2017
– Sept 10-15: meeting of UNESCO COMEST (World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology)
– Sept 7/8: inaugural lecture Aalborg University & Aalborg Campus Copenhagen, Techno-Anthropology program.
– Aug 30 – Sept 2: paper ‘Fake News and the Politics of Mediation’ / panel chair and discussant in 5 sessions on postphenomenological research, 4S conference, Boston.
– July 6: lecture ‘Next Generation Internet: Morality, Ethics, and Post-Privacy Concerns’. Next Generation Internet workshop, DesignLab Enschede (https://www.utwente.nl/en/designlab/Events/!/2017/7/145631/workshop-next-generation-internet)
– July 6: lecture ‘Smart Cities and Smart Citizenship: Philosophical Reflections on Technology and Public Space’. Living Smart Societies conference: Palo Alto, Heidelberg, Linkoping, Munster, Enschede; Enschede (July 5-7)
– June 16: paper ‘The Politics of Technological Mediation’, SPT conference 2017, Darmstadt
– June 16: paper ‘Domestic Drones from the Perspective of the Theory of Technological Mediation’, SPT conference 2017, Darmstadt (with Peter Novitzky)
– June 10: Grote Denkers van Bijzondere Nederlanders, DeLaMar Theater Amsterdam (HUMAN / School of Life
– May 14: ‘Homo Technologicus’. Paradiso lezing, reeks ‘Leven in ons heelal’, Amsterdam.
– May 10: “Het hedendaagse onbehagen – hoe ons mensbeeld door technologie en politieke verschuivingen onder druk komt te staan”. In discussie met Bas Heijne, Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam
– Apr 20: talk on moral mediation at symposium “How do life science technologies mediate moral understandings and responsibilities in food and health contexts?”, Wageningen University
– Mar 30-31: extraordinary meeting of the UNESCO-COMEST working group on Robot Ethics, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
– Mar 28-29: Conference ‘Robots and Society: What Transformations What Regulations?’, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
– Feb 18: keynote ‘Technologies of Transcendence: On the technological mediation of the sacred’. Conference ‘Seeking the Sacred in the Digital Age’, Gonzaga University, Spokane, USA.
– Feb 17: Rukavina Lecture ‘Moralizing Technology: on the morality of things and how to design it’, Gonzaga University, Spokane, USA.
– Feb 4: lecture ‘On the Origin of Androids’, with Floris Kaayk and Koert van Mensvoort, Transmediale, Berlin.
– Jan 30: reviewer / advisor PhD defense Julia Grillmayr, Universität Wien
– Jan 27: ‘On Populism and Disruptive Technologies: Academic Communication in the 21st Century’. Keynote at NACV 2017 conference (Netwerk Academische Communicatieve Vaardigheden).
– Jan 25: ‘Towards an Ethics of Things: Design Ethics and Moral Mediation’ Guest lecture, Design Academy Eindhoven
– Jan 23: reviewer PhD defense Robert Jan Geerts, Wageningen Agricultural University.
2016
– 17-19 Dec: Tel Aviv, keynote lecture at OH-MAN, OH-MACHINE conference on posthumanism
– 11 Nov: keynote lecture, conference “relation.Ships: Sociality and Sociability through Things”, Bauhaus University, Weimar
– 28 Oct: lecture inaugural symposium Ron Wakkary
– 20-21 Oct: Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, Salt Lake City, panel on postphenomenological research.
– 7 Oct: lecture at Impakt Festival, Utrecht
– 2 Oct: lecture Kinderuniversiteit, Museum HEIM, Hengelo
– 23 Sept: speaker and moderator at “ERROR 301: HUMAN_NOT_FOUND”. Happy Chaos Festival, Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
– 12-16 Sept: COMEST meeting, UNESCO Paris (Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology).
– 8 Sept: moderator Science Cafe Enschede (Theme: Overstijgt Techniek de Mens?), Theater Concordia, Enschede.
– Sept 1-3: 4S / EASST conference, Barcelona, panel on postphenomenological research
– 5 Jul: lecture ‘Mediated Morality’, round table session on the Chinese translation of Moralizing Technology. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
– 4 Jul: lecture ‘The Ethics of Drones and Self-Driving cars: unmanned systems and human-technology relations’. Shanghai University, School of Social Science.
– 22 Jun: lecture Dublin University, dept. of Ethics and Technology
– 16-18 Jun: keynote lecture CaTaC 2016 (Culture, Technology, Communication), London.
– 10 Jun: lecture ‘Drones: Responsible Flying Robots?’. With Nico Nijenhus. NWO – Responsible Innovation conference, Amsterdam.
– 9 Jun: external reviewer PhD defence Joost van Driessche, RU Groningen
– 30 May: keynote lecture ‘Designing Well-being at Work? The Ethics of Behavior-Influencing Technology’. Conference Wellbeing@ work, Amsterdam.
– 10 May: lecture ‘The ethics of drones’. Studium Generale, Enschede.
– 26 Apr: external reviewer PhD defence Huub Ehlhardt.
– 21 Apr: ‘Tussen cyborg en robot: over mens en technologie’. Agora lezing, Academisch Genootschap Eindhoven.
– 15 Apr: lezing ‘Techniek als religie’. Nacht van de Filosofie, Amsterdam.
– 6 Apr: external reviewer at PhD defence Roisin Lally, NUI Galway.
– 30 Mar: lezing presymposium Veerstichting ‘Techniek (over)hoop’, Enschede.
– 15 Mar: lezing ‘De grens van de mens’. Vereniging voor Wijsbegeerte / KIvI, Den Haag
– 29 Feb: lecture ‘Moral mediation and the ethics of technology’, Tokyo.
– 26-27 Feb: lecture Japanese-Dutch workshop in philosophy of technology, Kanazawa, Japan.
– 4-5-6 Feb: lecture at workshop ‘Engineering for Society’, Kalamazoo, Michigan
– 22 Jan: lecture Compiegne, Phiteco conference
– 10 Jan: kindercollege ‘Hoe zag de wereld eruit voordat er internet was?’, Museum Jeugd Universiteit, Twentse Welle, Enschede.
