Upcoming Talks…

Groningen Night of Philosophy

19 April 2024, The Forum, Groningen

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The Philosopher & The Boston Review

With Prof Katrina Forrester

29 April 2024, online

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Festival of Wonder, New scientist

Celebrating 410 years of the University of Groningen

22 May 2024, Stadsschouwburg Groningen

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public engagement

Noorderzon Festival, Groningen, Aug 2023

  • “Night of Philosophy,” Stadium Generale at the Forum, Groningen, 19 April 2024

  • “Festival of Wonder,” Stadsshouwberg Groningen, 22 May 2024


Upcoming Academic talks

  • “Structural Injustice in the Global Garment Industry,” Sustainable Fashion Stories, UvA, 24 April 2024

  • “A Global Fund for Slavery Reparations,” Conception of Remedies in International Human Rights Law, iCourts Copenhagen, 13 June 2024

Past talks

Public engagement

St Hilda’s Feminist Salon with Fatemeh Shams, October 2016.

  • “With Power Comes Responsibility” Book launches

    UCL, with Prof Sir Michael Marmot and Prof Jonathan Wolff, 29 Feb 2024

    University of Groningen, with Dr Gulzaar Barn and Dr Frank Hindriks, 14 March 2024

    The Philosopher @ Conway Hall, with Dr Ashok Kumar, 26 March 2024

  • Pint of Science, Young Academy Groningen, De Toeter pub, 10 April 2024

  • Noorderzon: Festival of Performing Arts & Society, part of Young Academy Groningen @Noorderzon,“Am I responsible for structural injustice?” (August 2023).

  • YouTube clip, “Why Iris Marion Young is the Greatest,” for The Philosopher (Sept 2022).

  • YouTube talk on “Iris Marion Young and Structural Injustice,” for The Philosopher (Nov 2021). (1.5K views)

  • Podcast Your Broccoli Weekly on “How COVID19 has impacted the UK education sector” (March 2020).

  • Founder and curator of St Hilda’s Feminist Salon (Feb 2016 – Dec 2018).                                    

  • UCL public engagement project “Enriching Public Discourse – Empowering African People” event at the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, bringing together academics and reparations activists (Oct 2014).

  • Feminism seminar at Demand the Impossible – a summer school on activism for inner-city school students at Goldsmiths University London (2012).

  • Anti-capitalism 2011, panel participant “The Old and New Left” with Mark Fisher.

  • Oxford Law Society 2011, panel participant “Superinjunctions.”

Invited Academic talks

  • “Apologies for the Past,” University of Tilburg (September 2023).

  • All-Island Political Theory Seminar (May 2023).

  • Philosophy and Public Affairs Colloquium, UvA (May 2023).

  • “Justice in an Unjust World,” UCL (April 2023).

  • The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Leiden University (February 2023).

  • “Philosophy, Disability, & Social Change 3,” Blavatnik School of Government (chair) (Dec 2022).

  • “Structural Injustice, Historical Injustice, and Reparations,” Duisburg-Essen (October 2022).

  • “Rethinking Political Thinkers,” Birkbeck (Sept 2022).

  • “The Politics of Poverty,” University of Groningen (June 2022).

  • “The Corporation in Society,” Utrecht University (May 2022).

  • “Structural Injustice and the Law,” UCL (May 2022).

  • “Philosophy, Disability, & Social Change 2,” Blavatnik School of Government (chair) (Dec 2021).

  • “Responsibility for Global Structural Injustices,” Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (June 2021).

  • “Poverty and Feasibility” Workshop, Australian National University (August 2019).

  • “Ethics and Public Policy,” Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford (June 2019).

  • Nuffield Workshop, University of Oxford (Nov 2018).

  • Oxford Forum/Headington School’s Philosophy Café (Nov 2018).

  • Philosophy Colloquium, University of St Gallen (Nov 2018).

  • Guest lecture on The Philosophy of Clothes, University of St Gallen (Nov 2018).

  • Open Minds, Manchester Graduate Conference (Keynote speaker, Aug 2018).

  • Philosophy Colloquium, University of Birmingham (May 2018).

  • Birkbeck Study Day, Birkbeck University, London (Jan 2018).

  • Priority in Practice (New Series) Workshop, Blavatnik Schoool of Government, University of Oxford (May 2017).

  • “Radical Perspectives on Exploitation,” Humboldt University, Berlin (Sept 2016).

  • “Exploring the Influence of Iris Marion Young,” LMU Munich (July 2016).

  • “From the Transatlantic Slave Trade to Engaging the Maangamizi: Historical Injustice and Reparations,” Queens University Belfast (June 2016).

  • “Intergenerational Justice: Historical Perspectives,” University of Exeter (June 2016).

  • “The Ethics of International Institutions,” University of Manchester (May 2016).

  • The Social Justice Seminar Series, University of Newcastle (Nov 2015).

  • Contemporary Political Thought Research Seminar, University of Cambridge (Nov 2015).

  • Justitia Amplificata/Wissenschaftkolleg Berlin, “Structural Injustice” workshop (Feb 2015).

  • '“Frontiers of Responsibility,” Paris-Sorbonne 1 (Dec 2014).


Conference talks by application

  • “Philosophy and/of Inclusion.” Minorities in Philosophy (MAP) Conference, CEU Budapest (May 2019).

  • “Excusing Individuals from Moral Responsibility for Global Injustice,” Colloque Iris Marion Young, Paris-Sorbonne 1 (May 2017).

  • “Reparations for Slavery: Combining Forward-looking and Backward-looking Responsibility,” “Repairing the Past, Imagining the Future: Reparations and Beyond…,” University of Edinburgh (Nov 2015).

    • Also presented at European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Montreal (Aug 2015).

    • And “Collective Responsibility for the Future,” University College Dublin (June 2015).

  • “Iris Marion Young’s “Social Connection Model” of Responsibility: Defining Connection,” Association for Legal and Social Philosophy (ALSP) annual conference, University of Leeds (July 2014).

    • Also presented at Oxford Graduate Political Theory Conference (2014).

  • “Individuals as Agents of Justice: The Political Responsibility to Participate in Global Civil Society,” Yaoundé PhD Seminar, Cameroon (March 2014).

  • “Who Bears Responsibility for Post-Colonial Poverty?” Graduate Political Theory Conference, Princeton University (2011).