In July 2018, I was delighted to be invited to deliver one of the keynote addresses at After Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, the fifth annual conference organised by Fantastika Journal. The theme of the 2018 conference was what comes ‘after’, with papers...

I was recently invited to deliver a guest lecture at the City Literary Institute in London as part of their evening lecture programme, titled “Mapping Imaginary Topographies and Times: Literary Utopias from the Renaissance to the Present.” Since I’m currently writing a...

In June 2017, I'll be returning to the Speculations Lecture Series run at King's College London to deliver a lecture on “Islands at the End of the World: The Pseudo-Apocalypses of Claire Fuller and Sam Taylor.” The talk will consider an intriguing sub-set of...

As part of Birkbeck Arts Week 2015 (see video about this below), I'm organising a panel titled "Environmental Futures: Oil, Ecology, Petrocultures" on Monday 18th May 2015, 2-5pm. Birkbeck Arts Week 2015 from The Derek Jarman Lab on Vimeo. Oil shapes our geopolitics...

I've been invited as a plenary speaker to the forthcoming conference "Will Self and the Art of the Contemporary," to be held at the University of Roehampton on Saturday 1st December 2012. See here for the call for papers. After an invigorating MA class on Will Self's The...