Invited Talks & Public Lectures

Global Nitrogen Governance: Towards a Research-Action Agenda at the Intersection of Science, Policy, and Society. 9th Global Nitrogen Conference, New Delhi, February 2024 [Keynote Speaker]

Contribuciones desde Latinoamérica al debate conceptual sobre justicia climática y transición justa [Climate Justice and Just Transitions: Contributions from Latin America] (Panelist). Webinar organized by the Center for Climate and Resilience Research (CR2), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, September 29th, 2023.

Recentering Justice in Climate Governance: Expertise, Conflict, and Sustainable Development in the Global South.Spring Faculty Panel Series: Climate Change: Adaptation, Impact, and Science. Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society, Boston College, Boston, April 4th, 2023

Justice as Biogeochemical Governance: Multispecies Justice, Rights of Nature, and the Struggle over More-than-Human Sovereignty. Climate Justice and Extractive Economic Policies in Latin America and the Caribbean, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, March 7th, 2023 

What the Environmental Governance Literature can tell us about Nitrogen Roadmaps. OECD-INMS-IEA Paris Workshop, Developing Roadmaps for Sustainable Nitrogen Management. Institut d'études avancées de Paris, Paris, May 18-20, 2022

History Graduate Student Conference: Crisis and Change across the Anthropocene: Environments, Conflicts, and Inequalities, Northeastern University, April 9th 2022 [Keynote Panel Speaker]

With Christopher Capozzola, Animal Histories of the Pacific War. Symposium: The United States, War, and the Environment in the Twentieth-Century Pacific World. University of Kansas, October 15-16 2021 

Governing Nitrogen Species: Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Inequalities, and the Rise of Earth System Governance. Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for the History of Chemistry - Science History Institute, Philadelphia, United States. Spring 2021 Lunchtime Lecture Series: Humans, Chemistry, and the Natural World, June 9th 2021
 
Unequal Futures: Linking Nitrogen Species, Epistemologies, and Ontologies in Sustainable Development Governance. Lunchtime Colloquium, Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, Munich, Germany, January 21st 2021, 
 
Unequal Quantifications and Epistemologies of Nitrogen Flows: Linking Expertise, Ontology, and Policy in Global Nitrogen Governance. Workshop Toolbox of Environmental Governance: Numbers, Metrics, and Acronyms - SPHERE Programme: Study of the Planetary Human-Earth Relationship: The Rise of Global Environmental Governance, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, December 2nd 2020
 
Linking Justice & Sustainability. Lessons from three decades of project-based education & institutional partnerships across the Americas, Public Lecture for the Global School Launching Event Series: Latin America, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States, December 2nd 2020
 
Eating Animals and The Politics of Sight: Researching Violence Across Species in Modern Democracies.  Politics of Food Seminar, Department of Political Science (Invited by Prof. Heather Silber Mohamed) Clark University, United States, April 17th 2020 
 
Sustainability and the Role of Hispanics in Sustainability-related Research. Keynote Speaker for the General Meeting of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (WPI Chapter), Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States, October 22nd 2019 
 
Unequal Metrics and Epistemologies of Nitrogen Flows: Linking Expertise, Ontology, and Policy in Global Nitrogen Science and Policy. Science, Technology and Society Studies (MUSTS) Research Programme, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands, October 16th 2019
 
The Global Nitrogen Challenge and Chile’s Nitrogen Revolution: Science, Policy, and the Struggle for Environmental Sustainability. Public Lecture for Arts & Sciences Week: Latin American Studies Faculty Lighting Talks. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States, September 16th 2019
 
The History of the Fulbright Exchange Program: Rethinking International Development and the Exchange of Knowledge and Technologies in the 21st Century. Keynote Speaker for WPI’s Annual Fulbright Scholars Reception. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States, September 13th 2019
 
Understanding International Development in Context: Global Science & Technology Studies (STS) + Justice. Research, Discovery, and Innovation (ReDI) Annual Symposium. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States, Office of the Provost, May 15th 2019 
 
Keynote Speaker for Mathematical Sciences Annual Award Ceremony. Mathematical Sciences Department. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States, April 25, 2019
 
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Justice: Lessons from the Global South. Guest lecturer for Introduction to International and Global Studies Class (Invited by Prof. John Galante). Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States, February 18th 2019
 
