2020

• Plenary Speaker, New Perspectives on Disability, philoSOPHIA: a society for continental feminism, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (May)

2019

• Panelist, Neurodiversity: Cognition, Alterity, and Ability in Science Fiction Literature & Panelist, Women Writers, Escape Velocity, National Harbor, MD (May)
• Author-meets-critics chair & panelist, Shelley Tremain’s Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability, American Philosophical Association, Pacific, Vancouver, BC, CA (April)
• “Building Bridges and Forging Learning Communities in Carceral Spaces,” with Pamela Cappas-Toro, Andy Eisen, and Jelena Petrovic, Colloquium on Teaching and Learning Innovation, Stetson University (Apr.)

2018

• “On The Language of Risk and the Marginalization of Bodies” (October)
  The Gift and Weight of Genomic Knowledge: In Search of the Biocitizen, hosted by The Hastings Center at Brooklyn Law School, Brooklyn, NY
• “Human Enhancement? A Disability-Rights Perspective” (April)
  Ethics of Enhancement Workshop, Rutgers University-Camden, Camden, New Jersey
• “Risking Ourselves: The Ethics of Risk Communication” (March)
  Philosophy and Medicine Conference, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, FL
• Commentary on Shelley Tremain’s Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (March)
  PhiloSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA

2017

• Author Meets Critics: Melinda Hall, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (November)*
  Florida Philosophical Association, Ocala, FL

*Thank you to panelists: Jaime Ahlberg (University of Florida); Christine Wieseler (University of Texas, McGovern Medical School)

• Commentary on Shelley Tremain’s Foucault and Feminist Philosophy of Disability (October)
  Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, London, ON, CA
• “Enhancement “Risks” Disability: Bioethics as Biopolitics” (October)
  Philosophy of Disability, the Tennessee Value and Agency Conference, Knoxville, TN
• “Human Enhancement? A Disability-Rights Perspective” (September)
  Philosophy Colloquium Series, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL
• Author Meets Critics: Melinda Hall, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (May)*
  Canadian Philosophical Association, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, CA
• Author Meets Critics: Melinda Hall, The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics (March/April)*
  PhiloSOPHIA: Society for Continental Feminism, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

*Thank you to panelists: Shelley Tremain (Independent Scholar / Coordinator, Discrimination and Disadvantage); Jane Dryden (Mount Allison University); Ladelle McWhorter (University of Richmond); Catherine Clune-Taylor (Princeton University)

• “Bioethics as Biopolitics: Risking Disability” (March)
  Invited Symposium: Disability, American Philosophical Association, Central Division, Kansas City, MO

2016

• “The Bioethics of Enhancement: Transhumanism, Disability, and Biopolitics” (November)
  Leon S. Peters Ethics Lecture Series, Ethics Center, California State University, Fresno, Fresno, CA
• “Reproduction of Risk: Zika, Gender, and Public Health Communication” (November)
  Biopolitics, Identity, and Discourses of Contemporary Public Health Panel, National Communication Association, Philadelphia, PA
• “3D-Printing the Neo-Liberal Subject: Mere Access to Emerging Technology is Not Enough” (September)
  Western Michigan University Medical Humanities, Kalamazoo, MI
• “Public Health and Risk Prevention: The Case of Ebola” (March)
  Bioethics: Preparing for the Unknown, Western Michigan University Ethics Center, Kalamazoo, MI
• “Race, Risk, and Ebola Panic” (February)
  Faculty Spotlight Series, Stetson University, DeLand, FL

2015

• “Bioethics in Catastrophe: A Reply to Liao, Sandberg, and Roache on Human Enhancement” (April)
  American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Vancouver, BC, CA
• “Disability, Vulnerability, and Revolt” (March)
  Kristeva’s Revolt and Reliance Seminar, American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA
• “Social Construction and Epistemic Harm” (March)
  Working Group on Human Rights, Social Justice, and Democracy, Stetson University, DeLand, FL

2014

• “Inflated Parental Responsibility and Reproductive Decision-Making” (November)
  Parental Responsibility and Disability Panel, Florida Philosophical Association, Tampa, FL
• “Bioethics in Catastrophe” (November)
  Todd Bates Memorial Lecture, Bethune Cookman, Daytona Beach, FL
• “Kristeva and the Medical Humanities: Alternatives for Clinical Ethics” (March)
  Kristeva Circle, Nashville, TN

2013

• “Transhumanist Utopias: Rethinking Enhancement and Disability” (December)
  Society for Philosophy and Disability Panel, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Baltimore, MD
• “Reciprocity and Trope: A Response to Christie Hartley’s Inclusive Contractualism” (November)
  Florida Philosophical Association, DeLand, FL
• “Bioethics and Climate Change: Tailoring the Human to a New Climate?” (October)
  Working Group on Human Rights, Social Justice, and Democracy, Stetson University, DeLand, FL
• “Monstrous Villains and Horrible Heroes: Images of Disability in Horror” (October)
  Philosophy on the Edge Series, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
• “What Enhancements and Why: The Tangled Relationship Between Disability Rights and Transhumanism” (June)
  Society for Disability Studies, Orlando, FL
• “Mere Deviation: Critically Assessing Prenatal Testing” (May)
  Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology Conference, Dallas, TX
• “Genetic Determinism is Still a Problem for Bioethics: Synecdoche and Stigma” (April)
  The Social and Political Thought Workshop, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

2012

• “Untangling Genetic Determinism: The Case of Genetic Abortion” (December)
  American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, Atlanta, GA
• “Raëlians before Congress: the Vile Sovereign in Bioethical Debate” (November)
  Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Rochester, NY
• “Translating Horror from Reality to the Small Screen: Doubling Disability in the Case of Robert Pickton” (October)
  Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy, Calgary, AB, CA
• “Abjection and Possibility: Exploring the Horror of the Disabled Body” (October)
  Kristeva Circle, Albany, NY
• “Leaving the Body Behind: Seeking Health in the 20th Century” (September)
  Western Michigan University Medical Humanities, Kalamazoo, MI
• “Choosing Health: The Dis/abled body and the Pregnant Woman” (September)
  Women and Food Workshop, Banff, AB, CA
• “Horrible Heroes: Alternative Visions of Disability in the Horror Genre” (June)
  Society for Disability Studies, Denver, CO

2011

• “Uneasy Alliances: Concerns Regarding Genetic Selection and Enhancement” (November)
  Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, TN
• “Selective Abortion and Disability: Justice for the Disabled” (September)
  Western Michigan University Medical Humanities, Kalamazoo, MI
• “What Makes a Livable Life? Objectivity in Fulfillment and the Disabled” (May)
  PhiloSOPHIA Feminist Society, Nashville, TN
• “The Pedagogy of Departure: Family and the State in Freud” (January)
  Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA

2010

• “A Dynamic Guide of the Perplexed: Imagination in Maimonides” (November)
  Tennessee Philosophical Association, Nashville, TN
• “Like Apples to Oranges, or, What is Wrong with Equality” (April)
  North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference, Kennesaw, GA
• “Results of ‘Experimenta in Corpore Vili’: Metaphors for Worker Bodies in Marx’s Das Kapital” (March)
  24th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• “Possibilities for Progress? Adorno and the Jugenstil Movement” (March)
  24th Annual Graduate Student Research Symposium, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
• “Results of ‘Experimenta in Corpore Vili’: Metaphors for Worker Bodies in Marx’s Das Kapital” (January)
  Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA