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Guest Lectures and Talks
- I love, therefore you are: what we can learn from animals. SAFE (Sanctuary for Farmed Animals of Eastern Townships). Sunday, 8th September 2024
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What’s AI got to do with it? The Odyssey of Knowledge Production and Stress through the Ages. Guest lecture, invited by the Departments of Chinese Studies, Indology/South Asian Studies, and Japanese Studies of the University of Tübingen and the German Society for Time Policy (DGfZP), Berlin, July 2024
- A series of 6 episodes on War, Civilisation, and Hope: in conversation with Ushari Ahmad Mahmoud Khalil and John Zerzan. August 2023-January 2024
- And the Lord said, Go into the wilderness. A sermon for wild spirituality. Unitarian Universalist Church, North Hatley. 4th June 2023
- “Domestication, De-domestication, and Rewilding“. Public talk part of the series on “Time, Domestication, and Stress” organised by the Anhilaal Collective on abolition of work and civilisation in India and Germany, 28th November 2021
- “Where the Wild Things Go: Anarchist Knowledge and Practice” workshop at the Montreal Anarchist bookfair, 24 May 2015
- “Crime and Reward from an Anarcho-Primitivist Perspective” – lecture at the Department of Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, B.C., Tuesday, 8 October, 2013
- “First there was the Word, then Came Civilisation: How Fiction Structures the Reality of Predation and Violence” – a talk at Shakti Mountain climbing gym, Montreal; 29 June, 2013
- “A Radical Critique of Modern Education” – a discussion at the A-space Anarchist Community Center, Philadelphia, 30 May, 2013
- Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education Book Launch, Video, at La Deferle, Montreal, Sunday, 19 May, 2013
- “How Ivan the Fool Defeats Civilized Pedagogies“, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series: Community, solidarity, and popular education: Confronting the national security state. Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 12:00pm Wednesday, 8 February, 2012
- “Radical Sustainability, Beyond Green Capitalism: Anarcho-Primitivism, Feminism and Christianity in a Conversation for an Endangered World“, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1-2 April 2011
- “Tell these Stories to your children” – presented at the conference “In the beginning: Anarchism, Christianity, and the roots of resistance“, Jesus Radicals Conference, Portland, OR 6 August 2010
- Proposed an Open Forum discussion, titled: “Anarchy for All: Expanding the Horizons of Practice Beyond Privilege” shared with Nekeisha Alexis-Baker, John Zerzan, and partly with Wes Howard-Brook “In the beginning: Anarchism, Christianity, and the roots of resistance” conference, Portland, OR 7 August 2010
- Respondent to “Race, Racism, and the Nation-State: A Christian-Anarchist Perspective” presentation by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker, Jesus Radicals Conference, Portland, OR; 6th August 2010
- A Lullaby for the Planet: Undressing Ourselves for a Viable Parenthood. New Heaven, New Earth conference; Memphis, TN. 15 August 2009
- For a review, see issue 4, page 31 of In the Land of the Living by Andy Lewis
- Open Forum: Layla AbdelRahim and John Zerzan respond (total time: 1hour and 51 minutes). Memphis, TN, 15 August 2009
Abstracts
- “The Revolution Will Not Be Anthropomorphised: Civilised Knowledge and the Sabotage of Resistance” – Anti-civilisation Day, Anarchist Festival in Montreal, at La Déferle, Montreal; 18 May, 2013
- “Qu’est-ce que l’économie civilisée? Recherche sur le principe ontologique de l’effondrement économique et écologique” – a paper delivered at HEC, Montreal, Monday, 13 May 2013
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