SPEAKING

Speaking engagements in AY 2024–25:

“The Degradation Plot: (Anti)Racism and Anthropology’s Ancestral Dramas” (with Devin Proctor). SSHRC-funded workshop on “Today’s Totalitarianism,” Vancouver, Canada, July 11, 2024.

“Empire in Perpetuity, or, What is the Price of a Liberal Education?” (with Finn West and Banafsheh Hussain). Wenner-Gren-funded workshop on the “Everyday Life of Fascism,” Seattle, WA, August 23, 2024.

“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore.” Environment and Sustainability Program, Ithaca, NY, September 20, 2024.

“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore.” Cornell University, Chat in the Stacks Series, Mann Library, Ithaca, NY, October 30, 2024.

“Time Bomb: Toxic Disavowal and American Apocalypse.” Binghamton University, Visual and Material Worlds Speaker Series, Binghamton, NY, November 7, 2024.

Roundtable Presenter in “Darker Shades of Green: Anthropologies of Everyday and Emergent Ecofascism.” American Anthropological Association Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 22, 2024.

Roundtable Presenter in “The Authoritarian University.” American Anthropological Association Meeting, Tampa, FL, November 21, 2024.

“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore.” Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, Virtual Reading Group, December 6, 2024.

“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore.” Invited speaker for Environmental Anthropology course, University of Ottawa, Department of Anthropology, Ottawa, CN, February 13, 2025.

“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore.” Invited speaker for Social Life of Climate Change course, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA, February 24, 2025.

“Futures after Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore.” Invited speaker for Environmental Anthropology course, University of Michigan, Department of Anthropology, Ann Arbor, MI, February 26, 2025.

“Futures after Progress: Imagining ‘Renewal’ in Late Industrial Baltimore.” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, SMAART (Sustainable Methods for Adapting and Adopting Regional Technologies) Symposium, Champaign, IL, March 7, 2025.

“Time Bomb: Toxic Disavowal and American Apocalypse.” Cornell University, Department of Anthropology, Ithaca, NY, March 14, 2025.

Title TBD. Oxford University. ERC-funded “conference on “What was Emptiness, and What Comes Next?” England, UK, June 4, 2025.

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.

University of Delaware, Department of Anthropology, October 27, 2022. Watch here.

Cover image: painting from "The Holey Land," by Baltimore-based artist Valeska Populoh.

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.

Cornell University, "Chat in the Stacks" series, October 30, 20224 Watch here.

Cover image: photo of Curtis Bay's playground and Curtis Bay's coal pier in 2016; by Chloe Ahmann.