INVITED TALKS
2025 “Revolting Atmospheres and Climate Revolution,” University of Buffalo,
February 20th
2024 “Revolutionary Survival: Anti-Nuclear Lessons” (keynote), From Crisis to
Coordination, University of Minnesota, May 24th
“Anti-Nuclear Resistance as Intersectional Survival: Reflections on Eco-
Nuclearism,” the Philosopher’s Holiday Speaker Series, Vassar College, April
24th
2023 "Anti-Colonial Feminist Perspectives on Nuclear," University of Antioch,
November 3rd
“Liberation Ecology: Maroonage, Mining, and Sylvia Wynter’s Black
Metamorphosis,” Critical Theory Cluster, Northwestern, IL, March 30th
“Grounding Freedom,” Anti-Racism, Anti-Colonialism and Climate Change
(virtual speaker series), Case Western Reserve University, March 22nd
"The Need for a Black Feminist Climate Justice," Climate Ethics Symposium,
University of Washington, Seattle, March 2nd
“Down to Earth: Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis,” Fordham MAP
(Minorities and Philosophy) Speaker Series, NY, February 22nd
2022 “Grounding Ecologies of Freedom,” Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art in
collaboration with the Brooklyn Rail, NY, June 28th
“Bury me in a Free Land: Grounding Abolition Ecology,” Philosophy in the
Wild (University of Pennsylvania) June 17-19th (Keynote)
Sylvia Wynter’s Caribbean Critique, The Center for Ethics, University of
Toronto, February 21st
2021 Towards a Black Feminist Climate Justice, MAP Speaker Series on Race,
Fordham University, April 23rd
Envisioning Black Feminist Climate Justice, Black Feminist Ecologies Salon,
Wesleyan University, February 24th
Panels and Discussions
2024 “Black Trash: complicating species,” Historical Materialism and Multi-Species
Justice Workshop, New York University, NYU, October 17th
Book Symposium Feminism, Capitalism & Ecology - Johanna Oksala, Nancy
Fraser, Alyssa Battistoni, Cinzia Arruzza, Romy Opperman, The New School
for Social Research, April 25thRomy Opperman Curriculum Vitae 4
2023 Invited Dialogue on Sylvia Wynter, Performance, Possession & Automation,
UK, April 25th
2022 "Book Panel: Anarchafeminism with Chiara Bottici, Judith Butler, and Romy
Opperman," The New School for Social Research, NY, September 15th
“Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals,” Alexis Pauline
Gumbs in conversation with Romy Opperman – Nyansapo: Festival
Afroféministe Européen, Mwasi, 2nd July
Keynote roundtable with Mark Christian Thompson and Robert J. C. Young,
Nonidentity: Current Configurations in Critical Theories and Poetics,
Department of German and Comparative Literature, NYU, NY, April 28-29th
“On Conditions and Conditionality: Ecological Injustices and the Biopolitics of
Resistance: discussion with Romy Opperman, Adelita Husni Bey, and Kay
Gabriel,” These Conditions, Vera List Center for Art and Politics /
Contemporary Aesthetics Research Collaborative (CARC), NYC, April 2nd
“Beyond Simone: Political phenomenology of the Veil and its appearance,”
Hourya Benthouami in conversation with Romy Opperman, Gender Matters
Symposium March 25th
Decolonising Ecology: Malcom Ferdinand in Conversation with Romy
Opperman, January 24th
2021 Finding Ceremony: Honoring Black Feminist Elders, (Panelist and organizer),
Gender Matters: An Inaugural Symposium for Gender and Sexualities Studies
Institute, The New School, March 22nd
2020 Reimagine the Future: Linking Climate Ethics and Justice (Virtual panel),
Princeton University, NJ, October 2nd
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2024 “Survival,” Political Concepts, The New School for Social Research, NYC,
November 5th
“Sylvia Wynter’s Caribbean Critical Theory,” Creolizing Critical Theory Panel,
SPEP, Rochester, NY, September 27th
“Don’t Mention the War!” Geoengineering in Crisis: The Princeton Workshop on
Geoengineering Ethics and Governance, Princeton, NJ, September 20th
“Revolutionary Survival: Black Feminist Alternatives to Eco-Nuclearism,”
An Environment for Black Feminism: History, Theory, Aesthetics (conference
and workshop), Copenhagen University, June 13-14thRomy Opperman Curriculum Vitae 5
“Radioactive Colonialism’s Renaissance,” Anti-colonialism and its Afterlives:
Renewing and Rethinking Debates, The New School for Social Research, April
27th
2023 "Have We Learnt Nothing? Catastrophe, Ceremony, and Autonomy," The
Ecologies of Education conference, The New School, October 27th
"Reproducing Climate Violence or Generating Liberation? Anti-Colonial Feminist
Perspectives on Nuclear,” International Association of Environmental Philosophy,
Toronto, October 16th
"Black Trash and Ecological Resistance," Society for Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy, Toronto, October 13th
“Twisting the Travelogue with Saidiya Hartman,” Visual Philosophy Conference,
The New School, NY, March 24th
“Nature Revisited with Sylvia Wynter's Critical Theory,” International Society for
Environmental Ethics invited panel, Central APA, Denver, February 25th
“Groundings: Ecological Freedom in Caribbean Philosophy, Race & the
Environmental Humanities invited panel, American Philosophical Association
(APA), Denver, February 22nd
2022 “Political Matters without the Polis” Elemental Difference and the Climate of the
Body (book panel) Philosophia - George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia,
June 2nd-4th
“Gleaning from Charles Mills’ ‘Black Trash’: Implications for Critical Philosophy
of Race,” Critical Philosophy of Race after Ten Years, Pennsylvania State
University, PA, March 15th-16th
2021 A World of Many Worlds: A Decolonial Option for Climate Migration,
International Association of Environmental Philosophy, October 15-16th
Climate Migration in the Pluriverse, Philosophy and the Climate Crisis,
Philosophers for Sustainability, June 10-12th
Black Feminist Critical Theory, Adorno and Non-identity Seminar, February 26th
Interlocutor with Rachel Jones “Wayward Methods,” the Society for Women in
Philosophy (UK), University of Stirling, January 16-22nd
2020 Black Feminist Thought Takes its Turn: Some Implications for Climate Ethics and
Justice, International Association of Environmental Philosophy, October 9-11
Towards Black Feminist Climate Ethics and Justice, Climate Futures Initiative:
Bridging Gaps of Affluence, Nation, and Time, Princeton University, August 10-24