Recent and Upcoming Talks

Upcoming Talks:

The Lapwing's Feather (Wuthering Heights)
Novel Failures Symposium, University of Toronto 
Friday, March 25, 2022
https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/85026832677

Selected Recent Talks:

George Eliot and Nonsovereign Action
NAVSA 2022, Vancouver, BC
March 2-5, 2022

Ecocide and the Counterextractive Gesture
"Extraction Ecologies," Roundtable , in dialogue with Elizabeth Miller's Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
UCLA Center and Clark Library, UCLA
Friday, October 15th, 2021
Video here (at 35:00)

The European Game Has Finally Ended
BMW Center for German and European Studies
Georgetown University
April 29, 2021

"Remapping White Childhood: Fresno Redlining & the Problem of Personal History"
Talk and roundtable as part of Fresno's Interfaith Scholar Weekend, ​“Bearing Witness from Fresno’s Mason-Dixon Line”
February 15 & March 22, 2021
Talk available online here (starting at 37:45)

In the Ruins of Bourgeois Life: Hopkins, Turner, Eliot
​University of North Carolina
February 27 & 28, 2020

An Aesthetics of Climate Breakdown: J.M.W. Turner's Burning World
Vanderbilt University
18th-/19th-Century Studies Seminar
November 8, 2019

For a full list, please see my CV.

William Berryman. “Sugar Estate– Negros [sic] Cutting Cane [Jamaica].” Between 1808-1815. Watercolor, black ink on paper, 20.4 x 25.6 cm (sheet). Library of Congress.