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Cruising Nature’s Metropolis: Sexuality, Capitalism, and Cattle in United States Environmental History - New Perspectives on Animal Agriculture · 2025 Invited Talk Center for History and Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Is It Medicine or Is it Meat?: Porcine Biotechnologies and the Future of Food - Eating to Change the World Conference · 2025 Invited Talk Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and the Center for the Humanities, Boston University, Boston, MA

Dr. Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Agriculture, Animal Flesh, and the Ecological History of Sex - Spring Humanities Conference · 2025 Keynote/Named Lecture Humanities Research Center, Duke Kunshan University, Suzhou, China

Dr. Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Agriculture, Animal Flesh, and the Ecological History of Sex - Global Gender and Sexuality Studies Lecture Series · 2024 Invited Talk Department of GGSS, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Poultry Agriculture, Experimental Endocrinology, and an Ecological History of Sex · 2024 Invited Talk Van Hunnick Department of History, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.

On the Madness of Dr. Hubert Dana Goodale: Animal Agriculture, Experimental Endocrinology and the Industrial Ecology of Sex in the Early 20th Century · 2024 Invited Talk Leuphana University, Lüneburg, DE

Breed and Race: Concluding Remarks - Rassismus und Tierzucht: Ideologisierungen des Tierkörpers seit dem 19. Jahrhundert Conference · 2024 Keynote/Named Lecture Historisches Kolleg, Munich, DE

Concluding Roundtable - Engineering Life: Regulating Science, Risks, and Society in Europe Conference · 2023 Other Rice University/European Molecular Biology Organization/Rice University and Friedrich- Schiller-Universität Jena, Paris, FR

Workshop Comment - Fibers of Existence: Disordering Animals · 2023 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, DE

Animal Agriculture and the More-Than-Human History of Human Reproductive Science and Technology - Ágora Climávora Conference · 2023 Keynote/Named Lecture La Casa Encendida, Madrid, ES

Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Poultry Breeding, Sex Control, and the Early History of Endocrinology · 2023 Invited Talk Department of Sociology and History of Science, University of Pennsylvania, , Philadelphia, PA

Queer Theory for the Masses: The Pleasures and Perils of Thinking Sex in Public · 2022 Invited Talk Department of Anthropology, Tufts University, Medford, MA

Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Poultry Breeding, Sex Control, and the Early History of Endocrinology - Hoch Cunningham Environmental Studies Lecture · 2022 Keynote/Named Lecture Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Poultry Breeding, Sex Control, and the Early History of Endocrinology - New Work in Queer Studies · 2022 Invited Talk Leuphana University, Lüneburg, DE

Desiring Flesh and the Apocalypse of Meat - Tufts Food Systems Symposium · 2022 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Tufts University, Medford, MA

Intimate Exchange and the Queer Ecology of Meat - Microbes and Social Equity Seminar Series · 2022 Invited Talk The Ishaq Lab and the Institute of Medicine, University of Maine, Orono, ME

Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Poultry Breeding, Sex Control, and the Early History of Endocrinology - Colloquium on the History of Science · 2021 Invited Talk Department III, Max Plank Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, DE

Cruising Nature’s Metropolis: Towards a More-Than-Human History of Sexuality - Hum/Animal Conference · 2020 Keynote/Named Lecture Duke Kunshan University, Kunshan, CN

The Crisis of Zoonotic Intimacy - Environmental History Working Group · 2020 Invited Talk Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Cruising Nature’s Metropolis: Towards a Queer Environmental History - United States History and Culture Workshop · 2020 Invited Talk Department of History, University of Chicago,

Cruising Nature’s Metropolis: Towards a Queer Environmental History - Animal Spirits: An Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Creatures of Capitalism · 2020 Invited Talk Weatherhead Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

The Perils and Promise of the Livestock Metaphor in Eugenic Discourse - Critical Intersections: Conversations on Race, History, and Science · 2020 Invited Talk California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, Eugenics, and State Power in the United States, 1919- 1933 · 2019 Invited Talk Department of American Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

