Upcoming events & conference presentations
2022# Shaping Hopeful Futures in Times of Uncertainty: The Challenges and Possibilities of Gender Studies. The 5th national conference for gender studies in Sweden. Karlstad University (SE) – “Posthumanizing Shield & Friend’s microspectropolitics: Flemish alt-right memes & their bio-/necropolitical powers.”
2022# Remembering/Imagining Terror in Europe. Urban Terrorism in Europe conference. University of Birmingham (UK) – “‘Irruptions’ & the 22/3 Memorial’s more-than-humanness: Post-philosophical explorations”
Invited keynotes
2022 “‘Irruptions’ & the 22/3 Memorial’s more-than-humanness: Critical new materialist research encounters & lessons.” PhEmaterialisms 3rd Wave PhEMinar series (UK)
2021 “(Un)thinking-with posthumanist, post-qualitative, and new materialist approaches: Critical cartography.” Ph.D. course. Body, Culture, Materiality. Debunking the method-centrism: Trans/post/antidisciplinarity and intermediation in feminist inquiry. InterGender – International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Feminist Research Training (Linköping University) (SE)
2020 “A Critical Cartography of New Materialist Constellations & Interventions in Times of Terror(ism).” Online seminar. The Posthumanities Hub seminar series. Linköping University & KTH (SE)
2018 “On the topic of situated knowledges, intersectionality and interference. Or how to navigate the Western philosophical canon in a feminist manner.” Belgian doctoral schools, cluster: “What does it mean to be a researcher in 21st century Academia?” Ghent University (BE)
Invited academic lectures and talks
2022 Invited talk on the more-than-human power of memorials and memes. Posthuman(ist) Memory in Film and Media: A Roundtable Series. Wilfrid Laurier University & Brock University (CA)
2022 Dialogue with Iris van der Tuin on feminist philosophy (in Dutch). BA course Continental Philosophy. Philosophy and Religious Studies. Utrecht University (NL)
2021 Two invited digital academic lectures on feminist philosophy (Irigaray & Butler). Philosophy 300-level, Humanities department. Erasmus University College (NL)
2021 “New materialisms and the nomadic philosophy of Rosi Braidotti.” Department of Cultures (European Area and Cultural Studies). University of Helsinki (FI)
2021 “Identity Politics & Critical New Materialisms: Situated knowledges, Intersectionality & Interference.” Sociology department. University of Amsterdam (NL)
2020 Invited digital lecture, “Donna Haraway’s feminist epistemology” (in Dutch). Philosophy department. Antwerp University (BE)
2020 Two (digital) invited academic lectures on feminist philosophy (Irigaray & Butler). Philosophy 300-level, Humanities department. Erasmus University College (NL)
2019 Invited Q&A session on new materialist thought. Philosophical Anthropology (What is the human?) (in Dutch). Utrecht University (NL)
2018 Invited academic lecture on feminist political philosophy & social epistemology. Social philosophy course (Bachelor) (in Dutch). Karel de Grote Hogeschool (Zuid campus) (BE)
2018 Invited academic lecture, “Situated Knowledges, Intersectionality & Interference”. Gender & Diversity (Mixed bachelor) (in Dutch). Ghent University (BE)
2018 Two invited academic lectures, “Introduction to feminist poststructuralist philosophy.” Philosophy 300-level, Humanities department. Erasmus University College (NL)
2018 Invited academic lecture on difference thinking, Irigaray, and Butler (in Dutch). Dialectical Philosophy and Difference Thinking (course for B.A. 2) Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
2017 Invited academic lecture on the importance of the feminist philosophies of Irigaray, Butler and Braidotti (in Dutch). M.A. course Gender & Diversity. Ghent University (BE)
2016 Invited academic lecture on the cartographies of new feminist materialism. Gender and Environmental Crises in the Nuclear Era (undergrad course). UC Santa Cruz (USA)
2016 Invited academic lecture on difference thinking, Irigaray, and Butler (in Dutch). Dialectical Philosophy and Difference Thinking (course for B.A. 2) Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
2016 Invited academic lecture on Donna Haraway’s epistemology. Feminist Studies: An Introduction (undergrad course) UC Santa Cruz (USA)
2015 Invited academic lecture on philosophy of science & feminist science studies. The Politics of Matter and the Matter of Politics (undergrad course) UC Santa Cruz (USA)
2014 Invited academic lecture on feminist philosophy and its most important contemporary trends (in Dutch). Dialectical Philosophy and Difference Thinking (course for B.A. 2) Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
