Christine Battersby
READER EMERITA IN PHILOSOPHY
ASSOCIATE FELLOW OF THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN PHILOSOPHY, LITERATURE & THE ARTS
I am a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), and was the visiting Fleishhacker Chair of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco during April 2013.
My research is thoroughly interdisciplinary, and includes feminist aesthetics; feminist metaphysics; the sublime; women and creativity; trauma; memory and forgetfulness; friendship and other relational networks. I have a particular interest in the following writers: Beauvoir, Kant, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Schopenhauer, May Sinclair and the poet H.D. (Hilda Doolittle).
During my past time at Warwick I was Director for the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature (2002-2005), as well as Course Convenor for the Centre of Women in Gender. I am currently on the Advisory Board for the The Edinburgh Critical Editions of the Works of May Sinclair (forthcoming).
A selection of my recent talks and interviews follows the list of published books and articles.
SINGLE AUTHOR BOOKS
The Sublime, Terror and Human DifferenceLink opens in a new window, London and New York, Routledge, 2007.
ISBN p.b. 978-0-415-14811-5; ISBN h.b. 978-0-415-14810-8; eBook ISBN10: 0203945611; eBook ISBN13: 978-0-203-94561-2
The Phenomenal Woman: Feminist Metaphysics and the Patterns of Identity, London: Polity Press; New York: Routledge, 1998. (Link to Taylor and Francis [US] site)
ISBN p.b. (UK) 9780745615554; ISBN h.b. (UK.) 9780745615547; ISBN p.b. (USA) 978-0-415-92036-0; ISBN h.b. (USA) 978-0-415-92035-3; ISBN eBook 978-0-203-72427-9 or 0203724275
Translated Extracts: ‘La donna fenomenale’, trans. Franco Restaino, in Adriana Cavarero and Franco Restaino (eds), Le filosofie femministe, Torino, Paravia, 1998, 249–51.
Anthologised Extract: ‘Her Body/Her Boundaries’, Feminist Theory and The BodyLink opens in a new window, eds Janet Price and Margrit Shildrick, Edinburgh University Press, 1999, 341–58.
Gender and Genius: Towards a Feminist Aesthetics London: The Women's Press, 1989 (h.b. ISBN 0-7043-5039-4) and 1994 (revised ed. p.b. ISBN 0-7043-4300-2); Indiana University Press, 1990 (h.b. 0-253-31126-8; p.b. 0-253-20578-6).
Digital Publication, Gender and GeniusLink opens in a new window Bloomsbury Philosophy Library: Contemporary Aesthetics Collection. Replication of 1994 p.b. ed. (0-7043-4300-2); ISBN eBook 978-1-3509-2679-0 (online), 2022. DOI 10.5040/9781350926790
Translation, Seibetsu to TensaiLink opens in a new window, trans. Kazuko Koike, Tokyo, Gendai Shokan, 1992, 357 pages (h.b. ISBN 4-7684--6608-7).
Anthologised Extracts:
— ‘Amongst the Ghosts’, in Women, Creativity and the ArtsLink opens in a new window, eds Diane Apostolos-Cappadona and Lucinda Ebersole, New York, Continuum Publishing Co, 1995, 27–41.
— ‘From Gender and Genius’ in Philosophy of Art: Readings Ancient and ModernLink opens in a new window, eds Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley, McGraw-Hill, 1995, 81–97.
— ‘From Gender and Genius’ in Aesthetics: The Big QuestionsLink opens in a new window, ed. Carolyn Korsmeyer, Blackwell, 1998, 305–14.
— ‘The Margins Within’ and ‘Postmodernism and the Female Author’, Art and InterpretationLink opens in a new window, ed. Eric Dayton, Peterborough,
— ‘The Clouded Mirror’, The Bloomsbury Anthology of AestheticsLink opens in a new window, eds Joseph J. Tanke and Colin Mcquillan, Continuum, 2012, 559–70. ISBN h.b. 1441138269; ISBN p.b.9781441138262.
