2016 Talks:
Music University, Des Moines Music Coalition / BC Music Summit @ Pemberton Music Festival / Canadian Music Week, Music Cities Summit / ‘Inventing the New: Innovations in the Creative Industries’ Conference @ Northwestern University / Vanderbilt University Department of Sociology / Global Cultural Districts Network Symposium @ BAM / University of Texas – Austin Ethnography Lab / UMass Amherst Honors College / 2016 SXSW Panel: Global Festivals and their locales
Media:
“Pop Up Culture,” Australian Broadcasting Company’s Future Tense November, 2016
“For Economic Economic Development Gold, Listen to the Music,” Governing Magazine October, 2016
“Festivals,” WAMC National, The Academic Minute, July 25, 2016
“Death to Concrete Culture,” WGBH Boston/PRI’s Innovation Hub, June 24, 2016
“Prank gone wrong puts Marlins prospect on disabled list,” Christian Science Monitor, June 6, 2016
“Branding of a city through ‘Festivilization’: Guest viewpoint,” Evan Plotkin, The Springfield Republican/MassLive, May 12, 2016
Ming Pao Daily News, October 2013
Gotham History Blotter, October 2011
The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2011
BBC Radio, Thinking Allowed, September 2011
W.W. Norton Everyday Sociology Blog Las Vegas Interview, August 2011
“April Fool! The Purpose of Pranks,” The New York Times, April 1, 2008
“Walk These Ways,” Time Out New York, May 2005
