Academic Conferences, Keynotes and Lectures
104. “Nietzsche and Human Emotion”, invited speaker, Book panel, XXV World Congress of Philosophy, 1-8 August.
103. “Posthumanism and Education: The Future of the University”, invited speaker, Roundtable: Posthuman Studies, XXV World Congress of Philosophy, 1-8 August.
102. “The Poverty of Wealth”, invited speaker, Roundtable: Nietzsche and the Crisis of the Anthropocene, XXV World Congress of Philosophy, 1-8 August.
101. “Rooted in Other Worlds”, invited speaker, Roundtable: Environmental Ethics and Vulnerability, XXV World Congress of Philosophy 1-8 August.
100. “The Poverty of Wealth”, keynote speaker, 29th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Nietzsche in the Anthropocene, University of Verona, 25-27 July.
99. “Rooted in other Worlds”, invited speaker, Ecologies and Poetics of Thought, NOVA Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University of Lisbon, 24 May.
98. “Nietzsche y la mujer”, invited speaker, Nietzsche y la mujer: cuerpo, genealogía e identidad, Jornadas online de la Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Nietzscheanos (RIEN), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 22-24 April.
97. “Plant imaginaries and human existence in Nietzsche and Sartre”, invited speaker, Doing Philosophy with Plants, conference and workshop at Royal Holloway University of London, 18-19 April.
96. “Nietzsche, un filósofo de la cultura o Hacia una nueva cultura de la vida”, Keynote speaker, Ciclo de conferencias magistrales internacionales sobre la cultura, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, 1-5 April.
95. “Nietzsche: Truth, Embodiment and Consciousness”, invited speaker, Institute of Philosophy & Technology, 23 March 2024, Athens, Greece. (online)
94. “Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics”, invited speaker, research workshop, 17 March 2023, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile. (online)
93. “Nietzsche, Monism and Will to Power”, panelist, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Annual Conference, 27-29 November, University of Sydney, Australia. (online)
92. “Plant and Planetary Studies: Towards a New Environmental Ethics”, invited speaker, University of Verona, 26 October 2023, Verona, Italy.
91. “Contagious Ideologies”, invited speaker, International Conference “Resentment and Utopia”, University of St. Gallen, 19-20 October 2023, St Gallen, Switzerland.
90. “Nietzsche y la filosofia”, keynote speaker, Seminario Nietzsche, Universidad Complutense and Goethe Institute, 28-29 September 2023, Madrid, Spain.
89. “El pensamiento planetario de Nietzsche en Asi hablo Zaratustra,” panelist, Biennale Nietzscheana 2023, 20-22 September, Università del Salento, Lecce, Italy.
88. “L’arbre du philosophe”, panelist, 14ième Congrès du Groupe International de Recherche sur Nietzsche (GIRN), 20-22 June 2023, Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
87. “Nietzsche: Truth, Embodiment and Consciousness”, invited speaker, Institute of Philosophy & Technology, 23 March 2023, Athens, Greece. (online)
86. “Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics”, invited speaker, research workshop, 17 March 2023, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile. (online)
85. “Philosophical Responses to the Anthropocene: Becoming Rooted with Plants”, panelist, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Annual Conference, 28-30 November 2022, University of Melbourne, Australia.
84. “Nietzsche’s Agonistic Politics Reconsidered”, invited speaker, Nietzsche, La Politique, L’Histoire, Colloque international de philosophie, 29-30 November 2022, Université de Namur/Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
83. “Diversities: Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, A Philosophy of Duality, Conflict, and Sexual Difference,” invited speaker, Symposium 150 Years of Tragedy: Nietzsche, Art, Philosophy, 24 November 2022, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy/University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
82. “Launch of The Viral Politics of COVID19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health”, panelist and author, 4 November 2022, Department of Anthropology, Oxford University, UK.
81. “Nietzsche and Gender Studies”, invited speaker, Genealogies of New Moralities: From Nietzsche to Diversity, 27-29 October 2022, Klassik Stifitung Weimar, Germany.
80. “Hacia una comunidad planetaria y ecológica”, invited speaker, Nietzsche and the Community Conference, 25-28 October 2022.
79. “Bilder des pflanzlichen Lebens in der Philosophie“, keynote speaker, Nietzsches Natures, 20-23 October 2022, Nietzsche Kongress Nietzsche Gesellschaft und Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum, Naumburg, Germany.
78. “Hacia una comunidad planetaria y ecológica”, plenary speaker, Nietzsche y la Communidad: Modernidad, Poder y Nuevas Subjectividades, II Congreso de la RIEN, 25-28 October 2022, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
77. “Humanism beyond Anthropocentrism”, invited speaker, La Trobe Anthropocene Reading Group, La Trobe University, 30 August 2022.
