Lectures and Conference Presentations
2024
Keynote: "Distant Pasts, Near Futures, and Speculative Narrative." Symposium on "Imagining Environmental Futures." Ghent University, Belgium.
Invited Lecture: "Multispecies Justice and Narrative." University of Warsaw, Poland.
Invited Lecture: "The More-than-Human City: Biodiversity and Urban Futures." Ghent University, Belgium.
Invited Lecture: "Under Water: Sea and Summer in the City." Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Keynote: "Realism under Water: Cities and Climate Change in Asian Film." Conference on "Reflections on Asian Eco-Culture." Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
Invited Lecture: "Speculative Fiction and Environmental Futures." Université Catholique Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
Invited Lecture: "Multispecies Justice and Narrative." Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.
Fondation Francqui International Professor Chair Inaugural Lecture: "Environmental Futures and the Challenges of Realist Storytelling." Ghent University, Belgium.
2023
Keynote: "Into the Multiverse: Cultural Studies and Environmental Futures." Conference on “Bouncing Forward: Future Narratives, Scenarios, and Transformations in the Study of Culture." International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC), Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Zoöpolis: Urban Narrative and Multispecies Cities." Conference on "The Poetics of the City." Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University.
Invited Lecture: "Endangered Species and the Cultural Imagination." Whitman College, Walla Walla.
Kim Okgill Memorial Lecture: "Beyond Realism: Narrative and Environmental Futures." Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea.
Invited Lecture: "Biodiversity and Its Stories." University College of Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea.
Keynote: "Environmental Emergency and the Challenges of Realism.” Conference on “Environmental Emergencies across Media.” Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Beyond Apocalypse: Imagining Climate Futures." Clark University (via Zoom).
2022
Invited Lecture: "Normal Apocalypse: Climate Change and Narrative." Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv, Israel (via Zoom).
Keynote: "Cli-fi: Visiones del futuro en la novela del cambio climático, latinoamericana y comparada." XIIIº Jornadas Nacionales de Literatura Comparada, Universidad de la Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina (via Zoom, in Spanish).
Invited Lecture: "Environmental Crisis and the Problem of Realism." Wissenschaftsforum/Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, Universität Essen, Germany.
Inaugural Lecture: "Normal Apocalypse: Climate Change and Narrative." MESH Launch/Extinction Symposium, Albertus-Magnus-Universität, Köln, Germany.
Invited Lecture: "Cambio climático y narrativa urbana en la novela latinoamericana." Iberlab Escuela de Verano, Universidad de Granada, Spain (via Zoom, in Spanish).
Keynote: "Environmental Futures and the Agency of Trees." Conference on Literature and Botany, University of Warsaw, Poland (via Zoom).
Northrop Frye Lecture: "Beyond Apocalypse: Climate Justice and Urban Narrative." Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, Canada (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Environmental Crisis and the Study of Narrative." Conference on The Ecological Crisis and the Humanities, Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Uncertainties and Forecasting in Cli-fi." NARMESH Project "Narrative in an Age of Climate Uncertainty," Ghent University, Belgium (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Climate Justice and Urban Narrative." Towards "Environmental Humanities"? Conference, University of Stuttgart, Germany (via Zoom).
2021
Keynote: "Menschenstadt, Tierstadt, Pflanzenstadt." Theater der Dinge/The World Without US Conference, Schaubude Berlin, Berlin, Germany (via Zoom, in German).
Invited Lecture: "Zoöpolis: Urban Narrative and the Animal." British Network for Animal Studies, England (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Climate Change and Urban Narrative." Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, South Korea (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Climate Change and Urban Narrative." Institute for World Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge (via Zoom).
Keynote: "Environmental Justice and Urban Narrative in Latin America." Conference on "Post-Global Aesthetics: 21st-Century Latin American Literatures and Cultures," University of Cologne, Germany (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Urban Narrative in the Anthropocene." NCHU Summer School, Taichung, Taiwan (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Plasmatic Nature: Animation and Environmentalism." Anifilm Festival, University of Liberec, Czech Republic (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Zoöpolis: The City and the Animal." University of Wisconsin, Madison (via Zoom).
2020
Rabindranath Tagore Lecture: "Climate Justice and Urban Narrative." University College London, England.
Invited Lecture: "Climate Justice and Urban Narrative." Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea (via Zoom).
Invited Lecture: "Climate Justice and Urban Narrative." Critical Inquiry Symposium on Climate Change. University of Chicago.
Invited Lecture: "Urban Narrative and Climate Change." University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
2019
Invited Lecture: " Urban Narrative and Climate Change." ASLE-Japan. Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan.
Invited Lecture: "Ecocriticism and the Anthropocene." Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan.
Keynote: "Urban Storytelling and Multispecies Futures." Society for Ecocriticism Studies in Japan and American Literary Society. University of Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan.
Keynote: "Extinction and Multispecies Justice." Symposium, “Towards Extinction, To Ward Off Extinction.” Université de Lille, France.
Keynote: "The Silent Music of Extinction." Symposium, Burning the Library of Life: Species Extinction and the Humanities. University of Virginia, Charlottesville.
Keynote: "Mapping Urban Nature and Multispecies Storyworlds." Conference on "Design with Nature Now." University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Invited Lecture: "Narratives about Scientists and Communities." Narrative and Science Workshop. Royal Society/British Academy, London, England.
W. Alexander Lecture in English Literature: "Narrative, Biodiversity, and the Future of Cities. University College, University of Toronto, Canada.