EDITED JOURNALS
'Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy', Special issue of Hypatia (2000) 15(2), eds Christine Battersby, Catherine Constable, Rachel Jones, Judy Purdom.
Women’s Philosophy Review (General Editor, Autumn 1996–2000). All issues archived here: https://www.swipuk.org/archives.htmlLink opens in a new window. Responsible for editing and producing issues 17 (1997), 18 (1998), 19 (1998), 21 (1999), 23 (1999–2000), 24 (2000), also for publishing no 16 and Special Issues 20 (1998) & 22 (1999).
DIGITISED DPhil. THESIS
‘Hume’s Easy Philosophy: Ease and Inertia in Hume’s Newtonian Science of Man’, University of Sussex, 1978. (British Library, via EThOS SiteLink opens in a new window.) PLEASE NOTE British Library's EThOS site remains unavailable in 2024 after a serious ransomware attack in 2023. Access via the University of Sussex only until digital access is restored.
ARTICLES
Christine Battersby, 'The Obscured Childhood Home: May Sinclair, Samuel Butler and the Problem of HeredityLink opens in a new window', in May Sinclair in her TimeLink opens in a new window, eds Leslie de Bont, Isabelle Brasme and Florence Marie, 2024. Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée - PULM (Collection 'Present Perfect), Montpellier, France, pp. 87-106 , ISBN 9782367815091.
—'Schopenhauer's Metaphysics and Ethics: Mapping Influences and Congruities with Feminist PhilosophersLink opens in a new window', in The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Feminist PhilosophyLink opens in a new window, eds . S Lettow and T. Pulkinnen, 2022, Palgrave Handbooks in German Idealism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham., pp. 411-29; ISBN: 978-1137334749 h/b; 9783031131240 p/b; 1137334746. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13123-3_22.
—'Cavarero, Kant and the Arcs of Friendship', in Toward a Feminist Ethics of NonviolenceLink opens in a new window, eds Clare Woodford and Tim Huzar, Fordham University Press, 2021, pp. 109-20; ISBN: 9780823290086 h/b; ISBN: 9780823290093 p/b; ISBN: 9780823290109 eBook.
—'Simone de Beauvoir, Stream of Consciousness and Philosophical Fiction: Becoming a Self in the First Draft of She Came to StayLink opens in a new window'. Literature Compass, Volume 17, Issue 6, Special Issue on Stream of ConsciousnessLink opens in a new window, eds. Rebecca Bowler and Claire Drewery, June 2020, e12553, doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12553Link opens in a new window
— 'May Sinclair's Philosophy Books in The London Library (Part II)', published online, May Sinclair Society, open access, 12 May 2020.
— 'Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Make-UpLink opens in a new window', in Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics, eds Kuisma Korhonen; Arto Haapala; Sara Heinämaa; Kristian Klockars and Pajari Räsänen, Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield (Lexington Books), 2018, pp. 51-65; ISBN 978-0-7391-4177-9 h/b; 978-0-7391-4179-3 eBook.
— 'Female Creativity and Temporal Discontinuity: Slips and Skips of Remembrance in Nietzsche and FreudLink opens in a new window', Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 46 (1), December 2017, pp. 114-134. doi:10.1515/nietzstu-2017-0109.
— ‘The Man of Passion: Emotion, Philosophy and Sexual Difference’ in Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and MedicineLink opens in a new window, eds Penelope Gouk & Helen Hills, Routledge, 2017, ebook version of 2005 publication, 9781315244471, pp. 139–53.
— 'Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and the Grotesque in Contemporary Sculpture', in Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe, eds Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, et al., New York: Routledge, 2017, ISBN-10: 1138648175; ISBN-13: 978-1138648173; ASIN: B073FQZJXC; 978-0367667757 (Kindle), pp. 70-82.
— 'Feminist Aesthetics and the Categories of the Beautiful and the Sublime', in The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, eds Ann Garry, Serene J. Khader, Alison Stone, New York: Routledge, 2017, ISBN 978-1138795921 (h/b); ISBN 978-0367257989 (p/b); ISBN 978-1315758152 (e-book), pp. 485-497.
