Conferences and workshops

Here is a list of the conferences, workshops and symposiums in which I took part (or will take part in). See “Posters” to access the posters, and “Publications” to access other texts.

• Droz, L. (2024, August) Resilience, ecological emotions, and biodiversity disasters, 2024 International Conference on Resilient Systems (ICRS), in Singapore, 28-30 August.
• Droz, L. & Ibon Tobes, (2024, August) Words for hope: Multicultural voices in the midst of the biocultural and ecological crisis, Invited paper for the panel organised by Santiago Sanchez Moreano at AILA, International Association of Applied Linguistics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12-16 August.
• Droz, L. (2024, July), Workshop on “Values of Nature and Ecological Emotions”, and Paper “Healing the wounds: A multispecies perspective on biodiversity disasters”, at the 2024 Annual Conference of Research Center of NWC, July 10-14, Suzhou, China.
• Droz, L. (2024, May), Ecological emotions: Living through multispecies worlds, Conference: More than Human: Non-Western Philosophies and the Environment, 14-15th of May 2024 / Antwerp, Belgium, Online.
• Droz, L. (2024, March), The Humanities and the Environmental Crisis, Invited Talk on March 26, Sun Yat Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. 
• (January 2024) Organization of workshop on Multilingualism and Sustainability on 26-27 January 2024, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland.
• Droz, L. (2023, December), Panellist at the Forum on the Future of Evidence-Based Policy, December 14-16, Bielefeld University, Germany.
• Droz, L. (2023, December), Eco-orientalisme et nationalismes écologiques dans les sciences et les politiques environnementales, Intervention pour les 40 ans du Collège International de Philosophie, December 14, Paris, Online.
• Droz, L. (2023, November), Among Nature’s and Human Rights, what ideas equip us best in face of rapid climate change and biodiversity loss?, Philosophy of Human Rights Workshop, 3.11.2023, Tsukuba University.
• Droz, L. (2023, October) Memory and Multispecies Disasters at the international symposium “Disaster and Memory” on 18-19.10.2023, IRIDeS, Aobayama Campus, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan.
• Invited talk for the panel “Questioning Anthropocene Studies in Asian Context” at the conference “Sustain Asia”, on October 20th, 2023, at la Maison Franco-Japonaise, Tokyo.
• Droz, L. (2023, October) Conceptual ping-pong: Environmental discourses and identity politics in Asia, online presentation at the DynamiTE seminar series, on October 9th at the University of Oslo, Norway.
• Invited discussant (2023, October), at UnCommon Worlds III for the session titled “Inhabiting multispecies landscape”, on October 5th, 2023, participation online (Navigating and Inhabiting Biodiverse Anthropocenes, at the University of Oulu (FIN), University of Derby (UK), and online).
• Invited talk (2023, October) at the 2023 Local Conference of Youth (LCOY) Japan organised by Young Professionals in Foreign Policy (YPFP) Tokyo and Climate Youth Japan (CYJ), at Toyo University, Hakusan Campus, on October 1, 2023, Tokyo. Slides.
• Workshop (discussant) (2023, August), (Re)Constituting a South Asian Environmental Humanities, Metamorphoses of the Political, Merian Tagore International Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS:MP) and Krea University co-organized workshop, August 3-4, New Delhi, India.
• Droz, L. (2023, July), Interroger les liens entre sciences, connaissances, et responsabilité dans les cas de préjudices environnementaux, IFRJ-MFJ and University of Tokyo Colloqium titled “Le concept de responsabilité face aux enjeux sociaux, environnementaux et climatiques au Japon et en France”, July 12-13, 2023, Tokyo.
• Droz, L. (2023, February), Who is left out of the “WE”? Trade-offs in multispecies societies, International Workshop “Toward a Better WE”, February 21 & 22, 2023, Kyoto University.
• Talk and workshop on the Diversity of Values of Nature (with Donata Schoeller, Talking at the Edge Workshop) at the Interactive Media Foundation, for the team of the MYRIAD project, September 20-22 2022, Berlin, Germany.
• Droz, L. (2022, August) Ecological grief: continue living through multispecies societies. Poster presented at the Mind & Life European Summer Research Institute, 22-28 August 2022, Institutio Lama Tzong Khapa, Italy.
• Organization of the Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy, June 17-18 2022, on the theme “The Diversity of Environmental Philosophies in Asia”. Facilitation of workshops on the Meanings of Nature and Nationalism and Environmental Philosophy in Asia.
• Invited talk (2022, May) Living Through Nature. Festival El Aleph, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), México. May 19-29, hybrid.
• Panel discussion (2022, February) The idea of nature in Japanese, Chinese and Vietnamese: The multilingual and cross-cultural influences behind the word “自然”. Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, February 1-4, online.
• Droz, L. (2022, January) Whose Sustainable Future? Global value pluralism, eco-dogmatism and multispecies societies. Paper to be presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, University of Granada, Spain, January 26-28.
• Droz, L. (2022, January) Can thinking of oneself as living through multispecies societies give meaning to one’s life and drive sustainable lifestyles? Paper to be presented at the Fourth International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, January 17-19, South-Africa/online.
• Invited talk (2022, January) Au milieu des rizières: Watsuji Tsetsurō et l’éthique environnementale globale. Université de Neuchâtel, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Switzerland. January 13th.
• Droz, L. (2021, November) Living through multispecies societies: The borders of being human. at the 6th Global Biodiversity Conservation Conference, November 10-12, Praha. Poster Presentation.
• Droz, L. (2021, September) Beyond the human-nature divide: Exploring multispecies societies in the context of the global pluralism of worldviews. Paper discussed at GRÉEA’s early career scholars workshop, September 23-24, Canada/online.
• Droz, L. (2019, October). Unethical or meaningful inequalities: What reference frame should be used in the global context of pluralism of worldviews? Paper discussed at the 12th Next-Generation Global Workshop on “Inequalities”, October 25-26^th, Kyoto University, Japan.
• Droz, L. (2019, October). Sustainability and the transmission of meaning: a consensual direction for global environmental ethics? Paper presented at the Second International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life, October 7-9, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
  
