A selection from past, present, and future talks, conferences, and research activities.

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WRITING/LIVING/CREATING | Toronto, Ontario

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CONFERENCE | Feminist Explorations of Urban Futures Conference | “Roundtable on Social Reproduction after Planetary Urbanization.” | Toronto, ON | September 28, 2019

PUBLIC PhD DEFENSE | “‘Bologna is a School of Activism’: TransFeministQueer Autonomy and Urban Spatial Praxis.” | Toronto, ON | October 7, 2019

CONFERENCE | Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference | Toronto, ON | “A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time” Panel and Paper Presentation | 5 April 2018

CONFERENCE | American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting | New Orleans, LA | “Unsettling Colonial Geographies with Performative Arts Practice” Paper presentation and Panelist | 11 April 2018

CONFERENCE | American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting | New Orleans, LA | “A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time” Panel Series and Paper Presentation | 14 April 2018

CONFERENCE | Feminist Geographies in/during Troubled Times | Montreal, QC | “A Feminist Urban Theory for Our Time” Panel and Paper Presentation | 4–6 August 2018

SUMMER SCHOOL | 6th Annual Institute for the Geographies of Justice | Montreal, QC | Participant | June 2017

WORKSHOP/UN-CONFERENCE | “It Ain’t Business as Usual: Building a Geography of Solidarity for a New Geopolitical Order” | Toronto, Ontario | Co-Organizer | 7 April 2017

STUDENT CAUCUS + PANEL | “Doing Urban Fieldwork” | Toronto, ON |”Home / Work / Walls” | Panelist/Presenter | March 2017

WORKSHOP | Critical Engagements with Planetary Urbanization | Toronto, ON | Co-Organizer/Presenter | April 2016

CONFERENCE | American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting | San Francisco, CA, USA | “Three Sketches for Queer Autonomy: Arrival, Auto-inchiesta, Eviction” | March 2016

TRAVEL+RESEARCH+ACTIVISM+COLLECTIVITY | Italy | December 2015

TRAVEL+RESEARCH+ACTIVISM+COLLECTIVITY | Italy | March – September 2015

CONFERENCE+PERFORMANCE+RITUAL | 5th International Conference on Emotional Geographies | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK | “Reading 3 Ways” | 11 June 2015

TRAVEL+RESEARCH | Italy | December 2014

TRAVEL+RESEARCH | Italy | July – August 2014

CONFERENCE | American Association of Geographers | Tampa, FL, USA | “Between the Fool and the World” | 8 April 2014

TRAVEL+REASEARCH | Italy – England – Germany | July – August 2013

WORKSHOP | Vegetal Ecocriticism: The Question of “The Plant” | Lawrence, KS, USA | Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Preconference Workshop | 28 May 2013

CONFERENCE | Grabbing Green: Questioning the Green Economy | Toronto, ON, CA | Panelist/presenter for “Boundary Work: Scripting Land and Property” | 17 – 19 May 2013

CONFERENCE | Urban Forestry & Political Ecology: Celebrating Transdisciplinarity | Toronto, ON, CA | “Thinking the Urban with Ailanthus Altissima: Queer notes on the ethics and politics of arboreal engagement.” | 18 – 20 April 2013

CONFERENCE | American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting | Los Angeles, CA, USA | “Vegetal (de/re)territorializations: From the cracks of an old urban order, the ruderal emergence of the new” | 9 – 13 April 2013

WORKSHOP | Seventh Annual Feminist Theory Workshop | Duke University in Durham, NC, USA | 22 – 23 March 2013

WORKSHOP / SEMINAR | Equity and Diversity Seminar Series hosted by Accessibility, Community, and Equity Committee | “Doing (and Being) Queer in Environmental Studies: Research and Visibility” co-panelist with Loree Erickson, Jin Haritaworn, and Cate Sandilands | York University in Toronto, ON, CA| 5 March 2013

SALON | Technoscience Salon at University of Toronto | Co-discussant with Peter Hobbs for Queer(y)ing Ecologies | Toronto, ON, CA | 25 January 2013 | 5-7pm

TALK @ NYU Program in Environmental Studies | “‘The High Line is Totally Gay’: Refiguring the Ground of Gay Green Gentrification in New York City” | New York City, NY, USA | 7 November 2012

CONFERENCE | Urban-Activism-Scholarship: Global Discourses in Local, Historical, and Contemporary Contests, First Annual Conference of the International Graduate Research Program (Berlin – New York – Toronto) | “‘The High Line is Totally Gay’: Refiguring the Ground of Gay Green Gentrification in New York City” | Berlin, DE |3 November 2012

CONFERENCE | Canadian Association of Geographers, Ontario Division, Regional Meeting | “‘The High Line is Totally Gay’: Excessively Vegetal Spaces and the Ec[o]topic Politics of Plant Performativity” | Toronto, ON, CA |13 October 2012

TRAVEL | Copenhagen – Helsinki – Iceland | April 2012

CONFERENCE | American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting | “Taming the High Line: Ec[o]topic Urban-Nature and the Spatial Politics of Performativity” | New York City, NY, USA |24 February 2011

TALK @ NYU Program in Environmental Studies |
“Taming the High Line: Preservation Politics, Vagabond Plants, and the Creation of an Ecological Icon” | New York City, NY, USA | 2 November 2011

TALK @ NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis | “A Line in the Sand: Queers, Urban Nature, and the Linear Park” | New York City, NY, USA |21 April 2010

TALK @ NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis | “Socionature and the Utopian Imaginary” | New York City, NY, USA | 12 November 2009