INVITED TALKS

“Extractive Histories of Environmental Science,” sponsored by the MINERALS Seminar Series and Podcast at the Humanities Institute of University College Dublin, November 2023.

“Mercenary Science between American and Eurasian Empires,” Conference on Spaces in Between and the History of Knowledge, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 5-6 October 2023.

“Terrestrial Enlightenment: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis,” German Historical Institute London, Bloomsbury Institute. 29 November 2022.

“A Wainwright’s Tale: Placing the Village in the History of Natural History,” Historical Institute, Universität Bern. 16 November 2022.

“Colonizing Earth and Air: Instructing Survey Sciences in Mexico and Siberia.” Conference on Colonial Instructions: Knowledge, Genre and Power, Uppsala University. 11 November 2022.

“Imperial Orography: ‘Liminal Experience’ in Central Asian Borderlands.” Conference Celebrating the Works of Martin Rudwick on his 90th Birthday. 19 April 2022.

“The Upland Exchange: Village Life in Eighteenth-Century Natural History.” Cabinet of Natural History, Cambridge University. 18 October 2021.

“Working and Knowing: A Labor History of ‘Humboldtian Science’ from Prussia to Mexico and Back.” Modern European History Seminar, Cambridge University. 1 June 2021.

“Artisans in the Mountains: Topographies of Science and Work.” Colloquium for Science Studies, ETH Zürich. 28 April 2021.

“Mining, Folklore, and the Politics of Sustainability.” York University, Postgraduate Forum – Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. 12 May 2020.

“Oeconomizing Nature: ‘Raubbau’ and Reform from Forster to Humboldt.” Universität Göttingen, Forschungskolloquium Neuere Geschichte. 12 November 2019.

“Bergbau als ‘Hülfsmittel der Natur.’ Georg Forsters Reise zwischen aufgeklärtem Utilitarismus und romantischer Ökologie, 1784.” Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. 2 July 2019.

“Meeting Nature Halfway: Georg Forster, Mining, and the Aesthetics of Artifice.” Cabinet of Natural History, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University. 11 March 2019.

“Time and the Underground: The Politics of Primordiality in Germany, 1775-1825.” Historisches Seminar, Universität Konstanz. 29 March 2018.

“The Mine, the Garden, and the Mill: Views of Nature in Germany, 1760-1860.” Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Historisches Seminar. 14 June 2018.

INTERVIEWS & LECTURES

“Extractive Histories of Environmental Sciences,” MINERALS Podcast, Humanities Institute, University College Dublin, 2023.

GHIL Interview on “Terrestrial Enlightenment” by Research Fellow for Colonial and Global History Mirjam Brusius and PR Officer Kim König, 2023.

“Terrestrial Enlightenment: Ruin and Revolution in an Eighteenth-Century Climate Crisis,” GHIL Lecture 29 November 2022.

“Patrick Anthony on Paleontology and German Romanticism” interview by the blog for Journal of the History of Ideas, 2021.

“Rethinking Humboldt” with Michael Robinson on the podcast, Time to Eat the Dogs, 2018.

Interview with Isis on the article “Mining as the Working World of Alexander von Humboldt’s Plant Geography and Vertical Cartography.” Isis 109, no. 1 (2018): 28-55.