In search of the miraculous: transatlanticism, metaxy and metamodernism
Atlantic World Research Network Lecture
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
April 2024

Metamodernism in 4 figures: metaxy, rewording, post-irony and the post-simulacral
Public Lecture
Humanities Research Group
University of Windsor
April 2024

Metaxy (and metamodernism)
Public Lecture
Harvard University
April 2024

Metamodernism
Public Lecture
Summit at Sea
April 2024

Post-zoom
Public Lecture
The Cooper Union
March 2024

A gesture is time
Plenary Lecture
Gesture Conference
Oxford University
January 2024

Awkward Enthusiasm
Public Lecture
Halle fur Kunst Steiermark
January 2024

Design after postmodernism
Plenary Lecture
University of Gothenburg
October 2023

Metamodern Memory
with Alison Landsberg
Public Lecture
Center for Humanities Lectures
George Mason University
October 2023

Metamodern Memory: On Blade Runner, then and now
with Alison Landsberg
Public Lecture
CIMS Seminar Series
University of St. Andrews
September 2023

Epistemic Dispossession and the Hermeneutics of Suspense
Keynote Lecture
Glocal Metamodernisms Conference
University of Jyvaskula
April 2023

Tool Time
Keynote Lecture
ARK Conference
Kristiania University
March 2023

Metamodernism 101
Plenary Lecture
KHIO
March 2023

On Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Public Lecture
Astrup Fearnley Museum
March 2023

Post-Genre
Keynote Lecture
Genre in the context of digital media culture
University of Oslo
November 2022

Technology, Time and Motion
with Tom McCarthy and Aron Vinegar
Conversation
University of Oslo
November 2022

Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect… 5 Years on
with Robin van den Akker and Linda Ceriello
Keynote Panel
Metamodernism Summit
Ballard Homestead, Seattle
September, 2022

Metamodernism, or, a critical guide to trend watching
Plenary lecture
Creative Future Series
Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts
March, 2022

Martine Syms in Context
With Gry Rustad
Conversation
Bergen Kunsthall
November, 2021

David Foster Wallace after Postmodernism (again): tone, tennis and metamodernism
Keynote
International David Foster Wallace Conference
Free University Amsterdam
October, 2021

Metamodernism, the glocal and class consciousness
Keynote
AHRC Metamodernism Network Meeting
Radboud University Nijmegen
October, 2021

Everything you always wanted to know about Metamodernism but where afraid to ask DFW
Lecture
Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis
Amsterdam
October, 2021

A presentation on Metamodernism
Conversation
Cornell University
Ithaca
September, 2021

Zoomchitecture
Conversation
UCLA Graduate School of Architecture
LA
May, 2021

An alternative guide to trend watching
Plenary Lecture
Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts
Cambridge, UK
March, 2021

‘The Romantic Comedy in spite of itself’
Plenary lecture
Cinemateket
Oslo, Norway
October, 2020

‘Novel words for new phenomena’
Plenary lecture
Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts
Cambridge, UK
June, 2020

‘Alternative Memories in Bladerunner 2049’
Plenary talk
with Alison Landsberg (in absentia)
Memories of the Future
University of Oslo
Oslo, Norway
January, 2020

'Ten theses on metamodernism’
Public lecture
Central Academy of Fine Arts,
Beijing, China
November 2019

Metamodernism in Three Case Studies: Daou, Cheng, Kjartansson
Plenary Lecture
Rethinking Modernity: Global Art History Conference
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
November 2019

Forget Davos
Plenary Lecture
Magicians of the Mountain: Heidegger and Cassirer in Davos
Museum Susch, Switzerland
October 2019

Humor
Conversation
with Jorg Heiser, Sarah Khan, Vid Simoniti and Cristina Ricupero
Clandestine Talks
Arsenale, Venice Biennial, Italy
August 2019

Forget Metamodernism
Keynote lecture (in absentia)
with Robin van den Akker
Metamodernism
Radboud University Nijmegen
July 2019

Deep state, flat earth: observations on depthiness and the ‘bend’ of History
Plenary lecture
Hope Recycling Station Lecture Series
UMPRUM, Prague, Czech Republic
April 2019

‘8½ notes on posthumanism and the humanities’
Keynote lecture
The Humanities and Posthumanities: New Ways of Being Human
Tallinn University, Estonia
January 2019

‘The wild living marine resources belong to society as a whole’
with Randi Nygard
Plenary conversation
Coast Contemporary
Hurtigruten, Norway
October 2018

