Joni Adamson
President's Professor, Environmental Humanities, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Walton Center for Planetary Health
Arizona State University
PO Box 871401
Tempe, AZ 85287-1401
Titles
- Distinguished Global Futures Scholar, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
- President's Professor, Environmental Humanities, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Director, Humanities for the Environment North America Observatory, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation
- Affiliate, School for the Future Innovation in Society, College of Global Futures
Biography
Joni Adamson is President's Professor of Environmental Humanities in the Department of English and Distinguished Global Futures Scholar at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. She is Founding Director of the Flagship Hub of UNESCO BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition which is located in the Rob and Melani Walton Center for Planetary Heath. She also directs the Humanities for the Environment North American Observatory.
Adamson is the author and/or co-editor of nine books and special issues and 90 articles, chapters, reviews and blog posts which have been widely cited, reprinted, and translated into Mandarin and Spanish. She writes on environmental justice, the centrality of the environmental humanities to the sustainability sciences, the design of desirable futures, Indigenous literatures and scientific literacies, the rights of nature movement and the food justice movement. Her research has been supported by many awards and grants, including the 2019 Benjamin N. Duke Fellowship at the National Humanities Center. She has delivered keynote lectures and workshops throughout the US and in Australia, China, England, Italy, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Scotland, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, and Taiwan.
Education
- PhD, English and Comparative Cultural and Literary Studies, University of Arizona, 1995
- MA, English, Brigham Young University, 1987
- BA, History/French, Idaho State University, 1981
Expertise
- environmental humanities
- environmental justice
- American Southwest cultural studies
- global indigenous oral and written literatures
- ecocriticism
- food systems
- environmental literature and film
- cultural studies
- multispecies ethnography
- American studies
- citizenship and human rights
- just energy transition
External Links
Journal Articles
2020
Adamson, J. 2020. People of the Water: El Rio, the Shape of Water, and the rights of nature. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 27(3):596-612. DOI: 10.1093/isle/isaa062. (link )
Adamson, J., S. Akilli, A. Anson, K. Armbruster, E. Bartlett, C. Belmont, K. Bladow, R. Boschman, R. Broglio, J. J. Cohen, C. Chang, Y. Chang, S. S. Chou, O. Dwivedi, S. Estok, J. Foran, G. Gaard, C. Grosse, S. Hartman, K. Hiltner, L. Hogan, M. Hultman, S. Iovino, T. Khair, M. Klapatch, C. Ni Dhuill, S. Oppermann, Y. Otomo, D. N. Pellow, W. Ping, P. M. Pule, K. Rigby, K. Seaberg, R. Singh, S. Slovic, A. Sprinkle, E. Stephens, R. Twine, E. Weber, S. P. Weld and L. Wright. 2020. An environmental humanities response to the COVID-19 pandemic: An open letter. Bifrost Online (8 June 2020):. (link )
Adamson, J. and S. Hartman. 2020. From ecology to syndemic: Accounting for the synergy of epidemics. Bifrost Online (8 June 2020):. (link )
2019
Adamson, J. 2019. Return to the Bully Pulpit: Ecocriticism, environmental justice, and the rights of nature. Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians nf American Art 5(1):. DOI: 10.24926/24716839.1704. (link )
O'Gorman, E., T. van Dooren, U. Munster, J. Adamson, C. Mauch, S. Sorlin, M. Armeiro, K. Lindstrom, D. Houston, J. A. Padua, K. Rigby, O. Jones, J. Motion, S. Muecke, C. Chang, S. Lu, C. F. Jones, L. Green, F. Matose, H. Twidle, M. Schneider-Mayerson, B. Wiggin and D. Jergensen. 2019. Teaching the environmental humanities: International perspectives and practices. Environmental Humanities 11(2):427-460. DOI: 10.1215/22011919-7754545. (link )
2018
Adamson, J. 2018. Introduction: The HfE Project and beyond: New constellations of practice in the environmental and digital himanities. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 5(2):1-20. DOI: 10.5250/resilience.5.2.0001. (link )
Adamson, J., S. LeMenager and C. Sandilands. 2018. Citizen humanities: Teaching Life Overlooked as interdisciplinary ecology. Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 5(2):96-121. (link )
Ye, W., S. Xixue and J. Adamson. 2018. The characteristics and boundaries of constructing transnational eco-critical poetics. Jiangxi Social Sciences 2018(12):64-70.