Invited Respondent - Workshop on Adrienne Davis’s Irregular Intimacies · 2019 Other Law School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

The Airing of Grievances: Are the Humanities Bullshit? - William Bennet Munro History Seminar · 2019 Invited Talk Department of History, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA

Concluding Roundtable - Feminist Theory Workshop · 2019 Other Duke University, Durham, NC

The Peanut Butter Problem: On Pet Pleasure - Pleasureless: A Queer Symposium · 2018 Keynote/Named Lecture Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT

No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, Eugenics, and State Power in the United States, 1919- 1933 - Keys to Our Common Future Speaker Series · 2018 Invited Talk University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

The Trial of the Scrub Sire: Animal Gender and Eugenic Logics in the USDA’s ‘Better Sires-Better Stock’ Campaign, 1919-1940 · 2017 Invited Talk Department of History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Cannibal Family Farms: Grotesque Intimacy and Rural Dysfunction in the Postwar United States - Yale Sustainable Food Project · 2017 Invited Talk Yale University, New Haven, CT

No Scrubs: Livestock Breeding, Eugenics, and State Power in the United States, 1919- 1933 - Animal/Human Workshop · 2017 Invited Talk Law, Identity, and Culture Initiative, Law School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Bad Husband: Interspecies Sexual Assault in the Age of Industrial Meat - Stigma: Deviance, Criminality, and Sexualities Conference · 2017 Keynote/Named Lecture Sexuality Program at Northwestern, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

How Meat Changed Sex: The Law of Interspecies Intimacy after Industrial Reproduction - Law, Identity, and Culture Initiative · 2017 Invited Talk Law School and the Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

How Meat Changed Sex: Intimacy with Animals after Industrial Reproduction · 2017 Invited Talk Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Breeding the Future: Gender, Sexuality, and State Power in Rural America · 2017 Invited Talk Department of History and the Centre for Culture and Community, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB

Breeding the Future: Gender, Sexuality, and State Power in Rural America · 2017 Invited Talk Department of History, Mount Royal University, Calgary, AB

How Meat Changed Sex: Intimacy with Animals after Industrial Reproduction · 2017 Invited Talk Department of History and the Centre for Culture and Community, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB

Signs of the State: 4-H and the Intimate American State · 2016 Invited Talk Departments of History and American Studies, California State University at Long Beach, Long Beach, CA

How Meat Changed Sex: The Law of Interspecies Intimacy after Industrial Reproduction · 2016 Invited Talk Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

How Meat Changed Sex: Intimacy with Animals after Industrial ReproductionDepartment of History, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA · 2016 Invited Talk Department of History, Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA

The Trial of the Scrub Sire: Biopolitics as a Useful Category of Analysis in Environmental History - Colloquium Series · 2016 Invited Talk Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

Cannibal Family Farms: Grotesque Intimacy and Rural Dysfunction in the Postwar United States - Seminar on Environmental and Agricultural History · 2016 Invited Talk Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

How Meat Changed Sex: The Law of Interspecies Intimacy After Industrial Reproduction - Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop · 2016 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium UCLA Law School, Los Angeles, CA

Can Vegetarianism Answer the Question of the Animal? - University Course on Food Studies · 2015 Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium Duke University, Durham, NC

How Meat Changed Sex: Intimacy with Animals after Industrial Reproduction · 2015 Invited Talk Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT

‘How is Race Suicide to Be Prevented When the Cholera Gets Among the Hogs?’: Animal Bodies and Racial Knowledge in Late 19th and Early 20th Century America - Program in Agrarian Studies · January 31, 2013 Lecture Yale University

Invited Lectures ;G. N. Rosenberg

A Race Suicide Among the Hogs: Animal Bodies, Racial Knowledge, and the Biopolitics of Meat - Working Group on Feminism and History · January 31, 2013 Lecture Duke University

