Presentations
Invited Talks
2023 “Time-knots on the Final Frontier: Imperial Imaginaries in SETI.” Department of Anthropology. Colorado College. Colorado Springs, CO. Oct. 13.
2023 (Keynote Lecture) “Inverting Fermi’s Paradox.” Extra-terrestrial Ethnographies Symposium sponsored by ETHNO-ISS and the Social Studies of Outer Space Network. University College London. Sep. 19.
2019 (Keynote Lecture) Visualizing Indigenous Futures in Dangerous Times. Association for Visual Pedagogies International Conference. RMIT University. Jun. 18.
2018 “Indigenous Sci-fi.” Digital Ethnography Research Centre. RMIT University. Melbourne, AU. July 24.
2018 “Fires, Tires, and Paper: Reimagining Indigeneity in Collaborative Aboriginal Film Projects.” Department of Anthropology. Colorado College. Colorado Springs, CO. May 4.
2017 “Indigenous Cinemas of the Future.” Annenberg Research Seminar. USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Los Angeles, CA. Jan. 30.
2016 “Collaborative Filmmaking in Remote Aboriginal Communities.” OzDocs Australian Documentary Forum. Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). Sydney, AU. May. 10.
2016 “The Social Life of Kimberley Aboriginal Media.” US Embassy Research Forum. Australian-US Fulbright Headquarters. Canberra, AU. Mar. 23.
2015 “Broadcasting Indigenous Futures: The Social Life of Kimberley Aboriginal Media.” Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Studies. University of Notre Dame. Broome, AU. Nov. 12.
2015 “A Tale of Two Songlines: Aboriginal Production Values at the Twilight of Self-Determination Funding.” Department of Anthropology, University of Western Australia. Perth, AU. Mar. 6.
2015 “Closing the Media Gap: Mining, Capital, and the Indigenous Advancement Strategy.” Communications and Media Program, University of Notre Dame. Fremantle, AU. Mar. 5.
Conference Panels Organized and Chaired
2023 Theoretical Storytelling in Settler Colonial Times.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. Nov. 10. (Co-organized with Dawa Lokyitsang)
2021 “Immersive and Speculative Indigenous Media.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Virtual. Mar. 18. (Roundtable)
2019 “Virtual Realities: Worldbuilding Beyond the Ethnographic Frame.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC. Nov. 21. (Roundtable with Lisa Messeri)
2017 “Gesture Ideologies.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.
2016 (Invited Status) “Indigenous Media Futures.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MI. Nov. 19.
2016 “Collaborative Filmmaking as Method/Object.” Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting. Ithaca, NY. May. 14.
2012 “Alter(native) Visions of Futures and Outer Spaces.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. Nov. 17.
Conference Presentations
2024 Roundtable Panelist. “Practice as a Portal: Fresh Dialogues between Earth and Outer Space.” Cosmoimaginaries. Virtual. Apr. 23.
2023 “ ‘I have seen this Country in my Dream’: Re-recording Ngurra Yulparirra in an Aboriginal Community.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. Nov. 10.
2023 “Apocalypse is a Structure not an Event: From Temporal Slotting to Screening Indigenous Futurisms.” Through a Glass Darkly Symposium. Colorado Springs, CO. Oct. 14.
2023 Roundtable Panelist. “Space Temples.” Catalyst at the University College London’s Centre for Outer Space Studies. London, UK. Mar. 9.
2022. Roundtable Panelist. “The Creative Ethnographer’s Notebook: A Conversation About Teaching And Writing In Anthropology.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Seattle, WA. Nov. 21.
2022 " ‘What now? Nothing.’: Gestural Whispers and Accents in Aboriginal Australian Floating Signifier Hand Signs.” Society of Linguistic Anthropology Annual Conference. Boulder, CO. Apr. 9.
