Professor Vanessa Lemm DEUG, BA, DEA, MA, PhD

• Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences

• Nietzsche-Fellow, Weimar Klassikstiftung, Weimar, September-December 2022
• Writer in Residence, Birkbeck College School of Law, UK, 2018
• Fellow, Royal Society of New South Wales, 2016-present
• Visiting Professor, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2015
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Escuela de Gobierno, Programa de Doctorado en Filosofía, Universidad Adolfo Ibaňez, Santiago, Chile, 2015-present
• DAAD Visiting Professor, Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam, Germany, 2010-2011
• Visiting Professor, Dottorato di Filosofia Teoretica e Politica, Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Italy, 2009

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES & AFFILIATIONS

• Board Member, Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2020-2022
• Board Member, Helpman Academy, 2018-2021
• Board Member, Australian Book Review, 2018-2021
• Member of Universities Australia Executive Women, 2019-2022
• Member of the AusStage Advisory Council, November 2019-present
• Treasurer, Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021-2022
• Chair of the Strategic Plan Committee, Australasian Council of Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2021
• Member of the Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts, 2019-2021

RESEARCH GROUPS & AFFILIATIONS

• HyperNietzsche Association, 2020-present
• Group internationale de recherches sur Nietzsche (GIRN), 2019-present
• Grupo de investigación "Relaciones de Poder, Asimetrías y Derechos Humanos." Federal University of Paraná, Brasil, 2018-present
• Grupo de Investigación: Cuerpo, lenguaje y poder. Lecturas contemporáneas a partir de Nietzsche, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, 2017-present
• Co-Founder of research network on biopolitics www.biopolitica.org, 2008-present

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
• Deutsche Nietzsche Gesellschaft
• Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Nietzscheanos (RIEN)
• Friedrich Nietzsche Society
• International Board of Advisors, The Nietzsche Circle in New York
• Member of the International Advisory Board, The Agonist, March 2018-present
• Editor, Nietzsche Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch der Nietzscheforschung and Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung book series with De Gruyter Publishers, 2017-present

• Political Philosophy, Philosophical Anthropology, Theories of Community and Justice, Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Contemporary French and Italian Philosophy, Biopolitics, Environmental Humanities, Plant and Animal Studies, Posthumanism.

• ABC National Radio, Big Ideas, 16 August 2022
• LinkedIn Education and Leadership Video Series “Navigating the New Normal” with Rosalyn De Sally, August-October 2020
• ABC Radio Adelaide, interviewed by presenter David Bevan on What is Existentialism, 23 July 2019
• 3CR Community Radio, The Government of Life and the Cynics, 23 July 2015
• ABC National Radio, What do we owe each other: Community in the 21st Century, 25 July 2012

Books (3)

• Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics. Incitements Series, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
• Nietzsche y el pensamiento político contemporáneo. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013.
• Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being. New York: Fordham University Press, 2009.

Edited Books (6)

• The Viral Politics of Covid 19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health. Co-edited with Miguel Vatter. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
• Nietzsche y el devenir de la vida. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014.
• The Government of Life: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism. Co-edited with Miguel Vatter. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
• Hegel, pensador de la actualidad. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010. Co-edited with Juan Ormeño.
• Michel Foucault: neoliberalismo y biopolítica. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010.

Book Chapters (25)

