LECTURES, TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS IN ENGLISH/GERMAN BY MARTIN DRENTHEN

• Wild conversations: reading public sentiment towards returning wildlife in Europe. presentation with Franziska Komossa. World Biodiversity Forum, Davos, Switzerland, 16-19 June 2024

• Coexistence and control. The role of technology and interspecies communication. Lecture at Workshop "Rewilding – species, landscapes, society: Dialogues across the Humanities, the Social and the Natural Sciences", University of Cologne, 6-7 Feb 2024. https://rewilding.de/
• Commentary on talk by Gerard Kuperus 'Ecopolis - rethinking the planet', Nijmegen Political Philosophy Workgroup. Radboud University, 12 October 2023.
• 'Interspecies communication, empathy and control.' Paper presentation at the annual conference fo the Society for Environmental Ethics, Allenspark, Colorado, 27-30 June 2023.
• 'The ethics of human wildlife relationship'. Presentation at mini-symposium on Human-wildlife conflict and interactions. NIOO, Wageningen, 1 June 2023.
• 'Finding our place in the natural world, the challenge of coexisting with wolves.' Guest lecture at the course Capita selecta on “Rewilding of human-dominated landscapes”, Wageningen, 5 April 2023
• Presentation at the kick-off meeting of the WildlifeNL project, Biezenmortel, 30&31 March 2023.
• Presentation of the WildlifeNL project, BBIJ12 kennissymposium, Utrecht 28 March 2023.
• 'Interspecies communication, empathy and control.' Paper presentation at the conference After Nagel: Science and the Phenomenology or Animal Subjects, Center for Contemporary European Philosophy, Radboud University, Nijmegen, 6&7 March 2023.
• 'The narratives of rewilding in the European context'. Lecture at international seminar on rewilding and environmental humanities. Poitiers, France , 9 November 2022.
• 'New Wildlife Management Models in The Netherlands' (with Ine Dorresteijn and Joris Cromsigt). Workshop at the Pathways Europe conference. Wageningen, 19 October 2022.
• 'Rewilding as a disruptive technology'. Lecture at International Conference Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies (ESDIT2022), Oegsgeest, the Netherlands, 6&7 October 2022.  
• 'Environmental hermeneutics, rewilding and place'. Lecture at the Environmental Hermeneutics seminar series of University College London and University of Stavanger. 24 March 2022.
• The livings. Guest lecture at the 'Radical thinkers on business, society and ecology' Online Lecture Series, Nyenrode Business University, 3 March 2022. (video  click here)
• 'Rewilding and place-based identity'. Presentation for the online center of Nature, Wilderness and Civilization, hosted by Shan Gao, Department of Philosophy, School of Politics and Public Management , Soochow University, Suzhou, China. 2 June 2021
• ''Coexisting with wildlife in cultural landscapes'. Paper contribution to the online Extinction workshop (Fort Collins, Co, USA), 24 February 2021.
• 'On Borders and Fences'. Presentation for the ERC project Rural Imaginations team of Esther Peeren, University of Amsterdam. februari 3, 2021.
• 'Borders and fences as communicative devices.' Lecture at expert workshop Anthropocene Animals, in Montecastello, Umbria, Italy, 31 May 2019.
• 'Our problematic relation to wild nature', introduction to the movie 'Into the wild (2007).Studium Generale, Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, 17 May 2019.
• 'Wolves in human landscapes. Borders and fences as communicative devices.' Lecture at expert meeting Animals in our midst. Wageningen, 8-9 April 2019
• 'Gadamer, environmental hermeneutics and the historicity of nature'. Lecture in PhD course on Continental Philosophy of Technoscience, radboud University Nijmegen, 17 September 2018. 
• 'The hermeneutics of rewilding conflicts'. Invited lecture at symposium The Politics of Rewilding, at 23rd meeting of  Society for Human Ecology, Lisbon, 7-10 July 2018/
• 'Wolf resurgence in the Netherlands', Presentation at the graduate course 505 Issues of the Anthropocene, Master program Environmental Philosophy, University of Montana, Missoula (USA), 17 April 2018.