2017
Adamson, J. 2017. Roots and trajectories in the environmental humanities: From environmental justice to intergenerational justice. English Language Notes 55(1-2):121-134.
2016
Adamson, J. 2016. Networking networks and constellating new practices in the environmental humanities. PLMA 131(2):347-355. DOI: 10.1632/pmla.2016.131.2.347. (link )
2015
Adamson, J. 2015. The ancient future: Diasporic residency and food-based knowledges in the work of American Indigenous and Pacific Austronesian writers.. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 42(1):. (link )
Holm, P., J. Adamson, H. Huang, L. Kirdan, S. L. Kitch, I. McCalman, J. Ogude, M. Ronan, D. Scott, K. O. Thompson, C. Travis and K. Wehner. 2015. Humanities for the environment -- a manifesto for research and action. Humanities 4(4):977-992. DOI: 10.3390/h4040977. (link )
2014
Adamson, J. and D. N. Pellow. 2014. Engaged scholarship in the vernacular landscape: A conversation. Resileince: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 1(1):. DOI: 10.5250/resilience.1.1.27. (link )
2013
Adamson, J. 2013. 西蒙•奥蒂斯的反击：环境正义、转变中的生态批评和中部地区 (Reprint of Chapter 3, Simon Ortiz's Fight Back: Environmental justice, transformative ecocriticism and the middle place. American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place). Journal of Jiangsu University 2013(15.5):34-41.
2012
Adamson, J. 2012. "¡Todos Somos Indios!" Revolutionary imagination, alternative modernity, and transnational organizing in the work of Silko, Tamez and Anzaldúa. The Journal of Transnational American Studies 4(1):1-26. (link )
Adamson, J. 2012. Indigenous literatures, multinaturalism, and Avatar: The emergence of indigenous cosmopolitics. American Literary History 24(1):143-167. DOI: 10.1093/alh/ajr053. (link )
Adamson, J. 2012. Whale as cosmos: Multi-species enthnography and contemporary indigenous cosmopolitics. Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses 64:29-46.
2011
Adamson, J. 2011. Medicine food: Critical environmental justice studies, Native North American literature, and the movement of food sovereignty. Environmental Justice 4(4):213-219. DOI: 10.1089/env.2010.0035. (link )
2010
Adamson, J. 2010. American literature and film from a planetary perspective: Teaching space, time, and scale. Transformations 21(1):23-41, 169. (link )
Adamson, J. 2010. Environmental justice and Third Wave ecocrtical approaches to literature and film. ECOZON@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment 1(1):.
2009
Adamson, J. 2009. Coming home to eat: Re-imagining place in the age of global climate change. Tamkang Review 39(2):3-26.
Adamson, J. and S. Slovic. 2009. Guest editors' introduction: The shoulders we stand on: An introduction to ethnicity and ecocriticism. MELUS: Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US 34(2):5-24. DOI: 10.1353/mel.0.0019. (link )
2004
Adamson, J. 2004. The challenge of speaking first: A tribute to Simon Ortiz. Studies in American Indian Literature 16(4):57-60.
2000
Adamson, J. and R. Stein. 2000. Environmental justice: A roundtable discussion. ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 7(2):155-170.
1992
Adamson, J. 1992. "The truth is we live on dry land": Language as homland in Louis Erdrich's Love Medicine. Letterature d'America 47-48:37-55.
Adamson, J. 1992. Why bears are good to think and theory doesn't have to be another form of murder: Transformation and oral tradition in Louise Erdich's Tracks. Studies in American Indian Literatures 4(1):28-48.
Books
2017
Adamson, J. and M. Davis eds. 2017. Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice. Routledge. New York. ISBN: 978-1138188167.
Monani, S. and J. Adamson eds. 2017. Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos. Routledge. New York. ISBN: 978-1138902978.
2016
Adamson, J., W. A. Gleason and D. N. Pellow. 2016. Keywords for Environmental Studies. New York University Press. New York and London. ISBN: 9780814760833.
2013
Adamson, J. and K. N. Ruffin. 2013. American Studies, Ecocrticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons. Routledge.
2002
Adamson, J., M. Evans and R. Stein. 2002. The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. The University of Arizona Press.
2001
Adamson, J. 2001. American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism: The Middle Place. The University of Arizona Press.
