Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Steven Best Associate Professor Departments of Humanities and Philosophy University of Texas El Paso, TX 79968

Education

College of Du Page, Illinois 1977-79 (Associate of Arts in Film and Theatre)

University of Illinois (CU) 1979-83 (B.A. with distinction, Philosophy)

University of Chicago 1985-7 (M.A., Philosophy)

University of Texas, Austin 1989-1993 (Ph.D., Philosophy)

Academic Employment

2016- Serving as Graduate Advisor for Philosophy Department

2000-2005: Served as Chair of Philosophy Department

1999: Promoted to Associate Professor

1993: Assistant Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at University of Texas, El Paso

1988-1993 Instructor of Philosophy at Austin Community College

1987-1993 Teaching Assistant at University of Texas

1983-5 Teaching Assistant at University of Illinois

Honors and Awards

Lois Green Scholarship, University of Illinois, 1982

Donald W. Doerscher Award for most outstanding philosophy undergraduate, University of Illinois, 1983

Scholarship for graduate work at , 1985- 1987

Professional Development Award at University of Texas, 1989, 1990

University Research Grants at UTEP, 1994, 1995

The Postmodern Turn: winner of the Michael Harrington Best Social Theory Book Award (1997)

The Postmodern Turn: selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books list (1998)

The Postmodern Adventure: winner of Foreward Magazine's Best Philosophy Book of the Year Award (2001)

Included in Contemporary Authors directory, 1996-9, and regularly invited

Included in Who's Who in America, 17th and 18th editions, and regularly invited

Included in Outstanding Scholars of the 20th Century

Included in Who's Who in Humanities Higher Education, 2005

Included in the Animal and Society Institute’s Guide to Experts on Animal Issues (2006).

Voted one of the “25 Most Fascinating Vegetarians” by VegNews Magazine (May 2007).

Listed as “Notable Alumnus” of College of Du Page

Listed as “Notable Professor” at UTEP (wikipedia)

Bestowed with Honorary life membership to the Hellenic Society for Ethics (2011)

Graduated UTEP’s Digital Academy training program for online teaching certification (2012)

The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination (New York: Lexington Books, 2011), won the American Education Studies Association Critics Choice Award for outstanding books in education.

Areas of Specialization

Continental philosophy, applied ethics (, environmental ethics, bioethics), social and political philosophy, media theory and cultural studies, Marxism and critical theory, science and technology studies, security and terrorism studies

Areas of Competence

Philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, philosophy of history, feminism

Editorial, Committee, and Director Work June 10, 2011: Lifelong appointment to Editorial board of Ethics, journal of the Hellenic Society for Ethics

June 15, 2011: Added to Faculty of Kerulos Center

2008- Advisory and Editorial Board of the Transformative Studies Institute

2008-Reviewer Board of Political Media Review

2007- Editorial Board of Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte (Romania)

Journalist for Animal Rights Online (1997-2007)

2008-2010: Senior Editor of Cyrano’s Online Journal

2008--Advisory Editorial Board, Society for Applied Sociology, India

2007-- Editorial Board, The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies

2005-2013: Co-founded and editor of Green Theory and Praxis Journal

2004 -- Book Review Editor and Contributor to The International Journal for Inclusive Democracy

2002–2009: Editorial Advisory Board and co-founder of Green Theory and Praxis: A Journal of Ecological Politics (http://greentheoryandpraxisjournal.org)

2001- 2008: Co-founder and Chief Editor of the Journal for (http://journalforcriticalanimalstudies.org), a peer-reviewed online journal; co-produced and co-founded the “Institute for Critical Animal Studies”

2001-2010: Executive Director of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies

2000-2009: Editorial Board of Organization and Environment

1999-2005: Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of Organizational Change and Management

1997-2002: Editorial Advisory Board, X-Alta

!993-2005: Journalist for Animal Rights Online

I also serve as a regular reviewer for journals such as Theory and Society; Theory, Culture, and Society, Cultural Studies, Sociological Inquiry, and presses such as Palgrave-Macmillan, Polity, Pluto, Routledge, Columbia University, and .

Professional Organizations

Member of the American Philosophical Association, the Radical Philosophy Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the American Association of University Professors.

Translations of My Work

My books, articles, and interviews have been translated in numerous languages, including Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Swedish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Romanian, Portuguese, Turkish. Greek, and Armenian. The listing below includes a small sample of these translations, including recent book translations in German and Italian. Publications

I. Books

1. (with ) Postmodern Theory: Critical Interrogations. (London and New York: MacMillan Press and Guilford Press, 1991. (Translated into Korean, Chinese, and Japanese).

2. The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, and Habermas. (New York: Guilford Press, 1995).

3. (with Douglas Kellner) The Postmodern Turn: Paradigms Shifts in Art, Theory, and Science. (Guilford Press, 1997). Winner of the Michael Harrington Best Social Theory Book Award for 1997; also selected for Choice's Outstanding Academic Books list 1998.

4. (with Douglas Kellner) The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium. (Guilford Press, 2001). Winner of Foreward Magazine's Best Philosophy Book of the Year Award, 2001.

5. Introduced and co-edited (with Anthony J. Nocella II) Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals. (New York: Lantern Books, 2004).

6. Introduced and co-edited (with Anthony J. Nocella II) Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth. (Oakland: AK Press, 2006) (https://libcom.org/files/Best%20S%20and%20Nocella,%20III%2 0(Eds.)%20-%20Igniting%20a%20Revolution%20- %20Voices%20in%20Defense%20of%20the%20Earth.pdf).

7. Introduced and edited Inclusive Democracy: Preserving Liberatory Politics in the 21st Century (Athens, Greece: Grammata Press, 2007).

8. Introduced and co-edited Global Capitalism and the Demise of the Left: Renewing Radicalism through Inclusive Democracy (Athens, Greece: Koukkida, 2008 [also translated into English]) (https://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/pdf%20files/pdf%20 vol5/Special%20Issue%20Winter%202009.pdf).

9. Introduced and edited (with assistance of Anthony J. Nocella II and Peter McLaren), Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic-Industrial Complex. (AK Press, 2010, 590 pages).

10. The Front: A Political and Philosophical Analysis (Lantern Press, 2011) (Introduction to Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? reprinted in book form) (https://lanternbooks.presswarehouse.com/books/BookDetail.aspx? productID=395354).

11. Co-editor and wrote Introduction for The Global Industrial Complex: Systems of Domination (New York: Lexington Books, 2011). Winner of the American Education Studies Association Critics Choice Award for outstanding books in education.

