Panel Chair and Discussant, “Hobbes and Spinoza’s Legacy;” paper presentations by Evelyn Flashner, Tyler Thomas, Rob Wyllie, and Amy Chandran with Gladden Pappin as discussant; APSA Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, September 15-18, 2022
Conference Co-Organizer, “Augustine: Frontiers of Pluralism: 21st Century Questions,” including 8 panels on Augustine and Critical Theory, Augustine and Feminism, and Augustine and Pluralism in Public Life; paper presentations by Vincent Lloyd, Toni Alimi, Boleslaw Z. Kabala, and Emily Dumler-Winckler; Villanova, June 14-17, 2022
Presenter (by invitation), “Against Lyotard: On Spiritual Play and the Decentered Self in Augustine’s Confessions,” Villanova Conference “Augustine: Frontiers of Pluralism: 21st Century Questions,” Villanova, June 14-17, 2022
Panel Chair and Discussant, The Individual and Political Reform in the Early Modern Politics; paper presentations by Evelyn Flashner, Tyler Thomas, Rob Wyllie, and Amy Chandran with Gladden Pappin as discussant; APSA Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, September 30 – October 3, 2021
Discussant (by invitation), Augustine’s Political Thought II, including papers by Peter Busch (“The Great Inconsistency: Augustine, Slavery, and the Character of a Republic”); Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo (“Just Force? Legitimate and Illegitimate Coercion Against Citizens in the City of God”); and Amanda Arulanandam (“‘City of Man, Cities of Pride:’ St. Augustine on the Political Effects of Superbia); Conference Within a Conference on Medieval Political Thought, SPSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 7 – 9, 2021
Presenter (by invitation), “Towards an Augustinian Liberalism and (at the same time) Republicanism: Resources to Strengthen Democracy in the Thought of the Bishop of Hippo,” Conference Within a Conference on Medieval Political Thought, SPSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 7 – 9, 2021
Presenter, “Augustine and Contemporary Republicanism: on Speech as Domination,” Political Science Writing Seminar, Tarleton State University, Department of Government, Legal Studies, and Philosophy; October 31, 2019
Attendee, APSA Annual Meeting, August 30 – September 1, 2019, Washington, DC
Presenter, “The Return of the Intolerant Hobbes,” Political Science Writing Seminar, Tarleton State University, Department of Government, Legal Studies, and Philosophy; February 27, 2019.
Presenter, “Judicial Review vs. Supremacy: the Connection to a 17th Century Debate,” Seminar in Political Science, Princeton University, May 29, 2018
Co-Convener, Conference on Augustine and Political Theory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, April 16, 2018
Discussant, “Searching for Meaning in the Terrene City: Augustine and Politics” – The Quest for Legitimacy: Actors, Audiences, and Aspirations, APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, August 31 – September 3, 2017
Presenter, “The Return of the Intolerant Hobbes,” Political Science Writing Seminar, Duke University, Department of Political Science, Durham, NC, September 26, 2016
Panelist, Hobbes Panel: Political Thought and Philosophy—Historical Approaches, APSA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, September 1 – 4, 2016
Participant, Writing and Publishing Seminar, Duke University, Department of Political Science, Durham, NC, Fall, 2016
Participant, Program in Effective Public Service and Leadership,The Institute for the Public Trust, Raleigh, NC, Fall, 2016
Presenter, Yale Political Theory Workshop, “Hobbes, The New Secular Clerisy, And Spinoza’s Concern,” Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 27, 2016
Participant (by invitation), Duke University, “Michael Walzer Seminar on Spheres of Justice and On Toleration,” Durham, NC, April 14, 2016
Attendee (by invitation), Philadelphia Society Spring Meeting Panels, including: “Reconsidering the Culture of Free Markets” and “Can We Restore Fiscal Prudence and National Solvency?” Charlotte, NC, April 2, 2016
Participant, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Portland Leadership Conference, “How Markets Work,” Tigard, OR, July 14 – 16, 2015
Discussant, Yale University, Religion and Politics Colloquium, “Tocqueville in Arabia,” Professor Joshua Mitchell, November 28, 2011
Participant, Intercollegiate Studies Institute Seminar, “What So Proudly We Hail,” Harvard University, November 5, 2011
Discussant, Yale University, Religion and Politics Colloquium, Professor Theda Skocpol, “The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism,” Oct 17, 2011
Presenter, Duke University, American Thought Workshop run by Visiting Professor Danilo Petranovich, “Woodrow Wilson and Progressivism,” November 12, 2009