— 'Gillian Howie's Situated Philosophy: Theorizing Living and Dying "In Situation"', in On the Feminist Philosophy of Gillian HowieLink opens in a new window, eds D. Whistler and V. Browne, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016, pp. 145-164, ISBN 9781474254120 hb; ISBN 9781350067295 (p/b); ISBN 9781474254144 (EPub & Mobi e-book); 9781474254137 (pdf e-book).
— 'Recollections of Micheal Farrell's A Shorter History: Auvers-sur-Oise 1982', in Imagining a University: Fifty Years of the University of Warwick Art Collection, published by Mead Gallery, The University of Warwick, distributed by Manchester, Cornerhouse Publications, 2015, ISBN 978-0-9570404-7-2, 64-65.
— 'Genius and FeminismLink opens in a new window' in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2nd ed.), ed. Michael Kelly, Oxford University Press, 2014. Print ISBN-13: 9780199747108; eISBN: 9780199747115.
— 'H.D., The Postmodern and the Mending of Time: The Air War and "May 1943"', in H.D.'s Trilogy and BeyondLink opens in a new window, eds Hélène Aji et al., Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2014, ISBN 978-2-84016-193-6, pp. 19-26.
— '"By a Woman Wrought": Do We/Should We Still Care?Link opens in a new window', in Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity, ed. Diana V. Almeida, Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 2013, ISBN 978-3-0343-1072-7 pb, ISBN 978-3-0351-0549-0 eBook, 15-32.
‘"Behold the Buffoon": Dada, Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo and the Sublime’, in Nigel Llewellyn and Christine Riding (eds.), The Art of the Sublime, Tate Art Research Publications, January 2013. Online republication of 2010 essay.
— 'Kierkegaard, The Phantom of the Public and the Sexual Politics of Crowds', in Kierkegaard and the Political, eds Alison Assiter and Margherita Tonon, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012, ISBN13: 978-1-4438-4061-3; ISBN 1-4438-4061-0, 27 - 44.
— 'Singularity and the Female Self: Encountering the Other'Link opens in a new window, Women: A Cultural Review, 2011, vol. 22, nos 2-3, pp. 125 - 142. Special Issue on Situating the Self and on my work.
— '"Behold the Buffoon": Dada, Nietzsche's Ecce Homo and the Sublime', Tate Papers, Spring 2010, Issue 13.
— 'The Canon: Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray', Times Higher Education, 10 September 2009.
— 'Learning to Think Intercontinentally: Finding Australian RoutesLink opens in a new window', online (2009) publication of 2000 article from Christine Battersby, Catherine Constable, Rachel Jones and Judy Purdom (eds), Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy, Hypatia, 2000, 15 (2), 1–17.
— 'Flesh Questions: Representational Strategies and the Cultures of Birth', Women: A Cultural Review, 2006/7, vol. 17, no 3, pp. 290 - 309.
— ‘The Man of Passion: Emotion, Philosophy and Sexual Difference’ in Representing Emotions: New Connections in the Histories of Art, Music and MedicineLink opens in a new window, eds Penelope Gouk & Helen Hills, Ashgate, 2005, ISBN 9780754630586, pp. 139–53.
— ‘“In the Shadow of his Language”: May Sinclair’s Portrait of the Artist as Daughter
’, New Comparison, 2002, nos 33/4, 102–20.
— ‘Terror, Terrorism and the Sublime: Rethinking the Sublime after 1789 and 2001’, Postcolonial Studies, 2003, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 67–89.
— ‘Learning to Think Intercontinentally: Finding Australian Routes’ Link opens in a new windowin Christine Battersby, Catherine Constable, Rachel Jones and Judy Purdom (eds), Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy, Hypatia, 2000, 15 (2), 1–17.
— ‘Birth, Death and Metaphysics’, The Philosopher’s Magazine 1999, no 7, 49–50.
