2020
- ‘Touristic Security: Before and After Coronavirus’, Symposium: Place-Identity-Crisis, at the Tourism and Place Making Research Unit (TAPLAM), the School of Business, University of Leicester, UK. June 30, 2020.
2020
- with Elisa Wynne-Hughes. ‘The Touristification of State Security Governance: Comparing Egypt and Guatemala’. International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii. March 25-28, 2020. (cancelled due to corona virus)
2019
- Introducing Touristic Security. International workshop on ‘Governance, Crime, and International Security: Testing Innovations in Policy, Practice, and Research’, Sao Paulo, Brazil. Sept. 17-23, 2019.
2019
- ‘Gendered Touristic (In)Security in La Antigua Guatemala’, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University and Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UK. May 22, 2019.
2018
- Gendered Touristic Securitisation. European International Studies Association (EISA), Prague, Czech Republic. Sept. 12-15, 2018.
2018
- ‘Touristic (In)Securitisation: The View from Guatemala’. Royal Geographical Society (RGS), Cardiff, UK. Aug. 28-31, 2018.
2018
- ‘Touristic Securitisation and the Creation of New (In)Securities in Guatemala’. Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Barcelona, Spain. May 23-26, 2018.
2017
- ‘Interrogating Touristic Securitisation: A focus on La Antigua Guatemala’. Connecting the Dots: Tourism, Ethics, Global Citizenship. Apeldoorn, Netherlands. July 3-6, 2018.
2017
- ‘Sustainable Tourism in an Unequal World: A Look at the Role of Touristic Securitisation’. Development in the Face of Global Inequalities, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona, Spain. May 11-13, 2017.
2017
- ‘Touristic Securitisation in the Global South: The case of Guatemala’. American Association of Geographers (AAG), Boston, USA. April 3-8, 2017.
2017
- ‘The Touristic Figure of the Third World Child’. From Stigma to Brand: Commodifying and Aestheticizing Urban Poverty and Violence’. Munich, Germany. Feb. 16-18, 2017.
2016
- ‘The Temporally Hospitable/Hostile City-Destination’. UrbanTopia, Berlin, Germany. Oct. 26, 2016.
2016
- ‘Guatemalan Homestay Stories’. Critical Hospitalities Symposium, Edinburgh, Scotland. July 28-29, 2016
2015
- ‘Making the World Safe for Tourists: The Socio-Technical Securitization of Tourism, and Everything Else?’. Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Opatija, Croatia. June 26-30, 2015.
2015
- ‘NGOs and the Creation of Risky but Safe Places for Tourists: The Case of Destino Guatemala’. Latin American Studies Association Conference (LASA), San Juan, Puerto Rico. May 27-30, 2015.
2014
- ‘The NGO-Tourism Nexus: Mapping the ‘Doings’ of the NGOization of Tourism and the Touristification of NGOs in La Antigua Guatemala’. The 23rd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality, Copenhagen, Denmark. Oct. 2-4, 2014.
2014
- with Monika Büscher. ‘Embodying Security, Freedom, Justice’. Keynote at the 23rd Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality, Copenhagen, Denmark. Oct. 2-4, 2014.
2014
- ‘Imagining and Making Touristic (In)Securities: Exploring the Everyday Tactical Securitization of Tourists in La Antigua Guatemala’. Lancaster Intellectual Party, Lancaster, UK. July 1, 2014.
2014
- ‘NGOs and the Making of Development Tourism Destinations: The Case of Destino Guatemala’. Destination Slum 2.0, Potsdam, Germany. May 14-16, 2014.
2013
- ‘The Making of a Voluntourism Destination: The role of NGOs in Global Tourism Competition in Guatemala’. Lancaster Intellectual Party, Lancaster, United Kingdom. July 1, 2013.