Invited Talks & Colloquia
2023
‘At Wit’s End: The Ethics of Losing Your Mind in San Francisco’s Public Mental Health Clinics.’ The Ethical Pressures on Thinking Workshop, University of Edinburgh.
‘Navel-Gazing: On Returns and the Unknown.’ Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, Princeton University.
Critical Thinking and Critical Living in Crisis Workshop, University of Tübingen.
2022
Pandemic Lessons for Pedagogies of Wellbeing Workshop, University of Tübingen.
‘Ethnography and Mental Health.’ Edinburgh Mental Health, University of Edinburgh.
2021
Orders of Feeling and Economies of Solidarity Workshop, Freie Universität.
‘Comments on Speech as Therapy.’ Freedom of Speech: Anthropological Perspectives, University of Cambridge.
‘To Forgo a Concept of Care.’ Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Copenhagen.
2020
‘Surreal Life: Ethnography Beyond Reason in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, University of St. Andrews.
‘A Profile of Judgment.’ Fairness and Partiality Workshop. London School of Economics.
2019
‘Without Alibi: Trauma and Complicity in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh.
‘At Wit’s End: Losing One’s Mind in San Francisco’s Public Mental Health Clinics.’ Medicine and Its Objects Workshop, University of Chicago.
‘At Wit’s End: Losing One’s Mind in San Francisco’s Public Mental Health Clinics.’ Department of Anthropology and School of Global Studies Seminar Series, University of Gothenberg.
‘Reasonable Doubts: On Refugitivity and Recognition in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
‘Dissociation: Unraveling Selves in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Amherst College.
‘Abjection: Homelessness and the Bottoming-Out of Displacement.’ De-Excpetionalizing Displacement? Rethinking Citizenship and Mobility Workshop, University of Pittsburgh.
‘Care and the Limits of State Power.’ Medicine, Culture, and Society (undergraduate course taught by Saida Hodžić), Cornell University.
2018
‘Without Alibi: On Trauma and Complicity in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Department of Anthropology Seminar Series, Cornell University.
2017
‘Unruly Affects: Attempts at Control and All That Escapes from an American Mental Health Court.’ Truth, Politics, and Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives (graduate seminar taught by Adriana Petryna), University of Pennsylvania.
‘The Trauma of Intimacy.’ A Workshop on Legal Transitions and the Vulnerable Subject: Fostering Resilience Through Law’s Dynamism, The Vulnerability and Human Condition Initiative, Emory University School of Law.
‘Uncomfortable Justice.’ Program in American Studies, Princeton University.
‘Trapped: The Limits of Care in California Mental Health Courts.’ Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University.
‘Reasonable Doubts.’ University Center for Human Values, Princeton University.
2016
‘Justice in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Drugs and Society (undergraduate course taught by Elizabeth Chiarello), Saint Louis University.
‘Problem-Solving in Northern California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Sociology of the Criminal Justice System (graduate seminar taught by Hadar Aviram), University of California, Hastings College of Law.
2014
‘Defending Dignity: The Shift from Legal to Moral Authority in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism, University of Pennsylvania.
‘Defending Dignity: The Shift from Legal to Moral Authority in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Program in American Studies, Princeton University.
‘The Comorbidity of Psychiatry and Criminal Law.’ Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy Workshop, University of California, Hastings College of Law.
Conference Papers
2024
‘At Wit’s End: The Ethics of Losing Your Mind in San Francisco’s Public Mental Health Clinics.’ Undoing and Redoing the Social in Psychotherapy; organised by Mayssa Rekhis, Anne Sigfrid Grønseth, Keir Martin, and Arsenii Khitrov for the European Network for Psychological Anthropology. European Association of Social Anthropologists, Barcelona.
‘Medicine Anthropology Theory & the Future of Open Access’ (with Cristina Moreno Lozano). Diamond Journals in the Anthropological Landscape; organised by Jose Luis Molina, Gabriel Izard, Patricia Bertolin, and Agnese Capurri. European Association of Social Anthropologists, Barcelona.