12. Totale Befrieung: Eine Revolution für das 21. Jahrhundert (Echo Verlag: Germany, 2013)

13. The Politics of : Rethinking Revolution in the 21st Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)

14. Liberazione totale: La Rivoluzione per il 21° secolo (Ortica Editrice, 2017)

15. Philosophy in the World: Rethinking Humanity (Athens, Greece: Kianavgi Books [http://kianavgi.gr/books], 2019)

II. Scholarly Articles

1. “Reading Baudrillard Critically,” The Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1985.

2. “The Existential Politics of Yukio Mishima,” The Chicago Literary Review, Spring 1986. 3. “Antonio Gramsci’s Concept of `Hegemony’ and the Politics of Everyday Life,” The Chicago Literary Review, Spring 1986.

4. “Paul Ricoeur: Rupturing the Narrative,” The Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1986.

5. (with Douglas Kellner) "(Re)Watching Television: Notes Toward a Political Criticism," Diacritics, vol. 17, #2, Summer 1987, pp. 97-113.

6. (with Douglas Kellner) "Critical Reflections on Television and ," Science as Culture, Spring, 1988, pp: 47-70.

7. "The Chicago Experience: The City as Hyperreal," Social Text #18, Winter, 1987/88, pp. 79-82. 8. "After the Catastrophe: Hermeneutics and Postmodernism," Canadian Journal of Social and Political Theory, Vol. XII, #3, Fall 1988, pp. 87-100.

9. "In the Detritus of Technology," Jump Cut, #34 Summer 1988, pp.19-26. 10. "Robocop-out: The Recuperation of the Subject," Canadian Journal of Social and Political Thought, vol. 13, numbers 1-2, 1989. Reprinted in X-Alta, October, 2002, pp. 117-126. 11. "The Reality of Commodification and the Commodification of Reality: Jean Baudrillard and Postmodernism," Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Vol. 9, 1989, pp. 23-51.

12. "Jameson, Post-Structuralism, and the Critique of Totality," in Postmodernism/Jameson/Critique, Maissoneuve Press, Fall 1989, pp. 335-368. 13. (with Douglas Kellner) "Kierkegaard and The Corsair Affair," International Kierkegaard Commentary, ed. Robert Perkins, 1990, pp. 23-62.

14. "Marx and the Problem of Conflicting Models of History," The Philosophical Forum, 1991, pp. 167-192. 15. "Chaos and Entropy: Metaphors in Postmodern Science and Social Theory," Science as Culture #11, 1991, pp. 188-226.

16. "Creative Paranoia: A Postmodern Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping in Gravity's Rainbow," The Centennial Review, Winter 1992, pp. 59-88. 17. "Foucault and Postmodern Social Theory," Postmodernism and Sociology, Guilford Press, 1993, pp. 25-62.

18. “The Reality of Commodification and the Commodification of Reality: Jean Baudrillard and Postmodernism," in Baudrillard: A Critical Reader, 1994, Sage Press, ed. Douglas Kellner, pp. 41-67. 19. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Future and Postmodern Youth: A Diagnostic Critique," Youth Culture: Identity in a Postmodern World, ed. Jonathan Epstein, Blackwell, 1998, pp. 74-99.

20. "A Critical Appraisal of Murray Bookchin's The Ecology of Freedom, Organization and Environment, September 1998, pp. 334-353. 21. (with Douglas Kellner) "Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future," New Political Science, Volume 20, Number 3, September 1998, pp: 283-299.

22. (with Douglas Kellner) "La politica postmoderna la batallia por el futuro," Revista de Ciencias Sociales, Nuevo 5 (1998), pp. 5-29.

23. (with Doug Kellner) "Exploring Modernity," in The Postmodern Presence, Sage Publications, Arthur Asa Berger (ed.), 1999, pp. 288-299.

24. (with Douglas Kellner) "Kevin Kelly's Complexity Theory: The Politics and Ideology of Self-Organizing Systems," Organization and Environment, Vol. 12, No. 2, June 1999, pp. 141-162. Reprinted in Democracy and Nature, Volume 6, No. 3, November 2000, pp. 375-400.

25. “Rap, Black Rage, and Racial Difference," Enculturation, Vol. 2-2, 1999. 26. (with Douglas Kellner) "Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle," Substance #90 (1999), pp.129-156.

27. (with Doug Kellner) "Afloat in Cloud Cuckoo Land: Some Critical Comments on the Symposium `Manufacturing Nature, Naturalizing Machines'," Organization and Environment, Vol. 13, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 102-104.

28. "Political Resistance in Cyberspace," International Business Association Proceedings, Spring 2000.

29. "Life and Death Ethics: The Passions and Paradoxes of ," Encyclopedia Britannica Online, February 2000 (site no longer available, now online at http://www.drstevebest.org/papers/phiecosoc/underfire.htm).

30. “Robocop, czyli kryzys subiektywności,” Kwartalnik Filmowy ("Film Quarterly"), Nos. 31-32, 2000. 31. (with Douglas Kellner), “Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future,” in Contemporary Political Thinking, B.N. Ray (ed.) (New Delhi: Kanishka Publications, 2000), pp. 128-139.

32. (with Douglas Kellner) "Dawns, Twilights, and Transitions: Postmodern Theories, Politics, and Challenges," Democracy and Nature, Vol. 7. No. 1, March 2001, pp. 101-117. (http://www.democracynature.org/dn/vol7/best_kellner_postmoder nism.htm) 33. (with Douglas Kellner) “Rap, Revolta Negra E Diferenca Racial," Revista de Comunicaco e Linguagens, (30) November 2001, pp. 201-224.

34. (with Douglas Kellner) "Richard Rorty and Postmodern Theory," in Richard Rorty: Philosophy, Politics, and Education, Roman and Littlefield, 2001, eds. Douglas Kellner and Paulo Ghiraldelli, pp. 101-110 (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/essays/richardrortypost moderntheory.pdf).

35. “Cows, Capitalism, and Cover-Ups: The Politics and Economics of Mad Cow Disease,” Tamara, Vol. 1, Issue 1, 2001, pp. 31-59.

36. (with Douglas Kellner) "La vision apocalyptique de Philip K. Dick " X-Alta, no. 6 October 2002, pp. 101-112.

37. "Chewing on the Rights vs. Welfare Debate: Do Corporate Reforms Delay Animal Liberation?" The Animals' Agenda, March/April 2002, pp. 14-16.

38. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Ethics, and the Politics of Cloning," Democracy and Nature, Fall, Vol. 8, No. 3, 2002, pp. 439-465.

39. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy," in The Blackwell Guide to Continental Philosophy, eds. Robert C. Solomon and David Sherman, Blackwell Press, Malden, Ma. and Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 285-308.

40. (with Douglas Kellner) "Contemporary Youth and the Postmodern Adventure,” The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, Vol. 25, Nr. 2 (April-June 2003): pp. 75-93.

41. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Dangers of Human Cloning," Media Development, Vol. XLX, Nr. 2 (2003): pp. 40-47.

42. “The History and Philosophy of the Institute for Critical Animal Studies,” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003.

43. The Son of the Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003.

44. (with Douglas Kellner) “Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle,” Parole: quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia, Fall 2003 (http://www.parol.it/articles/kelner3.htm).

45. (with Douglas Kellner) "The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick," Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, Vol. 3 Nr. 2, May 2003: pp.186-202. Reprinted on Philipdick.com (https://philipdick.com/mirror/essays/apocalypticphillipkdick.pdf).

46. (with Douglas Kellner) “Debord and the Society of the Cyberspectacle,” Kultura Popularna, #3 (9) 2004, pp. 59-76.

47. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning," in Biotechnology and Communication, ed. Sandra Braman, Mahwah: NJ and London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004, pp. 197-226. 48. “Introduction,” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 1.

49. “Behind the Mask: Understanding the ,” in Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, Lantern Books, 2004, pp. 9-63.

50. "It's War! The Escalating Battle Between Activists and the Corporate-State Complex," in Terrorists or Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, Lantern Books, 2004, pp. 300-339. 51. “Defining Terrorism,” in Terrorists of Freedom Fighters? Reflections on the Liberation of Animals, Lantern Books, 2004, pp. 361-378.

52. “Introduction,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 2, 2004.

53. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning," Biotechnology: Between Commerce and Civil Society, ed. Nico Stern, Transaction Publishers, 2004, pp. 53-88.

54. (with Richard Kahn) “Trial By Fire: The SHAC7, Globalization, and the Future of Democracy,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies¸ Volume II, Issue II. 2004.

55. “The Political Semantics of `Terrorism,’” in A Peacemaker’s Guide for Building Peace with a Revolutionary Group, Anthony J. Nocella, 2005.

56. (with Douglas Kellner) “Biotechnologie, ethique, et politique du clonage,” in Le Clonage Humain: En Arguments, eds. F. Haldeman et. al., Geneve, 2005, pp. 285-371.

57. “Introduction,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume II, Issue 3, October 2005.

58. “The Son of Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,” Tamara 2005.

59. “Genetic Engineering, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy,” special issue of AI and Society, "Genetic Technologies and Animals," 20.1 Jan-Mar 2006, pp. 6-21 (http://www.eciad.bc.ca/~gigliott/gtanimal/). 60. “A Fire in the Belly of the Beast: The Emergence of Revolutionary Environmentalism,” Introduction to Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of Mother Earth, AK Press, 2006, pp. 8-29.

61. (with Douglas Kellner) "Biotechnology, Democracy, and the Politics of Cloning, in Education and the Spirit of Time, (eds.) Olli-Pekka Moisio and Juha Suoranta, Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2006, pp. 23-54.

62. “Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of the Left,” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Volume 2, Issue #3, June 2006 (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol2/vol2_no3_Best_ rethinking_revolution.htm). 63. “Introduction,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Issue 1, September 2006. 64. (with Anthony Nocella) “Revolutionary Environmentalism: An Emerging New Struggle for Total Liberation,” Green Theory and Praxis: A Journal of Ecological Politics, Fall 2006 (http://greentheoryandpraxis.csufresno.edu/main.asp?goto=viewIss ue.asp&iid=5#art32).

65. “Dispatches from a Police State: Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State Repression,” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #1 (January 2007) (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no1_Best_ animal_rights.htm).

66. “Crisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politics,” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #2 (April 2007, abridged version) (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no2_Best_ crisis_culture.htm).

67. “The Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act: New, Improved, and ACLU Approved,” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #3 (July 2007) (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no3_best.h tm).

68. “The Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total Liberation,” Fast Capitalism, Issue 2, Volume 2, 2007 (http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_2/home.html).

69. “Introduction” to the Journal of Critical Animal Studies, October 2007.

70. “Critical Reflections on Charles Patterson’s, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust,” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, October 2007.

71. “Crisis Culture and the Waning of Revolutionary Politics” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Vol. 3, #4, October 2007 (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol3/vol3_no4_Best_ crisis_culture.htm#).

72. “The Killing Fields of South Africa: Eco-Wars, Species Apartheid, and Total Liberation,” Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 35-97.

73. “Thinking Pluralistically: A Case for ,” Echidistante: Revista de cultura si stiinte, Number 2 (50), 2007, pp. 125-130.

74. “Introduction” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2. 5 75. (with Anthony J. Nocella, II, Richard Kahn, Carol Gigliotti, and Lisa Kemmerer) “Introducing Critical Animal Studies,” Journal of Critical Animal Studies, 2007.

76. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), “Peacemaking with Terrorists: Fighting the “War Against Terrorism’ with Critical Pedagogy,” The Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, Volume 5, Number 2, November 2007 (http://www.jceps.com/index.php?pageID=article&articleID=110).

76. “Culture Turn,” Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, January 15, 2008 (http://philosociology.com/UPLOADS/_PHILOSOCIOLOGY.ir_ Blackwell%20Encyclopedia%20of%20Sociology_George%20Ritz er.pdf).

77. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), “Revolutionary Peacemaking,” Critical Cultural Studies, 2008.

78. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), “Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using a Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with `Terrorists,’” (ed.) Mitchell Rosenwald, One Paradigm, Many Worlds: Conflict Resolution. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008, pp. 149-178.

79. “Rethinking Revolution: Total Liberation, Alliance Politics, and a Prolegomenon to Resistance Movements in the Twenty-First Century,” in Contemporary Anarchist Studies: An Introductory Anthology of Anarchy in the Academy (eds. Randall Amster, Luis Fernandez, Anthony J. Nocella II, Abraham Deleon, and Deric Shannon). Routledge, 2008, pp: 189-199. Reprinted in Counterpunch, October 2010 (http://www.counterpunch.org/best10082010.html).

80. “Teaching for the Global Community” in The Third Annual Conference on Labor, Education and Emancipation (UTEP), César Rossatto, Aurolyn Luykx, and Hermán García (eds.), SUNY Press, 2008.

81. “Globalization and the Human Empire,” (ed. Samir Dasgupta) The Politics of Globalization, Sage Press, 2008, pp. 288-312.

82. (with Douglas Kellner) “Debord and the Postmodern Turn: New Stages of the Spectacle,” Shift, September 2008 (http://www.zionedicoes.org/).

83. Introduction to “The Multidimensional Crisis and Inclusive Democracy,” special issue of The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/), 2008.

84. (with Douglas Kellner) “Polityka postmodernistyczna i bitwa o przyszlosc,” Dialogi Polityczne, Number 11, Dec. 2008, pp. 317- 331.

