"Love and Education" and "Education After the Death of School," lectures given at Denison University, Granville, OH, March 2011.
"White History Month," talk given at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, February 2011. (video online)
"Education as Mystery," paper delivered at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, February 2011.
"Pragmatic Metaphysics: Or, how the question of Being makes itself useful to global studies," lecture delivered at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, October 2010.
"The Erotic Person: Towards an Integration of the Humanistic and Pedagogical Arts," lecture delivered at De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN, September 2010.
"Cultural Perspectives of Formal Schooling," keynote presentation at the Killeen Independent School District staff development workshop, Killeen, TX, October 2007.
"Motivation and Authenticity," keynote presentation at the Brady Independent School District staff development workshop, Brady, TX, August 2007.
Other Presentations
“Who Gets to be a Philosopher? Dewey, Democracy and Democratic Identity,” paper presented at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society conference, Dayton, OH, September 2011.
“A Canon of Everything,” paper presented at the “Impossibility of Immortal Conversations” panel for the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society conference, Dayton, OH, September 2011.
"Compulsory Schooling, Preventative Defense, and Tragic Hope," paper presented at the Philosophical Studies in Education Special Interest Group for the 2011 American Educational Research Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 2011. “The Ambuguity of 'Spanish',” paper presented at a special session on Non-European Contributions to the Philosophy of Education hosted by the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association - Central Division, Minneapolis, MN, April 2011. "The Death of School," paper presented at the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, Chicago, IL, November 2010.
"Worst Practices: Perversity, Potentiality, and Teaching" paper presented at the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Practice, Dayton, OH, October 2010. "Where Can the Children Pray?," paper presented at the "Work and Curriculum" panel for the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Practice, Dayton, OH, October 2010.
“Education as Constitution: Or, Education-in-the-World,” paper presented at the Philosophical Studies in Education Special Interest Group symposium on "Heidegger and Education" for the 2010 American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Denver, CO, May 2010. “Dewey, Democracy and Democracy,” paper presented at the John Dewey Society Special Interest Group for the 2010 American Educational Research Association annual meeting, Denver, CO, May 2010.
“Reading Like a Cow: Nietzsche on Reading and Constitution,” paper presented at a special session on European Contributions to the Philosophy of Education hosted by the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education at the annual meeting of the American Philosophical Association - Central Division, February 2010. “Preventative Defense and U.S. Compulsory Schooling,” paper presented at the American Educational Studies Association, November 2009.
“Tragedy, Eros and Critical Ontology in Curricular Practice,” paper presented at a panel dedicated to a theme in my recent work, “From Ego Cogitans to Ego Amans,” with Tim Leonard, Peter Hilton, Bill Schubert at the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theorizing, October 2009. “Eucharistic Text: Reading as Death Ritual,” paper presented at the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, October 2009.
“Deconstructing Diversity: On the Danger of Holy Names,” paper presented at the Ohio Valley Philosophy of Education Society conference, September 2009.
"On the Poststructural Imperative of Erotic Love: An Introduction to an Introduction to a Curriculum of Love," paper presented in A Dialogue on Love, Compassion, and Curriculum Studies at the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum Studies Conference, April 2009.
"A Curricular Interpretation of Michel Foucault and William James," paper presented at a special session on Curriculum & Critical Thinking hosted by the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education at the annual meeting of American Philosophical Association - Central Division, Chicago, IL, February 2009.
"A Recovery of Philo-sophy and Reason: Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenological Critique of Descartes’ ‘cogito’," paper presented at the Symposium on Phenomenology and Education at the annual meeting of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, Chicago, IL, November 2008.
"A Plastic-Fiction Look at Foucault and James," paper presented at the Symposium on Michel Foucault at the Bergamo Conference on Curriculum Theorizing, Dayton, OH, October 2008.
"Plato’s Philosopher: Troubling Contemporary Assumptions of Philosophical Identity," paper presented at the 53rd annual meeting of the South Atlantic Philosophy of Education, Blacksburg, VA, October 2008.
"Stevie Wonder, the Educational Theorist: Living for the City, 35 Years Later," paper presented at the 13th Annual Graduate Student Symposium: Diversity Research in Schools, Families & Communities, Columbus, OH, May 2008.
"Marion & James’ Heartfelt & Intuitive Method-ology: It’s Implications for Philosophy, Education & Beyond," paper presented at the Annual Conference on Christian Philosophy: The Philosophy of Jean-Luc Marion at Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, April 2008.
"Phenomenological Method as Pragmatic Method: Remarks on the Convergence of Existence and Experience in Education," paper presented at a special session on Logic, Method & Critical Thinking hosted by the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education at the annual meeting of American Philosophical Association - Central Division, Chicago, IL, April 2008.
"What Does ‘Social’ Add to Justice?," paper presented at the Roundtable on Marx and Radical Philosophy Today, part of the University of Kentucky Graduate Philosophy Conference, Lexington, KY, March 2008.
"The Amoral Leader: Plausible or Ridiculous?," paper presented at the Excellence in Ethics conference, part of the Leadership for Tomorrow series, Dublin, OH, November 2007.
"On Defining Leadership: A synthetic dialectic of selfhood and power," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Education, Chicago, IL, November 2007.
"Replacing a Utilitarian Teleology in Education: A meta-educational appeal," paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Philosophy of Education Society, Chicago, IL, November 2006.
