Events

Upcoming

6 February

Book Event: Respondent to Empire, Extraction and Power in the Festivals of Britain of 1951 and 2022 by Caoimhe Mader McGuinness, Birkbeck.

25-27 February

Keynote for Tracing Power: Supply Chains as Method, Metaphor, and Map, Bielefeld University

2025 (past)

5 December

Talk: “Theatre and Marxism(s),” Marxism in Culture (London).

8 November

Panel on Berta Lask’s Thomas Müntzer, Historical Materialism London.

8 November

Panel: “Dematerialization and its Discontents,” Historical Materialism London.

29 October

Talk: “More Harm Than Good: The Extractive Infrastructures of Contemporary Art,” University of East London.

20 October

Talk: “Circuits of Extraction: Theatre, Ecology, and Sand,” Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

22 July

Talk: “Blockages,” part of the Dis:connectivity and Globalisation Panel Series, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (online).

24 June

Book Event for The Arts of Logistics, International Labour and Logistics Research Network, University of Sheffield (online).

15–16 May

CONFERENCE: Infrastructural Memory: Cultures of Ecology and Collapse, Käte Hamburger Research Centre global dis:connect, Munich. Organised with Gerald Siegmund.

28 March 2025

Roundtable on Thomas Dekeyser’s Breached, University of Glasgow.

28 March 2025

Talk: “More Harm than Good: The Limits of Greening Artistic Production,” Infrastructure Humanities, University of Glasgow.

27 March 2025

Book Event: Respondent to Katerina Paramana’s Contemporary Performance and Political Economy, ArtsAdmin, London.

26 March 2025

Talk: “Marxism and Theatre Ecology,” Quorum, Queen Mary University of London (in person + online).

25 March

Talk: “Never Enough: Artistic Production and the Problem of Raw Material,” Centre for Labour and Sustainable Production, Queen Mary University of London.

13 March

Talk: “Performing in the Cold Chain: Water and the Extractive Logics of Artistic Production,” Performance, Cultures and Politics Research Group Online Research Seminar Series, Brunel University of London (online).

2024

10 November 2024

Book Event: “Supply Chains and Cultural Production: Launches for Supply Chain Cinema and The Arts of Logistics,” Historical Materialism London.

6 November 2024

Book Event: Roundtable on The Arts of Logistics with GLOBALVALUE, Copenhagen Business School.

31 October 2024

Talk: “Raw Materialism: The Vanishing Acts of Otobong Nkanga and Séba Calfuqueo,” Tudor and Stuart Lectures, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

23 October 2024

Talk: “One for the money, two for the show: Taylor Swift as Commercial Infrastructure,” with Jaswinder Blackwell-Pal, Theatre and Performance Studies Research Seminar, University of Warwick.

21 October 2024

Book Event: The Arts of Logistics, New York University. Details TBC.

17 October 2024

Talk: “On the Limits of Greening Consumption in Art,” Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present (ASAP), New York, New York.

Audio Contribution (pre-recorded): “The Workplace Arms Race,” Fierce Festival, Birmingham, England.

15 October 2024

Talk: “Rift and Refusal: The Metabolic Performances of Otobong Nkanga and Zina Saro-Wiwa,” Käte Hamburger Research Centre, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.

22 June 2024

Talk: “Where did they get that sand? The Limits of Staging Green Consumption,” Performance Studies international, London.