Invited talks

  • Thur., May 28, 2015, "“Plan Your Burn, Burn Your Plan”: How Decentralization, Storytelling, and Communification Can Support Participatory Practices" at Managing Social Issues colloquium, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Thur., May 28, 2015, "Analyzing Storytelling: Charismatizing the Routine” Invited lecture, Utrecht School of Governance, Utrecht University in Utrecht, Netherlands
  • Tues., June 27, 2014, "Plan Your Burn, Burn Your Plan: Creative Organizing and Organizing Creativity" at Forschungswerkstatt ("Research Workshop"), Freie Univeristät in Berlin, Germany
  • Thur., Nov 17, 2011, "Commiserating and Celebrating Authenticity: The Bases for Interaction Ritual Chains" talk at University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada
  • Tues., Sep 17, 2011, ""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, CUNY in New York, NY
  • Tues., Sep 17, 2011, Graduate Center sociology proseminar, CUNY, New York, NY
  • 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

 

Conference talks

  • Fri., March 23, 2012, "Social Movementizing Organizations: How Organizations Such as Burning Man Ignite vs. Extinguish Incipient Social Movements" invited talk at the Southern Sociological Society annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  • 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 Oakland, CA
  • Fri., March 19, 2010, Author Meets Critics session at Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting in Boston, MA
  • Thur., Nov. 19, 2009, "Laboring for the Man: Augmenting Authority in a Voluntary Association" at ARNOVA conference in Cleveland, OH

 

General talks

  • Sat., Dec. 14, 2013 "Charismatizing the Routine at Burning Man and Elsewhere: Making the Mundane More Meaningful through Storytelling, Rituals, and Other Activities" at Gratitude NYC in New York, NY
  • 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

 

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.