November, 2021, Nonfiction Now, Bi-Annual Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, Disordering Nonfiction, Panel Chair. Paper topic: How We Hear Now, Exploring ecological sound through aural essays during the pandemic
November, 2021, Global Antarctica, SCAR-HASS Biannual Conference, Kobe, Japan.
Paper topic: It is the Year 1985, ecoactivism in the Antarctic.
June, 2021, XX, Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, EmergencY Bi-Annual conference. Paper topic: The Ecopoesis Project
August, 2020, Ecopoesis as Messaging and Praxis: How We Hear Now
Ecopoeisis Conference: Ecological and Earth-based Therapies/International and multicultural perspectives, St. Petersburg, Russia Keynote
March 2020, Ecopoesis: Who We Are and What We Do
Annual Conference, The International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vanderbilt University
July 2019, Ecopoesis: What We Say When We Talk about Climate Change The Maldives National University; Affiliated event: Three days of interviews with Male residents at a local art gallery
June 2019, Ecopoesis: Exploring a Logic of Future Coexistence, Next Earth: Teaching Climate Change Across the Disciplines, University of California at Santa Barbara; Environmental Humanities Initiative. Read more
Good Works, Fulbright New Zealand, March 2022; Fulbright US alumna Leslie Carol Roberts is a co-founder of the ECOPOESIS Project, a philosophy of building creative conversations around climate change through shared meals and shared readings and craft projects. Inspired by the spirit of historic community making such as quilting bees, knitting circles, and Exquisite Corpse drawings, ECOPOESIS brings together people from all disciplines
Earlier talks:
The Great White Stage: How Greenpeace Used the Politics of Caring in Antarctica University of Sydney, Sustaining the Seas Interdisciplinary Conference, December 2017 Exploring Place in Nonfiction, NonctionNow, Reykjavik, June 2017
Greenpeace in Antarctica: Performing politics on the Ice;
Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), University of Tasmania July 2017 Globant, Interaction Design Conference, CCA + Globant + Autodesk + Pinterest; Panel moderator 2016
Newaukee Young Professionals Summit: Keynote/Changing the Narrative 2016
The Entire Earth and Sky, State University of New York/Bualo, Invited talk +
studio critique
“Science in the Studio: NSF Grant: Partnering with Industry;
AICAD Annual Meeting, CCA, San Francisco; panel moderator, 2014
Mythmakers and Mythbusters: The Language and Science of Global Climate Change, Stanford Linear Accelerator, 2006
“Aotearoa/New Zealand,” the New Zealand Studies Association, London; Panel 2004 “Way South, Way West,” Western Literature Assoc. Annual Meeting, Houston, Panel “Frank Worsley, Unsung Hero.” The Canterbury Museum Invited talk 2003
“Ice Collages: Histories and Science,” Victoria University, Wellington; Invited talk 2003
“Antarctic Geographies,” Australian Cultural Studies Association, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand; Invited talk 2003