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Lecturing 2018-2024
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Vienna School of International Studies

• MA Seminar: Decentering IR from the Global South (May-June 25)
  
• MA Seminar: Decentering IR from the Global South (Jan-Mar 24)

University of Vienna, Austria

• Introduction Latin American Studies from the SSH (Fall 24)
• International Politics Introductory Lecture (Spring 24 and 25)
  
• Bachelor thesis seminar (Fall 23)
• 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)

University of Applied Sciences (FH Campus Vienna, Austria)

• Good Governance in Urban International Relations (2023)

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 past public appearances:

• Geneva May 2025 (tba)
  
• IUCN 1. International Mangroves' Conference, Abu Dhabi
  
• Key note, Tropentag", University of Life Sciences, Vienna (13-14 September 2024)
• Austrian Latin American Forum Conference (LAF), 24-26.05, Vienna.
• ESSA Conference ("Knowledge production in and about ‘development’"), Vienna: Indigenizing Sustainable Development Goals and Targets: Linking Epistemological Justice, Landscapes and Infrastructures Towards Just Knowledge Production of Assessment. (Oct. 12-14, 23).
• Catédra Colombiana "Ciudadanía, Integridad Y Lucha Contra la Corrupicón": Sustentabilidad con enfoque territorial: combatir la desigualdad socioecológica. Bogotá, 12 April --> Youtube Link (recorded session)
• FH Campus Vienna, University of Applied Sciences, International Political Economy and Governance, Transparency and Public Policy, 21 April and 21 June 2023
• Conceptualization of Morality in Philosophy - Seminar, University of 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