Media and Lectures
Op-Eds
“Ann Coulter and Blowhard Politics: The reduction of politics today to the simple matter of ensuring that blowhards can utter stupid things is truly pervasive.” Truthout (March 31, 2010).
“My experience as a lab rat has left me feeling sick about how we treat animals.” The Globe and Mail (September 21, 2014).
“The Canadian University and the War Against Omar Khadr: Tyler J. Pollard interviews David L. Clark about inviting Omar Khadr to his university and Canada’s vilification of the young man.” Truthout (May 27, 2015).
“Advocacy in Action: The Canadian University and the War on Omar Khadr.” Advocacy Matters (June, 2015): 4-8.
“Doing what had to be done: My grandfather’s hands delivered death but they also caressed the face of his wife and children.” Globe and Mail (November 6, 2017).
“Tyler J. Pollard Interviews David L. Clark: University Students Welcome Omar Khadr. Dr. Clark’s hospitality initiative came after Mr. Khadr was released from Guantanamo Bay.” Truthout (September 22, 2015).
“The fact that teachers committed these crimes makes matters worse: Despite their brutalizing and loveless idea of education, every Indigenous child matters.” Hamilton Spectator (Thursday, June 17, 2021).
“Given to tears: Getting a shot in a mostly unvaccinated world. My tears marked the moment in which my body caught up to that ugly and inexcusable fact: we are not all in this together.” Hamilton Spectator (Wednesday, June 23, 2021).
“A near-death experience on the path of my life: It was not to the arid moon that I needed to look but to the dusty and unforgiving world of the here and now.” Hamilton Spectator (Friday, July 16, 2021).
“‘Vagrant:’ A label from early life that never left me: Having enough to eat sometimes meant not having a roof over my head, a terrible choice for anyone to be compelled to make.”Hamilton Spectator (Saturday, April 22, 2023).
“A letter to my students: You don’t need AI in class,” Hamilton Spectator, 9 September 2023.
“Nuclear fallout in Crawford Lake sediment a grim reminder. Reading about the discovery of remnants of plutonium at the bottom of Crawford Lake made me realize that my worries about climate change are layered over another and indelible concern — annihilation by nuclear weapons.” Hamilton Spectator (Monday, August 14, 2023).
Podcasts
Invited Talks and Conference Papers
“Quarantine Theory,” American Comparative Literature Association,” 8 April 2021.
“Quarantine Theory,” Modern Language Association, 7 January 2021.
“Insult to Injury: Frankenstein and a Theory of the Corpse,” U of Maryland-College Park, 9 Nov 2018.
“`I won’t tear into you:’ Derrida, Levinas, and the Autobiographical Animal,” Emory University, 5 December 2017.
“Sickbed,” Unmade Bed: In the Midst of Intimacy, Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, 11 November 2016.
“Housing Problems,” Zoo Studies and the New Humanities, McMaster University, 2 December 2016.
“The End of the World as We Know It,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Winnipeg, 15 August 2015.
“Anti-Islamophobia and Student Activism.” OISE, 4 April 2017.
“‘Great Deeds! With the Dead!’” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Brown University, 24 June 2018.
“Can the University Stand for Peace? Omar Khadr, Higher Education, and the Question of Hospitality.” Humanities Institute, Simon Fraser University, 9 February 2017.
“Life Less: Charles Bell, the Napoleonic Wars, and the Cadaver-Image,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, University of Ottawa, 11 August, 2017.
“On the Promise of Peace: Kant’s Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy.” Emory University, 4 December 2017.
“Words of Welcome: Omar Khadr and The Hospitality Project,” Woodsworth College, University of Toronto, 2 February 2016.
“Life Less,” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, 7 January 2016.
“Lastness, Lateness, and Other Romantic Leave-Takings,” (Plenary Seminar with Jacques Khalip), Late Romanticism Conference, U of Leuven, 13 December 2019.
“Animals at the End of the World,” “After Biopolitics,” Rice Humanities Research Center, Rice University, 19 November 2015.