76. “Posthumanism and Plant Studies”, invited speaker, Philosophy Seminar Series, 11 November 2021, New School for Social Research, New York.
75. “Homo Natura y feminism”, keynote speaker, launch event Red Intempestiva Nietzsche, 15 October 2021, Santiago de Chile.
74. “Homo Natura and Feminism”, conference paper, International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society “Nietzsche and Women”, 16-18 September 2021, Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal.
73. “Contagion and the Community of Life”, conference paper, Symposium “The Viral Politics of Covid 19”, 27 August 2021, Deakin University.
72. “Contagion and the Community of Life”, plenary speaker with Elisabeth Povinelli, Slavoj Žižek and Dario Gentili, Aesthetics&Critique III: Thinking in Pandemic Times, 27-28 May 2021, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
71. “The Death of God and the Work of Art in Nietzsche and Agamben”, invited speaker, Deakin, Philosophy Seminar Series, 13 April 2021, Deakin University.
70. “Nietzsche y el poshumanismo”, keynote speaker, Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Nietzscheanos (RIEN), Encuentro RIEN en Alemania, 3 March 2021, Freiburg, Germany.
69. “Nietzsche and Posthumanism”, invited speaker, Nietzsche Circle, 22 November 2020, New York.
68. “Ancient Cynics and Contemporary Philosophy”, invited speaker, Ancient Studies Critical Network, Paper on Cynics, University of Sydney, September 2020.
67. “Naturaleza, arte y la transformación del ser humano”, keynote speaker (and Member of the Scientifc Committee), "Nietzsche y el arte: verdad, mascara, poder", I Congreso Internacional de la Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Nietzscheanos, Univerisdad Complutense de Madrird, 22-25 October 2019, Madrid, Spain.
66. “Nietzsche and Politics”, invited speaker, Universitas Islam Indonesia, 11 July 2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
65. “The Notion of Community in the Ancient Cynics”, invited speaker, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), 10 July 2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
64. “Nature humaine, sexualité et religion », invited speaker, Colloque International Nietzsche et la religion, 5-6 April 2019, Sorbonne-Université, Paris, France.
63. “Natural History and Human Nature“, keynote speaker, Jahrestagung der Nietzsche Gesellschaft, „Geschichte und Gedächtnis“, 11-14 October 2018, Nietzsche-Dokumentationszentrum Naumburg, Germany.
62. “Redlichkeit als philosophische und politische Tugend bei Nietzsche und bei den Kynikern“, keynote speaker, Silser Nietzsche-Kolloquium “Wahrheit und Lüge“ , 27-30 September 2018, Sils Maria, Switzerland.
61. “Friedrich Nietzsche on Human Nature, Gender and Politics”, keynote speaker, Friedrich Nietzsche Society Annual International Conference, “Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference", 20-21 September 2018, Newcastle University, UK.
60. “Who is Nietzsche’s Homo Natura?”, plenary speaker, international conference Nietzsche’s Anthropologie, 12-14 July 2017, fully funded by the Thyssen Foundation, University of Erfurt, Germany.
59. “Friedrich Nietzsche sobre la Naturaleza Humana: entre la Antropología Filosófica y los Estudios Animales”, keynote speaker, Inauguration of Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, April 2017.
58. “Agamben as a Reader of Foucault”, conference paper, Foucault Circle, 29 June-2 July 2016, UNSW.
57. “Affirmative Biopolitics and Animal Life”, conference paper, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 27-30 May 2016, New York, USA.
56. “Embodiment and Sociability in the Ancient Cynics,” conference paper, Symposium: The Sociability of Personhood, 18-19 February 2016, UNSW.
55. “Las contribuciones de Nietzsche al debate de los valores en las Ciencias de Humanidades”, invited speaker, 7 January 2016, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
54. “Nietzsche y el mundo de vegetal como modelo de libertad y creatividad”, invited speaker, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, 13 January 2016, Santiago de Chile.
53. “Truth, probity (Redlichkeit) and embodiment: Nietzsche as a Neo-Cynic”, conference paper, Research Symposium Nietzsche and Aesthetics, Center for Modernism Studies in Australia, 7 December 2015, UNSW.
52.“Four Readings of Nietzsche as a Biopolitical Thinker”, conference paper with Paul Patton and Dan Conway, Australian Society of Continental Philosophy, 4 December 2015, UNSW.
51. “Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Plants”, conference paper with Jennifer Mensch, Australian Society of Continental Philosophy, 3 December 2015, UNSW.
