Conferences
2023
Transformation through Resistance, Care, and Decolonial Praxis”. The Initiative on Climate Adaptation Research and Understanding through the Social Sciences, (ICARUS) Workshop. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor. Sept 29.
The Politics of Justice and Adaptation to a Changing “Climate”:
2023
International Conference on Public Policy, Toronto Metropolitan University. June 27. (Opening plenary)
“Transformative policy futures in the age of the Anthropocene”.
2023
Columbia Managed Conference, University of Columbia, New York. June 19 (Opening plenary)
“Habitability, Loss and Damage, and Climate Justice”
2022
at the 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Symposium organized by Portland State University Center for Climate and Aerosol Research. August 19
“Justice and Equity in Climate Science”
2022
27th UCAR/NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM) Workshop. June 14.
“Understanding the Complexity of Justice and Climate Change”
2022
UC Davis, Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnerships and the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, Washington DC, April 8
“Managed Retreat Forum: Global Lessons for Success”
2021
At What Point: Managed Retreat, Resilience, and Climate Justice. Columbia University. June 24
"Global mapping of justice and success models in managed retreat”
2021
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Symposium. Portland Chapter. April 9
“Resilient Landscapes, for whom, to what, and at what cost?”
Invited Talks
2023
Float, Retreat, or Do Nothing? Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. November 16 (Guest Speaker)
Navigating Equitable Coastal Adaptation in a Rapidly Changing Climate
2023
Who is vulnerable or Resilient tocascading and consecutive hazards in the Portland, Metro-region”. Urban Ecosystem Research Consortium, Special Nominated Seminar talk. November 3. (Guest Speaker)
Shifting landscapes of spatial equity and justice
2023
Journal Editors Panel Conversations on Innovation and Equity in Journal Publishing, Climigration Network
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2023
at the 2022 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Symposium organized by Portland State University Center for Climate and Aerosol Research. August 19
“Justice and Equity in Climate Science”
2023
Who is vulnerable or Resilient to cascading and consecutive hazards in the Portland, Metro-region” at Department Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware. April 28. (Guest Speaker)
Shifting landscapes of spatial equity and justice:
2023
Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Boston. April 19. (Guest Speaker)
Challenges to implementing managed retreat in the Global South and Global North.
2023
at People on the Move in a Changing Climate Alaska, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Islands, and International Workshop. Anchorage. April 12. (Panelist)
“Reflections on justice, decision making, and success in global relocation programs”
2023
The justice conundrum in coastal adaptation’ at the Climate and Clean Energy Series organized by Schatz Energy Research Center, Cal Poly Humboldt. April 6. (Guest Speaker)
Float or retreat?
2023
Understanding trade-offs and success. Graduate Seminar, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, March 20 (Guest Speaker)
Just relocations and migrations
2023
Differential Media Portrayals of Wildfire Displacement and Homelessness in Portland, Oregon”, Cascadia Wildfire Webinar, Portland State University. March 23 (Panelist)
Unhoused by Wildfires and the Previously Unhoused
2023
Global Evidence from post-resettlement Programs. Climate Mobilities Working Group, Princeton University. March 17 (Guest Speaker)
Can managed retreat programs be successful and just?
2023
Identifying Hotspots of Vulnerability and Resilience to Cascading Consecutive Disasters in Portland, Oregon. Sociology Departmental Seminar, Portland State University. March 10 (Guest Speaker)
Who Matters and Why
2022
The Role of Climatopias in Closing or expanding the equity gap in adaptation”, Perry World House Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, September 30. (Panelist)
Building Just Resilient Coastal Futures
2022
identifying what’s missing in research, University of Southern California, Sea Grant. People on the Move in a Changing Climate. September, 28. (Panelist)
Environmental justice, disadvantage communities and disproportionate impacts of climate change
2022
Environmental Justice and Interventions Workshop, UC Santa Barbara, August 27 (Panelist)
Radical imaginings, intersectionality, and climate justice”
2022
Identifying levers of transformations at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Innovators workshop, Boulder July 27 (Panelist)
Portland Equitable Resilience to Climate-Cascading Hazards
2022
47th Annual Natural Hazards Research and Applications Workshop. Boulder, July 12, 2022 (Plenary Speaker)
On the Move—Climate Relocation and Social Justice
2022
Success models and intersectional justice in Global Climate relocation” at Metcalf Institute 24TH Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists, June 9 (Panelist)
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2022
Brooklyn Waterfront Research Center Annual Conference organized by the City University of New York. May 13 (Panelist)
Confronting the Realities of sea level rise for Brooklyn’s Jamaica Bay Communities and examining models for transformative adaptation.
