Selected Presentations

EASST-4S 2024 - Making and Doing Transformations
"(Dis)entangling Wapiti from Red Deer in 20th Century New Zealand," on panel "Animal (Im)mobilities" co-chaired with Raf De Bont and Tom Quick. Amsterdam, July 2024.

Animal History Group
“Saving the American Elk with Camera,” Seminar lecture, online, May 2024.

From Passive Livestock to Untamed Beings. Reanimating Animals in the History of Technology
"Just Passing Through: Mediating Migratory Birds at the Bell Museum," on panel, "Technologies between Animals and Humans" chaired by Dorothee Brantz. Workshop at the Division of History of Technology at Technical University Berlin. Organized by Christian Zumbrägel. March 2024.

Naturalis Biodiversity Center
"Screening Animals: Myths in Early Wildlife Films," Lecture. Moving Animals Festival, Leiden, Netherlands. January 2024.

Western History Association 
“Animal Photography and the ‘Elk Problem’ in Modern Wyoming,” on panel, “Warnings Ignored: Animal Crises in the American West." With panelists, Susan Nance (University of Guelph) and Jennifer Marks (Iowa University), Los Angeles, October 2023.

Universities Art Association of Canada
"The Photographic Archive of the "Elk Problem," in panel "Activating Animals in the Visual Archive," co-chaired with Maia Nichols (Bennington College). With panelists Susan Iseyen (Princeton University) and Katrina-Eve N Manica (University of Toronto), Banff, October 2023.

Commodities of Empire, British Academy Research Project
“Making of the Crown Herd,” Commodities of Empire International Workshop, ‘Fur, Fin and Feather: Commodifying Wild Animals,’ University of York, July 2023.

Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research c:o/re:
“Animal Histories: Across & Between STS, Environmental History, and Visual Culture,” Panelist, "From Humans to Nonhumans,” co-chaired by Benjamin Peters (University of Tulsa) and Kyveli Mavrokordopoulou (EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales), at Turning Points in the Reflection on Science and Technology: Historicizing STS Conference. Aachen, Germany, March, 2023.

Musée d'Orsay and Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
“Martha Maxwell, Rosa Bonheur, and Women Working Across the Disciplines of Art and Science, Domestic and Wild,” Panelist, “La vache, le cheval et la lionne. être artiste, femme, et vivre avec les animaux au XIX siècle,” Colloquium for the Musée d’Orsay exhibition “Rosa Bonheur (1822-1899),” Paris, France, January 2023.

McMaster University
“Taxidermy, as a Fine Art, Subservient to Science,” panelist and co-chair with James Leo Cahill (University of Toronto) and Matthew Brower (University of Toronto), “Reading the Visual Culture of Animals Across the Boundaries of Art and Science,” Animals Across Discipline, Time & Space Conference, Hamilton, Canda, March 2020 [canceled due to covid-19]