Academic Presentations

“Visualizing a Non-Commodified Future – UBI and Post-Work Imaginaries,” chair and presenter, international Visualizing Care conference, virtual, 14 May 2022.

“GDP as Representation of Logic of Capitalism,” panel presentation, Value-Based Economics Conference, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, 1 Oct 2021.

“Communities of Care,” panel presentation, international Contesting Care Conference, 30 June 2021.

“Wellbeing Economics and the Case for a Universal Basic Income,” Accounting for Care Conference, Duke University, 20 November 2020.

“Prosperity or Growth,” invited presentation, followed by panel discussion, Forum Factory Berlin, 30 July 2019.

“Building a Wellbeing Economy – The Power of a Transformative Idea,” Wellbeing Economy Conference, University of Pretoria, South Africa, 30 Nov. 2017.

“Is a World Beyond GDP also a World Beyond Economic Growth?,” International Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, 25 Feb 2017.

“The Prospering World, the Wilting World, and Us,” invited conference presentation, Drakenburg workshop on Macroeconomic Indicators, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Oct 13-15, 2016.

“Counting Power:  the Disaster of the GDP Bottom Line and the Need for Green Accounting,” invited presentation, 12th annual conference of the AHE, “The Economy of Tomorrow,” Université Montesquieu Bordeaux, France, July 9, 2010.

“Globalization and Growth—Endangering Prosperity,” speaker and panel presenter, Social Science Research Institute, Duke University, March 25, 2010.

“Endangering Prosperity:  The Daily Catastrophe of Following the Wrong Economic Gauge,” special lecture, John Hope Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University, 18 Nov 2009.

“Making the Local Global—Petersburg, VA’s African American History as a Reflection of Global Developments,” organizer and presenter of panel on Petersburg’s African American History in the Context of the Atlantic World, Virginia Forum, Mary Washington University, April 11, 2008.

“The Mixed Legacy of Desegregation,” presentation at the NEH sponsored Petersburg African American History workshop, March 29, 2008.

“The One-Armed Leviathan—Race, Class, and Government in the Wake of Katrina,” Conference on Race and Society:  In Katrina’s Wake—Racial Implications of the New Orleans Disaster, University of Virginia, November 3, 2006.

“Local History in a Global Context:  The Rise and Fall of Petersburg, Virginia, in the Context of the Atlantic World,” Navigating the Global American South Conference, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, March 2, 2006.

“Conceptualizing Economic Democracy—Learning From History, Charting the Future,” Conference for Radical Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City, September 15, 2005.

“Struggles for Economic Democracy—The Case of American Populism, the Environmental Movement, and the Global Justice Movement,” Popular Culture Conference, 3/26/05.

“Looking From the Outside In, and the Inside Out:  Topics of Recent American History Reconsidered in the Global Context.”  33rdAmerican Popular Culture Conference, New Orleans, April 14, 2003.

"Economics and Racism,” lecture and workshop, Thomas Jefferson Anti-Racism Conference, February 2003, Richmond, VA.

“The New World Order: Political Terms as Tranquilizers, or How to Deny Political Reality.”  32nd Popular Culture Conference, Toronto, Canada, March 16, 2002. 

“Culture and Race: An American Dilemma,” invited response to the 2000 South Atlantic Philosophy of Education presidential address by Professor Paul Bitting, Virginia State University, 10/6/00.

“Robbed Forever?  The History of Non-Compensation for Slave Labor in the U.S.”  Paper presented as part of panel “Compensatory Justice in Black and White.”   Law, Culture, and Humanities Conference, Georgetown University, Washington DC, 3/11/00.

Organizer of panel “Let’s Just Not Go There Anymore:  Addressing Black/White Relations in the United States,” 2000 National Association of African American Studies Conference, Houston, TX, 2/21-2/27.  Individual Presentation: “The Issue of Race and the Investment in Whiteness.”

Organizer and chair of panel with four presentations for 1999 Association for General and Liberal Studies Conference, entitled “Fear, Avoidance, and Truth--Addressing Black/White Race Relations in Liberal Arts Education.”  Presenter of paper “Confronting Race in the Liberal Arts Classroom.”  Richmond, VA, 10/29/99.

Organizer and chair of panel entitled “Ships Passing in the Dark--Racial Dialogue in the U.S.,” and presenter of paper entitled “Racial Dialogue and the Investment in Whiteness,” Law, Culture, and the Humanities Conference, Wake Forest University, March 12-14, 1999.

“Understanding the Past Through Oral History: The Challenge of Race,” presentation given at the Chesapeake Regional Scholars Summer Seminar in African American Studies entitled “Rethinking African American Studies: New Approaches to Teaching and Research in the 21st Century,” The Carter G. Woodson Institute for Afro-American and African Studies, University of Virginia, July 7, 1997.

"Race Before and After Brown:  An Oral History of How Blacks and Whites Experienced Race in Richmond, 1945 to Present," paper presented at the Oral History Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, October 1996.

Lecture series, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Summer Institute for Educators, "America Around 1900:  Facing a New Century," July 1995.  Titles of lectures:  "The Costs of Industrialization;" "Work in Turn-of-the-Century America;" "Women and Modernity;" "Democracy in a Rapidly Changing Environment;" "Closing Remarks:  Race, Class, Gender, and the Struggle for Democracy."

Panel organized for AHA Conference, January 1994 in San Francisco, entitled "Experimenting in Democracy:  Central Europe and the Struggle for Civil Society" (with Tony Judt, Josef Anderle, Jeffrey Goldfarb, Lawrence Goodwyn).  Paper presented:  "Revolutionary Autumn - Traditions That Weigh Like Nightmares on the Brains of the Living, or:  the Difficult Quest for Democratic Forms in East-Central Europe."

"Renewed Search for Democracy - Dissent and Opposition in the former East Germany," paper presented at the Fifth New College, USF Biennial Conference on Eastern Europe, 3/26/91.

"Roots of Dissent and Opposition in the GDR," Summer Academy, Erfurt, East Germany, 23-28 July 1990.