— ‘How to Radicalise Kant: Feminism, Difference and Artistic Taste’ in Aesthetic Theory, Art and Popular Culture, ed. Jostein Gripsrud, Bergen, Høyskole Forlaget, Kulturstudier 8, Nordic Academic Press, 1999, 11–32.
— ‘Situating the Aesthetic: A Feminist Defence’, Art and InterpretationLink opens in a new window, ed. Eric Dayton, Peterborough,
— 'Genius and Feminism' in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics Link opens in a new window(1st ed.), ed. Michael Kelly, Oxford University Press, 1998, vol. 2, 292–299.
— ‘Situating the Aesthetic: A Feminist Defence’, Thinking Art: Beyond Traditional Aesthetics, in Feminist Art Criticism: Selected Texts, ed. Ivan Strugar, Zagreb, Croatia, Centre for Women, 1998. Reprint of 1991 article.
— ‘Stages on Kant’s Way: Aesthetics, Morality and the Gendered Sublime’, Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality: The Big QuestionsLink opens in a new window, eds Naomi Zack, Laurie Shrage, Crispin Sartwell, Blackwell 1998, 227–44. Anthologised version of 1995 article (without appended translation).
— 'Her Blood and his Mirror: Mary Coleridge, Luce Irigaray and the female self', in Richard Eldridge (ed) Beyond Representation: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
— 'Just Jamming: Irigaray, Painting & Psychoanalysis' in New Feminist Art Criticism, ed Katy Deepwell, Manchester University Press, 1995.
— ‘Stages on Kant’s Way: Aesthetics, Morality and the Gendered Sublime’ in Feminism and Tradition in AestheticsLink opens in a new window, eds Peggy Z. Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer, University Park, PA, The Pennsylvania University Press, 1995, 88–114.
— ‘Antinomies: The Art of Evelyn Williams’, Antinomies: Works by Evelyn Williams, The Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, Catalogue Essay, 1994.
— ‘An Enquiry concerning the Humean Woman’, in David Hume: A Critical Assessment, ed. Stanley Tweyman, Routledge, 1995, 6 vols. Anthologised 1981 article.
— ‘The Female Sublime’, Women’s Art Magazine 1995, no. 58, 8–10.
— ‘Gender and the Picturesque: Recording Ruins in the Landscape of Patriarchy’ in Public Bodies–Private StatesLink opens in a new window, eds Jane Brettle and Sally Rice, Manchester University Press, 1995, 78–95.
— ‘Unblocking the Oedipal: Karoline von Günderode and the Female Sublime’ in Political Gender: Texts and ContextsLink opens in a new window, eds Sally Ledger, Josephine McDonagh and Jane Spencer, New York, London, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1995, 129–143.
— ‘Women of Substance’, Everywoman (May), 1995, 22–3.
— ‘“I am not a Philosopher”: Simone de Beauvoir and the Delirium of Genius’, Women’s Philosophy Review, 1994 (November), no 12, 36–42.
— ‘Her Body/her Boundaries: Gender and the Metaphysics of Containment’ in The Body, ed. A. E. Benjamin, Special issue of Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts 1993, 4, 30–39.
— ‘A Different View’, Art and Design 7, 1992, nos 3/4, 24-31.
— ‘“Hermaphrodites of Art and Vampires of Practice”: Problems of Women in Architecture’ in Architecture/ Space/Painting, ed. A. E. Benjamin, Special issue of Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts 1992, 3, 26–35.
— ‘Philosophy: The Recalcitrant Discipline’, Women: A Cultural Review 1992, 3 (2), 121–32.
— ‘Roars of Lionesses’, The Higher (Times Higher Education Supplement) no. 1017 (1 May 1992), 18. Reprinted in Women in Philosophy Newsletter, no 7 (1992).
— ‘The Architect as Genius: Feminism and the Aesthetics of Exclusion’, alba: Scotland’s Magazine for the Visual Arts 1991, vol. 1, no. 3, 9–17.
— ‘Recent Work in Feminist Philosophy’, Philosophical Books 1991, 32, 193–201.
