Public Lectures
"Science as a Vacation: A History of Ecology in Norway," History of Science Society, Washington, 2007.
“Graphic Language: Herbert Bayer’s Environmental Design,” Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of the Human Sciences, Oslo 2006.
“Ecological Communication at the Oxford Imperial Forestry Institute,” Colonialism, Post-colonialism and the Environment, German Historical Institute, Washington 2006.
“A Post-Colonial Reading of the History of Ecological Architecture,” Thinking Through the Environment, Nordic Environmental History Society, Turku 2005.
“The Ecological Colonization of Space,” Humanism for the 21st Century: Perspectives East and West, University of Oslo 2004.
“From Holism to Radicalism: History of Ecology in South Africa,” Conference, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich 2004.
“The Bauhaus of Nature,” History of Science Society, Cambridge 2003.
“Buckminster Fuller’s Dome and the Dymaxion of Nature,” American Society for Environmental History, Providence 2003.
“The Politics of Ecology in South Africa,” Center for Historical Social Sciences, Columbia University 2003.
“From Bauhaus to Animal House,” Barker Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University 2001.
“Holism and Racism: The history of South African Human Ecology,” History of Science Society, Vancouver 2000.
“Imperial Memories in the Inland Waters of Africa,” American Society of Environmental History, Tucson 1999.
”H. G. Wells and the Economy of Nature,” Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University 1999.
”History of Ecology and Aviation Technologies,” History of Science Society, Kansas 1998.
”Natural Law and Human Rights: On History of Ecology and the UN-Charter,” Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard University 1998.
”Arthur George Tansley's Social Psychology and Ecology in the Context of South African Racism,” History of Science Society, San Diego 1997.
”The Cultivation of Nature-Metaphors in Thomas Huxley’s Evolution and Ethics” Joint Atlantic Seminar for the History of Biology, Harvard University 1996.
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