Lectures, Conferences, and Recognition 

* = conference virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic

** = accepted, but conference cancelled due to COVID-19

2024:  

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• Conference workshop presentation: “Theorizing the Urban Transport/Urban Design/Rezoning Nexus: Lessons from Denver’s East Area Plan,” Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) and Emerging Leaders Workshop held alongside the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) 2024 Annual Conference, Denver, CO, September 15–18, 2024.

• Conference presentation: “A Dialectical Approach: Consider Land-Use Reform in Critical Historical Perspective,” 20th Biennial Society for American City and Regional Planning History (SACRPH) Conference. San Diego, CA, October 24–27, 2024.

• Conference presentation: “Intersections and Tensions of Resident-Initiated Repurposing,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, November 7–9, 2024.

• Conference presentation: “Making Cities Livable from Below? Repurposing the Geography of Apartheid.” 60th Annual International Making Cities Livable (IMCL) Conference. Newport, RI, April 26–28, 2024.

• Conference session moderator: “Comparative Peri-Urban Spaces across the South: Peripheralities, Multiplicities, and Entanglements I & II,” International Conference on Urban Affairs (ICUA). New York, NY. April 24–27, 2024.

  • Conference presentation: “From Displaced Urbanization to Displaced Urbanism: Repurposing and the ‘Territorial-Scale Peri-Urban’ in Mahikeng, South Africa.”

2023:  

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• Conference Presentation and Session Moderator/Discussant: “Radical Failure and World-Building in Abolitionist Organizing,” American Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting. Montréal, Quebec, Canada, November 2 – 5, 2023.

  • Conference presentation: “Resident Repurposing as Public Solidarity? Repossessive Urban Placemaking in Former South African Bantustans.”

  • Conference discussant: session on “Radical Failure and World-Building in Abolitionist Organizing”

• Conference Roundtable Discussion: “Repurposing the Geography of Apartheid: Incremental Vernacular Planning in a Former South African Bantustan,” Boston University (BU) Initiative on Cities Conference, Gentrification and Displacement: An International Dialogue. Boston, MA, USA, October 26 – 28, 2023.

• Conference Presentation: “Repurposing the Geography of Apartheid: Incremental Vernacular Planning in a Former South African Bantustan.” American Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Conference. Miami, FL, October 19¬–21, 2023.

• Conference Presentation: “Master-Planning Nairobi? Pretention and Planned Dependency for an Erstwhile Colonial Capital.” Fifty-first Annual Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Conference. Nashville, TN, April 26–29, 2023.

• Conference Presentation: “Place Re-Naming, Jurisdictional Integration, and Attempted Decoloniality: Symbolic and Material Reparation in South Africa.” American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. Denver, CO, March 23–27, 2023.

• Conference Presentation: “Jurisdictional Integration, Equity, and Political Representation: Lessons from South Africa.” Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference to the AAG) Annual Meeting. Institute of Behavioral Science, Boulder, CO, March 22, 2023. 

• Conference Micro-Field Studio Leader: “Cataloguing Toward a Place-Based Atlas: Hinterlands of the Capitalocene in Biosphere 2.” Urban Humanities (UH) Inaugural (Un)Conference. Urban Humanities Network, Tucson, AZ, March 3–5, 2023.

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2022:  

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• Selected through competitive application process as PhD (Doctoral) Workshop Participant: “Repurposing South African Bantustans: Specters of Planning’s Past in a Contested Present.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 24–28, 2022.

• Conference Presentation: “From ‘Citizen Jane’ to an Institutional History of Power and Social Change: Problematizing Urban Planning’s Jane Jacobs Historiography.” Society for American City and Regional Planning History Conference, 2022. New York, NY, October 20–22, 2022.

• Conference Presentation: “From ‘Citizen Jane’ to an Institutional History of Power and Social Change: Problematizing Urban Planning’s Jane Jacobs Historiography.” Fiftieth Annual Urban Affairs Association (UAA) Conference. Washington, D.C., April 12–14, 2022.