2021 “Conversations in Digital Indigenous Studies: Digital Media, Covid-19, and Beyond.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Conference. Virtual. Jun. 14. (Roundtable)
2021 “Speculative VR Worldbuilding in ‘Future Dreaming’.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Virtual. Mar. 18. (Roundtable)
2020 Keynote Moderator. “Making Worlds Otherwise/Against Institutional Murder.” Society for Cultural Anthropology and Society for Visual Anthropology. Distribute 2020 Virtual Conference. May. 9.
2019 Discussant. “No ‘Planet B’: Multiplanetary Ethics in the Anthropocene.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC. Nov. 21.
2019 Roundtable Panelist. “Virtual Realities: Worldbuilding Beyond the Ethnographic Frame.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC. Nov. 21.
2019 “Interstellar Imperialism: Prime Directives and Colonial Transits in ‘Making Contact’.” Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Annual Conference. Hamilton, NZ. Jun. 27.
2019 “Futuremaking as Placemaking in Aboriginal Virtual Reality Media.” Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. Seattle, WA. Mar. 13.
2018 Panelist. “Sensory Diversity and Media Practices: Exploring Productive Tensions.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. Nov. 17.
2018 Panelist. “Alternative Futurisms.” Becoming Interplanetary Conference. Washington, DC. Sept. 27.
2017 “Hand Talk TV: Visualizing Metapragmatics in Aboriginal Australian Sign Language.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. Dec. 2.
2017 "Fires, Tires, and Paper: Reimagining Collaborative Filmmaking in Australia." Visual Research Conference. Washington, DC. Nov. 29.
2017 “Strategic Invisibilities: White Editors, Purity Politics, and the Boundaries of Indigenous Media.” The Boundaries and Borders Graduate Conference. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Sept. 30.
2017 Panelist. “Just Futures Symposium.” Held by the University of Colorado Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures. Boulder, CO. Feb. 10.
2017 Panelist. “Science Fiction and the Civic Imagination Forum: Whose Futures Does Science Fiction Foretell?” USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Los Angeles, CA. Jan. 30.
2016 (Invited Status) “Dreaming Down the Track: The Mediation of Aboriginal Futurisms.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Minneapolis, MI. Nov. 19.
2016 “Refusing Theoretical Possessives in Aboriginal Film Projects.” The Ethnographic Turn Graduate Conference. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Oct. 1.
2016 “The Media is the Method: Co-elaboration and the Ritual Pollution of Ethnographic Purity.” Society for Cultural Anthropology Biennial Meeting. Ithaca, NY. May. 14.
2015 “Broadcasting Indigenous Futures: The Social Life of Kimberley Aboriginal Media.” National Centre for Indigenous Studies Research Conference at the ANU. Canberra, AU. Oct. 15.
2014 (Invited status) “Media Moorings and Australian Indigeneities.” Invited panel at the joint meeting of the Australian Anthropological Society and the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Queenstown, NZ. Nov. 11.
2014 “Deafening Discourse: (In)visibility, Public Health Media, and the Aboriginal Ear Infection Epidemic.” American Ethnological Society and Society for Visual Anthropology joint meetings. Boston, MA. Apr. 12.
2013 “Visual Sovereignty in Cyberia: IndigiTube as an Aboriginal Model for Heteroglossic Video Archiving.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL. Nov. 21.
2013 “ ‘Whitefella Make Too Much Paper’: The Unbearable Slowness of Bureaucracy in Remote Aboriginal Australia.” Rethinking Bureaucracy Graduate Conference. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Sept. 27.
2012 “Decolonizing Encounters of The Third Kind: Alternative Futuring in Native Science Fiction Film.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA. Nov. 17.
2012 “ ‘Last Night all the Synagogues in Germany were Burned’: Agency, Victimhood, and Humor in a Life History of Annalisa Gunzenhauser.” Ethnography and Biography Graduate Conference. Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Sept. 28.
2012 “AIM, Occupy, and ‘Decolonize Denver’: Whiteness and the Exclusion of the American Indian Movement in Occupy Denver.” High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference. Denver, CO. Apr. 21.
