Nerve V. Macaspac

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 2018

• Graduate Certificate in Urban Humanities, School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

• Master of Arts in Asian Studies, Group in Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 2011

• Bachelor of Arts in Social Studies Education, College of Education, University of the Philippines, Diliman, 2001

Professional Experience

Current Academic Positions:

• Assistant Professor of Information Studies, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, City University of New York, New York City, USA, 2023-present

• Graduate Faculty, Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2 New York City, USA, 023-present

• Graduate Faculty, Earth and Environmental Sciences Doctoral Program, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, USA, 2020-present

• Co-Investigator, “Creating Safer Space: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict,” Arts and Humanities Research Council-Global Challenges Research Fund, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, 2000-2025

• Co-Investigator, “Building Southeast Asian Consortium at SUNY and CUNY,” Henry Luce Foundation, 2023-2027

• Editorial Board, Human Rights Review, 2021- present

• Board of Director, CLAGS: The Center for GBTQ Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, USA, 2023-present

• Faculty Fellow, Career Success, Queens College, City University of New York, New York City, USA, 2023-2024

• Faculty Fellow, Black, Race, Ethnic Studies (BRES) Ph.D. Curriculum Development, The Graduate Center, City University of New York,, New York City, USA, 2023-2024

• Faculty Fellow, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York,, New York City, USA, 2023-2024

• Visiting Scholar, Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York,, New York City, USA, 2021-present

Previous Academic Positions:

• Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of Political Science and Global Affairs, College of Staten Island, City University of New York,, New York City, USA, 2018-2023

• Faculty Fellow, Transformative Learning in the Humanities, The Graduate Center, City University of New York,, New York City, USA, 2021-2022

• Faculty Fellow, Social Practice, The Graduate Center, City University of New York,, New York City, USA, 2021-2022

• Faculty Fellow, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York,, New York City, USA, 2019-2020

• Teaching Fellow, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2014-2018

• Co-convenor, Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Day for New Graduate Students, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2016-2017

• Graduate Student Researcher, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 2014

• Interim Student Affairs Officer, Group in Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2011

• Rotary Peace Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, USA, 2009-2011

Non-Academic Positions:

• Country Specialist for the Philippines, Amnesty International USA, Washington, DC, USA, 2011-present

• Secretary, Board of Directors, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, USA, 2015-2018

• Founding member, Bridgemen (LGBT Community Organization), San Francisco AIDS Foundation, 2011-2013 

• International Affairs Specialist and Multimedia Producer, World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco, California, USA, 2011-2013

• Producer and Radio Host, “Possible Futures,” San Francisco Community Radio, 2011-2013.

• Consultant, Active Voice, San Francisco, California, USA, 2012

• Consultant, International Accountability Project, San Francisco, California, USA, 2011

• Intern, WITNESS: Human Rights Video, New York City, USA, 2010

Current Courses Taught

• Library and Information Studies (LIS) 709 Research in Library and Information Studies

• Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) 80200 Dissertation Proposal Writing

Previous Courses Taught

• Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

• Urban Geography

• Cultural Geography

• Introduction to Geography

• World Regional Geography

• International and Area Studies

Research & Professional Interests

I am a political geographer and cartographer with a regional focus in Southeast Asia. My current interdisciplinary and ethnographic research contributes to our understanding of spaces of peace amid violence, indigenous peacebuilding, and spatial dimensions of peace. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Peace Research Association (IPRA), and the American Association of Geographers (AAG), my fieldwork-based research examines the phenomenon of community-led demilitarized geographic areas, popularly known as peace zones, led by indigenous peoples in the Philippines amid over 50 years of active violent conflict between state and non-state actors. I use the term “insurgent peace” to capture the quotidian work required of ordinary people and marginalized communities in carving and maintaining alternative political spaces of peace and protection during active war, and how everyday peace practices draw questions of space, place, scale, and positionality.

My current research has sparked other projects. I am currently a Co-Investigator for “Creating Safer Spaces: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict,” a multi-year international and interdisciplinary research project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) in the United Kingdom (UK). This project aims to investigate how violence can be deterred or prevented by civilians without the use of force and to build a global network of scholars and practitioners that support and strengthen local efforts and civilian capacities for protection amid violent conflict. Our project collaborates with over 50 universities, NGOs, and local communities globally, including in Colombia, Thailand, Myanmar, the Philippines, Nigeria, Kenya, and Palestine. I am also engaged in a collaborative research as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) at CUNY’s John Jay College that investigates the closing of civic spaces globally, including curtailment of digital rights, the shrinking of digital civic spaces, and online and direct violence toward human rights defenders globally.

