Keynote, “Confronting Syndemic: Indigenous Scientific Literacies, Food Sovereignty, and the Literature of Intergenerational Justice,” The International Conference on Food Futures: Humanities and Social Sciences Approaches, National Sun Yat-Sen University, August 30 – September 7, 2022. Taipei, Taiwan. (in person)

Keynote, “Meeting the Scale of the Challenge: Amplifying Humanities Communities of Interest, Building Communities of Purpose and Action,” Global Humanities Institute 2022: Climate Justice and Problems of Scale, Co-Sponsored by the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 29 July – 7 August 2022, University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Campus, South Africa. (in person)

Keynote, “Communities of Purpose: Global Developments in Humanities-
Inclusive Sustainability Research,” Planet Texas 2050: Annual Research Symposium: Resilience Research in Action, University of Texas at Austin, April 11, 2022. (In person!)

Invited Speaker, “Becoming Seres Puentes: Five Decades of Capacity-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border,” Border Environments Speaker Series 2022, Department of Comparative Literature, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Mellon Grant Grand Challenge Grant, Cornell University, March 7, 2022, via Zoom.

Invited Speaker, “The Environmental Humanities in the Age of Global
Syndemic,” Towards Environmental Humanities? Ecocriticism in Theory and Practice Lecture Series, Sponsored by Amerikanische Literatur und Kultur and The Change Labs Program, Universität Stuttgart, December 9, 2021, via Zoom

Invited Speaker, “Subjects of Intergenerational Justice, Indigenous Philosophy, and the Environment,” Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, December 6, 2021 via Zoom.

Invited Speaker, “The Role of Creativity at the Nexus of Environmental Practice,”
Design, Ecology & Justice Speaker Series Wright-Ingraham Institute, Brooklyn, NY, September 29, 2021, via Zoom

Invited Panelist, “A Place to See: Self-Representation and Resistance in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead,” Literature and the Environment: Critical and Primary Sources, Center for Environmental Futures, University of Oregon, June 4, 2021 via Zoom.

Invited Speaker, “The Language of Climate Change in an Age of Global Syndemic,”
Humanities in the Classroom Webinars,” National Humanities Center, via Zoom, Earth Day April 22, 2021, https://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-programs/webinars/

Invited Speaker, “Teaching Environmental Humanities: Certificate Programs in the
International Context,” The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, via Zoom, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, March 25, 2021.

Invited Speaker, “What is Environmental Justice?” Planet Now! Conversations in
Environmental Studies, Center for Environmental Studies, sponsored by the Andrew A Mellon Foundation, School of Humanities, the School of Architecture, and the Humanities Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas, September 14, 2020 (via Zoom) https://enst.rice.edu/planet-now

Invited Speaker, “Food Sovereignty, Bees, and the Law,” Environmental Law Association of South Africa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, June 30, 2020 (via Zoom)

Invited Workshop Leader, “Seminar 4: Environmental Justice,” Becoming the Future
Series. CAD FACTORY, Narrandera Arts and Community Centre, New South Wales, Australia, November 16-17, 2019. https://www.cadfactory.com.au/joni-adamson

Speaker, “Beyond Despair: Next Steps in the Environmental Humanities,” Beyond Despair: Theory and Practice in Environmental Humanities, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle, North Carolina, April 3-5, 2019.

Speaker, “The Potential of Blockbuster Film for Widening Public Understanding of Indigenous Scientific Literacies and the Rights for Nature Movement,” Amazon and Environmental Awareness Week, Sponsored by the Department of Modern Languages and the Program of Spanish and Portuguese, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, February 27-March 1, 2019.

Speaker, “Science Fiction and New Constellations of Practice in the Environmental Humanities,” Americanist Speaker Series, Duke University and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Durham, North Carolina, February 7, 2019.

Invited Panelist, “Managing or ‘Building Relationships?’ Environmental Humanities Contributions to the Design of Desirable Futures,” American Geophysical Union Conference, Washington, D. C., December 5-10, 2018.

