“Silence Not Absence”: Memory Activism and the Lost City of Vanport OSU Anthropology Lecture Series (Nov 2024, Corvallis, OR)

Singing for Environmental Change: A Conversation with Alexander Lloyd Blake, Director of Tonality Spring Creek Project & PRAx (Apr 2024, Corvallis, OR)

Faculty Research Showcase OSU Honors College (2024, Corvallis, OR)

“How to Carry Water”: Visual Arts Curation and the Environmental Humanities Environmental Humanities Workshop, Indiana University (Jan 2024, virtual)

The Music of Miracle City: Vanport, Oregon and the Sonic Imaginaries of Multiracial Democracy Dissertation, dual PhD in ethnomusicology and history (Feb 2024, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN)

“By That Wild Columbia River”: Woody Guthrie and the 1948 Flood of Vanport, Oregon Invited talk, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University (Jun 2023, Corvallis, OR)

Musician/Performer, Entertainment Nation Opening Festival Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History (Dec 2022, Washington D.C.)

What is the Sound of Silence?: A Sonic Analysis of the Metaphor of Archival Silences
Paul G. Lucas History Graduate Student Association (Apr 2022, Bloomington, IN)

Vanport, Oregon and the Politics of River Management
Conference on Communications and the Environment (Jun 2019, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

“Migracious” Music: Mobilities Paradigms in the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 to 1941
Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting (Oct 2019, Bloomington, IN)

“By That Wild Columbia River”: Music, Race, and Disaster in a WWII Shipyard Town
American Folklore Society Annual Meeting (Oct 2018, Buffalo, NY)

Listening to Place: Oral/Aural Memory Projects in N/NE Portland Panel discussion with Dr. Raina Croff, Laura Lo Forti, and Megan Hattie Stahl Pacific Northwest History Conference (Oct 2024, Portland, OR)

The Music of Miracle City: Public History Talk on the Sounds of Vanport Vanport Mosaic Festival (May 2024, Portland, OR)

Ethnomusicology of Outdoor School: Reviving Oral Singing Traditions “After” the Pandemic Multnomah Education Service District, Outdoor School Consortium (Mar 2024, Corbett, OR)

“Let the Songs I Sing, Speak For Me”: Musical Worlds of Maxville Northwest Anthropological Conference (Mar 2024, Portland, OR)

Ecological Imaginaries Panel discussion, Diverse Environmentalisms Research Team w/ Jeff Todd Titon, Mary Hufford, John McDowell, Sue Tuohy, Rebecca Dirkson, Rory Turner American Folklore Society Annual Meeting (Nov 2023, Portland, OR)

The Music of Miracle City Vanport Mosaic Festival (May 2023, Portland, OR)

A City of Strangers: Harmony and Dissonance in Vanport, Oregon
Society for Ethnomusicology Northwest Chapter Annual Meeting (Jan 2023, Vancouver, BC, Canada)

A Labor of Love: Descendants Reclaim Historic Black Logging Town Site as Educational Site
LABORonline, Labor and Working-Class History Association, LAWCHA (Sept 2022)

What Do Woody Guthrie, Salmon, Toilet Paper, and Digital Humanities Have In Common?: A Music Historian’s View of the Columbia River
Institute for Digital Humanities (May 2020)

Making American Music: Reflections on a Pilot Program at the National Museum of American History
Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Colloquia Series (Aug 2018)

Listening to the hopeful sounds of victory
O Say Can You See (Aug 2018, Smithsonian blog)

An anti-slavery anthem reimagined for today
O Say Can You See (Aug 2018, Smithsonian blog)