Talks & Media

Public Scholarship and Conversations

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism — “A Global Historical Materialist Critique of Decolonial Theory with Joma Geneciran” (video interview, Oct 10, 2024) Watch →

• Environmentalism and Indigeneity: Perspectives from the Global South, Guest lecture for “Global Ideologies,” at the University of California, Irvine, May 21, 2025.

• The Agrarian Question and the Philippines, Guest lecture for “Global Political Economy” at the University of California, Irvine, April 17, 2025.

• Longue Durée of the Political Economy of the Philippines from 1565-1972. Liyang Network, at Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, Los Angeles, April 13, 2025.

• Contemporary Imperialism, Samir Amin, and the Agrarian Question in the Philippines, Guest lecture for “Global Political Economy” at the University of California, Irvine, January 23, 2025.

• Pedagogy of the Oppressed: A Space for Radical Discourse on How We Learn & Teach, guest lecture for four classes, California Institute of the Arts, July 4, 6, 11, 13, 2023.

Upcoming

• Discussant, “The State, Civil Society, and Resistance: Strategies of Control and Contestation in the Global South/Majority World,” International Studies Association (Annual Convention), Columbus, OH, forthcoming, March 25, 2026.

• Panelist, “New Textbook: IPE and the Global South,” International Studies Association (Annual Convention), Columbus, OH, Forthcoming March 22, 2026.

Past (Selected)

• Beyond the Factory Floor: National Liberation, the Agrarian Question, and Labor Informality in Manila, American Association of Geographers (Annual Meeting) March 25, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan

• Dismantling the Palestine Exception 4: Escalate! The Campus Encampments — What Worked, What Didn’t?". AAG Roundtable on the Student Encampments, March 25, 2025, Detroit Michigan

• “The Political Economy and Geography of North and East Syria (Rojava), April 20th, 2024, presented at the 2024 (AAG Annual Meeting), in Honolulu, Hawaii

• “The Political Economy of Development in Rojava,” International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy Conference, September 7-9, 2022, Bologna, Italy

• “The Political Economy of North and East Syria (Rojava) from a World-Systems’ Perspective” presented at the Institute of Political Economy 22nd Annual Graduate Conference, Carleton University, March 3-4, 2022.

Full list in CV —>