• Droz, L. (2019, September), Does “Satoyama” really refer to beautiful landscapes? Paper presented at the 5^th Annual Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy on “Beauty”, August 29-September 1^st, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan.

• Droz, L. (2019, August) Menstruation: The power of embracing vulnerability and change. Paper presented at the 2^nd Conference of the Asian Association for Women Philosophers (AAWP) on “Gender, Power and Dignity in Theory and Practice”, August 22-24^th (24.8), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
• Droz, L. (2019, June) Individual Moral Responsibility for Climate Change, Poster presented at the IPCC Week, Kyoto University, International Workshop Visions of a Low-carbon and Resilient Society, June 27^th, Kyoto, Japan.
• Droz, L., Ota Kazuhiko, Miyata Akihiro, Oh Tomohiro and Sevilla Anton. (2019, March). Panel presentation (3.23), Fudo and Interdisciplinary Research – Envisioning a Sustainable Society in the Era of Globalism and Localism at the Asian Conference on Ethics, Religion and Philosophy, March 21-23^rd, Tokyo, Japan.
• Droz, L. Is the concept of milieu the key to global environmental ethics? Individual paper (3.22). Invited and financed by the Fudo Project of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature.
• Droz, L. (2019, January). The Self and the Milieu, Presentation and roundtable on the Self with Prof. Deguchi Yasuo and Prof. Yumiko Inukai, Department of Philosophy, Kyoto University, January 11^th, Japan.
• Droz, L. (2018, November). The milieu as a common ground for environmental ethics, Poster presented at the Networking Conference of the Swiss Society of Women in Philosophy, November 23-24^th, Bern, Switzerland.
• Droz, L. (2018, August). Ethical Negotiations and the Historical Milieu, Paper presented (8.19) at the World Congress of Philosophy, August 12^th-20^th, Beijing, China.
• Droz, L. (2018, July). Environmental civil disobedience as catalyst for sustainable democracy. Paper presented at the 1st IVR (International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy) Japan International Conference on “Rule of Law and Democracy”, July 6^th-8^th, Kyoto, Japan.
• Droz, L. (2018, May). Cross-cultural Environmental Ethics and Activism in Japan and Taiwan. Paper presented (5.12) and published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Multicultural Democracy, May 10^th– 13^th 2018, Fukuoka, Japan.
• Droz, L. (2017, September). Environmental Activism and Self-Cultivation Practices as Expressions of Ethical Relations with the Historical Milieu in East Asia. Paper presented at the 4^th International Conference on Anthropology of Sustainability in Asia Anthropological Perspectives on Holistic Sustainability (CASA 2017), Hiroshima, Japan, September 3rd-5th. Awarded CoHHO subsidies.
• Droz, L. (2017, July). Watsuji Tetsuro’s Historical Milieu and the Ethics of Sustainability. Paper presented at the 2017 International Association for Japanese Philosophy Conference, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan, July 28-29. Awarded CoHHO subsidies.
• Droz, L. (2017, June). Intersubjectivity and Milieu in Dialogue with Japanese Phenomenology. Poster presented and discussed at the Mind and Life Research Summer Institute, Garrisson Institute, New York City, USA. Awarded scholarship for travel and stay by the Mind and Life.
• Droz, L. (2017, June). Commentator at the 14^th Annual Meeting and Conference on Environmental Philosophy, International Society for Environmental Ethics, Allenspark, Colorado, USA.
• Droz, L. (2016, December). Watsuji’s Conception of the Self as the basis of Ethic of Sustainability. Paper presented at the 2^nd Annual Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.