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Upcoming events

Lecture: Reducitarian Summit (Atlanta)

Date: 24 October, 2025 at 5pm ET

Location: Westin Buckhead Atlanta

I will be presenting a lightning talk on methane emissions from agriculture at the 2025 Reducitarian Summit in Atlanta, GA. More info here.

Posters: Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar/Conference (Maine)

Date: 2 August, 2025 at time TBD

Location: Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River, Maine

I will be presenting posters on global methane emissions and nighttime radical chemistry in South Korea. Come say hi!

Workshop: Politics, Valorization and Technology in the High-Tech Bioeconomy (Berlin)

Date: 28 July, 2025 at 2pm CEST

Location: BioMaterialities Research Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

I will be presenting a paper entitled "Every Cook Can Plan: Economic Democracy Against Catastrophe" at the closing event for the BioMaterialities group in Berlin via Zoom. More info here.

Past events

This page shows events from 2024. Older events are listed in my CV or on the Half-Earth website.

Workshop: Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modeling (Venice)

Date: 23 June, 2025 at 11am CEST

Location: The New Institute - Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’Foscari Venice University

I will be presenting a draft of a paper entitled "The Commodified Earth: Reductionism, Complexity, and Politics in Earth System Science" at the third HEPM workshop in Venice. More info here.

Lecture: New Institute (Hamburg)

Date: 18 June, 2025 at 12pm CEST

Location: The Hall, New Institute, Hamburg, Germany

I will be giving a lecture entitled "‘A curious natural selection’: János Kornai’s evolutionary theory of socialist institutions" at the New Institute in Hamburg. Abstract and details here.

Book talk: Bokkafé Pilgatan (Umeå)

Date: 13 June, 2025 at 6:30pm CEST

Location: Bokkafé Pilgatan, Umeå, Sweden

I will be giving a book talk on the Swedish translation of Half-Earth Socialism in Umeå, joined in conversation by Johan Örestig Kling. More info here.

Book talk: Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus (Stockholm)

Date: 11 June, 2025 at 6pm CEST

Location: Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Stockholm, Sweden

I will be giving a book talk on the Swedish translation of Half-Earth Socialism in Stockholm, joined in conversation by Ståle Holgersen. More info here.

Conference: American Meteorological Society talk on South Korea air quality (New Orleans)

Date: 14 January, 2025 at 4:45pm CT

Location: 229 - Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA

I will be presenting some of my ongoing work on the drivers of PM in South Korea at the 2025 AMS meeting in New Orleans. View in Online Program here.

Conference: American Geophysical Union poster on global methane monitoring from space (Washington DC)

Date: 12 December, 2024 at 9am ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC

I'll be presenting my paper "Continuous sub-weekly monitoring of global methane emissions at 2°×2.5° resolution for 2018-2023 with an ensemble Kalman filter applied to TROPOMI observations" at the poster session for the global methane budget at the AGU Fall Meeting (abstract B41M-1469). Come say hi!

Conference: American Geophysical Union poster on planetary sensing (Washington DC)

Date: 9 December, 2024 at 3pm ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC

I'll be presenting my paper "From planetary scenarios to planetary sensing: models, observations, and political legibility" in a poster at the Science and Society session of the 2024 AGU Fall meeting (abstract SY13C-2599).

Conference: Planetary design (Berlin)

Date: 24 October, 2024 at 2:30pm CET

Location: Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin, Germany

I'll be in discussion with David Frank at the Planetary Design: Reclaiming Futures conference at the ICI in Berlin. More information and the full conference program are available here.

Conference: CHEEREIO poster on methane monitoring at the 11th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (St. Louis)

Date: 13 June, 2024 at 7pm CT

Location: Washington University in St. Louis

I will be presenting some in-progress work on global methane monitoring at the 11th International GEOS-Chem conference in St. Louis. More information available here.

Conference: CHEEREIO tutorial at the 11th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (St. Louis)

Date: 10 June, 2024 at 4:30pm CT

Location: Washington University in St. Louis

I will be presenting a tutorial on using CHEEREIO at IGC11. More information available here.

Panel: Radical Museums, Jardins des Plantes (Paris)

Date: 6 May, 2024 at 6pm CET

Location: Amphithéâtre Rouelle, Pavillon de la Baleine, Jardin des Plantes, Paris

I will join Troy Vettese and Francis Tseng on a panel about museums as places to play out economic democracy. More info here.

Paperback launch: Housman's (London)

Date: 6 May, 2024 at 6pm UK time

Location: Housman's Bookshop, London, UK

I gave a book talk on Half-Earth Socialism at Housman's in London with Troy Vettese, to celebrate the release of our paperback edition. Robbie Lockie of Plant Based News will moderate. More information and registration here.

Lecture: Paris Institute for Critical Thinking (Paris)

Date: 4 May, 2024 at 3pm CET

Location: Maison de la Vie Associative et Citoyenne de Paris Centre - Site Marais, 5 Rue Perrée, 75003 Paris, France

I will join Troy Vettese to give a lecture entitled "Governing the Global Polis" at the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. More information and registration available here.

Keynote: Utopia and the Return of History Conference (Manchester)

Date: 30 April, 2024 at 6pm UK time

Location: University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

I gave a keynote talk, along with Troy Vettese, entitled "Three Problems with Utopia: Hayek, Kornai, Gorgias." Watch a recording here.

Panel: Technology and planning with transform!europe (Online)

Date: 17 April, 2024 at 7pm CET

Location: Online

In this webinar, I will join Walther Zeug and Anaïs Fley to discuss the prospects and pitfalls of algorithmic economic planning. More information and registration here.

Conference: American Meteorological Society poster on East Asia air quality (Baltimore)

Date: 1 February, 2024 at 3:00pm ET

Location: Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD

I am presenting on a new particulate matter data product for East Asia I developed at the American Meteorological Society meeting in Baltimore. Come say hi at my poster (paper 872).