Recent and upcoming Talks, Conference Presentations, and Interviews:
“Urban Nature in Need of Ecological Restor(y)ation.” NPR’s Academic Minute. May 6, 2025
“Rebalancing the Urban Landscape” Bert Moldow Memorial Keynote, Concerned Citizens of Laguna Woods Village, April 1, 2025
“Geostorytelling for Ecological Restoration: Two Cases in California and Mexico” Paper presentation at the AAG Annual Meeting in Detroit, March 28. 2025
“Towards Ecological RestorYation” Post-Sabbatical Talk at Soka University, March 13, 2025
“Igniting Passion for Urban Nature.” Interview with Associate Professor Deike Peters. Soka University News, March 7, 2025.
“Human and Nonhuman Interactions at Ballona” Panel Presentation with Sam Lutzker at the ‘Listening to Ballona’ Symposium and Sound Installation, co-organized with Daniel Rothman, Soka University of America, February 7, 2025.
“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