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I am readily available as a PhD Thesis Examiner for a wide range of topics and languages (French, English, Spanish, Italian, German).
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Lecturing 2018-2022
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University of Vienna, Austria (Visiting Professorship, lecturing):
  • FH Campus Vienna, MA program: International Political Economy and Good Governance, April 2023.
  • Lecture Cycle, co-organized with Prof. Ulrich Brand, BA: Introduction to Latin America Studies (2022, fall)
  • BA thesis Seminar (2022)
  • Political Ecology in the Andes (2022)
  • Postcolonial Theory (2021-2022)
  • International Disaster Politics in the Context of Climate Change (2021, fall semester)
  • International Political Economy (2021, fall)

Karlsruhe Technological Institute (KIT, Germany)
  • Critical Sustainability Studies: The Colonial Matrix of Agro-industries (December 2021)

ULEAM, Manta (Ecuador, postgraduate):
  • Anthropology of (Mental) Community Health (2020-2021)

FLACSO Ecuador (postgraduate):
  • Development Theories (2020)
  • Sustainable Development, Interculturality and Cooperation (2019)
  • Qualitative Methodologies (2020)
  • MA thesis workshops I, II and III (2019-2020)

UDLA Quito (undergraduate):
  • International Political Economy (2020-2021)
  • Key International Problems - Seminar (2020-2021)
  • Environmental Governance and Sustainability (2017-2018)
  • Core Issues of Social Theory (2016 - 2020)
  • History of Political Thought (2016 - 2019)
  • International Relations (2018 - 2021)

EPN Quito (postgraduate):
  • Development Perspectives and Research (3-weeks intensive PhD course, annually in July)

FLACSO Argentina (postgraduate):
  • Sustainable Human Development I y II (MA) - curso virtual

Past courses:
  • Intercultural Philosophy (University of Zurich): 2015
  • Core Issues of Social Theory (IHEID, Geneva): 2011-2013
  • Éthique de l'aide (IHEID): 2011-2012
  • Anthropology and the Environment (IHEID): 2011-2012
  • Doctoral Research Seminar (2012-2013), IHEID.
  • Human Rights Monitoring and Indicators (Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar): 2012-2013
  • Food Sovereignty and Policy Evaluation (New York University): 2015
Upcoming and recent public appearances:
  • Conceptualisation of Morality in Philosophy - Seminar, University or Pretoria, South Africa (01-02. Nov. 2022).
  • Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA), University of Innsbruck (13-14 October 2022).
  • Internat. Development Ethics Association, IDEA, Latin American Autonomous University, Medellîn, Colombia (13-16 July 2022).
  • POLLEN Political Ecology conference, South Africa (July 2022 - postponed to 2023): "Emerging Blue Communities in the Americas vs. Blue Economies".
  • International Development Ethics Association (1-3 February 2021), Medellín, Colombia: keynote on "Displacement by Development in the Andean Region".
  • HDCA 2020 (30/06-02/07), New Zealand (online only): "Rethinking Development Ethics and Human Development from a Decolonial Feminist Reproduction of Life at the Ecuadorian-Colombian Border"
  • LASA 2020 (13-16 May), Guadalajara, MX: Panel sponsored by the Ecuadorian Studies Section: "Tracing the Recovery of Socioeconomic and Cultural Dynamics in the Ecuadorian Coast after the Earthquake of 2016".
  • Université de Strasbourg, 17.10.2019, 16:30-18:30: https://ethnologie.unistra.fr/agenda/evenement/news/conference-de-johannes-waldmueller-vulnerabilite-et-resilience-face-a-la-crise-de-la-reproduction-da/
  • Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès, Holder of the Chaire Amérique Latine (ChAL), IPEAT. Visiting professor and lecturing in October 2019. Cours: Vulnérabilité et résilience face à la crise de la reproduction dans les espaces hydro-sociaux entre l’Équateur et la Colombie (07 and 14 October).
  • University of Florida, Gainesville, USA: I-REC. 5-7 June 19, "Disrupting Slow Disasters of Abandonment in Semiaquatic Territories: (In)Visibilization Strategies around De/Colonial Delinking?"
  • Haute école de travail social et de la santé | EESP | Lausanne, 20 February 19: "Récupération, vulnerabilité et capacités de adaptation dans la côte équatorienne après le séisme de 2016 : Sécurisation et les désastres au ralenti".
  • Public book presentation: "Human Rights Transformations in Practice", The Graduate Institute of Development and International Studies, Geneva: 15 February 19. With Meg Davis, Mark Goodale, Tine Destrooper.
  • Universidad Pontifica de Santiago de Chile: Workshop on Socioenvironmental Conflicts in the Andean Region (hosted by the University of Melbourne), 21-22 January 19: "Socioenvironmental Slow Disasters in the Pacific Border Region of Ecuador and Colombia"
  • Executive Session on Human Rights Transformations with Sally E. Merry, Mark Goodale, Tine Destrooper, etc. - American Anthropologists Association's Annual Conference,  San Jose, CA: 14-18 November 2018.
  • Thinkshop on "disasters as a global method and epistemology", CIGIDEN, Valparaíso, 09-10 de agosto.
  • 1. Seminario del Grupo TIERRA, Quito: 05-07 June 2018.
  • HDCA Annual Conference, Buenos Aires, 01-05 September 2018: Registration for the preconference full day event on "Development Ethics in Times of Rising Authoritarianism": www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ethics-and-development-in-times-or-rising-authoritarianism-tickets-45675455517
  • IDEA Annual Conference, Bordeaux, 25-27 June 18
  • University of Lausanne (UNIL), Faculty of Earth Sciences and Geography, public lecture, March 1st, 9am: "Multiscalar Social Vulnerability in Ecuador: Development as Disaster Recovery for Prevention".  
  • University of Vienna, Faculty of Political Sciences, public lecture: February, 22, 6pm. "Rights of Nature a Perspective from the Andean countries?"
  • Festival de la tierra, ESPAM, Calceta 08-10 December 17
  • HDCA Annual Conference Cape Town, 05-08 September 17
  • Reconstruction in Manabí ULEAM, Pedernales, 19 August 17
  • LASA Annual Conference, Lima, April 17
  • Political Studies and IR Conference, FLACSO, April 17


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