INVITED TALKS
2023 “Landlords as Third Class” Historical Materialism Podcast. January.
2020 “Landlords and Tenants: Community Stabilization through Spatial Continuity,” Panel: Histories and Theories of Landlord/Tenant Struggle, ATUN: Autonomous Tenants Union Network Annual Meeting. Online. October.
2019 “The Political Economy of Land Tax: From Henry George to the Present Day,” San Francisco Public Library and Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, San Francisco, CA, November.
2018 “From Global Land Grabs to REITs,” Economics Department, University of Maine, Portland ME, November.
2015 “Hegel and Politics,” The Bay Area Public School: The OMNI, Oakland, CA, July.
2012 “International Feminist, Queer, and Trans* Organizing in the Occupy Moment,” Concordia University, Montreal QC, May.
2011 “The Ontological Foundations of Movements for Community Land Control,” New York University, Gallatin, April.
2009 “Crisis in Urban Space and the Community Land Trust Model,” Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC, June.
2009 “Urban Spaces, Gentrification, and Community Gardens,” Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK, May.
2009 “Anarchitecture: We Have Begun,” City from Below Conference, Baltimore, MD, March.
2006 “Spinoza’s Ontology of Immanence,” Goddard College, VT, September.
CONFERENCE ACTIVITY & PARTICIPATION
Papers Presented
2021 “Rising Rents across the Urban-Rural Divide: From Silicon Valley to the Central Valley” for the panel Land and Labor Across the Rural-Urban Divide I, at the American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.
2021 “There is no anti-capitalist jurisprudence: Law as capitalist social form in Pashukanis.” Historical Materialism London Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK.
2021 “The Financialization of Housing, or the Housingification of Finance?” Eastern Economics Association Annual Meeting, Ramapo College, NY.
2020 “Why is the rent so damn high? revisited: The relationship between Rents and Wages.” Power at the Margins II: Mobilizing Across Housing Injustice, UC Berkeley, [Postponed due to COVID-19].
2020 “Ground Rent from Agriculture to Urban Rental Apartments: Value Production and the Property Management Company.” International Conference of Associations for Pluralism in Economics, University of San Diego, CA.
2019 “Ground Rent, Class Conflict, and the State.” Forum of the World Association for Political Economy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
2019 “Ground Rent is Not Interest: The Particularity of the Economic form of Private Property in Land.” Accumulating Capital: Strategies of profit and dispossessive policies. University of Paris Dauphine, France.
2018 “A Defense of the Concept of the Landowning Class as Third Class.” Historical Materialism London Conference, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK.
2018 “Struggles Over Land vs. Struggles Around the Wage.” Critical Geographies Conference, Temple University, PA.
2017 “Landowners: The Third Class or Subset of Financial Capital?” Institute on Culture and Society, MLG Conference, UC Davis.
2017 (with Banu Guler) “The Revolutionary and her superego.” LACK II: Psychoanalysis and Politics NOW, Colorado College, CO.
2016 “Sohn-Rethel and the Liquidation of Kant’s Fetish: The Illusory Problem with Real Abstraction.” Historical Materialism Conference, London, UK.
2016 “Such Thing as a State: Structural Necessity vs. the ‘Relative Autonomy’ of the Political.” Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA.
2015 “Los bienes comunes, lo común subterráneo, y la comunización.” (The Commons, The Undercommons, and Communization). Congreso Comunalidad, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, MX.
2015 “Concerning the Abolition of Forms of Capital.” International Conference of Critical Geography, Ramallah, Palestine.
2011 “Land Speculation, Land Rent, and Class Struggle.” Historical Materialism Conference, London, UK.
2010 “The Cut of Money.”Psychoanalysis, Money and the Economy Conference, London, UK.
2010 “Control of Land as Currency of Power in Financialized Urban Space: The Land War Supersedes the War Over Work.” Association of American Geographers Conference, Washington, D.C.
2009 “Capital as Axiomatic within Spinoza’s Communist Ontology.” Immanence and Materialism Conference, London, UK.
2009 “The Continuity of Crisis and Capital and the Emergent Exodus Therefrom.” Association of American Geographers Conference, Las Vegas, NV.
2008 “Capitalist, Anti-Capitalist, Post-Capitalist Subjectivation.” New Radical Subjectivities Conference, University of Nottingham, UK.
2008 “Movement Beyond Confinement.” American Association of Geographers Meeting, Boston, MA.
Conferences/Symposia Organized
2015 Political Economy of the State Online Graduate Symposium, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University. February 18-21.
2014 Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit and Contemporary Politics: The Bay Area Public School, July 15.
2013 Marxist-Feminist Capital Discussion Series: Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics, San Francisco.
2011 Ground Rent Theory Discussion Series, CUNY Graduate Center. August – December.
2011 Historical Materialism Conference, CUNY Graduate Center, NY, May 6-8.
2010 No More Affordable Housing Scams: Toward Community Control of Land in New York City, Hunter College, NY, March 27.
2009 Historical Materialism Conference, The New School, NY, Jan 14-16.
Panels Organized
2013 “Geography Towards Revolution: for Neil Smith,” Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.
2011 “Financial Crisis in the US,” Historical Materialism Conference, NYC.
2011 “Uprisings in North Africa, East Asia,” Historical Materialism Conference, NYC.
2010 “The Quickening Pendulum: Capitalism and the Longue-Durée (In Honor of Giovanni Arrighi),”Association of American Geographers Annual Conference,Washington, D.C.
