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Date: 11 February 2026 at 6:30pm CET
Location: Museum of Natural History, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin
As part of the Brecht-Tage festival in Berlin, which this year is focused on Brecht's "Green Revolution", I'll be presenting on the politics of knowledge in Earth system modeling and its relationship with Bertolt Brecht's plays and writings on science and nature. Other presenters include Hans Christian von Herrmann, Sebastian Kirsch, Tom Turnball, and Patrick Primaves. This is the second of three events taking place at the museum this evening, running from 5:00pm through 8:00pm CET. Entry is free! More information on the Brecht-Haus website.
Date: 12 February 2026 at 8:00pm CET
Location: Literature Forum at the Brecht House, Chausseestraße 125, 10115 Berlin, Germany
As part of the Brecht-Tage festival in Berlin, my co-author Troy Vettese and I will be presenting some of our work on the surprising resonances between Bertolt Brecht and Laozi: both figures praise forms of non-action and uselessness. In conversation with Heinrich Detering, we will comment on the implications for climate action. This is the fourth of four events taking place at the Brecht-Haus this evening, running from 4:30pm through 9:30pm CET.
Date: 20 February 2026 at 3:30pm ET
Location: NC State campus (exact location tbd)
I will be presenting some of my current work on emissions quantification as part of the NC State Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Seminar Series.
This page shows events from 2024. Older events are listed in my CV or on the Half-Earth website.
Date: 18 November 2025 at 2:05pm CET
Location: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
I will be presenting a talk on entitled "Using remote sensing for live monitoring of pollutant emissions: prospects for democratic economic planning" at the Sustainable Societal Mechanisms workshop at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ). More info here.
Date: 24 October 2025 at 5pm ET
Location: Westin Buckhead Atlanta
I will be presenting a lightning talk on methane emissions from agriculture at the 2025 Reducitarian Summit in Atlanta, GA. More info here.
Date: 2 August 2025 at time TBD
Location: Grand Summit Hotel at Sunday River, Maine
I will be presenting posters on global methane emissions and nighttime radical chemistry in South Korea. Come say hi!
Date: 28 July 2025 at 2pm CEST
Location: BioMaterialities Research Group at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
I will be presenting a paper entitled "Every Cook Can Plan: Economic Democracy Against Catastrophe" at the closing event for the BioMaterialities group in Berlin via Zoom. More info here.
Date: 23 June 2025 at 11am CEST
Location: The New Institute - Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’Foscari Venice University
I will be presenting a draft of a paper entitled "The Commodified Earth: Reductionism, Complexity, and Politics in Earth System Science" at the third HEPM workshop in Venice. More info here.
Date: 18 June 2025 at 12pm CEST
Location: The Hall, New Institute, Hamburg, Germany
I will be giving a lecture entitled "‘A curious natural selection’: János Kornai’s evolutionary theory of socialist institutions" at the New Institute in Hamburg. Abstract and details here.
Date: 13 June 2025 at 6:30pm CEST
Location: Bokkafé Pilgatan, Umeå, Sweden
I will be giving a book talk on the Swedish translation of Half-Earth Socialism in Umeå, joined in conversation by Johan Örestig Kling. More info here.
Date: 11 June 2025 at 6pm CEST
Location: Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Stockholm, Sweden
I will be giving a book talk on the Swedish translation of Half-Earth Socialism in Stockholm, joined in conversation by Ståle Holgersen. More info here.
Date: 14 January 2025 at 4:45pm CT
Location: 229 - Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA
I will be presenting some of my ongoing work on the drivers of PM
Date: 12 December 2024 at 9am ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC
I'll be presenting my paper "Continuous sub-weekly monitoring of global methane emissions at 2°×2.5° resolution for 2018-2023 with an ensemble Kalman filter applied to TROPOMI observations" at the poster session for the global methane budget at the AGU Fall Meeting (abstract B41M-1469). Come say hi!
Date: 9 December 2024 at 3pm ET
Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington DC
I'll be presenting my paper "From planetary scenarios to planetary sensing: models, observations, and political legibility" in a poster at the Science and Society session of the 2024 AGU Fall meeting (abstract SY13C-2599).
Date: 24 October 2024 at 2:30pm CET
Location: Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Christinenstraße 18-19, 10119 Berlin, Germany
I'll be in discussion with David Frank at the Planetary Design: Reclaiming Futures conference at the ICI in Berlin. More information and the full conference program are available here.
Date: 13 June 2024 at 7pm CT
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
I will be presenting some in-progress work on global methane monitoring at the 11th International GEOS-Chem conference in St. Louis. More information available here.
Date: 10 June 2024 at 4:30pm CT
Location: Washington University in St. Louis
I will be presenting a tutorial on using CHEEREIO at IGC11. More information available here.
Date: 6 May 2024 at 6pm CET
Location: Amphithéâtre Rouelle, Pavillon de la Baleine, Jardin des Plantes, Paris
I will join Troy Vettese and Francis Tseng on a panel about museums as places to play out economic democracy. More info here.
Date: 6 May 2024 at 6pm UK time
Location: Housman's Bookshop, London, UK
I gave a book talk on Half-Earth Socialism at Housman's in London with Troy Vettese, to celebrate the release of our paperback edition. Robbie Lockie of Plant Based News will moderate. More information and registration here.
Date: 4 May 2024 at 3pm CET
Location: Maison de la Vie Associative et Citoyenne de Paris Centre - Site Marais, 5 Rue Perrée, 75003 Paris, France
I will join Troy Vettese to give a lecture entitled "Governing the Global Polis" at the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. More information and registration available here.
Date: 30 April 2024 at 6pm UK time
Location: University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
I gave a keynote talk, along with Troy Vettese, entitled "Three Problems with Utopia: Hayek, Kornai, Gorgias." Watch a recording here.
Date: 17 April 2024 at 7pm CET
Location: Online
In this webinar, I will join Walther Zeug and Anaïs Fley to discuss the prospects and pitfalls of algorithmic economic planning. More information and registration here.
Date: 1 February 2024 at 3:00pm ET
Location: Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD
I am presenting on a new particulate matter data product for East Asia I developed at the American Meteorological Society meeting in Baltimore. Come say hi at my poster (paper 872).