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PAST TALKS & EVENTS
(from 2016 onwards only)

June 9-11, 2026

Invited participation in an expert workshop on disaster risk communication organized by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Brussels, Belgium

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May 7, 2026

Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit: Ergebnisse des Transdisziplinären Forschungsprojekts

Invited talk as part of the Environmental Humanities Network Lunch Lectures at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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April 17, 2026

Between Resistance and Resilience: Nonhuman Agency and Sentience in Farm Sanctuary Documentaries

Paper presentation at the Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) “Join the Orca Uprising! Nonhuman Resistance and Multispecies (In)Justice” at Utrecht University

Utrecht, Netherlands

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January 29, 2026

Presentation at the “PreparEU pilot training on risk communication” follow-up workshop, organized by organized by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Brussels, Belgium

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January 26, 2026

Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit: Ergebnisse unserer Forschung zur WELLBEING-Filmreihe

Presentation of first research results for the “Well-being” film series in the transdisciplinary research project “Visions of Sustainability: Documentary Films as Impulses for Societal Transformation.”

Freiburg, Germany

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January 26, 2026

Class room visit for a discussion of my novel Fragile in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, USA

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November 25-27, 2025

Keynote and discussion facilitation for sessions on “Messages and Channels” and “Crafting Engaging Risk Narratives” at the second PreparEU pilot training on risk communication, organized by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Ede, Netherlands

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December 2, 2025

Film conversation with Sarah Heiligtag and Georg Klingler of the Hof Narr farm animal sanctuary on Marc Pierschel’s Butenland

Hamonie Arthouse Cinema; transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg/KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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October 28, 2025

Film conversation with Fabian Kern (VCD), Gregor Falter and Zeinab El Hage Ali (Bike Bridge) on Arne Gielen und Gertjan Hulstert’s Why We Cycle

Hamonie Arthouse Cinema; transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg/KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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September 29 – October 1, 2025

“Engaging the Public: Developing an Effective Narrative in Disaster Risk Communication”

Keynote and discussion facilitation for Masterclass “Developing a risk communication approach to support population preparedness” at the Evidence for UCPM Policy in Disaster Risk Management Summer School 2026, co-organized by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Barcelona, Spain

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September 24-26, 2025

Keynote and discussion facilitation for sessions on “Messages and Channels” and “Crafting Engaging Risk Narratives” at the first PreparEU pilot training on risk communication, organized by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Ede, Netherlands

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July 12, 2025

“(Re)creating Multispecies Connections: Narrative and Disaster Preparedness“

Keynote lecture at the MESH Symposium 2025 “Disaster Preparedness in Multispecies Worlds” at the University of Cologne

Cologne, Germany

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July 7, 2025

Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit: Ergebnisse unserer Forschung zur RESSOURCEN-Filmreihe

Presentation of first research results for the “Ressources” film series in the transdisciplinary research project “Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in collaboration with the Volkshochschule Freiburg)

Freiburg, Germany

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June 24, 2025

“Narrating European Climate Risk: A Transdisciplinary Approach to Community Engagement“

Keynote lecture at the Conference “Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches,” organized by the Interuniversity Research Centre Dis4Change: Studies on Climate Change and Environmental Discourse, University of Bari Aldo Moro

Bari, Italy

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June 5, 2025

“Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit: Wie wirken Klimafilme?”

Public lecture with Thomas Heintz at the Public Climate School organized by Students For Future Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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June 4, 2025

“Studying Eco-Documentaries: From Emotional Engagement to Social Impact“

Masterclass as part of the Cologne Media Conversation (CMC) at the University of Cologne

Cologne, Germany

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June 3, 2025

“Moving Viewers: Inspiring Environmental Action Through Impact Producing“

Evening talk as part of the Cologne Media Conversation (CMC) at the University of Cologne

Cologne, Germany

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May 20, 2025

Film conversation with Prof. Dr. Peter Woias and Michael Gorki (ZUKAMAS) on Manon Turina & François Marques’s Green City Life

Hamonie Arthouse Cinema; transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg/KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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May 1, 2025

Virtual classroom visit at Purdue University Northwest for a conversation about my novel, Fragile

Hammond, IN, USA

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April 9-10, 2025

Invited participation in an expert workshop on disaster risk communication organized by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Brussels, Belgium

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February 3, 2025

Visions of Sustainability/Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit

Presentation of research results at concluding workshop “Climate Protection”; transdisciplinary research project “Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg/KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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January 14, 2025

Film conversation with Hanna Münstermann on Nic Balthazar’s Duty of Care: The Climate Trials

Hamonie Arthouse Cinema; transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg/KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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December 10, 2024

Film conversation with Pia Laborgne and Volker Stelzer on Damon Gameau’s 2040

Hamonie Arthouse Cinema; transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg/KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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November 19, 2024

Film conversation with psychologist Verena Heidenreich on Jennifer Abbott’s The Magnitude of All Things

Hamonie Arthouse Cinema; transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” (University of Freiburg/KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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October 30, 2024

Klimasimulationen und -narrative: Klimaforschung trifft Medienkulturwissenschaften

Tandem talk with the environmental meterologist Andreas Christen as part of the “Interdisciplinary Lecture Series Sustainability / Interdisziplinäre Vortragsreihe Nachhaltigkeit” at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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October 22, 2024

Film conversation with director Kathrin Pitterling on her Fridays for Future film Aufschrei der Jugend

Screening and discussion at the Hamonie Arthouse Cinema transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” based at the Sustainability Research Campus (University of Freiburg / KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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September 26-27, 2024

“Engaging the Public: Developing an Effective Narrative in Disaster Risk Communication”

Keynote and discussion facilitation for Masterclass “Science Advocacy: Developing a Behavioural and Risk Communication Approach that fits Democratic Societies” at the Evidence for Policy in Disaster Risk Management Summer School 2024, organized by the Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Vienna, Austria

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October 14, 2024

Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit: Gemeinsam Forschen zu Klimaschutz-Filmen

Opening talk and workshop at the Volkshochschule Freiburg as part of the transdisciplinary research project “Visionen der Nachhaltigkeit/Visions of Sustainability” based at the Sustainability Research Campus (University of Freiburg / KIT)

Freiburg, Germany

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July 12, 2024

Panelist for a screening of Franz Böhm’s documentary feature Dear Future Children

Freiburg, Germany

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June 14, 2024

Unintentional Communities: Narratives of Climate (De)gentrification

Invited talk at the conference “Gentrification Imaginaries: Storis of Urban Transformations and Displacement” at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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June 17-20, 2024

Of Scientists and Shipwrecks: Climate Lyricism in Antarctica (Non)Fiction

Paper presentation at the Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) “Sea More Blue: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Blue Ecopoetics” at the University of Perpignan

Perpignan, France

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June 27, 2024

Visions of Sustainability: A Transdisciplinary Research Project

Invited talk as part of the FRIAS Lunch Lectures at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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May 21, 2024

Studying Affective Ecologies: Emotional Engagement and Narrative Impact

Keynote (online) at the Third International Environmental Humanities Conference focused on “Ecocriticisms in the 21s Century” at Cappadocia University

Cappadocia, Turkey

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May 10, 2024

Food for Thought: Decolonizing Bodies and Diets in Narratives of Vegan Food Justice

Keynote at the CUSO Workshop “The Ethics of Consumption: Advocacy, Activism, Academia” at the University of Geneva.

Geneva, Switzerland

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May 8, 2024

Race, Risk, and Resilience in Narratives of Climate (De)gentrification

Keynote (online) at the 19th Cultural Studies Symposium on “Risk Narratives” at Ege University.

Izmir, Turkey

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January 16, 2024

Class room visit for a discussion of my novel Fragile in the Department of English at the University of Graz

Graz, Austria

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January 30-31, 2024

Writing (About) Literature in the Anthropo-scene

Plenary talk (online) at the International Conference “Global Anthropo-scene: Rethinking Sustainability and Cultural Preservations,” hosted by the Department of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Kolkata, West Bengal, India

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October 30, 2023

“Troubling Futures: The Hazards and Uses of (Writing) Climate Fiction”

Invited talk including a discussion of my novel, Fragile, in the English Department at the University of Bern

Bern, Switzerland

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November 9, 2023

Discussion of my novel, Fragile, with the Contemporary Literature Book Club in the Department of English  at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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November 14, 2023

“Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice”

Invited talk at the LitCult Colloquium at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg, Germany

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October 26, 2023

“Love in the Times of Climate Change: Romance and the Cli-fi Imagination”

Invited talk (online) including a discussion of my novel, Fragile, at the University of University of the Balearic Islands

Palma, Spain

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October 16, 2023

Class room visit for a discussion of my novel Fragile in the Department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, USA

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September 28, 2023

“Empirical Ecocriticism: Studying the Impact of Environmental Narratives”

Invited talk in the English Department at the University of Lausanne

Lausanne, Switzerland

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September 14-15, 2023

“Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice”

Invited talk at the Political Ecology workshop at the University of Konstanz

Konstanz, Germany

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July 9, 2023

Workshop “How to Do Empirical Ecocriticism”

With Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Wojciech Malecki, I organized and facilitated a pre-conference workshop at the 2023 ASLE Conference in Portland.