My earlier work focused on transitional justice and human rights. At UC Berkeley, I co-authored In Search of Justice: A Survey of Cambodian- Americans about Their Participation in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (2011), a product of a yearlong mixed-methods research, including film, to study the participation of the Cambodian diaspora in the U.S. in the international tribunal to try senior leaders of the Khmer Rouge. This research offers a comprehensive understanding of the understandings of justice among genocide survivors, particularly from diaspora communities who were allowed to participate as civil parties for the first time in the history of the international criminal court.

Selected Publications

Refereed Articles 

Macaspac, Nerve V. “Indigenous geopolitics”, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. (forthcoming)

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2022) “Spatialities of peace zones”, Cooperation and Conflict. doi:10.1177/00108367221099087

Macaspac, Nerve V. and A. Moore (2022) “Peace geographies and the spatial turn in peace and conflict studies: Integrating parallel conversations through spatial practices”, Geography Compass  doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12614 

Andreopoulos, G., N. Macaspac and E. Galkin. (2020). “Whole-of-Nation Approach to Counterinsurgency and the Closing of Civic Space in the Philippines.” Global Dynamics, Vol. 13, Issue 54.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2018) “Insurgent Peace: Community-led Peacebuilding among Indigenous Peoples in Sagada, Philippines.” Geopolitics. (word count: 13,145)

doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2018.1521803

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2017) “Suspicion and Ethnographic Peace Research: Notes from a Local Researcher.” International Peacebuilding, 677-694. (word count: 6,057) doi.org/10.1080/13533312.2017.1358622

Chapter in Books

Macaspac, Nerve V. and A. Moore. “Geographies of peace”, Making Peace Geographies, edited by Colin Flint and Kara Dempsey. (forthcoming)

Bliesemann de Guevara, B. and N. Macaspac. “Control, Confusion and Failure: Fieldwork in areas of violent conflict and limited state authority.” In Fieldwork Experiences in Criminology and Security, edited by Antonio Díaz, Cristina del Real, and Lorena Molnar. (forthcoming)  

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2019) “Suspicion and Ethnographic Peace Research: Notes from a Local Researcher.” In Engaging Ethnographic Peace Research, edited by Gearoid P. Millar. Oxford: Routledge. (word count: 6,057)

Book Reviews

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2021). “The Coming Good Society: Why New Realities Demand New Rights by William F. Schulz and Sushma Raman.” Journal of Human Right Review.  (word count: 809) doi.org/10.1007/s12142-021-00630-4

Maps

Macaspac, Nerve V. “Map of Boston,” in The Bars are Ours by Lucas Hilderbrand (Duke University Press, forthcoming).

Macaspac, Nerve V. “Map of Bangsamoro,” in Unarmed Civilian Protection: A New Paradigm for Protection and Human Security edited by Randy Jenzen, Ellen Furnari and Rosemary Kabaki (NewGen Press, forthcoming).

Non-referred Articles

Macaspac, Nerve V. et al. (2022) “Light Bulb Moments in the Humanities Classroom: An Interactive Workshop Recap”, CUNY Academic Commons.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2021). “Mapping Staten Island: A Field Guide”. CUNY Academic Works.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2021). “‘My Pandemic’: Centering CUNY Students’ Experiences Through Digital Autoethnography.” Transformative Learning in the Humanities, CUNY Academic Commons.

Andreopoulos, G., N. Macaspac, E. Galkin, et al. (2020). The Closing of Civic Space in the Philippines. New York: Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Macaspac, Nerve V., et al. (2018) “It’s one of the worst crimes in the world” — wife of “disappeared” journalist.” Medium, August 30, 2018.

Macaspac, Nerve V., et al. (2018) “The Continuing Fight to End Torture.” Medium, June 26, 2018.

Macaspac, Nerve V., et al. (2011) In Search of Justice: A Population-based Survey on the Participation of Cambodian-Americans in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Berkeley: UC Berkeley Media and Mail, 2011.

Creative Works

Films

Macaspac, Nerve V. and D. Cabueñas (2022) Bahala Na: Filipinx Futurities.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2016) City on the Move.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2016) Here, Always Moving.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2014) The Future Takes A Long Time.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2009) Gami dad Lnumfig (We the Oppressed).

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2009) Gera woi Gutasan (War and Hunger).

Macaspac, Nerve V., Sine Patriyotiko (2004) Aklasan! (Uprising!).

