Invited Lectures ⁄ Colloquium Presentations
2012 "Havana’s Urban Agriculture: Survival Strategies and Worldly Engagements in Alternative Development", Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (September 7).
2010 "Plotting Change: The politics of Growing Environmental Consciousness in Toronto’s Community Gardens", The City Seminar Speaker Series, City Institute at York University, Toronto, ON, Canada (February 5).
2009 "Gaining New Ground: Havana’s Urban Agriculture Sites and Shifting Landscapes of Power in Post-Soviet Cuba", Fall Lecture Series 2009, The Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies, Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA (November 3).
Papers Presented at Professional Meetings (all single-authored)
2012 (refereed) "Locating the Global in Havana’s Rooted Landscapes." Paper presented at the Foodways, diasporic diners, transnational tables and culinary connections Conference, University of Toronto, ON, Canada (October 6).
2012 (refereed) "Querying the Location of Territories of Difference" in Territories of Difference: Place at the Margins." Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, USA (May 23).
2011 (refereed) "Havana’s Urban Agriculture Plots: Between Master Plans and Territories of Difference." Paper presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (AAA), Montreal, QC, Canada (November 16).
2010 (refereed) "Gaining New Ground: Havana’s Urban Agriculture Sites and Shifting Governmentalities in Post-Soviet Cuba." Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, Canada (October 8).
2010 (refereed) "Plotting Change: Tracing the Politics of Nature and the Nature of Politics in Toronto’s Urban Gardens." Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) Conference. Natureculture: Entangled Relations of Multiplicity. Santa Fe, NM, USA (May 8).
2009 (refereed) "Ordering space and disciplining subjects: Re-socializing parcelas in Havana at a time of crisis." Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (June 13).
2009 (refereed) "Private plots and Public Land: Explorations of Governmentality in Havana, Cuba." Paper presented at the Conference The Measure of a Revolution: Cuba, 1959-2009, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON, Canada (May 9).
2007 (refereed) "State Power, Private Plots and the Greening of Havana’s Urban Agriculture Movement." Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada. (September 8).
2006 (refereed) "Cuban Agricultural Developments: Shifting Images of Nature." Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (March 18).
2004 (refereed) "Private Plots, State Power, and the Modeling of Havana’s Urban Gardens." Paper presented at the Cuba Today Symposium organized by the Cuba Project at the Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, Graduate Centre, CUNY, New York, NY, USA (October 5).
2002 (refereed) "Plotting Change in Havana’s Agro-scapes: Space and the Re-production of the Ideal Socialist Citizen in Contemporary Cuba." Paper presented at the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada (October 25).
2002 (invited) "Shifting Perspectives on Urban Agriculture in Havana, Cuba." Paper presented at International Development Research Centre (IDRC) as part of a panel reporting on Urban Agriculture research, Ottawa, ON, Canada (March 26).
Talks to General Public
2008 "Success Stories" Presentation at Local Food for Local Tables Conference: Growing Food Security for Southwestern Ontario. Organized by London Community Resource Centre and FoodNet Ontario, Brescia University College, London, ON, Canada (November 27).
2007 "Sustaining the Environment: The Case of Urban Agriculture in Havana, Cuba" Presentation at Public Conference, Agriculture and Sustainability: Local and Global Perspectives, UWO Public Interest Research Group, Huron University College, London, ON, Canada (March 20).