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ESV: Unfreezing the Past in a Digital Landscape
conference paper
Pratt Institute, CUNY Graduate Center
New York, NY. May 2026
Data Through Design 2026 Artists’ Panel
moderator, public panel discussion
BRIC House Gallery
Brooklyn, NY. March 2026
From Addisleigh Park to Seneca Village: Commemorating Communities, Vanished and Preserved
public panel discussion
St. John’s University
Queens, NY. December 2025
Envisioning Seneca Village
public lecture
New York, NY. December 2025
Working Papers: Property in early 20th-Century Montreal
respondent, discussantSpatial History & Historical GIS working group
Online. November 2025
ESV: A GIS Repository of Archival and Archaeological Records
conference paper
Chicago, IL. November 2025
ESV: Visual and Narrative Storytelling Using Archaeological Records
conference paper
Chicago, IL. November 2025
Conceptual and Methodological Mapping as Image Production: Examples from Envisioning Seneca Village
conference paper
St. Louis University
St. Louis, MO. April 2025
Envisioning Seneca Village
public lecture
Online. Februrary 2025
Visualizing Seneca Village: Building an Informed and Collaborative 3D Virtual Model of a Displaced 19th-Century Black Community
conference paper
Toronto, Canada. November 2024
Introducing Mapping Historical New York: The Digital Atlas as a Resource for Research
conference colloquy presentation
New York, NY. April 2024
Current Work: Revisiting Branch Libraries
moderator, public panel discussion
The Cooper Union
New York, NY. March 2024
Mapping Irregular Settlements in Mid-19th Century New York
conference paper
Washington, DC. November 2023
Broken Circuit: An Optimistic Framework for Applied Data-Driven Research on Urbanism
conference paper
London, UK. November 2023
Mapping Historical New York: The Digital Atlas as a Resource for Research
conference paper
Pittsburgh, PA. October 2023
Logics of Business Placement in Mid-19th Century New York
conference paper
Chicago, IL. November 2022
Exploring Demographic Heterogeneity in Late-19th Century American Urbanism
conference paper
Online. November 2021
Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas
panel discussion
Johns Hopkins University
Online. June 2021
Digital Information, Mapping Tools, and Planning
presentation and panel discussion
Columbia University Global Center, Amman
Online. 2021
Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas
public project launch
Online. 2021
Default Settings
lecture
Columbia University GSAPP
Online. Summer 2020
210 Cities in San Diego
public lecture
Ottawa, Canada. November 2019
Testing Wirth: Exploring Population Size and Density in the 19th-Century American City
conference paper
Chicago, IL. November 2019
Digital Urbanisms
organized conference
New York, NY. October 2019
Tracing, Charting, Mapping, Drawing:
Analytical Cartography as Historical GIS
keynote lecture
New York University
New York, NY. September 2019
Rethinking the Grid
presentation, panelist
New York, NY. May 2019
Some Thoughts on Scale
conference presentation
annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers
Washington, DC. April 2019
Urban Historical GIS
panel discussion
Washington, DC. April 2019
DRAW:
Revisiting Analytical Cartography as Critical GIS Practice
conference paper
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD. April 2019
Critical Distance and Cartographies of Everyday Life
public lecture
Berkeley, CA. March 2019
Cartographies of Distance and Difference
public talk
Beijing, China. March 2019
Cartographies of Everyday Life: Marginalization and Resilience
keynote lecture
Hampstead, NY. November 2018
Cartographies of Access, Opportunity, and Difference
conference paper
Buffalo, NY. October 2018
Antipublic Urbanism:
Las Vegas and the Downtown Project
invited reading
Center for the Future of Places, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden. June 2018
Cartographic Distance and the Urban Humanities
keynote lecture
Dartmouth College, Department of Geography
Hanover, VT. May 2018
Distance(d): Remapping Access
conference paper
annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers
New Orleans, LA. April 2018
Distance and Difference
public lecture
Turbo, Studio-X Amman
Amman, Jordan. March 2018
Cartographies of Distance
conference paper
Columbia University Center for Spatial Research
New York, NY. February 2018
Measuring the Historical City: New York and Montreal in the Mid-19th Century
conference paper
Montreal, Canada. November 2017
Residential Mobility and (In)Stability across Growing Copenhagen, 1890-1925
conference paper
Montreal, Canada. November 2017
Here's the Thing: Design, Incarceration, and Communities
conference paper
annual conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning
