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OLDER NEWS & EVENTS.
2020
mar 13-16 Co-organiser | The New Scientific Paradigm: serving more-than-human interests,
Harvard University, MA, USA
mar 4-6 Invited Attendee | Pathways to Planetary Health: Ethics in the Age of the Anthropocene,
Garrison Institute, NY, USA
Feb 27 Invited Speaker | Public Dialogue on Plant Intelligence with Richard Powers, the Institute for Cross- Disciplinary Engagement, Dartmouth College, NH, USA
Feb-mar Visiting Fellow | Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement, Dartmouth College, NH, USA
APR 11 Invited Speaker | 'From Biology to Mind: workshop on Minimal Cognition', School of Humanities &
Social Enquiry, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia
FEB 13 Interview on 'Smarty Plants' with Robert Krulwich | Radiolab, New York, USA
May 12 Invited Speaker | Garden States - Ethnobotanical Symposium, Entheogenesis Australia
Melbourne, Australia
Mar 31 Invited Speaker | The Shaman & the Scientist, The Australian Psychedelic Society,
Sydney, Australia
2019
JUNE 1 Invited Speaker | World Science Festival, New York City, USA
May 16-19 Invited Speaker | Northern Territory Writers' Festival, Alice Spring, Australia
May 15 Keynote Speaker | Thinking Trees, The Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Mar 9 Invited Speaker | Planet Talk @ Womadelaide, Adelaide, Australia
Mar 7 Invited Speaker | The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Mar 6 Invited Speaker | Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and Sydney Policy Lab at the
University of Sydney , Sydney, Australia
2018
Nov 3-4 Invited Speaker | 'A Plant is a Community: Why Listen to Plants' | Liquid Architecture,
Brisbane & the Gold Coast, Australia
OCT 30 Invited Lecturer | Depart. of Anthropology, University of California Berkeley, California, USA
OCT 24 Invited Lecturer | Depart. of Biological Sciences, San Jose State University, California, USA
OCT 23 Invited Speaker | Botanical Dimensions, Occidental, California, USA
OCT 19-21 Keynote Speaker | National Bioneers Conference, San Rafael, California, USA
OCT 15 Invited Speaker | Depart. of Plant Biology, Carnegie Institution for Science, Stanford University,
California, USA
OCT 11 Invited Lecturer | Depart. of Biological Sciences, Cal State University East Bay, California, USA
SEPT 20-22 Keynote Speaker | III Symposium of Systemic Ecophysiology on 'Cognition and sentience in plants', Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sept 3-16 Invited Lecturer | Wasiwaska Seminar Series, Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator
Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness, Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil
AUG 17 Invited Speaker | 'Animal Sentience: Pushing the Boundaries', Centre for Philosophy of the
Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
May 9 Interview on 'A Mind Without A Brain: The Science Of Plant Intelligence Takes Root' with
Andrea Morris | Forbes Magazine, Jersey City, USA
2017
DEC 6-11 Keynote Speaker | 'Perspectives on Listening' International Workshop, Biosphere Soundscapes & QLD Conservatorium Research Centre, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Sept 1 Invited Speaker | The Nexus of Life: Ecological Crisis & Creative Understanding conference Sydney Environment Institute & Department of Anthropology
University of Sydney, Australia
JUN 23 Invited Lecturer | Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Life and Environmental Sciences Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
APR 28 Keynote Speaker | Sydney Harbour: Intersections of the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities workshop Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney, Australia
APR 26 Invited Lecturer | School of Law & Justice co-hosting with Southern Cross Plant Science Southern Cross University, Lismore, Australia
2016
NOV 2-3 Invited Speaker | Agency Beyond Humanity Conference, Biopolitical Studies Network University of New South Wales, Australia
May 17 Invited Speaker | Transformational Nature, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
JUn 21 Gold Medalist at the New York Festival - Bioneers Radio Series
'Nature’s Intelligence: Interviewing The Vegetable Mind'
May 13-15 Invited Speaker | Interdependence Symposium
Planète Vie & Jane Goodall Institute, Belgium
APRIL 13-14 Invited Speaker | Plant Communication for Agricultural Innovation Convening
Bill & Melissa Gates Foundation, USA
Jan 20 Interview on Plant Behaviour | NewsTalk Radio, Ireland
2015
Dec 26 Guest in 'Talking Plants' | ABC Radio National show, Australia
nov 25 Invited Lecturer | Faculty of Education, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
OCT 28 Invited Lecturer | Philosophy Department, University of Sydney, Australia
OCT 13 Inteview with Pavel Lobkov | RAIN Independent TV channel, Russia
SEPT 3 Invited Speaker | Science Seminar Series for Kings Park Festival, Australia
JUL 31 Interview with Jill Cloutier | Sustainable World Radio, USA
JUL 15 Guest in 'Nature’s Intelligence: Interviewing The Vegetable Mind' Bioneers Radio Series XV, USA
Jun 13 Guest in 'Blueprint for Living' | ABC Radio National show, Australia
May 30 Guest in 'Voice of Plants' Forum | Denmark Festival of Voice, Australia
May 29 Invited Speaker | Science Seminar for Denmark Festival of Voice, Australia
Mar 30 The Waterwheel Project, USA - 'We Are Not Plants' collaboration with Vivienne Glance
2014
OCT 22-26 Speaker | Science and Nonduality Conference, USA
oct 17-19 Invited Speaker | 25th Bioneers Conference, USA
oct 1 Invited Speaker | 'Plant Intelligence: Scientific and Philosophical Approaches'
Symposium, Georgetown Intercultural Center, Georgetown University, USA
Jul 20-21 Invited Speaker | 'Consciousness - Here, There, Everywhere? The Prospect for Panpsychism'
Workshop, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), Byron Bay, Australia
Jun 19-21 Invited Speaker & Keynote Respondent | 5th Biennal Association for the Study of Literature,
Environment & Culture (ASLEC-ANZ), Canberra, Australia
mar 28 Interview with Derrick Jensen on Radio Resistance | Progressive Radio Network,US
Feb 6 Interview 'What does the Plant Say?' | BBC Earth Unplugged, UK
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