85. “Genetic Engineering, Animal Exploitation, and the Challenge for Democracy,” Leonardo’s Choice: Genetic Technologies and Animals (ed. Carol Gigliotti), Springer Press, 2009, pp. 3-17.

86. (with Anthony Nocella and Peter McLaren), “Revolutionary Peacemaking: Using a Critical Pedagogy Approach for Peacemaking with `Terrorists,’” in Curriculum and Difference: Deeply Thinking the Critical Issues of Peace and Education (eds. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Bryan Wright), 2009.

87. “Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,” The International Journal of Inclusive Democracy, Volume 5, Number 2, Spring 2009 (http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol5/vol5_no2_best_ minding_animals.htm).

88. (with Richard Kahn) “Animal Rights Activists Are Not Terrorists,” in Animal Experimentation, Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr. (ed.). Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2009.

89. “Los derechos de los animales y el progreso moral: la lucha por la evolución humana,” Rebelion, 2009.

90. “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education,” Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume VII, Issue 1, 2009, pp. 9-54. 91. “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education” (revised). State of Nature, Summer 2009 (http://www.stateofnature.org/theRiseOfCriticalAnimal.html).

92. "Chewing on the Rights vs. Welfare Debate: Do Corporate Reforms Delay Animal Liberation?," in William Dudley (ed.), Animal Rights (Introducing Issues With Opposing Viewpoints) Greenhaven Press, 2009. 93. “Dispatches from a Police State: Animal Rights in the Crosshairs of State Repression,” McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series, 2009, pp. 341-352 (https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/taking-sides- clashing-views-science-technology-society- easton/M1259665941.html).

94. “From Man the Hunter” to Homo X: Rethinking Human Nature” January, 2010, Guerilla News (https://guerrillanews.wordpress.com/2010/01/07/from-“man-the- hunter”-to-homo-x-rethinking-human-nature/)

95. “Introduction: The Rise of the Academic-Industrial Complex and the Crisis in Free Speech,” Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic-Industrial Complex. (AK Press, 2010), pp. 13- 89.

96. (with Douglas Kellner) “The War Against the ‘Academic Left: From Gross and Levitt to Gitlin,” Academic Repression: Reflections on the Academic-Industrial Complex, AK Press, 2010, pp. 122-142. 97. “Shifting Tactics, Waves of Change: A Contextualist and Pluralist Approach to Revolutionary Environmentalism,” Resistance, Spring 2010, pp. 41-45

98. "Total Liberation: Revolution for the 21st Century", in Elena Papanikolaou (editor), Environment, Society, Ethics, Athens: Aiforia, 2010, (Proceedings of the 2nd International Meeting for Environmental Ethics in Athens, 2010), pp. 49-72.

99. "Welfarismo, diritti animali e liberazionismo: Uno sguardo sul movimento animalista degli Stati Uniti,” LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Anno 1, no.3, Invero 2010, pp. 42-51 (http://www.liberazioni.org/ultimonumero.html; http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-01.pdf). 100. (with Douglas Kellner) “Technocapitalism, Globalization, and the Infotainment Society,” Media Environments (ed. Barry Vacker) University Readers Inc, October 2010, pp. 367-386.

101. (with Douglas Kellner) “Challenges for the Third Millennium,” Media Environments (ed. Barry Vacker) University Readers Inc., October 2010, pp. 509-520.

102. "Un Movimento per la Liberazioni Totale,” LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Anno 1, no.4, Marzo 2011, pp. 58- 70 (http://www.liberazioni.org/archivio-numeri.html; http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS-02.pdf.)

103. “Modernity and Moral Progress,” About Animals (ed. Anna Lydaki). (Athens, Greece: Psichogios Publications, 2011 (http://www.psichogios.gr/site/), pp. 327-338.

104. “Pathologies of Power and the Rise of the Global Industrial Complex,” Introduction to Systems of Domination: The Global Industrial-Complex. (New York: Lexington Books, 2011), pp. ix- xxv.

105. “Total Liberation and Moral Progress,” , Past and Present Perspectives (ed. Evangelos Protopapadakis) (Berlin: Logos Verlag, 2012), pp. 233-256.

106. (with Doug Kellner) “Rap, Black Rage, and Racial Difference,” Spring 2012, Philosophy of Culture (www.PhilosophyofCulture.org)

107. (with Doug Kellner), “The Postmodern Turn in Philosophy,” Spring 2012, Philosophy of Culture (www.PhilosophyofCulture.org)

108. “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education” (revised), LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Spring 2012 (http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS- TheRise(and%20Fall)ofCriticalAnimalStudies.pdf). Translated as: “Ascesa e caduta del Critical Animal Studies,” Liberazioni. #9, 2012 (http://www.liberazioni.org/articoli/BestS- AscesaECadutaDeiCriticalAnimalStudies.pdf).

109. “Commonalities of Oppression and Alliance Politics,” Postmodernism(e) (Spring 2012).

110. “Greening Philosophy,” Greening the Academy: Environmental Studies in an Age of Ecopedagogy (The Netherlands: Sense Publishers), (editors Anthony Nocella and Richard Kahn), 2012, pp. 63-76.

111. “Human Identity Politics,” Postmodernism(e), Institutul European Press (Spring 2012).

112. “Minding the Animals: Ethology and the Obsolescence of Left Humanism,” LIBERAZIONI Rivista di Critica Antispecista, Summer, 2012.

113. "13 Ways to Promote Alliance Politics and Total Liberation,” Liberazioni, Issue 24, 2016 (https://liberazioni.noblogs.org/?p=981)

114. “The Animal Standpoint,” Liberazioni, Issue 25, 2016 (http://www.liberazioni.org/liberazioni-n-25/)

115. “Paralysie du pacifism: Une defense del’action directe militante et de la ‘violence’,” Les Cahiers Antispecistes: Jusqu'où défendre les animaux?, CA #39, May 2017 (the volume is based on my keynote speech to the “Jusqu'où défendre les animaux?” conference in Paris, and is followed by critical responses by major French academics) (http://www.cahiers-antispecistes.org/paralysie-du-pacifisme/).

116. “Species Apartheid and The Killing Fields of Africa,” in Africa and Her Animals: Philosophical and Practical Perspectives (University of South Africa Press, 2018), eds. Anteneh Robe and Rainer Ebert (https://rainerebert.com/2018/06/25/rainer-ebert-anteneh-roba- africa-and-her-animals-pretoria-unisa-press-2018/).

117. “Human and Animal Migrations: Borders, Boundaries, and Open Spaces,” Like an Animal’: Refugees, Animals, and Multiculturalism (eds. Natalie Khazal and Nuria Almiron, (Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming 2019)

III. Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries 1. (with Belden Fields) "The Situationist International," in Dictionary of Neo-Marxism, Greenwood Press, 1985, pp. 384-387. 2. Interview with Paul Ricoeur, Chicago Literary Review, Fall 1986.