• "Rooted in Other Worlds: On the Plant and Planetary Turns in Plato and Dostoevsky" in The Herbarium Tales, eds. Prue Gibson and Sigi Joettkandt. London: Open Humanities Press (forthcoming).
• “New Materialism, Environmentalism and More-Than-Human Life” co-authored with Miguel Vatter in Leben Regieren. Biotechnologie, Natur und Gesellschaft im 21. Jahrhundert, eds. Katharina Hoppe, Jonas Rüppel, Franziska von Verschuer, Torsten H. Voigt. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag (forthcoming 2023).
• “Plant Imaginaries and Human Existence in Nietzsche and Sartre” in Nietzsche, ed. James Porter, Cambridge Studies in Literature and Philosophy, ed. Anthony J. Cascardi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (invited publication, forthcoming).                        
  • A shorter version of this chapter is forthcoming in German as "Bilder des pflanzlichen Lebens in der Philosophie". Nietzsches Naturen, eds. Vanessa Lemm and Antonia Ulrich. Berlin: De Gruyter (Nietzsche Lektüren Series).
• “Introduction” co-authored with Miguel Vatter in The Viral Politics of Covid 19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health, eds. Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter, xvii-xxvii. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• “Ideologies of Contagion and Communities of Life” in The Viral Politics of Covid 19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health, eds. Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter, 145-160. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
  • An earlier version of this chapter has also been published in Italian as “Coronavirus e comunità di vita” in Almanacco di Filosofia e Politica: Sull’evento. Filosofia, storia, biopolitica, eds. Rita Fulco, Andrea Moresco, 69-84. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2022.
• “Posthumanism and Plant Studies” in Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, eds. Stefan Herbrechter, Ivan Callus, Manuela Rossini, Marija Grech, Megen de Bruin-Molé, and Christopher John Müller, 1-18. London: Palgrave, 2022.
• “The Work of Art and the Death of God in Nietzsche and Agamben” in Agamben and the Existentialists, eds. Colby Dickinson and Marcos Norris, pp. 83-99. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
  • A longer version of this chapter is also translated to Italian as “L’Opera D’Arte e la Morte di Dio. Nietzsche e Agamben” in a special issue: The Ontology of the Subject in Giorgio Agamben, «Etica & Politica / Ethics & Politics» (Issn: 1825-5167), XXII, 2020, 3, pp. 109-128. (ed. and trans. Carlo Crosato).
• “Deconstructing Human Nature: Ludwig Binswanger on Homo Natura in Nietzsche and Freud” in Nietzsche and The Antichrist: Religion, Politics and Culture in Late Modernity, ed. Daniel Conway, 205-227. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
• “Friedrich Nietzsche on Human Nature: Between Philosophical Anthropology and Animal Studies”, in Animals and Animality in Literary Studies, Cambridge Critical Concepts Series, eds. Brian Massumi and Molly Hand, 197-214. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  • A shorter version of this text is published as “La antropología filosófica de Nietzsche: del humanismo cristiano “anti-natural” al natualismo dionisiaco”, invited peer-reviewed article on special issue Nietzsche et la religion, Anuario Filosófico, vol. 54, no. 1, 2021. Pp. 85-106.
• “Primary Interlocutors: Michel Foucault“, in Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage, eds. Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani, 51-62. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
• “Points of Reference: Friedrich Nietzsche”, in Agamben’s Philosophical Lineage, eds. Adam Kotsko and Carlo Salzani, 171-177. Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
• “Michel Foucault’s Perspective on Biopolitics”, in Handbook of Biology and Politics, co-authored with Miguel Vatter, ed. Steven A. Peterson, 40-52. London: Edward Elgar Publishers 2017.
• “Biopolitische Betrachtungen zur Figur des Arztes in Nietzsches Philosophie” in Nietzsche, Foucault und die Medizin, eds. Orsolya Friedrich, Diana Aurenque, Galia Assadi, Sebastian Schleidgen, 183-201. Bielefeld: transcript-Verlag, 2016.
• “Introduction: Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life” in Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life, ed. Vanessa Lemm, 1-15. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.
• “Introduction: The Government of Life” co-authored with Miguel Vatter in The Government of Life: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism, eds. Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter, 1-13. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
• “Introdución: Nietzsche y el devenir de la vida” in Nietzsche y el devenir de la vida, ed. Vanessa Lemm, 13-21. Santiago de Chile: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2014.
• “Nietzsche’s Politics of the Event”, in Nietzsche and Political Thought, ed. Keith Ansell-Pearson, 179-196. London: Bloomsbury 2013.
  • A different version of this book chapter has also been published in Spanish with the title "La política del acontecimiento en Nietzsche", in Política y contecimiento, eds. Miguel Vatter and Miguel Ruiz Stull, 169-192. Santiago: Fondo de cultura económica, 2011.
• “Roberto Esposito and the Biopolitics of the Common”, in Terms of the Political by Roberto Esposito, 1-13. New York: Fordham University Press, 2012.
• “The Spectrality of Responsibility in Nietzsche, Sartre and Derrida” in Einige werden posthum geboren, eds. Marco Brusotti and Renate Reschke, 151-158. Berlin: De Gruyter Verlag, 2012.
• “Nietzsche, Aristocratism and Non-Domination” in How not to be Governed: Readings and Interpretations from a Postanarchist Left, eds. Jimmy Casas Klausen and James Martel, 83-102. New York: Lexington Books, 2011.
• “Introdución a Hegel, pensador de la actualidad” co-authored with Juan Ormeño in Hegel, pensador de la actualidad, eds. Vanessa Lemm and Juan Ormeño, 19-30. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010.
• “Introdución” in Michel Foucault: neoliberalismo y biopolítica, ed. Vanessa Lemm, 13-18. Santiago de Chile: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2010.
• “The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life” in Nietzsche, Power and Politics: Nietzsche’s Legacy as a Political Thinker, eds. Herman W. Siemens and Vasti Roodt, 679-99. Berlin: De Gruyter Verlag, 2008.
  • This chapter has also been translated into Chinese as “Nietzsche, Biopolitics and the Problem of Animal Existence”, trans. Guojing Yang in Production, Volume 7, Biopolitics: Foucault, Agamben and Esposito, chief editor Minan Wang, Xiaoyan Guo, Jiangsu People’s Press, 2011: 225-233.
  • A shorter version of this article has been translated into Spanish and has been published under the title “El úmbral biológico de la política moderna: Nietzsche, Foucault y la cuestión del animal” in Rastros y rostros de la biopolítica, Ignacio Mendiola Gonzalo, ed., 115-132, Barcelona: Ediciones Anthropos, 2009.
  • This chapter is currently being translated to Turkish by Onur Kartal (Hacettepe University, Department of Philosophy) for publication in Monthly Review or Critical Legal Thinking (In progress).
• “Justice and Gift-Giving in Thus Spoke Zarathustra” in Before Sunrise: Essays on Thus Spoke Zarathustra, ed. James Luchte, 165-181. London: Continuum International Publishers, 2008.
• “The Overhuman Animal” in A Nietzschean Bestiary, eds. Ralph Acampora and Christa Davis Acampora, 220-239. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2004.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed and Indexed Journals (26)