50. “Affirmative Biopolitics as a Response to the Question of how to Create Rights that Foster a Common Life with Animals”, conference paper, Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG) Conference 2015: Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism, 12-15 July 2015, The University of Melbourne.
49. "Verdad, encorporación y probidad en la Gaya Ciencia", keynote speaker, Book Launch: “Nietzsche, F., Obras completas, Edición dirigida por Diego Sánchez Meca, Vol. III: Obras de madurez I, Introducciones, traducción y notas de Marco Parmeggiani, Jaime Aspiunza, Juan Luis Vermal y Diego Sánchez Meca, Madrid, Tecnos, 2014, 22 April 2015, Goethe Institut Madrid, Spain.
48. “La filosofía vegetal de Nietzsche”, invited speaker, Seminario Nietzsche, 22 April 2015, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
47. “Affirmative Biopolitics and Animal Rights”, conference paper with Cary Wolfe and Dinesh Wadiwel, 19 February 2015, Society for the Study of Bio-political Futures (SSBF) and Biopolitical Studies Research Network Workshop, UNSW.
46. “The Biopolitical Implications of Nietzsche’s Conception of Life”, conference paper, UNSW workshop “Ethics and Politics in Nietzsche” with Prof Keith Ansell-Pearson, 8-11 July 2014.
45. “La biopolitica della comunita nei Cinici”, plenary speaker, Convegno internazionale “Italian Theory”, 15-18 May 2014, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy.
44. “La encarnación de la verdad y la política de la comunidad: Foucault y los cíinicos”, plenary speaker, IV Coloquio Latinoamericano de Biopolítica, Bogota, 3-6 September 2013.
43. “Un nuevo paradigma (bio)político de la comunidad”, keynote speaker, Inauguration of the PhD Program in Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, 9 September 2013.
42. “Nietzsche, Foucault and the Embodiment of Truth in the Cynics”, invited speaker, Berliner Nietzsche Kolloquium, 10 July 2013.
41. “Nietzsche y el pensamiento político contemporáneo”, invited speaker, book launch, Centro Cultural Matadero/Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, 18 June 2013.
40. “The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community in Michel Foucault”, invited speaker, University of Western Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series, March 2013.
39. “Nietzsche y Heidegger sobre la justicia”, invited speaker, Goethe Institut Santiago de Chile, 26 March 2013.
38. “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice”, invited speaker, Philosophy Seminar Series, La Trobe University, September, 2012.
37. “Nietzsche´s Politics of the Event”, invited speaker, Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series, September 2012.
36. “Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Community,” invited speaker, Biopolitik und Formen der Subjektivierung Conference, Potsdam University, July, 2012.
35. “Nietzsche´s Politics of the Event”, invited speaker, Macquarie University Philosophy Seminar Series, July 2012.
34. “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice”, invited speaker, School of Humanities’ Philosophy Seminar Series, UNSW, May 2012.
33. “Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Community,” invited speaker, Sociology Research Seminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, April 2012. (invited by Thomas Lemke)
32. “Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity”, invited speaker, School of Humanities Seminar Series, UNSW, March 2012.
31. “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice”, invited speaker, Workshop on Post-Kantian Philosophy, Monash University, March 2012. (invited by Andrew Benjamin)
30. “Roberto Esposito and the Biopolitics of the Common”, invited speaker, University of Amsterdam, 10 November 2011 (invited by Robin Celikates).
29. “Roberto Esposito and the Biopolitics of the Common”, conference paper, International Colloquium with Antonio Negri: Biopolitics and the Common, Santiago de Chile, 27 October 2011.
28. “Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity,” conference paper, international workshop on Nietzsche “Rethinking Conflict” in Santiago de Chile, June 2011.
27. “History, Life and Justice”, conference paper on “Nietzsche and the Pursuit of Justice Beyond Good and Evil,” with Roger Berkowitz, Tracy Strong, Shalini Satkunanandan and Roberto Alejandro, Western Political Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, USA, 20-23 April 2011.
26. “Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity,” keynote speaker, international Conference: “Nietzsche and homo natura: Nature, Ethics and the Philosophy of Power,” University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 11 April 2011.
25. “Special Book Session on Vanessa Lemm’s Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being),” invited speaker, with Alan D. Schrift and Lawrence Hatab as discussant, Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 4-6 November 2010.
24. “Historia, Vida y Injusticia”, keynote speaker, international conference “Nietzsche en Perspectiva 2010”, Bogota, Columbia, 27-29 Octobre 2010 (invited by Laura Quintana).
23. “The Posthumous in Nietzsche, Sarte and Derrida”, conference paper, “Einige Werden Posthum Geboren”, Nietzsche-Kolloquium, Naumburg 14-17 October 2010.