3. Review of William Gibson's Technowar in Vietnam, Socialist Review, 1988/2, pp. 149-154.

4. Review of Arthur Kroker’s The Postmodern Scene, Theory, Culture, and Society, Vol 5,#4 1988, pp. 743-749. 5. (with Douglas Kellner) Review of Paul Buhle's Marxism in the USA, Theory, Culture, and Society, 1989.

6. Entry on Sidney Hook, The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1990.

7. Entry on John Dewey, The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1990.

8. Entry on Marxist Philosophy, The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 1990.

9. Review of Michael Phillipson's In Modernity's Wake, American Journal of Sociology, 1990.

10. Review of David Harvey's The Condition of Postmodernity, Left Green Notes, 1991, pp. 32-3.

11. Review of Douglas Kellner's Jean Baudrillard in Rethinking Marxism, 1991, pp. 137-145.

12. Entry on Jean Baudrillard, Dictionary of Contemporary Criticism and Critical Terms, University of Toronto Press, 1993.

13. Review of Michel Maffelosi's The Shadow of Dionysus, Sociological Inquiry, 1993. 14. Review of Stephen Bronner's Socialism Unbound, New Political Science, Spring 1994, pp. 129-139 15. Review of Richard Wolin's The Terms of Cultural Criticism, New Political Science, Spring 1995, pp. 125-132.

16. Review of Anson Rabinbach's The Human Motor, Theory and Society, Fall 1995.

17. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, ed. Stephan K. White, in American Political Science Review, Spring 1996.

18. "Theoretical Environments, Environmental Theories: New Perspectives in Environmental Philosophy," review essay of Ecocritiques by Timothy Luke and Primitives in the Wilderness by Peter van Wyck, Spring 1998, Terra Nova, pp. 135-142.

19. “Visions and Struggles,” review Essay of Which World? Scenario for the 21st Century, by Allen Hammond, and Divided Planet, by Tom Athanasiou, in Terrain, Issue No.4, Summer 1999. 20. Review of Is Science Multicultural?, by Sandra Harding, Theory and Society, Spring 2000, Volume 29, No. 2, pp. 253-261.

21. Review of , by Gail Eisnitz, Vegetarian Voice, Fall 1999.

22. Review of Ethics Into Action, by Peter Singer, Vegetarian Voice, 1999 (available at: https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl- 20000503-boo.html).

23. “Scenario of Disasters, Visions of Liberation.” review essay of Which World? Scenario for the 21st Century, by Allen Hammond, Divided Planet, by Tom Athanasiou, and Toward an Inclusive Democracy, by Takis Fotopolous, Democracy and Nature, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp: 253-265 (https://www.democracynature.org/vol6/best_review_2.htm). 24. Review Essay, "Feminism, Science Wars, and the Twilight of Positivism," Democracy and Nature, Vol. 7, No. 2, July 2001, pp. 353-362.

25. Review of The New Earth Reader, Environmental Ethics, Winter, 2002, pp. 105-108. 26. Entry on “,” in Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, Continuum International, 2005 (http://www.religionandnature.com/ern/sample/Best--Watson.pdf).

27. “Weighing and Protecting Life: Beyond , Welfarism, and Legalism.” Review essay of Joan Dunyaer’s Speciesism,” Organization and Environment, 19:2, June 2006.

28. “Postmodernism,” Encyclopedia Britannica, 2006.

29. Review essay of Charles Patterson, Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, The Journal For Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007 (reprinted in Explorations, 2008).

30. Review essay of , The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA, The Journal For Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007. Republished in Political Media Review (available at: http://www.drstevebest.org/TheLongestStruggle.htm).

34. Reflections on Charles Patterson’s Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust, The Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007 (http://www.drstevebest.org/EternalTriblenka.pdf).

35. Review essay of Norm Phelps, The Longest Struggle: Animal Advocacy from Pythagoras to PETA, Volume V, Issue 2, 2007.

36. Entry on “The Cultural Turn” for the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology online (ed. George Ritzer), 2008.

37. Entry on “/,” The Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy (editors: J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman) (Macmillan Library Reference, 2008).

38. Revision entries on John Dewey and Sidney Hook, and new entry on “Animal Rights” for the third revised edition of Dictionary of the American Left (Fall, 2019)

IV. Popular Audience Articles

(Below is a sample of published popular writing, for more essays and reviews, see: http://www.drstevebest.org/essays.htm).

1. `"Rainforest Destruction: What’s Got To Do with It?" Satya, Vol 4, Issue 10, March 1998 (http://www.satyamag.com/march98/rainforest.html).

2. "Eating in the Valley of Death," Satya, Vol. 4, Issue 9, 1998. 3. “Gandhi: On the Path to Vegetarianism,” January 2000, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000123-gandhi.html).

4. “The 5 C’s: Principles of a Vegan Life,” April, 2000, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000405-the.html).

5. “Engineering the Brave New World,” May 2000, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000524-engineer.html).

6. “Farmaggedon, Frankenfoods, and the FDA: The Dangers of Genetically Modified Food,” June 2000, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000607-best.html).

7. “Human Identity Politics: Homo Indeterminus,” August 2000, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000312-human.html).

8. “`Survivor’: Where Humans Survive and Animals Die,” August 2000, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20000823-where.html).

9. “Clones R’ Us: The Age of Human Cloning Has Arrived,” February, 2001, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20010228-clo.html).

10. “Break the Cycle,” Animal Rights Online, September 2001 (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20010923-bre.html).

11. “Scientific Literacy, Biotechnology, and Animal Rights,” January 2002, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20020106-sci.html).

12. "Zoos and the End of Nature," IMPACT Press, June/July, 2002 (available at: http://www.drstevebest.org/ZoosAndTheEnd.htm);

13. Legally Blind: The Case for Granting Animals Legal Rights," IMPACT Press, Issue #40, August/September 2002 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep02/blind8902.html).

14. "Animals Like Us: The Search for a Species Identity," IMPACT Press, Issue # 41, October-November, 2002 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/octnov02/speciesid101102.h tml). 15. “Common Natures, Shared Fates: Toward an Interspecies Alliance Politics," IMPACT Press, Issue #42, December 2002- January 2003 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/decjan03/interspecies12103. html). 16. "Neo-McCarthyism and the New Surveillance Culture," IMPACT Press, Issue #43, February-March 2003 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar03/best2303.html).

17. “Son of the Patriot Act and the Revenge on Democracy,” IMPACT Press, Issue #45, June-July 2003 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/junjul03/best6703.html).

18. “Barbarism in the Afternoon: , Violence, and the Crisis in Human Identity,” IMPACT Press Issue #46, August- September, 2003 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/augsep03/best8903.html).

