PRESENTATIONS (Selected)

 

“On the Dharma of Critical Animal Studies: Animal Spirituality and Total Liberation” (with Erica von Essen), Elon University, NC, 2019 (Presenter: Allen)

 

“Cow Releases as Staged Liberations in Agri-Tourism” (with Erica von Essen), Rethinking Revolution: Nonhuman Animals, Anti-speciesism and Power, Meeting of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2019 (Presenter: von Essen)

 

“Is the Radical Animal Rights Movement Ethically Vigilante?” (with Erica von Essen), 50th Annual Meeting of the Tennessee Philosophical Association, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2018 (Presenter: Allen)

 

“Environmental Communication and the NIMBY Problem,” (with Erica von Essen), Spotlight on Environmental Communication, Virginia Association of Communication Arts and Sciences, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2018 (Presenter: Allen)

 

“A Rabble in the Zoopolis?  Considering Responsibilities for Wildlife Hybrids” (with Erica von Essen), Animals Wild and Tame -- Peering beyond Categories, University of Turku, Finland, 2016 (Presenter: von Essen).

 

“Wild-But-Not-Too-Wild Animals: Challenging Goldilocks Standards in Rewilding” (with Erica von Essen), Joint Meeting of the South and North Carolina Philosophy Associations, Appalachia State University, Boone, NC, 2016 (Presenter: Allen).

 

“From Obstructionism to Communication: Critical Deliberative Mini-Publics and the Wolf-Cull Controversy in Sweden” (with Erica von Essen), Political Ecologies of Conflict, Capitalism, and Contestation, University of Wageningen, The Netherlands, 2016 (Presenter: von Essen).

 

“The Republican Zoopolis: Towards a New Legitimation Framework for Relational Animal Ethics” (with Erica von Essen), South Carolina Philosophy Association, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC, 2015 (Presenter: Allen).

 

“Replies to Critics,” Author Meets Critics: Michael Allen, Civil Disobedience in Global Perspective, Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, TN, 2015. Critics: Shannon Fyfe and Amber Carlson, Vanderbilt University.

 

“Why Liberty is not a Morally Self-Contained Value: J. S. Mill and the Health of the Public,” Pacific Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, San Diego CA, 2014

 

“Civil Disobedience by the Undocumented,” Critical Theory Roundtable, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Mo, 2013

 

“Why Cyber-Harms are Not a Non-violent Alternative to War,” Meeting of Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Mercer University, Macon, GA, 2012.

 

“Non-Voluntary Civil Disobedients,” Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Washington DC, 2011

 

“Rationality and the Morality of Global Food Justice,” Spirituality, Rationality and Morality, Davis and Elkins College, WV, 2011

 

“Is Liberty Bad For Your Health?”  Social Justice: A Public Health Imperative, Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Denver, CO, Fall 2010

 

“Global Deliberative Politics and Humanitarian Intervention,” Communities of Justice, Baker Philosophy Colloquium, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 2009

 

“Transnational Civil Disobedience and the Transcultural Self,” Spirituality, Self, and Culture, Kolkata, India, 2009

 

“International Civil Disobedience and Humanitarian Intervention,” Freedom and Sovereignty, Globalization and Colonization, Davis and Elkins College, WV, 2008

 

“Civil Rights and Political Human Rights:  Contesting Human Rights Failures within Democratic States,” Human Rights, Individualism, Globalization, Bethany College, WV, 2008.

 

“Misrecognition and Domination in Transnational Democracy,” Critical Theory Roundtable, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, MO, 2007

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