news + events
one-week laboratory
June 2-8, 2025. Organized by Collective Effervescence (Hala Abdel Malak, Barbara Adams, and Jane Pirone), this one-week event brings together a dynamic group of filmmakers, artists, scholars, farmers, and activists hailing from Lebanon, Brazil, Spain, Bulgaria, the US, the UK, and the Netherlands. These transdisciplinary researchers and creative practitioners resist the ways in which rising fascism, xenophobia, chronic crises, and violence invoke division and fear, weaponizing difference and fostering discord. During the laboratory, we explore responses to current geopolitical shifts with special attention given to the Mediterranean—a region whose historical encounters have established the area as a zone of conflict.
symposium
November 8, 2024. Organized by Barbara Adams and Jane Pirone, this one-day symposium (Beyond Borders: Shifting Landscapes, Multiple Temporalities, and Posthuman Horizons) brings together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, artists, scholars, and creative practitioners to explore how we navigate and challenge the borders that separate the past from the present, one spatial and political designation from another, the animate from the inanimate, and species from species. From the role of water in bordering practices to how we might decolonize botany to the ways queering ecology can reconfigure relationships, this event prompts thinking beyond imperial taxonomies, human centrality, and progressive notions of time. More here.
workshop
October 25-26, 2023. Jane Pirone, Hala A. Malak, Roumiana Gotseva and I will lead the workshop, Fabulations, Fluxus, and Flow at the World Futures Studies Federation XXV World Conference. More here.
symposium
March 16-17, 2023. Along with Alison Clarke, Shannon Mattern, and Aryana Ghazi-Hessami, I have been supporting and organizing the upcoming Papanek Symposium. More details here.
workshop
November 4, 2022. I will be leading a workshop, Speculative Storytelling as Transformative Practice, with Jane Pirone, Hala Malak, Lauren Parater, and Shanice Costa at the Anticipation 2022 Conference in Tempe, Arizona. More details here.
talk + video
September 29, 2022. Jane Pirone, Hala Malak, and I will present our work, Terra Testimony: Soil as a Living Archive, at the Feral Palace Conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
workshop
June 30, 2022. I will be leading a workshop with collaborators Jane Pirone, Hala Malak, Lauren Parater, Cian Mcalone, and Shanice Costa at the Co-Futures conference in Oslo.
lecture series
February 25-March 24, 2022. I've worked with a group to organize this year's Weiss Lecture series centering Raoul Peck's four-part series, Exterminate All the Brutes. Each screening is followed by a discussion with invited guests. Sponsored by the School of Design Strategies at Parsons.