Book Chapters
2019
Adamson, J. 2019. Foreword: The Middle Place, Ziran, and Hanjing. In: Chang, C. ed., Chinese Environmental Humanities: Practices of Environing at the Margins. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 978-3-030-18633-3.
2018
Adamson, J. 2018. Environmental fiction. Pp. 611-615 In: Castree, N., M. Hulme and J. D. Proctor eds., Companion to Environmental Studies. Routledge. ISBN: 978-1138192201.
Adamson, J. 2018. Las Humanidades Ambientales Globales: Ampliando la Conversación, Imaginando Futuros Alternativos. Pp. 15-33 In: Albelda, J. L., J. M. Marrero Henriquez and J. M. Parreno eds., Humanidades Ambientales : Pensamiento, arte y Relatos Para el Siglo de la Gran Prueba. Los Libros de la Catarata. ISBN: 978-8490974988.
Adamson, J. 2018. Situating new constellations of practice in the humanities: Toward a just and sustainable future. Pp. 53-75 In: Sze, J. ed., Sustainability: Approaches to Environmental Justice and Social Power. New York University Press. ISBN: 978-1479870349.
2017
Adamson, J. 2017. Collected things with names like Mother Corn: Native North American speculative fiction and film. Pp. Chapter 22 In: Heise, U., J. Christensen and M. Niemann eds., The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities. Routledge. ISBN: 9781138786745.
Adamson, J. 2017. Gathering the desert in an urban lab: Designing the citizen humanities. Pp. 105-119 In: Adamson, J. and M. Davis eds., Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice. Routledge. New York. ISBN: 978-1138188167.
Adamson, J. 2017. Introduction: Integrating knowledge, forging new constellations of practice in the environmental humanities. Pp. 3-19 In: Adamson, J. and M. Davis eds., Humanities for the Environment: Integrating Knowledge, Forging New Constellations of Practice. Routledge. New York. ISBN: 978-1138188167.
Adamson, J. and J. C. Galeano. 2017. Why bears, Yakumama (Mother of All Water Beings), and other transformational beings are (still) good to think. Pp. 223-240 In: Monani, S. and J. Adamson eds., Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos . Routledge. New York. ISBN: 978-1138902978.
Adamson, J. and S. Monani. 2017. Introduction: Cosmovisions, ecocriticism, and indigenous studies. Pp. 1-22 In: Monani, S. and J. Adamson eds., Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos . Routledge. New York. ISBN: 978-1138902978.
Adamson, J. and C. Sandilands. 2017. Insinuations: Thinking plant capacities and politics with The Day of the Triffids. Pp. Chapter 12 In: Gagliano, M., J. C. Ryan and P. Vieira eds., The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN: 978-1517901844.
2016
Adamson, J. 2016. Humanities. Pp. 135-138 In: Adamson, J., W. A. Gleason and D. N. Pellow eds., Keywords for Environmental Studies. New York University Press. New York and London. ISBN: 9780814760833.
Adamson, J. 2016. We have never been Anthropos: From environmental justice to cosmopolitics. Pp. 155-174 In: Oppermann, S. and S. Iovino eds., Environmental Humanities: Voices from the Anthropocene. Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN: 978-1-78348-938-1.
Adamson, J., W. A. Gleason and D. N. Pellow. 2016. Introduction. Pp. 1-5 In: Adamson, J., W. A. Gleason and D. N. Pellow eds., Keywords for Environmental Studies. New York University Press.
2015
Adamson, J. 2015. Working wilderness: Ranching, proprietary rights to nature, environmental justice and climate change. Pp. 197-218 In: Robertson, C. and J. Westerman eds., Working on Earth: The Intersection of Working-Class Studies and Environmental Justice. University of Nevada Press. Reno, Nevada. ISBN: 978-0874179637.
2014
Adamson, J. 2014. Cosmovisions: Environmental justice, transnational American studies, and indigenous literature. Pp. 172-187 In: Gerrard, G. ed., The Oxford Handbook of Ecocriticism. Oxford University Press. New York and Oxford, UK.
Adamson, J. 2014. Foreward. Pp. ix-xvi In: Fitzsimmons, L., Y. Chae and B. Adams eds., Asian American Literature and the Environment. Routledge. Oxford and New York.
Adamson, J. 2014. Gardens in the desert: Migration, diaspora and food sovereignty in the work of Native North American women writers. Pp. 47-70 In: Huang, H. and C. S. Chang eds., Aspects of Transnational and Indigenous Cultures Series. Cambridge Scholars Press.
