Talks

Forthcoming:

  • (Invited as Keynote) Forthcoming 2025: ‘Salience Traps and Responses to Exclusion’, 10th SWIP Ireland Conference, University of Maynooth.
  • (Invited) Forthcoming 2026: Title TBC, The Practical, Political and Ethical Series, Institute of Philosophy.
  • (Invited as Keynote) Forthcoming 2026: Title TBC, Workshop on Epistemic Planning, Technical University of Denmark.

Previous:

  • (Peer-Reviewed) June 2025: Underrepresentation and Salience, WOGAP (Workshop on Gender and Philosophy) 25th Anniversary Conference, MIT (Boston).
  • (Invited) April 2024: Exclusion and Salience, Political Epistemology and Oppression Workshop, Princeton University: workshop takes place annually for three years.
  • (Peer-Reviewed) March 2025: ‘Salience-Based Tensions in Egalitarian Initiatives’, Workshop on Attention, Evidence, and Feminist Epistemologies (organised by Jingyi Wu), London.
  • (Invited) February 2025: ‘Salience-Based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives’, Symposium on the Ethics of Attention, American Philosophical Association (APA), Central Division, Online (first APA conference that is online-only for environmental reasons).
  • (Invited): February 2025: ‘Tackling Underrepresentation’ , Trinity College Departmental Colloquium, Trinity College, Dublin.
  • (Invited): January 2025: Discussion of my paper ‘Attentional Objectification’, Warwick’s Centre for Ethics, Law, and Public Affairs, Warwick University.
  • (Invited) December 2024: Discussion of my paper ‘Attentional Objectification’, UCL Legal and Political Theory Colloquium, University College London.
  • (Invited) December 2024: Implicit Bias, Salience, and Counterspeech, Workshop on Evidence, Democracy, and Implicit Attitudes, Barcelona Institute of Analytic Philosophy, University Pompeu Fabra.
  • (Invited) November 2024: ‘Salience-Based Tensions in Socially Progressive Initiatives’, Moral Sciences Club, University of Cambridge. Recording here.
  • (Peer-Reviewed) July 2024: ‘I’m first, look at me!: Order-salience, scientific communication, and bias’, as part of a successful symposium bid along with Gregory Radick and Tom McClelland, ‘Salience: Exploring the Patterns, Processes and Pathologies of Attention in Science’, for theBritish Society for the Philosophy of Science 2024 Conference, University of York.
  • (Invited as Keynote) July 2024: ‘Salience and Imagination’, Art, Imagination and Morality conference, Oxford University.
  • (Invited) April 2024: Political Epistemology and Oppression, Princeton University. April 2024-6.
  • (Invited) January 2024: ‘Objectifying by Attending’, Philosophy Research Seminar, University of Bayreuth.
  • (Invited) January 2024: ‘Objectifying by Attending’, Metaphysics and Epistemology Group, University of Oxford.
  • (Invited as keynote speaker) June 2023: ‘Graded Attention, Graded Objectification’, HEY: A Graduate Conference on Attention and Salience, Vienna Forum for Analytic Philosophy (WFAP), University of Vienna.
  • (Invited) May 2023: ‘Objectifying by Attending’, Political Theory Network, Sheffield University.
  • (Invited) April 2023: ‘Attentional Objectification’, Pacific American Philosophical Association Conference, Symposium on ‘Attention: Contemporary Approaches’, San Francisco, USA.
  • (Invited) May 2022: ‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second: Minimal Attentional Surplus’, GOODATTENTION Project Inaugural Workshop, University of Oslo, Norway.
  • (Peer-Reviewed) March 2022: ‘Attentional Harm as a Microaggression’, Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Mobile, Alabama.
  • (Invited) 2022: ‘Gender Similarities and Differences: Why Linguistic Salience Matters’, Women in the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics.
  • (Invited) 2021: ‘Harming by Attending’, Mental Sciences Group, University of Cambridge.
  • (Invited) 2021: ‘Harmful Salience Structures’, Popper Seminar, London School of Economics. See video online here.
  • (Peer-Reviewed) 2018: ‘Harmful Salience Perspectives’, Current Trends in Social Epistemology, University of Melbourne.
  • (Peer-Reviewed) 2016: ‘Reuniting the Biological and the Social: Developmental Systems Theory and Feminism’, Philosophy of Biology UK, University of Bristol.
  • 2013: ‘Human Nature and Gender: Reconnecting the Biological with the Social’, Serious Metaphysics Group, University of Cambridge.
  • (Peer-Reviewed) 2013: ‘Photography and Representation: A Pluralistic Reply to Scruton’, Kent Postgraduate Conference in Aesthetics, University of Kent.

Student-facing talks

  • January 2024: Discussion of ‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second‘, Feminism Seminar, University of Bayreuth.
  • June, 2023, June 2022: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Race and Gender. Widening Participation Initiative for year 12 students, organised through London School of Economics (my lecture was the highest rated among several lectures given as part of LSE Explore series in 2022).
  • (Invited) 2022: ‘Intersectional Feminism’: An Introduction’, LSESU Intersectional Feminism Society, Event for International Women’s Day, London School of Economics.
  • (Invited) August 2022: Discussion of ‘A Woman First and a Philosopher Second‘, UBC Attention Reading Group, University of British Columbia, Canada