— ‘Situating the Aesthetic: A Feminist Defence’, Thinking Art: Beyond Traditional Aesthetics, eds A. E. Benjamin and P. Osborne, London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, ICA Documents no. 10, 1991, 31–43.
— ‘Dirty Words for the Tate’, Women Artists Slide Library Journal, 1990, 33, 4–8.
— ‘Genius and “The Female Sex” in the Eighteenth Century’, Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 1989, no. 264, Transactions of the Seventh International Congress on the Enlightenment, Budapest, 1987 vol. 2, 909–12.
— ‘M and P, and M and F’, in D. W. Miller (ed.), To Myself from Others, University of Warwick, 1987.
— 'Father Nature in Ancient Rome’, in Archives of International Conference on Women’s History, Amsterdam, 1986.
— ‘An Enquiry concerning the Humean Woman’, Philosophy, 1981, 56, 303–12.
— ‘An Enquiry concerning the Humean Woman’ in Transactions of the Fifth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Pisa, 1979 , no. 18 (1981), The Voltaire Foundation, 1964–7.
— ‘Hume, Newton and “The Hill called Difficulty”’ in Philosophers of the EnlightenmentLink opens in a new window, ed. S. C. Brown, Sussex, Harvester, Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures vol. 12, 1979, 31–55.
— ‘The Dialogues as Original Imitation: Cicero and the Nature of Hume’s Skepticism’ in McGill Hume StudiesLink opens in a new window, eds D. F. Norton, N. Capaldi and W. L. Robison,
— ‘Morality and the Ik’, Philosophy 1978, 53, no. 204, 201–14.
— co-author Peter Wren Howard, The Tibetan Wheel of Life, Peter Wren Howard Publications, 1972, corrected ed. 1976.
RECENT TALKS AND INTERVIEWS
Christine Battersby, 'The Philosophy of CreativityLink opens in a new window', Interviewed by Rick Lewis, December 2022/January 2023, Philosophy Now, Issue 153, Theme Issue on Creativity, 12-13.
—'Genius, Creativity and Feminism', The Philosophy Project, Invited Lecture on Feminist Aesthetics for a Certificate Course on Feminist Philosophy, University of Delhi, Online, 9 August 2021. VideoLink opens in a new window.
—'"I'm Incorrigible!" Schopenhauer, Idealism and May Sinclair', IAPh 2021 (Conference on History of Women Philosophers and Scientists), University of Paderborn, Germany, Online, 20 July 2021.
—'With Schopenhauer at the Front: Sinclair’s War Journal and Related Texts,' Networking May Sinclair, Université de Nantes, France, Online, VideoLink opens in a new window, 24 June 2021.
—'Continental Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy: Slipping Through the Gaps,' Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference, 2020-21, Keynote TalkLink opens in a new window, 24 March 2021.
— 'With Schopenhauer at the Front: The Case of May Sinclair', Society for European Philosophy/Forum for European Philosophy Conference, Staffordshire University, Online, 31 October 2020.
—'Interview with Christine Battersby'Link opens in a new window, by Lili Zarzycki, The Architectural Review, 20 March 2020, Digital Edition on Masculinities.
—'The Pregnant Grotesque: Contextualising the Portrayal of Pregnancy in Contemporary Sculpture', Performing Identities Seminar, Department of Philosophy, State University of Milan, 28 May 2019.
—'Schopenhauer', Contribution to a conversation about Schopenhauer's philosophy with Professor Christopher Janaway and Dr Christopher Ryan organised by the Forum for European Philosophy in conjunction with the Society of European Philosophy, London School of Economics, 3 May 2019. Podcast: Listen hereLink opens in a new window or on YouTubeLink opens in a new window.
—'Cavarero, Kant and "Somebody to Lean On": Verona, Königsberg and the Relational Self', Plenary for 7th Annual Conference of The Society for Women in Philosophy, Ireland, Dublin City University, 26-28 April 2019.
—'Beauvoir’s Early Passion for Schopenhauer: On Becoming a Self', Forum Penser avec Simone de Beauvoir Aujourd'hui, Université Paris Diderot, Paris, 11 October 2018.