• “Environmental Philosophy: 30 Years of Big Changes”, Forum discussion with Andrew Light, Martin Drenthen, Christopher Preston,Albert Borgmann. Davidson Honors College Lounge, University of Montana, Misoula (USA), 13 April 2018,
• 'Rewilding, heritage and environmental identity', Lecture at Philosophy Forum, College of Humanities and Sciences / Dept of Philosophy, University of Montana, Missoula (USA), 19 March 2018.
• 'Rewilding, heritage and environmental identity',  Keynote at workshop Rewilding in a Changing Europe, Bangor, Wales (UK), 10 January 2018.  http://www.nrn-lcee.ac.uk/events/rewilding-in-a-changing-europe-33985
• 'The ethics of rewilding and ecological restoration', Ecsite Nature group pre-conference 'Nature is back in town', Porto, Portugal, June 14, 2017.
• 'Environmental ethics as public philosophy - ecological citizenship, moral engagement and hermeneutic distance'. 14th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Allenspark, Co, USA , June 1-4, 2017.
• 'The moral basis of nature preservation an rewilding', NIOO-KNAW Wageningen March 13, 2017.
• ‘Of Wolves and Sheep, City folk and Shepherds. Finding a New Sense of Community’ (with Nathalie Soethe), presentation at workshop Invasion of the Wild! The Challenge of Living with Wildlife, November 17, 2016, Nijmegen 
• 'Environmental hermeneutics'. Contribution to book session on Brian Treanor 'Emplotting Virtue', at Annual Meeting of the IAEP at SPEP, Salt lake City, October 20-22, 2016
• Towards an agonal hermeneutic ethics of landscape preservation and rewilding". Annual Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Salt lake City, October 20-22, 2016
• 'Reading and rewilding a cultural landscape'. Lecture at Artists, Farmers and Philosophers. Getting Grassroots Expercience into Landscape Research, Policy, and Practice, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (Durham County), UK, 7-9 September 2016
• 'How to read a landscape?'. Lecture/panel contribution to Artists, Farmers and Philosophers. Getting Grassroots Expercience into Landscape Research, Policy, and Practice, The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (Durham County), UK, 7-9 September 2016
• 'Rewilding and historic landscapes'. ISEE 2016, Conference of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Pace University, New York, 29 June-2 July 2016
• 'Rewilding in historic landscapes: identitiy and cultural criticism".  Workshop Layered Landscapes, Ethics & Wildness. Nijmegen, June 17-18 2016
• "Moral experiences of nature as the basis for an environmental hermeneutics" (met Glenn Deliège), OZSW Conference, Amsterdam, 12 December 2015
• 'The wolf and the animal lover'. Presentation at Workshop on Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans, Wageningen University, 26-27 November 2015
• Comment on Brendon Larson's paper 'The flight of the Monarch Butterfly, between in situ and ex situ conservation' at Workshop on Animal Ethics in the Age of Humans, Wageningen University, 26-27 November 2015
• 'Understanding the return of the wolf - ecosemiotics and landscape hermeneutics.' Conference Animals in the Anthropocene; Human–animal relations in a changing semiosphere. University ofStavanger, Norway, 17–19 September 2015
• 'Environmental ethics as reflection in action; Showcasing a hermeneutic intervention in a heathland restoration debate'. ISEE 2015, Conference of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Kiel University, Germany, 22-26 July 2015.
• 'Rewilding in Cultural Landscapes - The Ethics of Reading a Palimpsest Landscape'. Conference 'Landscape, Wilderness and The Wild', Newcastle, UK, 26-28 March 2015
• 'Meaningful stories that connect us to the natural world'. BIOMOT workshop, Soca Valley, Slovenia, 23-26 Sept 2014
• 'Cultural ecosystem services approach as an inside-out world view'; Workshop on Natural Environments and Cultural Services, St. John's College, Durham University, Durham, UK, June 23-24, 2014.
• 'The return of the wild in the Anthropocene.' 11th Meeting on Environmental Philosophy, ISEE, Allenspark, Colorado June 17-20 2014.