Portland, Oregon (USA)

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July 10, 2023

“The Reception of Radical Texts: The Complicated Case of Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’”

Paper on the pre-formed panel “Empirical Ecocriticism and the Reception of Environmental Media” at the 2023 ASLE Conference in Portland.

Portland, Oregon (USA)

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June 22, 2023

(Un)sheltered Hope: The Reinvention of Home in Contemporary Solarpunk

Keynote at the International Conference “‘Where Do We Carry Home Now?’ Shifting Perceptions of Home,” at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES)

Lisbon, Portugal

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July 3, 2023

Reading and discussion of my novel, Fragile, at the University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth, Germany

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June 13, 2023

“From Cognitive Econarratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative”

Invited talk at the PhD-Seminar “Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and the Environment“ at the University of Agder

Kristiansand, Norway

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May 30, 2023

“Engaging the Public: Developing an Effective Narrative in Disaster Risk Communication”

Keynote for the Masterclass “Science Advocacy: Developing a Behavioural and Risk Communication Approach that fits Democratic Societies” at the Evidence for Policy in Disaster Risk Management Summer School 2023, organized by Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO) of the European Commission

Pisa, Italy

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May 25, 2023

“Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice and Sustainability”

Keynote at the Annual Conference of the European Consortium for Humanities Institutes and Centres – ECHIC, dedicated to Ecological Mindedness and Sustainable Wellbeing, at the University of Ferrara

Ferrara, Italy

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April 25, 2023

“Das Prinzip Hoffnung? Klimawandel und die (Un)Möglichkeit utopischen Erzählens”

Opening lecture Ringvorlesung Klima: Kulturen, Künste, Medien at the University of Freiburg

Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

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March 23, 2023 (online)

Growing Hope: Narratives of Food Justice in American Media

Keynote at the 4th Annual “America in Media, Media in America” Conference at the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University under the patronage of the Polish Rhetoric Society

Lublin, Poland

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March 3, 2023 (online)

Invited respondent on the pre-formed panel “Affective Narratology: New Perspectives II,” organized by Ella Mingazova andTero Vanhanen, at the 2023 International Conference on Narrative

Dallas, Texas, USA

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November 22-23, 2022

“The Importance of Narratives in Disaster Risk Communication between Policy Makers, Scientists, and Citizens”

Invited talk at the 6th DRMKC Annual Seminar of the EUROPEAN COMMISSION’s Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre, “Advancing Evidence-Based Policy and Practice. SESSION 4. “COMMUNICATION. Making Scientific Knowledge Easily Accessible for Different Actors: Good Practices of Science Support to Policy and Decision-making”

Paris, France

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November 16, 2022

“Environmental Documentaries as Warnings” (online)

Guest lecture as part of the lecture series „Grünes Kino – Ecocinema befassen“ at the Department of Journalism, University of Mainz

Mainz, Germany

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October 23, 2022

“Narrating Resistance: Place, Community, and Justice in Urban Farming Documentaries”

Keynote at the Annual Conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies (AAAS) on “Narrative, Environment, Social Justice” at the University of Salzburg

Salzburg, Austria

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September 13, 2022

“Creaturely Encounters and Intersectionality: Understanding the Narrative Impact of Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’”

Conference paper at the Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) at the University of Granada

Granada, Spain

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June 24-25, 2022

“Back to the Roots: Community, Place, and Protest in Urban Farming Documentaries,” 

Invited talk at the International Symposium “Cinema and Environment: Affective Ecologies in the Anthropocene” at the University of the Balearic Islands.

Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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June 10, 2022

Invited Participant in the Empirical Ecocriticism Workshop at the University of Utrecht

Utrecht, Netherlands

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May 6, 2022 (online)

Narrating Climate Change: Emotion and Environmental Storytelling

Invited talk as part of the Environmental Humanities Lecture Series at the Research Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences at National Chung Hsing University

Taichung, Taiwan

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April 27, 2022 (online)

Filming at the Eleventh Hour: Environmental Documentaries as Warnings

Invited talk at the webinar “Warnings in Film” at the Warning Research Center, University College London

London, UK

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December 10, 2021 (online)

“Affect, Emotion, and the Imagination of Climate Change”

Workshop for PhD and Advanced MA students at the University of Würzburg

Würzburg, Germany

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December 3, 2021 (online)

“Embodied Absence: Visceral Traces of the Present in Dystopian Climate Fiction”

Keynote at the BAAHE Annual Conference “Voicing Absences/Presences in a Damaged World” at the Université libre de Bruxelles

Brussels, Belgium

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November 19, 2021

“Imagining Climate across Media: Catastrophe, Challenge, and Change”

Keynote at the International Conference Crises: Climate and Critique in the Literature and Arts of the English-Speaking World after 1800 at the Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle

Paris, France

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October 16, 2021

“A Glacial Pace? Mountain Cinema and the Imagination of Climate Change”

Keynote at the Mountains & Cinema Conference at the University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

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October 6, 2021 (online)

Conversation with Dan Philippon on contemporary developments in the environmental humanities as part of the 2021 Transatlantic Conversations series on “Science, Technology and Innovation for a Sustainable Future” organized by the Austrian Studies Program at the University of California, Berkeley, in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy’s Office of Science and Technology

Berkeley, USA

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September 22, 2021

“Affective Encounters: The Medialization of Ecological Knowledge”

Keynote at the Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft (GfM) at the University of Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

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September 3, 2021 (online)

“Stories, Love, and Baklava: Narrating Food in Diana Abu-Jaber’s Culinary Memoirs”

Paper at the International Conference “Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures” at the University of Klagenfurt

Klagenfurt, Austria

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July 1, 2021 (online)

“Empirical Ecocriticism: Studying Environmental Narratives and their Reception”

Invited talk as part oft the “Environmental Humanities” Guest Lecture Series at the University of Konstanz

Konstanz, Germany

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May 14, 2021 (online)

“(Neo)colonial Histories and Scientific Futures in Fernando A. Flores’s Tears of the Trufflepig”
Invited talk at the Annual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies on “Science, Culture, and Postcolonial Narratives” at the  University of Oldenburg

Oldenburg, Germany

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May 13, 2021 (online)

Classroom visit in Ursula Heise’s Environment & Cultures lecture at UCLA to talk about climate fiction and my short story “Le Déluge” (forthcoming in Orca)

Los Angeles, USA

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2020

December 8, 2020 (online)

The Elements of Being podcast interview with Michael Moody on our Cognitive and Emotional Connection to Film Narrative

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December 3, 2020 (online)

Invited talk on Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide as part of the Literature / History / Human Rights ReadRespond Project at The Arctic University of Norway

Tromsø, Norway

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November 7, 2020 (online)

“Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives”

EASLCE Webinar (repeat)

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October 26, 2020 (online)

“Touching the Senses: Embodiment, Emotion, and Immersion”
Keynote at the Immersivity and Technological Innovations Conference

Montréal, Canada

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October 10, 2020 (online)

“Cognition, Emotion, and the Impact of Environmental Narratives”

EASLCE Webinar

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September 25, 2020 (online)

“Sensing Nature in Novels: From Imagined Perception to Embodied Simulation”
Keynote at the International Workshop “Connecting the Dots: Conceptualising ‘Trace’ in the Nexus of Novels and Readers’ Sensory Imaginings,” Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Mainz, Germany

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March 20, 2020 (online)

“Natural Feelings? Affect, Emotion, and Ecofiction”
Invited talk at the workshop “Environmental Humanities: Negotiating Un/sustainability,” University of Berne

Berne, Switzerland

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January 9, 2020
“Narrative Encounters with Ethnic American Literatures”

Invited talk at the Teacher Training College of Carinthia

Klagenfurt, Austria

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2019

September 27, 2019
“From Cognitive Narratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative”

Invited talk at the Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Series at the University of Stavanger

Stavanger, Norway

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September 26, 2019
“From Cognitive Narratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative”

