Below you will find a list of selected upcoming and past seminars and lectures presented by me. If you would like further information on any of these talks please get in touch. For an archive of materials from past events that I have (co) organised, please visit my events page.

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Past Seminars and Lectures

2024

11 April 2024
The radical work of mourning: the power of grief in a time of extinction
SEI Roundtable discussion with ABC Radio National Big Ideas
Panel: Thom van Dooren, Zoë Sadokierski, and Blanche Verlie. Chair: Natasha Mitchell.

29 January 2024
Wisdom of Crows: Fables, Science, Storytelling (Online Workshop)
Rethinking Fables in the Age of Global Environmental Crisis, Kent University
“Exploring the Border Between Ethics and Ethology with Crows”

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2023

27-28 November 2023
Australasian Animal Studies Association
“A Preliminary Taxonomy of Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction” – with Myles Oakey, Matthew Chrulew, Sam Widin, and Drew Rooke
University of Sydney

8-12 November 2023
Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
“Eucalyptus Futures: Living and Dying with Hydrological Infrastructures” – with Emily O’Gorman
Honolulu

18-21 October 2023
Indigenizing Oceanic Commons
“The Oceania Observatory of Humanities for the Environment” – with Sophie Chao and Craig Santos Perez
Funded by Taiwan’s Council of Indigenous Peoples, hosted by Arizona State University (online)

4-7 July 2023
Annual Conference of the Institute of Australian Geographers
Keynote: “The craft of poisoning: learning not to eat cane toads”
Curtin University

26-30 June 2023
Multispecies Landscapes workshop
Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, University of Oslo

22 June 2023
Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities
“Eucalypts in the Patchy Anthropocene: Histories and Futures of the Camden White Gum” (with Emily O’Gorman)
University of Cologne, Germany

4-5 May 2023
Learning from Aliens symposium
“The Craft of Poisoning: Learning not to eat cane toads”
Asia Research Institute, Singapore

April 2023
Institute for Culture and Society seminar series
“The craft of poisoning: learning not to eat cane toads”
Western Sydney University

16-18 March 2023
Networks of Plants and Language of Resonance in Science and Literature
“Eucalypts in the Patchy Anthropocene: Histories and Futures of the Camden White Gum” (with Emily O’Gorman)
The University of Sydney

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2022

17 November 2022
So Close: Ecologies of Life and Death
Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory, Slovenia (online)
Invited talk: “Living in unravelling worlds: Snail stories in a time of extinctions”

16-18 November 2022
World Philosophy Day 2022 Symposium and Exhibition: “The Human to Come”
UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector/ LE FRESNOY, Paris (online)
Invited talk

4 November 2022
Visualising the Invisible: The importance of imagemakers in climate communication
Visual Knowledges (UTS Design) and the Sydney Environment Institute
Panel presentation: “Storying Loss”

12 October 2022
Department of Natural Resources & Environmental Management, Seminar Series
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (online)
Invited talk: “Moving Birds: Assisted Colonisation in a Colonised Land”

1 September 2022
2022 Food Futures Conference, Humanities for the Environment
National Taiwan Science Education Center (online)
New Book Talk in Honour of Deborah Bird Rose

3 August 2022
Climate Justice and Problems of Scale, CHCI/Mellon Global Humanities Institute
“Doing Multispecies Studies: With Snails”

13 June 2022
Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities (MESH) Seminar
Title: “A World in a Shell: Multispecies Studies, with snails”
University of Cologne

1-3 June 2022
The Everyday Affects of Ecological Globalization
Department of Anthropology and Centre for Environmental Humanities, Aarhus University
Keynote lecture: “Moving snails: Hope in a Time of Loss”

30 May 2022
Posthumanities Hub and The Eco- and Bioart Lab Seminar/Webinar
Title: “The Craft of Poisoning: Learning not to Eat Cane Toads”
Linköping University

27 May 2022
Department of Gender and Cultural Studies Seminar Series
“Narrative Ecologies of Warragamba Dam: Opening Thoughts”
University of Sydney

7 May 2022
The Damaged Planet: Solidarität mit unserem verletzten Planeten
Academy of Media Arts Cologne (online)
“Stories from the Snail Ark: Hope in a Time of Loss”

5-6 May 2022
Ecography: Exploring Relational Methods
Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University (online)
Keynote lecture: “Some thoughts on etho/eco-graphy, with snails”

11 March 2022
2022 Lectures on Environmental Humanities
Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan (online)
“Stories from the Snail Ark: Hope in a Time of Loss”

14 February 2022
Department of Anthropology Colloquium, UC Davis (online)
“Military snails: Multispecies solidarities in Hawai‘i”

7-11 February 2022
The Community Garden
An end-of-program online festival of The Seed Box Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Sweden (online)
Keynote panel #2: Environmental Humanities: Reconfiguring Futures

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2021

16-17 November 2021
BLUE Openings: Approaches to More-than-Human Oceans
Aarhus (Denmark, the North Atlantic) and online
Roundtable discussion

