Talks & Interviews

Talks, Interviews, & Conference Presentations

2023 "China Will Crack Down on Fentanyl Sent to the US. Worse Drugs Could Fill the Vacuum." Vice. November 16.

2023 "Incarceration and Mental Illness in the United States: The Case of the Los Angeles County Jail, Largest Locked De Facto Psychiatric Facility in the World." Harvard University’s Department of Sociology Contemporary Ethnography and Inequality Workshop. March 23.

2023 "Intersectional Structural Forces Driving the Toxicities of Social Inequality: The Global Narcotics Industry’s Shift to Synthetics in the Era of Predatory Accumulation." Network of African American Fellows Chapter Meeting, National Institute of Health. March 21.

2023 "Photo-Ethnographic Testimony of a Salvadoran Military Scorched-Earth Operation (November 1981)." Mind, Medicine, and Culture Series at UCLA’s Department of Anthropology. March 6.

2023 "The Spread of Combined Xylazine-Fentanyl in Drug Markets: The Urgent Need for Public Health Supply-Side Structural Interventions." West Coast Poverty Center Roundtable Series at the University of Washington. Co-Presented with Fernando Montero. March 2.

2023 "Incarceration and Mental Illness: Lessons from the Los Angeles County Jail PART 1." The Program on Urban Studies, Stanford University; February 16.

2023 "The Photos We Don’t Get to See." Culture, Power, and Social Change Winter 2023 Lecture Series at UCLA’s Department of Anthropology. Screening of film by Kevin Coleman and Discussion with Philippe Bourgois. January 26.

2022 "Public Anthropology USA: Our Era of Predatory Capitalism and Necro Profiteering." Speaker for the Touch Symposium in Paris. Livestreamed via Youtube. October 22.

2021 "Retrospectiva etnografica: Teorica sobre 30 anos de violencia en las Americas." Speaker for the University of Costa Rica's (UCR) Programa de Doctorado en Ciencias Sociales sobre America Central. Livestreamed via Facebook Live and Youtube. September 28.

2018 "Acumulacion depredadora: Las logicas violentas del narcomenudeo y su represion estatal en Estados Unidos." Keynote speaker for National Autonomous University of Mexico's (UNAM) Annual Seminar "Contemporary perspectives of Social Science Research." November 28.

2017 "The story behind Philly's heroin encampment." The Pulse, NPR Radio WHYY. Produced by Elana Gordon. August 17. https://whyy.org/articles/the-story-behind-phillys-heroin-encampment/

2016 "Ethnography and Structural Vulnerability: Social Science Concepts for Addressing Disparities in Health." Health Summer Training Institute, School of Dentistry, UCLA. August 8.

2015 "Perspectivas etnograficas sobre poblaciones en movimiento: 30 anos de violencia en las Americas." presented at the Inaugural Activities of the Department of Anthropology, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile May 7.

2015 "La furia en el ghetto estadounidense: Segregacion, expulsion, y violencia en la ciudad contemporanea." Inauguration of the Graduate Program in Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile May 5.

2015 "Overcoming the Contradictions between Law Enforcement and Public Health: An Anthropological Perspective on Our Golden Opportunity for HCV Treatment in Prison." Plenary presentation at 4th Canadian Symposium on HCV. Banff, Canada, February 27.

2015 "God Alone was with Us: The Massacre of Santa Cruz." Video, 18:33. Featured in the film. Produced and directed by Alex Montalvo. Unfinished Sentences Organization. Website of the University of Washington, Center for Human Rights. February 23. http://unfinishedsentences.org/santa-cruz/

2014 "Substance Abuse, Violence, & HIV: Changing Environments to Reduce Risk." Presented with Brian Work. Penn Center for Public Health Initiatives Seminar Series on Conversations around Cultures of Health, October 16.

2014 "With new PA drug laws, one academic wary of an over-correction." All Things Considered, NPR Radio WHYY. Produced by Mary Wilson. September 29. https://whyy.org/articles/with-new-pa-drug-laws-one-academic-wary-of-an-over-correction/

2012 "En Busca de Respeto: La venta de Crack en Harlem (Ediciones Huracán)." Presentación por Philippe Bourgois y Fernando Montero Castrillo, Universidad de Puerto Rico. August 30.

2011 "Lumpen Surveillance: Fieldnotes from the War on Drugs in the US Inner City." Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, November 19.

2011 "The Useless Suffering of 'Frequent Flyers' in the Emergency Room: An Anthropological Perspective on High-Tech Hospital Care for the Indigent." Practical Introduction to Social Services for Medical Students (PrISSMS) Talk, University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, October 19.

2010 "Crack in America." Universidade Nove de Juhlio Television [Brazil]. Interview by Paolo Markun. December 9.

2010 "The moral economy of violence in the US inner city: an anthropological perspective from Puerto Rican North Philadelphia." Robert Wood Johnson conference, Columbia University, September 24.

2010 "Righteous Dopefiends." Interview with Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg on KPFA's Against the Grain. Interview moderated by C.S. Soong, July 12.

2010 "Public Health and Law Enforcement: Reframing the Debate in Philadelphia." Panel Discussion at the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology." May 4.

2010 "Public Anthropology, Photo-Ethnography, and Homelessness in America: Confronting Urgent Social Challenges in the Penn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.” University of Pennsylvania Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, Annual Curator’s Lecture. January 21.

2009 "Righteous Dopefiend: A community of heroin addicts." Radio Times, NPR Radio WHYY. Produced by Marty Moscoe-Wayne. December 14. https://whyy.org/episodes/righteous-dopefiend-a-community-of-heroin-addicts-2/

2009 "Anthropology and Globalization: An Urgent Challenge and Responsibility." University Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences, 60 Second Lecture Series. September 30.

2009 "Public Health Confronts Law Enforcement." Talk presented to the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania, September 16.

2009 "Next Door But Invisible: The World of Homelessness and Drug Addiction." Audiovisual Installation. Video 4:52 minutes. (Co-curated with Penn Arts & Sciences). September 1.

2008 "Trois Terrains sur le Crack." Talk presented to the Public Health Department, Montreal. June 6.

2008 "Understanding the Cultural Logic of ‘Impossible Patients’: An Anthropological Perspective on Homeless Heroin Injectors and Crack Smokers in the Hospital." Class lecture to Jefferson School of Nursing, May 16.

2006 Excerpted interview of Philippe Bourgois from "Born 2b Gangsta?" Directed by John Montoya.

1992 "Interview with Michael Krasny on East Harlem." KGO Michael Krasny Show. January 17.