Cold War Politics and the Struggle for Global Sustainability. Science, Technology, and Society Program (STS) and Political Sciences Department, Tufts University, United States, November 2nd 2018
 
Chile’s Nitrogen Revolution: Expertise, Technology, and Policy. Annual Harvard-MIT-Princeton Workshop on the History of the Physical Sciences. Princeton University, United States, October 21st 2017 
 
The Global Nitrogen Challenge: Science, Policy, and the Struggle for Environmental Sustainability in Cold War Chile. Program in Science, Technology, and Society & History Section. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States, May 9th 2017 

Agricultural Modernization, Science, and Environmental Change in Chile. Teaching History for a Sustainable Future. Dialogues Between History, Science, and Education. School of Education, Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile, July 7th 2016 
 
Nitrogen, Science, and Environment. A Transnational History of Agricultural Modernization and the Challenge of Sustainability in Chile. History Department, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile, June 29th 2016 
 
Socio-environmental Impacts of Free-Ranging Dogs in Chile. Challenges for Animal Welfare, Biodiversity Conservation, Public Health, and Policy. ChileGlobal Seminar. University of California Davis, United States, May 31st 2016 [Co-presented with Diego Montecino and Eduardo Silva]
 
Nitrogen Revolutions. The Transnational Politics of Nitrogen Science, the Green Revolution, and Environmental Change in Cold War Chile and its Aftermath. Production/Destruction: Latin American Environments Workshop. Latin American and Iberian Studies Program. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, April 8-9, 2016
 
Slavery and Afro-disintegration. Historical, Theoretical and Methodological Challenges from the Chilean Case, Presentation of the Journal of Latin American Studies Summa Historiae (Special Issue: African Slavery in the Americas), Department of Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos and Department of Humanities, Universidad Federico Villarreal, Lima, Peru, December, 7th 2007
 

Professional Society Conferences 


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Chair. Roundtable: Future Directions in Environmental History. 4th World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland (2024) [Accepted]

Co-organizer with Barbara Silva. Panel: Grasping the Planetary from the South: Southern Knowledges and Technologies in Global Environments. 4th World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland (2024) [Accepted]

Postcolonial Planetary Boundaries: Remaking Global Nitrogen Governance from Latin America, South Asia, and Africa. Fourth World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finland (2024) [Accepted]

With Morten Graversgaard, Ananta Panda, Gisleine Cunha-Zeri, and Samson Olanipekun. Understanding Policy Responses to Nitrogen in Latin America, South Asia, Africa, and Europe. 9th Global Nitrogen Conference, New Delhi, India (2024)

Roundtable Panelist: Next steps for N policy analysis. 9th Global Nitrogen Conference, New Delhi, India (2024) 

With Morten Graversgaard and Matt Kirby. Comparing European national nitrogen policies – different agenda setting and governance frameworks. 9th Global Nitrogen Conference, New Delhi, India (2024) 

Keynote Panelist: Agriculture as a “nature-based climate solution”: What can agricultural history bring to the table? Agricultural History Society, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA (2023)

Co-organizer and presenter with Emily O'Gorman, Mark Carey, Sandra Swart. Panel: Envisioning a Handbook of Environmental History. European Society of Environmental History Conference, Bristol, UK (2022)

Organizer. Panel: Governing Environmental Inequalities: Towards a New Research-Action Framework on Agency, Power & Multispecies Justice, Society for Social Studies of Science. Chair and Discussant Session I: Agents, Power & Agency & Chair Session II: Energy Governance, Resistance & Conflict (2021)
 
Linking Nitrogen Forms, Quantifications, and Epistemologies: A Science-Policy Interface Issue. 8th Global Nitrogen Conference, Berlin, Germany (2021) [Oral Presentation - Online]
 
The Place of Nitrogen Management in Sustainable Development Policy: Linking Nitrogen Forms, Epistemologies, and Policies. Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences (2020)
 
Chair. Roundtable: Diversifying Ontologies & Epistemologies. Roundtable sponsored by the Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (CODIE). American Society for Environmental History, Ottawa, Canada (2020) [Postponed due to Covid-19]

