2026

• 11 Dec.“Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger.” Stockholm University. Stockholm.

• 10 Dec. “Skinship, Scarship: Multispecies Violence and Vulnerability on the West Papuan Plantation Frontier.” Public lecture. Uppsala University. Uppsala.

• 9 Dec. “Multispecies Justice in Beyond Bios Worlds.” Public lecture. The Stockholm Archipelago Lecture Series. KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Stockholm.

• 4 Dec. “Land of Famished Beings: Hunger, Ecology, and Gastrocolonialism in West Papua.” National Taiwan University. Taipei.

• 2 Dec. “In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua.” National Taitung University. Taitung.

• 30 Nov. “Skinship, Scarship: Multispecies Vulnerabilities and the Violence of Plantation Capitalism.” Academia Sinica. Taipei.

• 27 Nov. “Rituals Gone Rogue: Indigeneity, Economy, and More-than-Secular Power on the Papuan Plantation Frontier.” Keynote. National Chengchi University. Taipei.

• 11 Nov. “Multispecies Justice in Beyond Bios Worlds.” Public lecture. Waipapa Taumata Rau/University of Auckland.

• 10 Oct. “West Papua is Not an Empty Land.” The Cross Art Projects. Sydney.

• 8 Oct. “Book Launch – Pierre Bourdieu’s Political Economy of Being. Discussant. With Ghassan Hage and Ihab Shalbak. University of Sydney.

• 21 Sep. “Super Review of 1001 Nights in the Colony.” With Yasmine Musharbash, Lucas Bessire, and Amanda Kearney. Australian National University.

• 16–18 Sep. Roots and Routes: Transpacific Currents in Environmental Humanities Symposium. Participant. The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Honolulu.

• 8 Jul. “Vulnerability.” With Hannah Della Bosca. Sydney Environmental Humanities Network. Sydney.

• 24 Jun. “Book Launch – Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality in the Western Himalayas.” Discussant. With Nikita Simpson, Seye Adimbola, Warwick Anderson, and Michael Edwards. Gleebooks, Sydney.

• 24 Jun. “Multispecies Ethnography in an Age of Planetary Unmaking: Methods, Theories, Ethics.” Keynote. Seminar: Multispecies Interactions – Weaving Bonds in a Shared World. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico.

• 19 Mar. “Storytelling for Earthly Survival.” Panellist. Sydney Environment Institute.

• 15 Mar. “Skin and Wetness: Stories and Theories of Hunger in West Papua.” St James Institute. Sydney.

• 27 Feb. “Book Launch: Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia.” Discussant. Library Portal, Melbourne.

• 31 Jan. “Multispecies Justice in Beyond Bios Worlds.” Keynote. Chinese University of Hong Kong. 

• 29 Jan. “Plants, Plantations, Plantationocene : The Multispecies Career of Oil Palm as Crop, Commodity, and Companion Species.” Keynote. Plant Histories, Plantation Architectures Symposium. Singapore Botanic Garden.

• 28 Jan. “Eating and Being Eaten: West Papuan Theories of Hunger.” Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. Singapore.

• 19 Jan. “Skinship, Scarship: Multispecies Violence and Vulnerability in West Papua.” The Education University of Hong Kong.
   

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2025

• 11 Dec. “The Shape of Things to Come: Lines, Topologies, and Morphologies of Climate Change.” Plenary roundtable. Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand. Whāingaroa/Raglan.

• 3 Dec.“Film and Forum: West Papua’s Food Estate – An Assault on Land and People.” Green Left and The Gecko Project. Resistance Centre, Sydney. 

• 13 Nov. “Eating and Being Eaten: The Meanings of Hunger among Marind.” Northwestern University. Evanston.

• 6 Nov.“Land of Famished Beings: West Papuan Theories of Hunger.” KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.

• 25 Oct.“Land of Famished Beings: Hunger, Food, and Ecology in West Papua.” Washington University in St. Louis.

• 9 Oct."Opportunities and Challenges for Early Career Researchers in the Social Sciences." Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. University of Sydney.

• 30 Sep. "Rethinking Struggles over “Resources” through the Lens of Multispecies Justice: Insights from Indigenous Communities in the West Papuan Plantation Nexus.” La Trobe University.

• 31 Mar. “Plantation Anthropologies: Three Turning Points.” Environmental Anthropologies: Pasts, Presents, Futures. Yale University. New Haven.

• 28 Mar. “Skinship, Scarship: Multispecies Vulnerabilities and Plantation Violence in West Papua.” Agrarian Studies Colloquium. Yale University. New Haven.

• 7 Feb. “Air: Climate Change, Atmospherics and the Unseen in India and West Papua.” Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life. Columbia University. With Nikita Simpson.

 

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2024

• 23 August. "Time has Come to a Stop: Pacific Historicities on a Plantation Frontier." Plenary: Environmental History, Environmental Humanities, and More-than-human Approaches from the Pacific. 4th World Congress of Environmental History. Oulo.

• 11 July. "Activist-Research as Method: Possibilities and Challenges." Messing with Methods Workshop. University of Sydney and University of Western Sydney. Sydney.

• 4 July. "Book Launch: Hedgehogs, Killing and Kindness and After Eating.” With Lindsay Kelley, Laura McLauchlan, and Blanche Verlie. Gleebooks. Discussant.

• 4 July. “Leveraging Feminist Approaches to Care in Times of Crisis.” Information session: Workshops Program 2025. Academy of the Social Sciences of Australia.

• 2 July. “Re-Imagining the Laws of Nature - Storying Rules of Hyperconnected Futures.” Public seminar with Michelle Lim. The Australian Centre for Climate and Environmental Law and the Sydney Environment Institute. Discussant.
  6 June. "The Promise of Multispecies Justice." Go-Just and Meat-Igation Webinar Series.

• 24 May. "In the Shadow of the Palms: Book Discussion." Universite Libre de Bruxelles and University Saint Louis. Brussels.

• 21 May. “Arts of Multispecies Mourning: Grieving as Resistance in the Papuan Plantationocene." Czech Institute of Ethnology. Prague.

• 14 May.“More-Than-Human Entanglements on the Papuan Plantation Frontier.” Department of Anthropology. University of Edinburgh. 

• 8 May.“Metabolic Justice: Hunger, Ecology, and Nourishment on the Papuan Plantation Frontier.” Department of Anthropology and Food Studies Center. School of Oriental and African Studies. London.

• 6 May.“Skinship, Scarship: Plantation Violence and Multispecies Vulnerabilities in West Papua.” Anthropology of the Built Environment: Ethnographic Explorations of Infrastructural and Technoscientific Projects. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Paris.

• 24 April. Plantations as Naturecultures: A View from West Papua.” Hybridity: Unravelling the Nexus of Domestication and Wild. Australian National University.

• 11 Apr.“Multispecies Mourning: Grief and Resistance on a Papuan Oil Palm Frontier.” Department of Anthropology. University of Amsterdam.

• 8 Apr.“Roundtable 1: Socio-Legal Subjects in Global and ‘Anthropocene’ Contexts.” Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene. Tilburg University.

• 9 Apr.“Roundtable 4: The Inhuman as Refusal.” Constitutionalizing in the Anthropocene. Tilburg University. 

• 11 Mar. “Multispecies Mourning - Grief and Resistance in an Age of Ecological Undoing.” The Iain McCalman Lecture. Sydney Environment Institute.

• 1 Mar. “Metabolic Justice: Relations of Eating and Being Eaten in the Teeth of Racial Colonial Capitalism.” Plataforma Latinoamericana de Humanidades Ambientales.