Speaking

Over the last thirty years I have spoken at universities, conferences, schools, community gatherings and private events.

When I speak, I tailor my words and visual representations of my research to the specific audience I address.

My experience has shown that this is one of the most effective and powerful ways to communicate about the beautiful planet we call home.

Below is a select list of speaking engagements in recent years.

I would love to speak for you!

Please email me if you are interested!

  • Talks at Universities

    April 21, 2021, Anthropology and Climate Change: Our Contributions and the Challenges Ahead, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa

    March 4, 2020 Storying Climate Change: How Local Testimonies Engage and Empower Communities to Act, Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia

    September 25, 2018 From Siberia Speaks the World: Ethnographic Insights in Times of Change, Anthropology Department, Boise State University

    October 2017, Grappling with Climate at Home and Afar. Marshall University, Huntington, West Virginia.

    October 2015, Changing Climate & Dynamic Cultures: Survival in the Arctic, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College.

    October 2014, Anthropological Investigations into the Bottom-Up Complexity and Adaptive Challenges of Change in Contemporary Rural Contexts. Climate Histories Series, Cambridge University, UK.

    October 2014, Anthropological Investigations into the Bottom-Up Complexity and Adaptive Challenges of Change in Contemporary Rural Contexts. Dialogues in Human Geography, Aberystwyth University, Wales.

  • Addresses for Conferences

    January 12, 2021, The Value of an Integrated Approach for NSF, invited speaker, National Academy of Sciences, Accelerating Integration of the Social Sciences in the Study of Earth System Interactions

    April 28, 2021, Communities and Permafrost Thaw in Siberia, American Center in Moscow, Fulbright Program in Russia

    June 17, 2021, Losing Ground: Physical and Cultural Implications of a Changing Climate for Rural Sakha, International Conference of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS), Arkhangelsk, Russia

    March 20, 2019 Pastoralists of Permafrost in the Anthropocene: From Sakha to Mongolia, Permafrost and Pastoral Land Use in Mongolia Environmental and social-economic dynamics under conditions of past and current climate change, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

    October 24, 2018 West Virginia Science Teachers’ Association Annual Meeting, Stonewall Resort, WVa.

    October 18, 2018 (Um)Weltschmerz: An Exercise in Humility and Melancholia, Rachel Carson Center, Munich, Germany

    March 2018, The Local Effects and Responses to Climate Change: The Anthropological Take, Loyola University Chicago’s 5th annual Climate Change Conference.

    September 2017, Investigating the ‘Bottom-Up Complexity’ and ‘Adaptive Challenges’ of the Anthropocene: Anthropology, Interdisciplinarity, Methodology, XI Conference of Environmental Sociologists Chieti, Italy.

    March 2016, Tracking the Complexity of Change in Mongolia, Overheating Conference, University of Oslo.

    April 2015, Towards Systematic Approaches for Interdisciplinary Global Change Research: The Alaas Permafrost Socio-ecological System as Case in Point, Arctic Science Summit Week, Toyama, Japan.

  • Giving Guest Lectures

    April 23, 2021, Community Perceptions of Climate Change in Siberia, Friends School of Baltimore

    January 2021, guest lecture for two classes of Russia’s Magnificent Siberia: Cossack, Shaman, and Commissar, Evergreen College, Olympia, WA.: Week 1) Colonization of Siberia: Learning About Who Was Already There; Week 2) Centuries of Perestroikas: Sakha from their Roots in Baikal to Collectivization to Russia's Diamond Colony