Talks
I am slowly adding past talks and lectures. For now, this is a very incomplete archive.
Upcoming Events
November 27, 2025
Presentation, The Bifurcation Operation: Forking Modernity, Leuphana University Lüneburg
In my talk, I will trace the term “bifurcation” through Whitehead’s work in the 1920s as he slowly moves toward his metaphysical system in Process and Reality. Paying particular attention to his lectures at Harvard between 1924 and 1927, I will reconstruct Whitehead’s various uses of the term just as it disappears from his published writings. I will end by posing the (speculative) question of why Whitehead largely abandons the term to the research workshop as a topic for discussion.
Full Programme Here
November 19, 2025
Presentation, Whitehead for Education, the Humanities, and the Social Sciences. In Pursuit of a Metamorphosis of Pedagogy, Katowice, Poland
Teaching the history of philosophy should train us to think with the past rather than merely about it. In our talk, Daniel Bella and I will sketch that Whitehead is not just committed to this approach in his published writings, but that he also practiced it in the classroom and instructed his students to do so too. We reconstruct what Whitehead actually does with the history of philosophy and, from there, draw out its present pedagogical relevance. The key outcome is not consensus but a widening generality that interrupts our provincial habits and equips us for intellectually generous forms of inquiry.
Lectures and Presentations (Selection)
October 03, 2025
Invited Guest Lecture, PhD Course Philosophy and Ethics of AI, Wageningen University
September 14, 2025
Invited Guest Lecture, Filosofie en de uitdagingen van onze tijd, Leiden University
July 07, 2025
Invited Guest Lecture, Ringvorlesung: Geschichte und Gegenwart der Prozessmetaphysik, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
June 06, 2025
Workshop Presentation, New Directions in Philosophy of Technology, University of Bergen, Norway
June 02, 2025
Invited Guest Lecture, ReMa Genomics in Society, Erasmus University Medical Center
February 23, 2024
Workshop Presentation, Totalising Temporalities: Time and History in Nationalist Movements, Leuphana University Lüneburg
September 28, 2023
Presentation, XVIII. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft, University of Bonn
June 26, 2023
Co-presented with Daniel Bella, 13th International Whitehead Conference on Whitehead and the History of Philosophy, Munich School of Philosophy
May 24, 2023
Workshop Presentation with Daniel Bella, Threads Of Emergence Workshop, University of the West of England, Bristol
November 21, 2022
Presentation with Mark Carrigan, Disruption, Voice and Listening Symposium, Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research, Birmingham City University
September 16, 2022
Talk with Daniel Bella, Critical Edition of Whitehead Conference: Whitehead’s Harvard Lectures, 1925–1927, Gonzaga University, Washington
December 08, 2021
Talk, Unrelating: Infrastructures, Imaginaries and Politics of Disconnection Conference, University of Hamburg
November 25, 2021
Co-presented with Daniel Bella, Conference of the German Whitehead Society “Whitehead und die Philosophiegeschichte”, University of Düsseldorf
February 13, 2020
Workshop Presentation, Post-Doc Meeting ‘Mediale Teilhabe’, University of Konstanz
May 20, 2019
Talk, The Great Environmental Switch: Ecology, Technology, and Thinking Conference, Stockholm University
Organised Events (Selection)
July 03, 2024
Workshop, Institute for Basic Research in the History of Philosophy (IGP), University of Wuppertal
Together with Melanie Sehgal, Michael Halewood, and Daniel Bella, we organised a workshop systematically working through all the footnotes in Whiteheads Process and Reality. Participants included Didier Debaise (Bruxelles), Nicholas Gaskill (Oxford), Michael Halewood (Essex), Tina Röck (Dundee), Michael Thomas (Amsterdam), and Svenja Schmitz (Düsseldorf).
January 01, 2023
Fortnightly seminar series, European Society for Process Thought (ESPT), online
From 2023 to 2025, together with Lennart Posch and Daniel Bella, I co-organized a regular seminar series for the European Society for Process Thought. This series featured invited researchers discussing their work-in-progress and was meant as a hybrid between a seminar and a community event for all those working in process thought.
April 22, 2022
Conference, Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Together with Mathias Denecke and Holger Kuhn we organised a four-day conference on the concepts of liquidity, flow, and circulation in art and politics with keynotes from Annie McClanahan (UC Irvine), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), Yvonne Volkart (FHNW Basel), and a video-presentation by director Ursula Biemann.
November 20, 2021
Workshop, City University, Hong Kong
Organised with Yuk Hui and Gregory S. Moss, we dedicated a workshop to the question of technology in Hegel’s philosophy. Speakers included Joel Bock (De Paul University), Anna Winckelmann (Higher School of Economics), Christoph Görlich (Leuphana University), Armin Schneider (Humboldt University), Fernando Wirtz (University of Tübingen) and Anna Longo (Collège International de Philosophie).
June 23, 2021
Conference, Leuphana University, Lüneburg
Together with Erich Hörl, Michel Schreiber and Roberto Nigro, we organised a conference dedicated to outlining the contours of the current capital-form. Invited speakers included, amongst others, Leopoldina Fortunati (Udine), Will Davies (Goldsmiths), Anselm Jappe (Rome), Alessandra Mezzadri (SOAS), and Andrea Fumagalli (Pavia). As part of the conference, we organised a screening of Oeconomia followed by a director’s Q&A with Carmen Losmann.