• “Esposito’s Political Ontology: Difference, Conflict and Community”, invited article for special issue on Roberto Esposito’s Instituting Thought. Cultural Critique 115, Spring 2022: 111-124.
• “Natureza, caos e transformação: para uma antropologia filosófica transformadora”, invited article, Cadernos Nietzsche, v. 41 n.3, stembro-dezembro 2020, pp. 29-48.
• “Giorgio Agamben, lector de Friedrich Nietzsche: una visión de conjunto”, Boletín del Centro de Estudios de Teoría y Crítica 2018 (Universidad de Rosario, Argentina).
• “Who is Nietzsche’s Homo Natura? Self-Knowledge, Probity and the Metamorphoses of the Human Being in Beyond Good and Evil 230,” Internationales Jarhbuch für Philosophische Anthropologie (2018): 33-49.
  • This chapter has been translated by Volkan Ay to Turkish in Özne Felsefe Bilim Yazilari, 31, 663-679, Fall 2019. ISBN 978-605-196-355-6.
• “Is Nietzsche a Naturalist? Or How to Become a Responsible Plant”, Journal of Nietzsche Studies 47 (1) (2016): 61-80.
  • A shorter version of this article is also available in Spanish in an edited volume as “La filosofía vegetal de Friedrich Nietzsche” in La cuestión animal(ista), ed. Ivan Dario Avila Gaitan, 151-171, Bogotá: Ediciones desde abajo, 2016.
• “What We Can Learn from Plants about the Creation of Values”, Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung, Kontroversen: Was heißt und wie kann man Werte schaffen?, Vol. 44 (2015): 78-87.
• “Are Values of Social or Individual Origin? And what is the Purpose of Values?”, Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung, Kontroversen: Was heißt und wie kann man Werte schaffen?, Vol. 44 (2015):  136-141.
• “Verdad, incorporación y probidad (Redlichkeit) en Nietzsche”, Special Issue on Nietzsche and Politics, Estudios de Nietzsche 15 (2015): 63-81.
  • This article is also published as a book chapter in English with the title “Truth, Embodiment and Redlichkeit (Probity) in Nietzsche“, in Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind, 289-307, ed. Manuel Dries, Berlin: De Gruyter Verlag 2018.
• “Nietzsche y la biopolítica: cuatro lecturas de Nietzsche como pensador biopolítico.” Ideas y Valores Vol. 64, No. 158 (2015): 223-248.
  • A substantially different version of this article is also published in English as a book chapter, “Nietzsche and Biopolitics: Four Readings of Nietzsche as a Biopolitical Thinker“ in The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics, 50-65, eds. Sergei Prozorow and Simona Rentea. London: Routledge, 2016.
  • This article has also been published in Turkish as "Nietzsche ve Biyopolitika: Biyopolitik Bir Düşünür Olarak Dört Nietzsche Okuması", trans. Onur Kartal (Hacettepe University, Department of Philosophy) in Biyopolitika Cilt 1: Platon'dan Arendt'e Biyopolitikanın Felsefi Kökenleri, NotaBene, Ankara, 2016: 217-249.
  • This article has also been translated into Chinese, trans. Weifeng Guo in World Philosophy 2019 (1): 80-95.
  • This article has now also been translated to Portuguese by William Costa as “Nietzsche e a biopolítica: quatro leituras de Nietzsche como pensador biopolítico”, Estudos Nietzsche, Espírito Santo, v. 11, n. 2, p. 182-205, jul./dez. 2020.
• “Nuevas direcciones en el pensamiento sobre la comunidad”, Revista Instantes y Azares – Escrituras nietzscheanas 13 (2015): 207-220.
• “Shedding New Light on the Ethical Dimension of Nietzsche’s Philosophy”, Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung, Vol.43 (2014): 347-358.
• “La encarnación de la verdad y la política de la comunidad: Foucault y los cínicos”, Anales del Seminario de Historia de Filosofía, Vol. 2 No. 2 (2013): 225-242.
  • This article is also published as a book chapter in English with the title “The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community: Michel Foucault and the Cynics,” in The Government of Life: Michel Foucault, Biopolitics and Neoliberalism, 208-223, eds. Vanessa Lemm and Miguel Vatter. New York: Fordham University Press, 2014.
