Publications

“The Theater of Revolution Transforms Spectators into Political Actors: Performance as Political Engagement in the Transnational Counterculture,” European Journal of American Studies, 14, n. 4 (2019). Available at https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15488 [PDF]


“Hippie is a Transnational Identity: Australian and American Countercultures and the London Oz,” Australasian Journal of American Studies, 35, n. 2 (2016): 39-59. “’Whose Streets?’: Zones of Performative Occupations,” Transforming Anthropology 22, n. 1(2014): 7-12. Available at https://www.jstor.org/stable/44779790?seq=1 [PDF]


“The Banking Model of Education,” Social Text: Periscope (September, 2011). Available at http://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_topic/going_into_debt/. Responses by Richard Dienst and David Graeber. [PDF]

“Whose Streets? Zones of Performative Occupations” Transforming Anthropology 22, n.1 (2014): 7-12


Presentations

“The Psychedelic Archive,” Psychedelic Intersections, Harvard Divinity School, 2025.

“The San Francisco Diggers and the Lost Legacy of Performance and Radical Politics,” Considering the Counterculture: A History in Ideas, Princeton University, September 27-28, 2019


“Acting Out: Performative Politics in the Age of the New Left and the Counterculture,” 1968: Years of Struggle, Middlebury College, March 8-10, 2018. See video of presentation here: http://1968digitalarchive.middcreate.net/acting-out-performative-politics/


“Acting Out: A Celebration of the Life and Work of Judith Malina,” Left Forum 2017, John Jay College, June 2-4, 2017.


“From Play Acting to PlayPower,” New England American Studies Association, Boston University, March 20-11, 2017.


“Closer and the Birth of Cyberspace: Manchester Postpunk, Cyberpunk, and the Legacies of the Sixties,” Atrocity Exhibition: A Symposium on Joy Division, University of Limerick, Ireland, November 25-26, 2015.


“Hippie is a Transnational Identity: Australian and American Countercultures and the London Oz,” Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association Conference, Monash University, Australia, June 30-July 3, 2015.


“‘Whose Streets?’: Zones of Performative Occupations,” Left Forum 2013, Pace University, June 7-9, 2013.


“‘Huey Digs Bob Dylan’: The Black Panthers, Highway 61 Revisited, and making Revolutionary Curriculum Vitae-Andrew Green Hannon 3 Meaning,” Dimensions of Empire and Resistance: Past, Present, and Future, American Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, November 15-18, 2012.


“Informing Technology: The Panopticon in Your Pocket,” Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France, July 2-6, 2012.


“Cultures of Debt,” invited lecture, delivered collectively by members of the Yale Working Group on Globalization and Culture, Harvard University, November 22, 2011. Individual presentation entitled “The Banking Model of Education”.


“The Banking Model of Education,” Neoliberalism and the Crises of Economic Science, Second International Conference in Political Economy, Istanbul University, Turkey, May 20-22, 2011; and at Towards a Politics of Solidarity, Left Forum 2011, Pace University, March 18-20, 2011.


“New Media and Old Labor in the 2007-2008 Writers’ Strike,” Yale Media Theory and History Graduate Conference, Yale University, April 22-23, 2011.


“‘We Are Beginning to Move Again’: Academic Exchange in the New Lefts, Cultural Studies and American Studies,” Impacts: Does Academic Exchange Matter?: Cultural Diplomacy, Scholarly Internationalism, and American Studies since World War II, Fulbright Austrian-American Educational Commission, Vienna, Austria, November 18-19, 2010.


“’No play can change your life unless you are in it: The Diggers of San Francisco and the Politics of the Counterculture,” This American Life: Composing American Studies in a Global Age, Yale American Studies Symposium, Yale University, April 1, 2008.


“The Diggers: Life Actors on a World Stage,” New World Coming: The Sixties and the Shaping of Global Consciousness, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, June 13 -16, 2007; and at 1968: Global Resistance/Local Knowledge, Drew University, November 3-4, 2006.


“From L. A. to LA: Countercultural ‘Whiteness’ as Contested Terrain in Easy Rider,” Popular Culture and American Culture Associations National Conference, Boston, MA, April 4-7, 2007