2023 “Becoming-Tree in a World of Clearcuts: Thoughts on Zoetropism and Gendered Violence,” Invited Keynote Address, “Zoetropisms: Ecofeminist Stories of Becoming,” Université de Nantes, FR, April 2023 (online).

2022 “Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom, Plant Invasions, and the Botanical Politics of Decolonization,” Invited Lecture, Cogut Institute for the Humanities, Brown University, Providence RI, October 2022.

2022 “Daphne, Reprise: Toward an Arboreal Feminism,” Invited Keynote Lecture (online), philoSOPHIA Annual Conference, George Mason University, Fairfax VA, June.

2022 “Arboreal Feminisms in the (M)Anthropocene,” Invited Lecture (online), Studium Generale, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, NE, May

2022 “Arboreal Feminisms in the (M)Anthropocene: The Vegetarian and How I Became a Tree,” Invited Lecture, Centre for Studies in Literature, University of Portsmouth, UK, March.

2022 “Loving the Difficult: Scotch Broom, Botanical Colonialism, and the Possibility of Cohabitation,” Invited Lecture (online), Environmental Humanities and Ecologies of Justice Speakers Series, Tufts University, Medford MA, March.

2022 “Queer Ecological Justice” (with N. Ahuja), Invited Panelist (online), Global Conversations Toward Queer Social Justice Network, University of Cambridge, UK, March.

2022 “Is Climate Change (Only) Meteorological?” (with M. B. Öhman), Invited Keynote Panelist (online), Seed Box Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, “A Community Garden”, Linköping University, SE, February.

2021 “Mulberry Intimacies: On Plants, Love, and Biopolitics in the Anthropocene,” Invited Lecture (online), Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung TW, November.

2021 “Mulberries: A Biopolitical Love Story,” Invited Lecture (online), Environmental Humanities Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam NE, September.

2021 “Anthologies to Save the Planet,” Invited Panelist (online), Word Vancouver, September.

2021 (with S. Morrison), “Story into Theory, Theory into Story,” Invited Keynote Presentation, University of Würzberg International Online Symposium, August.

2021 “Queering Nature,” Invited Panelist (online), National Audubon Society (US), July.

2020 “Planting Queer Intimacies,” Invited Lecture, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Western Washington University, Bellingham WA, March.

2019 “Storying Climate Change,” Keynote Panelist, Strange Weather: The Science and Art of Climate Change, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, November.

2019 “Invasive Plantimacies? Queering Kinship,” Invited Lecture, Posthumanism Research Institute, Brock University, St Catharines, November.

2018 “Gardening in the (M)Anthropocene,” Invited Lecture, Department of Geography, York University, October.

2018 “Gardening in the (M)Anthropocene,” Keynote Address, European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment, University of Würzberg, GE, September.

2018 “Feminist Botany for the Age of Man,” Sydney Environmental Humanities Lecture Series, Australian Museum, Sydney, AU, July.

2017 “Phytopolitics: Four Forays in Vegetation,” Keynote Address for Plantarium: Re-Imagining Green Futurities, Linköping University, SE, July.

2017 “The Young in One Another’s Arms at 40: A Conversation for International Women’s Day,” Invited Lecture, Galiano Community Library Speakers Series, Galiano Island, BC, March.

2017 “Vegetation: Four Forays into Critical Plant Studies,” Invited Lecture, Department of Environment and Geography, University of Manitoba.

2017 “Ecology, Agency, and Community: Plant Politics?” Invited Public Lecture, Cohen Center for the Study of Technological Humanism, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, January.

2016 “Vegetation? The Biopolitics of Becoming-Plant,” Invited Lecture, Department of English, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, October.

2016 “Phytopolitics: Four Forays into Vegetation,” Invited Keynote Address, International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt Lake City, UT, October.

2016 “A Vegetative State? Plant Biopolitics,” Invited Symposium Presentation, The Biopolitics of America, University of Würzberg, July.

2016 “Queering Communities: Becoming (With) Plants,” Invited Symposium Lectures (2), XPlore Berlin, July.

2016 “Outlander: Jane Rule’s Public Lives,” Invited Keynote Address, Galiano Community Library Annual General Meeting, Galiano Island, BC, April.

2016 “Outlander: Jane Rule’s Public Lives,” Lansdowne Public Lecture, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, March.

2016 (with R. Pickard), “(Un)Settling and (Re) Membering: Ecocritical Futures?” Invited Lansdowne Seminar Presentation, Department of English, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, February.

2016 “Combustion,” Invited Presentation, Inaugural Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities Roundtable, Modern Languages Association, Austin, TX, January.

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, University of British Columbia, “Queer U,” February.

2014 “Botanically Queer: Plants, Sex, and Biopolitics,” Invited Public Lecture, Institute 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 ON, 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 “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, Peterborough ON, 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, Peterborough, ON, February.