  • It is also published as a book chapter in Italian with the title “La biopolitica della comunita nei Cinici” in Italian Theory, 255-272, eds. Dario Gentili and Eletra Stimilli. Rome: Derive Approdi, 2015.
  • It is also published in Portuguese as “A Encarnação da Verdade e a Política da Comunidade: Foucault e os Cínicos” in Michel Foucault: Desdobramentos, eds. Nalli, Marcos and Mansano, Sonia, 41-57. Belo Horizonte: Ed. Autêntica, 2016.
• “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice”, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2013): 439-455.
• “Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 21 (1) (2013): 3-19.
• “Poder, vida, subjetivación: perspectivas en torno a la biopolítica”, co-authored with Miguel Vatter, Revista de Estudios Sociales, No. 43 (2012): 166-173.
• “The Question of the Animal: A Response to Hatab and Schrift”, New Nietzsche Studies Vol. 8, Issue ¾ (Winter/Spring 2011/12): 143-158.
• “History, Life and Justice in Friedrich Nietzsche’s Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben,” The New Centennial Review (special issue on Life) 10 (3) (2011): 167-88.
• “Más allá de la política de la dominación,” Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofia, No. 31 (December 2010): 9-25.
• “Dar y Perdonar en Nietzsche y Derrida,” Pensamiento, No. 294 (December 2010): 963-979.
• “Critical Theory and Affirmative Biopolitics: Nietzsche and the Domination of Life in Adorno and Horkheimer,” Journal of Power (Special issue on Critical Theory), 3:1 (2010): 75-95.
  • A shorter version of this essay has been published under the title “Teoría crítica y biopolítica afirmativa: La dominación de la vida en Nietzsche y Adorno/Horkheimer” in Nietzsche e as ciências, edited by Miguel Ángel de Barrenechea, Charles Feitosa, Paulo Pinheiro y Rosana Suarez, 297-310. Río de Janeiro:7Letras, 2011.
  • This essay also appeared in the German translation under the title “Das Problem der Naturbeherrschung bei Nietzsche und Adorno/Horkheimer: Affirmative Biopolitik und die Dialektik der Aufklärung,” with Zeitschrift für kritische Theorie 32/33 (2011): 85-110.
• “Nietzsche y el olvido del animal,” Arbor: ciencia, pensamiento, cultura, no. 736 (2009): 471-482.
• “Nietzsches Vision einer „neuen Aristokratie“,“ Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 56 (2008): 365-383.
• “Animality, Historicity and Creativity: A Reading of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Vom Nutzen und Nachtheil der Historie für das Leben,” Nietzsche-Studien, Vol. 36 (2007): 169-200.
  • A shorter version of this article entitled, “Historia y interpretación: entre olvido animal y memoria humana” is also available in Spanish in Nietzsche y la hermenéutica, Francisco Arenas-Dolz, Luca Giancristofaro, Paolo Stellino, eds., 353-363, Nau LLibres-Ediciones Culturales Valencianes, 2007.
• “Is Nietzsche a Perfectionist? Rawls, Cavell and the Politics of Culture in Nietzsche’s Schopenhauer as Educator,” Journal of Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 34, (2007): 5-27.
  • This article is also being translated into Portuguese with the title "Nietzsche é um perfeccionista? Rawls, Cavell e a política cultural de Nietzsche em Schopenhauer como educador" in "Cadernos Nietzsche", Sao Paolo, Brazil (forthcoming).
  • A different version of this article was also published in Spanish with the title “Nietzsche y la libertad individual: Rawls, Cavell y el debate sobre el valor del perfeccionismo para la democracia,” Alpha: Revista de Artes, Letras y Filosofia, No. 28, (July 2009): 87-104.
• “Memory and Promise in Arendt and Nietzsche,” Revista de Ciencia Política, Vol. 26, No.2 (2006): 161-174.
  • This article is also published in Spanish in Hannah Arendt, Sobrevivir al/del Totalitarismo, Miguel Vatter and Horst Nitschak, eds., 139-154, Santiago: LOM, 2008.