19. “The Challenge of Animal Rights,” January, 2004, Animal Rights Online (https://www.all-creatures.org/aro/nl-20040111-challenge.html).

20. “Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment,” IMPACT Press, #49, Feb-March 2004 (available at: http://www.drstevebest.org/AnimalRightsandtheNewEnlightenmen t.htm).

21. “From Earth Day to Ecological Society,” IMPACT Press, Issue #50, April-May 2004 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/aprmay04/best4504.html)

23. “The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery, and Animal Rights,” IMPACT Press, Issue #55, Feb-March 2005 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/febmar05/best2305.html).

24. “Killing the Messenger: Ward Churchill’s Sins Against the Empire,” IMPACT Press, Issue #56 April-May 2005 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/spring05/bestspring05.html).

25. “Showtrials and Scarecrows: `Ecoterrorism’ and the War on Dissent,” IMPACT Press #57, Summer 2005 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/summer05/bestsummer05.ht ml).

26. “My Dog or Your Child? Ethical Dilemmas and the Hierarchy of Moral Value,” IMPACT Press, Issue #57, Fall 2005 (http://www.impactpress.com/articles/fall05/bestfall05.html).

27. “The Killing Fields of South Africa: Elephants in the Crosshairs of ,” Escape From America Magazine, September 2007.

28. “Vaya Con Dios! A Quest for Vegan Food in Spain,” Escape From America Magazine, October 2007.

29. “Zoos and the End of the Nature, Zoocheck.com, 2008 (http://www.zoocheck.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Zoos-and- the-End-of-Nature.pdf).

30. “Dialogue with Norm Phelps: Until There Are No Beings Whom We Still Define as 'Other'” January, 2009, All- Creatures.Org (https://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-until.html). 31. “Our Task.” August 2011, AllCreatures.Org, 2012 (https://www.all-creatures.org/articles/ar-best-task.html).

32. “Notes from a Diary of Struggle: From Epiphanies to Aftermath,” January 6, 2012, Occupy Essays (http://occupyessays.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/notes-from-a- diary-of-struggle-from-epiphanies-to-aftermath-by-dr-steve-best/

33. “Planet of the Apes: Where Humans are Slaves,” Animal Ethics, 2012 (available at: http://www.drstevebest.org/PlanetOfTheApes.htm).

Media Interviews, Documentaries, and News Stories

I have done literally hundreds of print, radio, television, Internet, podcast, blog, and Skype interviews, and press conferences with local, nation, and international media. I have also appeared and been featured in numerous documentaries, such as Behind the Mask, In Namen der Tiere, and Dr. Steven Best: The Politics of Nature. The topics I address are wide ranging, and have included issues such as gun control, free speech, immigration, bioethics, terrorism, state repression, environmentalism, veganism, and animal rights. The national and international media interviews include BBC News, CNN, The Guardian Independent, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio, The Alan Colmes Show, Alternet, The Utne Reader, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Philosopher’s Magazine, as well as all types of media in two dozen countries, including England, Greece, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the UK, Scandinavia, Romania, Russia, Croatia, Slovenia, Poland, South Africa, and elsewhere. In addition, from 2003 to 2007, I aired my own bi-weekly radio show on a local NPR affiliate (KTEP) and continue to receive inquiries and invitations from a broad range of media throughout the world.

Conferences, Symposia, and University and Community Lectures Spring, 1982

"Notes Toward a Non-Formalist Ethics," University of Illinois Philosophy Club (UIPC)

Fall, 1983

"Issues in the Base-Superstructure Problem," UIPC

Spring, 1983

"Marx's Dialectical Methodology in the Grundrisse" UIPC

Fall, 1984

"The Situationist International and the Critique of Consumer Society," "Joseph Beuys and the Theory of Social Sculpture," and "The Politicization of Art and the Aestheticization of Politics," lecture series at The Edge Art Gallery, Chicago

Spring, 1985

"Hermeneutics in the Early and Later Heidegger," University of Chicago Philosophy Club

Spring, 1987

"The Commodification of Reality and the Reality of Commodification: Critique of Jean Baudrillard," Popular Culture Association, Montreal

Panel chair of "Theoretical Perspectives on Advertising and Consumer Culture," Popular Culture Association, Montreal

Philosophical Perspectives on Popular Culture Symposium, Popular Culture Association, Montreal "Jean Baudrillard's Critique of Mass Media," Midwest Sociological Society, Chicago

Spring, 1988

"On Cultural Politics," symposium on "Art and Politics" at University of Texas, Austin "Hermeneutics, Postmodernism, and Criticism," panel chair on postmodern culture, Popular Culture Association, New Orleans

Symposium on postmodernism, Popular Culture Association, New Orleans

Fall 1988

"History and Modes of Causation," for the "Engines of History" conference, Texas A&M

Winter 1989

"Justice and Rights," Eastern APA, Atlanta Georgia

"Postmodernism and Politics," at the Open University of Chicago

Fall 1990

"Debord vs. Baudrillard," "Postmodern Science and Social Theory," Midwest Scholars Meeting, Chicago

Respondent to paper on chaos theory, Midwest Scholars Meeting, Chicago

Spring 1992

"The Later Foucault," seminar presentation at the University of Kansas, sociology department Summer 1992

"The Ethical Basis of Vegetarianism," the Austin

Summer 1993

"Social Theory and Ecology," the Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont

Summer 1994

"Hegel's Theory of History," the Institute for Social Ecology, Vermont

Spring 1995

"Friendship with All Living Things," UTEP International Conference on Friendship

"Ethics as Metascience," 7th Annual Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Biomedical Symposium: Ethics in Science, Research, and Education

Fall 1995

"A History of Environmentalism in the U.S.," UTEP ECO club "Leopold and the Land Ethic," UTEP Environmental Policy Studies lecture series

Spring 1996

"Humans, Animals, and the Environment," UTEP Environmental Awareness Program Summer 1996

"The Coming Crisis: Environmental Disaster, the Global Meat Culture, and Your Health," the El Paso Vegetarian Society

Fall 1996

"Ethics and Medicine," the El Paso Alternative Health Network

"Ethics and Food Choices," the Las Cruces Vegetarian Society

Spring 1997

"Habermas' Critique of Modernity," the Postmodern Philosophy Seminar, University of Texas, Austin

"The Postmodern Paradigm Shift," New Mexico State University, College of Business and Management

"History, Narrative, and Utopian Vision," New Mexico State University, College of Business and Management

Fall 1997

"Objectivity and Science," MARC symposium, UTEP

"Albert Schweitzer and the Boundless Circle of Compassion," El Paso Vegetarian Society

Spring 1998

"Science and Public Responsibility," MARC group, UTEP

"Animal Rights and Animal Wrongs," public education forum, El Paso Vegetarian Society "Economics and World Hunger," Hands Up Food Distribution Society, El Paso

Fall 1998

"Foucault's Theory of Power," "Aldo Leopold's Concepts of Ecology and Economy," New Mexico State University "Utopia and Historical Vision," Visiting Scholar Program at New Mexico State University

"Animals, Machines, and the Crisis in Human Identity," Keynote Speech at the International Conference on the Environment, El Paso and Juarez, Mexico

Spring 1999

"Pragmatism, Pedagogy, and Technoculture," the Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Summer 1999

"Thinking Critically About Foucault," the American Sociological Association, Chicago, Illinois.

