Pegi is a seasoned lecturer and cultural consultant who has has taught on travel and tourism, storytelling, visual anthropology, and documentary production. She is available as a keynote speaker, lecturer, or workshop leader. Previous work internationally includes talks and screenings at the Margaret Mead Film Festival, American Museum of Natural History, the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland’s Ethnographic Film Festival (RAI), Brazil Anthropological Association; Central European University, Budapest; the Soros Open Society documentary workshop, Azerbaijan; Columbia Alumni Travel Study Tours with National Geographic and Smithsonian “Hidden Wonders Around the World by Private Jet” and “Tahiti & French Polynesia”; keynote, Critical Tourism Studies conference in Croatia; screening/discussion, Mekong Tourism Forum in Vietnam and Voice & Matter Conference, Malmö University, Sweden; presenter, NY Travel Festival; presenter, ITB Berlin; lecturer on cultural tourism at universities in Brazil, Bern (Switzerland), Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Barcelona, and New York. Pegi has also served as a judge or juror for the World Travel Tourism Council’s Tourism for Tomorrow Awards, National Geographic World Legacy Awards, and the International Documentary Association. She has additionally presented at The Moth, MoMA, Museum of the City of New York, Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, and with New York Women in Film & Television (NYWIFT), among others.
See Pegi’s suggestions @ Room for Debate, New York Times: “Travelers Can Choose to Make a Difference“.
In addition to screenings/discussions of the documentary Gringo Trails, Pegi is also available for radio/tv, speaking engagements, and as a sustainable travel consultant. Past press has included CNN, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Der Spiegel, La Vanguardia, Wall Street Journal, Travel+Leisure, Skift, Today, Globo, South China Morning Post, Travel Weekly, Gadling, and The Hollywood Reporter, among others. Full list here.
“The Measure of Time: Repurposing the Archives, Repatriating Human Remains” in Decolonizing Europe: Ethnographies of National and Transnational Project
“The Skulls of Inishbofin“, Irish Echo
The Long Journey Home, blog, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
“Introduction: World Fairs, Exhibitions and Anthropology” Revisiting Contexts of Post-colonialism in Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
Recent press: Trinity College Dublin considers returning Inishbofin skulls, in The Guardian
New podcasts: The Moth 25 Years of Stories: All the Way Back & Deviate: An Anthropology of Travel Culture with Rolf Potts