Top: "Thevetia Seed Girdle," 1872. Economic Botany Collection, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Catalogue Number: 50066
Middle: "Manuscript Herbal," 1742. Antiquariaat Forum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Bottom: "Carib War Club," Date Unknown, Museo de America, Madrid, Spain, Catalogue Number: 1651
2026
"How We Adapt: Colonial Latin American History for the Climate Crisis" CLAH Roundtable, American Historical Association Annual Conference, Chicago, 1.8-11.2026
2025
"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: Ritual Dance and Poisoning in the Americas" Kislak Workshop, Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, Washington D.C., 05.09.2025
"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
“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
"The Politics of Mapping Orality and Physical Space" Borderlands Workshop Boston College, Organized by Angeles Picon, 03.16.2025
"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
"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
2024
"Datura: The Otherworldly and the Ornamental," Invited Public Talk, The Huntington Library and Gardens, Pasadena CA, 11.14.2024.
"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
"Shapeshifting and Shamanic Assault: The Politics of Kanaimà in Historical Perspective" Latin American Studies Association, Bogotá, Colombia, 06.15.2024
“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.
"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
"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
"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.
2023
"Kanaimà: Assault Shamanism and the Boundaries of Ethno-Racial landscapes" Brown Early Americas Graduate Seminar, John Carter Brown Library, Providence RI, 11.17. 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
"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
"Mapping Kanaimá in the Eighteenth Century," Fellows Talk, John Carter BrownLibrary, Brown University Providence RI, 03.26.2023