Exhibitions

Macaspac, Nerve V. et al. Creating Safer Space. Unarmed Civilian Protection and Accompaniment International Gathering, Ferney Voltaire, France, October 8-12, 2023

Macaspac, Nerve V. and D. Cabueñas (2022) “Bahala Na: Filipinx Futurities, Little Manila, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, June 12, 2022

Curated

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2016) “City on the Move” and “Here, Always Moving.” Experimental films screened at the Home Resources, Los Angeles, April 23-25, 2019.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2016) “City on the Move” and “Here, Always Moving.” Experimental films screened at the Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles, November 9, 2016.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2014) “The Future Takes A Long Time.” Documentary film screened at the Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, December 19, 2014.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2009) “Gami dad Lnumfig (We the Oppressed).” Documentary film screened at FACINE (Filipino Arts & Cinema International Cine Festival), San Francisco, November 21, 2009.

Juried

Best Director for Documentary Film, “Gera woi Gutasan (War and Hunger),” Cine Indie for MDG, Manila, 2009.

Non-Curated

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2014) “Aklasan! (Uprising!).” Documentary film screened at the Harriet Tubman Center for Social Justice, Los Angeles, 16 November 2014.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2013) “Portrait of A Survivor: Cambodian Survivors of Genocide,” Featured Documentary Film, 89.33 KPCC Southern California Radio.

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2011) “Portrait of A Survivor: Cambodian Survivors of Genocide,” Featured Documentary Film, NBC News, San Francisco.

Poetry

Macaspac, Nerve V. (2019) “Night.” In Beyond Bloodlines: Queerness, Kin, Family, edited by Irwin Swirnoff and Marcela Pardo Ariza. San Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Curatorial Activities

Macaspac, Nerve V. et al. Creating Safer Space. Unarmed Civilian Protection and Accompaniment International Gathering, Ferney Voltaire, France, October 8-12, 2023

Macaspac, Nerve V. and D. Cabueñas (2022) “Bahala Na”: Filipinx Futurities, Little Manila, Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, June 12, 2022

Macaspac, Nerve. Cinema as Sanctuary, Echo Park Film Center (EPFC) and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (The Oscars), Los Angeles, June-September 2017.

Grants

External

“Creating Safer Space: Strengthening Civilian Protection Amidst Violent Conflict”, Arts and Humanities Research Council-Global Challenges Research Fund, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, 2020-2025

“Building the Southeast Asia Consortium at SUNY/CUNY”, Henry Luce Foundation, 2023-27

Inception Funding, Arts and Humanities Research Council-Global Challenges Research Fund, United Kingdom Research and Innovation, 2020

“Insurgent Peace: Ethnography of Community-led Peacebuilding,” Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), 2017-2018

“Understanding How Community-led Efforts of Maintaining Peace Can Be Effective in Areas of Long-Term Armed Conflict,” National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement   (DDRI), 2017-2018          

“Insurgent Peace: An Ethnography of Local Peacebuilding,” International Peace Research Association (IPRA) Foundation, 2016

“Designing Mobile Cinema for the Echo Park Film Center,” Urban Humanities Initiative Research Grant, School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

“Re-imagining Manila,” Urban Humanities Initiative Research Grant, School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles, 2016

“Comparative Peacebuilding Practices in the Philippines,” Helin Research Grant, University of California, Los Angeles, 2015

Internal

“Bahala Na: Filipinx Futurities: Video art installation and exhibit, Little Manila, Jackson Heights, New York City,” Social Practice CUNY, 2021

“Spaces for Peace: A Typology,” Professional Staff Congress CUNY (PSC CUNY), 2019

“Community-led Peace Zones in the Philippines,” Professional Staff Congress CUNY (PSC CUNY), 2018

Academic and Professional Honors

External

• Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, 2022

• Dissertation Research Award, American Association of Geographers (AAG), 2018

• Distinguished Teaching Fellow (Finalist), University of California, Los Angeles, 2017

• Graduate Student Research Mentorship (GSRM) Award, UCLA, 2015

• Graduate Student Fellowship, UCLA, 2013-2014

• Rotary Peace Fellowship (RPF), 2009-2011

• Filipino-American Heritage Association (FAHA) Scholarship, 1996-1999

Internal

• Henry Wasser Awards for Outstanding Research for Assistant Professors, 2023

• Faculty Fellow, Faculty Fellowship Publication Program (FFPP), CUNY, Spring 2022

• Faculty Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Transformative Learning in the Humanities, CUNY, 2021-2022

