Conference Presentations and Keynote Address
"Celestial Kinship"
Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City Symposium
Performance Space New York
New York, New York
June 17, 2023
"Feminist Astrology and the Moon: Engaging Ancient Traditions with Feminist Thought"
54th Annual conference of the Astrological Association
Online conference
September 24, 2022
"Minor Asteroids in the Birth Chart and Ritual"
Northwest Astrological Conference (NORWAC)
Tukwila, Washington
May 29, 2022
"Celestial Corporeality: Astrology and the Body"
Fresh Voices in Astrology Summit 2020 (online)
August 16, 2020
"Astrology Consultations as Feminist Praxis" and "Embodying Astrological Archetypes"
Queer Astrology Conference (online due to CVOID-19)
July 10-12, 2020
"When the Earth Was Trans: Ecosexuality and the Subversion of the Heterosexual Matrix"
American Studies Association Conference 2019
Build As We Fight
Honolulu, Hawai’i
November 7-10, 2019
"What We Do Between the Worlds Affects All the Worlds: Postmodern Dance As Witchcraft, Magic, Ritual, and Healing"
Dance Studies Association Conference 2019
Dancing in Common
Northwestern University
August 8-11, 2019
"Living Between Our Words: Thinking Critically About Rhetorical Strategies Within Transgender Communities"
TransOhio Tenth Annual Transgender and Ally Symposium
The Ohio State University
April 27-29, 2018
"Dance, Mortality, and Making Kinesthetic Kin in Times of Climate Crisis"
Transmissions and Traces: Rendering Dance
Dance Studies Association Inaugural Conference (formerly the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholar)
The Ohio State University
October 19-22, 2017
"Ecosexuality in Performance: Staying With Troubled Intimacies" and "Ecosexual Provocations"
Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium
University of California Santa Cruz
May 18-19, 2017
"Pedagogies of Porn: Learning How to See Differently"
Queer Places, Practice and Lives III
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 12-13, 2017
"Transgender History, Transgender Stories"
TransOhio Ninth Annual Transgender and Ally Symposium
Columbus, OH
April 28-30, 2017
"Opening Possibilities for Bodies and Worlds"
Movement Matters: Two Years In Process Performance Presentation
Middlebury College
April 20, 2017
"Transgender Studies Beyond the University: How Else Might We Tell Our Own Stories?"
Transforming Care Conference: Midwest Conference on LGBTQ Health Equity and HIV/AIDS
Columbus, OH
October 20-21, 2016
Queer Yoga
Transforming Care Conference: Midwest Conference on LGBTQ Health Equity and HIV/AIDS
Columbus, OH
October 20-21, 2016
"Resources of Ecosexuality: Performing Commitment and Care, Pursuing Extinction"
PSi 22: Performance Climates
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
July 6-9, 2016
“Implied Ethics: Describing Haecceity and the Persistence of the Event”
Writing Dancing/Dancing Writing, joint conference of the Congress of Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars, Iowa City, Iowa
November 13-16, 2014
“When Lesbians Become Ecosexuals, Or The Ethical Progression From Queer to Posthuman”
Queer Places, Practices & Lives II, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 16-17, 2014
“Towards a Posthuman Ethics: Moving With Others in Karl Cronin’s Somatic Natural History Archive”
Decentering Dance Studies: Moving in New Global Orders, joint conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars, Riverside, CA
November 14-17, 2013
“Ecosexuality in Performance: the Love Art Laboratory, Intra-Activity, and the Sexuality of Matter Itself”
In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, and Political Economy, Performance Studies Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
October 11-13, 2013
“twincest/body fluids/fluid bodies”
Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 18-19, 2012
“Queers, Fairies, and the [Dancing] Dream of Liberation: Reading Frederick Ashton’s The Dream Through Harry Hay’s Radical Fairie Philosophy”
Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance, Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference, Ann Arbor, MI
February 16-18, 2012
“Theorizing Ecosexuality: Intersections and Interventions in Sexual and Environmental Subjectivity”
Ecosex Symposium II, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
June 17-19, 2011
“Re-Membering the Mountains: Ecosexuality and Performing the Other as Self”
Battleground States: Collapsing Cultures and Darkened Dreamscapes, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
February 25-26, 2011
“Eco Homo? Queering Bodies, Queering Sustainability”
Keynote address/performance in collaboration with Catriona Sandilands
Staging Sustainability: Arts Community Culture Environment, York University, Toronto, Canada
April 20-22, 2011
“Theorizing Sexecology and Ecosexuality in the Work of the Love Art Laboratory”
Contribution to “Ecology in/of/as Performance” working session, Embodying Power: Work Over Time, joint conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Society for Theatre Research, and the Theatre Library Association, Seattle, WA
November 18-21, 2010
“The Negotiation of Gender in the Work of Bronislava Nijinska”
Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
April 16-18, 2009
