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“Girdle Made of Cotton and ornamented with seeds of Thevetia neriifolia, Juss." Demerara. 1872. W.E. Frere, Esq. Kew Gardens, Economic Botany Collection, Cataloge Number: 50066. Photo taken by author, September 2024.
“Pelicans, Fruits, and Pelts: Multispecies Entanglements in the Americas & Europe” Rachel Carson Center Conference Panel, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany, 07. 8-11. 2026
“Sovereignty in the Caribbean,” Walter Rodney Symposium, Ruth Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery, Brown University, April 10, 2026
“Seeds of Power: Early Modern and Native Ritual Dance, Medicine, and Circuits of Knowledge in the Americas” Article Workshop. Omohundro Institute. William and Mary, 03. 26. 2026
“Seeds of Power: Poisoning, Ritual Dance, and Afro-Indigenous Knowledge in Amazonia and the Caribbean,” Botany Brown Bag, Mathais Botanical Garden, University of California, Los Angeles, 03.12.2026
“All That Glitters: Plantation Economy, Indo-Guyanese Capitalism, and the Politics of the Postcolonial State” Anthropocene as Plantationocene University of Houston, South Asian Studies & Anthropology Seminar, 03.06. 2026
"How We Adapt: Colonial Latin American History for the Climate Crisis" CLAH Roundtable, American Historical Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 1.8-11.2026
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Gold in the Hands of a Miner" Photograph taken by the author in the borderlands between Venezuela and Guyana, October 2022.
"Gold is a Jumbie: Natural Resource Extraction in the Guyanese-Venezuelan Borderlands" American Anthropological Association Meeting, New Orleans, 11.19-23.2025
"Seeds of Power: Afro-Indigenous Knowledge and Museum Collections," University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology Seminar, 10.27.2025
"Amphibious Ecologies: Water Born Mobility and Power" Panel Organized with Gabriel Rocha Simposio de la Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 07.22.2025
"Seeds of Power: Native and Early Modern Knowledge, Medicine, and Ritual Dance in the Americas" for "Mémoires et identités autochtones dans l'aire amazonicocaraïbe" Conference organized by Paula Prescod (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) and Benoit Roux (Université de Rouen) Amiens, France, 05.22.2025
"Seeds of Power: Ritual Dance and Poisoning in the Americas" Kislak Workshop, Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 05.09.2025
“Mapping and Misinformation: Indigenous Technologies and Spatial Management Across the Americas” for “Where is Early America” Conference, The McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 05.03.2025
"Manuscript Herbal of Friar Luc David" 1742. Antiquariaat Forum (Private Book Seller) Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Photo taken by author, April 2025.
"The Politics of Mapping Orality and Physical Space" Borderlands Workshop, Boston College, Organized by Angeles Picon, 03.16.2025
"Indigenous Borderlands and Trafficking Knowledge in Essequibo in the 18th and 19th Centuries," CLAH Panel, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, 01.06. 2025
"Brazilian Studies Section: Decolonizing Brazilian History?" CLAH Roundtable, American Historical Association Annual Meeting, New York, 01.04.2025
"Datura: The Otherworldly and the Ornamental," Invited Public Talk, The Huntington Library and Gardens, Pasadena CA, 11.14.2024.
"Seeds of Power: A Biogeography of Poisoning and Ritual Dance in the Americas" For Part 1 of The Early Global Caribbean Conference at UCLA's The Clark Library, Los Angeles, 10.19.2024
"Timing the Past and Doing 'Natural' History: Borderland Mineral Extraction and `the Intersection of Legal, Shamanic, and Planetary Time" Panel organized with Rui Hua (Boston University) World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland, 08.22.2024
"Flecheras and Spanish Arawaks: Fugitivity, Mobility, and Independence between theOrinoco and Essequibo Rivers in South America" 30th International Conference on the History of Cartography [ICHC], Lyonn, France 07.04. 2024
"Shapeshifting and Shamanic Assault: The Politics of Kanaimà in Historical Perspective" Latin American Studies Association, Bogotá, Colombia, 06.15.2024
"Imperial Geopolitics and Indigenous Slavery in Amazonian, Caribbean, and Circum-Caribbean Worlds" co-presented with Linford Fischer, Forum on Early Modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI), Brown University, Providence RI, 04.19.2024.
“Capitalism, Emancipation, and Slavery: Lessons from an Old(er) School, Part 1: Materialism,” Workshop American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Workshop, San Francisco, CA 01.05.2024.
"Kanaimà: Assault Shamanism and the Boundaries of Ethno-Racial landscapes" Brown Early Americas Graduate Seminar, John Carter Brown Library, Providence RI, 11.17. 2023
"Caruna Seeds: Ethnobotanical Geopolitics in Amazonia and the Caribbean in theLongue Dureé," Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA), Morelia, México, 06.23.2023
"Malabar, Gentoo, and Pariah: Thinking about South Asian Blackness & Caste in South Asia and the Caribbean," Speaker Series, UCLA Center for India and South Asia, Los Angeles, 05.16.2023
"Mapping Kanaimá in the Eighteenth Century," Fellows Talk, John Carter BrownLibrary, Brown University Providence RI, 03.26.2023