—'Simone de Beauvoir, Stream of Consciousness and Becoming a Self: Two Unpublished Chapters from She Came to Stay', Stream of Consciousness Centenary Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, 27 July 2018.
— 'The Sublime at Sea: From the Infinity of Surface to the Oceans of the Anthropocene', Keynote for Conference on the 21st-Century Sublime, University of Warwick, 17 July 2018.
— 'Cavarero, Kant and the Relational Self', Inaugural Warwick Continental Philosophy Conference (on Identity and Community: Metaphysics, Politics and Aesthetics), University of Warwick, 28 June 2018.
—'Re-imagining Creativity: Individuality without Individualism', University of Dundee Undergraduate Humanities Conference 2018, University of Dundee, 24 March 2018.
— 'Beauvoir’s Early Passion for Schopenhauer: Of Soap-Bubbles, Disappearance and After-Effects', Christina Research Seminar, Gender Studies Programme in the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art, University of Helsinki, 5 December 2017.
— 'Genius and Creativity: Revisiting the Debates', Public Lecture for Course on 'Feminist Perspectives in Artistic Production and Theories of Art (6th ed.) (pdf) , Azkuna Zentroa (Art Centre), Arriquíbar Plaza, 4, 48010 Bilbao, Spain, 28 October 2017.
— 'Cavarero, Kant and the Arcs of Friendship', Conference on Giving Life To Politics: The Work of Adriana Cavarero, The Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics, and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, Conference Presentation, 20 June 2017.
— 'Gillian Howie's Situated Philosophy: Theorizing Living and Dying "In Situation"', Arts & Humanities Research Institute and Philosophy Seminar, Dundee University, 22 March 2017.
— 'Female Creativity and Temporal Discontinuity: Slips and Skips of Remembrance in Nietzsche and Freud', Nietzsche, Feminism and Psychoanalysis Conference, Kingston University, 26 November 2016.
— 'Beauvoir’s Early Passion for Schopenhauer: Of Soap-Bubbles, Disappearance and After-Effects', AHRC Funded Workshop on German idealism and Early French Philosophy, Philosophy Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, Senate House London, 16 June 2016.
— 'Of Cyborgs, Robots and the Ethics of Drone Warfare', Research Seminar, Materialist Ecological Architectures, Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, 18 March, 2016.
— 'Of Cyborgs, Robots and the Ethics of Drone Warfare', Staff and Graduate Research Seminar, Philosophy Department, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 10 September, 2015.
— 'Authenticity and the Art Gallery Experience: Van Gogh’s Children, Micheal Farrell, Heidegger and Sartre', European Society for Aesthetics, Dublin, Conference Presentation, 11 June 2015.
— 'Three Models of Creativity: Individuality without Individualism', We (not I): On Creativity and Value, Symposium, South London Gallery, 2 May, 2015. Link to SymposiumLink opens in a new window plus Link to PowerPointLink opens in a new window and Audio link.Link opens in a new window
— 'Philosophy, Feminism and the Female Self', Minorities and Philosophy Society (Inaugural Event), The Philosophy Department, The University of Stirling, 17 April 2015.
— 'Drone Warfare on Stage': A discussion with Lucy Ellinson, Performer of the Monologue Grounded by George Brant, Studio, Warwick Arts Centre, 8 October 2015.
— 'H.D., Modernity and the Mending of Time: “May 14 says the Calendar” (in 1943 and 2014)', Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, University of Warwick, Coventry, 14 May 2014.
—'Cultures of Creativity: Shifting the Frame', Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture, St Mary's University, Twickenham, London, 19 February 2014.
—'Gillian Howie's Situated Philosophy: Theorising the Intersections of Self, Body and World', Contribution to Feminism, Materialism, Critical Theory: A Symposium in Honour of Gillian Howie (1965-2013), University of Liverpool, 16 December 2013.