2023
‘Monarchy in Morning Dress: Law, Loss, Psychoanalysis.’ Kinship Remains; organised by Serra Hakyemez and Hoon Song. American Anthropological Association, Toronto.
2022
‘Law, Ethnography, Psychoanalysis’ Roundtable; organised by Serra Hakyemez and Jess Cooper. American Anthropological Association, Seattle.
2021
‘Parallel Ethics.’ Complicities: Politics and Ethics at the Edges of Responsibility; organised by Toby Kelly and Jess Cooper. American Anthropological Association, Baltimore.
‘Care in Relief: Problematizing the Ubiquity of Care.’ Care and Finitude; organised by Simon Cohn and Lotte Buch Segal. Chronic Living Conference, Copenhagen.
‘Parallel Ethics.’ Complicities: Politics and Ethics at the Edges of Responsibility; organised by Toby Kelly and Jess Cooper. Association of Social Anthropologists, St. Andrews.
2019
‘Care in Relief: Problematizing the Ubiquity of Care in Anthropological Theory.’ Traces of Care; organised by Lauren Cubellis and Rebecca Lester. American Anthropological Association, Vancouver.
‘At Wit’s End: Failures of Certainty in California’s Mental Health Courts.’ Ethnographic Failures; organised by Nadia El-Shaarawi and Saiba Varma. Society for Psychological Anthropology, Albuquerque.
‘Dissociation: Unraveling Selves and Socialities.’ Affecting Futures; organised by Lauren Cubellis and Jess Cooper. American Ethnological Society, St. Louis.
2018
‘In Dependence.’ Challenging Care: Rethinking Cognitive Disability; organised by Patrick McKearney and Anna Zogas. American Anthropological Association, San Jose.
‘Giving Up: Political Potentials Beyond the State.’ American Perspectives in the Sociology of Law. Law and Citizenship Beyond the States — Research Committee on the Sociology of Law, Lisbon.
‘Giving Up.’ Punishment and Institutions; organised by Elizabeth Chiarello and Jonathan Simon. Law and Society Association, Toronto.
‘Ethnographic Methods’ Roundtable; organised by Andrea Ballestero and Robert Werth. Law and Society Association, Toronto.
2017
‘Giving Up.’ Contemporary Entanglements in Care and Punishment; organised by Amy Krauss and Jess Cooper. American Anthropological Association. Washington, DC.
‘Of Vulnerability and Violence.’ Subject of and to the Law. Law and Society Association, Mexico City.
‘Exposure as Delusion: Scenes from an American Mental Health Court.’ America Exposed?; organised by Kaya Williams and Jess Cooper. American Ethnological Society, Stanford.
‘Knowing Your Feelings: Resentment and Other “Ugly Feelings” in Court-Mandated Mental Health Care.’ Resentment: Negative Affect, Contested Emotion, and the Everyday Politics of Moral Worlds; organised by Lauren Cubellis and Rebecca Lester. Society for Psychological Anthropology, New Orleans.
2016
‘Of Vulnerability and Violence.’ Accidental Governance: Reading Law through Affect; organised by Ken MacLeish and Jess Cooper. American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis.
‘The Prius and the Percocet: Questions of Homelessness and Jurisdiction.’ Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penalities, and Risk/Strategy; organised by Robert Werth. Law and Society Association, New Orleans.
‘The Prius and the Percocet: Questions of Homelessness and Jurisdiction.’ Interlegal Space-Times and Technologies of Legal Assemblage; organised by Sebastian Ramirez and Celeste Alexander. American Ethnological Society, Washington, DC.
‘The Prius and the Percocet: Questions of Homelessness and Jurisdiction.’ Space Along the Urban/Rural Spectrum; organised by Heath Pearson and Emily Prifogle. Law and Life in Rural America Conference, Princeton.