Upcoming Events
March 30, 2023 — Can the Humanities Be “Useful”?, panelist, Heart of the Matter +10 Symposium, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Cambridge, MA
April 4, 2023 — “Planning Inclusive Futures: The Next Decade of the Humanities”, panel moderator, National Humanities Center, Durham, NC
April 12, 2023 — “The Fluttering Heart of the Matter: Securing the Future of the Humanities,” keynote speaker, Lubbock, TX
Selected Recent Events
February 21, 2023 — Virginia Tech Humanities Week, keynote speaker, Blacksburg, VA
November 10–12, 2022 — National Humanities Conference, panelist, Los Angeles, CA
September 12, 2022 — “Securing the Future of the Humanities,” invited lecture, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, UT
November 10–12, 2022 — National Humanities Conference, panelist, Los Angeles, CA
November 18–20, 2022 — “Humane Technologies,” Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics, Arizona State University
September 2022 — “Securing the Future of the Humanities,” invited lecture, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City, UT
June 2022 — Pax Natura Award Ceremony, Mexico City
May 2022 — “Innovations in Public Engagement and Humanities Advocacy,” panel moderator, Consortium of Humanities Centers & Institutes 2022 Conference
April 2022 — “A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health” conference, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
April 2021 — “In Our Image: Artificial Intelligence and the Humanities” conference, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
November 2020 — “The Place of the Arts and Humanities in a Democratic Culture,” panelist, St. David’s Preparatory School Speaker Series, Raleigh, NC
April 2019 — “Beyond Despair: Theory and Practice in Environmental Humanities” conference, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC
February 2019 — “The Humanities in the Age of Loneliness: Healing a Broken World,” invited lecture, Arizona State University
August 2018 — “Why the Humanities Matter,” invited talk, Carolina Public Humanities, Chapel Hill, NC
May 2018 — “Renewing the Humanities: How Do We Understand Our 21st Century World?” panel presentation, Tech Museum of Innovation, San Jose, CA
March 2018 — “Saving the World with Metaphor: Toward an Ecological Poetics,” Blount Scholars Hidden Humanities Lecture, University of Alabama, Birmingham
February 2018 — “The Poetics of Ecology,” invited lecture, Fudan University, Shanghai
February 2018 — “Public Engagement as Advocacy and Resistance,” invited lecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX