Graduate Publication Workshop Talk Southern Methodist University Department of English Dallas, TX Date: November 5, 2024
Escape Velocity: Grounded Afrofuturism and the Life Media of Black Space Scientists Talk CARGC & C3 Postdoc Colloquium Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania Date: April 30, 2024
Open but not Discoverable Talk Mellon Seminar, Price Lab For Digital Humanities UPenn Date: March 11, 2024
Nothing but Mammals: Feminism, Pornography, and Sociobiology “Rethinking Animal Comparison” Working Group Talk MLA Annual Convention Philadelphia Date: January 7, 2024
Escape Velocity: Black Scientists and Life Writing in Outer Space “Escape Artists Under Fugitive Law” panel organized by Samantha Pergadia (Southern Methodist University) Talk American Studies Association Annual Conference Montreal, CA Date: November 5, 2023
Grounded Afrofuturism: The Lives and Careers of Black Space Scientists Talk Gordon Cain Conference: Science in Humanities, Humanities in Science: Embedded Connections Science History Institute Date: October 5, 2023
Escape Velocity: Black Scientists and Life Writing in Outer Space Talk Thinking Outer Space: Philosophy, Astroculture, and the Histories of Planetarity NYU Berlin Date: July 19, 2023
Gaming Sexual Exclusion Talk Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference Denver, CO Date: April 12, 2023
Octavia E. Butler and the Sociobiology of Sexual Violence Modernist and Contemporary Literatures Reading Group and Gender and Sexuality Reading Group Invited Talk University of Pennsylvania, Department of English Philadelphia, PA Date: March 24, 2023 Octavia E. Butler
Black Box Orientalism Talk American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting virtual Date: June 18, 2022 Two isomorphic systems, W. Ross Ashby, An Introduction to Cybernetics (London: Chapman & Hall, 1957), 95
Black Box Orientalism Invited Talk University of Waterloo, Department of English Language and Literature Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (virtual) Date: April 11, 2022
Inventing Rape Ecology: Feminist Science Fiction and the Sociobiology of Sexual Violence Invited Talk University of Oxford, Faculty of English Oxford, UK Date: March 3, 2022 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, “Kimmy Meets a Drunk Lady!,” (2016)
Sexual Gamification: A Prehistory Talk Post45 Graduate Symposium University of Michigan and Michigan State University Date: May 11, 2019 “An Unstable Pair,” figure from Anna R. Karlin and Yuval Peres, Game Theory, Alive (Providence: AMS, 2017), 180
Sexual Ludology: Game Theory and Gamification Talk ASAP/10: Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present Tulane University Date: October 19, 2018
Coercive Media and Game Theories of Consent We’re Still Here: Politicizing the Nonhuman Turn across Media panel, organized by Neta Alexander Talk Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference University of Toronto Date: March 18, 2018 Black Mirror, “USS Callister”