Schweighauser, Philipp. “Native American Survivance after the Apocalypse: Indigenous Futurisms, Simulation, and Blake M. Hausman’s Riding the Trail of Tears.” Invited talk at Zurich Science Fiction Network, September 17, 2026.

Schweighauser, Philipp. “Speculation/Fiction, Labor, Nature: 21st-Century Native American Perspectives.” Panel 3: “Native American and Indigenous Perspectives.” Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 8, 2026. 

McBride, Sindi-Leigh. Workshop Convenor; Recap of Day 1; “Swiss Climate Fiction: Author Reading and Discussion,” with Simone Weinnmann and Christoph Keller; Closing Remarks. Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 9, 2026.

Ambrosetti, Letizia. “Security Labour: Climate Fiction and the Militarization of Future Work.” Panel 1: “Labour / Climate / Fiction.” Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 8, 2026.

Jimenez, Isabel. “Academic Labor in the Anthropocene.” Panel 1: “Labour / Climate / Fiction.” Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 8, 2026.

Mason, Elliot C. “Speculative Presents: The Impossible Contemporaneity of Poetry.” Panel 2: “Eco-Literature and the Contemporary.” Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 8, 2026.

McBride, Sindi-Leigh. Workshop Convenor; Welcome and Opening Remarks; “Swiss Climate Fiction: Film Screening and Discussion,” Under the Ice, with Michel Kessler, Jonas Staehelin, and Jacqueline Zünd. Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 8, 2026.

O’Krent, Michael David. “Indigenous Labor in Taiwan’s Changing Climates: Ethnicity and Community in the Fiction of Wu Ming-yi.” Panel 3: “Native American and Indigenous Perspectives.” Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 8, 2026.

Püntener, Anna. “Storytelling as Cultural Work and Practice in Contemporary Native American Climate Fiction.” Panel 3: “Native American and Indigenous Perspectives.” Labour, Speculation, and Climate Fiction Workshop. University of Basel. Basel. September 8, 2026.

Ambrosetti, Letizia. “Narratives of Climate Crisis: Between Urgency and Inertia.” Circle 7: “Act, React & Reflect”. NSU Summer Session. Saulkrasti, Latvia. July 30, 2026.

O’Krent, Michael. “On Water and Other States of Matter: Promethean Fluidity in Sinophone Science Fiction.” Panel on “Sinophone Hydric Speculations: Monstrous, Mythical, and Planetary Futures.” European Association for Chinese Studies. Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venice, IT. July 21-25, 2026.

O’Krent, Michael. “Two Metaphysical Models of History in the Late Qing.” Workshop on Nature and Freedom in Transcultural Context. Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany. July 10, 2026.

McBride, Sindi-Leigh. “Academic Affordances: The Scholar in Speculative Climate Fiction”. Panel presentation, “Climate/Science/Fiction Symposium”, Zurich Science Fiction Network. University of Zurich. Zurich. July 4, 2026.

McBride, Sindi-Leigh. “The Utopia of Vocation in Contemporary Climate Fiction”. Work-in-Progress Workshop for “Weathers of the Future: Postcolonial Speculative Fictions” special issue of The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry. University of Silesia. Katowice. June 30, 2026.

O’Krent, Michael. “The Reverse Palimpsest: Chang Hsi-kuo’s Historical/Science Fiction.” Work-in-Progress Workshop on Taiwanese Literature as Planetary Literature: Reframing World Literature. University of Bern, Walter Benjamin College, Bern, CH. June 17-19, 2026.

McBride, Sindi-Leigh. “Hustling in the Anthropocene: Work in Speculative Cli-Fi”. New European Trends in Climate Change Fiction Conference. University of Limerick. Online/Limerick. May 28, 2026.

O’Krent, Michael. “Black Science Fiction After the End of the World and N. K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season” Guest speaker in research seminar “Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures (Eco-Fictions, Campus Novels, Science Fictions)”. University of Basel. Basel. 6 May 2026.

O’Krent, Michael. Guest lecture on the videogame Black Myth: Wukong in Prof. Dingru Huang’s course “Animals in Chinese Literature and Media.” University of Minnesota, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Online/Minneapolis, MN, USA. April 16, 2026.

Jimenez, Isabel “Campus Characters: Campus Novels 101”. Guest speaker in research seminar “Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures (Eco-Fictions, Campus Novels, Science Fictions)”. University of Basel. Basel. 8 April 2026.

Ambrosetti, Letizia “Eco-fictions: The Stories Ecology Tells”. Research Colloquium. University of Basel. Basel. 7 April 2026.

Ambrosetti, Letizia “Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures: Eco-fictions”. Guest speaker in research seminar “Anglo Genres for Atlantic Futures (Eco-Fictions, Campus Novels, Science Fictions)”. University of Basel. Basel. 25 March 2026.

O’Krent, Michael David. “The Stakes of Cultural Representation in Chinese and Sinophone Videogames.” Association for Asian Studies. Panel on “Chineseness Through Video Games: A Digital Frontier in Chinese and Sinophone Studies.” March 12-15. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Jimenez, Isabel “See you on Campus: The University Campus as a Literary Setting". Research Colloquium. University of Basel. Basel. 3 March 2026.

Schweighauser, Philipp. “Forced and Unforced Indigenous Migrations across Time: Riding the Trail of Tears with Blake M. Hausman.” The American Comparative Literature Association's 2026 Annual Meeting, Montréal. 27 February, 2026.