Selected Academic Talks
2020:
Is Deep History White?
Roundtable with Prof. Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), Prof. Neil Safier (Brown), Dr. Emily Kern (UNSW), Sarah Pickman (Yale), Sarah Qidwai (Toronto), and Patricia Marcos (UCSD). History of Science Society virtual meeting.
Is Deep History White?
Panel Discussion with Prof. Pratik Chakrabarti (Manchester), Prof. Lynette Russell (Monash), Prof. Ann McGrath (ANU), Dr. Shino Konishi (UWA), Dr. Emily Kern (UNSW), and Dr. Ben Silverstein (ANU). University of New South Wales virtual workshop.
Gondwanaland and the Antiquity of Humanity Between North and South.
Gondwanaland and the Deep Histories of the Present, University of Manchester. Cancelled/postponed due to COVID-19.
2019:
Sacred Narrative and Scalar History: Writing New Earth Histories and the Search for the Cradle of Humanity.
New Earth Histories conference, UNSW.
Paleoanthropology, Politics, and the Place of Africa in World History, 1960-1969.
Institute for Advanced Historical Study (IASH), University of Queensland.
Alternate Edens: Contestation and Contradiction in Human Origins in the 1960s and 1970s.
Reconstructing the Past: Human History and the Naturalization of the Present workshop, NYU-Paris.
Wallace, Darwin, and the Problem of the Origin of Man.
Darwin Down Under workshop, University of Sydney.
Paleoanthropological Futures and Historical Pasts: Science and the Place of Africa in World History.
History of Science Society annual meeting, Utrecht.
Indirect Descent: Darwin’s Legacy in 20th Century Paleoanthropology.
Imagining the Darwinian Revolution, International Society for Intellectual History conference, University of Queensland.
The Speaking Ape: Language and the Logic of Origins.
History and Philosophy of Science seminar series, University of Sydney.
The Speaking Ape: Language, Eden, and the Search for Origins in the Nineteenth Century.
History seminar series, UNSW.
Colonial Geology and the Question of African Antiquity.
Earth and Empires symposium, UNSW.
2018:
Political Geology and Paleoanthropology in Action.
Political Geology: Active Stratigraphies and the Making of Life symposium, UNSW.
Out of Asia: A Global History of the Search for the Origins of Humankind.
Paleontology, Geobiology, and Earth Archives Research Centre (PANGEA) seminar, UNSW.