Talks

Upcoming Talks/Events (* = invited talks):

December 2025: “Emotional Injustice and Masculinity”, Ruhr-Universität Bochum

January 2026: “trans Affekt(e) – zwischen Norm und Abweichung”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (AG feministische Philosophie)

January 2026: Panel on trans philosophy and philosophy of Disability, with Perry Zurn, Tamsin Kimoto, Andrea Pitts, Philosophy, Disability and Social Change Conference (Online)

*February 2026: “Affective Restrictions and the Production of Pseudo-Cohesion in Masculinity”, Workshop Social Cohesion and Interpersonal Attitudes, Aarhus University

Selected Talks (* = invited):

*November 2025: “Trans Philosophy of Emotion”, Universität Zürich

*November 2025: “Introduction to Trans Philosophy” (with Sigmond Richli), Universität Wien

*November 2025: “Affective Politics around Gendered Selves: Transness and Masculinity”, Workshop The Self as a Political Problem, Human Abilities Berlin

*September 2025: “Masculinity, Affect, and Emotional Injustice”, Research Seminar at the Centre for Ethics, University of Pardubice

August 2025: Book Symposium “Scripts and Social Cognition” @ Social Ontology 2025, with comments by Eline Gerritsen & Anna Klieber

*July 2025: “Regulating Gender, Regulating Affect: The Case for Emotional Injustice”, Workshop: The Human Ability for Emotional Coregulation, Berlin

June 2025: “Fuckboys, Fags, and Daddy Issues: (De)constructing Masculine Affect”, with Tris Hedges, Panel at EPSSE 2025

*June 2025: “trans Affekt(e) erfassen”, Lecture Series on first-generation academics, Universität Stuttgart

May 2025: Book Launch “Scripts and Social Cognition” @ TU Berlin, with comments by Rebekka Hufendiek and Quill Kukla

*May 2025: “trans Affekt(e) erfassen”, Universität Zürich

*May 2025: “Do scripts track injustice, and if so, how?”, Workshop Linguistic and Philosophical Perspectives on Normative Generics, Scripts, and Stereotypes, University of Konstanz

*April 2025: Online Panel: Philosophy and Social Media: The Good, the Bad, and the Future, Swansea University

February 2025: “What is Affective Polarization and how affective is it, really?”, 11th Congress of the Austrian Society for Philosophy

*December 2024: “Transness, Social Media, and Emotion: How Online Spaces shape Trans Affect”, Cardiff University

*October 2024: “Divergent Emotions”,  New perspectives on neurodivergence: the epistemic, political, and ethical dimensions of conceiving differences versus deficits, organized by Cristina Borgoni, University of Bayreuth

*September 2024: Commentary, Talia Bettcher, Trans Philosophy Panel, Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie

July 2024: “Gender Scripts and Gendered Scripts” (with Sam Hesni), Social Ontology (ISOS) 2024

*July 2024: “Gender Scripts and Gendered Scripts” (with Sam Hesni), Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm, organized by Willow Starr, Quill Kukla, Elin McCready, at TU Berlin

*July 2024: “Emotional Injustice, Gender Norms, and Masculinity”, Kolloquium Prof. Monika Betzler, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (D)

June 2024: “How to be a Man: Gender Norms and Emotional Injustice”, Emotion & Society Lab (Host: Myisha Cherry)

*June 2024: “Transfeindlichkeit als interaktionale Ungerechtigkeit“, GAP-Ringvorlesung “Ein Streit um wichtige Worte”, HHU Düsseldorf (D) (Hybrid)

June 2024: “Perceiving emotion: the role of scripts and concepts”, EPSSE 2024

*May 2024: KEYNOTE “Emotional Injustice”, Young Minds: A Conference on Philosophy and Marginalized Identities, Universität Hamburg (D)

*March 2024: “Zugehörigkeit und Marginalisierung auf sozialen Medien”, Seminar Prof. Anne Siegetsleitner, Universität Innsbruck (AT)

*January 2024: “How to be a Man: Emotions, Gender Norms, and Masculinity”, FemPhil Kolloquium Prof. Christine Bratu, Universität Göttingen

*November 2023: “Trans Perspectives in Philosophy of Mind”, SWIP Germany Annual Conference, Berlin 

August 2023: “Scripts, Norms, and Social Appropriateness”, Social Ontology 2023, International Social Ontology Society, Stockholm (Sweden)

*July 2023: “How to be a Man: Emotions, Gender Norms, and Masculinity”, WOGAP (Workshop on Gender and Philosophy), Berlin

*June 2023: “Scripts, Injustice, Social Cognition”, Feminist Philosophy of Mind Conference, Arglab, IFILNOVA, NOVA University of Lisbon

*April 2023: “Approaching Trans Philosophy from an Activist Perspective”, Workshop on Philosophy and Activism, HU Berlin

*April 2023: “Pathologizing Trans Identities: Emotional Marginalization and Mental Health”, Workshop: Radical and critical approaches to understanding and supporting mental health, CRÉ Montreal

March 2023: “Scripts in Social Cognition”, at the 4th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind, Braga (PT)

*December 2021: “Pathologizing disabled and trans identities: how emotions become marginalized” for the conference Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2, Online

*March 2021: “Emotional Expressions as Social Practices: How Social Scripts shape our Emotion Performance” for the workshop The Role of Emotions in Epistemic Practices and Communities at Freie Universität Berlin (D)

*December 2020: “Social Construction 3.0: A Performative Theory of Emotion“, with Jesse Prinz, Online, Host: Network for Critical Emotion Theory.

*February 2020: “Social Interaction in the Digital Space: Reproducing Discriminatory Social Behaviors Online” for the conference Diversity in Cognition at TU Dortmund (D)

July 2019: “Scripted Emotion Concepts”, at the Meeting of the International Society for the Research of Emotion (ISRE), Amsterdam (NL)

*March 2019: Einstein Visiting Fellow’s Lecture: Jesse Prinz & Gen Eickers: “Beyond Innateness and Construction: A Performative Theory of Emotion”, Berlin School of Mind and Brain (D)

April 2018: “Is Emotion Recognition Scripted? Emotional Expressions as Social Signals”, 5^thannual workshop of ECOM (Expression, Communication, and the Origins of Meaning research group), University of Connecticut (US)

August 2017: “What is social interaction?”, ESPP 2017, University of Hertfordshire

July 2017: “Emotions and Social Alignment”, Meeting of ISRE 2017, Amsterdam (NL)