Other Publications, Reviews and invited Guest Editor (8)

• “Michel Foucault”, co-authored with Venessa Ercole, in The Encyclopedia of Political Sociology, eds. Marco Giugni, Maria Grasso. Edward Elgar, 2023 (forthcoming).
• Book Review, Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making by Nadine Ehlers and Shiloh Krupar, Estudio Públicos 161 (2021), pp. 189-197 (Spanish) and 1-8 (English).
• Interview, Uma política de vida oa invés de uma política sobre a vida. A biopolítica afirmativa de Nietzsche, Revista de Instituto Humanitias Unisinos, Issue 513/16 Octubre 2017 (http://www.ihuonline.unisinos.br/artigo/7073-uma-politica-de-vida-ao-inves-de-uma-politica-sobre-a-vida-a-biopolitica-afirmativa-de-nietzsche)
• Review of Nietzsche's Culture of Humanity: Beyond Aristocracy and Democracy in the Early Period by Jeffrey Church, Cambridge University Press, 2015, Perspectives on Politics Vol 14, No 4, December 2016: 1189-1191.
• Guest editor for special issue on Biopolitics, Pléyade: Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales, No. 17 (Enero-Junio), 2016.
  • Including Vanessa Lemm, “Introducción: nuevas perspectivas, temas y desafíos en los estudios biopolíticos hoy”, Pléyade: Revista de humanidades y ciencias sociales, No. 17 (Enero-Junio), 2016: 13-16.
• “Nietzsche’s Agon for Politics?”, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol 14 (2014): e12-e17. (Review Essay).
• “The Struggle for Recognition: Between Social Relation and Social Conflict,” Introduction and guest editor for dossier on French-Chilean Colloquium in the Social Sciences, Revista de Ciencia Política, Vol. 27, No. 2 (2007): 155-158 and 159-206.
• “Biopolitics: A New Paradigm of Political Power,” Introduction and guest editor for a dossier including an exclusive interview with Roberto Esposito, Revista de Ciencia Política, Vol. 29, No.1 (2009): 127-200.

SELECTED KEYNOTES, PLENARY, AND INVITED SPEAKER

2023

• “Homo Natura: Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics”, invited speaker, research workshop, 17 March 2023, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile.
• “Nietzsche: Truth, Embodiment and Consciousness”, invited speaker, Institute of Philosophy & Technology, 23 March, Athens, Greece.

2022

• “Philosophical Responses to the Anthropocene: Becoming Rooted with Plants”, panelist, Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy, Annual Conference, 28-30 November, University of Melbourne, Australia.
• “Nietzsche’s Agonistic Politics Reconsidered”, invited speaker, Nietzsche, La Politique, L’Histoire, Colloque international de philosophie, 29-30 November 2022, Université de Namur/Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium.
• “Diversities: Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy, A Philosophy of Duality, Conflict, and Sexual Difference,” invited speaker, Symposium 150 Years of Tragedy: Nietzsche, Art, Philosophy, 24 November, Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy/University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• “Nietzsche and Gender Studies”, invited speaker, Genealogies of New Moralities: From Nietzsche to Diversity, 27-29 October, Klassik Stifitung Weimar, Germany.
• “Bilder des pflanzlichen Lebens in der Philosophie“, keynote speaker, Nietzsches Natures, 20-23 October, Nietzsche Kongress Nietzsche Gesellschaft und Nietzsche Dokumentationszentrum, Naumburg, Germany.
• “Hacia una comunidad planetaria y ecológica”, planery speaker, Nietzsche y la Communidad: Modernidad, Poder y Nuevas Subjectividades, II Congreso de la RIEN, 25-28 October, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• “Humanism beyond Anthropocentrism”, invited speaker, La Trobe Anthropocene Reading Group, La Trobe University, 30 August 2022.
• “Becoming rooted with plants: what we can learn from plants about our responsibilities towards the planet”, keynote speaker, Max Charlesworth Oration 2022, Deakin University, 19 July 2022.

2021

• “The Death of God and the Work of Art in Nietzsche and Agamben”, invited speaker, Deakin, Philosophy Seminar Series, 13 April 2021, Deakin University.
• “Nietzsche y el poshumanismo”, keynote speaker, Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Nietzscheanos (RIEN), Encuentro RIEN en Alemania, 3 March 2021, Freiburg, Germany.
• “Contagion and the Community of Life”, plenary speaker with Elisabeth Povinelli, Slavoj Žižek and Dario Gentili, Aesthetics&Critique III: Thinking in Pandemic Times, 27-28 May 2021, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.
• “Contagion and the Community of Life”, conference paper, Symposium “The Viral Politics of Covid 19”, 27 August 2021, Deakin University.
• “Homo Natura and Feminism”, conference paper, International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society “Nietzsche and Women”, 16-18 September 2021, Universidad de Lisboa, Portugal.
• “Homo Natura y feminism”, keynote speaker, launch event Red Intempestiva Nietzsche, 15 October 2021, Santiago de Chile.
• “Posthumanism and Plant Studies”, invited speaker, Philosophy Seminar Series, 11 November 2021, New School for Social Research, New York.

