In Progress | “Outlander: Jane Rule’s Public Lives,” Lansdowne Public Lecture, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, March 2016. |
In Progress | “Combustion,” Invited Presentation, Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Roundtable, Modern Languages Association, Austin, TX, January 2016. |
2015 | “Some ‘F’ Words for the Environmental Humanities: Feralities, Feminisms, Futurities,” Invited Presentation, Mellon Sawyer Seminar, UCLA, June. |
2015 | “In a Vegetal Time and Space: Queering Multispecies Politics,” Invited Public Lecture, for the University of British Columbia, “Queer U,” February. |
2014 | “Botanically Queer: Plants, Sex, and Biopolitics,” Invited Public Lecture, Institute for for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, University of British Columbia, October. |
2014 | “Vital Feminist Matters,” Invited Keynote Panel Presentation, Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada, Thunder Bay, ON, August. |
2014 | “Encountering Plants: Entanglements and Embodiments,” Invited Keynote Address, “Ecological Bodies” Symposium, University of Illinois, Champaign, May. |
2014 | “Botanically Queer,” Invited Public Lecture, Columbia University, New York, March. |
2014 | “Imagining Communities in the Anthropocene: Multi-species Relationships,” Invited Consultant/Presenter, Humanities and the Environment Workshop, Arizona State University, February. |
2013 | “Botanical Sensations: Plants, Politics, and Literatures of Vegetal Encounter,” Invited Keynote Address for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (UKI), University of Surrey, Guildford UK, August. |
2013 | “Jane Rule’s Body Politic,” Invited Roundtable Presentation for The Body Politic, part of Gay Premises: Radical Voices in the Archives, 1973-1983, Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives, Toronto, June. |
2013 | “Building the Environmental Humanities,” Invited Roundtable Presentation, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (US), Lawrence KS, May. |
2013 | “Vegetal Politics in the Rouge Park,” Invited Presentation for “Urban Forestries and Political Ecologies,” University of Toronto, April. |
2013 | “Queer/Ecology,” Invited Seminar Presentation for the Technoscience Salon, University of Toronto, January. |
2012 | “Pro/polis? Bees, Labour and Public Life in Bee Journal,” Invited Workshop Paper for “Underground Ecocriticism,” Western University, London ON, November. |
2012 | “Dog Stranglers in the National Park: Ecology and Politics in the Rouge Valley,” Invited Keynote Address, Canadian Association of Geographers (Ontario), University of Toronto Scarborough, October. |
2011 | “From Queer Eye to Queer Ecology,” Invited Lecture, New York University, Pride Month Celebrations, October. |
2011 | (with Michael Morris) “Eco Homo: Queering Bodies, Queering Sustainability,” Invited Keynote Performance, Staging Sustainability, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, April 2011. |
2011 | “Queer Eye? Heteronaturativity and its Discontents,” Invited Lecture, Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University, April. |
2011 | “A State of Nature? National Parks and English Canadian Nationalism,” Invited Public Lecture, Canadian Studies Program, York University, March. |
2011 | “Queer Eye: Unthinking Heteronaturativity,” Invited Symposium Lecture, “Cross-Cultural Ecocriticism(s): Waves and Undertows,” Rutgers University, February. |
2011 | “On Jane Rule: Queer Publics and Counterpublics,” Invited Lecture, Public Texts Program (Department of English), Trent University, February. |
2010 | “Fantasies and Fires: Islandscapes from Galiano to Silver Bush,” Invited Plenary Presentation, Lucy Maud Montgomery Institute Ninth Biennial International Conference, University of Prince Edward Island, June. |
2010 | “What Should Mr. Harper Read? Environmental Literature at the Apocalypse,” Invited Keynote Lecture, Professional Writers’ Association of Canada, Toronto, June. |
2010 | “Apocalyptic Pleasures? Constituting Environmental Publics from Carson to McCarthy,” Invited Lecture, Public Texts Program (Department of English), Trent University, February. |