"Kevin Kelly, Complexity Theory, and the New Scientific Ideology," the American Business Association

"A Co-Evolutionary Approach to Science and Technology," the American Sociological Association, Chicago

Winter 2000

"Philosophy Outside the Academy," the Radical Philosophy Association, Chicago

Summer 2001 "Critical Perspectives on Consumer Society," Keynote Speech to International Business and Management Conference, Manchester, England

"The Theatre of Power and the Power of Theatre," European Groups for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, France

Fall 2001

"Science, Technology, and the Transformations of Nature," Cornell University, Ithaca

"Philosophy Outside the Academy," the Radical Philosophy Association, Chicago "Science, Technology, and the Transformations of Nature," Cornell University, Ithica

"Dismantling the Welfare/Rights Opposition: Lessons from the Social Revolutionaries," 3rd Annual United Poultry Conference, Monchipongo, Virginia

Spring 2002

"The Moral and Legal Status of Animals," National Student Animal Rights Conference, Washington D.C. "Animal Rights and Human Rights: Making the Connections," Dallas, Texas

"The vs. Animal Rights Debate," Compassion for Animals Action Symposium, Gainesville, Florida.

"Science, Technology, and Social Spectacle," Keynote Speech for the International Academy of Business Disciplines, Los Angeles, CA. Summer 2002

"Animal Victimhood," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.

"Compassion into Action," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C. "Engaging the Workplace," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.

The Legal Standing of Animals," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.

"Spirituality and Human Relations with Animals, Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.

"Meet the Leaders and Authors of the Movement," Animal Rights 2002 conference, Washington, D.C.

"Mourning the Loss of Companion Animals," Vigil speech for National Homeless Animals' Day, El Paso, Texas.

Fall 2002

"The Ethics and Politics of Human Cloning," Keynote Speech given to the "Biotechnology, Commerce, and Civil Society" conference in Essen, Germany

"The Future of Human Evolution," Houston Vegetarian Society

"The Implications of the Patriot Act," One Struggle Conference, Houston, Texas

"Toward an Alliance between Human and Animal Rights Activists," One Struggle Conference, Houston, Texas Spring 2003

"Reflections on the Human Cloning Debate," University of Florida, Orlando

"On the Moral Status of Animals," Liberation Now conference, University of California, Berkeley, California "Meet the Leaders and Authors of the ," panel discussion, University of California, Berkeley, California

"The Debate over the Earth and Animal Liberation Movements," "Fresno State University, California

“Aldo Leopold and the Current Environmental Crisis, Fresno State University, California

"Environmentalism and Spirituality," Fresno State University, California

"Civil Liberties in the Era of the Patriot Act," Compassion for Animals Symposium, Tampa, Florida

Summer 2003

“The Impact of the Patriot Act on Civil Liberties,” Northwest Animal Rights Network, Seattle

“The Challenge of Animal Rights,” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

“Welfare and/or Abolition?” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles, CA.

“Engaging Public Interest,” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles, CA. “Meet the Leaders and Authors,” Animal Rights 2003 National Conference, Los Angeles, CA. “The Attack on Constitutional Liberties,” Market Street Community Center, San Francisco

Fall 2003

“Direct Action and Democracy,” University of Colorado, Denver “Contemporary Liberation Movements,” University of Colorado, Denver

Spring 2004

"Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic," Ozark Natural Foods, Fayetteville, AR,

“Animal Rights and the Struggle for Moral Progress,” University of Arkansas

Featured Earth Day event speaker, Fayetteville, Arkansas

"Animal Rights and Conventional Ethics," University of Rhode Island "The Impact of the Patriot Act on Civil Liberties," Stanford University Law School

"Animal Rights and the New Enlightenment," Stanford University Law School

“Singer V. Regan on “Personhood,” Animal Liberation Student Conference, Syracuse University, New York

Summer 2004 “Debates in the History of Non-Violence,” National Animal Rights Conference, Washington DC

“New Developments in Ethical Theory,” National Animal Rights Conference, Washington DC

“Meet the Leaders of the Movement,” National Animal Rights Conference, Washington DC

“Commonalities of Oppression,” National Animal Rights Conference, Washington DC

Fall 2004

“Theorizing Justice,” International Animal Rights 2004 conference, England “The Meaning of Education,” Issues in Pedagogy Conference, University of Texas, El Paso

“The Concept of ‘History’ in Liberation Movements,” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

“The Crisis in Ethics: Moral Regression or Moral Evolution?” University of Ohio at Miami

Winter 2004

“Philosophical Issues in the History of Political Terrorism,” University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Spring 2005

“The New Abolitionism: Civil Rights, Animal Liberation, and Moral Progress,” University of Iowa

Summer 2005

“Philosophical and Political Fallacies in Standard Justifications for Slavery,” Kent, England

“What is Moral Progress?” Dublin, Ireland

“Ethics and the Myths of ,” Oxford University

Fall 2005

“Global Terrorism and the ‘Clash of Civilizations’” University of Connecticut

“The Ethical and Scientific Fallacies of Transgenic Art,” UCLA

Spring 2006

“Social Justice and Immigration Policy,” University of Texas, El Paso

“Civil Disobedience in the American Tradition,” Salt Lake City Community College

“The Anti-Constitutional Measures of the USA PATRIOT Act,” Sam Weller’s Bookstore, Salt Lake City, Utah

“Political Tactics from a Pluralist Perspective,” University of Utah

“Biotechnology, Art, and the Aesthetic Exploitation of Animals,” UCLA

“Crisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Revitalized Citizenry,” Humboldt State University

“Environmentalism in the 21st Century,” Stanford University Law School

“Why Social Movements Should Support Animal Rights,” Stanford University

“Linking Human and Animal Rights Movements,” Oslo Norway

“Social Theory and Civil Disobedience,” Stockholm, Sweden

“Basic Issues in Contemporary Ethics,” Malmo, Sweden

Summer 2006

“The Killing Fields: Eco-Wars and Species Apartheid in South Africa,” Ethics Society of South Africa

