Talks 2023-24

  • ‘Scholarship as a Philosophical Way of Life: The Case of Leon Battista Alberti’, Columbia University Seminar in the Renaissance, New York, 14 November 2023 (online) 
  • ​‘Who Counts as a Philosopher? The Case of Marcus Aurelius’, How Legitimate is the Philosophical Canon? Concrete Applications from Greek and Chinese Philosophies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, October 2023
  • ‘Peter Paul Rubens and the First Modern Revival of Stoicism’, Stoicon 2023, October 2023, online, recorded at https://youtu.be/iJmT3oYPu6c?si=ccFyKuPazS4IWC2Q
  • ‘Marcus Aurelius, Life and Times’, Stoic Icons, public event organized by the Aurelius Foundation, Senate House, London, September 2023 

Talks 2022-23

  • ‘On the Idea of Spiritual Exercises’, What Exactly is Philosophy as a Way of Life? Boundaries, Crossroads, Deadlocks, IFILNOVA/NOVA University of Lisbon, July 2023 
  • ‘Stoic Business Ethics’, University of Nevada summer programme, Senate House, London, June 2023 
  • ‘Why Spiritual Exercises are not Spiritual’, Philosophy of Self-Cultivation, Royal Holloway University of London, Senate House, June 2023 
  • ‘Why Spiritual Exercises are not Spiritual’, De l’ascétisme: traditions croisées, nouvelles perspectives, l’École Normale Supérieure de Paris, May 2023 
  • ‘Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life’, Philosophy as a Way of Life Seminar, April 2023, Lisbon (online), recorded at https://youtu.be/QXDXRJL0CjA
  • ‘Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life’, London Philosophy Graduate Seminar, March 2023 
  • ‘Scholarship as a Philosophical Way of Life: The Case of Leon Battista Alberti’, Philosophy as a Way of Life, New Research Directions, Deakin University, Melbourne, December 2022 (online)

Talks 2021-22

  • ‘A Newly Recovered Stoic Account of Emotions?’, Seminario de Investigación en Filosofía Antigua y su Recepción, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, June 2022 (online)
  • 'How to be an Aristotelian', Ancient Philosophy Comes Alive, Plato's Academy Centre, May 2022, online 
  • ‘Aristotle and Philosophy as a Way of Life’, Ancient Philosophy Seminar, British School in Athens, April 2022 
  • ‘Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Renaissance’, Ancient Philosophy Seminar, Academy of Athens, April 2022
  • ‘A Newly Recovered Stoic Account of Emotions?’, Classics Research Seminar, University of Durham, March 2022 (online)
  • ‘Ancient Philosophy for the Masses’, Ancient World Research Cluster, Wolfson College, Oxford, February 2022 
  • ‘Revisiting the three topoi in Dissertationes 3.2’, II Brazilian Epictetus Seminar, December 2021 (online)
  • Two talks at Stoic-x London: The Stoic Journey, 25 September 2021, details here. 
  • 'How to be a Stoic', British Museum, 9 September 2021, online 

Talks 2020-21

  • 'Stoics Against Hope', Stoicon-x Ghent, May 2021, online
  • ’Training and Habituation in Book 3 of Epictetus’s Discourses’, Lectures croisées du livre III des Entretiens d’Épictète, University of Lyon 3 / École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, May 2021
  • 'Core Ideas in the Stoicism of Marcus Aurelius', Marcus Aurelius 1900th Anniversary Event, April 2021, online
  • 'Dante the Aristotelian Philosopher', Dante at Royal Holloway, March 2021, online 
  • ​'Stoicism and Hope', Libraries Sheffield, 8 February 2021, online
  • 'Epicurus and the Art of Happiness', Conway Hall Ethical Society, 31 January 2021, online 
  • 'How to Be a Stoic', The Philosopher Webinar​, November 2020, online
  • Talk for Stoicon, October 2020, online

Talks 2019-20

  • ’Training and Habituation in Book 3 of Epictetus’s Discourses’, Lectures croisées du livre III des Entretiens d’Épictète, University of Lyon 3 / École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 9-10th April 2020 - POSTPONED! 
  • ​‘The Rise of Modern Stoicism’, University of East Anglia, 18th March 2020 - POSTPONED! 
  • 'Introduction to Stoicism', Let's Talk Stoicism​, The Aurelius Foundation, London, 6th March 2020
  • ‘Philosophical Lives in the Renaissance’, Renaissance Research Seminar, University of Warwick, 19 November 2019  
  • In Conversation about Lessons in Stoicism, Ilkley Literature Festival, Yorkshire, 20 October 2019
  • ‘What Matters? Stoic Views about Value’, Stoicon-x London, 12 October 2019 
  • ‘For the Benefit of All: On Being a Social Stoic’, Stoicon, Athens, 5 October 2019 
  • ‘The Unthinking Sage: Marcus Aurelius on Spontaneous Ethical Action’, German Society for Ancient Philosophy (VI. Kongress der Gesellschaft für antike Philosophie), Frankfurt, 25 September 2019 

Talks 2018-19

  • 'Renaissance Metaphilosophy', Philosophy as a Way of Life in the History of Philosophy, King's College London, 28-29 June 2019
  • 'Nietzsche and the Stoic telos', Birkbeck Philosophy Research Day, Birkbeck, University of London, 25 May 2019 
  • 'Introduction to the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle', British Society for the History of Philosophy conference, King's College London, 24-26 April 2019
  • Two talks, on Stoic Value Theory and Stoic Training, as part of Practical Stoicism, a course at the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education, 9-10 March 2019
  • 'In Conversation with Sir Richard Sorabji', an Ancient World Research Cluster event, Wolfson College, Oxford, 29 October 2018 

Talks 2017-2018

  • ‘The Rise of Modern Stoicism’, UCL Summer School in Ancient Philosophy, University College London, London, 17 July 2018
  • ‘Self or Cosmos: Foucault versus Hadot’, Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life III, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, 2-3 July 2018
  • ‘Philosophical Lives in the History of Philosophy: A Case-Study for Philosophy as a Way of Life’, invited keynote talk at Art of Living / Art of Dying: Philosophical and Literary Perspectives, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, 21-22 June 2018
  • ‘Philosophical Lives in the Renaissance’, invited talk at Liberty, Irreverence, and the Place of Women in Early-Modern Italian Culture: A one-day Symposium in Honour of Letizia Panizza, Institute of Modern Languages, University of London, 11 May 2018
  • ‘Silent Sages and Vomiting Students: Epictetus on Habituation’, invited keynote talk at the British Society for the History of Philosophy conference, University of Durham, 12-14 April 2018
  • 'Popular Stoicism in the Twenty-First Century', keynote talk at A Contested Influence: Hellenistic Philosophy and Modern Thought from Nietzsche to Nussbaum, Nijmegen, 17-18 January 2018
  • 'Marcus Aurelius on Phantasia', Institute of Classical Studies Ancient Philosophy Seminar, London, 15 January 2018
  • ‘Pomponazzi’s Ethics and the Aristotelian Choice of Lives’, University of Padua, Aristotle in the Venetian and European Renaissance Workshop, 12-15 December, 2017
  • ‘Self-Knowledge and Living Harmoniously with Nature in Cicero’s De Officiis’, University of Utrecht, Stoic Self-Knowledge and Cosmopolitanism Workshop, Friday 3 November 2017
  • ‘Indifference and Affirmation: Michel Foucault on Stoic Fate and Providence’, University of Warwick, Post-Kantian European Philosophy Seminar, Tuesday 17 October 2017

Talks 2016-2017

  • ‘What was Hellenistic Philosophy?’, Philosophy in its Beginnings: On the Conceptualisation, Criticism, and Justification of Philosophy in Antiquity, keynote speaker, Humboldt-University, Berlin, July 2017
  • ‘Rethinking Philosophy as a Way of Life’, Reinventing Philosophy as a Way of Life II, Monash University Prato Centre, Prato, Italy, July 2017
  • ‘Marcus Aurelius on phantasia’, University of Paris ancient philosophy seminar, Paris, May 2017
  • ‘The Stoic Tradition’, keynote speaker for The Stoic Tradition, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, March 2017
  • ‘Preparing for the Worst: Stoics against Hope’, The Theological Virtues in Critical Perspective, University of Essex, February 2017
  • ‘Reply to Christopher Gill’, Virtues of Greatness: Approaches to the Past and Present of Magnanimity, University of Birmingham, January 2017
  • ‘What is Philosophy as a Way of Life?’, keynote speaker, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference, Deakin University, Melbourne, December 2016