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Upcoming Events:

Film Screening and Q&A: I am the River and the River is Me. 
17th November, 2025
Part of the City Eye Film Festival

Nature Guardian Conference
Panelist. Invited Speaker. 
19th of October, 2025. 
Lawyers for Nature, Nature Guardian Conference 

Thinking About the Rights of Nature: Values, Relationships and Responsibilities. 
15th of October, 2025. 
Global Law at Reading, University of Reading

Introduction to the Rights of Rivers
2nd October, 2025
Workshop, Invited Speaker.
Esme Fairbairn - Blue Spaces Network

Discussion on the Rights of the River Itchen
23rd September, 2025
Southampton River Rights

Degrowth and the Rights of Nature. 
18th September, 2025
Webinar, Speaker. 
International Degrowth Network.

A Meeting of Rivers: Workshop 2 - "Representation"
27th and 28th of April, 2025. 
Part of the A Meeting of Rivers project. 

Can We Love Nature? Public Lecture
18th of February, 2025. 
Barnes Philosophy Society. Barnes, London.
Book tickets and information here.
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Previous Events (selected)

​Academic Events​
  • "I am the River" - Identity-Formation and Relational Values. University of Nottingham, Dec 2024
  • Interdisciplinarity in Social Sciences and Humanities
    4th of July, 2024. Panelist, SENSS Annual Conference (Royal Holloway)
  • The Rights of Nature - Interdisciplinary Approaches. Sustainability: Sharing Values, Creating Communities, Roehampton, June 2022. 
  • Religious Belief as Vague Hypothesis. University of Roma Tre/Roehampton - online. May 2022. Details here.
  • ​The Moral Grounding of the Legal Rights of Ecosystems. University of Durham, March 2021. 
  • The Moral Grounding of the Legal Rights of Ecosystems. IDEA Centre, University of Leeds. March 2021.
  • The Role of Temperaments in Philosophical Inquiry. University of Nottingham. February 2020
  • Temperament in Philosophy Workshop. University of Roehampton. July 2019. Funded by the Society for Applied Philosophy​. 
​Public Engagement:
  • Rights of Nature: Recognizing Natural Entities - Panel Event. November, 2024. 
    Simmons and Simmons, London.
  • A Meeting of Rivers: Workshop 1 - "Rights"
    19th and 20th of September, 2024. Cambridge. Part of the A Meeting of Rivers project. 
  • Connecting with Nature - Rights and Responsibilities, 27th of August, 2024. Barbican Theatre, Plymouth. ​Part of the Connecting with Nature project. Details here.
  • The River Plym Project - Celebration and Exhibition. 23rd and 24th of August, 2024. Plymouth, Barbican Theatre. Details here. 
  • A Fools Journey Through the Lagoon. 17th of August, 2024. Crossness Nature Reserve, Belvedere.  Details here.
  • Connecting with Nature: Religion and Environment. 15th June, 2024. Organizer. Richmond Park and Roehampton Uni. Part of the Connecting with Nature project.
  • Rights of Nature in the UK - Panel. ​14th June. Speaker and Panelist. Part of the Garden of Tomorrow Festival. 
  • Wandsworth Park Eco-Fair. ​11th May 2024. Details here. 
  • Wandsworth Net Zero Summit. 12th March 2024. Battersea Arts Centre. Details here. 
  • Rivers Summit - Rights for the River Ouse. Lewes. 24th November, 2023. Recorded presentation here. 
  • Curating a Conversation on the Rights of Nature in the UK. Dartington hall, Totnes. June 2023. 
  • ​​Rights of Nature video - a public-facing output of the Future of the Rights of Nature project. View here.
  • An Evening with a Philosopher Event Series. Sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy. University of Roehampton, Spring Term 2021. Details here. 
  • How to Value Nature (Before it's Too Late). Wimbledon BookFest Event. October 2020. Details ​here. 
  • Class, Identity, and Alienation. Royal Institute of Philosophy Talk. Barnes Philosophy Group. March 2020. Details here