Upcoming events:
“Anasyrma and the Mutual Metamorphosis of Sex and Nature”
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), University of Hawaii, Hilo, HI
October 2026
Past events:
2025
Book Talk – Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), University of Alaska, Homer, AK
2024
“The Intimacy of Ecological Time in Nancy Holt’s Sun Tunnels”
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), Loyola Marymount University, CA
Panelist, “Interclass Contact” at In Your Face: A Symposium on Barbara DeGenevieve
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Radical Intimacy in Contemporary Art: The Politics of Subjects and Objects”
School of Visual Arts Art + Politics Lecture Series, NY
Panelist, Jeanette Spicer’s To the Ends of the Earth photobook by GOST books
International Center of Photography (ICP) Photobook Fest
2023
“Homeless Ecology: Intimate Revolt in TJ Cuthand’s ‘Reclamation’”
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle University, WA
2022
“Ecological Intimacy and the Anarchic Imagination’”
Art and Care Study Day, Cambridge University, virtual
2021
“Ecological Intimacy and the Anarchic Imagination’”
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), virtual
2019
“The Oceanic as Perpetual Revolt: Intimacy and Negativity in Jeanette Spicer’s ‘Sea (See)’”
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), Seattle University, WA
2018
“Queering the Pacific: Postcolonial Intimacy in Joseph Maida’s ‘Hula Kahiko Kane’”
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), Yosemite Valley CA
2017
“Leigh Ledare: Radical Intimacy and the Poetics of Abjection”
Kristeva Circle, Pittsburgh PA
“The Poetics of Intimacy: Transgressing the Limits of Sex and Language”
Psychology and the Other, Cambridge MA
“Sensible/Nonsensical: The Intimate Body as Site of Deconstruction”
Pacific Association in the Continental Tradition (PACT), San Francisco CA
“The Intimacy of Knowledge: Radical Sexuality and the Epistēmē”
Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle, Phoenix AZ
2016
“Thee Sublime: Orgasm as Poetic Resistance in the Works of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth”
Southeastern College Art Conference, Roanoke VA
2015
Performance and talk: “Empathetic Switch”
New School for Social Research Philosophy Conference, NYC
“The Orphic Orgasm: Communal Catharsis and the Carnivalesque”
Midwest Popular Culture Association, Cincinnati OH