talks and conferences
2023
Talk. 'Anthropology, Theatre, and Migration'. Booklaunch and roundtable with Matthias Warstat, Lucia Ruprecht, Azadeh Sharifi, and Linsey Drury. Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, 18 December 2023. LINK
Talk. State of the Arts: Ethnography, Theatre, and State’. Intervention in panel “methodological challenges: ethnography and critical fiction” at imagining future coexistence. dramaturgy & choreography as aesthetic and social practices, organised by Kirsten Maar (FU Berlin) and Mila Pavicevic, Berlin. 7-8 September 2023.
Talk. Colonial Neighbours: On Curatorial Footnotes and Narratives’, Imperial Lives. Biographic Approaches as Decolonial Practice. Digital conference organised by Carl Deußen and Anne Haemig, in cooperation with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne. online, 30-31 March 2023. LINK
Seminar. 'Minor Curating. Art and Anthropology After the Museum of World', Seminar series "Curating Cultures", Department of World Arts and Cultures / Dance, University of California Los Angeles, 2 March 2023.
Talk: ‘Awkward Archives. Ethnographic drafts for a modern curriculum’, with Margareta von Oswald, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Erica Lehrer. Thinking Through the Museum (TTTM) network, Montréal. Online, 13 February 2023.
Input. ‘Dis-Othering Diversity‘. Book presentation and book launch Doing Differences in Museum and Heritage. A Berlin Ethnography (Ed. Sharon Macdonald, 2022), Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 23. January 2023. (online)
2022
Exhibition and opening programme. The Pregnant Oyster - Doubts on Universalism (with Camille de Toledo, Emeka Ogboh, Adania Shibli, Filipa César, Sana Na N'Hada, Markus Messling, Franck Hofmann, Olga Schubert, Kelly Krugman, Sagal Farah). Conceived with Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann, and co-presented with Franck Hofmann, Minor Universality ERC Project, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, 30 June - 4 July 2022. LINK.
Artistic atelier (L’incertitude et Universalisme), conceived with the Minor Universality Team, especially Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann in collaboration with Aicha Filali. Centre des Arts Vivants de Radès, Tunis, Tunisia, 15-20 March 2022.
Talk. Bastard art. Thinking postmigrant and postheimat theatre. AgorAkademi Seminar “Cité séparé – the figure of Migrant in Europe”, organised by Prof Nilüfer Göle, EHESS, Paris. 20. Mai 2022.
Talk. 'Der Fremde Blick. Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr', Presentation, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf. 11 May 2022.
Talk. 'Minor Curating. Art and Anthropology after the World Museum'. Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society, Cambridge University, UK. 5 May 2022.
Talk. ‘What has theatre ever done for us? A bastard theatre against nation’. Talk at the Queen Mary University of London Colloquium QUORUM, London. 4 May 2022.
Presentation 'Minor Curating. Art and Anthropology After the World Museum‘, Forschungskolloquium Markus Messling, Lehrstuhl für Romanische Kulturwissenschaften und Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Universität des Saarlandes, 5 January 2022.
2021
Symposium, seminar, and book presentation: ‘Across Anthropology’ (with Margareta von Oswald, Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, Friedrich Bose, Beatrice von Bismarck), in cooperation with the MA-course Cultures of the Curatorial of the Leipzig HGB and the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig, Germany. Online, 18 and 19 October 2021. LINK and VIDEO
Summer School Workshop and panel: ‘Repair, Restitution, Resocialisation’ (with sociologist Angelica Pesarini), Summer School at Villa Vigoni, “Restituzioni, riparazioni, reparation – Verso una nuova società globale?”, organised by Mario Laarmann, Carla Seemann, Laura Vordermayer, part of the Excellence Lab collaboration initiated by Markus Messling and Christiane Solte-Gresser , Italy. 9-13 September 2021. LINK
Moderation: ‘Decolonising theatre studies’ (panel with Azdadeh Sharifi), Gängeviertel Hamburg, Germany, 27 August 2021.
Lab contribution: ‘Curatorial Fieldwork’ at summer symposium of the Berlin Multimodal Anthropology Laboratory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 22-23 July 2021.
Open Studio Panel. ‘Minor Universality Residencies’. Opening remarks to the residency presentation of the ERC Minor Universality project conceived with Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann in cooperation with the HKW, Goethe Institute Athens, Athens/Greece, 24-27 June 2021. LINK
Film presentation and conversation: 'Statues also die' – Conversation with Ariella Azoulay. Financed by Henrich Böll Foundation. Screened in cinema 8 1/2 series organised by Mario Laarmann, Saarbrücken, Germany. 14 June 2021. LINK
Workshop presentation: 'Minor Universality Residencies', conceived with Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann. Launch of the residency programme with artists Adania Shibli, Filipa César, and SAVVY Contemporary. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 3 June 2021. LINK.
