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SPEAKING

Speaking engagements in AY 2024–25:

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  • “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.

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  • “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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Recent recorded talks can be found at the links below.

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Time Bomb: Two Hundred Years of Toxic Disavowal in Late Industrial South Baltimore

Johns Hopkins University, Department of Anthropology, December 6, 2022. Watch here.

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Cover image: sign from the Curtis Bay Ordnance Depot in South Baltimore, circa 1950; from the US National Archives in Philadelphia.

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Hope at the End of the World: Two Views from Late Industrial Baltimore

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

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

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How Waste Became Renewable in Baltimore: A Cautionary Tale

Cornell University, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, May 9, 2022. Watch here.

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Cover image: artist's rendering of the BRESCO incinerator in Baltimore, circa 1980; commissioned by the Northeast Waste Disposal Authority.

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