RECENT ACADEMIC AND POLICY PRESENTATIONS

2003 Invited presentation: “Can a Property-Rights Paradigm Promote In Situ Crop Genetic-Resources Conservation and Benefit-Sharing”? Presentation to International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, Rome, Italy, September.

2003 Graduation Address: “No Ecology Without Equity; No Equity Without Ecology”. Watson International Environmental Fellows Program, Brown University. Providence RI, June.

2003 Invited speaker: “Is Agriculture the Enemy of Nature?”. Tropical Resources Institute Public Lecture Series on Globalization and the Environment, Yale Environmental School, April.

2003 Invited presentation: “Intellectual Property, Biotechnology, Agricultural Trade in the Americas”. Yale International and Areas Studies Program Conference: The Hemispheric Trade Debate, Omni Hotel at Yale, April.

2003 “Genetic Idealism, Global Biopolitics, and the New Social Movements for Food Sovereignty”. Presenter and session organizer and chair: Whose Nature? Whose Ecology: Science, Social Movements and Geographies of Difference and Risk, at the Conference of Latin American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March,

2003 Invited discussant, paper session: on “Reinventing the Political: Relations, Processes, and Flows” Conference of Latin American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March.

2003 “The Significance of Agricultural Biodiversity in Latin American Political Ecology” Panel presentation Conference of Latin American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March.

2003 Invited presentation: “What Is At Stake in the Controversy Over Maize “Genetic Pollution” in Mexico?” Clarke University Department of Geography, Worcester, MA, February.

2003 “Corn Culture and Dangerous DNA” Conference of Latin American Geographers, Tuscon, AZ.

2002 Invited lecture: “The Global and the Local in the Politics of Agroecology and Food Sovereignty” Columbia University Seminar on Ecology and Culture, New York.

2002 Invited presentation: “Should US Private Voluntary Organizations Distribute Genetically
Engineered Food Aid in Africa?” Faith-Based US Private International Aid Agencies, Baltimore, MD.

2002. Invited presentation: “Evaluating the Performance of Transgenic Crops”, FAO World Food
Summit, Rome, Italy.

2002 "Neoliberalism at the Molecular Scale,” Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA.

2001 Invited presentation: “Indigenous Peoples, Genetic Resources, and Intellectual Property,” at Development As If Equity Mattered: Conference on Public Policy, Natural Resources, and Equity. Iwokrama International Rainforest Centre, Georgetown, Guyana.

2001 “Are Economic and Genetic Reductionism Linked in Biotechnology Science and Policy?” Society for the Social Study of Science Cambridge, MA,

2001 Invited presentation: "Genetic and Economic Reductionism in Agro-biotechnology Discourse and Policy,” Berkeley Workshop on the Political and Cultural Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology and Life Science Industries University of California Institute of International Studies.

2001 "Assessing New Biotechnologies: Genetic Reductionism or Dynamic Complexity?" Association of American Geographers New York, NY.

2001 “Guyana and the Fatal Flaw of Green Developmentalism.” (co-author: Janette Forte, University of Guyana) Association of American Geographers New York, NY.

2000 Invited discussant: "Caribbean Environmental Histories," Association of American
Geographers Pittsburgh, PA.

2001 "Global Biotechnology Battles,” Taking Nature Seriously: Citizens, Science, and
Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR.

2000 "Financial Debt, Ecological Debt, and Deforestation: Do Environmental Conditionalities Work?" MacArthur Workshop on Globalization, Governance, and the Environment University of California Institute of International Studies, Berkeley.

2000 “Environmental Reductionism and Market Economics: Genetic Resources as a Global Currency.” The Truth is the Whole: A Celebration of the Unity and Dynamic Complexities of Life: Festschrift in honor of Richard Levins Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA.

2000 "Food Security, Farmers' Rights, and the Transnational Movement Against "Terminator' Technology" Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA.

2000 "Biodiversity and International Environmental Justice" Environmental Politics Colloquium Institute of International Studies, University of California at Berkeley.

1999 "Multilateral Disputes over Food Security, Biotechnology, and Intellectual Property" Presenter and organizer, Indian NGO Panel. Social Science Research Council/ MacArthur Program on International Peace and Security Fellows Conference, New Delhi, India.

1999 Invited presentation: "Dimensions of Environmental Security." Social Science Research Council/ MacArthur Foundation Summer Institute: Workshop on New Approaches to Peace
and Security, co-sponsored by Institute of International Relations, Hanoi, Vietnam.

1998 "Privatizing Nature: Are Intellectual Property Rights the Key to Conserving Biodiversity?" Environment in Context: Capitalism, Democracy and Culture MacArthur Scholars in International Environmental Policy conference, Newport Beach, CA.

1998 Panel chair, presenter, and organizer: "International Biopolitics: Nature as a Global Currency." Association of American Geographers Boston, MA.

1998 Invited discussant "Rediscovering Caribbean Geography: Migration, Urbanization, and Development" Association of American Geographers Boston, MA.

1998 "Biodiversity and the Rise of Green Developmentalism" New World Orders? Contested Local Terrains in an Era of Globalization, University of California at Irvine,

1997 "Selling Nature To Save It?" International Conference on Critical Geography, Vancouver, British Colombia, Canada.

1997 "Indigenous Communities, Protected Areas, and Biodiversity Prospecting in Guyana" Latin American Studies Association Guadalajara, Mexico.

1996 "Biodiversity in the Market-World" Association of American Geographers Charlotte, NC.