2022
Planned relocations and resettlement organized by the Africa Climate Mobility Initiative, IOM, the World Bank, and the African Union. May 12 (Panelist)
Policy consultation on the limits of adaptation
2022
Global Climate Relocations and Transformative Justice at Geography Seminar Series, Oregon State University. April 29 (Guest Speaker)
Radical Imaginings
2022
Recursive Relations with Equity and Justice-Based Transformations in the Global South. RISE IRT Seminar Series, University of Colorado, April 11 (Guest Speaker)
The Resilience Fix to Climate Disasters
2022
A research agenda on just transformations. The University of Miami. April 6 (Guest Speaker)
Climate Adaptation, Greening, Resilience Planning in Coastal Cities
2022
UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy. Global Mini-Summit. March 2 (Panelist)
Cities and Global Climate Justice
2021
challenging dominant forms and flows. Hatfield Resident Fellow Professional Development. Portland State University, October 7. (Guest Speaker)
Resilient urbanism in an era of uncertainties
2021
towards an intersectional justice approach. Middlebury Institute of International Studies, Monterey, California. October 6 (Guest Speaker)
Global mapping of success in managed retreat
2021
NCAR [Innovator Faculty 2] PI Symposium. July 28 (Guest Speaker)
Justice-oriented transformative resilience planning in response to climate disasters.
2021
At What Point: Managed Retreat, Resilience and Climate Justice. Columbia University. June 24 (Panelist)
Science Special Issue.
2021
Differences and Intersections. Climate Migration Workshop. Portland State University. June 11 (Guest Speaker)
Managed Retreat and Climate Migration
2021
Lessons from Manila. Emergency Management and Community Resilience Speakers Series, Portland State University. June 10 (Guest Speaker)
Building Resilient and Egalitarian Cities after Mega-Disasters
2021
Metcalf Institute, Annual Science Immersion Workshop for Journalists. The University Of Rhode Island. June 8 (Panelist)
Sea level rise, ungovernable spaces, success in managed retreat.
2021
Dallman Lecture Series Panel for the John Sloan Dickey Center, Dartmouth College, May 10 (Panelist)
Centering justice, community voices, and indigenous knowledge in climate adaptation.
2021
‘Success’ and Equity in managed retreat as a climate adaptation. Public Seminar Series on International Justice, Rights, and the Environment, Stanford University, April 19 (Guest Speaker)
Creating governable spaces and Populations
2021
Seminar Guest Speaker. The University of Miami. April 16 (Guest Speaker)
Socio-spatial, socio-ecological, and socio-technical resilience fixes to climate change and grassroots counter-resistance strategies in Metro-Manila.
2021
Wesleyan University. April 8 (Guest Speaker)
Societal transformation, climate adaptation and ethics of change.
2021
Tag We’re It/Voices on Resilience. Portland State University, February 25 (Panelist)
Who negotiates resilience? on behalf of whom?
2020
Interrogating social justice and resilience planning in coastal cities. Dartmouth College. November 12 (Panelist)
Urban Natures
2020
Identifying commonalities and differences between climate migration and managed retreat, Middlebury Institute of International Studies Monterey, California, November 4. (Guest Speaker)
Entanglement and disentanglement
2020
post-disaster responses and climate adaptation in the Global South, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU), October 28 (Guest Speaker)
Retreat as a socio-spatial resilience fix
2020
Destruction and Repair after Climate Disasters in the Global South, Harvard University, Graduate School of Urban Planning and Design, October 14, (Guest Speaker)
The Resilience Fix
2017
Workshop. Waterloo, Ontario. Canada April 18-19, 2017 (Panelist)
Canada in a Climate Disrupted World, Balsillie School of International Affairs.
2016
Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada. November 12-13 (Guest Speaker)
Popular Culture and World Politics Conference,
2015
Looking Forward to Paris 2015 Balsillie School of International Affairs & the Interdisciplinary Center on Climate Change, University of Waterloo. Canada March 26. (Panelist)
Global Climate Governance and Canadian Policy
2014
Waterloo Interdisciplinary Centre On Climate Change (IC3), Waterloo University, Waterloo, ON. June 19-20 (Panelist)
What is transformative about adaptation?
2012
IRACC Cities at Risk Project, Western University, London, ON, April 25 (Guest Speaker)
Understanding the Connections Between Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts and Human Rights.
2014
Critical Reading Series, Western University, London. ON, March 2 (Guest Speaker)
A Progressive Trajectory of Inquiry in Global Environmental Change: What The role might the Sub-disciplines of Geography (physical and human) Play and How?
2010
Climate Change as National Security Issue for Canada, Western University. May 25-26. 2010 (Panelist)
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2010
Gender and Climate Justice, Civicus Youth Assembly, University of Concordia, Montreal, Aug 19. 2010 (Panelist)
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2007
International Conference on Human Rights and Anti-corruption, ICHRP Conference. The meeting, Geneva, Switzerland. July 11-13 (Conference Organizer)
2005
Redefining Human Rights in Asian Culture. Paper: Human Rights Discussion, Series. Keio University, Tokyo, Japan, July 12 (Panelist).
2007
The Role of Philosophical Enquiry in Nation Building. Annual Inter-Faculty Dialogues, Obafemi Awolowo University. Nigeria, August 3-5, 2004 (Panelist)