I was incredibly happy to give the keynote lecture at the International Conference Tropical ForeSTS: Metrics, Technics, Power, Money, held in the Sorbonne on May 21-22, 2026.
Happy to share some work in progress with the people at Planetary Praxis in May. If you are in or around Cambridge in May, please stop by!
Celebrating the Climate Change Interest Group's achievements at AAA 2025 and my new role as Junior Board Member of the Anthropology and Environment Society.
Exploring the ethics and politics of climate and environmental accounting at an international workshop in Geneva, discussing how we reckon with environmental change.
Contributing to the workshop 'Transformando Conocimiento em Innovación Tecnológica para la Pan-Amazonía' at INPA Manaus, collaborating on technological innovation for the Amazon.
Participating in an international workshop on imagining planetary health, well-being and habitability in the context of global environmental crisis.
Engaging genealogies and potential futures of Amazonian anthropology at UC Santa Barbara in times of global environmental crisis, reflecting on how the field can be reconceived and unbounded.
Exploring vertical and volumetric ecologies through twin panels at AAA 2023, examining how multidimensional spatiality shapes anthropological understanding of landscapes and social worlds.
Participating in a panel exploring the aesthetic and technical dimensions of state violence and impunity across Latin America, with focus on georeferentiation in Indigenous governance.
On April 17th 2023, we wrapped up the Mellon Sawyer Precarious Ecologies Seminar with a wonderful panel where we thought about the political lives of lithium, solar power, uranium and other emerging protagonists of the green energy transition
Gathering at Catalina Island to explore the unsettled lives of facts, truths and reality across Latin America with a dynamic group of colleagues.
Tracing how varaderos—indigenous forest passages connecting different river basins—became objects of state technical speculation and control in late 19th and early 20th century Peruvian Amazonia.
Analyzing positivist visions of connecting South American river basins through infrastructure, and the dreams of absolute space that shaped Amazonian development plans.
Examining how steam technology and commerce transformed the Peruvian Amazon, particularly in Iquitos, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Exploring how naturalists Raimondi and Brüning navigated the Marañon River's Pongo de Manseriche in search of a route connecting the Montaña to Peru's coast.