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Talks and Conference Presentations

Upcoming/Recent​ Talks

Mar 16, 2026, ""Why Not a Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine? "

Sigma Club Seminar, London School of Economics, UK

Apr 20, 2026, "Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄): Breaking Parity Against Disparity"

Science Studies Colloquium, UC San Diego, CA, US

Jul 12-16, 2026, "Patchwork Gravitation" in symposium Shifting Perspectives on Histories of Gravity and Mass 2The 2026 European Society for the History of Science/History of Science Society Joint Meeting, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Jul 22-24 2026, "Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄): Breaking Parity Against Disparity"

Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026, Singapore

Nov 19-22,  2026, Symposium “Fields, Matter, and Spacetime,” Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA, US

PSA 2022, Pittsburgh, US

Past Talks

Mar 3, 2026, "Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄): Breaking Parity Against Disparity"

  • Institute for Science in Society, Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands 

Mar 2, 2026, "Why Not a Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine? " 

Feb 26, 2026, ""Why Not a Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine? "

Sep 2025, "Nothing Matters

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Sep 2025, "Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄): Breaking Parity Against Disparity"

  • Philosophy Speaker Series, New York University Shanghai, Shanghai, China

May 2025, "Why Not a Gravitational Perpetual Motion Machine?" 

May 2025, "Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄): Breaking Parity Against Disparity" 

  • Science Studies Graduate Symposium, University of California San Diego, US

Nov 2024, "Nothing Matters" 

  • Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Biennial Meeting, New Orleans, US

  • Winner of the Mary Hesse Award 2024

Jul 2024, "Nothing Matters, or What Machians Should Say about Vacuum Solutions in GR" 

  • British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS) Annual Conference, York, UK

Jun 2024, "Chien-Shiung Wu (吴健雄): Breaking Parity Against Disparity" 

  • Feminist Philosophy of Physics Workshop, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, US

Jun 2024, "Nothing Matters" 

Jul 2023, "Are Symmetries Laws of Laws?" 

  • European Conference on Foundations of Physics, Bristol, UK

Jun 2023, "Values and Statistics in Algorithmic Fairness" 

  • Science, Values and Policy Workshop, Yosemite, CA

Jan 2023, "Algorithmic Fairness: A Statistical Problem in Social Contexts?" 

Nov 2022, "Are Symmetries Laws of Laws?" 

  • Philosophy of Science Association (PSA) Biennial Meeting, Pittsburgh, US

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