19-28 February 2021
Religion and Environment: Relations and Relationality
2021 Conference of the International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
Keynote lecture: “In Search of Lost Snails: Storying Unknown Extinctions”

22 January 2021
An Endangered Menagerie, a panel within Requiem, Sydney Festival
“Smoke and Song: On the Unravelling of Regent Honeyeater Life”

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2020

3-4 December 2020
Environmental Law’s Extinction Problem
Queensland University of Technology
“The Unseen Extinction Crisis: Snail Stories from Hawai’i”

30 November 2020
Storying the Sustainable Intelligence of the Earth in the New Himalaya
Environmental Humanities Publishing Seminar
Keynote Lecture: “Military Snails: Multispecies Solidarities in Hawai’i”

21 October 2020
Planet on a Precipice: Histories and Futures of the Environmental Emergency
Feinberg Family Lecture Series 2020-21, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“A World in a Shell: The Disappearing Snails of Hawai’i”

27-28 February 2020
Storying Climate Change and the Environmental Resonance Dilemma
University of Melbourne

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2019

14-16 November 2019
Ethopower & Ethography: The History, Philosophy and Future of Ethology, IV
Curtin University, Perth
“Snail trails: A foray into disappearing worlds, written in slime”

24-25 October 2019
Unsettling Ecological Poetics
The University of Sydney
“On naming snails”

19 June 2019
Sydney Ideas: Biodiversity and extinction: can we achieve justice for all?
The University of Sydney
“Snail Stories for a Time of Extinctions”

2 May 2019
Naturhistorisk Museum, University of Oslo
Public Lecture: “A world in a shell: The disappearing snails of Hawai’i“

2-3 May 2019
Arts of Coexistence: Care and Survival in the Sixth Extinction
University of Oslo

29-30 April 2019
Animal Remains
University of Sheffield
Keynote Lecture: “Moving Birds in Hawai’i: Fledging species in an unravelling world”

26-27 April 2019
Maritime Animals
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, UK
Keynote/public Lecture: “Voyaging with Snails: Stories from Hawai’i“

13-15 February 2019
Grounding Story: 7th ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference
University of New England, Armidale
Keynote Lecture: “Moving Birds in Hawai’i: Assisted colonisation in a colonised land”

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2018

29 August – 1 September, 2018
4S, Sydney: TRANSnational STS
“Moving birds in Hawai’i: Translocation and an ethics of creaturely movement”

3 July 2018
“Provisioning Crows: Cultivating Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands”
Public Lecture at Verschwindende Vermächtnisse: Die Welt als Wald [Disappearing Legacies: The World as a Forest], Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin. This exhibition is curated by Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin.

18 May 2018
Bishop Museum, Honolulu (seminar)
“Extinction Stories: Landscapes of Loss in Oceania”

11 May 2018
Kewalo Marine Laboratory seminar
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Conservation as Creative Diplomacy: Raven and Tortoise Futures in the Mojave Desert”

10 May 2018
Center for Pacific Islands Studies seminar
University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Provisioning Crows: Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands”

16-20 April 2018
7th International Conference on Environmental Future
Honolulu, Hawai`i
“Provisioning Crows: Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands”
Theme: How do island sovereignty and conservation relate to each other? (18)

29 March 2018
Penn Program in Environmental Humanities (PPEH) Faculty Working Group series
University of Pennsylvania
“Making Worlds with Crows: A Multispecies Ethics”

15 March 2018
Seminar, UC Santa Cruz
“Provisioning Crows: Cultivating Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands”

20 March 2018
Anthropology seminar, MIT
“Provisioning Crows: Cultivating Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands”

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2017

20-24 November 2017
3rd International Conference for Compassionate Conservation
Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia
Conservation as Creative Diplomacy: Raven and Tortoise Futures in the Mojave Desert

1 September 2017
The Nexus of Life: Ecological Crisis and Creative Understanding
University of Sydney
Extinction Studies: A Dialogue (w Deborah Bird Rose)

18-19 July 2017
The Participatory Environmental Humanities
University of New South Wales

23-25 June 2017
Field Philosophy and Other Experiments
École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Provisioning Crows: Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Island

20 June 2017
Aesthetics and Practices of the Earth
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Recognising ravens: becoming subjects together (Mojave Desert, USA)

17-18 May 2017
Humanities for the Anthropocene: Developing New Approaches to Knowledge, Engagement and Impact I
Kings College London

16 May 2017
Animals’ Anthroposcenes
University of Oxford
With Jamie Lorimer, Krithika Srinvassan and Franklin Ginn
Recognising Ravens: Becoming Subjects Together

10 May 2017
Department seminar, Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research
University of Wollongong
Provisioning Crows: Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands

28 March 2017
Practical Justice Initiative Seminar Series
University of New South Wales
Provisioning Crows: Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands

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2016

1-3 December 2016
Speculative Ethology: History, Philosophy and Future of Ethology III
Curtin University, Perth
Provisioning Crows: Ecologies of Hope in the Mariana Islands

