for a full list of talks, see my CV
most recent keynotes (last 5 years):
Keynote Speaker, Transformative Environmental Humanities International Conference, KTH- Royal Institute of Technology Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm Sweden, August 2020
Keynote Speaker, Fluid Borders Graduate Student Virtual Conference, Visual Studies UC Irvine, May 2020 )
Keynote, Human Cities Expo, Stanford University, December 2019
Racial Ecologies and Cultures of Climate Change, UCSD Multi Campus Research Group, November 2019
(WATCH KEYNOTE HERE) Humanities Center Keynote Speaker, Environmental Justice as Freedom, Cal- State Chico, Oct. 2019
Sustainability and Social Justice, Institute for Social Justice Univ. of Vermont, Sept. 2019
Keynote Address, “Intersectionality, Environmental Justice and Situated Sustainabilities,” Women in Science and Engineering, Duke University, April 2019
Restoring Environmental Justice, Global Futures Initiative, Keynote and Inaugural Address,
University of New Mexico, March 2019
Environmental Justice as Freedom, Humanities Institute, UC Santa Barbara, February 2019
Towards a Just Transition, Allegheny College, November 2018
“Situating Sustainability: Water Violence, Water Justice.” Claremont McKenna, October 2018
“The How and the Now: Situating Sustainability in a Moment of Danger,” ERG, UC Berkeley, February 2018
“Environmental Justice and Violence” American Studies Program, Cornell University, February 2018 Keynote, “Environmental Justice and Memory,” Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH- Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), September 2017
most recent keynotes (last 5 years):
- Keynote Speaker, UCLA Environmental Humanities Graduate Student Conference, July 2021
- Distinguished Speaker, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), an NSF-funded center, University of Maryland, April 2021
- Keynote Speaker, Unprecedented, Student Conference, University of Edinburgh, March 2021
- Keynote Speaker, “Climate Justice, Satire and Hothouse Earth,” The End Times: Approaches to the Apocalypse Conference, CUNY Grad Center, English and Environmental Humanities Graduate Conference, March 2021
- International Student / Pedagogy Workshop, Occupy Climate Change, KTH- Royal Institute of Technology Environmental Humanities Laboratory March 2021
- Inaugural Jairam Miguel Rodrigues Rao Annual Lecture, “Making an Environmentally Justice World in a Moment of Danger,” College of Holy Cross, March 2021
- Invited Speaker, Environmental Systems Graduate Group, UC Merced, March 2021
- Invited Speaker, Abolitionist Climate Justice: Genealogies and Praxis, UC Berkeley, Dec. 2020
- Invited Speaker, Abolitionist Climate Justice Narratives, UC Merced Sociology, Nov. 2020
- Inaugural Speaker, Radical Hope in a Moment of Danger, or how ICE will Melt, Imagining Climate Change, Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Smith College, Oct. 2020
- Keynote Speaker, Climate Justice in a World on Fire, Mellon Sawyer Seminar, Deep Horizons: Making Visible an Unseen Spectrum of Ecological Casualties and Prospects, CU Boulder, October 2020
- Climate Justice: New Books and a Conversation with Michael Mendez, Redford Conservatory, Pitzer College, Sept. 30, 2020
- Interdisciplinarity, Intersectionality and Environmental Justice: The Time is Now. Global Change and Sustainability Center, University of Utah, Sept. 2020.
- Conversations with Joni Adamson, Inaugural Planet Now! Conversations for the Rice Center for Environmental Studies, Sept. 2020
- Keynote Speaker, Intersectionality, Institutions and Environmental Justice: The Time is Now, Butler Center and Center for Environment, Purdue University, Sept. 2020.
Keynote Speaker, Transformative Environmental Humanities International Conference, KTH- Royal Institute of Technology Environmental Humanities Laboratory, Stockholm Sweden, August 2020
Keynote Speaker, Fluid Borders Graduate Student Virtual Conference, Visual Studies UC Irvine, May 2020 )
Keynote, Human Cities Expo, Stanford University, December 2019
Racial Ecologies and Cultures of Climate Change, UCSD Multi Campus Research Group, November 2019
(WATCH KEYNOTE HERE) Humanities Center Keynote Speaker, Environmental Justice as Freedom, Cal- State Chico, Oct. 2019
Sustainability and Social Justice, Institute for Social Justice Univ. of Vermont, Sept. 2019
Keynote Address, “Intersectionality, Environmental Justice and Situated Sustainabilities,” Women in Science and Engineering, Duke University, April 2019
Restoring Environmental Justice, Global Futures Initiative, Keynote and Inaugural Address,
University of New Mexico, March 2019
Environmental Justice as Freedom, Humanities Institute, UC Santa Barbara, February 2019
Towards a Just Transition, Allegheny College, November 2018
“Situating Sustainability: Water Violence, Water Justice.” Claremont McKenna, October 2018
“The How and the Now: Situating Sustainability in a Moment of Danger,” ERG, UC Berkeley, February 2018
“Environmental Justice and Violence” American Studies Program, Cornell University, February 2018 Keynote, “Environmental Justice and Memory,” Environmental Humanities Laboratory, KTH- Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden), September 2017