Denver, CO. October 2017
Critical Distance: Notes on GIS from the Ground
public lecture
Columbia University GSAPP
New York, NY. September 2017
Maps and Mayhem
public talk
Lady Science Forum
Grand Central Library
New York, NY. August 2017
Density and Connectivity: Land Use in Midnineteenth-Century New York
invited lecture
Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2017
Data in Context: Lessons from Urban Space
Keynote Lecture
New York University
New York, NY. April 2017
Adventures in Spatiotemporal Context
public talk
GeoNYC
New York, NY. February 2017
Geographies of Difference
public lecture
New York, NY. December 2016
Cher: a Review
panel discussion
Danish Architecture Center
Copenhagen, Denmark. November 2016
The Grid as Algorithm for Land Use: A Reappraisal of the 1811 Manhattan Grid
conference paper
Chicago, IL. 2016
Digital Urbanisms & Data In Practice
public presentation and panel discussion
New York, NY. September 2016
Data Practices & Welcome Uncertainty
public presentation and panel discussion
New York, NY. September 2016
Cher—Drawing a Line
public lecture and performance
Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2016
In/On Construction: Leslie Hewitt & Leah Meisterlin in Conversation
public conversation
Long Island City, New York, NY. June 2016
On an Urbanism of Sharing
public talk and panel discussion
The Met Breuer, Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY. June 2016
Asymmetric Labors: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice
panel discussion
New Zealand Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale vernissage
Venice, Italy. May 2016
This is What Urbanism Looks Like
talk and panel discussion
Columbia Women’s Leadership Conference
Columbia University
New York, NY. May 2016.
Critical Visualization: Datascapes & the Informal City, 2013-2015
presentation and panel discussion
Barnard College
New York, NY. May 2016
Alternative and Pluralistic Mappings of the City
presentation and panel discussion
London School of Economics
London, United Kingdom. 2016
Connecting Communities: Transportation Innovation and Social Justice in Developing Cities
panel discussion
New York, NY. 2015
The Human Face of Big Data
public panel discussion
New York, NY. 2015
Cartographic Research: Notes on Information, Analysis, and Infrastructures
guest lecture
Columbia University, Sustainable Development Program
New York, NY. 2015
A Few Notes on an Important Occasion
keynote lecture
Barnard College Empirical Reasoning Center
New York, NY. November 2015
Locating the Hinterland: Operative Spaces of Extraction and Agency
drawing performance
Storefront for Art & Architecture
New York, NY. 2015
Zoning Before Zoning: Land Use and Density in Midnineteenth-Century New York
conference paper
Baltimore, MD. 2015
Evidence: Experienced, Witnessed, Testified, Shared
image reading
Storefront for Art & Architecture
New York, NY. 2015
Challenging the City and its Data
presentation and panel discussion
Columbia University Language Resource Center
New York, NY. 2015
Forensic Methodology
symposium moderator and respondent
New York, NY. 2015
Urban Operative | Operative Planning
public lecture
Columbia University GSAPP
New York, NY. 2015.
Re-envisioning Branch Libraries: One Networked System
public presentation
New York, NY. 2015
Re-envisioning Branch Libraries: One Networked System
public presentation
the Japan Society
New York, NY. 2014
Everyone an Expert: an Andres Jacque Remix
public reading
Storefront for Art & Architecture
New York, NY. 2014
Zoning Before Zoning: Land Use, Density, & the Grid in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York City
public lecture
New York, NY. 2014
Kiosk: Copyright, Design, and Digital Culture
panel discussion
New York, NY. 2014
The Map as an Organizational Device; The Map as Infrastructure
guest lecture
Columbia University, Sustainable Development Program
New York, NY. 2014
Making Sense of GDELT: Aleppo
conference paper
New York, NY. 2014
Zoning Before Zoning
public lecture
New York, NY. 2014
Beyond Big Data, Smart Phones, & Social Media: Notes on Advocacy from the Other Side of the Digital Divide
public lecture
Columbia University GSAPP
New York, NY. 2013
Comments on Comments: Performing Comments on Foreclosed
public talk and panel discussion
New York, NY. 2013
The Subjective Map: Decision Support & Critical Advocacy
public talk and panel discussion
Ford Foundation
New York, NY. 2012
Interaction and Transaction in the City
presenter, workshop consultant
BBVA Innovation Center
Madrid, Spain. 2012
GROW[ing] Up: SLOW[ing] Down
keynote lecture
Athens, GA. 2011
Entrepreneurial Architecture in Five Easy Steps
talk and panel discussion
New York, NY. 2010
PRE-Office: Conversations with Architects
organized discussion and moderator
New York, NY. 2009