2024
Jan 21. Conversation about humility at Princeton Public Library. Details tbd
Jan 1. The Good-Enough Life discussed in The Guardian
2023
Dec 1. The Good-Enough Life chosen as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Nov 4th. Talk at Buddhism conference, Oxford University
May 25th. Workshop about The Good-Enough Life at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study. Organized by Fazil Moradi with Vladimir Safatle and Marina Garces.
May 16th. Talk at Global Solutions Summit, Berlin
April 6. Higher Seminar at Södertörn University, Philosophy Department.
February 20th. Lecture for The Philosopher digital events on The Good-Enough Life
2022
December 20th. Discussion with Kieran Setiya at the Cambridge Forum
November 26. The Good-Enough Life chosen as one of the Financial Times Critics’ Best Books of 2022
November 25th. Talk on solidarity & inequality at Canadian National Farmer’s Union conference.
Several reviews and interviews about The Good-Enough Life, including reviews in The Atlantic, TLS, and LARB
June 27th. Panel on humanities perspectives on the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth Report
April 20th. A discussion of The Good-Enough Life with Christy Wampole at Princeton Public Library, in association with Labyrinth Books. Details here.
April 14th. A discussion of The Good-Enough Life with Peter Catapano at McNally Jackson Williamsburg. Details here.
April 6th. A discussion of The Good-Enough Life with Ian Olasov at Brooklyn Public Library. Video here.
January 12th. On the CBC Ideas Podcast discussing a good-enough life.
2021
The Good-Enough Life is now available for pre-order from Princeton University Press.
September 4th, 5-7pm. An outdoor book launch for Shifter 25, Waiting, at Printed Matter, NYC. Details here.
April 26th 1-2:30pm. A discussion of Buddhism, literature, and mental health with Justin McDaniel, Hsiao-wen Cheng, & Jolyon Thomas at Slought.
April 23rd 3-4:15. A discussion of Global Origins of the Modern Self with Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Jane Gordon & Inés Valdez hosted virtually by the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis. Register for the event here
February 22nd. Publishers Weekly reviews A Partial Enlightenment.
January 28th. Shifter‘s Waiting series returns with the first of three events this year. More info here.
2020
November 20th. I will be speaking at a virtual forum on the work of Anton Wilhelm Amo sponsored by the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study.
November 16th. John Barbour reviewed Global Origins of the Modern Self for H-net reviews.
October 16th. A Partial Enlightenment is now available for pre-order from Columbia University Press
September 24th. My essay on how to work through racism in the history of philosophy appeared in Aeon.
September 17th. Shifter (edited by Rit Premnath and me), in collaboration with the MIT List Center and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, is beginning a monthly virtual lecture program on the theme of “waiting.” More details in the link.
August 14th. Marie-Clarté Lagrée reviewed Global Origins of the Modern Self for Global Intellectual History
May 26th. My essay on why “luck” is the wrong word to describe benefiting from inequality during covid-19 was published today in the Washington Post
May 4th. A Partial Enlightenment: What Modern Literature and Buddhism Can Teach Us about Living Well without Perfection is now under contract with Columbia University Press. (update: book is forthcoming Spring 2021)
April 17th. “Using Art.” IATP Spring Public Event: Gayatri Spivak in Conversation with Meleko Mokgosi, Anthea Behm, and Avram Alpert. Jack Shainman Gallery. *POSTPONED. PLANS TO RESCHEDULE FOR NEXT YEAR.*
March 12th. Interviewee for CBC Ideas Program Podcast on being good enough.
February 1st. Lecture as part of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Night of Philosophy and Ideas: “Against Greatness: The Case for the Good-Enough Life.” Event page. Audio Recording.
January 9th. Visual Art Forum: Sreshta Rit Premnath in conversation with Avram Alpert at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver. Event page.
January 2nd. Global Origins of the Modern Self, from Montaigne to Suzuki is now available in paperback. Publisher page.