Matt Chew

Invited Presentations and Panels

Native is a Metaphor: Biogeography and Belonging a conversation with artist Chan Sook Choi and Biologist Matthew Chew; 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, October 7, 2023

Invasive Species are Neither, and Why it Matters. Maricopa Audubon Society, November 3, 2015; also at Boyce Thompson Southwest Arboretum, December 14, 2015.

Webinar Presentation: Thinking About “Invasive Species.” University of New Mexico; University of California, Berkeley; University of Alaska, Fairbanks. The Human Dimension of Natural History Biology 402-502, 2 September 2014.

Webinar Presentation: How Did Weeds Became Invaders? University of Nebraska, Lincoln, North American Invasive Plant Short Course.  6 February 2014. https://connect.unl.edu/p8ozwok9nem/

Presentation: Hearts, Minds and “Invasive” Species. Beyond Pesticides 31st National Pesticide Forum. “Sustainable Families, Farms and Food: Resilient Communities Through Organic Practices.” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, 6 April 2013

Workshop Panelist: Organic Land Management and Cutting Edge Alternatives. Beyond Pesticides 31st National Pesticide Forum. “Sustainable Families, Farms and Food: Resilient Communities Through Organic Practices.” University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM, 6 April 2013

Presentation: Biological invasions aren’t invasions—And why that matters to science and society. University of Nevada, Reno. Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology Colloquium Series.
Reno, NV 21 February 2013.

Moderator: Film discussion panel, Watershed: Exploring a new water ethic for the New West. Arizona State University, Global Institute of Sustainability and the Arizona Riparian Council, Tempe AZ,
27 September 2012.

Panelist: Science Magazine, ScienceNOW Live Chat: Invasive Species—Threats or Just Misunderstood? 26 July 2012. http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/07/live-chat-invasive-specie…

Panelist: Adopting and Adapting a Father: Charles Elton’s Meaning to Invasion Biology. University of Sydney Environmental Humanities Group Conference: Rethinking Invasion Ecologies: Natures, Cultures, and Societies in the Age of the Anthropocene.  Sydney, NSW, Australia. June 2012.

Plenary panelist: The Surprising History of Biological Invasions: Certain uncertainties, philosophical failures and metaphorical mistakes. American Fisheries Society, Idaho Chapter Annual Conference, Coeur d’Alene Idaho, March 2012.

Natives and Aliens: Not Even a Good Idea. 30th Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, Eugene, Oregon, March 2012.

Presentation: Pragmatic Environmentalism.  Arizona Association of Environmental Professionals.  Scottsdale, AZ, 24 May 2011.

Panelist: Second Annual 21st Century Challenges for Conservation Biology. Central Arizona Chapter, Society for Conservation Biology. Tempe, AZ April 2011.

Presentation: Where Natives Come From.  Northern Arizona University, Forestry Graduate Students Association Seminar Series.  Flagstaff, AZ, 27 October 2010. http://www.for.nau.edu/mosaddphp/Seminar/Recordings/101027/MattChew.html

Presentation: Phytogeography: 175 Years of Negative Nativeness. From Linnaeus to the Encyclopedia of Life: Tracking Diversity in the Natural World. MBL-ASU History of Biology Summer Seminar. Woods Hole, MA May 2010.

Panelist: 21st Century Challenges for Conservation Biology. Society for Conservation Biology, Central Arizona Chapter. Tempe, AZ April 2010.

Presentation: No Place Like Home: The Competing Social Metaphors of Ecological Science. University of Tasmania: School of Government and Environment Centre special joint symposium. Hobart, Australia, July 2009.

Keynote Presentation The Dagger and the Asterisk. Symposium: “Fifty years of Invasion Ecology – the Legacy of Charles Elton.” Stellenbosch, South Africa. November 2008.

Presentation: Is it Really an Invasion? McDowell Sonoran Conservancy, Scottsdale AZ, June 2007.

Presentation: Monsters from Another World: Arizona Aliens. Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix AZ, July 2002. (With J.C. Stromberg)

Meetings, Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia: Contributed Presentations and Posters

"Unwanted! Anthropomorphizing and Personifying Introduced Species as Criminals" with Rachel Hall, Louisiana State University. American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March 2014.

Changing conservation goals and strategies: A succession of failed metaphors? (Symposium Paper) Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland OR August 2012.

Prescriptive Political Biogeography: National Identity and ‘Invading Alien’ Species. Nature and Nation Network Second Workshop: The State of Nature. Bucharest, Romania, December 2011.

The Last Nineteenth Century Naturalist: Charles Elton’s Visits to the American Tropics. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science Biennial Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah July 2011.

Found then Drowned: Three Noteworthy Collections from Tempe Town Lake. 8th Arizona Botany Meeting. E. Makings, L. Butler, Matthew Chew & Juliet Stromberg; presented by Elizabeth Makings. Phoenix AZ, February 2011.

A Modified Kind of Man and a Modified Kind of Nature: Charles Elton’s Vision of Millennial Conservation. History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Montreal Quebec November 2010.

 Biotic Nativeness: A historical look at a “simply negative” idea. School of Life Sciences Seminar Series, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. October 2009.

Anekeitaxonomy: Botany, Place and Belonging. World Congress of Environmental History, Copenhagen, Denmark, August 2009.

Tamarisk: Five Framings. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science Biennial Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, July 2009.

Tamarisk: From Good and Pretty to Bad and Ugly (invited conference dinner presentation) Arizona Riparian Council Annual Meeting, Camp Verde, Arizona. April 2009.

The Role of Scientists in Tamarisk and River Management: Perpetuation of a Mythology (poster, with J. Stromberg, P. Nagler and E. Glenn).  Tamarisk and Russian Olive Research Conference, Reno, NV February 2009; Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, August 2009.

Ecology and the De-Natured World. (Symposium Paper). Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI August 2008.

Invasion Biology’s Forgotten Forerunners (poster). Ecological Society of America / Society for Ecological Restoration; Joint Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA August 2007. also at Symposium: “Fifty years of Invasion Ecology – the Legacy of Charles Elton.” Stellenbosch, South Africa. November 2008.

H.C. Watson and the Civil Claims of “British” Plants,” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science Biennial Meeting, Exeter, UK, July 2007.

5000 Years of Tamarisk in 5 Minutes. Special Session Panel, Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN August 2006.

Anekeitaxonomy: Biologizing Belonging. Southwest Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Davis, CA March 2006.

The Anti(?)-Aesthetics of Invasion Biology. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science Biennial Meeting, Guelph, Ontario, Canada July 2005.

Nativeness Considered (with Andrew L. Hamilton, UC San Diego) Southwest Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Tempe AZ March 2005

Endangered with Criticized Habitat: A Bird in the Wrong Bush. American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Victoria, BC, Canada April 2004.

The Costs of Caricature: Is Invasion Biology Exploiting Science Illiteracy? (Poster) American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, March 2004.
also at Gordon Research Conference on Science and Technology Policy, Big Sky, MT August 2004.

Biological Invasions as Ecological (and other) Models (with M.D. Laubichler) Southwest Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Austin, TX March 2004.

The Stone the Builders Rejected: Marston Bates, Charles Elton and the Foundations of Invasion Ecology. International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Science Biennial Meeting, Vienna, Austria, July 2003.

The Tangled Tale of Tamarix: A Study in Status, Southwest Colloquium in the History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, Tempe, AZ February 2003.

The Invasion of the Second Greatest Threat, History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, November 2002.