“On Level Footing? Considering Walking as an Embodied Research Method.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting (2026)

“The Curious Case of the Stolen Shack: Prototyping South African Public Housing.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2023)

“In the Field Where We Hunted Snakes: Black Nostalgia and Living in Apartheid’s Remnants.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2022)

“Whiteness as Property, Expropriation as Murder.” AES/APLA Spring Conference (2020; cancelled due to COVID-19)

“‘Internal Contradictions’: Socialist Privatization in the Rainbow Nation.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2019)

“Alternatives, Not By Design: ‘Family Life’ in South African Townships.” Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting (2019)

“The Politics of Adequacy: Racial Justice and Experimentation in South African Housing Design.” Invited Talk, Department of Anthropology and Justice & Peace Studies Program, Georgetown University (2019; flyer)

“‘Incremental to Compliance’: Deferment and Design in Cape Town.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2018)

“Arguing the Increment: The Politics of Compromise in South African ‘Slum Regularization.’” Talk, Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, UC Irvine (2018)

“‘You Have Lost Nothing’: Housing, Memory, and Debt in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2015)

“Private Utopias, Public Imaginaries: Transformation, Citizenship and Mega Housing Projects in Cape Town, South Africa.” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting (2015)