Autism and Behaviorism
Guest Lecture
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders
College of Health Professions & Human Performance
Kean University
Union, New Jersey
May 6, 2024

On the Dark History and Surprising Revival of Behavior Modification
Webinar
Therapist Neurodiversity Collective
September 21, 2023

Health Science in a Time of Uncertainty
Guest Lecture
Department of Sociology
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
September 20, 2023

It’s Basic
Q&A
Provincetown International Film Festival
Provincetown, MA
June 17, 2023

The Totally Administered Child
Invited Lecture
Rethinking Autism for the 21st Century
New Jersey Autism Center for Excellence
New Brunswick, NJ
April 16, 2023

Not Good Enough
Invited Lecture
Metro Mass Family Leadership Series
MassFamilies
Framingham, MA
March 4, 2023

Business Culture and Social Fabric in America
Guest Lecture
Carroll School of Management
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
February 16, 2022

To Each According to Her Need
30th Annual Celebration
Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust
Cambridge, MA
May 30, 2019

A World Without Passports
Keynote Lecture
Slovene Sociological Association Annual Conference
Otočec, Slovenia
September 27, 2017

New Thoughts on Edgar Allen Poe
Boston Lit Crawl
Boston, MA
October 19, 2016

The State We Are In
w/ Armin Nessehi
Goethe-Institut Boston
Boston, MA
September 27, 2016

The Business of Culture Magazines
Yale Journalism Initiative
New Haven, CT
April 1, 2016

Almost Everything Very Fast
w/ Christopher Kloeble
Goethe-Institut Boston
Boston, MA
February 10, 2016

Remembering Aaron Swartz
w/ Justin Peters
Workbar Cambridge
Cambridge, MA
January 28, 2016

The Story of America’s Literary Underground
City Club of San Diego
San Diego, CA
January 16, 2016

The Little Magazine in America
The Denver Forum
Denver, CO
January 14, 2016

Three Cheers for George Scialabba!
w/ Noam Chomsky, Barbara Ehrenreich, Thomas Frank, Rick Perlstein, Nikil Saval
The Brattle Theatre
Cambridge, MA
September 20, 2015 

The Baffler in Baltimore
w/ Alex Pareene
Red Emma’s Book Store
Baltimore, MD
July 31, 2015

C. Wright Mills at Columbia
Invited Lecture
Columbia University Libraries
New York, NY
April 10, 2015

Venus in Furs
w/ Lucy Ellman
(Le) Poisson Rouge
New York, NY
March 18, 2015

The Tsarnaev Trial and the Rest of Us
w/ Noam Chomsky and Kade Crockford
Lilypad
Cambridge, MA
January 22, 2015

Sickness and Pelf
w/ Gary Greenberg and George Scialabba
LilyPad
Cambridge, MA
October 30, 2014

Liberal Society on the Brink
Guest Lecture
Department of History
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA
October 24, 2014

No Future for You
w/ Thomas Frank
City Lights Bookstore
San Francisco, CA
October 22, 2014

w/ Thomas Frank
Powell’s City of Books
Portland, OR
October 21, 2014

w/ Thomas Frank and Rick Perlstein
Town Hall Seattle
Seattle, WA
October 20, 2014

Living with a Wild God
w/ Barbara Ehrenreich
Cambridge Public Library
Cambridge, MA
April 17, 2014

James Agee’s Cotton Tenants
Arlington Community Education Center
Arlington, MA
March 26, 2014

Celebrate James Agee
Melville House Books
Brooklyn, NY
September 18, 2013

On Cotton Tenants
w/ Hank Klibanoff, Hugh Davis, and Chip Simone 
Jimmy Carter Library and Museum
Atlanta, GA
June 17, 2013

Jaron Lanier’s New Reality
w/ Jaron Lanier
Smithsonian Associates
Washington D.C.
May 9, 2013

The Democracy Project
w/ David Graeber
Causes, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
April 6, 2013

BIFx: The Baffler Innovation Forum
w/ Chris Lehmann, Barbara Ehrenreich, David Graeber
Housing Works Bookstore
New York, NY
April 2, 2012

Masscult and Midcult
w/ Frank Foer and Andrew Ferguson
Politics and Prose Book Store
Washington D.C.
October 22, 2011

w/ Louis Menand and Daniel Aaron
Harvard Book Store
Cambridge, MA
October 20, 2011

w/ James Wolcott
McNally Jackson Book Store
New York, NY
October 12, 2011

Best American Essays: 25th anniversary
w/ Robert Atwan and Jerald Walker
The Brattle Theatre
Cambridge, MA
October 26, 2010

To Kill a Mockingbird: 50th anniversary
w/ Randall Kennedy and Joan Wickersham
The Brattle Theatre
Cambridge, MA
July 14, 2010

The Big Connection
Guest Lecture
Department of History
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
February 17, 2010

C. Wright Mills and the Politics of Truth
Invited Lecture
University of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
January 28, 2010 

Take It Big
Conference on C. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
New York, NY
October 16, 2009

Only a Dream: Notes on the American Unconscious
Haslam Scholars Lecture
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
October 7, 2009

C. Wright Mills and the Politics of Truth
Invited Lecture
Center for History and Social Change
University of Wisconsin
Green Bay, WI
September 21, 2009

Americans Dreaming
Harvard Book Store
Cambridge, MA
April 15, 2009 

Gettysburg in Rehab
Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
April 1, 2009

The Sociological Imagination at 50
w/ Stanley Aronowitz, Craig Calhoun, and Rhonda Levine
Eastern Sociological Society
Baltimore, MD
March 20, 2009

Liberalism: Its Past and Future
w/ Alan Wolfe
Harvard COOP
Cambridge, MA
February 23, 2009 

History as a Vocation
Brookline Booksmith
Brookline, MA
January 21, 2009

C. Wright Mills: New Man of Power
w/ Todd Gitlin and Casey Nelson Blake
Morningside Bookshop
New York, NY
October 30, 2008

New Beginnings: C. Wright Mills in Britain
Invited Lecture
British Studies Forum
University of Texas
Austin, TX
November 10, 2006

Mills: The Decatur Study
Conference on Politics, Social Networks, and the History of Mass Communications Research
Columbia University
New York, NY
October 2005

Sociological Poetry
Sixteenth Annual Conference of the American Literature Association
Boston, MA
May 2005

The James Agee Celebration
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
April 2005

The British Left in the 1950s
Seminar in Contemporary British History
Institute of Historical Research
University of London
February 2005

C. Wright Mills and the Pragmatic Bequest
Capitalism and Its Culture: Rethinking Mid-Twentieth-Century Social Thought
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA
March 2003

Early Mills: The Sociology of Knowledge
Organization of American Historians Annual Conference
Washington, D.C.
April 2002

Red Emma Returns
Emma Goldman Papers Project Traveling Exhibition
Rochester, NY
May 1999

National Affairs: Gossip in American Political Culture
Warren I. Susman Memorial Conference
Rutgers University
April 1998

The Future of Academic Labor
Conference Co-Chair
Graduate Organizing Group
University of Rochester
May 1997