• Conference convenor and moderator of 5-paper and 1-panel sessions (moderator/discussant): “Territorializing Memory,” American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. 25 February – 1 March, 2022. New York, New York.

  • *Conference convener and moderator: “Territorializing Memory I and II”; “Memory and Home”; “Race, Place, Community and Memory”; “Memory and 9/11”; “Territory and Memory Roundtable Panel.”

  • *Conference presentation: “Fostering Connection across Informal Cities: The Need for 21st Century Digital Urban Infrastructures.”

2021:  

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• *Conference Presentation: “Recombinant Zones of Exception: Racialized Labor Precarity in Former Bantustan Special Economic Zones (SEZs),” Fifth Annual 2021 International Conference on Border Studies: Everyday Borders, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico and Edinburg, Texas, October 27–29, 2021.

• *Conference Presentation: “Planning, Violence, and Crisis in Sociohistorical Perspective,” The Eleventh International Conference on Food Studies, 28–30 October, 2021, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark.

• *Conference presentation:  “Government A La Carte, ‘Fend-For-Yourself’ Federalism, or Local Control? Interrogating Special Districts in Colorado,” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Meeting, 7–8 and 21–23 October 2021, Miami, Florida. ACSP Student Volunteer for the conference

• *Conference presentation: “Footprints About the Bantustan: Migration and Memory in Former South African Bantustans.”  Fifth Annual Memory Studies Association Conference.  July 5–9, 2021 at the University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. 

• *Conference presentation:  “Situated Tensions and Recurrent Public Memories: Violence as a Genre of Everyday Urban Life in South African Cities,” University of Wisconsin Madison Rhetoric Society of America (RSA) Symposium, 15–16 April, 2021, Madison, WI.

• *Conference session moderator/discussant: “Territories of Agrarian Industrial Transformation,” American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. 7–11 April, 2021. Seattle, WA.

  • *Conference presentation:  “Trading on Terroir: Fostering Artisanal Cheese and Alcohol Production through Specialized Agrarian Industrial Districts.”    

• *Conference presentation:  "Tracing Mikhael Subotzky on Securitization: Intersubjectivity and the Photographic Encounter,” Placing: New Engagements with the ‘Environment.’  18–20 March, 2021, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (conference link here).

• *Conference presentation:  “Local Government Arrangements and Political Economy in Former South African Bantustans.”  Thirteenth Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning and Public Policy. 11 March 2021, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.  

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2020:  

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• *Conference presentation:  “Ponte: Structural Reappropriation and Institutional Reformation in Emerging Johannesburg.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP) Annual Meeting.  5–8 November 2020.  Toronto, Canada.

• *Conference presentation: “Trading on Terroir: Fostering Artisanal Cheese and Alcohol Production through Specialized Agrarian Industrial Districts.”  Tenth International Conference on Food Studies.  17–18 October 2020.  Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY. 

• *Conference Presentation:  “Agrarian-Industrial Transformation in Modernizing Ethiopia: The Cases of the Gibe III Dam and Nestown Initiative,”  Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). 18–20 July 2020, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

• **Conference presentation: “Footprints About the Bantustan: Migration and Memory in Former South African Bantustans.”  Fourth Annual Memory Studies Association Conference.  18–21 June, 2020.  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 

• **Conference presentation: “Trading on Terroir: Fostering Artisanal Cheese and Alcohol Production through Specialized Agrarian Industrial Districts.”  Thirteenth Global Studies Conference.  4–5 June, 2020.  Concordia University, Montréal, Canada. 

• **Conference session moderator/discussant:  “Territories of Agrarian Industrial Transformation,” American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting.  6–10 April, 2020.  Denver, CO.

  • **Conference presentation:  “Trading on Terroir: Fostering Artisanal Cheese and Alcohol Production through Specialized Agrarian Industrial Districts.” 

• **Conference presentation:  “Local Government Arrangements and Political Economy in Former South African Bantustans.”  Twelfth Annual Krueckeberg Doctoral Conference in Urban Studies, Urban Planning and Public Policy. 11 March 2020, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ​

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