• 'A hermeneutic approach to environmental ethics' - Workshop 'The voice of nature',  Soeterbeeck, Ravenstein,  23 April 2014,
• 'The meaning of wetlands beyond being a wet land.' presentation for students visiting from University of Oxford. Artis Library, Amsterdam, March 17, 2014.
• 'Interpreting landscapes, understanding ourselves'. Joint research seminar by Radboud University (ISIS) and Wageningen University (FNP) on our work on the human-nature relationship, Wageningen, 13 March 2014.
• 'Rewilding Ourselves?'. Presentation at ISIS Visions of Nature meeting, Nijmegen, 12 December 2013
• 'Interpreting landscapes and restoring meanings in a postmodern age' - lecture at symposium 'Ecological restoration in post-industrial landscapes', at the 5th World Conference of the Society for Ecological Restoration (SER2013), Madison, Wisconsin, USA. October  2013.
• 'The return of the wolf''. ISIS colloquium, Radboud University Nijmegen, 10 September 2013.
• 'Landscapes, narratives of place and moral identity. A hermeneutic approach to environmental ethics' - invited lecture at workshop ‘Environmental Philosophy and the Meanings of Nature’, Durham University, Durham, UK, 2-3 July 2013.
• 'Art and sustainability - a dialogue with Pieter Lemmens about the art of Huub and Adelheid Kortekaas', Hortus Arcadia Nijmegen. June 20, 2013
• Environmental Ethics. Erasmus Course on applied ethics, Macerata, Italy, November 10 2012
• comment at paper by Carme Melo Escrihuela (University of Valencia, Spain): Promoting ecological citizenship: the state, civil society and the green public sphere, Nijmegen Political Philosophy Workshop, Radboud University Nijmegen, 26 Oktober 2012,.
• 'Renaturierung und narrative Identität'; 12. Sommerakademie "Zurück zur Natur. Renaturierung als Naturschutz", Internationale Naturschutzakademie Insel Vilm, Deutschland. 8-12 Juli 2012
• 'Our problematic relation to wild nature', introduction to Werner Herzog's movie Grizzly Man (2005), ISIS Festival, Nijmegen, June 26, 2012
• 'A Hermeneutic Approach to Environmental Ethics', 9th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Allenspark, Co, USA , June 12-15, 2012
• 'Interpreting landscapes in a postmodern age', Workshop History and Values in Ecological Restoration, Colorado Springs, Co, USA, 5-9 June 2012
• ''Biodiversity, Stories and Places, A case of Heathland restoration'. Presentation at BIOMOT meeting, Molenhoek, 25 April 2012
• 'Tiptoeing through Nature: Ecological Metagenomics and its Contribution to an Ecological Ethics', 15th Annual Meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy, Philadelphia, USA , October 23-24, 2011.
•  'Legible landscape and ethics of place', Third Annual Dutch Conference on Practical Philosophy, Amsterdam, 14/15 October 2011.
• 'Addressing the moral meaning of place; Landscape hermeneutics, land art and Wirkungsgeschichte.' Paper at the International Congress Hermeneutics-Ethics-Education-Media Toruń, Poland, September 5-8, 2011.
• 'Introduction/welcome address at 8th Annual Meeting on Environmental Ethics "Old World and New World Perspectives on Environmental Philosophy", Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 14-17, 2011.
• 'New nature narratives.' Paper at the 'Environmental Hermeneutics e-conference, winter 2010/2011
• 'Landscape hermeneutics and Gadamer’s notion of Wirkungsgeschichte.' Paper at the 'Environmental Hermeneutics' session at the 14th Annual Meeting of the IAEP at SPEP, Montreal, 7 November 2010.
• 'Making landscapes legible through art', invited lecture and comment at workshop 'The meaning of conservation and the conservation of meaning', Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, 27 October 2010.
