[information about recent and/or upcoming talks and conference presentations]

“Rethinking ‘Ruhrbanity’  – Green-Blue Dreamscapes and Regional Renaturalization in Germany’s Former Industrial Heartland in Comparative Perspective” Presentation at the AESOP Planning Congress in Paris, July 2024

“Natural History Museum of the Future II / Sounds of Ballona.” Presentation & Performance with Sound Artist Daniel Rothman at The Nature of Cities Festival at the Atelier Gardens in Berlin, June 2-7, 2024

“From ‘Which Nature’ to ‘Whose Nature’? Ecological Restoration and Its Recent Urban Complications” Presentation at the International Conference on Urban Affairs, New York City, April 2024

“Re-Thinking Urban Natures as Ecological Pluriverses: What does this mean for Los Angeles’ Last Remaining Wetland?” (Virtual) Paper presentation for the pre-organized session Imagining the Multi-Species City: Cohabitation and Urban Futures at the AAG Annual Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2024

“Ecological Restor(y)ation as a Process of Recommoning” (Virtual) Presentation for the panel on Performing and Transforming the Commons at the joint conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) & the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (AESS). Portland, OR, June 2023

“The Ballona Eco-Wars: The Fight over the Ecological Restoration of Los Angeles’ Last Wetland” Paper for the session on Multispecies Climate and Environmental Justice at the AAG Annual Meeting, Denver, April 2023