2011 Invited academic lecture on Luce Irigaray (in Dutch). Dialectical Philosophy and Difference Thinking (course for B.A. 2) Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL)
2010 Invited academic lecture on Luce Irigaray (in Dutch). Introduction in Feminist Philosophy (course for B.A. 2 and 3) Antwerp University (BE)
Invited public philosophy lectures, talks, and (non-) academic workshops
2022 “The Woke Movement.” (in Dutch). Podcast Discours (BE)
2021 “The COVID-19 crisis and humanity: Donna Haraway’s and Rosi Braidotti’s new materialist perspectives.” (in Dutch). Filosofie van Nu. Internationale School voor Wijsbegeerte (NL). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.34489.65124
2021 “The Importance of Critical Cartographies & Situated Knowledge Production”. CORRECTIONVILLE 01: a temporary city to discuss the (im)possibilities of mapping. Institute of Cartopology. Noorbeek (NL). DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12679.27048
2021 Digital Radical Right Sex book presentation & debate (in Dutch). With Katrien Jacobs, Katrien De Graeve & Jaouad Alloul. EPO (BE)
2021 “New materialist theories & methodologies: an introduction.” Academic workshop for the ‘ Later-in-Life Intimacy: Women’s Unruly Practices, Places and Representations’ ERC project (2020-2025). Ghent University (BE)
2021 “Conceptualizations of humanity & nature during times of (the COVID-19) crisis: Donna Haraway’s new materialist perspective” (in Dutch). Faculteitsvereniging van Utrechtse Filosofiestudenten. Utrecht University (NL)
2020 The Wellness Formula Sunday Service: On the work of Karen Barad. Podcast. Part of The Wednesday Wellness Formula installation by artist Candice Jacobs. Five Years Gallery London (UK)
2020 Digital reading group/conversation on Karen Barad’s “On Touching.” Part of The Wednesday Wellness Formula installation by artist Candice Jacobs. Five Years Gallery London (UK)
2019 “The eco-ethico-political relevance of critical new materialisms.” Rooted Hauntology lab, a curatorial/art project by Ingrid Vranken. Het Glazen Huis/DAS. Amsterdam (NL)
2019 “Donna Haraway’s cyborgian eco-feminism: A critical new materialist perspective” (in Dutch). Felix & Sofie event on the cyber philosophy of Haraway. Perdu. Amsterdam (NL)
2018 Invited evening video lecture, titled “Re-vitalizing the feminist-philosophical classroom”. Part of the Corpo-anarchy art exhibition by Kamran Behrouz. Zürich (CH)
2018 Evening lecture on the philosophy of Judith Butler (in Dutch). Kif Kif in cooperation with De Groene Waterman. Antwerp (BE)
2017 Lecture on feminist philosophy & the oeuvre of Judith Butler at the Belgian cultural organization Elcker-Ik (in Dutch). Antwerp (BE)
2017 Lecture at the Belgian policy organization Vrouwenraad, “From intersectionality to interference (and back). A novel perspective on feminist-philosophical thinking.” (In Dutch). Brussels (BE)
2016 Panel conversations on being an international PhD student in the US (International Student Orientation Day). UC Santa Cruz (USA)
2016 Coordinator, program organizer, lecturer, and workshop facilitator. Kif Kif’s summer school on Gender & Superdiversity. Antwerp (BE)
2016 Panel conversation on international education in the US (part of UCSC’s Diversity & Inclusion program). UC Santa Cruz (USA)
2013 Two introductory workshops on the relevance of intersectional thought and multicultural feminism as part of Kif Kif’s Gender & Diversity project. Kif Kif. Antwerp (BE)
Conference presentations
2022# Shaping Hopeful Futures in Times of Uncertainty: The Challenges and Possibilities of Gender Studies. The 5th national conference for gender studies in Sweden. Karlstad University (SE) – “Posthumanizing Shield & Friend’s microspectropolitics: Flemish alt-right memes & their bio-/necropolitical powers.”
2022# Remembering/Imagining Terror in Europe. Urban Terrorism in Europe conference. University of Birmingham (UK) – “‘Irruptions’ & the 22/3 Memorial’s more-than-humanness: Post-philosophical explorations”
2022 The Mimetic Turn: HOM’s Final International Conference. KULeuven (BE). Digital conference – “The contagiousness of (neo-)fascist mimetic ressentiment in posthuman times: Deleuzoguattarian and critical new materialist perspectives.” With Delphi Carstens
2022 Seminar series & conference “Histories, Methods and Current Practices of Feminist Situated Knowledges”. Université de Liège (BE). Digital conference – “Perspectivism’s Anti-Fascist Powers: Harawayan Critical Realist Materialism for Pandemic Post-Truth Times.”
