2024

TBD - Speaker. “Untitled Planetarium Show.” Science Museum of Western Virginia (Roanoke, VA).

(UPCOMING) October 3rd - Speaker. “Untitled Guest Lecture.” Virginia Western Community College (Roanoke, VA).

(UPCOMING) September 8th - Speaker. “Book Signing and Meet and Greet.” Hosted in Collaboration with Eastern Divide Brewing and Blacksburg Books (Blacksburg, VA).

(UPCOMING) July 10th - Panelist. “The Aerospace Sublime: the Intersection of Engineering, Design, and Maintenance.” Conference for the Society for the History of Technology (Hybrid, Viña del Mar, Chile)

April 18th - Speaker. “Fieldnotes from Spaceport America: Journeys into Outer Space through Ethnography.” National Air and Space Museum Seminar on Contemporary Science, Technology, and Culture (Join Online)

2023

November 15th - Panelist. “Interrogating the Commons: Coloniality, Harm, and Alternative Models for Space Sustainability.” Commons in Space Virtual Conference (Available Here)

November 6th - Speaker. “Interstellar Dreams vs. Earthly Realities: Rethinking Space Exploration With Savannah Mandel.” This Anthro Life, Podcasts. (Available Here)

October 5th - Invited Speaker. “An Anthropologist in Outer Space.” The University of Kentucky in partnership with the Bolivar Art Gallery and Humanity in Deep Space (Lexington, KY)

June 13th - Invited Speaker. “How to Train for Space on Earth.” The Interstellar Radio Show. (Available Here)

2022

November 9th - Invited Speaker. “Terraforming Mars with Savannah Mandel.” Subject Matter: Table Top, Podcasts. (Available Here)

November 9th and December 2nd - Invited Speaker. “Earthly Analogs and Arctic Peoples.” NASA History Speaker Series/ NASA Analogs Focus Group. (Watch Online Here)

November 7th - Co-Moderator. “Flash Class on Disability Studies and Outer Space.” Humanity in Deep Space. (Virtual)

September 2nd - Conference Speaker. “The Elysium Effect or How Asteroid Mining Might Divide the World into Paradise and Purgatory.” Ethnographies of Outer Space: Methodological Opportunities and Experiments. (Virtual)

June 23rd - Invited Participant. “NASA Futures Workshop.” (Washington, D.C.)

April 22nd - Conference Speaker. “On Refrigerators and Rage: Secrecy and Pacification in the Florida Restaurant Industry,” Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Thought Graduate Conference, 2022. (Virtual)

April 6th - Invited Speaker. “Deep Space Salon,” University of Kentucky, Lewis Honors College 2022. (Virtual)

March 16th - Invited Speaker. “Working Anthropology,” University College London and SOAS University of London, 2022. (Virtual)

2021

August 19th - Invited Speaker. “Humanity in Deep Space: Flash Class.” Webinar, 2021, https://humanityindeepspace.com/ (Virtual)

February 25th - Invited Panelist. “Humanity in Deep Space.” Webinar, 2021, https://humanityindeepspace.com/february-25-2021. (Virtual)

April 9th - Panelist. “Terrestrial Environments of Outer Space.” American Association of Geography (AAG) Meeting, 2021. (Virtual)

2020

November 7th - Invited panelist. “From STEM to STEAM.” SpaceVision, 2020. (Virtual)

February 23rd - Guest speaker at IMAX showing of “Interstellar” at the National Air and Space Museum with Ten Movies Podcast. February 23rd, 2020. (Washington, D.C.)

2019

October 2nd - 3rd - Invited collaborator/speaker. “Space Humanity Seminar.” Pilot Event of Humanity in Deep Space Initiative. (Lexington, KY)