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Here are some of my philosophical, academic, and creative projects.

Selected Conference Presentations

2024. "Attending against Self-Assertion," Mapping Attention: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, University of Galway, April 18-19.
(I wrote a review of this conference available in the Iris Murdoch Review, No. 15.)

2023. Poster: "The Women in Parenthesis Podcast," Wartime Quartet: Significance, Legacy, Spirit, Durham University, June 7-9.

2022. "Introducing the Wartime Quartet and Iris Murdoch's Philosophical Project," Guest lecture for: Analytic Philosophy in Origin (taught by Robbie Moser), Mount Allison University, October 19.

2022. "The Internet Kestrel: Iris Murdoch and Attending Online," Tenth International Iris Murdoch Conference, University of Chichester, June 24-26.

2022. "A Moral Epistemic Practice," The Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) Congress 2022, Université de Montréal, Online, May 17.

2021. "Cora Diamond and Philosophical Clarity," co-authored and co-presented with Robbie Moser, The Atlantic Region Philosophers Association (ARPA) 2021 Annual Meeting, Mount Allison University, Online, October 22-23.

2021. "Recovering Private Meaning," Iris Murdoch Conference, University of Chichester, Online, July 15.

Publications

2024. "Pictures of Self in Iris Murdoch's Unselfing," MA Thesis, University of Guelph.

2021. "Murdochian Moral Privacy," BA Thesis, Mount Allison University.

2020. "Know Thyself to Un-Thyself," Atlantic Journal of International Studies (ATLIS), 15: 18-21.

2019. "Governing over Contradictions of Law," Atlantic Journal of International Studies (ATLIS), 14: 22-30.

Other Creations

2021. "Echo" and other selected poems, Broadside Launch, Hardscrabble Press, Online, Sackville NB, October 26.

2021. Fireside (composition), performed by Margaret Hancox, New Music @Mount Allison, Mount Allison University, April 9.

2019. Homesickness and Micro (compositions), performed by Kaitlyn Archambault, Emily Leavitt, Kristopher Williams, Student Composition Concert, Mount Allison University, November 25.

Other Writing

2025. "Opinion Piece on Governmental Representation."

Amy Ward with her poem Echo