2020

• “Ancient Cynics and Contemporary Philosophy”, invited speaker, Ancient Studies Critical Network, Paper on Cynics, University of Sydney, September 2020.
• “Nietzsche and Posthumanism”, invited speaker, Posthumanities Reading Group, Flinders University, 19 November 2022, Adelaide.
• “Nietzsche and Posthumanism”, invited speaker, Nietzsche Circle, 22 November 2020, New York.

2019

• "Nature humaine, sexualité et religion", invited speaker, Colloque International Nietzsche et la religion, 5-6 April 2019, Sorbonne-Université, Paris, France.
• “The Notion of Community in the Ancient Cynics”, invited speaker, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), 10 July 2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
• “Nietzsche and Politics”, invited speaker, Universitas Islam Indonesia, 11 July 2019, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
• “Naturaleza, arte y la transformación del ser humano”, keynote speaker (and Member of the Scientifc Committee), "Nietzsche y el arte: verdad, mascara, poder", I Congreso Internacional de la Red Iberoamericana de Estudios Nietzscheanos, Univerisdad Complutense de Madrird, 22-25 October 2019, Madrid, Spain.

2018

• "Natural History and Human Nature", keynote speaker, Jahrestagung der Nietzsche Gesellschaft, „Geschichte und Gedächtnis“, 11-14 October 2018, Nietzsche-Dokumentationszentrum Naumburg, Germany.
• "Redlichkeit als philosophische und politische Tugend bei Nietzsche und bei den Kynikern", keynote speaker, Silser Nietzsche-Kolloquium “Wahrheit und Lüge“, 27-30 September 2018, Sils Maria, Switzerland.
• “Friedrich Nietzsche on Human Nature, Gender and Politics”, keynote speaker, Friedrich Nietzsche Society Annual International Conference, “Nietzsche and the Politics of Difference", 20-21 September 2018, Newcastle University, UK.

2017

• “Friedrich Nietzsche sobre la Naturaleza Humana: entre la Antropología Filosófica y los Estudios Animales”, keynote speaker, Inauguration of Postgraduate Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, April 2017.
• “Who is Nietzsche’s Homo Natura?”, plenary speaker, international conference Nietzsche’s Anthropologie, 12-14 July 2017, fully funded by the Thyssen Foundation, University of Erfurt, Germany.

2016

• “Agamben as a Reader of Foucault”, conference paper, Foucault Circle, 29 June-2 July 2016, UNSW.
• “Affirmative Biopolitics and Animal Life”, conference paper, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting, 27-30 May 2016, New York, USA.
• “Embodiment and Sociability in the Ancient Cynics,” conference paper, Symposium: The Sociability of Personhood, 18-19 February 2016, UNSW.
• “Las contribuciones de Nietzsche al debate de los valores en las Ciencias de Humanidades”, invited speaker, 7 January 2016, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile.
• “Nietzsche y el mundo de vegetal como modelo de libertad y creatividad”, invited speaker, Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, 13 January 2016, Santiago de Chile.

2015

• “Affirmative Biopolitics and Animal Rights”, conference paper with Cary Wolfe and Dinesh Wadiwel, 19 February 2015, Society for the Study of Bio-political Futures (SSBF) and Biopolitical Studies Research Network Workshop, UNSW.
• “La filosofía vegetal de Nietzsche”, invited speaker, Seminario Nietzsche, 22 April 2015, Facultad de Filosofía, Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
• "Verdad, encorporación y probidad en la Gaya Ciencia", keynote speaker, Book Launch: “Nietzsche, F., Obras completas, Edición dirigida por Diego Sánchez Meca, Vol. III: Obras de madurez I, Introducciones, traducción y notas de Marco Parmeggiani, Jaime Aspiunza, Juan Luis Vermal y Diego Sánchez Meca, Madrid, Tecnos, 2014, 22 April 2015, Goethe Institut Madrid, Spain.
• “Affirmative Biopolitics as a Response to the Question of how to Create Rights that Foster a Common Life with Animals”, conference paper, Australian Animal Studies Group (AASG) Conference 2015: Animal Publics: Emotions, Empathy, Activism, 12-15 July 2015, The University of Melbourne.
• “Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Plants”, conference paper with Jennifer Mensch, Australian Society of Continental Philosophy, 3 December 2015, UNSW.
• “Four Readings of Nietzsche as a Biopolitical Thinker”, conference paper with Paul Patton and Dan Conway, Australian Society of Continental Philosophy, 4 December 2015, UNSW.
• “Truth, probity (Redlichkeit) and embodiment: Nietzsche as a Neo-Cynic”, conference paper, Research Symposium Nietzsche and Aesthetics, Center for Modernism Studies in Australia, 7 December 2015, UNSW.

