Select Public Lectures
“Law and the Colonial Order of Things,” Smith College Philosophy Colloquium Series, Smith College, Northampton (MA), April 2025
“Law and the Colonial Order of Things,” delivered at The New School Philosophy Colloquium Series, The New School, New York (NY), November 2024
“Law and the Colonial Order of Things,” Philosophy in an Inclusive Key Summer Institute (PIKSI)-Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MA), July 2024
“Philosophy and the Crisis of Coloniality,” Perry World House Seminar Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA), April 2024
“Empire and the Question of Power Today,” Wake Forest Philosophy Colloquium, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem (NC), October 2023
“Empire of White Supremacy: An Alternative Genealogy of Modernity,” Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, Colorado College, Colorado Springs (CO), May 2023
“Law and the Imperial Genealogy of Modern Power,” Philosophy Department Colloquium Series, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign-Urbana (IL), December 2021
“From Sanction to Norm: Reconceptualizing the Role of Law in Foucauldian Governmentality,” Social and Political Thought Workshop Series, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (TN), April 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19)
Select Workshops & Roundtables
Speaker, “Empire and its Haunts—A roundtable discussion,” to take place at the 2025 American Anthropological Association (AAA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans (LA), November 2025
Participant, “The Order of Nomos” to be delivered at Critical Genealogies Workshop 2025, University of California Irvine, Irvine (CA), October 2025
Speaker, “Law as a Strategy of World-Making,” International Law’s Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (De-)Coloniality, Amsterdam Law School, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam (NL), June 2025
Panelist, “Law and the Colonial Order of Things,” Western Political Science Association (WPSA) 2025 Annual Meeting, Seattle (WA), April 2025
Speaker, “Law and the Colonial Order of Things,” You Must Retrace the Paths: Anti-Colonial Philosophy and its History Workshop, Union College, Schenectady (NY), May 2024
Panelist, “The Liberal Subject as Pre-Traumatized Subject: Fanon, da Silva, and the Racial Politics of Harm,” delivered at Fanon Unbound: Interdisciplinary Encounters with Frantz Fanon, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (PA), March 2023
Speaker, “White Supremacy and American Imperium,” delivered at Radical Philosophy Hour, Radical Philosophy Association (RPA), Zoom, October 2022
Speaker, “White Supremacy and American Imperium,” delivered at “White Supremacy, Misogyny, and the ‘New’ Terrorism” Conference, Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN) , Syracuse University, Syracuse (NY), June 2022
Panelist, “From Vietnam to Afghanistan: White Supremacy and American Imperium,” delivered at the Committee for Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies Panel (CAAPP), American Philosophical Association Conference: Central Division Meeting, Chicago (IL), February 2022
Panelist, “White Supremacy and the Future of Empire,” delivered at the “Race, Violence, and Precarity” Roundtable organized by the California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, 59th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), Zoom, September 2021
Scholar-in-residence, Ouray International Film Festival, Ouray (CO), June 2021
Presenter, “Trauma-Informed Justice: Law and the Racial Politics of Suffering,” Critical Phenomenology Workshop, Queen’s University, Zoom, June 2021
Podcast Appearances
Guest, “Teaching History with Games (Live at ‘Learning at Play’),” Scholars at Play, audio podcast, November 8, 2019
Guest, “Predators and Jokers – Persona 5,” Scholars at Play, audio podcast, June 5, 2018
Guest, “Games, Resistance, and Procedural Rhetoric,” Scholars at Play, audio podcast, September 26, 2017
Dr. Sabeen Ahmed 