Workshop presentation. ‘Minor Curating. Anthropology and Art after the World Museum’, Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. 27 May 2021.
Presentation. Mercator lecture ‘Minor Curating. Anthropology and Art after the World Museum’. Research colloquia, Gerhard Mercator Kolleg Weltoffenheit, Toleranz und Gemeinsinn. University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. 12 May 2021. (online due to COVID-19). LINK.
Panel: Taking Responsibility for Colonial Heritage in Europe? Perspectives from Organisational Ethnographies. Convened together with Sharon Macdonald and Margareta von Oswald. Discussant: Henrietta Lidchi (National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands). Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA). St Andrews, Scotland. 30 March 2021. Online due to Covid-19. [LINK]
Online presentation: Museums and Choreographies of Difficult Heritage, book chapter presentation at book launch organised by Susanne Franco. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. 29 March 2021.
Presentation: “Phantom Palaces and Humboldtian Horizontalities” (with Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Birmingham, UK). Book launch of De-Centring the City (UCL Press, 2020), edited and organised by Michal Murawski (UCL) and Jonathan Bach (New School). (online due to COVID-19). 26 March 2021.
Reading group presentation: 'Dis-Othering Diversity'. Presentation and discussion with reading circle hosted by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov at Higher School of Economics, Moscow/Russia. 11 January 2021.
2020
Radio conversation: 'Museums as Crime Scenes II' with curator Natasha Ginwala, artist Folakunle Oshun, and sociologist Maria Berrios. Hosted and broadcast by cashmere radio berlin 88.4 and funded by the Goethe Institut as part of their series Latitude on Air. Link to the podcast available online. Berlin/Germany, 20 November 2020 (LINK).
Conversation (as organiser): ‘How do we come together in a world that isolates us?’ On Infrastructures, Commoning, and Para-Institutions’. Conversation with Prof Nora Sternfeld (HfbK, Hamburg) and Elena Agudio (SAVVY Contemporary) as part of the POSTHEIMAT Festival Encounter #5 hosted at TIER – The Institute of Endotic Research, Neukölln, Berlin/Germany. 30 October 2020. [LINK]
Discussant/presenter: Book panel on David Berliner’s Losing Our Culture (Rutgers), with Adeline Masquier and David Berliner. Glasgow Anthropology Network. 16 October 2020. [online due to COVID-19]. (LINK)
Symposium (co-convenor): ‘Tracing Fractures. Across Listening, Movement, Restitution, and Repair’. Symposium, with performances, sound pieces, and artworks commissioned for the day and organised on invitation by Manifesta Biennale 13 and the gallery of the institute of foreign cultural relations, Berlin. Marseille/France, 12 September 2020. [LINK]
Conference (co-organiser): ‘Concreteness and Universality in the Cultural and Social Sciences'. International Conference conceived with the Minor Universality Team at Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Study Centre for the European Dialogue. Funded by the European Research Council, Lago di Como, Italy. 2-6 September. [LINK]
Discussant/response to panel: ‘Re-conceptualizing colonial Heritage Through the Arts and Curating’ at Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), 5th Biennale Conference, University College London/UK, 20-24 August 2020. [online due to COVID-19]
Conference presentation: ‘DisOthering Diversity. Curating as institutional troubling’, in roundtable by Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH). Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), 5th Biennale Conference, University College London/UK, 20-24 August 2020. [online due to COVID-19)
Conference presentation: ‘Theatre, Chance, and the Ethnographic Encounter with the Exceptional’. Paper accepted in panel convened by Thomas Fillitz and Helena Wulff. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Lisbon/Portugal. 20-25 July 2020. [online due to COVID-19]
Radio Conversation: “Museums as Crime Scenes”, Moderation and introduction to discussion with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Ariella Azoulay as part of the Goethe-Institut Festival Latitude on Air curated by Karina Griffiths and Elena Agudio, ACUD STUDIO and reboot.fm radio. Broadcast live on 88.4 fm Berlin, and hosted online. 6 June 2020. [LINK]
Panel discussion (as co-organiser): ‘(En)countering the future: Chances and Difficulties of Intersectional Artistic Work in Cultural Institutions’, moderated panel with Kenda Hmeidan, Elena Agudio, and Emre Erkan during the 4th Post-Heimat Network (*Bundeskulturstiftung des Bundes) Encounter, Maxim Gorki Theatre/Berlin. 6 March 2020.
Workshop moderation: ‘Aesthetics and Cultural Participation’. Evens Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels/Belgium. 11 February 2020.