— 'H.D., The Postmodern and the Mending of Time: The Air War and "May 1943"', contribution to a Panel at H.D. and Modernity: An International Conference, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, 7 December 2013.
— 'Of Cyborgs, Robots and the Ethics of Drone Warfare', Public Lecture, Trinity College, Dublin, 12 November 2013.
— 'Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and The Grotesque in Contemporary Sculpture', Plenary Lecture at a Conference on Motherhood in post-1968 European Women's Writing: Cross-Cultural and Interdisciplinary Dialogues, Senate House, London, 25 October 2013.
— 'Moses, Isis, Helen and the Religions of the Sublime', contribution to a Seminar on Modernism and Religion, Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Sussex, 31 August 2013
— 'What Did She Love? Grimm Reality, H.D.'s Everyday and the Mending of Time', contribution to a Panel on War and the Everyday, Modernist Studies Association Conference, University of Sussex, 30 August 2013.
— 'Theatrical Encounters: Metaphysics and the Sexed Self', invited contribution to a Symposium on Metaphysical Speculation in Contemporary Drama, co-organised by Chris Megson (Royal Holloway), Vicky Angelaki (University of Birmingham) and Elizabeth Tomlin (University of Birmingham), at the University of London, 9 July 2013.
— 'Of Cyborgs, Robots and the Ethics of Drone Warfare', Public Lecture, The University of San Francisco, 12 April 2013.
— Contribution to a Roundtable on the Effects of War on Society, Philosophy Department, The University of San Francisco, 10 April 2013.
— 'Struck by the Forgotten: Trauma and the Sublime in Nietzsche and Freud', Staff Seminar, Philosophy Department, The University of San Francisco, 9 April 2013.
—'The Poetry of H.D.', Undergraduate Seminar on War in Literature, Philosophy and Film, Philosophy Department, The University of San Francisco, 8 April 2013.
— 'A-Life, AI and B-Life: The Cognitive Sciences, Bare Life and Birthed Life', San Francisco Bay Area Feminist Workshop, 6 April 2013.
— 'Of Cyborgs, Robots and the Ethics of Drone Warfare', University of the West of England Philosophy Staff and Graduate Seminar, 6 March 2013.
— 'Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime and The Grotesque in Contemporary Sculpture', Seminar in MA Course in Gender, Culture and the Media, Goldsmith's University, 25 October 2012.
— 'Sea Changes: The Ebbs and Flows of the Oceanic Sublime', Plenary Lecture at a Symposium on Rona Lee: That Oceanic Feeling (art exhibition), John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, 13 October 2012.
— Roundtable contribution to The Political Aesthetics of Power and Protest, workshop linked to the Gendered Ceremony and Ritual in Parliament programme, Warwick University, 25 September 2012.
—Response to Ranjana Thapalyal, 'Crossing Cultures in Fleshy Metaphysics' (on Hinduism, metaphysics, and art education), Pedagogical Encounters: Feminist Philosophy and Education, The University of Dundee, Scotland, 22 June 2012, Engendering Dialogue III: Feminist Thought and Contemporary Debates in Art, Science and Education.
— 'By a Woman Wrought: Do We/Should We Still Care?', Plenary Lecture, Seeing Things Differently: Art, Philosophy and the Futures of Feminism, The University of Dundee, Scotland, 30 March 2012; Engendering Dialogue II: Feminist Thought and Contemporary Debates in Art, Science and Education.
— 'Re-appropriating Kant for Feminism', Debate with Rachel Jones (Dundee) and Stella Sandford (Kingston), The Oxford Forum for European Philosophy, Oxford, 10 February 2012.
— 'Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime, The Grotesque and the Art of Marc Quinn', Staff and Graduate Seminar, Braga, Portugal, 21 June 2011.
— 'By a Woman Wrought: Do We/Should We Still Care?', Plenary Lecture, Women and the Arts: Dialogues in Female Creativity in the US and Beyond, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, 17 June 2011, video.
