Conferences and Other Talks

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2019

  • “Form and Force in Plants: D’Arcy Thompson’s (1860-1948) Botanical Geometry and Physics.”
    • Department of History, Boise State University. March 5.
  • “The Evolution of Botany”
    • Idaho Botanical Garden, Boise. January 24.

2017

  • “Agnes Arber’s Unity in Diversity: The Role of Analogies in Plant Morphology, Philosophy of Science, and Beyond”
    • Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Toronto. November 9-12.
  • “The Botanical Work of D’Arcy Thompson and Its Appearance in On Growth and Form”
    • On Growth and Form Centenary Conference, University of Dundee and University of St. Andrews, Scotland. October 13-15.
  • “Was There a Revolution in Plant Morphology during the Twentieth Century?”
    • Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon. May 12.

2016

  • “Practicing Different Paradigms: Rupert Sheldrake’s ‘New Science”
    • Three Societies Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton. June 22-25.
  • “Sketches of the Morphogenesis and Ecology of Biological Researchers”
    • Biology Graduate Student Symposium, Oregon State University, Newport, Oregon. March 5.

2015

2013

  • “Botanical Thinking: Posthuman Possibilities in Goethe’s Plant Morphology and DeLanda’s Assemblage Theory”
    • Navigating a Multispecies World: A Graduate Student Conference on the Species Turn, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. April 25-26.
  • “Rethinking the Boundaries of Objects or Getting Past the Division between Processes and Their Conclusions: Goethe’s Morphology in The Metamorphosis of Plants”
    • Columbia History of Science Group Meeting, Friday Harbor, Washington. March 8-9.