Adamson, J. 2014. Indigenous cosmopolitics and the re-emergence of the Pluriverse. Pp. 181-184 In: Tillett, R. ed., Howling For Justice: New Perspectives on Leslie Marmon Silko’s Almanac of the Dead. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ. ISBN: 978-0-8165-1338-3.
Adamson, J. 2014. Source of life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an ecology of selves. In: Iovino, S. and S. Opperman eds., Material Ecocriticism. University of Indiana Press. Bloomington, IN. ISBN: 978-0253013989.
2013
Adamson, J. 2013. Environmental justice, cosmopolitics and climate change. Pp. 169-183 In: Westling, L. ed., The Cambridge Companion to LIterature and Environment. Cambridge University Press. New York. DOI: 10.1017/CCO9781139342728.016. (link )
Adamson, J. and K. N. Ruffian. 2013. Introduction. Pp. 1-17 In: Adamson, J. and K. N. Ruffin eds., American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenshp: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons. Routledge.
2012
Adamson, J. 2012. "Spiky Green Life": Environmental, food and sexual justice themes in Sapphire's PUSH. Pp. 69-88 In: McNeil, E., N. A. Lester, D. S. Fulton and L. D. Myles eds., Sapphire's Literary Breakthrough: Erotic Literacies, Feminist Pedagogies, Environmental Justice Perspectives. Palgrave Macmillan. New York, New York. ISBN: 000-1137282215.
Adamson, J. 2012. Seeking the Corn Mother: Transnational indigenous community building and organizing, food sovereignty and native literary studies. Pp. 228-249 In: Pulitano, E. ed., We the Peoples: Indigenous Rights in the Age of Declaration. Cambridge University Press.
2010
Adamson, J. 2010. Literature and environment studies and the influence of the environmental justice movement. Pp. 593-607 In: Lauter, P. ed., A Companion to American Literature and Culture. Wiley-Blackwell. Oxford, UK.
2008
Adamson, J. 2008. "For the sake of the land and all people": Teaching American Indian literature. Pp. 194-202 In: Waage, F. O. and L. Christiansen eds., Teaching North American Environmental Literature. MLA Press. New York, NY.
2002
Adamson, J. 2002. Encounter with a Mexican jaguar: Nature, NAFTA, militarization and ranching in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Pp. 221-240 Globalization on the Line: Culture, Capital, and Citizenship at the U.S. Borders. Palgrove. New York, NY.
Adamson, J. 2002. Throwing rocks at the sun: An interview with Teresa Leal. Pp. 44-57 In: Adamson, J., M. Evans and R. Stein eds., The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
Adamson, J., M. Evans and R. Stein. 2002. Introduction. Pp. 3-14 In: Adamson, J., M. Evans and R. Stein eds., The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. The University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
Adamson, J. and R. Stein. 2002. Environmental justice: A roundtable discussion with Simon Ortiz, Teresa Lele, Devon Pena, and Terrell Dixon. Pp. 15-26 In: Adamson, J., M. Evans and R. Stein eds., The Environmental Justice Reader: Politics, Poetics, and Pedagogy. The University of Arizona Press. Tucson, AZ.
1998
Adamson, J. 1998. Towards an ecology of justice: Transformative literary theory and practice. Pp. 9-17 Reading the Earth: New Diretions in the Study of Literature and the Environment. University of Idaho Press. Moscow, ID.
Presentations
2017
Adamson, J. 2017. Food futures: Indigenous ethnobotanical knowledges, seed sovereignty and resilience. Presentation at the Decolonizing Nature: Resistance | Resilience | Revitalization, April 20, 2017, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
Adamson, J. 2017. How to make your campus an urban lab for the citizen humanities. Presentation at the Eco/Next: Green Humanities Beyond 2017 Series, March 31, 2017, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA.
2016
Adamson, J. 2016. Addressing cities, heritage, food, environment and climate change within the Humanities for the Environment (HIE) Global Initiative. Presentation at the Valuing, Evaluating, Creativity Conference and the 10th Annual UNESCO Creative Cities Network Meeting, September 12-14, 2016, Mid Sweden University, Ostersund, Sweden.
Adamson, J. 2016. Backbone, country, Anthropocene: Integrating knowledges, forging new constellations of humanities and social science practice. Presentation at the Global Ecologies Conference, November 23, 2016, University of Sydney, Australia.
