Keynote Lectures

Early Career Keynote
​American Association of Geographers

"Virtual Early Career Keynote Lecture with Priti Narayan & Erin Torkelson"
Economic Geography Group: https://www.aag.org/events/aag2024/
Hosted by: Emily Rosenman with Vinay Gidwani as discussant
17 April 2024

Invited Talks

Centre for Humanities Research
​​University of The Western Cape

"Bantustan Banking: Debt, Race and Space in South African Social Welfare"
Contemporary History and Humanities Research Seminar
Respondent: Kelly Gillespie
6 August 2024 

Institute for the Humanities in Africa
​University of Cape Town

"Bantustan Banking: Debt, Race and Space in South African Social Welfare"
Ataya Seminars: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBTmllhguDs
Hosted by: Divine Fuh
​9 May 2024 

Anthropology Field School
KU Leuven and University of Cape Town

"Transferred Justice? Historic Debts and Future Repair"
Repair, Repose and Reparation Field School
Hosted by: Ann Cassiman, Susan Levine, and Fiona Ross
2 February 2024

School of Global Studies
​University of Oregon

"Separate Development: Debt, Race and Repair"
​Seminar Series
​Hosted by: Jo Weaver
11 December 2023

Gallatin School of individualized Study
​New York University

"Separate Development: Debt, Race and Repair"
​Seminar Series
​Hosted by: Gianpaolo Baiocchi
28 February 2023

Center for Social Studies
Coimbra University

"Superhighways vs Dirt Roads: Settler Colonialism and Social Welfare"
Endangered Theories: Standing By Critical Race Theory in the Age of Ultra-Violence
Hosted by: Maria Elana Indelicato and Gaia Giuliani
22 July 2022

Department of Geography
​University of California, Berkeley

"Bantustan Banking: Debt, Race and Repair"
Berkeley Geography Exit Talks
Hosted by: Jovan Lewis
12 May 2022

Department of Geography
​University of Arizona

"Bantustan Banking: Debt, Race and Repair"
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Mark Kear and Connie Woodhouse
29 April 2022

African studies
​oxford university

"Can Bantustan Be a Metaphor"
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Rebekah Lee
9 March 2022

Department of Sociology
​university of Johannesburg

"The Digital Welfare State and 4IR"
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Patrick Bond
30 March 2022

Department of Geography
​Durham university 

"The Digitalization of Cash Transfers and the Rescaling of Risk"
Risk Seminar Series
Hosted by: Isabella Bovolo
1 November 2021

Department of Geography
​Rutgers university 

"Bad Debt: Cash Transfers, Reparations and the Black Radical Tradition"
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Andrea Marston
15 October 2021

 South African Medical Research Council 

"What's Universal about Universal Basic Income?" with Wanga Zembe
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Tamara Kredo
27 May 2021

Journal of SOuthern African Studies
Oxford University

"Debt as Thrift" with Deborah James
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: JSAS Editorial Team
31 March 2021

Faculty of Law
​stelenbosch University

"Challenging Reckless Lending" with Deborah James and David Neves
Stellenbosch Legal Clinic Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Stephan van der Merwe
26 November 2021

South African Labour and development research unit, University of cape Town

"Collateral Damage: Cash Transfer as Debt Transfer"
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Vimal Ranchhod
20 November 2021

Department of geography
​University of the western cape

"Poverty Finance: From Apartheid to Post-Apartheid"
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Bradley Rink
19 September 2019

Institute for poverty land and agrarian studies, University of the western cape

"Living the Lottery: Social Grants and the Politics of Risk
Colloquium Series
Hosted by: Andries du Toit
16 June 2017

Conference Presenations

RGS-IBG Conference
Royal Geography Society london

"Cash Transfers and the Constitutional Court: Legal Geographic Activism"
Scholar Activism in Legal Geography
Conveners: Katherine Brickell, Fiona McConnell, Alex Jeffery, Sarah Klosterkamp
27 August 2024

development studies association
​Soas university of london

"Cash transfers, Social Justice and Reparation"
Cash Transfers and the Promise of Social Justice?
Conveners: Shruti Iyer and Meredith McLaughlin
27 June 20204

Crisis, Covid and big
University of the witwatersrand

"WTF Happened with the Post Office... and Why Does it Matter"
Center for Inequality Studies
Organizers: Hannah Dawson and Liz Fouksman
2 November2022

Economic Geography Conference
​Trinity College Dublin

"Social Welfare as Collateral: Monopolies, Blockchain, and FinTech"
Money and Payments Panel
Conveners: Paul Langley, Sarah Hall and Andrew Leyshon
7-10 June 2022

American Association of Geographers
​Virtual

"UCU Rising: Thinking Internationally About Academic Precarity"
The Archive, Research and Archival Space
Conveners: Aaron Mallory, Dani Aiello, Carrie Freshour, Meredith Palmer, Yui Hashimoto
28 February 2022

American Association of Geographers
​Virtual

"Transferred Justice? Debt Reparation and Black Radicalism"
Politics and Identity in Digital Geographies
Convener: Casey Lynch, Emma Slager, Will Payne
8 April 2021

African Studies association
virtual

"Hellish Home Economics: Social Grants and the Gendering of a Pandemic"
Covid-19 and Women's Empowerment Projects
​Conveners: Erin Torkelson
20 November 2020

Rethinking economics for africa
University of the witwatersrand

"Household Debt and Dispossession through Social Welfare"
Department of Economics
​Convener: Gilad Isaacs
6 September 2019

American Association of Geographers
​Washington DC

"Collateral Damages: South Africa's Welfare Fix"
Health as "Fix": Geographies of the Biopolitical in Settler/Post Colonies
​Conveners: Erin Torkelson, Meredith Palmer, Stephen McIssac
6 September 2019

American Anthropology Association and African Studies Association, Johannesburg

"Life on an Installment Plan: Social Grants and South Africa
Africa in the World
26 May 2018

Social grants and intergenerational Relations
​University of Cape Town

"Do Social Grants Work?"
​Department of Sociolgy
​Convener: Elena Moore
10 April 2017

American Association of Geographers Conference
San Francisco

"isiXhosa Articulations of Home"
Thinking with Gillian Hart
​Conveners: Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter, Melanie Samson
1 April 2016

Conferences Organized

Race, Space, VIolence
Oakland

University of California Graduate Student Conference
Supported by University of California Humanities Research Institute
Organised by: Camilla Hawthorne, Andrea Marston, Meredith Palmer, Brittany Meché, Mae Miller, and Erin Torkelson 
Omni Commons, Oakland
3-5 June 2015

Webinars

FINANCIAL Mail
welfare profiteers

The Welfare Industrial Complex:
Who Profits Next?
with Rob Rose, Michael Marchant &
​Abby May
25 November 2021

Black Sash Trust
​Covid Srd Grant

Social Protection in a Time of Covid: Lessons for Basic Income
with Engenas Senona & Wanga Zembe
​27 July 2021

BLACK SASH TRUST
challenging reckless Lending

Social Grants: Challenging Reckless Lending in South Africa
with Lynette Maart & the National Credit Regulator
29 October 2020