2014

• “La biopolitica della comunita nei Cinici”, plenary speaker, Convegno internazionale “Italian Theory”, 15-18 May 2014, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy.
• “The Biopolitical Implications of Nietzsche’s Conception of Life”, conference paper, UNSW workshop “Ethics and Politics in Nietzsche” with Prof Keith Ansell-Pearson, 8-11 July 2014.

2013

• “La encarnación de la verdad y la política de la comunidad: Foucault y los cíinicos”, plenary speaker, IV Coloquio Latinoamericano de Biopolítica, Bogota, 3-6 September 2013.
• “Un nuevo paradigma (bio)político de la comunidad”, keynote speaker, Inauguration of the PhD Program in Philosophy, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, 9 September 2013.
• “Nietzsche, Foucault and the Embodiment of Truth in the Cynics”, invited speaker, Berliner Nietzsche Kolloquium, 10 July 2013.
• “Nietzsche y el pensamiento político contemporáneo”, invited speaker, book launch, Centro Cultural Matadero/Universidad de Complutense, Madrid, 18 June 2013.
• “The Embodiment of Truth and the Politics of Community in Michel Foucault”, invited speaker, University of Western Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series, March 2013.
• “Nietzsche y Heidegger sobre la justicia”, invited speaker, Goethe Institut Santiago de Chile, 26 March 2013.

2012

• “Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity”, invited speaker, School of Humanities Seminar Series, UNSW, March 2012.
• “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice”, invited speaker, Workshop on Post-Kantian Philosophy, Monash University, March 2012. (invited by Andrew Benjamin)
• “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice”, invited speaker, School of Humanities’ Philosophy Seminar Series, UNSW, May 2012.
• “Nietzsche and Heidegger on Justice”, invited speaker, Philosophy Seminar Series, La Trobe University, September, 2012.
• “Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Community,” invited speaker, Sociology Research Seminar, Goethe University Frankfurt, April 2012. (invited by Thomas Lemke)
• “Roberto Esposito: Biopolitics and Community,” invited speaker, Biopolitik und Formen der Subjektivierung Conference, Potsdam University, July, 2012.
• “Nietzsche´s Politics of the Event”, invited speaker, Macquarie University Philosophy Seminar Series, July 2012.
• “Nietzsche´s Politics of the Event”, invited speaker, Deakin University Philosophy Seminar Series, September 2012.
• “What do We Owe One Another: New Directions in Thinking about Community,” keynote speaker, So What Lecture, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, UNSW, August 2012.

2011

• “Roberto Esposito and the Biopolitics of the Common”, conference paper, International Colloquium with Antonio Negri: Biopolitics and the Common, Santiago de Chile, 27 October 2011.
• “Roberto Esposito and the Biopolitics of the Common”, invited speaker, University of Amsterdam, 10 November 2011 (invited by Robin Celikates).
• “Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity,” keynote speaker, international Conference: “Nietzsche and homo natura: Nature, Ethics and the Philosophy of Power,” University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 11April 2011.
• “Nietzsche, Einverleibung and the Politics of Immunity,” conference paper, international workshop on Nietzsche “Rethinking Conflict” in Santiago de Chile, June 2011.
• “History, Life and Justice”, conference paper on “Nietzsche and the Pursuit of Justice Beyond Good and Evil,” with Roger Berkowitz, Tracy Strong, Shalini Satkunanandan and Roberto Alejandro, Western Political Science Association Meeting, San Antonio, USA, 20-23 April 2011.

2010

• “Special Book Session on Vanessa Lemm’s Nietzsche’s Animal Philosophy: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being),” invited speaker, with Alan D. Schrift and Lawrence Hatab as discussant, Society of Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 4-6 November 2010.
• “Historia, Vida y Injusticia”, keynote speaker, international conference “Nietzsche en Perspectiva 2010”, Bogota, Columbia, 27-29 Octobre 2010 (invited by Laura Quintana).
• “The Posthumous in Nietzsche, Sarte and Derrida”, conference paper, “Einige Werden Posthum Geboren”, Nietzsche-Kolloquium, Naumburg 14-17 October 2010.
• “Nietzsche und die Naturbeherrschung: Kultur, Zivilisation und Zweite Natur”, keynote speaker, Nietzsche-Kolloquium: Nietzsche und die Natur, Sils-Maria, 23-26 September 2010.
• “Nietzsche, la dominación de la naturaleza y la cuestión del animal”, keynote speaker, “Zoo: Palabras salvajes”, Fundación Christina Enea, San Sebastián, España, 15-17 September 2010.
• “Nietzsche, cultura y economía,” keynote speaker, Jornadas de Filosofía Moderna, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago, Chile, 26-28 May 2010.
• “Biopolitics and the Problem of Hegemony” invited discussant for the panel “Biopolitics and Neoliberalism” with Paul Apostolidis, Jodi Dean, Steven Gerencscer, and Geoffrey Whitehall, Western Political Science Association Meeting, San Fransciso, USA, 1-3 April 2010.

