Events

Invited Talks

Nov

9

2023

Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S)

Plants as Inventors: Interrogating Human Exceptionalism within Narratives of Patent Law and Artificial Intelligence
Honolulu, HI

Oct

18

2023

Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

Algorithmic Plant Justice: Vegetal Beings, Gendered Relations, and the Governing of Precision Agriculture
Uppsala, SE

May

9

2023

University of Western Cape – Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS)

Algorithmic Plant Justice: Vegetal Beings, Gendered Relations, and the Governing of Precision Agriculture
Cape Town, SA

May

2

2023

University of Cape Town, Center for Film and Media Studies

Interrogating Gendered and Racialized Narratives of Artificial Intelligence across Africa
Cape Town, SA

Dec

7

2022

Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S)

Precision Agriculture and the Governing of Artificial Intelligence in South Africa
Cholula, MX

Oct

28

2022

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

Rationality to Vegetality: Precision Agriculture and AI Policy in South Africa
Mexico City, MX

Apr

26

2022

University of Cape Town, Center for Film and Media Studies

Rationality to Vegetality: Towards a Botanical and Gendered Approach to the Governing of Artificial Intelligence
Cape Town, SA

Nov

19

2021

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting (NWSA)

Narratives of Value Neutrality: AI for “Leapfrogging into Digital”
Virtual

Sept

30

2021

Society for the Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting (SLSA)

Plants as Patent Owners? Vegetal Stories for Rethinking Multi-species Life and Law
Virtual – Ann Arbor, MI

Sept

30

2021

WeRobot: International Conference on Law, Policy, and Robotics

Smart Farming and Governing AI in East Africa: Taking Gendered Relations and Vegetal Beings into Account
Virtual – Miami, FL

Apr

24

2021

Texas Tech University

Learning from Plants: Possibilities for Feminist Technoscience and Law (Keynote)
Lubbock, TX

Sept

25

2020

WeRobot: International Conference on Law, Policy, and Robotics

Narratives of Artificial Intelligence in a Gendered and Racialized World Emergence on the African Continent
Virtual – Ottawa, CA

Aug

21

2020

Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S)

Locating Narratives of Artificial Intelligence Across Africa
Virtual – Prague

May

28

2020

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (LSA)

After the First Ethnographic Project: Insights and Strategies for Crafting Your Next Socio-legal Study (Roundtable)
Covid cancelled

May

28

2020

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (LSA)

Feminist Legal Theory in a Public/Private World (Roundtable)
Covid cancelled

Mar

8

2020

Law, Culture, and Humanities Annual Meeting

How Law Knows (Roundtable)
Covid cancelled

Mar

8

2020

Law, Culture, and Humanities Annual Meeting

How Law Knows (Roundtable)
Covid cancelled

Nov

21

2019

African Studies Association Annual Meeting (ASA)

Thinking Belonging in South Africa with Human and More-than-Human Worlds
Boston, MA

Nov

16

2019

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting (NWSA)

Interrupting AGOA: Peoples, Plants, and Poultry in South Africa Navigating Academic Research and Publishing within an Era of Anti-intellectualism (Roundtable)
San Francisco, CA

Oct

22

2019

Purdue University – East Asia Conference

Translating History, Translating Ideas (panel)
West Lafayette, IN

Sept

4

2019

Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S)

Feminist, Decolonial, Indigenous STS: An Authors Meets Critics (Roundtable)
New Orleans, LA

May

31

2019

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (LSA)

Engaged and Activist Ethnography: Possibilities, Dilemmas, and Praxis (Roundtable)
Washington, DC

May

13

2019

Wits University Institute for Social and Economic Research

Reinventing Hoodia: Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Johannesburg, SA

Nov

29

2018

African Studies Association Annual Meeting (ASA)

Openness, Refusal, and the Governing of Climate Change Knowledge Production
Atlanta, GA

Nov

16

2018

Society for the Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting (SLSA)

Nonsensical Political Imaginaries: Conversations between Feminist, Indigenous and Decolonial Science and Technology Studies
Toronto, CA

Nov

8-11

2018

National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting (NWSA)

Human-Plant Relations and Reimagining Feminist Technoscience Futures
Atlanta, GA

Sept

20

2018

University of Cincinnati Taft Global Studies Research Group

Human-Plant Attachments and Modes of Unequal Belonging in South Africa
Cincinnati, OH

Sept

6-7

2018

Eggs, Milk and Honey: Law and Global Bio-commodities – Western Sydney Law

Peoples, Plants, and the Making of Belonging in South Africa
Sydney, AU

Sept

1

2018

Society for the Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S)

Metaphors of Scale and Feminist Technoscience of More-than-Human Worlds
Sydney, AU

June

18-21

2018

Adaptation Futures: UN International Climate Change Adaptation Conference

Developing Socially-just Research Processes: Indigenous Peoples, Climate Adaptation and Community Research Contracts in Praxis
Cape Town, SA

June

7-10

2018

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (LSA)

Reinventing Hoodia: Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Toronto, CA

May

11

2018

Department of Gender Studies – UCLA

Modalities of Human/Plant Attachments and the Making of Belonging in South Africa
Los Angeles, CA

Feb

12

2018

Science in Human Culture Program – Northwestern University

Modalities of Materiality: Peoples, Plants, and Patents in South Africa
Evanston, IL