“Troubling Domestication: Ecologies of Care in Contemporary Cultures,” Roundtable Of Cows and [Hu]man, NeMLA Convention, Buffalo, NY, March 26, 2023.
“Animals and Race in Labs,” MMLA, Minneapolis, Nov 19, 2022.
“Urban Gardens and Animal Sanctuaries: Making Space for Multispecies Futures,” Second International Environmental Humanities Conference: Critical Animal and Plant Studies, Cappadocia University, Turkey, May 16-18, 2022.
“Towards Multispecies Liberation: Building Solidarity Across Structural Oppressions,” Roundtable on Social Justice, Speciesism, and Food Studies: The Next Frontier, NeMLA Convention, Baltimore, March 10-13, 2022.
“Crisis as Opportunity: Ecologies of Hope and Transformation in Contemporary Literature,” Culture and Impending Ecocatastrophe: Narratives of Ecology and Sustainable Futures, University of Turku, Finland, virtual symposium, October 20, 2021.
“Teaching as Activism: Dismantling Speciesism in the Humanities Classroom,” Appraising Critical Animal Studies, European Association for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS), June 24, 2021.
“Deconstructing the Human/Animal Dualism: Motherhood and Animal Resistance in Ivano Ferrari’s Poems,” MMLA, Chicago, November 16, 2019.
“Art in a Butcher Shop: Concealed Violence and the Aesthetics of Animal Death,” The Art Institute of Chicago, April 18, 2019.
“Inside the (In)Visible Life of Fistulated Cows,” presented with Brandon Keim, Living with Animals, Eastern Kentucky University, March 21, 2019.
“Encountering the Life and Death of An(other) Animal: The Liminal Space of the Slaughterhouse in Italian Narratives,” Human-Animal Studies Conference, Turku, Finland, August 7, 2018.
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