Academic Lectures
2026
Less Is Not Enough: Minimalist Desires and Postgrowth Politics (podcast recording here)
Guest lecture and panel debate at the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London.
2026
Less Is Not Enough: Minimalist Desires and Postgrowth Politics
Guest lecture at the Royal College of Art, London
2025
What Cultural Studies Can Do for Degrowth
Guest lecture at the Potere e Natura:
seminari di Ecologia Politica series, University of Cagliari
2024
Postwachstum und Klassenkonflikt
Invited commentary on a guest lecture by Matthias Schmelzer at the Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin
2024
Beyond Minimalism: For a Cultural Politics of Degrowth
Guest lecture and masterclass at the Hermes Summer School ‘Narrating Degrowth and Sustainability: Cultural Imaginaries and the 4th Industrial Revolution’ Utrecht
2023
Another Sustainability: Degrowth
Guest lecture organized by Pluralism in Economics (PINE) Maastricht
2022
Another Sustainability: Degrowth
Guest lecture at the ‘Another Sustainability: Approaches Beyond the Mainstream’ lecture series, Maastricht University
2020
Don’t Mind Your Own Business! Environmental Mindfulness in a Time of
Global Risk (video here)
Opening of the academic year lecture at the International Studies
programme at Leiden University
2019
From Minimalist Forms to Post-Growth Economies?
Guest lecture at the ‘Trending Topics – Environmental Humanities’ series, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2018
Socio-Aesthetic Patterns for Degrowth? A Formal Approach to Eco-Politics
Guest lecture at the Esthétique environnementale et citoyenneté monthly doctoral seminar at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
2018
Specters of Finance and the Black Box City
Guest lecture and panel discussion at the University of Gothenburg’s ‘PARSE Dialogue’ on Fiction and Finance
2017
Housekeeping Against Accumulation: Lifestyle Minimalism, Degrowth, and the Present Post-Ecological Condition
Guest lecture at the Department of Sociology’s public lecture series, University of York
2017
Kondo-ing the City: Anti-Accumulation, Housekeeping, and the Post-Ecological Condition
Guest lecture at the ‘Urban World-Making’ lecture series, Cities Project, University of Amsterdam
2015
Borders of the City: A Cultural Studies Perspective
Public lecture and panel discussion at the ‘Die Welt im Wandel: Zukunftsstadt’ lecture series, Forum Internationale Wissenschaft, University of Bonn
Public Talks & Debates
2026
Art Against the Machine: Untrapping Life from Profit-Driven Tech Dependency (video here)
Panel debate at the SPUI 25, Amsterdam
2026
Radical Abundance: A Political Agenda for Cities (video here)
Panel debate at the SPUI 25, Amsterdam
2026
Follow the Money: Banking, Complicity, and the Power of Public Institutions
Panel debate, University of Maastricht
2025
Forming Political Commons in Academia and Beyond
Guest talk and panel debate at the annual meeting of The Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture, Amsterdam
2023
A Postgrowth Rebellion
Invited speech at the NL/A12 mass demonstration against fossil fuel subsidies (info + speech program here)
2023
A Scientist Rebellion for Postgrowth
Invited speech at the Science & Music Climate March in Amsterdam, organized by Scientist Rebellion
2022
Wellbeing Through Degrowth: Can Less Really Be More? (video here)
Guest lecture and Q&R at the Future Scientists Webinar series, Scientists4Future Netherlands
2022
Was mich nicht loslässt: Reflektionen zu Kunst, Postwachstum und kultureller Politik
Guest lecture and workshop at the Jour Fixe public event series, artist residency
Schiesslhaus Air, Bavarian Forest
2022
How to Un-Sustain the Unsustainable
Guest talk at the Pas Festival Maastricht
2022
A Radical Disjuncture? Bringing Conjunctural Analysis into the World of Alternative and Prefigurative Organising
Online seminar and panel debate with Matthew Wilson, Jeremy Gilbert, and Keir Milburn
2020
From Minimalist Forms to Postgrowth Economies
Guest talk and panel debate at the AltVisions Festival, The Hague
2020
Towards a Degrowth Society (video here)
Panel debate, organized by Scientist Rebellion Netherlands
2019
The Meaning of Academic Practice in Times of Ecological Crises
Panel debate at the Spui 25, Amsterdam
