2025 “The Language of Integration: The Power and Powerlessness of Words in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy,” ALPS Summer School, Vaumarcus<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2024 \u201cSur la route avec Eo,\u201c Comparative Literature Conference (CIEL): Premier r\u00f4le aux animaux autres qu\u2019humains dans les fictions : Agentivit\u00e9, exp\u00e9rience, point de vue<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024 \u201c\u2019James Baldwin in Switzerland: \u2018A Stranger in the Village\u2019\u201d for a Study Day on Pierre Koralnik, organized by the Cinema Department and the Cinemath\u00e8que Suisse<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024 \u201cSustainability in Humanities Research,\u201d Roundtable at the Faculty of Arts Research Day, UNIL<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024 \u201cThe 2024 Presidential Election: What Happened and Why,\u201d Invited Address to Swiss Parliamentarians of the Socialist Party, Bern<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2024 \u201cThe Counterculture and its Influence on the War on Drugs,\u201d Invited Guest Talk for the Swiss Society of Psychedelic Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023 \u201cEnvisioning the Ecological Future,\u201d Invited Talk at the University of Lodz, Poland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 2023 “The Ecological Emergency: Narrative and the Climate Crisis” (UNIL)<\/p>\n\n\n May 2022, “War as Adventure: Violence, Pleasure and Masculinity,” \u201cWar as Adventure: Pleasure, Violence and Masculinity,\u201d International Conference:\u00a0From \u00c2ventiure Novels to Adventure Games: Adventure Narratives in Popular Images and Texts, <\/i>University of Munich, ONLINE<\/p>\n October 2021, “Teaching about Slavery,” Speaking about Race and Racism Lecture Series, UNIL<\/p>\n May 2021\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWar, Anthropocene, Imagination,\u201d \u201cMilitarized Anthropocene\u201d Panel, EAAS Biennial Conference, Warsaw ONLINE<\/p>\n November 2019: “Smart Trees and Dead People: Apocalypse Nowadays,” Haunted Nature Conference, W\u00fcrzburg, Germany<\/p>\n October 2019: Round Table on “Y a-t-il un primitivisme en litt\u00e9rature?” in the French Department, UNIL<\/p>\n September 2019: “LSD and the Psychedelic Revolution Against the Backdrop of War,” The Prolonged Death of the Hippie Conference, Basel<\/p>\n August 2019: “War Gothic,” Keynote Lecture at the International Gothic Association Biennial Conference, Lewis University, Chicago<\/p>\n April 2019: “American Countercultures of the 1960s.” Zelig, UNIL<\/p>\n Nov. 2017: \u201cProgress, Utopia, and Apocalypse: The Overlapping Temporalities of the 19th Century,\u201d Keynote at the 3rd<\/sup> Biennial Conference of the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, University of Exeter<\/p>\n June 2017: “Battlefield Gothic and War Horror,” Keynote Lecture, Contemporary Gothic: Seventh Annual Postgraduate Conference, Lancaster University<\/p>\n May 2017: “War, Affect, Genre,” Guest lecture in Research Colloquium, J.F.Kennedy Institute, Free University, Berlin<\/p>\n March 2017: Keynote Lecture, European Association for American Studies Women’s Network: “The American Woman Warrior: A Transnational Feminist Look at War, Imperialism and Gender”<\/p>\n March 2017: “War, Adventure and the Pleasure of Killing,” Narrative Conference, Lexington, Kentucky<\/p>\n See short interview on American Imperialism and the adventure genre:<\/p>\n