28-30 November 2016
Geo- (the earth and the earth sciences in humanities inquiry)
Curtin University, Perth
Rethinking the Final Frontier: Cosmologics and an Ethics of Interstellar Flourishing

23-25 November 2016
Global Ecologies, Local Impacts
University of Sydney
Encountering Crows: Enacting Multispecies Democracies

22-24 October 2016
International Association of Environmental Philosophy
Salt Lake City, USA
Invited Book Session: Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction
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Spectral Crows: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance
(Session: Rethinking Conservation)

7-8 April 2016
Feminist, Queer, Anticolonial Propositions for Hacking the Anthropocene
University of Sydney

11 April 2016
Planetary Responsibility?
University of New South Wales

Short visit (17-19 Feb 2016)
Environmental Humanities, University of Leeds
Spectral Crows in Hawai‘i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance

Short visit (22-26 Feb 2016)
Environmental Humanities, University of Edinburgh
Violence and Deep Time Workshop (22-23 February)
Keynote: The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene (22 February)

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2015

21-23 January 2015
Seminar, Research on the Anthropocene
Aarhus University, Denmark
Banking the Forest: Loss, Hope and Care in Hawaiian Conservation

27 January 2015
“The Environmental Humanities: Emergence and Impact”
Mellon Sawyer Seminar, University of California Los Angeles
Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds (co-authored with Deborah Bird Rose)

23 March 2015
Happiness, ecology, and life in glass
A workshop with Sara Ahmed, Sarah Franklin, Elspeth Probyn, Eben Kirksey and Thom van Dooren
Environmental Humanities, University of New South Wales, Sydney

7-11 July 2015
Literary Networks
Panel: The Environmental Humanities and the Literary Imagination
Lively Ethography: Storying the World
Thom van Dooren and Deborah Bird Rose
University of Wollongong

6 August 2015
The Outer Space Business: The Humanities and Social Sciences on Economic Expansion Beyond the Earth
University of Technology Sydney
Re-thinking the Final Frontier: Cosmo-logics and an Ethics of Interstellar Flourishing (co-authored with Matthew Kearnes)

11 September 2015
Grand Challenges Public Lecture
Institute for Future Environments, Queensland University of Technology
The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene

15 October 2015
Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Forum, 2015
Session Chair (and introduction)
Agricultural Landscapes: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
Woodward Conference Centre, University of Melbourne

5-6 November 2015
2015 Off Earth Mining Forum
University of New South Wales, Sydney
The Ethics of Off-Earth Mining: Expanding the Discussion (co-authored with Matthew Kearnes)

7 November 2015
Zoology on the Table: The Science, Sustainability and Politics of Eating Animals
Forum of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales
The Promises of Pests: Wildlife in Agricultural Landscapes (co-authored with Emily O’Gorman)

12-15 November 2015
Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
Rice University, Houston
Panel: Extinction Studies: Life and Death in the Anthropocene
Paper: The Last Snail: Loss, Hope and Care for the Future
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Making Worlds with Crows: Multispecies Studies as Field Philosophy

18-22 November, 2015
American Anthropological Association, Denver
Panel: The Familiar and The Strange of Personhood: “The New Animism” and The Re“Turn To Things” (Panel 1 of 2)
Paper: Lively Ethography: Storying Animist Worlds (co-authored with Deborah Rose)
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Panel: Gaia Strikes Back: Feral Landscapes of The Anthropocene (Panel 1 of 2)
Discussant

25-26 November 2015 (via Skype)
The Ethics of Hope? Posthumanism, Life and Climate Change
La Trobe University
The Last Snail: Loss, Hope and Care for the Future

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2014

22 September 2014
Biology Seminar, Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History
Authentic Crows: Identity, Captivity, and Endangered Species Management

23 September 2014
Public lecture, American Museum of Natural History
Living with Crows in Hawai’i: Conservation in Haunted Landscapes
12:30pm – 1:30pm
Entrance: AMNH 77th Street Entrance
Location: Linder Theater

25 September 2014
Ecology and Culture Seminar, Columbia University
Living with Crows in Hawai’i: Conservation in Haunted Landscapes

6 October 2014
Seminar, Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Banking the Forest: Loss, Hope and Care in Hawaiian Conservation

13 November 2014
Human Geography Seminar, University of Edinburgh
Living with Crows in Hawai’i: Conservation in Haunted Landscapes

15 November 2014 (via Skype)
Nonhumans Conference
University of California, Davis

16 November 2014
At the Edge of Extinction: A Conversation
Only Human? Being with animals, elements and environments
University of Glasgow

18 November 2014
Life After the Anthropocene
Oxford University
The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene

20 November 2014
Seminar, Lunchtime Colloquium
Rachel Carson Center, Munich
Living with Crows in Hawai’i: Conservation in Haunted Landscapes

2-4 December 2014
Im/mortality and In/finitude in the Anthropocene
Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
The Unwelcome Crows: Hospitality in the Anthropocene