“Theorizing the Ethics of Forced Migration Beyond the State” to be presented at the International Studies Association - Human Rights, New York City, USA, 2016.
“Rawls, Race, and the Basic Structure” presented at the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, USA, 2016.
"Germany, the EU, and the ambivalences of the current ‘migration crisis’" presented at the Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies Conference: "Who Is Europe? Majorities and Minorities in a Changing Landscape, Toronto, Canada, 2016.
“Rawls, Race, and the Basic Structure” presented at the Association for Political Theory, Boulder, USA, 2015.
“Statelessness & Non-domination: Toward a Transnational Theory of Neo-Republicanism” presented at the Canadian Political Science Association, Ottawa, Canada, 2015.
“Statelessness & Non-domination: Contributions to a Critical Theory of Republicanism” presented at Philosophy and the Social Sciences conference of the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 2015.
“Statelessness & Non-Domination: A Normative Framework” presented at the University of Toronto Political Theory Research Workshop, Toronto, Canada, 2015.
“Re-theorizing Statelessness as Domination” presented at the Western Political Science Association Conference, Las Vegas, USA, 2015.
“Statelessness & Non-domination: Contributions to a Critical Theory of Republicanism” presented at the Fourth International Young Researcher's Conference, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014.
“Statelessness and Non-Domination: A Normative Framework” presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, Washington D.C., US, 2014.
“States Behaving Badly: State Practice & Bad Norms in the International Refugee Regime” (with C. D. Smith) presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, Washington D.C., US, 2014.
“A History of the Present: Theorizing Statelessness as Domination” presented at the Fourth World International Studies Committee Global International Studies Conference, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, 2014.
“States Behaving Badly: State Practice & Bad Norms in the International Refugee Regime” (with C. D. Smith) presented at the ISA Human Rights Joint Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 2014.
“A History of the Present: Theorizing Statelessness as Domination” presented at the Canadian Political Science Association, St. Catherines, Canada, 2014.
“Citizenship, Political Economy & Political Philosophy—What Can we Learn?” presented at the 7th CLPE Conference Law and Political Economy at York University, Toronto, Canada, 2014.
"States Behaving Badly: State Practice & Bad Norms in the International Refugee Regime" (with C. D. Smith) presented at the International Studies Association Conference, Toronto, ON, 2014.
"Between Citizen and Subject: Placing the People in Machiavelli’s Political Imagination" (with M. Suchowlansky) presented at the American Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, USA, 2013.
"Rethinking Membership: Statelessness, Domination, and the Limits of Contemporary Citizenship" presented at Philosophy and the Social Sciences conference of the Institute of Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic, 2013.
“Postnationalism in Europe? Tensions and Transformation in Contemporary German Citizenship” presented at Germany’s immigration and integration experience - Lessons for Canada, University of Ottawa, Canada, 2012.
“EU Citizenship in Europe & Germany: Normative implications of a ‘Postnational’ future” presented at the Future of EU Citizenship conference, York University, Toronto 2012.
“Postnationalism in Europe? The case of Germany” presented at the Canadian Political Science Association, Edmonton 2012.
“Postnationalism in Europe? Exclusions in Contemporary German Citizenship” presented at the University of Toronto Political Theory Workshop, Toronto 2012.
“Self-determination, legitimation and human rights: Revisiting the “Asian Values” debate” presented at the Western Political Science Association Conference, Portland, US, 2012.
"Democracy, Human Rights and the Contemporary Crisis of Citizenship" presented at the Royal Society of Canada Symposium "Literacy and Citizenship in the 21st Century," Ottawa, Canada, 2011.
"Self-determination, Legitimation and Human Rights: Revisiting the 'Asian Values' Debate" presented at the East Asian Perspectives on Political Legitimacy Workshop, HK University, Hong Kong, China, 2011.
“Tracking the Persistence of Exclusions in Contemporary German Citizenship” presented at the Western Political Science Association Conference, San Antonio, US, 2011.
“Political Community of Fate or Postnational ‘State’? The Persistence of Exclusions in Contemporary German Citizenship” presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, US, 2011.
"Political Community of Fate or Postnational ‘State’? Tensions and Transformations in German Citizenship” presented at the Toronto Group Conference for the Study of International, Transnational, & Comparative Law, Toronto, 2011.
"Toward a Republican Liberalism: Addressing Non-Domination's Exclusionary Entanglements" presented at the 2010 American Political Science Association Conference, Washington D.C., USA, 2010.
“Beyond the Boundaries of Law and the Borders of States: Remarks on a Relational Theory of Human Rights & Democratic Sovereignty” presented at Thinking (With)Out Borders, St Andrews, UK, July 2-3, 2010.
“Impossible Frontiers: The Problem with Sovereignty and Human Rights as Conditions of Self-Determination”presented at ‘Capital, Connections, Control’ Congress of Humanities & Social Sciences, Montreal 2010.
“Beyond the Boundaries of Law & the Borders of States: Remarks on a Relational Theory of Human Rights & Democratic Sovereignty” presented at the Canadian Political Science Association, Montreal June 1-3, 2010.
“Avoiding Democratic Exclusion: Arendt on the Burdens of Political Judgment” presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, US, 2010.
"The Claim to Inclusion: Statelessness and the Contestation of the Limits of Citizenship” presented at the Toronto Group Conference for the Study of International, Transnational, & Comparative Law, Toronto, 2010.
“Statelessness and the Contestation of Community: On the Interrelation Between Democracy and Global Justice” presented at the 2009 American Political Science Association Conference, Toronto, 2009.
“Tarrying with the Other: Arendt on Political Judgment & Democratic Inclusion” presented at the 4th International CLPE Conference, Knowledge in Labor, Work and Action, at York University, Toronto, 2009.
“Democracy and the Limit(ation)s of Citizenship: Towards a Contestatory Model of Democratic Inclusion” presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, 2009.
“Statelessness & the Contestation of Community: A Reply to Arendt's Critique of the Nation State” presented at the Future(s) of Critical Theory Conference at University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 2009.
“Beyond the bounds of Community: Democracy and the Refugee as a Site of Tension” presented at Refugees and the Insecure Nation: Managing Forced Migration in Canada, inaugural CARFMS Conference, York University’s Center for Refugee Studies, 2008.
“Re-theorizing Human Rights through the Refugee: On Arendt’s Critique of the Nation State” presented at Lives in Motion: The Transitional and Transnational Status of Displacement Conference, York University's Center for Refugee Studies, 2008.
"States of Fear: Re-conceiving International Sex Trafficking Policy Beyond Identities of Victimhood" presented at the University of Virginia’s Graduate Student Conference, 2008.
“On Arendt’s Critique of Human Nature & Absolute Sovereignty: Towards a Politics of Human Rights” presented at Northwestern University's ‘Second Nature’ Conference, 2007.