Presenter and Roundtable Co-organizer (with Caley Horan): Capitalism, Markets, and Natures [Roundtable] American Society for Environmental History, Ottawa, Canada  (2020) [Postponed due to Covid-19]

Discussant. Panel: Domestic Technologies II (Ecologies, Disease, & Global Development). Organized by Amy Johnson and Li Cornfeld, Society for Social Studies of Science, New Orleans, United States (2019)
 
The Place of National Science in Transnational Environmental Governance: Chile's Nitrogen Revolution and the Global Nitrogen Challenge. 3rd World Congress of Environmental History: Global South and the Global North in the Era of Great Acceleration, Florianópolis, Brazil (2019) *Awarded the 2019 EHCA Prize for Interdisciplinary Environmental History Research 
 
Presenter and Roundtable Organizer: Quantification, Models, and Metrics in Environmental Knowledge and Policy. American Society for Environmental History, Columbus, OH, United States (2019)

Presenter and Roundtable Organizer: Environmental History for Public Policy: Epistemological, Methodological, and Practical Challenges. American Society for Environmental History, Riverside, CA, United States (2018)

Writing a Transnational History of the Global Nitrogen Challenge. New Perspectives in Environmental History Conference, Yale University, CT, United States (2017)
 
Nitrogen Science, Technologies, and Policy. A Transnational History of Agro-ecological Change in the Americas. Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston, MA, United States  (2017)
 
Co-organizer. Panel: Cold War Science, Technology, and Policy: The Americas in a Global Perspective. Society for Social Studies of Science, Boston, MA, United States  (2017)

Nitrogen Fertilizers, Science, and Environmental Change in Latin America: History, Policy, and the Global Nitrogen Challenge for the 21st Century. American Association of Geographers (Theme: Geographies of Bread and Water) Boston, MA, United States  (2017)
 
Nitrogen Fertilization and Environmental Degradation. The Politics of Nitrogen Science and Policy in Cold War Chile. Agricultural History Society, New York, NY, United States (2016)
 
Organizer. Panel: Agricultural Modernization, Science, and the Environment in the Americas during the Cold War. Agricultural History Society, New York, NY, United States (2016)
 
Writing a Transnational History of Nitrogen Loss and Efficiency. Junctions and Disjunctions of Agricultural Sciences, Policy and Sustainability in Cold War Chile. Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences [Poster Presentation], Washington D.C., United States (2016)
 
Leguleyos Contesting the State: Misconduct, Legal Cultures and Judicial Reform in Late and Postcolonial Nueva Granada. Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, United States (2014)

“Without Enough Knowledge or a Legal Degree”: Lawyers, Misconduct and Professionalization in Late Colonial Nueva Granada. 60th Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Albuquerque, NM, United States (2013)

Pettifoggers Contesting the State: The Legal Profession and Judicial Misconduct in Late and Post-colonial Colombia and Venezuela. 13th Annual Harvard Graduate Student Conference: Law & International History, Harvard University, Law School, Institute for Global Law and Policy, & History Department (2013)
 
Colors, Powers, and Witnesses: Practices and Representations about Black Slavery in Legal Disputes. Chile, late 18th century.  Symposium “Power: Practices, Representations and Symbolic Worlds in Colonial and Republican Latin America,” II Congress of Science, Knowledge and Technology: Dialogue Between the Fields of Knowledge, Santiago, Chile (2010)

Dark Colors and Blurred Status. Defining Ethnic Categories and the Status of 'Slave' and 'Free' in Slave Litigation (Santiago, Chile in the Late 18th Century). Colloquium “Denominations, Classifications, and Identities in Colonial America,” Department of History, Universidad Católica de Chile and Center for Latin American Cultural Studies, Universidad de Chile, Chile (2009)
 
Africa in the Nation. Founding Speeches and Subdued Colors. Approaches to the Integration and Disintegration of African Descendants in Late Colonial Chile. First meeting on the History of Asia and Africa. Center for Arabic Studies, Universidad de Chile, Asian Studies Program, Universidad Católica de Chile and Program of Asian and African Studies, Universidad de Santiago. Santiago, Chile (2009)
 
Black Slavery and interethnic networks in late colonial Santiago, Chile.  8th Andean Conference of Latin American Literature, JALLA, Center for Latin American Cultural Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile (2008)