Events
In April 2026, I will host the American Weil Society’s annual colloquy at Texas A&M.
In the fall of 2023, we hosted Christopher Paul Harris for a book lecture.
In the summer of 2023, I co-hosted a workshop on Simone Weil with Fannie Bialek.
In the fall of 2022, we welcomed Frieda Ekotto and William Paris to speak at a campus-wide event.
Series
Starting in 2020, I ran the series Ethics & Caribbean Philosophy:
Tavia Nyong’o, Black Humanitarianism .
Romy Opperman, Sylvia Wynter’s Critique.
Don Deere, Édouard Glissant’s Sense of Space.
Samantha Noël, Black Modernism.
David Scott, Stuart Hall’s Ethics.
Zifeng Liu, Claudia Jones and China.
Kris Sealey, Creolizing the Nation.
Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez, Édouard Glissant’s Ethics.
Conferences
In June 2022, I hosted a conference on Hannah Arendt’s notion of the right to have rights.
In May 2022, I hosted a workshop on humanism and human rights.
In 2021, I organized the conference The Ethics of Human Rights at the University of Toronto.
Interviews
2025
‘Nous réclamons le droit à l’opacité’: Glissant and the Ethics of Human Rights, Third World Approaches to International Law Review.
Decolonizing the Human: Beginning from Edward Said’s humanism, Edinburgh University Press Blog.
Choose Your Bearing, New Books Network.
2023
Simone Weil on Coöperation, 13/13 Seminars at Columbia.
Decolonizing the Human, Edinburgh University Press Blog.
American Philosophical Association Book Spotlight: Choose Your Bearing, APA Blog.
American Philosophical Association Book Spotlight: Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy, APA Blog.
Don’t Save Yourself, Save the World: A Dialogue with Vincent Lloyd, Public Books.
2022
Theses for Theory in a Time of Crisis, COVIDCalls.
Praying by Looking: An Interview with Jordan Kisner, Rain Taxi.
2021
This Anxious Present: An Interview with Ben Ehrenreich, Rain Taxi.
The Human Journey: An Interview with Micheline Aharonian Marcom, Rain Taxi.
2019
A Shaming, Damning, Beautiful Moment: An Interview with Stephen Markley, Rain Taxi.
Benjamin P. Davis 