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Invited Lectures and Talks
- “Homo praed?tor and the Economy of Civilisation, or How Max Went Mad“. Keynote speaker, Vectors: Contemporary Libertarian Theories and Praxes, a conference at the Moscow School for Advanced studies in Social and Economic studies, April 2026
- “The Treacherous Imaginary of Literature: Where Science and Fiction Meet”. Invited talk (video and transcript), Anarchism Across the Arts conference, Saturday 1 March 2025, University of Victoria
- 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”. Invited lecture (video and transcript), 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
- “La santé et l’économie environnementale”, Invited talk by the Forum Expo Réussir Ensemble: Entrepreneur(e)s en Santé, Sherbrooke, Nov 2023
- 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“. Invited lecture in the series “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“. Invited talk at the Montreal Anarchist bookfair, 24 May 2015
- “Crime and Reward from an Anarcho-Primitivist Perspective“. Invited 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“. Invited talk at Shakti Mountain climbing gym, Montreal; 29 June, 2013
- “A Radical Critique of Modern Education“. Invited workshop 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“. Invited lecture in the 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“. Invited talk 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
- “Literacy of the Oppressed “. Guest lecture, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 20 Oct 2009
- 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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