Adamson, J. 2016. Creating new fields: Expanding environmental justice/climate justice with scholarship in related areas. Presentation at the Who's Globe? Who's Globalization, February 26, 2016, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
Adamson, J. 2016. Integrating knowledges, forging new constellations of transdisciplinary practice. Presentation at the Higher Seminar, Division of History of Science Technology & Environment, Environmental Humanities Laboratory, September 5, 2016, KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Adamson, J. 2016. Roots and trajectories: Why field genealogies -- and intergenerational justice -- matter in the environmental humanities. Presentation at the Environmental Trajectories Conference, October 28-29, 2016, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Adamson, J. 2016. The Anthropocene humanities and keywords for environmental studies. Presentation at the The Seedbox Collaboratory, September 7, 2016, Linkoping University.
Adamson, J. 2016. Why bears, Sachamama (Mother Forest) and other transformational beings are (still) good to think: From ecopoetics to multispecies ethnography. Presentation at the Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth: International Conference on Ecopoetics, June 22-25, 2016, University of Perpiganan, Perpignan, France.
2015
Adamson, J. 2015. Telling storied matters, picturing time: What ancient desert plants tell us about deep time, resilience, and adaption. Presentation at the Environmental Photography and Humanities: Contributions to Research and Awareness, an International Symposium, April 23-24, 2015, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Adamson, J. 2015. We have never been "Anthropos": From environmental justice to cosmopolitics. Presentation at the Nation in the Age of Environmental Crisis, Ecociriticism Network Symposium, July 17-18, 2015, Augsburg, Germany.
Adamson, J. 2015. We have never been "Anthropos": The future of the environmental humanities. Presentation at the Symposium on the Future of the Environmental Humanities, September 24-27, 2015, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT.
2014
Adamson, J. 2014. Corn mothers and sunflowers: Cultural difference, biodiversity, and the emergence of critical plant studies. Presentation at the The Environmental Humanities: Emergence and Impact, Andrew W. Mellon Seminar, December 9, 2014, University of California, Los Angeles, Ca.
Adamson, J. 2014. Humanities for the environment: Articulating 'Storied Matter' in the multiverse. Presentation at the The Annual Meeting of the Consortium for Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI): Performance Humanities, June 5-8, 2014, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
Adamson, J. 2014. Networked relations: Humanities for the environment. Presentation at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatires, December 16, 2014, Xiamen University, Fujian Province, China.
Adamson, J. 2014. Star Waka: Narratives, networks and global indigenous studies. Presentation at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, December 22, 2014, National Chung-hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Adamson, J. 2014. The paddling nations: Narratives, networks and the future of the humanities. Presentation at the Core Connections Lecture, College of Arts and Sciences, March 31, 2014, University of New England, Portland, ME.
Adamson, J. 2014. Toward a future we want: Material ecocriticism and the articulation of "Storied Matter(s)". Presentation at the The Sixth International Conference in ecodiscourse: Speculative Materialisms, December 19, 2014, Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan.
2013
Adamson, J. 2013. A keyword for environmental studies: Imagination. Presentation at the 8-9 March 2013 Environmental Humanities in a Changing World, Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University.
Adamson, J. 2013. Gardens in the desert: Migration, diaspora and food sovereignty in the work of global indigenous women writers. Presentation at the International Migrants and Their Memories Conference, October 5, 2013, National Sun-yat Sen University, Koahsiung, Taiwan.
Adamson, J. 2013. Rethinking the "environmental imagination" in the context of multispecies ethnography and cosmopolitics. Keynote presentation at the 17-18 February 2013 Ecocriticism: Transpacific Dialogue Conference, University of Central Florida and the Beijing Language and Culture University.
Adamson, J. 2013. Source of life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an ecology of selves. Workshop leader at 23 January 2013 Mellon Research Initiative in Enviornments and Societies, University of California-Davis.
2012
Adamson, J. 2012. "¡Todos Somos Indios!" Indigenous organizing and activist literatures of the Americas. Presentation at the 14-17 June 2012 ASLE Symposium Environment, Culture, Place in a Rapidly Changing North, Juneau, Alaska.
Adamson, J. 2012. "¡Todos Somos Indios!" Human and civil rights and rights for nature in indegenous American organizing. Presentation at the 5 July 2012 Jornada de Ecologia y Culturas y Literaturas Amerindias and Grupo de Investigatión en Ecocritica Instituto Franklin, Universidad de Acalá, Museo de America, Madrid, Spain.