• Faculty Fellow, Social Practice, CUNY, 2021-2022

• Visiting Scholar, Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23

• CUNY Mindset Faculty Fellow, CUNY Central OAA Innovative Pedagogy, Summer 2021 

• Visiting Scholar, Center for International Human Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 2020-2021

• Faculty Fellow, Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center, Fall 2019-Spring 2020

Activities as Reviewer/Panelist

• Peer Reviewer, Human Ecology, 2022

• Peer Reviewer, Geopolitics, 2022, 2019

• Peer Reviewer, “Creating Safer Space” Research Funding Competitions, 2021-22

• Peer Reviewer, Human Rights Review, 2021

• Peer Reviewer, Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding, 2021

• Peer Reviewer, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 2020- present

• Peer Reviewer, Social and Cultural Geography, 2019

• Panelist, “Light Bulb Moments in the Humanities Classroom,” Transformative Learning in the Humanities (TLH), The Graduate Center, CUNY, May 11, 2022

• Panelist, “Building a Career on Southeast Asia, as Southeast Asian, in the US,” New York Southeast Asian Network (NYSEAN), November 29, 2021

• Panelist, Re-engaging the World: Human Rights Challenges for the Biden Administration, Center for International Human Rights, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, April 22, 2021

• Discussant, “Creating a Soundscape of Radical Imagination: Podcasts as Scholarship,” Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 2019.

• Panelist, Preparing for the Community College Job Market, Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) PhD program, The Graduate Center, 25 October 2018

• Panelist, “Placing Geographic Knowledge Production about the Philippines: Circuits of Engagement and Transactions,” Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers, Chicago, April 2015.

Lectures and Papers Presented

Guest lecture, “Digital Mapping as Storytelling,” Graduate Seminar on Digital Storytelling, Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center (March 22, 2023)

Guest lecture, “Digital Pedagogy,” Graduate Seminar on Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, CUNY Graduate Center (March 13, 2023)

“Spaces of Peace amid Conflict: Peace Zones in the Philippines,” Paper presentation at the Annual Conference of the International Studies Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, March 17, 2023.

Keynote Lecture, “Spaces of Peace,” delivered at the 10th Induction Ceremony for the Eta Lambda Chapter of Phi Beta Delta International Honor Society, Center for the Arts (1P), Recital Hall, College of Staten Island (April 26, 2022)

Guest lecture, “Digital Mapping as Storytelling,” Graduate Seminar on Digital Storytelling, Digital Humanities, CUNY Graduate Center (March 29, 2022) 

Keynote Lecture, “Peace zones in the Philippines and the Spatialities of Peace” delivered at the 11th Annual Southeast Asia Week, SUNY Buffalo (March 23, 2022)

 Guest lecture, “Digital Pedagogy,” Graduate Seminar on Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, CUNY Graduate Center (March 14, 2022)

Guest lecture, “Video Autho-ethnography,” Graduate Seminar on The New Critical Ethnography, Anthropology Department, CUNY Graduate Center (March 14, 2022)

Guest lecture, “Workshop on Video Autoethnography,” Graduate Seminar on COVID City for Psychology 80103, EES 79903 and Anthropology 82200, CUNY Graduate Center (October 14, 2021)

“Using Open Source Digital Mapping Software for Unarmed Civilian Protection”, Department of Political Science and the Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, May 20, 2021

“Human Rights in the Philippines,” Amnesty International USA, New York City, 4 May 2021

“Insurgent Peace: Community-led Peacebuilding,” Guest lecture, Boston College, April 15, 2021

“Experiments on Urban Humanities at CUNY CSI”, Urban Humanities, Excellence in Pedagogy and Innovative Classrooms (EPIC), UCLA, 19 May 2020.

“Geography: Writing the World”, Verrazano Honors Program, College of Staten Island, CUNY March 23, 2021

“My Pandemic”: Film & Discussion with CUNY College of Staten Island Students, Transformative Learning in the Humanities, CUNY, March 11, 2021

“Video Autoethnography”, Guest lecture, Critical Remote Ethnography Graduate Seminar with Dr. Setha Low, CUNY Graduate Center, March 4, 2021

 “Applying Ideas from an Experimental Urban Humanities Graduate Program to Undergraduate Teaching” (virtual), Graduate Education at Work in the World, CUNY Graduate Center, February 18, 2021

“Using web-based Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in mapping COVID-19 pandemic in New York City”, Urban Studies, CUNY Queens College, April 27, 2020.

“Insurgent Peace: Community-led Peace Zones and Spatialities of Peace,”
GEOS Colloquium Series, Earth and Environmental Sciences, CUNY Graduate Center, December 5, 2019.

