My communications in recent conferences:

  • “The Feminine Spark: Alaska's Environmental Renaissance,” at the SELVA workshop of the SAES congrès, Université de Tours, France, June 2021.

  • Guest lecture on “Environmental Approaches of Writers Moving Through Alaska in the 20th and 21st Centuries” at the Department of Natural Sciences | University of Michigan-Dearborn (reference: Pr. Ulrich Kamp), Dec. 2020.

  • “Survival, or Something More?: a woman's perspective on Alaskan travel,” at the “Sociopoétique de la route / Roadscapes” workshop, Université Clermont Auvergne, France, Mar. 2020.

  • “Kaleidoscopic Cook: shifting legacies explored in Barry Lopez’ Horizon”: “‘Captain Cook after 250 years: Re-exploring The Voyages of James Cook’ An International Conference on Captain James Cook’s voyages (1768-1779),” Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, Feb. 2020.

  • “Exploring Alaska Native Identity through Observation of its Landscapes in Barry Lopez' Arctic Dreams” at the “At the Crossroads of Doubt: Anthropology and Travel Writing” conference, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France, Sept. 2019.

  • “Healing Urban Iñupiat Communities through Reconnection with the Bowhead Whale”, at the “Réenchanter le sauvage urbain : Percevoir, penser et vivre avec la nature en ville” conference, Université de Perpignan - Via Domitia, France, June 2019.

  • “Frederick Law Olmsted: Lauded Landscape Architect, Forgotten Travel Writer”, at the SELVA workshop, SAES conference (Société des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Supérieur), Université Aix-Marseille, France, June 2019.

  • “Alaska Native Animal Love, in Nancy Lord’s Beluga Days” at the “Animal Love / L’amour des animaux” conference, Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, March 2019.

  • “Anchorage’s Subsistence Dipnet Fishing, and Nancy Lord’s Alaska” at the international conference “The Garden: Ecological Paradigms of Space, History, and Community,” at the “8th Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE),” Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg, Germany, Sept. 2018.

  • “John McPhee, and the Technocratic Proximity to the Earth” at the “Écrits et cris de la terre dans le monde anglophone / Land’s furrows and sorrows in anglophone countries” conference, Université de Toulouse - Jean Jaurès, France, Apr. 2018.