Upcoming invited talks

• Tues., Sep 17, 2011, noon-2pm EST, ""Would you like to hear the story?" Storytelling as an informal mechanism of accountability in the Burning Man organization", talk at Baruch School of Public Affairs faculty seminar, CUNY, 135 E. 22nd St. New York, NY
• Tues., Sep 17, 2011, 3-4pm EST, Graduate Center proseminar, CUNY, 365 5th Ave. New York, NY
• Thur., Nov 17, 2011, 4pm EST, Title TBA, Dept. of Sociology, University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada

 

Past invited talks

• Fri., Sept. 17, 2010, "Charismatizing the Routine: Storytelling in the Burning Man Organization" talk at the Ross School of Business, Interdisciplinary Committee on Organization Studies, University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI
• Thur., April 16, 2010, "Enabling Creative Chaos: Inside Burning Man" talk at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, PA
• Thur., Feb. 4, 2010 "Enabling Creative Chaos: Inside Burning Man" talk at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA
• Thur., Nov. 12, 2009, "Sustainable Communities: Enabling Creative Chaos at Burning Man" talk at SUNY-Stony Brook, NY

 

Past conference talks

• Thur., Aug. 12, 2011, with Prof. Tor Hornes, Copenhagen Business School, "Organizational Design" (using organizational ethnographies, including Enabling Creative Chaos: The Organization Behind the Burning Man Event to teach organizational design) for OMT Teaching Roundtables at the Academy of Management annual meeting, San Antonio, TX
• Sat., Nov. 20, 2010, "Storytelling for Accountability in the Burning Man Organization" Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) annual conference in Alexandria, VA
• Sun., Aug. 15, 2010, "Laboring for the Man: Augmenting Authority in a Voluntary Association" short conference talk at the American Sociological Association annual meeting in Atlanta, GA
• Sun., April 11, 2010, Author Meets Critics session at Pacific Sociological Association annual meeting in Marriott Oakland City Center, Oakland, CA
• Fri., March 19, 2010, Author Meets Critics session at Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting in Boston Park Plaza hotel, Boston, MA
• Thur., Nov. 19, 2009, "Laboring for the Man: Augmenting Authority in a Voluntary Association" at ARNOVA conference in Cleveland, OH

 

Past general talks

• Fri., Oct. 9, 2009, "Enabling Creative Chaos: Inside Burning Man book" at The Hub, Brower Center, Berkeley, CA, and at PariSoMa Coworking space, San Francisco, CA

 

Past event appearances

• Sun., Aug. 21, 2011, Honorable Mention for the 2011 Max Weber Award of the Organizations, Occupations, and Work (OOW) Section of the American Sociological Association, OOW business meeting, at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, Caesers Palace in Las Vegas, NV
• Fri., Oct. 1, 2010, "Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) v. Burning Man" at Open Video Conference.