TALKS

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August 29-September 1: Petrocultures, University of Glasgow
 Paper: "Scenario Planning: New Fictions and Genres about Energy and Climate Futures"

July 6-9, 2017: ACLA American Comparative Literature Association Conference, Utrecht University
 Panel: "Capturing Life: Capital and the Biosphere"

March 9-11, 2017: Media@McGill International Colloquium, McGill University
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal 
Colloquium Co-Organizer and Respondent: "Climate Realism" 

January 5-8, 2017: MLA Convention, Philadelphia
Panel Organizer and Respondent: Climate Realism: The Aesthetics of Weather, Climate, and Atmosphere

November 17-20, 2016: MSA: Modernist Studies Association, Pasadena
Seminar: Modernist Energy Regimes

June 15-18, 2016: ALECC: Association for Literature, Environment, and Culture in Canada; Queen's University 
Paper: "Absolute Indeterminacy: Karel Čapek’s Pragmatist Science Fiction.” 

April 21-23 2016: Cultures of Energy Research Symposium, Rice University
Paper: “On the Possibility of a Future with Unlimited Energy” 
Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Science (CENHS)

January 28-29, 2016: Symposium: After Paris: An Interdisciplinary Response to the U.N. Climate Convention, University of Alberta
Symposium Organizer and Speaker: "Paris in Perspective" 

November 12-15, 2015: SLSA: Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts; Rice University
Paper: “Durkheim’s Sociology of Energy” 
Panel: “Dispositives and Assemblages” of the “Biopolitics Futures” Stream

November 4, 2015: CRASSH Cambridge, University of Cambridge
Paper: “Energo-power and the Politics of Climate Change” 
Climate Histories Research Group and Cambridge Interdisciplinary Research on the Environment

October 17, 2015: Ecocultres Conference, University of Glasgow
Paper: “Thinking through Energy and Environmental Humanities”