Daniel Robert Griffin

Detail-oriented team player, learner and leader with strong organizational skills, a sharp mind and a deep, guiding sense of social justice. Ability to pursue and complete multiple projects simultaneously. Passionate about foregrounding the collective care and support for those most marginalized and vulnerable in working conscientiously to redress past and present systems of harm.

Official Selection, Fishbowl, co-writer (FIN Atlantic Film Festival, St. John's International Women's Film Festival 2022)

• Board Chair, Mercy Centre for Ecology and Justice (2022-present)
• Board Member, Mercy Centre for Ecology and Justice (2020-present)
• Member, SJC Transformative Justice Committee member (2023-present)
• Founder, Transformative Justice Working Group (2021-present)
• Member, Social Justice Co-Op NL (2019-present)
• Youth Tutor/Leader, Association for New Canadians (2017-2019)
• Volunteer, St. John's International Women's Film Festival (2017-2019)
• Director, Graduate Philosophy Colloquium Series, University of Guelph (2014-2016)
• Co-organizer, Philopolis Guelph, (2013-2015)
• Workshop co-organizer, University of Guelph, Nietzsche and Virtue (2013)
• Conference co-organizer, University of Guelph, Politics at the Limits of Civil Society: A Political Philosophy Conference (2013)

• Nickel Advanced Script Writing Workshop with Wanda Nolan (2023)
• NIFCO Picture Start Program 15 (2021-2022)
• NIFCO Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking Course (2020-2021)
• Introduction to Documentary Filmmaking, Vickie Morgan OOPS Productions, Inc. (2019)

• Freelance Filmmaker - Screenwriter, Director, Picture Editor
• Social Justice Co-operative NL Member
• Board Chair for Mercy Centre for Ecology and Justice
• Activist Film Collective Member
• Amateur Photographer
• Intermediate Trombonist

• “A New Flesh: David Cronenberg, Flesh-Images, and Queering the Male Body,” philoSOPHIA, Memorial University of Newfoundland (May 2019)
• “The Problem of Language in Hegel,” Memorial University of Newfoundland, Colloquium Series (November 2017) (invited)
• “Can Hegel aid our understanding of freedom of expression?” Hegel, Religion and Politics: Issues and Actuality, Saint Paul University (April 2016)
• “American Dreams, Nostalgia, and Critical Politics in Terrence Malick,” The Thought of Terrence Malick, Gettysburg College Philosophy and Film Seminar (April 2016)
• “Hegel and Deleuze on Images,” Imaginary, Ideology, Illusion: The Reality of the Unreal, Duquesne University (February 2015)
• “The Pyramid of Hegel,” Derrida Today, Fordham University (May 2014)
• “Infinite Judgment and Speculative Proposition: The Negativity of Hegel’s Language,” Hegel’s Conception of Contradiction, KU Leuven (May 2013)
• “The Heterogeneity of Hegel’s Speculative Language,” The Return of Speculative Philosophy, University of Ottawa (April 2013)
• “Wong Kar-Wai and Deleuze’s Three Syntheses of Time,” Intensities and Lines of Flight: Deleuze and Guattari and the Arts Conference, King’s University College at The University of Western Ontario (May 2012)
• “Fits and Starts: Hegel, Spinoza and Arendt on the Problem of Beginning,” with Casey Ford and Jacob Singer, Philopolis Guelph (March 2012)

Certified in Standard First Aid & CPR/AED Level C

Driver's License