phalén-Picnic on Wittgenstein, University of Uppsala, Sweden. April 26–27, 2002.
‘Foucault’s Ethics of Silence’. Modernity and Moral Identity, University of Helsinki, Finland. August 17–19, 2000.
‘The Subject of Sex: Female subjectivity in Merleau-Ponty’s account of sexuality’. Merleau-Ponty Circle, George Washington University, USA. September 14–16, 2000.
‘Foucault, Phenomenology and the Task of Philosophy’. Phenomenology, Language and the Nature of Philosophy, University of Uppsala, Sweden. February 12–13, 1999.
‘Margins as Foucault’s Space for the Ethical’. International Association for Philosophy and Literature (IAPL), 23rd Annual meeting, University of Hartford, USA. May 13–15, 1999.
‘Identity and the Lived Body’. Merleau-Ponty Circle, University of Salisbury, USA. September 17–19, 1998.
‘Ethical Bodies and Sexual Subjects’. Sex Outlaw, University of Helsinki, Finland. October 2–3, 1998.
‘Genealogies of Meaning and Power: Husserl and Foucault’. Applied Phenomenology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. November 16–20, 1998.
‘Identity and the Sexed Body’. The History of Sexual Difference, University of Bergen, Norway. March 1–2, 1997.