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Invited Talks

  • Augen zu und durch? Verdrängung, Klimagerechtigkeit und künstlerische Strategien [Close your eyes and carry on? Denial, Climate Justice, and Artistic Strategies], Panel Discussion, 'Buntes Garten Ciao', Lenbachhaus, Munich, 11.05.2026.

  • The Elusive Art of PhD'ing! Discussing the Supervision Process with Lena Schlegel and Finn Arne Jørgensen, moderated by Sebastian Lundsteen Nielsen, ESEH NextGATE, online, 07.11.2024.

  • Multispezies Care: Beziehungen der Fürsorge über den Menschen hinaus [Multispecies Care: Relationships of Care beyond the Human], Fachforum 'Care-Ethik und Politik - berufsethische Reflexionen' [Symposium 'Care-Ethics and Politics - professional ethial reflections'], DHBW, Stuttgart, 06/2024.

  • Klimawandel als Beziehungskonflikt: Sozial-ökologische Transformation im feministischen und dekolonialen Fokus [Climate Change as a Relational Conflict: Socio-ecological transformation in feminist and decolonial perpective, Guest Lecture, Lecture Series 'Sozialökologisch transformative Perspektiven in der Sozialen Arbeit' ('socio-ecologically transformative perspectives in social work'), Hochschule Augsburg, 02/2022.

  • The Right to Be Cold, International Talk with Nabila Abdel Aziz and Guests, Habibi Kiosk, Münchner Kammerspiele and Goethe Institute, Munich.

  • Caring for Climate Change: Wie wir vom Wissen und Sorgen um den Klimanotstand ins Handeln kommen [How we get from knowledge and concern about the climate crisis to action], Guest Lecture, Exhibition 'Who Cares - Solidarität Neu Entdecken' ['Who cares? Rediscovering Solidarity], Staatliches Textil und Industriemuseum, Augsburg, 12/2021.

  • Wissenschaft in Globaler Verantwortung: Was folgt aus der Corona-Krise für die Uni Tübingen? [Science in global responsibility: Consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic for the University of Tübingen] Roundtable Discussion, Lecture Series 'Stadtgespräch Weltethos', Weltethos Institute, Tübingen, 03/2021​

Conference Presentations

  • Care as Resistance: Negotiating Knowledge, Territory, and Power in the Australian 'Forest Wars', Soziologisches Waldsymposium, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 10/2026.

  • Sozial-ökologische Transformation als Sorgekonflikt: Das Beispiel der Australischen Waldbrandkatastrophe [Socio-ecological transformations as conflicts of care: the case of the Australian wildfire disaster], 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellscaft für Soziologie (DGS): 'Zukünfte der Gesellschaft' [43rd Annual Congress of the German Sociological Foundation (DGS): 'Futures of Society'], Mainz, Germany, 10/2026.

  • To burn, or not to burn? Conflicts of Care in the Aftermath of the Australian Black Summer, Tagung 'Neue Kulturgeographie' [Congress 'New Cultural Geography'], Augsburg, Germany, 09/2025

  • ​Negotiating the Environment amid the 2019-20 Australian Bushfires: Multispecies relations in the forests of the Errinundra Plateau, World Congress of Environmental History, Oulu, Finnland, 08/2024.

  • Photography as an Art of Witnessing amid the Australian Extinction Crisis, Ectinction, Endangerment and Environmental Storytelling, Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway/online, 09/2023

  • 'It's a weird time to be alive' - Negotiating Matter and Meaning amid the Australian Climate Catastrophe, Royal Geographical Society (RGS-IGB) Annual Conference, London, England, 08/2023.

  • Arts of Noticing Climate Loss in More-than-Human Relationships of Care, 'Nature Feelz' Symposioum, Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 12, 2022.

  • Ecological Emotions in More-than-human Relationships of Care, Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association (ESA), Barcelona/Online, 09/2021.

  • Another World Was Possible: How Sociological Imagination Could Have Enabled Fundamental Eco-Social Change, Munich 2051 Climate Conference, Bureau Grandezza, Munich, 09/2021.

  • The Slow Violence of Climate Inaction: Toxic Temporalities of Fire in Contemporary Australia,sium Symposium 'Toxic Temporalities of the Global South', Tübingen/online, 06/2021.

  • Absent Agents - Re-assembling Human-Animal Relations in the Context of Covid-19, Biennial Conference of the European Association for Critical Animal Studies (EACAS), online, 06/2021.

  • Decarbonising the Human: A posthumanist critique and more-than-human Ethics for Sustainability Transitions, Millennium Conference, online, 10/2020.

  • Global Crises - Covid-19 and Human-Nature Entanglements, Millennium Conference, online (with Leonie Bossert),10/2020.

  • Caring for Climate Change? Theorising climate (in)action through a perspective of entangled care, Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Biennial Conference, online, 09/2020.

  • Caring for Climate Change? Re-Configuring Human-Nature Relations in Context of the Australian Black Summer. Towards a New Materialist Sociology of Care, International Forum 'Wellbeing and Subjectivities across the Global South', Tübingen/online, 07/2020.

Workshops & Colloquia

  • Forest Imaginaries in Australia, Workshop Forest Futures, University of Freiburg, Germany, 09/2025.

  • Troubling Temporalities and the Generativity of Care, Workshop International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises, Akademie für politische Bildung, Tutzing, Germany, 04/2025. 

  • Negotiating Multispecies Care amid the Australian Black Summer, Research Forum, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany, 02/2024.

  • Environmental Values amid the Australian Black Summer, RCC meets MCMP: Values in Climate and Environmental Sciences, Munich, Germany, 02/2024.

  • Caring for Climate Change: Reconfiguring Human-Nature Relations in Light of the Australian Black Summer, Research In Progress, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, 11/2023.

  • Caring for Climate Change: Reconfiguring Human-Nature Relations in Light of the Australian Black Summer, Workshop Pluralizing the Transformation to Sustainability, Heinrich Böll Foundation and University of Gießen, Gießen, Germany, 10/2023.

  • Fire Management in East Gippsland's Forests between Extractivism, Conservation and Climate Change, Workshop Transformation und Nachhaltigkeit [Transformation and Sustainability]: TrafoNa-Promovierendentage Vol. 1, Wuppertal Institute, Wuppertal, Germany, 09/2023.

  • Photography as an Art of Noticing and Witnessing Multispecies Stories of Loss and Care amid the Australian Climate Catastrophe, Workshop Relationality and More-than-Human Storytelling, University of Augsburg, Germany, 07/2023.

  • Caring for Climate Change: Reconfiguring Human-Nature Relations in Light of the Australian Black Summer, Brown Bag Session, Heinrich Böll Foundation, online, 07/2023.

  • Hopes and Fears amid Shattered Naturecultures: Human-Nature Relations in the Australian Black Summer, Workshop Emotions in Politics and IR, British International Studies Association (BISA), online, 03/2022.
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