Selected Keynote and Distinguished Lectures (last 10 years)
2025: “Intercultural Memory for Catastrophic Times,” Keynote lecture for conference on "Natural-Cultural Memory in the Anthropocene: Tracing – Archiving - Remembering", Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin, Sept. 17-19.
2025: “For All our Neighbours: Christianity and Ecology in Action,” Keynote for "Bewahrung der Schöpfung"-Workshop, Ruhr-University, Bochum, Sept. 11-12.
2025: “Contemplative Ecopoetics”, invited paper in seminar on “Ecology, Ecstasy, Mysticism,” ACLA Annual Online Conference, May 29-June 1.
2025: “Multispecies Solidarity: Towards a Postanthroparchal Polity” (with Christoph Lange), SPARC workshop “Have we ever been posthuman?” Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, Feb. 25.
2024: “Sympoesis now and then: Potentiation, Conviviality and co-creation in romantic ecopoetics,” Romanticism Colloqium "Zur Aktualität romantischer Naturkonzeptionen," University of Jena, April 11.
2023: “Discourses of Nature at the Dawn of the Anthropocene,” conference on “Henrik Steffens: The prophet of the Anthropocene?”, Archaeological Museum, University of Stavanger, Sept. 8-9.
2023: “Synergies, Surprises and Snags: Transdisciplinary Adventures in the Environmental Humanities,” NoRS-EH “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities” Symposium, Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, Sept. 6-7.
2023: “‘Pilot’ or ‘purpose’? Positioning humankind in the ‘universal choir of creation’,” workshop on “Faith, Scepticism, and Human-Animal Boundaries in Jewish and Christian Religious Cultures,” Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies, Hamburg University, August 9-10.
2022: “Reckoning with Disaster: Sciences, Histories, and Imaginaries for Pyrophytic Times”, Deutsches Museum, Environmental Perspectives Series, June 13.
2021: “ ‘a dark unmeaning blank’: Romantic Ecologies at the End of the World”, keynote for conference on Romantic Ecologies, Gesellschaft für englische Romantik, Augsburg, Sept. 29.
2021: “The Communion of Creatures” webinar in Duke University’s online series on “Facing the Anthropocene”, Feb. 18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VXM-yzXxY0
2020: “Wellbeing in a More-than-Human World: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities,” opening lecture for EUniWell workshop on the Environmental Humanities, University of Nantes, Oct., 20 https://www.euniwell.eu/news-events/events/festiwell/introductory-conference
2020: “In Praise of Weeds: Ecopoetics beyond the Page”, keynote for conference on “Contemporary Literature and the Environmental Imagination”, University of Ghent, Nov., 29.
2019: “‘even the fish of the sea are perishing’: Ecopoetics for a Damaged World”, keynote for BAAHE conference on “Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World”, Université libre de Bruxelles, Dec. 3.
2019: “Poets and Pollinators in the Plantationocene: Transatlantic Perspectives” lecture for In Transition lecture series in Literary and Cultural Studies, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Jan. 31.
2018: “Anthropocene Challenges: Reweaving the Web of Knowledge”, 21st Annual lecture for the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Vienna, Dec. 4.
2016: “Environmental Humanities in a More-than-Secular World: Global Perspectives, Local Practices,” Keynote for “Environmental Humanities: Globalization, Adaptation, Education” conference, Dongguk University, Seoul, Sth Korea, Nov. 4-6.
2016: “ ‘Piping in Their Honey Dreams’. Bee-Speaking and Ecopoetics in the Anthropocene”, keynote for International Symposium onTexts, Animals, Environments. Zoopoetics and Environmental Poetics", Hannover, Germany, Oct. 12-14.
2016: “Environmental (Post-)Humanities: The View from ‘Down Under”; Keynote for “Nature and Environment in Australia” conference of the German Association for Australian Studies, University of Cologne, Sept. 30.
2015: “Humanities beyond the Human: The Ecological Turn in Literary Studies,” public lecture in series of Lunch lectures on paradigm shifts in the sciences, hosted by Freiburg Research Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Freiburg, Dec. 3.
2014: “Cultures, Ecologies, Ethics: A Field Guide to the Environmental Humanities,” Distinguished Lecture in the Environmental Humanities, University of New England, Nov. 4.
2014: “The Poetics of Decolonisation,” Keynote lecture for “Women and Environments” conference of Contemporary Women’s Writing Association, State Library, Melbourne, 3-5 July.
2014: “Earth’s Poesy: Natural Philosophy, Romantic Poetics and Biosemiotics,” Keynote lecture for conference on “Nature and Culture in German Romanticism and Idealism,” Universities of Sydney and NSW, 12-14 March.
2014: “Narrative, Ethics and Bushfire in the Anthropocene,” Plenary lecture for “Living in the Anthropocene” conference, hosted by the Australasian Mellon Observatory for Humanities for the Environment, 26-28 February.
2013: “Animal Calls,” Val Plumwood Memorial Lecture for AASG conference, Life in the Anthropocene, University of Sydney, 8-10 July.