2022 European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2022. KULeuven (BE). Digital conference – “The contagious micropolitics of alt-right memes: A post-philosophical analysis.” DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29456.48648
2021 “(Im)materialities of Violence. A series of digital research events.” Urban Terrorism ERC project. University of Birmingham (UK). Digital conference – “The hauntological micropolitics of alt-right memes: A posthumanist m(e/i)metic analysis.”
2021 “Gender Studies in Belgium: State of the Art.” Sophia: Belgian Gender Studies Network (BE). Digital conference – “Pandemic times, the Flemish alt-right, and viral memetic micropolitics: A critical new materialist analysis.”
2021 Violence Elsewhere: Imagining Violence Outside Germany Since 9/11.” University of York & UCL (UK). Digital conference – “Political Violence & the FRG’s Annual Security Reports: Working towards a post-9/11 new materialist analysis.” With Katharina Karcher
2021 Memory Studies Association Annual Conference: “Convergences.” Digital conference. University of Warsaw (PL) – “The more-than-human “22/3 Memorial”: Critical new materialist Encounters with Memory, Commemoration, and remembrance”
2021 “Posthuman Mimesis: Embodiment, Affect, Contagion.” Digital conference. KU Leuven (BE) – “The contagious micropolitics of alt-right memes: A critical new materialist m(e/i)metic analysis”
2021 European Humanities Conference (International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences, the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) & UNESCO’s Social and Human Sciences Programme). Hybrid conference – Participation in the Youth Forum on the Future of the Humanities & the Youth Forum’s final report to the EU
2021 2nd Temporal Belongings International Conference: The Material Life of Time. Digital conference. University of Edinburgh (UK) & others – “Cultivating an ethico-politics of the thick present: Trans/disciplinary musings on times of crisis.” With Josephine Hoegaerts
2020 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting. San Francisco (USA) Conference cancelled (COVID-19) – Two accepted papers; “Attending to what ‘matters’ in curriculum and pedagogy studies. Pedagogical response-ability’s haunting powers” & “Resisting ‘pure’ reflection through slowness. Making space for attentive-diffractive pedagogies”
2019 New Materialist Reconfigurations of Higher Education. 10th Annual New Materialism Conference 2019. University of the Western Cape (SA) – Arts-Based Pedagogies/Research and Hauntology in Higher Education Panel. Paper presentation, “Transformative academic experimentations with diffractive pedagogies”
2019 Gender Studies 2019 Conference: On Violence. Helsinki University (FI) – On violence in the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt panel. Paper presentation, “Contemporary matters of (necro)biopolitics: Rereading Arendt’s notions of violence, the biopolitical and natality through critical new materialist perspectives.”
2018 NOSTER Ph.D. Text Reading Seminar: Annual Presentation Day. Utrecht University (NL) – Paper presentation, “What do we talk about when we talk about ‘justice’?”
2018 The 9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms. Urban Matters: Material Engagements with Communities and Borders in Times of Movement. Utrecht University (NL) – New Material(ist) Politics and Identity Formation panel. Paper presentation, “The (ethico-)political relevance of new feminist materialist scholarship. Intersectionality and superdiversity diffracted.” Co-chair of the Postindustrial panel
2017 American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Conference 2017. Utrecht University (NL) – Diffractive Pedagogies #A21 panel. Paper presentation, “Working Towards the Creation of an Affirmative New Feminist Materialist Pedagogy.” Participation in various workshops
2017 NOSTER Ph.D. Text Reading Seminar: Annual Presentation Day. Utrecht University (NL)
2017 8th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms. Environmental Humanities and New Materialisms: The Ethics of Decolonizing Nature and Culture. UNESCO. Paris (FR) – Paper presentation, “The ethico-politics of justice-to-come. Heidegger, Levinas, Derrida, and Barad: Diffracted”
2012 “The Politics of Location Revisited: Gender@2012,” 8th European Feminist Research Conference. Central European University. Budapest (HU)
2011 “What is Life? A philosophical discussion on the human condition,” Fordham University (in cooperation with Antwerp University, Philosophical Red Star Line project). New York (USA)
2011 Annual Conference for the Society of European Philosophy and The Forum for European Philosophy (SEP-FEP). York’s St John University (UK)