TALKS

Invited Presentations

• “Car Culture, Bicycle Advocacy, and the Right to the City,” California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Presented in Dr. John Lloyd’s Environmental History course (Nov 19, 2020).
• “Against Zion: Israeli Punk and Radical Politics at the Turn of the Century,” Texas A&M University (Nov 18, 2019).
• “‘Protest and Survive’: Punk Rock and Radical Politics,” University of Pittsburgh, Department of Music (Jan 31, 2019).
• “Warring Representations of the NFL, Football Masculinity and Broken Bodies,” The Penn State Center for the Study of Sport in Society, Penn State University, University Park (April 21, 2017).
• Panelist, “Future Technology,” Future Bike: At the Intersection of Mobility and Identity, Pittsburgh PA (Sept 11, 2014).
• “Contemplating the Private, Public, and Political Aims of Physical Cultural Studies,” Physical Cultural Studies Program in the Department of Kinesiology, University of Maryland (April 11, 2014).
• “Punk Rock, Pedagogy, and Alternative Media.” Presented to Dr. Anthony J. Nocella’s Media and Schools course, Hamline University (March 13, 2012 via Skype).
• “Punk Rock, Pedagogy, and Alternative Media.” Presented to Dr. Anthony J. Nocella’s Media and Schools course, Hamline University (Jan 19 2013, via Skype).
• “One Less Car,” Adrian College (Oct 13, 2011).
• Seminar on bicycling, technology and automobility. Co-facilitated with Antonis Coumoundouros, Adrian College (Oct 13, 2011).
• “Mixing Pop and Politics.” Presented at the Center for Teaching Excellence’s “Master Class Series,” Columbia College Chicago (April 20, 2011).
• “One Less Car,” North Central College (April 14, 2011).
• “The Urban Bike Project.” Presented with Kevin Henry and Carl Boyd at the “Spotlight on Collaborations” series,” Columbia College Chicago (March 14, 2011).
•  “Bike Activism and the Future of Environmental & Social Justice,” 2010 Baltimore Book Festival, Radical Bookfair Pavilion, Baltimore, MD (Sept 24, 2010).
• “Toward a Bicycle Culture: Rethinking Urban Life on Two Wheels,” Inaugural Lecture at the Center for the Study of Place, Community & Culture, University of Maryland at Baltimore County (Sept 23, 2010).
• “The Sokal Hoax, Cultural Studies, and Why We (Still) Need a Critique of Scientism.” Presented at the “Critical Encounters” lecture series, Columbia College Chicago (April 29, 2010).
• Panelist, “Deconstructing Media: Toward a New Age of Democratic Media Activism,” Arts Educator Salon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (March 3, 2009).
• “Bikes, Cars and the Limits of Automobility.” Presented at the “Intersections” lecture series, Chicago, IL (Oct 15, 2008).
• Panelist, “Conscious Living,” Chicago Round Table: A Marketplace of Ideas in Celebration of Social Justice, Community Development and Entrepreneurs, Chicago, IL (May 24, 2008).

Conference Presentations & Panels

• “Israeli Punk and Radical Politics in the 90s and Beyond,” KISMIF (Keep It Simple, Make It Fast!) Conference, Porto, Portugal (July 6, 2021 – July 10, 2021).
• “Israeli Punk and Radical Politics in the 90s,” Punk Scholars Network 7th Annual Conference & Postgraduate Symposium, (Dec 6, 2020). 
• “Against Zion: The Music & Politics of Israeli Anarchist Punk.” Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Washington DC (May 26, 2017).
• Chair, “Noise Uprisings: Radicalism and Reaction in Music.” Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Washington DC (May 26, 2017).
• Panelist, “Author Meets Critics Panel: Jacob Shell, Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules, Canals, and the Vanishing Geographies of Subversive Mobility.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (Mar 29, 2016).
• “Reframing the NFL, Head Injury and Football Capitalism in Popular Media.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Riverside CA (May 23, 2015).
• Panelist, “Mobility as a Critical/Cultural Concept.” Presented at the Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago IL (Nov 22, 2014).
• “Hardcore Punk and Radical Environmentalism in the 1990s and 2000s.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Salt Lake City UT (May 29, 2014).
• “Framing the Right to the City: Media Representations of Bicycling and Why They Matter.” Presented at the Union for Democratic Communication Conference, San Francisco CA (Nov 1-3, 2013).
• “More Ironic Than Lycra: Bike Culture, the Bike Industry, and the Paradox of Production.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago IL (May 23-26, 2013).
• “Doin’ It For the Kids?: The Poverty of Subcultural Theory.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago IL (May 23-26, 2013).
• Chair, “Bicycling, Culture and Policy.” Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago IL (May 23-26, 2013).
• Panelist, “Tearing Down the Streets: Ten Years On.” Annual Conference of the American Society of Criminology, Chicago, IL (Nov 14, 2012).
• Invited (Remote) Respondent, “Redefining Urban Space: Multiple Mobilities in the Automobilized City.” Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, Montreal, QC (Nov 16, 2011).
• Chair, “Engaging the Contradictions of the City.” Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago IL (March 25, 2011).
• “Contested Streets: Mobility as the Promise of Freedom in the City.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago IL (March 25, 2011).
• Chair, “Recycled Cultures and Practices in Late Capitalist Societies.” Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago IL (March 25, 2011).
• “Re‐Cycling Mobility: Community Bicycle Organizations and the Limits of Globalization From Below.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Chicago IL (March 25, 2011).
• “Resisting Car Culture: Pedal Power, Street Reclaiming & Anti-Automobile Activism 1965-2005.” Presented at the Annual Conference of Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, St. Louis, MO (March 31, 2010).
• Panelist, “Going Pro: What Difference Does Cultural Studies Make?” Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Kansas City, MS (April 17, 2009).
• “Rethinking the City Through the Bicycle.” Presented at the Chicago Humanities Festival, Chicago, IL (Nov 1, 2008).
• “Alternative Media and Critical Pedagogy.” Presented with Jessica Ghilani at the Console-ing Passions Conference, Milwaukee, WI (May 26, 2006).
• “John Zorn’s Masada and Cultural Zionism.” Presented at the Guelph Jazz Colloquium. University of Guelph, Guelph, ON (Sept 7, 2000).