talks

Upcoming:

Pacific Northwest College of Art. Invited Talk. March 13-14, 2025.

 

Past:

Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University, Philadelphia, Critical Dialogues Series. Invited Talk. Sept. 17, 2024.

Petrocultures conference, University of Southern California, Keynote with Stephanie LeMenager. May 18, 2024.

Dartmouth College, Anthropocene Group. Invited Talk. Nov. 9-10, 2023

Pioneer Works, NYC, Science and Society: Toxic Progeny with Jack Halberstam
and Malin Ah-King. Invited Talk. Oct. 3, 2023.

“Petro-Time”, Virginia Commonwealth University. Invited Talk. March 2-3, 2023.

“Unrelenting: Pervasive Contamination.” Contamination, Art, and the Environmental Condition. University of the Arts Helsinki + Aarhus University, Denmark. Invited Talk. March 9, 2023.

Queer and Trans Ecologies, University of Minnesota. Invited Talk. March 23-25, 2023.

Synthetic Histories: Plastics, Climate, and Colonialism, V&A Dundee. Invited Talk. Jan. 27, 2023.

Plastic Matter, Explorations in Medical Humanities, Columbia University. Invited Talk. Nov. 15, 2022.

Petro-modernity as Pleasure and Threat, Swiss Design Network. Keynote Lecture. Oct. 27-28, 2022.

Ambivalent Repair, Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Johns Hopkins University. Invited Talk. Oct. 5, 2022.

Bad Taste? Culture and Consumption in the Great Acceleration, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin. Invited Talk. June 17, 2022.

Dis/Entangling Perspectives in Material Research, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Invited Talk. May 16, 2022.

The Temporality of Climate Change, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal. Invited Talk. May 11, 2022.

Material Worlds: Plastic, MoMA. Invited Talk. March 26, 2022.

Welcome to the Anthropocene, University of Oslo. Invited Talk. March 10, 2022.

Planet Now! Prepared Air, Rice University, Texas. Invited Talk. February 21, 2022.

States of Nature: Dialogues, Mumbai, India. “Vulnerable Landscapes” Invited Talk. February 10, 2022.

Amor Mundi, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. “It Will Not Let Us Go: Plastic Matter” Invited Talk. January 27, 2022.

Incipit Terra, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogota, Columbia. “Getting Closer: Feminist Critical Intimacy” October 19, 2021.

Postcommodities…Architecture After Stuff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. October 8, 2021.

Silent Green Kulturquartier, Berlin. “The Queer Inheritances of Plastic.” July 27, 2021.

Nottingham Contemporary, Contemporary Conversations with Sophie Lewis

Othered Grounds, University of Southern California

Mutations: A Lecture Series, Akademie Schloss Solitude

Ecology After Nature e-flux

“Beyond the Anthropocene” The MARG Foundation. June 10, 2020.

Broken Natures symposium, MoMA, New York, January 14, 2019

Meet the Expert: Heather Davis. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. November 24, 2018.

“It Will Not Let Us Go: On Questions of Oil, Plastic, and Haunting” True Oil, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Oct. 25, 2018.

“On Becoming Plural” Zooetics Symposium, MIT, April 28, 2018

“Decolonizing the Anthropocene” Ruderal Ecologies: Grounds for Change, RPI, April 13, 2018

Being in Two Places at Once: Art and the Geopolitics of Remote Sensing, NYU, March 20, 2018

Dark Ecology Journey, Sonic Acts, Kirkenes, Norway and Nikel, Russia, June 8-12, 2016

Sensing the Insensible (with Jeremy Bolen, Emily Eliza Scott and Andrew Yang) Anthropocene Curriculum – Technosphere Issue, HKW, Berlin, April 14-22, 2016

“Queer Plastic Futures” Sonic Acts Academy, Amsterdam. February 28, 2016

“Visualizing Molecular Threat” Climate Change and the Scales of Environment, GSAPP, Columbia University, New York. December 4, 2015

Phosphorus: An Apparatus of the Technosphere, The Technosphere, Now Opening, HKW, Berlin. October 2, 2015

“Material Archives of Plastic” World of Matter: Resource Ecologies and Contested Territories, Concordia University, Montreal, Feb. 20-21, 2015

“Plastic: An Ethology of Oil (or, life and death in the Anthropocene)” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Nov. 6, 4-6pm

“Between a Rock and Hard Plastic: Aesthetics of the Anthropocene” with Sylvère Lotringer and Etienne Turpin, Human Resources Los Angeles, April 3, 2014

“Plastic, or how to live forever” Transmediale Festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, February 1, 2014