‘Reality beckons: metamodernism and depthiness’
with Alison Gibbons and Robin van den Akker
Plenary lecture
3rd AHRC symposium on Metamodernism
University of Oslo, Norway
October 2018

'Nike Air Pocket: Hedonistic sustainability and sentimental abstraction'
Keynote lecture
State of Fashion 2018: The New Luxury
Art University of the Arts, Arnhem, The Netherlands
June 2018

'Something altogether weirder'
Public lecture
Walter Books, Arnhem, the Netherlands
May 2018

'Notes on irony and sincerity'
with Robin van den Akker
Public lecture
Between Irony and sincerity
Columbia University, New York, USA
April 2018

'Eight theses on cofveve' 
with Robin van den Akker
Public lecture
E-flux Lectures
E-flux, New York
April 2018

'The second society'
Keynote lecture
Fact and Fiction in Narratives of Political Conflict
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
March 2018

‘Authenticity and performance’
Plenary lecture
Authenticity Today
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
October, 2017

‘Presence and performance’
Public lecture
Digital Bauhaus Summit
Neufert Mansion, Weimar, Germany
June 2017

'Quirky and metamodernism’
Public lecture
Mapping the Quirky
Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
April 2017

‘Flat(ulent) Culture’
Public lecture
What is Happening to Our Brain?
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
March 2017

‘Spaces that matter'
Public lecture
Aesthetics and Activism
Spring Festival
Het Huis, Utrecht, The Netherlands
May 2016

'Who's there?'
Plenary lecture
Spring Academy
Centre for the Humanities, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
May 2016

‘Knock Knock’
Public lecture
Graz Architecture Lectures
Technical University Graz, Graz, Austria
April 2016

‘The suburbs: a conversation with Timotheus Vermeulen’
Public lecture
Home and Away
Kai 10, Dusseldorf, Germany
November 2015

‘A metamodern future?’
with Robin van den Akker
Plenary lecture
A global technological and human transition
Lorentz Center, University of Leiden, The Netherlands
October 2015

‘Your time is not my time’
Public lecture
Authenticity in the digital age
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
June 2015

‘Wie die Gegenwart Historisch zu denken ist’
Keynote lecture
Broken Theories
Kai 10, Dusseldorf, Germany
June 2015

‘Yuck, another –ism?’: The difficulty of historicizing the present’
Keynote lecture
Collecting the Emerging
University College London, London, UK
May 2015

'The space of sculpture'
Plenary lecture
Sculpture Unlimited II
Kunstuniversitat Linz, Linz, Austria
November 2014

'A tale of three depth models’
Plenary lecture
Surfen en Duiken
Studium Generale Artez, Zwolle, The Netherlands
November 2014

‘Metamodernism, or the cultural logic of Capitalism 4.0’ 
with Robin van den Akker
Public lecture
Strelka, Moscow, Russia
December 2013

‘Metamodernism, or periodising the 2000s’
with Robin van den Akker
Public lecture
Dostoyevski Public Library, Moscow, Russia
December 2013

‘MIMS'
with Andy Holden
Public conversation
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
November 2013

‘Basin of attraction'
with Timur Si-Qun
Public conversation
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
October 2013

‘Metamodern Values’
with Robin van den Akker
Public lecture
Tent/Witte de With Rotterdam, The Netherlands
September 2013

‘Periodizing the 2000s’
with Robin van den Akker
Keynote lecture
Emotional Geographies
University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
July 2013

‘Recycling the Scrapheap of History: From Postmodern Downcycling to Metamodern upcycling’
Plenary lecture
Trash Aesthetics
University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany
July 2013

‘A new dawn’
Keynote lecture
A new dawn
Artez, Enschede, the Netherlands
May 2013

‘As if’
Plenary lecture
Futures of the Present
University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
May 2013

‘Form as concept’
Keynote lecture
TISS Winterschool
Kloster Bernried, Munich, Germany
January 2013

‘TV als Kunst? De casus Mad Men’
Public lecture
Soeterbeeck Lecture Series
Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
October 2012

‘Marta Kuzma-Hannah Ryggen’
Public lecture
Documenta
Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany
August 2012

‘The future’s future’
Public lecture
Facing forward: Art and Theory from a future perspective'
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
June 2012

‘An introduction to metamodernism’
Public lecture
Photogrid, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
June 2012

‘Discussing Metamodernism’
Public lecture
with Robin van den Akker
Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin, Germany
March 2012

‘Watching Television with Jacque Ranciere’
Public lecture
On Television
Frieze Art Fair London
September 2011

‘Notes on metamodernism’
Plenary lecture
Thinking in Unity after Postmodernism
Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
November 2010