Conference Presentations and Keynote Address
"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 (forthcoming)
"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
TransOhio Tenth Annual Transgender and Ally Symposium
The Ohio State University
April 27-29, 2018 (forthcoming)
"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