Mellon Lecture and Graduate Seminar, “What we Learn from Pink Dolphins: Key Questions, Challenges, and Opportunities in the Environmental Humanities,” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, November 15-16, 2018.

Symposium Speaker, “From Whale Rider to The Shape of Water: The Role of Blockbuster Film in Widening Public Understanding of the Rights to Nature Movement,” Trans-species Listening and Rights of Nature: Legal Persons beyond the Human Symposium, Duke University, October 5, 2018.

Inaugural Keynote, “From Cosmology to Cosmopolitics: A Genealogy of the Environmental Humanities,” International Conference on Environmental Humanities: Stories, Myths, and Arts to Envision a Change, University de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, July 3 – 6, 2018.

Keynote, “Learning from the Octopus: Multispecies Ethnography, Biosemiotics and Narrative Scholarship,” “Nature and Narrative: Writing, Literature and Pedagogy in the Anthropocene,” Saint Louis University, Madrid, June 22, 2018.

Speaker, “Peripatetic Legacies: John Muir, Walking, and the Path to Environmental Justice,” “After the West: Rethinking John Muir’s Environmental Legacy,” Environments in Motion Annual Lecture Series, University of California, San Diego, April 23, 2018.

Keynote, “New Constellations of Practice in the Humanities: Backbone, Earth-Keeping, Country, Oceania,” Indigenous Ecologies Symposium, Environmental Humanities Colloquium, Program in Environmental Thought & Practice, University of Virginia, April 12, 2018.

Keynote and Working Lunch, “Humanizing Sustainability: Piloting New Constellations of Practice in a Plural World,” Humanizing Sustainability Speaker Series, sponsored by Bucknell University Humanities Center, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA,  September 25-26, 2017.

Invited Humanities for the Environment (HfE) Panelist. “Desertification and Desert Urban Labs: The Humanities and the Arts of Futurity,” The World Humanities Conference, organized by the International Council for the Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPESH) with UNESCO, Liège, Belgium, 7-11 August, 2017.

Featured Speaker. “The Citizen Humanities and Citizen Sensing: New Constellations of Humanities Practice in Desert Regions and Cities,” Humanities for the Environment (HfE) International Conference, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 4-6, August, 2017.

Invited Lecture. “Food Futures: Speculative Fiction and Film, Ethnobotanical Knowledges and Urban Resilience,” Sponsored by the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship and Environmental Law Association of South Africa, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 2 August, 2017.

Featured Speaker. “What are the Citizen Humanities?” The Participatory Environmental Humanities Workshop. The PLuS Alliance (ASU – KCL –UNSW): “Forum on Equality,” Sydney, Australia, 18-21 July, 2017.

Keynote, “Dinner 2030: Food Futures,” Anthroposcenaries / Antroposcenari: Ecologies, Landscapes, and Stories. Environmental Humanities International Research Group, Università degli Studi di Torino, Turin, Italy, May 31, 2017.

Lecture, “Global Ecologies and the Environmental Humanities,” Research Centre for Environmental Humanities Public Lecture Series, Bath Spa University, Bath, UK, May 24, 2017.

Featured Speaker. “Humanities for the Anthropocene: Knowledge.” The PLuS Alliance (ASU – KCL –UNSW), Kings College London, 17-18 May, 2017.

Plenary Speaker, “Food Futures: Indigenous Ethnobotanical Knowledges, Seed Sovereignty, and Resilience.” Decolonizing Nature: Resistance | Resilience | Revitalization.” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 20, 2017.

Lecture, “How to Make your Campus an Urban Lab for the Citizen Humanities,” Eco/Next: Green Humanities Beyond 2017 Series. Sponsored by English, Film & Media Arts, and Women’s & Gender Studies, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 31, 2017.

Keynote, “Backbone, Country, Anthropocene: Integrating Knowledges, Forging New Constellations of Humanities and Social Science Practice,” Global Ecologies Conference, University of Sydney, Australia, November 23, 2016.

