My Tour Dates
I am no rock star, but I often find myself on tour, presenting and discussing my research at various conferences, workshops, seminars, and other events. I also find that connecting or collaborating with people is best done in person, so I will try to keep this page current. Please get in touch if you want to meet up at any of the following events.
email: nik[at]aucklandwine.co.nz
Upcoming
Science, Technology, and Human Values (STHV) STS School, Seoul, South Korea
Event WebsiteWorkshopping a paper draft for Science, Technology, and Human Values: Agricultural nanotechnology, promissory sociotechnical futures, and the negotiation of wine value.
POLLEN 2026 Conference, Barcelona, Spain
Event WebsiteConvening the session “More-than-merely relations: storying multi-species specificities for just and caring agri-food worlds” with Rye Hickman (University of Greenwich) & Saana Hokkanen (University of Helsinki).
Rachel Carson Centre: The Past and Future of the Environmental Humanities, Tutzing, Germany
Event WebsiteLead convenor and panelist: “Fermenting dualisms: Human-microbial relations beyond the environment/technology divide” with Aaron Bradshaw, Maya Hey, & Stephanie Sacco.
Centre for the Social Study of Microbes (CSSM) Conference, Helsinki, Finland
Event WebsiteConvening the session: “Thinking-With Microbes Beyond the Metaphor: Intoxication, Epissedemologies, and Mind-Altering Fungi.”
Wine, Place, Space II Workshop, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Event WebsitePaper details TBC
NZGS-IAG Conference, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Event WebsiteOrganising a community economies research network pre-conference workshop (with Jenny Cameron, Kelly Dombroski, Chavya Chitranshi, & Katherine Gibson).
Convening the session “In(toxicating) Geographies: researching brewing, alcohol(s), and drunkenness” with Peter Howland & Nick Lewis.
Paper details TBC
Past Events
Jo Fountain & Nikolai Siimes. Beyond Burgundy? Positioning Pinot Noir in a ‘New World’ Wine Region. Academy of Wine Business Research Conference, University of Adelaide, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes. Tasting, Drinking, Knowing: Epissedemologies and the Edges of Ethnography. Association of Social Anthropologists Aotearoa/New Zealand conference, Raglan, New Zealand.
Nikolai Siimes. Edible Ecologies of Vermouth: Foraging, Crafting, Drinking, Marketizing, Fermenting. Australasian Agrifood Research Network conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
Galina Kallio & Nikolai Siimes. Towards Sensable Agri-Food Economies. Liviana VI conference, online.
Nikolai Siimes. Becoming Pinot Noir: assembling regional identity in Central Otago and Hemel-en-Aarde. The Pinot Noir Project’s Pinot Noir and Identity Symposium, University of Oxford, UK.
Nikolai Siimes. Pro-biotic (micro)governmentalities in biodynamic winegrowing: from dominance to multispecies flourishing. Multispecies justice and the more-than-human lens in environmental politics and governance conference, University of Helsinki, Finland.
Nikolai Siimes. Biodynamic winegrowing as multispecies becoming: patchy lessons for farming in the Capitalocene. Australasian Agrifood Research Network conference, University of Sydney, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes. Diverse valuings of winegrowing in practice. New Zealand Geographical Society Conference, University of Waikato, NZ.
Nikolai Siimes. Mycelial thinking/doing in economic geography. Community Economies Institute LIVIANA V conference, online.
Nikolai Siimes. Fermenting theory. Australasian Agrifood Research Network conference, University of Tasmania, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes. Fermenting STS theory: Thinking-with microbes (provocation). AusSTS conference, UNSW Sydney, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes. Temporalities of more-than-human research: reckoning time in a geography PhD. Institute of Australian Geographers conference, Curtin University, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes. Spatialising biodynamic standards in faraway places: certifying antipodean wine. IAG Legal Geography Study Group Symposium, Curtin University, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes & Emma Sharp. The role of scalar standard in qualifying wines. XX ISA World Congress, Melbourne, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes. A wine glass half full: consipience and the microbiopolitics of natural ferments. XX ISA World Congress, Melbourne, Australia.
Nikolai Siimes. The more-than-human production of wine. School of Environment Internal Seminar Series, University of Auckland.
Nikolai Siimes. Perceptions and Acceptability of Nanotechnology in the NZ Wine Industry. Joint AARN/SAANZ conference, Lincoln University, NZ.