— 'A-Life, AI and B-Life: The Cognitive Sciences, Bare Life and Birthed Life', Plenary Lecture, Conference on Bodies of Thought: Fleshy Subjects, Embodied Minds and Human Nature, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, 11 June 2011; one of series of conferences on Engendering Dialogue: Feminist Thought and Contemporary Dialogue in Art, Science and Education, podcastLink opens in a new window.
— Seminar on Chs 5 & 6 of The Sublime, Terror & Human Difference, Critical Theory & Spiritual Practice (Graduate Seminar), University of Oxford, 19 May 2011.
— 'Struck by the Forgotten: Trauma and the Sublime in Nietzsche and Freud', Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts, University of Warwick, Coventry, 7 December 2010.
— 'Kierkegaard, The Phantom of the Public and the Sexual Politics of Crowds', Plenary Speaker, Kierkegaard and the Political, University of the West of England, Bristol, 15 April 2010.
— 'But What if the Object Started to Emerge?', Doctoral Research Seminar, University of the Arts, London, 12 March 2010.
— '"Behold the Buffoon": Dada, Nietzsche's Ecce Homo and the Sublime', 'Wrong From The Start', Modernism and the Sublime, Tate Britain, 30 November 2009.
— 'Philosophy, Feminism and the Female Self', Philosophy Research Seminar, Oxford Brookes University, 25 November 2009.
— 'Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime, The Grotesque and the Art of Marc Quinn', 'The Friday Event', Public Lecture, Glasgow School of Art, 13 November 2009.
— 'The Sublime and Birth-Works', Seminar for graduate and undergraduate students, Glasgow School of Art, 13 November 2009.
— 'Celebrating Other Philosophers: Methodology, History and Philosophical Debate', Situated Selves: Phenomenology, Law and Aesthetics -- Celebrating the Work of Christine Battersby', Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, 30 - 31st October 2009.
— 'Natality, Materiality, Maternity: The Sublime, The Grotesque and the Art of Marc Quinn', Natality, Embodiment and the Maternal: Feminist Conversations', Keynote Speaker, University of Dundee Philosophy Conference, 28 - 29 May 2009.
— 'Harriet Hosmer, Laocoon and the Sublime' for an undergraduate course on Victorian Women, Travel and Europe, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 20 March 2009.
— 'Nietzsche's Ecce Homo as Autobiography' for an undergraduate course on Truth and Language in Modern Autobiographical Texts, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 19 March 2009.
— 'Struck by the Forgotten: Trauma and the Sublime in Nietzsche and Freud', Open Lecture/Seminar, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 18 March 2009.
— 'Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and the Picturesque' for an undergraduate course on Victorian Women, Travel and Europe, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 17 March 2009.
— 'Philosophy, Feminism and the Female Self', Rugby School, 12 February 2009.
— ‘The Sublime and Nietzsche', Gloucestershire Philosophical Society, Cheltenham Spa, 14 January 2009.
— 'The Female Sublime and the Feminine Sublime: Contemporary Problems concerning the Representation of Birth (The Case of Marc Quinn)', Penser le sublime au XXIe siècle, International Workshop I, FMSH/ EHSS/ CEHTA/ Maison Suger, Université de Paris X Nanterre/ British Academy/ DAAD, Fondation de Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris, 16 September 2008.
— ‘Sublime Mystery, Memory and Modes of the Belated: Nietzsche, Freud and the Discourses of Trauma’, Plenary Speaker, Trauma and the Sublime Conference, University of Swansea, 7 August 2008.
— '“Let the Devil wear Black”: Fate, Affirmation and the Laughter of Hamlet in Nietzsche and Schopenhauer’, Nietzsche Workshop, University of Warwick, 5 June 2008.
— ‘The Shocking Difference: Encountering the Other’, Special Honours Undergraduate Lecture/Seminar, The University of Dundee, 20 March 2008.
— ‘Sartre, Deleuze and the Ontology of Make-Up’, Staff and Graduate Seminar, University of Dundee, 19 March 2008
— ‘Nietzsche, the Sublime and the Shock of the Old’, Philosophy Society, Heythrop College, London, 5 March 2008.