2021 “Sexual Violence and Vegetal Persistence in The Vegetarian and Cereus Blooms at Night,” Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, Toronto, ON, January (online).

2019 “’The Image is Fire’: Pyropoetics after Audre Lorde,” for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Biennial Conference, Davis, CA, June.

2018 “Invasive Plantimacies and Queer Ecologies,” for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Toronto, ON, November.

2018 (with A. Neimanis, J. MacLeod, E. McGiffin, S. Reid, and J. Hamilton), “Writing in the Wrack Zone: Feminist Lyrical Experiments in Settler-Capitalist Ruins,” for the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada, Victoria, BC, June.

2017 “Plantasm: Vegetal Participation and Imagination,” Participatory Environmental Humanities Workshop, University of New South Wales, Sydney, AU, July (videoconference).

2017 “Mulberiddlesex,” for “Sex and the (Motor) City: Ecologies of Middlesex II,” Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, Detroit, MI, June.

2016 “Fields of Dreams,” for the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada, Kingston, ON, June.

2015 “Transience and Transgression” (respondent for the panel “Unsettling Acts: Queering Ecotheory Through Migration and Transience”), for the American Studies Association, Toronto, ON, October.

2015 “Fear of a Queer Plant,” for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, Moscow, ID, June.

2014 “Jane Rule’s Queer Border Crossings,” for the Western Literature Association, Victoria BC, November.

2014 “’The Only Lesbian in Canada’: Jane Rule and the Queer Politics of Publicity,” for Discourse and Dynamics: Canadian Women as Public Intellectuals, Mount Allison University, Sackville NB, October.

2013 “A Very Queer Citizen: Jane Rule’s Public Lives,” for Sex Talk II, York University Sexuality Studies Program, May.

2013 (with P. Hobbs) “Toronto’s Queer Ecologies,” interpretive walk/bus tour, for the American Society for Environmental History, Toronto, ON, April.

2012 “Multispecies Nation? Canadian Studies, Environmental Studies, and the Ontological Turn,” for “Beyond Nature: Rethinking Canadian and Environmental Studies,” University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, September.

2012 “Generation Bee,” for the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada, Kelowna, B.C., August.

2011 “After the Fire: Jane Rule’s Queer Ecologies,” for the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, Bloomington, IN, June 2011.

2010 “Garbage: Ecological Seeing in the Phantasmagoria,” for the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada, Sydney, NS, August.

In progress (with M.D. Unrau), “Reckoning with Extraction,” for the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE), May 2023 (Toronto, ON).

In progress (with A. Huggins) Galiano Island Community Library/Conservancy Association Speakers’ series, three panel monthly series (online), “What is Environmental Justice?” March, October, November.

2021 (with L. Seay) Galiano Island Community Library Speakers’ Series, four panel monthly series (online) on racialized histories of Galiano and the Southern Gulf Islands, February to May.

2021 (with C. Lousley, S. O’Brien, and J. Kerber), “Persistent Ecologies: Responding to Environmental Injustices,” panel for the Modern Languages Association, January (online).

2019-20 “Storying Climate Change” Community Engagement Series. Please see https://storyingclimatechange.com/rising-tides-the-anthology/readings-2/

2019 (with J. Adamson), “Pyrocriticism,” two panels for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Davis, CA, June.

2018 (with A. Neimanis), “Queer Intimacies, Bad Ecosex,” panel for the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Toronto, ON, November.

2018 (with A. Neimanis), “Writing in the Wrack Zone: Feminist Lyrical Experiments in Settler-Capitalist Ruins,” participatory workshop (6 participants), Galiano Island, BC, June.

2018 “Storying Climate Change: Narrative, Imagination, Justice, Resilience” (Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation), participatory workshop (35 participants), Galiano Island, BC, March.

2017 (with K. Blanchard) “Sex and the (Motor) City: Ecologies of Middlesex,” two roundtable panels (12 participants) for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference, Detroit, MI, June 2017.

2015 Program Chair, Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Biennial Conference (900 participants), Moscow, ID, June.

2013-14 (with C. Cavanagh and A. Di Battista) “Lunchwords,” community poetry reading and workshop series, Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University.

2013 (with J. Adamson) “Vegetal Ecocriticism,” pre-conference seminar for the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, Lawrence, KS, May.

2012 Program Chair, Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada Biennial Conference (75 participants), Kelowna, BC, July.

2011 (with A. Di Battista, J. Russell and E. Soper) “Green Words / Green Worlds: Literature and Environmental Politics in Canada,” public symposium, conference and writing workshops, October.

2010-11 (with A. Di Battista and E. Soper), Sustainable Writing Lab: Workshop Series VI (various events, including FES Reads!).

2009-10 (with J. MacLeod and E. Soper) Sustainable Writing Lab: Workshop Series V (monthly, September-April)