Workshop Leader. “Gathering the Desert in an Urban Lab: Designing the Citizen Humanities.” Figuring Worlds: Engaging the Environmental Humanities. University of New South Wales, Australia, November 21, 2016.

Keynote, “Roots and Trajectories: Why Field Genealogies—and Intergenerational Justice— Matter in the Environmental Humanities.” Environmental Trajectories Conference. University of Colorado, Boulder, Oct. 28 -29, 2016.

Speaker, “Addressing Cities, Heritage, Food, Environment and Climate Change within the Humanities for the Environment (HfE) Global Initiative,” Valuing, Evaluating, Creativity Conference and the 10th Annual UNESCO Creative Cities Network Meeting, Mid Sweden University, Östersund. Sweden, September 12-14, 2016.

Lecturer, “The Anthropocene Humanities and Keywords for Environmental Studies,” The Seedbox Collaboratory, Linköping University, September 7, 2016.

Lecturer, “Integrating Knowledges, Forging New Constellations of Transdisciplinary Practice,” Higher Seminar, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Environmental Humanities Lab, Division of History of Science, Technology & Environment, September 5, 2016.

Keynote, Why Bears, Sachamama (Mother Forest), and other Transformational Beings are (Still) Good to Think: From Ecopoetics to Multispecies Ethnography.” Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth: International Conference on Ecopoetics, University of Perpignan, Perpignan, France, June 22-25, 2016.

Plenary Speaker. “Creating New Fields: Expanding Environmental Justice/Climate Justice        with Scholarship in Related Areas.” Who’s Globe? Who’s Globalization. University of  California, Santa Barbara’s Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies on February 26, 2016. University of California, Santa Barbara. Feb. 26, 2016.

Keynote, “We Have Never Been “Anthropos”: The Future of the Environmental Humanities.” Symposium on the Future of the Environmental Humanities.” University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, September 24-27, 2015.

Keynote. “We Have Never Been “Anthropos: From Environmental Justice to Cosmopolitics.” “Nation in the Age of Environmental Crisis”, Ecocriticism Network Symposium, Augsburg, Germany, July 17-18, 2015.

Plenary Speaker. “Telling Storied Matters, Picturing Time: What Ancient Desert Plants Tell Us About Deep Time, Resilience, and Adaption.” Environmental Photography and Humanities: Contributions to Research and Awareness. An International Symposium. University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. April 23-24, 2015.

Keynote. The Sixth International Conference in Ecodiscourse: Speculative Materialisms. “Toward a Future We Want: Material Ecocriticism and the Articulation of “Storied Matter (s),” Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan, December 19, 2014.

Lecture. “Networked Relations: Humanities for the Environment.” Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, China. December 16, 2014.

Invited Presentation. “Humanities for the Environment: Articulating ‘Storied Matter’ in the Multiverse.” The Annual Meeting of the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI): Performative Humanities. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, June 5-8, 2014.

Keynote, “Gardens in the Desert: Migration, Diaspora and Food Sovereignty in the Work of Global Indigenous Women Writers,” International Migrants and Their Memories Conference,” National Sun-yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, October 5, 2013.

Lecture, “A Keyword for Environmental Studies: Imagination,” “Environmental Humanities in a Changing World,” Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University, March 8-9, 2013.

Lecture: “Source of Light, Source of Life: New Biosemiotic Understandings of Indigenous Literatures and Ecological Knowledges.” Center for Comparative Native and Indigenous Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany. July   12, 2012.

Keynote: “If a Tree Falls: Multispecies Ethnography, Amazonian Imagination and New Answers to Old Questions,” Fifth European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment Conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, June 27, 2012.

Lecture: “Keywords in the Study of Environment and Culture: Imagination.” “Towards a Sustainable Future: Opportunities for Collaborations Between the Humanities and the Sciences.” Sponsored by Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Cultural History; the Centre for Sustainable International Development, University of Aberdeen; and the Institute for Environmental History, University of St Andrews, Scotland, March 20, 2012.