Events and Talks

Seminars and Workshops (Selected) 

2024

04 Dec, “Reimagining the More-Than-Human City from a Global Perspective, in dialogue with Jamie Wang, Matthew Gandy and Donna Houston”, Digital Workshop Series, Worldmaking from a Global Perspective, Germany. 

28- 30 Nov, “Agential Distance and More-than-human Urban Movement”, with Emily Zong, Eco-Mobilities: Kinopolitics and Kinopoetics in the Anthropocene. Baptist University of Hong Kong.

26 Nov, “Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore.” Brown Bag Lunch Session, The Education University of Hong Kong.

23 Sep, “Reimagining the More-Than-Human City: Stories from Singapore.” Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks. The University of Stavanger. Available online.

7 – 9 August, Storytelling for Environmental Futures. Greenhouse Centre of Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger. 

13 May, ‘Reimagining the past, storying the future’. 2024 Environmental Humanities Symposium—A gathered dialogue: eco-afterlives and slow hope. Faculty of Humanities and the International Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies Centre, The Education University of Hong Kong.

2023

19 Oct 2023, ‘Reading Bison: Writing Ecology in Hong Kong and Beyond ‘ (with Winnie Yee and Jeff Clapp). One City One Book Hong Kong

21 July 2023, ‘Reimagining A More-Than-Human City’.  Rachel Carson Centre Research Forum, Munich.

7 – 8 July 2023, ‘In the Shadow of the Future’. Environmental Narratives: Methodological Workshop in Cooperation with the University of Heidelberg, Rachel Carson Centre, Munich. 

27 – 29 June 2023, ‘How A City Remembers’. beyondbios: an interdisciplinary symposium & book project, University of Sydney. 

31 May 2023, ‘An eco-moderniser’s garden’. Greenhouse Centre of Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger. 

2022

6-7 Dec 2022, Nature Feelz: Perspectives and reflections on ecological emotions, Sydney Environment Institute. 

24 September 2022, invited collaborator, Shoreline walkshop, Learning Endings and Henry Art Gallery Seattle. 

Panel Chair and Discussant, 19 July 2022, , Environmental Storytelling in Australia, GIR Symposium. 

Invited Speaker, 7 June 2022 “Drawing Climate”, Workshop by Sydney Environment Institute

April 2022 – Now “At a loss for words of loss,” Multidisciplinary Collaboration led by Sydney Environment Institute researchers Dr James Dunk and Professor Anik Waldow.

2021

24 November – 2 December 2021 “Breaking” Poetry Performance. Panel – MULTISPECIES RELATIONS: care and creativity in times of crisis. AAS2021. 

Invited, 18 October 2021 “More-Than-Human care: Stories from Singapore”. SEARC Seminar Series. Southeast Asia Research Centre at the City University of Hong Kong. 

September – November 2021 The Anthropocene and More-Than-Human World Writing Workshop Series organised by Dr Catherine Price (University of Warwick) and Dr Matthew Dennis (Eindhoven University of Technology).

6 – 9 July 2021 “A City of Many Worlds”: Poetry Performance. Institute of Australian Geographers & New Zealand Geographical Society Combined Conference, University of Sydney.

02 July 2021 “Fabricating the Future: making the urban environment in contemporary Singapore”: Presentation: Irritations and Unforeseen Consequences of the Urban, The Urban Environments Initiative (UEI) and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC).

04 – 07 Feb 2020
Multispecies Justice Research – Field-Working & Field Building Retreat. University of Sydney, Australia 

2019

04 Oct 2019
Where Is Your Food From? – Urban Farming
Work in Progress Presentation – University of Sydney

24 May 2019
Sydney Environmental Humanities Seminar Group
A Sydney Environment Institute Initiative – University of Sydney

13 – 15 February 2019
Grounding Story Conference: 7th Biennial Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture Conference

University of New England, Armidale

19 January 2019
“Working with Water” Workshop/Walkshop
University of Sydney, Australia

14 – 18 January 2019
2019 Graduate Workshop—China in the Urban Age: Environmental challenges and eco-civilisation in China.

2018 and Earlier

September – December 2018
Raining Poetry in Adelaide—a poetry street-festival led by the University of Adelaide and J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
Poetry: Weathering 

3 – 6 September 2018
Anthropocene Campus Melbourne (ACM 2018)
Deakin University, Australia 

18 – 24 January 2018
PhD Summer School: Researching Post-Capitalist Possibilities
Led by Katherine Gibson, Stephen Healy and members of the Community Economies Collective
Western Sydney University, Australia

19 – 22 July 2017
Conference: Modernisms and Modernities East, West and South
Fudan University Shanghai, China – Convened by Fudan University (China), Universität Hamburg (Germany), Macquarie University (Australia)
Conference Presentation: Memos of Sustainability for the Modern Millennium

14 October 2016
Why Do Things Break? Symposium
The University of Adelaide – Convened by Double Dialogues and the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice
Poetry Performance: Eternal Return: ‘Becoming’ Anew in Online Time and Space (w Stephen Muecke)