Talks

Hybrid war and the consequences of AI-enabled targeted social construction of reality

National Institute of Mental Health, Prague

Rearticulating the social contract under the pressure of new scientific knowledge

Gothenburg Science Festival, City Library, Gothenburg (5 April 2025)

Space, Security and Defence workshop

European Space Policy Institute, Vienna

Evolution of planetary defense governance and the future of planetary security from asteroids

UN General Assembly Security Summit, New York

Artificial intelligence, geopolitics and diplomatic practice

Diplomatische Akademie Wien

Planetary defense: a case for cosmopolitan responsible foreign policy

Diplomatische Akademie Wien

Introduction to planetary-scale challenges

SCIO School, Prague

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Czech interests

13th International Symposium on Czech Foreign Policy

Strategic thinking on cyber, cyber security threats, AI as a global threat, actors in cyberspace, objective science in policy making

CEVRO Institute, Prague

Emerging issues in outer space governance (closed briefing for the US administration)

Council on Foreign Relations, Washington DC

New technology as an enabler of global governance in space

11th International Symposium on Czech Foreign Policy: Fostering Multilateralism

Czech Republic and international security perspectives

City Hall Plzeň, panel with the Czech Prime Minister

Planetary defense

Smith's Alternative bookshop, Canberra; Innovation Hub, Sydney; Space Cafe, Washington DC

Future of humanity in space: the role of the Czech Republic

10th International Symposium on Czech Foreign Policy: Rethinking the Future

Planetary threats

9th Symposium of Czech Foreign Policy, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Politics in outer space in case of contact

One World Festival, Prague

Cyber war or what? How radical uncertainty shapes cyber

NISA School, Baku

International law in cyberspace

CENAA Summer School, Slovakia

Cyber security challenges as national security issues

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak Republic

Governing Planetary Defense: opening and framing of the special issue

Authors workshop of the Global Policy special issue (co-organizer, chair of panel 5), University of Vienna and European Space Policy Institute, Vienna

Space mining political challenges and perspectives

FOGOS COST Action WG4 workshop: Equity in Outer Space Futures, Institute of International Relations, Prague (host)

Cosmopolitan responsible state in space

Does the World Need a Government?, Birkbeck, University of London

Roadmap to the planetary defense multilateral security regime

9th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Experts as a normative power in global governance

Human Rights Justifications and the EU, University of Gothenburg

Planetary defense: scientists and engineers in charge of planetary security

ISA 2024, San Francisco (panel); also The middle way: cosmopolitan responsible state (workshop on IR and cislunar space)

Planetary defense governance: from ad hoc decision-making body to multilateral regime

8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna

Planetary defense: an evolution of the governance

ESSCA and International Space University conference, Strasbourg

Planetary defense, space mining and interstellar travel

Final conference of the planetary defense project, Prague

Space colonization and cosmopolitan theory for space governance

ESSCA and ESA conference, Rome

Human evolution at the crossroad: between geoeconomic and cosmopolitan approach to space resources

ECPR General Conference (online)

Peaceful Use of Lasers in Space (PULS): making space applications of super-powerful lasers politically viable

High Power Laser Ablation (HPLA), Santa Fe

Planetary defense: opportunity for global collaboration

AIAA Planetary Defense mini conference

Space community as an enabler of cosmopolitan ideas through large technical systems

Astropolitics Virtual Global Forum

Democracy or authoritarian regime in the first space colony

ISDC 2019, Washington DC

Large technical systems as enablers of sustainable global governance of space applications

Planetary Defense Conference, Washington DC

Technology-driven challenges in the governance of future space colonies

69th International Astronautical Congress, Bremen

Space security: a national or a cosmopolitan issue?

ISDC 2018, Los Angeles

Strengthening global collaboration and reducing the risk of defection of a cooperating nation in planetary defense

Planetary Defense Conference, Tokyo (talk and poster)

Planetary defense as a gateway to space for commercial and deep space exploration; Extending space exploration by evolving an Earth-Moon planetary defense capability

International Astronautical Congress 2016, Guadalajara

Lunar Sentinel: planetary defense from the Moon

NASA Exploration Science Forum

Planetary defense: a duty for world defenders (poster)

American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, San Francisco

The International Space University Space Studies Program 2015 planetary defense project

66th International Astronautical Congress, Jerusalem

Dynamics of super-empowered non-state actors in cyberspace

World International Studies Committee, Frankfurt

Fluid character of cyberspace and perspectives of international regime development

ECPR, Innsbruck

How the securitization of cyberspace threats shapes our perspective of the threat

CyCon, Masaryk University, Brno

Fluid character of cyberspace and the impact on international regime development

AGS conference, Paris

In Czech Dilemmas of international law in cyberspace

Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Brno

In Czech Socially sensitive approach in post-conflict reconstruction: Afghanistan

Center for Security Studies, Metropolitan University Prague