Invited Talks, Lectures & Workshops (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)