Talks

Conference Activity

“The Forest for the Trees: Reintegrating cultural theory into Environmental Sociology”. Theory Section Refereed Roundtables. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY. August 2019.

“The Privilege to Prepare: Racial Privilege & Environmental Practice in American Prepping Culture”. Section on Environmental Sociology Roundtables. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY. August 2019.

“Environmental Politics at the End of the World: Prepping as Environmental Practice”. Environmental Arts & Humanities Graduate Conference. Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. June 2019.

“The Privilege to Prepare: Racial Privilege & Environmental Practice in American Prepping Culture”. Environmental Sociology: Socially Constructing the Natural World and Environmental Threats Formal Paper & Research in Progress Session. Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, California. March 2019.

“Prepping for the End of the World as We Know It: Emotions, Culture and Environmental Risk”. Special Session on Feeling Climate Change: The US Experience in Racial, Ethnic and Gender Perspective, American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 2019.

“Self-sufficiency: Emotional-Cultural-Material Trajectories of Environmental Practices”. Junior Theorists Symposium, Montreal, Quebec. August 2018.

“The Role of Negative Emotions in Shaping Response to Environmental Risk: A Cross-national Comparison” with Kari Marie Norgaard. Open Refereed Roundtable Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec. August 2018.

“Securing Sustainability: Culture & emotions in social change” with Kari Marie Norgaard. Symposium on The Emotional Roots of Political Populism at the International Society for Research on Emotions meeting, St. Louis, Missouri. July 2017.

“The Forest and the Trees: Reintegrating Cultural Theory into Environmental Sociology”. Formal Paper and Research in Progress Session, Natural Resources and Risk. Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon. April 2017.

“An Emotional Landscape of Risk: Self-Sufficiency and the Environment.” Section on Environment and Technology Roundtable Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington. August 2016.

“Changing practices, changing bodies, changing environments: homesteaders, preppers and ecological habitus.” Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Oakland, California.
2014 – “I’ll Do It Myself: Self-Sufficiency Movements and the Environment.” (Re)visions of the Future; Public Sociology, Environmental Justice, & the Crisis of Climate Change Conference. George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia. October 2016.

“Once More, With Feeling: Marx’s Theory of Alienation and the Mind-Body-Earth Connection.” Section on Social Psychology Roundtable Session. American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California. August 2014.

Campus & Departmental Talks

“Environmental Politics at the End of the World–Prepping as Environmental Practice.” The Center for Environmental Futures’ Environmental Interdisciplinarity 101 Colloquium. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. April 2020.*

“When the Shit Hits the Fan, We’ll Know How to Can: Self-Sufficiency Movements as Environmental Practice (an exploration)”. The Center for Environmental Futures’ Environmental Interdisciplinarity 101 Colloquium. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. May 2017.

“Unraveling the American Dream: Homesteading, Prepping, and Self-sufficiency as Environmental Practice”. Environmental Studies Joint Campus Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. May 2017.

Panelist on “Imaginactivism: An afternoon conversation with Renowned Author and Activist Starhawk about Social and Environmental Justice”. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR. April 2017.

Panelist on “Students of feminist science fiction on The Word for World is Forest”. James Tiptree, Jr. Symposium. University of Oregon. Eugene, OR. December 2016.