2012 “Red Skin, White Masks: Dystopian Assimilation in Jeff Barnaby’s File under Miscellaneous.” Anthropology of Consciousness Annual Meeting. Boulder, CO. Feb. 9.
2011 “Rethinking Indigeneity in the Classroom: Collaborative Course Building in a Faculty Learning Community.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Montreal, QC. Nov. 16.
2010 “Indigenous Film as Critical Identity Discourse.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA. Nov. 17.
2010 “Telling Their Own Stories: Embedded Identity and Community in Indigenous Film.” High Plains Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Conference. Denver, CO. Apr. 24.
Public Talks
2022 “Reimagining Indigenous Brunswick in the Pejepscot Portage Mapping Project.” Curtis Memorial Library. Brunswick, ME. Oct. 6.
2019 “Down the Track.” Talking Heads Lecture Series at the Nulungu Research Institute. University of Notre Dame. Broome, AU. Jul. 18.
2017 “Generative Hope in the Post-Apocalyptic Present” Intercampus Anthropology Lecture. University of Colorado. Colorado Springs, CO. Apr. 13.
2016 “Screening Temporal Sovereignty: The Mediation of Aboriginal Futurisms.” The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies Annual Graduate Showcase. University of Colorado, Boulder, CO. Dec. 6.
2015 “Fires, Tires and Paper: The Everyday Life of Remote Aboriginal Media.” Anthros in Alice Speaker Series at the Central Land Council. Alice Springs, AU. Sept. 18.
2014 “The Social Benefits of Indigenous Media Production.” Talking Heads Lecture Series at the Nulungu Centre for Indigenous Studies. University of Notre Dame. Broome, AU. Sept. 18.
2013 “ ‘Throw him in the deep end’: Filming The Last Generation in Remote Aboriginal Australia.” Brownbag talk in the Department of Anthropology. University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. Nov. 7.
2013 Panelist. “How to do Collaborative Research with Tribes: Opportunities for Museums and Students.” Roundtable discussion at the Colorado-Wyoming Association of Museums Meeting. Golden, CO. Apr. 26.
2013 “Indigenous Media and the Guise of Australian Multiculturalism.” Brownbag talk in the Department of Anthropology. University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. Jan. 25.
2011 “Navajos on Mars: Indigenous Futurism in Native Science Fiction Film.” Department of Anthropology graduate student showcase. University of Colorado. Boulder, CO. Nov. 12.
Posters, Symposia, Workshops, and Working Groups
2023 Workshop Facilitator. “Celestial Wayfindings.” A Sign in Space Workshop Series. Virtual. May 26.
2022 Poster Presenter. " ‘What now? Nothing.’: Gestural Whispers and Accents in Aboriginal Australian Floating Signifier Hand Signs.” Conference for the International Society for Gesture Studies. Chicago, IL. Jul. 14.
2022 Presenter. “Sharing Songlines On and Offscreen.” Following the Trade Routes Research Translation Workshop. The Australian National University. Virtual. May 5.
2022 Facilitator. Indigenous Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence. Virtual campus event. Colby College. Mar. 10.
2022 Panelist. Release party for American Indian Culture and Research Journal’s special issue on Settler Science, Alien Contact, and Searches for Intelligence. UCLA American Indian Studies Center. Virtual. Feb. 25
2021 Panelist. Ethnography of an Extraterrestrial Society: The International Space Station. Symposium. Jun. 2-9.
2021 Presenter. Manuscripts in-process workshop for edited volume on Reclaiming Space. Virtual. Oct. 21.
2018 Indigenous Studies working group member. “Making Contact” Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Workshop. Berkeley, CA. May 31.
2017 Workshop co-presented with Anar Parikh. “Podcasting 101 with Anthropod.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC. Nov. 30.
2015 Poster presenter. “The Social Life of Aboriginal Media.” Fulbright Scholar Showcase. Perth, AU. Feb. 19.