SPEAKING
Spring semester speaking engagements:
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“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore." Yale University, Department of Anthropology, New Haven, CT, January 24, 2024.
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“Time Bomb: Toxic Disavowal and American Apocalypse.” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, February 12, 2024.
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“Time Bomb: Toxic Disavowal and American Apocalypse.” Stanford University, Department of Anthropology, Stanford, CA, February 26, 2024.
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“Slow Violence and Slow Writing: Anthropology after Defense.” Keynote address for conference on “Enacting Temporality,” Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, April 21, 2024.
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“Time Bomb: Toxic Disavowal and American Apocalypse.” University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Human Context of Science and Technology Program, Baltimore, MD, April 22, 2024.
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“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore.” George Washington University, Department of Anthropology, Washington, DC, April 26, 2024.
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"Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore." Seminary Co-op Bookstore, Chicago, IL, May 28, 2024.
Recent recorded talks can be found at the links below.
Time Bomb: Two Hundred Years of Toxic Disavowal in Late Industrial South Baltimore
Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology, December 6, 2022. Watch here.
Cover image: sign from the Curtis Bay Ordnance Depot in South Baltimore, circa 1950; from the US National Archives in Philadelphia.
Hope at the End of the World: Two Views from Late Industrial Baltimore
University of Delaware, Department of Anthropology, October 27, 2022. Watch here.
Cover image: painting from "The Holey Land," by Baltimore-based artist Valeska Populoh.
How Waste Became Renewable in Baltimore: A Cautionary Tale
Cornell University, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, May 9, 2022. Watch here.
Cover image: artist's rendering of the BRESCO incinerator in Baltimore, circa 1980; commissioned by the Northeast Waste Disposal Authority.