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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 will present ‘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?