Conference Presentations

Refereed Presentations

“Trust and AI” (with Carolyn McLeod), Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), George Brown College, Canada, May 2025.

“Harm Reduction and Actionable Harm: A Guideline for Expansion” North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP), American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific Division Affiliate Group Session, San Franscisco, USA, April 2025.

“Harm and Social Location” American Philosophical Association (APA) Pacific Division, San Francisco, USA, April 2025.

“Harm Reduction in Novel Contexts: A Feminist Relational Account,” Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), McGill University, Canada, June 2024.

“Algorithmic Harms and Algorithmic Wrongs” (with Nathalie DiBeradino and Luke Stark), ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2024.

“Harm and Artificial Intelligence,” From Inequality to Justice: Law and Ethics of AI and Technology, Law and Technology Institute, Dalhousie University, Canada, June 2023. 

“Toward a Feminist Account of Harm” Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA), York University, Canada, May 2023.

“A Harm Reduction Approach to Medical AI” Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (CSSPE), York University, Canada, May 2023.

“A Feminist View of Medical AI Harm” International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE 2023), Illinois Institute of Technology, USA, May 2023.

“A Feminist Perspective on the Benefits of Collective Action,” Social Ontology & Collective Intentionality, University of Vienna, Austria, August 2022.

“Trust, Distrust, and Human Interactions with AI,” SAS 21: Trust in Science, HLRS Stuttgart, Germany, October 2021.

“Reasonability Facades” MANCEPT Workshop: Prudence and Politics, University of Manchester, UK, September 2021.

“Reasonability Facades: A Flaw in the Deliberative Model of Democracy,” Knowledge and Power: Epistemic Conflicts in Democracy, University of Essex, UK, July 2021.

“A Modified Account of Explanatory Fictions in Science,” Rotman Graduate Student Conference: Complexity and Explanation, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University, Canada, May 2021.

Invited Talks

“Understanding AI Harm,” Sustainable AI Lab, Bonn University, Germany, April 2025.

“Earning Trust: Lessons from Harm Reduction” Practices of Trust Symposium, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany, April 2025.

“Distrust in Human Interactions with AI,” IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society, CARE-AI Special Session, Universities of Guelph and Waterloo, Canada, October 2021.

Workshops

“Trust and AI” (with Carolyn McLeod), Human-AI Relationships Research Retreat, Rotman Institute of Philosophy, Western University, Canada, May 2025.

“Algorithmic Harms and Algorithmic Wrongs” (with Nathalie DiBeradino and Luke Stark), (Dis)Trust and AI: Perspectives Across Disciplines and Sectors (Work-in-Progress Workshop), Western University, Canada, October 2023.

“Health Care Barriers Imposed by a Lack of Social Supports: Social Isolation and the Need for Relational Autonomy,” Southwestern Ontario Feminism and Philosophy Workshop, University of Waterloo, Canada, December 2021.