Speaking Events
Inquiries: davidsvine [at] proton [dot] me

All book proceeds + speaker honorariums donated to the Chagossians + nonprofit organizations serving other victims of war.​

Times are local for in-person events or as indicated for online events.

More events to come.

Selected Past Events (video in most links)

Middlebury College, War and Forced Displacement: A Global Reckoning 

63rd Annual International Affairs Symposium Debate with Brent Sadler (Heritage Foundation), Lewis & Clark College

Rothko Chapel Annual MLK Birthday Observance, Houston, TX

Colorado College with the Costs of War Project

A New Cold War in East Asia? Hankyoreh-Busan International Symposium, South Korea

Confederation of Lawyers of the Asia Pacific Conference 2024, Tokyo, Japan

Military Bases and US Empire, Malaya US Movement against Killings and Dictatorship and For Democracy in the Philippines (slides)

Chagos Islands Conference, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Abolishing State Violence book event interviewing author Ray Acheson

"Garrisoning the Globe: US Military Bases Overseas," Move the Money Task Force NYC (slides)

Codepink Capitol Calling Party: Closing US Military Bases Abroad (slides)

Scholarship to Change the World: New Books in Public Anthropology

Video from "20 Years Since 9/11: What Do We Do Now?"

The Cold War Truth Commission: A Day of Education, Testimonials, and Action

California State University Fresno (slides here)

Taps for America's Empire of Bases? Reducing the U.S. Global Bootprint, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft

University of Houston, "Cultures of U.S. Empire," with Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Nikhil Pal Singh (slides here)

University of California Press Series in Public Anthropology Virtual Cafe Book Event (slides here)

Keynote Address, Air Force Culture and Language Center
Virtual Symposium, Maxwell Air Force Base

Politics and Prose online book launch (slides are here)

Boston University Pardee Center, "Creating Refugees" Report

American Education Research Association

COVID-19 Global Solidarity Manifesto Launch Events

Committee for the Republic Empire Salon

Common Action Forum Octagon, Madrid, Spain

Università della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland

"Resistance to Public Writing," AAA Annual Meeting

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, American University

Bennington College

Dent the Future Conference

Wesleyan University

Independent and Peaceful Australia Network National Conference

Australia National University, Canberra

Base Nation book launch on C-SPAN TV