2009

• “La dominación de la vida en Nietzsche y Adorno/Horkheimer,” keynote speaker, International Conference: Nietzsche and Science, Universidad de Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 17-19 November 2009.
• “The Recovery of Singular Truth in Nietzsche´s Conception of Anschauungsmetapher,” conference paper, 17th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Nietzsche on Mind and Nature, St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, Great Britain 11-13 September 2009.
• “The Biopolitical Domination of Life in Nietzsche and Adorno/Horkheimer,” conference paper, International Political Science Association Meeting (IPSA), 12-14 July 2009, Santiago, Chile.
• “The Biopolitical Domination of Life in Nietzsche and Adorno/Horkheimer,” conference paper, American Political Science Association Meeting (APSA), 3-6 September 2009, Toronto, Canada.
• “Nietzsche´s Animal Philosophy,” invited speaker, lecture series given at the doctoral program in political philosophy (“Dottorato di Filosofia Teoretica e Politica”) at the Italian Institute of Humanities in Napels (Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane), 25-29 May 2009. (invited by Roberto Esposito)
• “Nietzsche, Biopolitics and the Question of Animal Life,” conference paper, International Conference: A Return to the Senses: Political Theory and the Sensorium, Trent University, Petersborough, Canada, 7-9 May 2009.

2008

• “The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life,” conference paper, Michel Foucault: Biopolitics and Neoliberalism, Santiago, Chile, 22-24 September 2008.
• “The Biological Threshold of Modern Politics: Nietzsche, Foucault and the Question of Animal Life,” invited speaker, Institut für Sozialforschung, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, 16 December 2008. (invited by Prof. Dr. Thomas Lemke)
• “Beyond the Politics of Domination or How Not to Be Governed: Nietzsche’s Conception of Aristocratic Culture,” conference paper, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, USA, 27-30 August 2008.
• “Reconsidering Nietzsche’s Political Thought from the Perspective of Biopolitics,” invited speaker, Lateinamerika Institut, Freie Universität, Berlin, 22 July 2008. (invited by Prof. Dr. Sergio Costa)
• “The Concept of ‘Second Nature’ in Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Culture,” invited speaker, Evian Colloquium in Philosophy, Evian France, 13-19 July 2008.
• “The Notion of Gerechtigkeit in Nietzsche (Nietzsche-Wörterbuch)” and “Giving and Forgiving,” invited speaker, Nietzsche Colloquium, Leiden University, Holland, 18 June 2008. (invited by Prof. Paul von Tongeren and Prof. Herman W. Siemens)
• “The Promise of the Sovereign Individual,” invited speaker, Annual Nietzsche in New York Workshop, Hunter College, City University of New York, USA, 1-3 May 2008. (invited by Christa Davis Acampora)

2007

• “History and Interpretation: Between Animal Forgetfulness and Human Memory,” conference paper, international conference “Nietzsche and Hermeneutics”, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 5-7 November 2007.
• “Nietzsche, Biopolitics and the Question of Animal Life,” conference paper, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA, 30 August – 2 September 2007.
• “Nietzsche: Culture, Politics and the Animality of the Human Being,” invited speaker, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Political Theory Colloquium, July 2007 (invited by Prof. Dr. Rainer Forst) and Universität Köln, Institut für Theater-, Film und Medienwissenschaften, Graduierten Kolleg, July 2007 (invited by Prof. Dr. Lutz Elrich).
• “Does the Idea of Aristocratic Culture Entail a Politics of Domination? Reconsidering Nietzsche’s Notions of Order of Rank and Will to Power,” conference paper, Friedrich Nietzsche Society International Conference: Nietzsche: Power and Politics, Leiden University, Netherlands, 23-25 March 2007.
• “Dar y Perdonar en Nietzsche y Derrida,” conference paper, Franco-Chilean Colloquium in the Social Sciences: El reconocimiento entre relación social y conflicto social, hosted by the Pontifical Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Diego Portales, Chilean-French Institute and French Embassy, Santiago de Chile, 17 January 2007.