Keynote at the PhD-Seminar “Ecocritical Theory: Literature, Culture and the Environment“ at the University of Agder

Kristiansand, Norway

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September 10, 2019
“From the Species Level to Personal Causality:  Thinking about Food in the Anthropocene”

Invited talk at the “Anthropocene (Post)Humanities” Symposium at the Bavarian Academy of Science

Munich, Germany

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August 30, 2019
“Feeling Blue? What Can Intermedial, Cognitive, and Empirical Ecocriticism Tell Us about the Anthropocene Condition?”
Keynote at the International Conference “Intermedial Ecocriticism: The Anthropocene Condition Across Media and Art Forms” at the University of Babeş-Bolyai

Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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July 25, 2019
“Affective Ecologies: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative”

Keynote at the Environmental Science Center, University of Augsburg

Augsburg, Germany

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June 27, 2019
“Common Ground: Cognitive Narratology and Empirical Ecocriticism”

Paper at the roundtable on “Empirical Ecocriticism” at the 19th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE) at the University of California, Davis

Davis, USA

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May 17, 2019
“Von Müll und Menschen: Narrative Strategien in Valentin Thurn’s Taste the Waste“

Invited talk at the interdisciplinary conference  ” “Political Goals and Aesthetic Strategies of Environmental Documentaries“ at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at the University of Bielefeld

Bielefeld, Germany

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2018

December 14-15, 2018
“Cognitive Narratology, Empirical Ecocriticism, and Alice Walker’s ‘Am I Blue?’”

Paper at the interdisciplinary workshop on “Empirical Ecocriticism” that I organized with Matthew Schneider-Mayerson  at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society

Munich, Germany

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November 27, 2018
“How Do Environmental Narratives Make us Feel? Theoretical and Empirical Considerations”

Guest lecture at the University of Osnabrück

Osnabrück, Germany

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November 9, 2018
“Tales of a Third Culture Kid: Empathy, Emotion and Political Engagement in the Novels of Pearl S. Buck”
Keynote lecture at the Conference “Intercultural Views: Pearl S. Buck and Other Writers from Twentieth-Century China” at the University of Bergamo

Bergamo, Italy

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September 26-29, 2018
“Back to the Roots: Race, Space, and Community in Urban Farming Documentaries”
Paper at the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASLCE) at the University of Würzburg

Würzburg Germany

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July 19, 2018
“Screening the Anthropocene: Environmental Documentaries and Academic Knowledge Production”

Invited talk at the “Anthropocene and Citizen Science” Workshop at the Deutsche Museum

Munich, Germany

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June 22-23, 2018
Co-organizer, with Pierre-Louis Patoine, of the international conference “Inhabiting Immersive Territories in the Anthropocene” at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris

Paris, France

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June 21, 2018
“From Eco-Narratology to Empirical Ecocriticism: Exploring Empathy and Emotion in Environmental Narrative”
Guest lecture at the NARMESH Project at the University of Ghent

Ghent, Belgium

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June 14-30, 2018
“How We Feel about (Not) Eating Animals: Ecomedia, Emotion, and Vegan Studies”
Plenary lecture at “A Clockwork Green: Ecomedia in the Anthropocene — A Nearly Carbon Neutral Virtual Symposium“

Sponsored by the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) and the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

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May 17, 2018
“Feeling with (Non)human Others: Narrative Empathy in American Literature and Film”
Guest lecture at the University of Graz

Graz, Austria

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May 4, 2018
“Affective Ecology and a Transmedial Poetics of Risk Narratives”
Keynote lecture at “The Poetics of Risk” Workshop at the University of Bayreuth

Bayreuth, Germany

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April 20, 2018
“Imaginary Futures: (Un)Sustainable Communities in Environmental Culture”
Invited speaker at the 12th Annual Peace Conference at Golden West College

Huntington Beach, California, USA

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April 16, 2018
“Who Cares? Emotion and Reception in Climate Change Cinema.”
Guest lecture at the Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science & Policy, University of Miami

Miami, Florida, USA

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April 4, 2018
“Street Food: Environment, Place, and Protest in Urban Farming Documentaries”
Paper at the 32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS) and the British Association for American Studies (BAAS)

London, UK

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January 26, 2018
“Speculative Emotions? The Affective Appeals of Eco(dys)topia”
Keynote lecture at the 2018 Ravenstein Seminar Winter School on “Literature, Affect, and Emotion,” organized by the Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies at the University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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January 18, 2018
“American Environments at the Movies: Embodiment, Emotion, and Perception”
Guest lecture at the University of Regensburg