“Creating an Immersive Learning Experience Using Virtual Reality at CSI,”
CUNY IT Conference, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC, December 5-6, 2019.

“GeospatialCSI: Mapping Staten Island,” CSI Annual GIS Day, College of Staten Island, CUNY, NYC, November 13, 2019.

“Mapping Racial Capitalism: Gentrification and Legacies of Redlining in New York City,” Mapping (In)Justice Symposium, Fordham University, NYC, November 7-8, 2019. 

“What is Geography?” First Lecture, New Student Orientation, CSI, August 8, 2019.

“Teaching Geographic Literacy Through Critical GIS,” 1st Faculty Technology Conference, CSI, May 8, 2019.

“Insurgent Peace: A study of community-led peace zone in the Philippines,” Advancing peace geographies, Coventry University, London, July 15-16, 2019. (Declined)

“Community-led Peace Mapping,” Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand, 3 July 2019.

“Insurgent Peace: Community-led Peacebuilding as Spatial Power,” Paper presentation at Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 3-7, 2019.

“Deaths, Democracy and Human Rights Under Duterte’s Philippines,” Center for International Human Rights, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, March 13, 2019.

“Philippine Horizon: A Conversation on Peace and Human Rights under Duterte,” Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center, March 11, 2019.

“Human Rights in the Philippines,” Amnesty International USA Annual General Meeting, Chicago, 1 March 2019.

“Digital Humanities and GIS,” Annual GIS Day, CSI, November 8, 2018. 

“Insurgent Peace: Community-led Peacebuilding among Indigenous Peoples in the Philippines,” Critical Geography Conference, Temple University, October 19-20, 2018.

“Home on LA’s Edge: A Thick Map of the William Mead Homes Housing Project in Los Angeles.” Map and Multimedia Project presentation at GIS Day and TEDX UCLA, November 2017.

“Populism and Peace in Duterte’s Philippines,” Woodbine, New York City, 7 July 2017.

“Ghost Guides: Tokyo’s Vanishing Communities.” Map and Multimedia Project presentation at the Urban Humanities Initiative, University of California, Los Angeles, June 2017.

“Ghost Guides: Tokyo’s Vanishing Communities.” Map and Multimedia Project presentation at the Urban Humanities Initiative, Waseda University, Tokyo, April 2017.

“Insurgent Peace.” Research presentation at UCLA GradSlam, April 2016.

“Insurgent Peace: Peacebuilding among Indigenous Peoples of Sagada, Philippines.” Paper presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 2016.

“Community-led peace zone in Sagada, Philippines.” Paper presentation at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG), Chicago, 2015. 

“Peace zone: Local Peacebuilding, Agency, and Autonomy among Indigenous Peoples of Sagada, Philippines.” Paper presentation at the Conference on Political Participation in Asia, Stockholm University, 2015.

“Re-imagining Geographic Knowledge.” Paper presentation at the Conference on Southeast Asia and the Disciplines, 16th Cornell University Southeast Asia Graduate Student Conference, 2015.

“In Search of Justice: A Population-based Survey on the Participation of Cambodian-Americans in the Khmer Rouge Tribunal,” UC Berkeley Rotary Peace Center Graduate Conference, 2011.

Professional Organization of Conference and Symposia

Organizer, “Book Proposal Peer Review and Workshop,” New York Southeast Asian Network (NYSEAN) (April 6, 2022)

Moderator, “From Dissertation to Book: Southeast Asia across Disciplines,” New York Southeast Asian Network (NYSEAN) (February 11, 2022)

Co-moderator, “Knowledge Production and Sharing,” Nonviolent Peaceforce Virtual Gathering, (November 20, 2021)

Moderator, Graduate Student Panel, Inaugural Conference of the New York Southeast Asia Network Public Universities Consortium (virtual), April 27, 2021

Session organizer, “New Spatialities of Resistance,” Annual Conference of the American Association of Geographers, Washington, D.C., April 3-7, 2019.

Symposium organizer, “Human Rights and the Geographies of Peace in the Philippines,” University of California, Los Angeles, April 2017.

Conference co-organizer, “Queer Politics and Extra-Marital Affairs”, Sexuality and Space Specialty Group Annual Conference, Association of American Geographers (AAG), San Francisco, April 2016.

Workshops, Short Courses, or Summer Schools

Urban Humanities Initiative, School of Architecture and Urban Design, University of California, Los Angeles, Summer 2016, Tokyo, Japan

Institute of Geographies of Justice, Antipode: Journal of Radical Geography, Johannesburg, South Africa, Summer 2015