“Fail Better: Thoughts on Utopian Half-Life,” panel presentation, Workshop on Utopia and Failure,18 March 2021. 

“Reaffirming the Negative Function of Utopian Anticipation,” Utopian Studies Society annual conference, Porto, 10 December 2021. 

“Dialogue on Dystopia, Continued,” paper, with Raffaella Baccolni, International Istanbul Dystopia Film Festival, Istanbul, 3-5 December 2021. 

“Choosing Utopia, Becoming Utopian: Reflections on Praxis,” keynote lecture, Conference on “Intentional Communities: Real Utopias in History,” Madrid, 25-26 October 2021. 

“Becoming Utopian: Exploring the Praxis of Making a Better World,” keynote lecture, “Globalisation and New Terrains of Consciousness: Phenomenology is of The Global /Local /Glocal,” Department of English. Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in collaboration with Department of English and American Studies. University of Würzburg, 9-10 February 2021. 

Response, Roundtable on Invoking Hope: Theory and Utopia in Dark Times (Wegner 2020), Society for Utopian Studies conference, online, 5 February 2021. 

Response, Seminar on Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Moylan 2020), Birkbeck University Centre for Contemporary Culture, online, 22 January 2021.

“Apocalyptic Hope:  Radical Virtues in Dystopian Times,” paper, Keynote Panel on the Dystopian Imagination, Living in the End Times: Utopian and Dystopian Representations of Pandemics in Fiction, Film and Culture A (Virtual) Interdisciplinary Conference, Cappadocia University, 14-15 January 2021. 

“Reconsidering Dystopia in Dark(er) Times,” dialogue with Raffaella Baccolini and Ildney Cavalcanti, Diálogos Fantástikos Symposium (Fantástika 451), Literatura and Utopia Conference, San Paulo, 4-5 December 2020. 

Response, Roundtable on Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Moylan 2020), Society for Utopian Studies conference, online, 13 November 2020. 

“The Spatial Politics of Becoming Utopian,” keynote lecture, Conference on “Parasocieties. Imagination– Enactment – Interplay,” Erlangen University, 10 February 2020.