Down the Line

Coming Events

I’m presenting at the Heidegger Circle in May 2024.

Recent Past Events

2024

I presented work on Heidegger and birth and death at the History of Philosophy Society conference on the theme of the future in Seattle, WA in April.

I spoke on a book panel on Marguerite Deslauriers’ book, Aristotle on Sexual Difference: Metaphysics, Biology, Politics at the Pacific APA in March. I reviewed this book in Polis as well.

2023

In September, I presented new work on autochthony and Aristotle at the Hypatia 50th Anniversary conference in Eugene, OR.

In September, I presented at the inaugural Midwest Continental Philosophy Workshop of the Lower Eastern Midwest on Badiou and Sexual Difference.

In May and June, I gave four talks in Turkey, two at METU in Ankara, one at Galatasaray University and one at Üsküdar University in Istanbul. Two were on my reading of matter in Aristotle’s biology and two on my argument for why Badiou’s politics does not need sexual difference feminism.

In April, the Ancient Philosophy Society hosted a book panel on my book, Aristotle on the Matter of Form. Sophia Connell presented.

2022

I presented on a panel on the work of Walter Brogan, founding member of the Ancient Philosophy Society, at the APS satellite meeting of SPEP in College Station, TX in October 2022.

I spoke on “Evental Errors: Nature in Badiou’s Scientific Event and Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun,” at the Association for Philosophy and Literature in Banff, Canada in May 2022. 

I presented on “The Specter of Slavery in Aristotle’s Mixed Regimes and the City in Prayer,” at the History of Philosophy Society in Waco, TX at the end of April 2022.

I presented about my 2019 book at the Feminism and Classics 2020 — postponed and still held virtually in 2022 — conference.

2021

Presented paper on “The Art of Measure, Hedonism, and Akrasia in Plato’s Protagoras” at the Ancient Philosophy Society’s June 2021 meeting online.

2020

Author Meets Critics panel on Serene Khader’s book, Decolonizing Univerisalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic, sponsored by the Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World at the Eastern APA meeting in January 2020.

Spoke on “The Specter of Slavery in Aristotle’s Mixed Regimes and the City in Prayer,” at a panel on Political Dysfunction at the Central APA in February 2020.

2019

I presented on Plato’s Republic on November 14 at Boston College at 7:30 PM in the Boston Area Colloquium on Ancient Philosophy (BACAP) 2019-20 series.

2018

In March I began work as the editor of the Women in Philosophy series at the American Philosophical Association blog. Posts for series go up every other Wednesday at 3 pm Eastern. If you want to pitch an idea for the blog, email me at trotta@wabash.edu

I gave the keynote at Ball State’s Conference for Pre-College Philosophy on April 16 on “Reading Plato’s Cave in the Cave” to a group of high school students, as well as to the college students organizing the event. Was so impressed by the thoughtful and relevant questions from the high school students. The kids are alright.

I was the invited Speaker for the induction ceremony for Phi Sigma Tau, the International Honor Society in Philosophy, at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock on April 13. I found out two hours after I landed that the event was canceled due to flooding, but we rescheduled via video conference for the following week.

On March 1, 2018, I was honored to be invited to present a chapel talk at Wabash on “Nasty Snake-Filled Heads and the Workings of Ideology.” Watch it here!

2017

I presented a paper on polytheism and democracy along the lines of my post on “Philosophy and Monotheism, Politics and Democracy” at SPEP in Memphis on October 21, 2017 that resulted in one of my favorite conference tweets from a member of the audience.

@AdrielTrott "this is the problem with bringing #Deleuze up in a paper" #SPEP17 #whatthehelldidhemean?

— Andrew Dunstall (@lemetaphysicien) October 21, 2017

2016

I presented the Annual Rukavina Lecture in Philosophy at Gonzaga University on October 6, 2016 at 4:30 PM on “The Physics and Metaphysics of Sexual Difference in Aristotle’s Biology.”

2015

A book panel on my book at Antioch College with panelists Kevin Miles of Earlham College and Lewis Trelawny-Cassity of Antioch was sponsored by the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s Ancient Philosophy Teaching and Research Collaborative Initiative.

2014

I presented on “Politics, Nature, Action: An Arendtian Aristotle Against Arendt’s Aristotle,” at the American Political Science Association in August 2014. The panel was co-sponsored by the Society for Greek Political Thought.

On March 16, 2014, I gave the keynote lecture at the Pennsylvania Circle for Ancient Philosophy which met at Villanova University (Storify curated by Chris Long). #PCAP14 I gave an earlier version of this talk at the University of South Florida in January.