UPCOMING

PAST EVENTS (SELECT)

  • In Conversation with Melissa Febos (Exile, 2025)

  • Future of Film Is Female, closing night with Caryn Coleman & Casey Niccoli (MOMA, 2025)

  • In Conversation with Ann Powers: “On Joni Mitchell” (Evanston Folk Festival, 2024)

  • Keynote Speaker (BreakOut West, 2024)

  • In Conversation with Carvell Wallace (Women & Children First, 2024)

  • The 2024 Weber Lecture in Political Science (Northwestern University, 2024)

  • In Conversation with Claire Dederer (Book Cellar, 2023)

  • In Conversation with Michelle Zauner (IL Libraries Presents, 2023)

  • Visiting Lecturer (Drexel University, 2023)

  • In Conversation with The Hold Steady (2023)

  • In Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones (Old Town School of Folk Music, 2022)

  • In Conversation with Kaveh Akbar (Chicago Lit Fest, 2022)

  • In Conversation with Greil Marcus (Green Apple, 2022)

  • In Conversation with Flea (Music Box, 2019)

  • In Conversation with Patti Smith (Chicago Humanities Festival, 2019)

  • In Conversation with Roxane Gay (Mission Creek Festival, Iowa City 2018)

  • Ruidosa Festival, Chile (Keynote, 2017)

  • Festival of Faith and Music, Calvin College, Grand Rapids MI (Keynote, 2017)

  • BY:LARM, Norway (Keynote, 2016)

  • BigSound Australia, Brisbane (Keynote, 2015)

  • Hard Working Class Heroes Festival, Dublin Ireland (Keynote, 2015)

  • CUNY’s Macaulay Honors College, Kenan Lecture in Ethics and Resistance (2015)

  • Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne Australia  (Talk and Master Class, 2015)

  • Beck’s Songreader,  “Dancing on My Own,” San Francisco Opera House (2014)

  • Polaris Prize, Acceptance on behalf of Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2013)

  • Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism (2013)