Exploring the Earth as Lover: Ecosex and the City Symposium
Performance Space New York
New York, New York
June 17, 2023
"Feminist Astrology and the Moon: Engaging Ancient Traditions with Feminist Thought"
54th Annual conference of the Astrological Association
Online conference
September 24, 2022
"Minor Asteroids in the Birth Chart and Ritual"
Northwest Astrological Conference (NORWAC)
Tukwila, Washington
May 29, 2022
"Celestial Corporeality: Astrology and the Body"
Fresh Voices in Astrology Summit 2020 (online)
August 16, 2020
"Astrology Consultations as Feminist Praxis" and "Embodying Astrological Archetypes"
Queer Astrology Conference (online due to CVOID-19)
July 10-12, 2020
"When the Earth Was Trans: Ecosexuality and the Subversion of the Heterosexual Matrix"
American Studies Association Conference 2019
Build As We Fight
Honolulu, Hawai’i
November 7-10, 2019
"What We Do Between the Worlds Affects All the Worlds: Postmodern Dance As Witchcraft, Magic, Ritual, and Healing"
Dance Studies Association Conference 2019
Dancing in Common
Northwestern University
August 8-11, 2019
"Living Between Our Words: Thinking Critically About Rhetorical Strategies Within Transgender Communities"
TransOhio Tenth Annual Transgender and Ally Symposium
The Ohio State University
April 27-29, 2018
"Dance, Mortality, and Making Kinesthetic Kin in Times of Climate Crisis"
Transmissions and Traces: Rendering Dance
Dance Studies Association Inaugural Conference (formerly the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholar)
The Ohio State University
October 19-22, 2017
"Ecosexuality in Performance: Staying With Troubled Intimacies" and "Ecosexual Provocations"
Environmentalism Outside the Box: An Ecosex Symposium
University of California Santa Cruz
May 18-19, 2017
"Pedagogies of Porn: Learning How to See Differently"
Queer Places, Practice and Lives III
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 12-13, 2017
"Transgender History, Transgender Stories"
TransOhio Ninth Annual Transgender and Ally Symposium
Columbus, OH
April 28-30, 2017
"Opening Possibilities for Bodies and Worlds"
Movement Matters: Two Years In Process Performance Presentation
Middlebury College
April 20, 2017
"Transgender Studies Beyond the University: How Else Might We Tell Our Own Stories?"
Transforming Care Conference: Midwest Conference on LGBTQ Health Equity and HIV/AIDS
Columbus, OH
October 20-21, 2016
Queer Yoga
Transforming Care Conference: Midwest Conference on LGBTQ Health Equity and HIV/AIDS
Columbus, OH
October 20-21, 2016
"Resources of Ecosexuality: Performing Commitment and Care, Pursuing Extinction"
PSi 22: Performance Climates
University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
July 6-9, 2016
“Implied Ethics: Describing Haecceity and the Persistence of the Event”
Writing Dancing/Dancing Writing, joint conference of the Congress of Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars, Iowa City, Iowa
November 13-16, 2014
“When Lesbians Become Ecosexuals, Or The Ethical Progression From Queer to Posthuman”
Queer Places, Practices & Lives II, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 16-17, 2014
“Towards a Posthuman Ethics: Moving With Others in Karl Cronin’s Somatic Natural History Archive”
Decentering Dance Studies: Moving in New Global Orders, joint conference of the Congress on Research in Dance and the Society of Dance History Scholars, Riverside, CA
November 14-17, 2013
“Ecosexuality in Performance: the Love Art Laboratory, Intra-Activity, and the Sexuality of Matter Itself”
In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, and Political Economy, Performance Studies Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
October 11-13, 2013
“twincest/body fluids/fluid bodies”
Queer Places, Practices, and Lives: A Symposium in Honor of Samuel Steward, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
May 18-19, 2012
“Queers, Fairies, and the [Dancing] Dream of Liberation: Reading Frederick Ashton’s The Dream Through Harry Hay’s Radical Fairie Philosophy”
Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance, Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference, Ann Arbor, MI
February 16-18, 2012
“Theorizing Ecosexuality: Intersections and Interventions in Sexual and Environmental Subjectivity”
Ecosex Symposium II, Center for Sex and Culture, San Francisco, CA
June 17-19, 2011
“Re-Membering the Mountains: Ecosexuality and Performing the Other as Self”
Battleground States: Collapsing Cultures and Darkened Dreamscapes, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH
February 25-26, 2011
“Eco Homo? Queering Bodies, Queering Sustainability”
Keynote address/performance in collaboration with Catriona Sandilands
Staging Sustainability: Arts Community Culture Environment, York University, Toronto, Canada
April 20-22, 2011
“Theorizing Sexecology and Ecosexuality in the Work of the Love Art Laboratory”
Contribution to “Ecology in/of/as Performance” working session, Embodying Power: Work Over Time, joint conference of the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Society for Theatre Research, and the Theatre Library Association, Seattle, WA
November 18-21, 2010
“The Negotiation of Gender in the Work of Bronislava Nijinska”
Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
April 16-18, 2009