“The ‘War on Terrorism’ and its Implications for Democracy Movements,” Institute for Security Studies, Cape Town, South Africa

“Animal Rights and Moral Progress,” University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

“Understanding Revolutionary Environmentalism,” University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Fall 2006

“Immigration, Globalization, and Social Justice,” Border Studies Forum, UTEP

“What the USA PATRIOT Act Means for Civil Liberties,” Erie, Pennsylvania

Spring 2007

“What Do We Mean By `Moral Progress?” Keynote Speech at Miami Dade Animal Ethics Conference

“Redefining Citizenship in the Age of Environmental Crisis” Carr Institute, Vancouver Canada

“On Being `Human,’” University of Maine, Orano

Fall 2007

“Rethinking Rights from Ecofeminist, Anarchist, and Pragmatic Standpoints,” University Philosophical Society, Trinity College, Dublin

Spring 2008

“Remembering Bob Solomon: Poet, Stylist, Existentialist,” Memorial Conference for Robert C. Solomon, University of Texas, Austin

“What is `Critical Animal Studies’?” Keynote speech at University of Billings, Montana

"Should Civil Society Fight for Animal Society?" Centre for Civil Society, University of Durban, South Africa

“Alliance Politics in the 21st Century,” University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

“Moral Progress and the `Postmodern Condition,’” University of Cape Town, South Africa

Summer 2008

“Contemporary Theories of Direct Democracy as Viewed Through the Greek Tradition,” Athens, Greece

“Is Civilization Incompatible with `Progress’?” University of Romania, Iasu

“Animal Rights and the Fallacies of Common Objections,” University of Moscow

“Tolstoy’s Legacy: Civil Disobedience in the Modern West,” Moscow Film Society

“Abolitionism, Then and Now: Comparing 19th with 21st Century Movements to End Slavery,” University of St. Petersburg

“On the Complexities of Comparing the Human and Animal Holocaust,” Zagreb, Croatia ( http://www.prijatelji- zivotinja.hr/animalist/49en.html).

Fall 2008

“Academic Repression in the Post-9/11 Era,” University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

“From Paulo Freire to Humane Education: Developments in Contemporary Theories of Pedagogy,” University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

“Building Bridges: Shared Concerns of Contemporary Social Movements,” University of Cape Town, South Africa

“Reflections on Moral Progress Amidst a Time of Crisis,” University of Cape Town, South Africa

Summer 2009

“Reflections on the Relevance of the `War’ Metaphor to Social Conflict,” Oslo, Norway

“Slavery and Abolitionism in Human and Animal Rights Movements Since the 19th Century,” Oslo Norway

Fall 2009

“Resolved: Against Vivisection,” the University College Cork Philosophical Society, Ireland

Online Chat with Animal Rights Book

Spring 2010

“On Critical Animal Studies,” video conference talk, Professor Carol Gigliotti, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC

“Academic Repression,” video interview with panel on my Academic Repression book, Syracuse University

“From Civil Liberties to the New Security State,” Skidmore College, New York

“The Rise of a Dominator Society,” Animal Ethics Conference, Utah Valley University

Summer 2010

“Total Liberation” 2nd International Meeting for Environmental Ethics, Athens Italy

“The Animal Standpoint,” International Animal Rights Gathering, Italy

“The Concept of `Progress,’” International AR Gathering, Italy

“Understanding the Conflicts Between Radical Social and Animal Rights Traditions,” Vegan Festival, Milan, Italy

“Why Human Rights Entail Animal Rights,” Animal Rights Film Festival, Turin, Italy

“Everything You Thing About the “Human” is Wrong: The Revolutionary Implications of Cognitive Ethology for Human Identity,” University of Bergamo, Italy

“The Moral Foundations of Rights-Talk,” Zurich, Switzerland

Spring 2011

Skype presentation to Dr. Carol Gigliotti’s Art Seminar Course, Vancouver BC

Summer 2011

“The Revolutionary Implications of Animal Standpoint Theory,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg (http://www.ar-conference.com)

“Animal Liberation and Moral Progress: The Struggle for Human Evolution,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg

Panel Discussion: “ and Direct Action,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg

“The Ethics of Defending Animals,” symposium, the Institute of Political Science Institute in Paris (http://www.sciencespo.fr/en).

“Rethinking Revolution: Animal Liberation, Human Liberation, and the Future of Resistance,” activist radio station, Canal Sud, Toulouse, France

“The Politics of the Animal Liberation,” Wroclaw, Poland

“Animal Liberation and the Legacy of 19th Century Abolitionism,” Krakow, Poland “Crisis and the Crossroads of History: The Need for a Radicalized Citizenry,” Gdańsk, Poland

Videotaped presentation and live Skype conference to London on the topic of free speech

Fall 2011

“Veganism: The War We Can’t Lose,” Saarbrucken, Germany, September 2011

“Everything You Know About Homo sapiens is Wrong: The Revolutionary Implications of Cognitive Ethology,” Out of the Box Lecture Series, University of Maribor, Slovenia

On Abolition and Activism,” Slovenia, July 2011

“Beyond Humanism: The Paradigm Shift of Animal Standpoint Theory,” Zagreb, Croatia, July 2011

Fall 2012

Speaking Tour of Italy, September 1-15

“Thinking Through the Pacifist-Violence Debate from a Pluralist, Pragmatist, and Contextualist Approach,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg

On the Concept of (“Total”) `War’ and Why It Applies to the Human Condition,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg

“How To Think About Human Nature,” University of Oporto, Portugal

“Total Liberation Politics and Animal Party Structure,” University of Lisbon, Portugal and the Party for Animals and Nature (PAN), Portugal

Radical Revolution Tour of Spain (with Spanish rock band, Blendeskil)

Fall 2013

“The Politics of Total Liberation,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg, September 2013

“Resource Scarcity, Climate Change, and Eco-Wars,” International Animal Rights Conference, Luxembourg, September 2013

“The Origins and Development of the Concept of Enlightenment,’” Frankfurt, Germany, September 2013

“Vivisection: The History of an Error, from Antiquity to Modernity,” Milan, Italy, September 2013

“The Meaning and Social Consequences of `Animal Rights,’” Turin, Italy, September 2013

“Just War Traditions and the War on Animals,” Florence, Italy, September 2013

“The Coming Global Ecological Crisis,” Bologna, Italy

Summer 2014

“The Origin and Development of `Rights’ ,” National Animal Rights Conference, LA, July

“The Dynamics of Social Movements,” National Animal Rights Conference, LA, July

Spring 2018

“Age of the Anthropocene: Philosophy and Climate Change,” keynote speech at Ethics Bowl, Lydia Patterson Institute, El Paso TX.

Summer 2019

“Climate Crisis and Democracy,” Rome, Italy