• Chairing special session on Environmental Ethics, at Second Annual Conference on Practical Philosophy, Dutch Research School for Practical Philosophy, Groningen, 8-9 October 2010
• 'New nature narratives', paper presentation at the Seventh Annual Joint Meeting on Environmental Philosophy, Allenspark, Colorado, June 9th, 2010
• 'Zooming in on the web of life. Ecogenomics' contribution to an ecological ethics.', paper presentation at the conference 'Ten years after. Mapping the societal genomics landscape', Amsterdam, May 28th, 2010
• May 25th 2010: Symposium / kick-off meeting of the Dutch Environmental Ethics Platform
• Contribution to TippingPoint gathering, Brussels, January 25-26, 2010
• 'Ecological restoration, landscape perception and human identity', invited lecture / Ringvorlesung, Institute for Botany and Landscape Ecology (Botanisches Institut der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald), Greifswald, Germany, November 25th 2009.
• 'Reading ourselves through the land. The legible landscape and an ethics of place', paper at workshop »Water Biographies. Interweaving narratives of people and landscapes«, GETIDOS, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Germany, November 26th 2009
• Book presentation (special ISIS Colloquium) of New Visions of Nature. Complexity and Authenticity, edited by Martin Drenthen, Jozef Keulartz & James Proctor (Dordrecht: Springer 2009), 3 November 2009, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherland).   
• 'Reading Ourselves Throught the Land. The Legible Landscape and Ethics of Place', paper at the Sixth Annual Joint Meeting on Environmental Philosophy, Allenspark, Colorado, June 16-19th 2009    
• 'Why we should embrace the river', Public Lecture at the festival 'Thementage 'Woher der Wind weht; Szenarien des Klimawandels', Kulturprogramm zur Tagung: „Berliner Klimakonferenz – Anpassung ist notwendig“ des Bundesministeriums für Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit (BMU), 'Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany 18-19 Mei 2009  (Foto: Marcus Lieberenz / bildbuehne.de >>>>)
• 'The Legible Landscape and Ethics of Place', invited lecture and panel session discussion at conference 'Recreate, Replace, Restore. Exploring the Intersections Between Meanings and Environments', Ada (Ohio) , 17-19 April 2009 (Photo <<<<)
• 'The Wildness of Melting Ice', public lecture on global warming, art and landscape - at event 'Burning ice', Kaaitheater, Brussels, Belgium. 21 Januari 2009
• 'Ecological Restoration and Place Attachment', presentation, 'Freude am Fluss Final Conference: Space for the river, space for people?', Nijmegen, Netherlands, 22 October 2008
• 'Ecological Restoration and Place Attachment; Emplacing nonplace?', paper at conference 'Human Flourishing and Restoration in the Age of Global Warming', Clemson (SC, USA), 5 september 2008
• 'Developing Nature along Dutch Rivers: Place or Nonplaces?', paper at conference 'Thinking Through Nature', Eugene (Orgegon, VS), 20 juni 2008
• 'Developing Nature along Dutch Rivers: Place or Non-place?', paper at Expert seminar ‘New Visions of Nature: Beyond Mastery?’, Wageningen, Netherlands, June 1-2 2007.
• 'New Wilderness, or: the Landscape as Moral Criticism', Keynote lecture Symposium 'Feral Fascination. The Concept of Wilderness in Environmental Philosophy', Higher Institute of Philosophy, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, 8 May 2007.
• How to Appropriate Wildness Appropriately; Reflections on the need to cultivate the meaning of wildness. Paper at the Joint ISEE/IAEP conference 2006, june 2nd. Allenspark, Colorado, USA.
• 'What The Silence of Nature Has to Say to Us', commentary to a lecture of Steven Vogel: 'The Silence of Nature', Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, 31 May 2005
• 'Wilderness and Intrinsic Value: A Nietzschean Perspective on Environmental Ethics', Public lecture, Memorial University Newfoundland, St.John's, Canada, 17 October 2002
• 'The Paradox of Environmental Ethics: Nietzsche’s View of Nature and the Wild', paper at conference 'Ethics and Natural Environmental Change: Recognizing the Autonomy of Nature', Learned Societies Conference, Memorial University Newfoundland, St.John's, Canada, 4 June 1997.

For a complete list of my presentations in Dutch, see here.