Recent Speaking Events
Western History Association Annual Conference
October 2021
Portland, Oregon
Paper presentation on “Picturing the Amphibious City: Houseboats, Photography, and Settler Colonialism in the Early Twentieth-Century Pacific Northwest,” as part of a panel on environmental knowledge in Pacific Northwest history.
Audio discussion covering the PhD research and writing processes across social science disciplines, historians’ responsibilities to the dead, and worst-case scenarios. Listen here.
Write For You Podcast
May 2021
Odegaard Writing and Research Center
Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies Annual Symposium
May 2021
Introduction and overview to the collaborative digital mapping project “A Peoples’ History: Racism and Resistance at UW.”
Western History Association Annual Conference
October 2020
Albuquerque, New Mexico
(Conference moved online due to COVID-19)
Paper presentation on “An American Vagrant in Vancouver” as part of a panel on the relationships between shifting constructions of masculinity and criminalized behaviors in the North American West between the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, titled “Masculinity and Criminality in the West: Power, Gender, and the State.”
Open Window School
September 2020
Virtual a guest talk on “The Craft of History” to two sessions of seventh grade humanities at Open Window School.
History 595: Digital History Methods
May 2020
University of Washington
Guest talk and workshop on “low tech” digital mapping for humanities research for a graduate seminar on digital history methods at the University of Washington.
Past Events
January 2020, AHA
Madison contributed to a roundtable on “What American Atlanticists Need to Know about the Pacific” for the 2020 American Historical Association Annual Conference in New York, New York.
October 2019, WHA
Madison presented “Rise and Fall: A Vertical History of Urban Waterfronts in the Pacific Northwest” at the 2019 Western History Association Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
May 2019, BC Studies
Madison presented “Steamtown: Transpacific Steamships, Policing, and the Vancouver Waterfront, 1897-1914” at the 2019 BC Studies Annual Conference in Kamloops, British Columbia.