Seminars and Workshops (Selected) 

2025

15 Apr, Lecture, LiPS (Lectures in Planning Series), Columbia GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University. 

10 Feb, “A Citizen Science Dialogue on Biodiversity and Sustainability” Stephan W. Gale, 
Craig Williams, Jamie Wang, and Zimu Zhang. Faculty of Humanities, the Education University of Hong Kong, Greenhub, Kadoorie Farm and Botanical Garden (KFBG) Education Branch. 

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)