Adamson, J. 2012. If a tree falls: Multispecies ethnography, Amazonia imagination and new answers to old questions. Plenary Speaker/Keynote at 27 June 2012 Fifth European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment Conference, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
Adamson, J. 2012. Keywords in the study of environment and culture: Imagination. Towards a sustainable future: opportunities for collaborations between the humanities and the sciences. Presentation at the 20 March 2012 Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen UK.
Adamson, J. 2012. Rethinking the commons: How the Humanities power our fights for food and climate justice. Presentation at 24 October 2012 English, Environmental Studies, and the Oregon Humanities Center, University of Oregon.
Adamson, J. 2012. Source of light: New biosemiotic understanding of indigenous literatures and ecological knowledges. Presentation at the 12 July 2012 Center for Comparative Native and Indigenous Studies, Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
2011
Adamson, J. 2011. Anthologizing ecocriticism. Presentation at the 21-26 June 2011 Ninth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Bloomington, Indiana.
Adamson, J. 2011. Environmental imagination. Presentation at the 20-23 October 2011 American Studies Association Annual Conference, Baltimore, Maryland.
Adamson, J. 2011. Mother/mater/matrix: How the humanities power our fight for climate justice. Presentation at the 11 February 2011 Sustainability in America Symposium; for the Sustainability Studies Initiative in the Humanities and American Literary History.
Adamson, J. 2011. The toxic tour: Ten years of history and reflection. Presentation at the 13-17 April 2011 History and Sustainability, American Society for Environmental History, Phoenix, Arizona.
2010
Adamson, J. 2010. Ecocriticism, environmental justice and global indigenous studies. Presentation at the 1-4 September 2010 Environmental Change-Cultural Change Conference, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom.
Adamson, J. 2010. Food medicine: Environmental justice critical studies, Native North American women's writing and the movement for food sovereignty. Presentation at the 22-24 May 2010 Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, Tucson, Arizona.
Adamson, J. 2010. Hometree: Linda Hogan's People of the Whale, James Cameron's Avatar and the struggle to save the divine trees of Taiwan. Presentation at the 16-18 December 2010 Fifth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Taipei, Taiwan.
Adamson, J. 2010. Mother/mater/matrix: The future of the environmental humanities. Presentation at the 14 December 2010 National Sun Yat sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Adamson, J. 2010. Race and indigeneity in Avatar: The role of film in addressing climate change. Presentation at the 16-18 November 2010 American Studies Association Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas.
2009
Adamson, J. 2009. Letters from an American Farmer, Babel, and the Matrix: Imagining new forms of ecological citizenship. Presentation at the 5-8 November 2009 American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C.
Adamson, J. 2009. Moby Dick, People of the Whale, and Whale Rider: An eco-planetary reading of indigenous American and Austronesian literatures and film. Presentation at the 3-6 June 2009 Eighth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE), Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
2008
Adamson, J. 2008. "To change in a good way": Native American literatures, place-based transience, and diasporic residency. Presentation at the 6 June 2008 International Conference on Foreign Literature Teaching, Asia University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Adamson, J. 2008. Coming home to eat: Re-imaging place in the age of global climate change. Presentation at the 23 May 2008 The Fourth Tamkang International Conference on Ecological Discourse, Taipei, Taiwan.
Adamson, J. 2008. Do race, class, and environmental justice still matter? Critiquing Break Through and the "new" environmental movements. Presentation at the 16-19 October 2008 American Studies Association Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Adamson, J. 2008. Transnational indigenous community building and organizing: Corn, food sovereignty and hemospheric indigenous studies. Presentation at the April 2008 Native American and Indigenous Studies Conference, Athens, Georgia.
2007
Adamson, J. 2007. Environment and culture studies: Theorizing space and place, building community connections. Organizer and chair, 2007 American Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Adamson, J. 2007. Human worlds/living worlds: Sustainability, usability habitability. Presentation at the 25-27 October 2007 Western States Rhetoric and Literacy Conference, Arizona State University, Tempe.
2006
Adamson, J. 2006. Transnational waste and pollution: Communities, consumption, and cultures. Organizer and respondent, 2006, American Studies Association Conference, Oakland, California.
2005
Adamson, J. 2005. American studies scholars as public intellectuals? What can be learned from place-based enviornmental justice activism. Presentation at the 2005 American Studies Association Conference, Washington, D.C.