2018
Keynote: "Where the Wild Things Used to Be: Narrative, Biodiversity, and Restorative Design." Broken Nature Symposium, Milan Triennale on Restorative Design. MoMA, New York.
Keynote: "Multispecies Cities and Future Visions." Conference on "Energy, Ecology, and the Culture of Cities." National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan.
Invited Lecture: "Novel and City in the Anthropocene." Institute of World Literature, University of Tokyo, Japan.
Invited Lecture: "Planet of Cities: Urban Environments and Narrative Futures." Department of English, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
2017
Invited Lecture: "Narrative, Ecocriticism, and the Environmental Humanities." University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University. Hanoi, Vietnam.
HARI Launch Lecture: "Where the Wild Things Used to Be: Narrative, Biodiversity, and Multispecies Justice." Royal Holloway University of London, HARI: Humanities and Arts Research Institute.
Invited Lecture: "Where the Wild Things Used to Be: Narrative, Biodiversity, and Multispecies Justice." University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
Invited Lecture: "Planet of Cities: Urban Environments and Narrative Futures." Seedbox Laboratory, Linköping University, Sweden.
Invited Lecture: "Narrative and Scale in the Anthropocene." English Institute, UC Irvine.
Invited Presentation: "How We Became Aliens: Humans and Posthumans in the Anthropocene." Event Series, "Strange Times: Earth in the Age of Humans." Carnegie Nexus/Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh.
Invited Lecture: "Where the Wild Things Used to Be: Narrative, Biodiversity, and Dystopia." Symposium "Threshold: Biodiversity, Climate, and Humanity at a Crossroads. Humanities Institute, New York Botanical Garden, New York.
Kane Lecture: "Narrative, Biodiversity, and Multispecies Justice." Department of English, Ohio State University, Columbus.
2016
Keynote: "Multispecies Narratives in an Age of Biodiversity Change." Workshop on Narratives of the Global Ecosystem, University of Regensburg, Germany.
Invited Lecture: "Species and Narrative in the Anthropocene." Humanities Center, University of Pittsburgh.
Invited Lecture: "Science Fiction and the Reinvention of Nature." Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico.
Keynote: "How We Became Aliens: Cultural Study and Environmental Futures." GCSC Anniversary Symposium, Justus-Liebig-Universität, Giessen, Germany.
Invited Lecture: "The Silent Music of Extinction." Kaplan Environmental Humanities Research Workshop, Northwestern University.
Keynote: "Dick's New Natures." "Philip K. Dick, Here and Now" Conference, CSU Fullerton.
Keynote: "Species Fictions." ACLA Annual Convention, Harvard University.
Invited Lecture: "Multispecies Justice." Program in Modern Thought & Literature, Stanford University.
Keynote: "Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene." IFCEAS Opening Symposium, University of Würzburg, Germany.
2015
Invited Lecture: "Multispecies Justice in the Anthropocene." Department of English, Yale University.
Keynote: "Literature and the Voices of Other Species." Pusan Literary Festival, Pusan, Korea.
Invited Lecture: "Urbanism and the Humanities: The Contribution of the Humanities to the Megacities of the Future." Institute for Humanities Research, Arizona State University.
Keynote: "The Environmental Humanities in the Anthropocene." "Oecologies: Engaging the World from Here" Conference, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.
Invited Lecture: "How We Learned To Start Worrying and Love Endangered Species." Kelowna Art Gallery, Kelowna, Canada.
Inaugural Lecture: "The Environmental Humanities in the Anthropocene." Seedbox Collaboratory, Linköping University, Sweden.
Keynote: "Multispecies Justice." "Green Citizenship" Symposium, Humanities Center, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Keynote: "The Silent Mechanics of Extinction." "Memory and Materialism" Conference, King's College, London.
Keynote: "Biodiversity and the Limits of Knowledge." ASLE-UKI Conference on "Green Knowledge," Cambridge University, England.
Invited Lecture: "The Silent Mechanics of Extinction." "The Silent Mechanics of Fear Symposium," Op3ra, Mexico City, Mexico.
2015Invited Lecture: "Urban Ecology and the Imagination of the Future." Humanities Center, University of California, Santa Barbara.
2014
Keynote: "The Anthropocene and the Reimagination of the City." "Rethinking Environmental Consciousness" Conference, Mid-Sweden University at Sundsvall, Sweden.
Invited Lecture: "Environmental Humanities and Urban Humanities." Ando Momofuku Center, Komoro, Japan.
Keynote: "The Anthropocene and the Reimagination of the City." ASLE-East Asia Convention, Meio University, Japan.
Keynote: "BioCities: Urban Ecology and the Reinvention of Nature." Annual Convention, German Association for American Studies, Würzburg, Germany.
Keynote: "Comparative Literature between Anthropocene and Posthumanism." Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft (DGAVL), Saarbrücken, Germany.
Keynote: "Terraforming for Beginners." Southern California Ecocritical Theory Symposium: The Future of Ecocritical Theory. University of California, Irvine.
Invited Lecture: "Database Fictions." With Elijah Meeks. Sciences and Fictions Symposium, Center for the Study of the Novel, Stanford University.
Invited Lecture: "From Ark to ARKive.org: Narrative, Database, and Endangered Species." Princeton University.
Keynote: "Terraforming for Narratologists." Biannual Convention, Society for Novel Studies, Salt Lake City.