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Vanessa will deliver ‘Nietzsche and the Future of Humanity’ at the, Biennale Nietzscheana in November 2025.

Vanessa will deliver a Keynote Address ‘Nietzsche and Transhumanism’ to the 35th Annual Nietzsche Conference of the Nietzsche Society in October 2025.

Vanessa will be a Visiting Professor and Guest Instructor, University of Melbourne, Critical Theory Winter School:Forms of Life, July 2025.

Vanessa will deliver “Nietzsche, a Thinker of our Time” in the online “Leading Thinkers Series” at the European Graduate School in Switzerland.

Vanessa is invited to present “Vermut filosófico”, at the Espasio Late con Marta Montojo, Madrid, Spain, 31st May 2025

Watch the debate between the four editors of the journal Nietzsche Studien (de Gruyter) during the "Nietzsche's Futures: Global Conference on the Futures of Nietzsche," October 2024.

Vanessa is invited to present “Nietzsche and Homo Natura”, at the Seminario Nietzsche, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain on the 30th May 2025.

Vanessa is the invited speaker at the launch of “Homo Natura”, Librería La Central con Victor Conjeco Abril, Germán Cano, Mariano Rodgriguez, inMadrid, Spain on the 29th May 2025.

Vanessa’s paper on plant philosophies in Nietzsche and existentialism has been translated to Spanish “Imaginario vegetales y existencia humana en Nietzsche y Sartre”.

Vanessa will present “Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and Perfectionism”, at the Seminario International “Schopenhauer y Nietzsche: del pesimismo al vitalismo,” Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mexico on the 29th May 2025.

New article co-authored with Miguel Vatter “New Materialism and the Planetary Turn: From Quantum Mechanics to Plant Life”.

Vanessa was the invited speaker at the book launch for “Homo Natura”, Libreria Documenta con Anna Pagès Santacana, Miquel Seguró Mendlewicz, Ignasi Gonzalo Salellas, in Barcelona, Catalunya, on the 10th April 2025.

Vanessa was invited to present “Nietzsche and Homo Natura”, to the Grupo de investigación en filosofía MUSSOL, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Catalunya, on the 9th April 2025.

Vanessa presented to the Seminar Series: "World Relations in Posthumanism. Outlining, rethinking, reshaping" at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany, 11th November 2024.

Vanessa presented “Human nature and Existence in Nietzsche and Sartre”, to theEnglish and Theater Studies Seminar Series, University of Melbourne on the 2nd of October 2024.

Vanessa presented the keynote address “Nietzsche in Australia” at the International Conference: Nietzsche’s Futures/Nietzsche’s Zukünfte, Weimar Klassikstiftung on the 7-11 October 2024.

Vanessa was an invited speaker at the XXV World Congress of Philosophy in August 2024.

Vanessa presented the keynote address “The Poverty of Wealth”, at the 29th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, Nietzsche in the Anthropocene, University of Verona, July 2024.

This chapter in Nietzsche and Literary Studies (ed by James Porter) explores images of plant life in philosophy and literature with particular focus on the works of Friedrich Nietzsche and Jean-Paul Sartre.

Vanessa presented ‘Rooted in Other Worlds’ at the Ecology and Poetic Modes of Thought in May 2024 at the NOVA Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), NOVA University of Lisbon.

Vanessa presented ‘Homo Natura: Nietzsche y el ‘problema hombre y mujer’’ at Nietzsche y la mujer. Cuerpo, genealogía, identidad conference in April 2024.

Vanessa presented ‘Plant Imaginaries and the Human Existence in Nietzsche and Sartre’ at the Doing Philosophy With Plants Conference at the Royal Holloway University of London in April 2024.

Vanessa presented ‘Nietzsche, Filosofo de la Cultura’ at the Universidad de Santiago de Chile on 2 April 2024.

In February 2024, Professor Vanessa Lemm was appointed Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost at Greenwich University.

Vanessa presented ‘Plant Life and Human Existence in the Age of the Anthropocene’ and participate in a roundtable on the ‘Futures of the Humanities’ at ‘Inventing the Human' conference, University of Melbourne, 29 Nov - 2 Dec.

Vanessa presented ‘Nietzsche, Monism and Will to Power’ at the 2023 Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy in Sydney on the 27 November.

Vanessa presented ‘What can we learn from plants about our responsibilities towards the planet?’ at the University of Verona, Oct 2023.

Vanessa presented a keynote address at the 29th International Conference of the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, ​University of Verona, Italy 25-27 July 2024.

Vanessa presented on ‘Nietzsche and Philosophy’ at the Goethe-Institute Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM).

Vanessa presented ‘El pensamiento planetario de Nietzsche en Así habló Zaratustra’ at the IV Biennale Nietzschena, Lecce September 2023.

Vanessa presented at the XIVth GIRN Conference, "On the Genealogy of Morals: objectives and issues”. Montpellier III University, 20-22 June, 2023.

What difference does the discovery of human animality make for our historical self-understanding?

Is Nietzsche’s conception of the body the starting point for a new understanding of truth, consciousness and what it means to lead a truthful life?

What is the difference between existentialist and anarchist readings of the meaning and place of creation and creativity in life?

A workshop hosted by Adolfo Ibanez University in Santiago de Chile on Homo Natura: Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics on 17 March.

150 years after the publication of Nietzsche’s first book The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music, the philosopher’s work fulfils his own prediction that he would only be born posthumously “with a voice that spans millennia.”

Nietzsche, la politique, l’histoire Colloque international de philosophie November 2022.

Launch of The Viral Politics of COVID19: Nature, Home and Planetary Health at Oxford University, Department of Anthropology, 4 November 2022.

Nietzsche and the Genealogies of the “New Moralism” approaches current forms of identity-politics, wokeism, and the related struggle for the right words in a genealogical way.

This book​ critically examines the COVID-19 pandemic and its legal and biological governance using a multidisciplinary approach.

The annual meeting of the Nietzsche Society takes place together with the Friedrich Nietzsche Foundation in the autumn of each year in Naumburg.

Nietzsche and the Community Conference. Modernity, power and new subjectivities hosted by the International Congress of the Ibero-American Network of Nietzsche Studies.

This panel addressed key issues about the university in contemporary society, as raised in the new book by Gunn and Mintrom.

Most of us love the natural world but we’ve built lives separate from it.
What can plants teach us about connecting with nature?