22. “Nietzsche und die Naturbeherrschung: Kultur, Zivilisation und Zweite Natur”, keynote speaker, Nietzsche-Kolloquium: Nietzsche und die Natur, Sils-Maria, 23-26 September 2010.
21. “Nietzsche, la dominación de la naturaleza y la cuestión del animal”, keynote speaker, “Zoo: Palabras salvajes”, Fundación Christina Enea, San Sebastián, España, 15-17 September 2010.
20. “Nietzsche, cultura y economía,” keynote speaker, Jornadas de Filosofía Moderna, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, 26-28 May 2010.
19. “Biopolitics and the Problem of Hegemony” invited discussant for the panel “Biopolitics and Neoliberalism” with Paul Apostolidis, Jodi Dean, Steven Gerencscer, and Geoffrey Whitehall, Western Political Science Association Meeting, San Fransciso, USA, 1-3 April 2010.
18. “La dominación de la vida en Nietzsche y Adorno/Horkheimer,” keynote speaker, International Conference: Nietzsche and Science, Universidad de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 17-19 November 2009.
17. “The Recovery of Singular Truth in Nietzsche´s Conception of Anschauungsmetapher,” conference paper, 17th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Nietzsche on Mind and Nature, St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, Great Britain 11-13 September 2009.
16. “The Biopolitical Domination of Life in Nietzsche and Adorno/Horkheimer,” conference paper, International Political Science Association Meeting (IPSA), 12-14 July 2009, Santiago, Chile.
15. “The Biopolitical Domination of Life in Nietzsche and Adorno/Horkheimer,” conference paper, American Political Science Association Meeting (APSA), 3-6 September 2009, Toronto, Canada.
14. “Nietzsche´s Animal Philosophy,” invited speaker, lecture series given at the doctoral program in political philosophy (“Dottorato di Filosofia Teoretica e Politica”) at the Italian Institute of Humanities in Napels (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane), 25-29 May 2009. (invited by Roberto Esposito)
13. “Nietzsche, Biopolitics and the Question of Animal Life,” conference paper, International Conference: A Return to the Senses: Political Theory and the Sensorium, Trent University, Petersborough, Canada, 7-9 May 2009.
12. “The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life,” invited speaker, Institut für Sozialforschung, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 16 December 2008. (invited by Prof. Dr. Thomas Lemke)
11. “The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life,” conference paper, Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Neoliberalism, Santiago, Chile, 22-24 September 2008.
10. “Beyond the Politics of Domination or How Not to Be Governed: Nietzsche’s Conception of Aristocratic Culture,” conference paper, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, 27-30 August 2008.
9. “Reconsidering Nietzsche’s Political Thought from the Perspective of Biopolitics,” invited speaker, Lateinamerika Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin, 22 July 2008. (invited by Prof. Dr. Sergio Costa)
8. “The Concept of ‘Second Nature’ in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Culture,” invited speaker, Evian Colloquium in Philosophy, Evian France, 13-19 July 2008.
7. “The Notion of Gerechtigkeit in Nietzsche (Nietzsche-Wörterbuch)” and “Giving and Forgiving,” invited speaker, Nietzsche Colloquium, Leiden University, Holland, 18 June 2008. (invited by Prof. Paul von Tongeren and Prof. Herman W. Siemens)
6. “The Promise of the Sovereign Individual,” invited speaker, Annual Nietzsche in New York Workshop, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA, 1-3 May 2008. (invited by Christa Davis Acampora)
5. History and Interpretation: Between Animal Forgetfulness and Human Memory,” conference paper, international conference “Nietzsche and Hermeneutics”, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 5-7 November 2007.
4. “Nietzsche, Biopolitics and the Question of Animal Life,” conference paper, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 30 August – 2 September 2007.
3. “Nietzsche: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being,” invited speaker, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Political Theory Colloquium, July 2007 (invited by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst) and Universität Köln, Institut für Theater-, Film und Medienwissenschaften, Graduierten Kolleg, July 2007 (invited by Prof. Dr. Lutz Elrich).
2. “Does the Idea of Aristocratic Culture Entail a Politics of Domination? Reconsidering Nietzsche’s Notions of Order of Rank and Will to Power,” conference paper, Friedrich Nietzsche Society International Conference: Nietzsche: Power and Politics, Leiden University, Netherlands, 23-25 March 2007.
1. “Dar y Perdonar en Nietzsche y Derrida,” conference paper, Franco-Chilean Colloquium in the Social Sciences: El reconocimiento entre relación social y conflicto social, hosted by the Pontifical Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Diego Portales, Chilean-French Institute and French Embassy, Santiago de Chile, 17 January 2007.