Regensburg, Germany

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2017

December 14, 2017
“Narrating Animals: Affect and the Intricacies of Trans-species Empathy”
Invited talk at the Wild Emotions: Affect and the Natural World conference organized by Grace Moore and Stephanie Trigg from The Centre for the History of Emotions at the University of Melbourne 

Melbourne, Australia

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December 6, 2017
“Feeling Animals? Narrative, Anthropomorphism, and the Intricacies of Trans-species Empathy”
Invited talk at a workshop on „Animal Minds between Narrative and Cognition,“ organized by Stephan Besser and Marco Caracciolo as part of the 2nd SMART Cognitive Science conference entitled „SMART Animals” at the University of Amsterdam

Amsterdam, Netherlands

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November 23 2017
“Affective Ecologies: Empathy, Emotion, and Environmental Narrative”
Guest lecture at the University of Augsburg

Augsburg, Germany

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November 10, 2017
“Food, Art, and the Senses”
Invited talk at the preparatory workshop for the “Kosmos Kaffee” Exhibition at the Deutsche Museum

Munich, Germany

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October 13, 2017
“Climate Change and the Dark Side of Storytelling: Translating Science into Popular Culture”
Invited talk at The Dark Side of Translation conference, organized by the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Vienna, Austria

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July 4-6, 2017
“Visceralizing Climate Change: Science and the Narrative Strategies of Popular Culture”
Paper at the Mediating Climate Change conference

University of Leeds, UK

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June 24, 2017
“Agents of Affect: Why We Care about Literary Environments”
Paper at the 12th Biennial Conference of ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment)

Wayne State University, Detroit, USA

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June 1, 2017
“Beyond Boundaries: Ecocinema and the Intricacies of Trans-species Empathy”
Guest lecture in the Department of Humanities

Mid Sweden University, Sundsvall, Sweden

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2016

December 5, 2016
“Australian Film and the Affective Dimensions of Virtual Environments.”
Keynote at the 1st International Conference on Contemporary and Historical Approaches to Emotions, organized by the Contemporary Emotions Research Network (CERN)

University of Wollongong. Sydney, Australia

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November 12, 2016
“Experiencing Sustainable Futures: The Affective Appeals of Ecotopia”
Invited talk at the Cultural Dimensions of Sustainability Workshop

University of Berne, Switzerland

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October 27, 2016
“Experiencing Wildness in the Future American West: A Cognitive Reading of Cli-fi Environments”
Paper presented at the 2016 Biennial Conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment (EASLCE)

University of Brussels, Belgium

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October 21, 2016
“Bridging the Gap: Combining Cognitive Narratology and Critical Race Theory”
Habilitation Talk

University of Klagenfurt, Austria

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September 16, 2016
“Feeling Global? Narrating Emotions and Other Messy Things in the Anthropocene”
Invited talk at the Workshop “Narratives of the Global Ecosystem,” DFG Research Network Environmental Crisis and the Transnational Imagination

University of Regensburg, Germany

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June 16-18, 2016
“Embodied Simulation and Emotion in the Evocation of Literary Environments.”
Paper presented in the “Ecocriticism and Narrative Theory” panel at the 2016 International Conference on Narrative

University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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June 13-15, 2016
“Feeling Literary Environments: Cognitive Ecocriticism, Embodiment, and Emotion.”
Paper presented in the “Fictional Spaces” panel at the 4th Cognitive Futures in the Humanities Conference

University of Helsinki, Finland

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June 2, 2016
“Embodied Simulation and Emotion in the Evocation of Literary Environments.”
Invited talk at the Symposium “Literature and Consciousness”

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France

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April 22.-25, 2016
“Troubling Futures: Cli-Fi Modes and the Perception of Risk.”
Position paper for the roundtable “‘What’s in a Name?’ Debating Cli-Fi.”
Annual Meeting of the European Association of American Studies (EAAS)

University of Constanta, Romania

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April 5, 2016
“Feeling Literary Environments: Empathy, Emotion, and the Evocation of Place.”
Invited talk at the Symposium “Literary Environments: Ecocritical Theories and Ethics in Anglophone Literatures”

University of Düsseldorf, Germany

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