Inventing the Family Farm: Rethinking the Role of Gender, Sexuality, and Agrarianism in Alternative Food Movements · January 31, 2012 Lecture University Course on Food Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches to How, Why, and What We Eat, Duke University

4-H and the Biopolitics of Agricultural Reform in Early Twentieth Century America · January 31, 2012 Lecture Environmental History Colloquium Series, Yale University

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

Co-Editor - Animal Mobilities Project · 2019 - 2025 Editorial Activities Max Planck Institute for the History of Science , Berlin, DE flag

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Organizer - Pig Out: Hogs and Humans in Global and Historical Perspective · October 16, 2015 - October 18, 2015 Event/Organization Administration Yale University , New Haven, CT The Yale Program in Agrarian Studies is thrilled to announce an international conference, scheduled for October, 2015, which will will examine the role of pigs in human society in comparative cultural and historical perspective. Presenters will be drawn from around the world and across academic disciplines, including the natural, agricultural, and environmental sciences; the humanities; and journalists, activists, and public intellectuals. Across cultures and through time, pigs have worked their way into human communities, urban and rural, and, in the process, have become the consummate intimate companions of humans. Even in communities that prohibited the consumption of pig flesh, cohabitation generated a complex symbolic economy: taboos on pork rested on both revulsion at the “filth” of swine and recognition of the pig’s similarity and intimacy with humans. Recognizing the complexity of this interspecies intimacy is a necessarily interdisciplinary and cross-cultural endeavor. To avoid reducing the “problem of the pig” to either contemporary controversies about meat or a universal symbolic economy of animality, we will explore the pig in a range of methodological, historical, and geographic styles. This conference will ask: What role did pigs have in the development of the earliest settled agriculture and, thus, the emergent power relations of prehistoric human communities? How have the political management and biological transformation of pigs been linked? How do swine fit within and help to constitute both urban and rural ecologies? How stable are the boundaries between the natural boar and the domesticated swine? How has the domestication of swine, in turn, changed human culture? How has the symbolic economy of the pig varied over time and across cultures? How, in particular, have religious beliefs conditioned and been conditioned by the symbolic and material circulation of swine? In sum, this conference poses these questions by stressing how pig bodies, animal agency, and human politics are intertwined. We hope to see you there!

Bass Connections Faculty Team Member - Data+ · June 2015 - August 2015 Projects & Field Work flag

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Co-Convenor - Subnature and Culinary Cultures · August 2014 - November 2014 Event/Organization Administration Humanities Writ Large, Duke University , Durham, NC “Subnature” is a word coined by architectural historian David Gissen for aspects of nature that the architectural discipline has traditionally shunned, such as dankness, darkness, mud, weeds, smoke, puddles, dust, debris, crowds, and pigeons. Subnature encapsulates the “problems” architects have attempted to solve, circumvent and avoid in favor of qualities such as light, airiness, cleanliness, and flow. This Emerging Humanities Network’s objective is to extend the rich topic of “subnature” from architecture to cuisine, querying how one discipline can inform another, providing a better understanding by studying a problem from a novel perspective. In addition to the classroom work, students in these connected courses will participate in a number of community events, including: • Talks about Ancient Greek cuisine and Nordic cuisine accompanied by a meal prepared from unusual ingredients, such as insects, molds, and weeds • A tasting of cave-aged cheeses • A pig roast that explores the Senegalese roots of people living in North Carolina, smoked and fermented foods, and the history of pork • A food truck offering Nineteenth Century New Orleans street food • An artistic smokehouse installation

Service to the Profession

Program Committee - Annual Meeting · June 2015 Committee Service Agricultural History Society, Lexington, KY

Organizer - Workshop on the Study of Animals in History · June 2015 Event/Organization Administration Agricultural History Society, Lexington, KY

Service to Duke

Humanities Writ Large, Steering Committee (Center) · July 2015 Committee Service Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University,