Workshop conversation: ‘A digital museum of restitution’. Conversation with artist Emeka Ogboh. Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 22 January 2020.
Research colloquium: ‘Curating trouble: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Art’. Public lecture in the lecture series Kunst Afrikas convened by Prof Tobias Wendl. Institute of Art History, Free Universität Berlin, Germany. 21 January 2020.
2019
Congress panel: ‘The post-anthropological: Convergences across museums, colonial legacies, and the curatorial’ (with Margareta von Oswald), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (Canada). 20-24 November 2019.
Conference presentation: ‘The Porosity of the Membrane: On District Curating, Contemporary Art, and Anthropology’. Part of panel: The post-anthropological: Convergences across museums, colonial legacies, and the curatorial’ (with Margareta von Oswald), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (Canada). 20 November 2019.
Symposium (as co-organiser): ‘The trouble with art: Philistinism and Scepticism in the Anthropology of Art’, 2019 interim symposium of the Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART) Network of European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), convened with Prof Roger Sansi (Barcelona). Berlin/Germany. 20-22 September 2019.
Academy keynote: ‘The Double Presence of the Ruinous: Ancient Remains as Heritage and Failure’. Avtonomi Akadimia in Akadimia Platonos, Athens/Greece. 15 September 2019. [LINK]
Summer school keynote: ‘The Double Presence of the Ruinous: Ancient Remains as Heritage and Failure’. Ancient Theatre and the Political. Summer School organised by the Michael Cacoannis Foundation and the University of Bonn (Forum Internationale Wissenschaft), Athens/Greece, 13-19 September 2019.
Conference presentation: ‘We have never been postindustrial: On the irony of regeneration in industrial heritage’. On panel: ‘The Shadows of the Present: Generative Ambivalences Across Art, Heritage, and Materiality’ (Panel D09, convened by Dr Jonas Tinius and Dr Alice von Bieberstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth (ASA), University of East Anglia, UK. 3–6 September 2019. [LINK]
Conference panel (as co-organiser): ‘The Shadows of the Present: Generative Ambivalences Across Art, Heritage, and Materiality’ (Panel D09, convened with Dr Alice von Bieberstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth (ASA), University of East Anglia, UK. 3–6 September 2019.
Symposium talk: ‘Political Fiction: Of Migrants, Theatre, and the Otherwise’. 23rdInternational Symposium in Phenomenology (‘L’Epreuve de l’Etranger. Translation, Migration, Resistance’), organised by Emmanuel Alloa, Delia Popa, and Shela Sheikh. Perugia/Italy. 7-13 July 2019.
Public dialogue: ‘Technoheritage and Restitution. A conversation between artist Nora Al-Badri and anthropologist Jonas Tinius’. Gallery of the Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations. Berlin/Germany. 13 June 2014. [LINK]
Conference: ‘Dis-Othering Diversity: Reflections on Anthropological Research with Artistic Surveys’, Race, Power and Culture. A critical look at Belgian cultural institutions. BOZAR, Brussels (Belgium). 22-24 May 2019.
Conference (as co-organiser): ‘Migration and Theatre: Towards a New Production Network on post-Heimat’, Inaugural Conference of the Production Network post-Heimat, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. 20-24 March 2019.
Opening conference input:‘Theatre & Migration: New Aesthetics and New Alliances’. Inaugural Conference of the Production Network post-Heimat funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim (Germany). 21 March 2018.
Public seminar (invited): ‘Aesthetics, Migration, and European identity’. PublicDemoS Network led by Prof Nilüfer Göle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris/France, 1 March 2019. [LINK]
Panel discussion (invited): 'The Politics of Data' (transmediale Vorspiel). With artist Nora Al-Badri and CryptoParyBerlin. Volksbühne. Grüner Salon, Berlin/Germany. 1 February 2019. [LINK]
Talk. 'Anthropology, Theatre, and Migration'. Booklaunch and roundtable with Matthias Warstat, Lucia Ruprecht, Azadeh Sharifi, and Linsey Drury. Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin, 18 December 2023. LINK
Talk. State of the Arts: Ethnography, Theatre, and State’. Intervention in panel “methodological challenges: ethnography and critical fiction” at imagining future coexistence. dramaturgy & choreography as aesthetic and social practices, organised by Kirsten Maar (FU Berlin) and Mila Pavicevic, Berlin. 7-8 September 2023.
Talk. Colonial Neighbours: On Curatorial Footnotes and Narratives’, Imperial Lives. Biographic Approaches as Decolonial Practice. Digital conference organised by Carl Deußen and Anne Haemig, in cooperation with the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne. online, 30-31 March 2023. LINK
Seminar. 'Minor Curating. Art and Anthropology After the Museum of World', Seminar series "Curating Cultures", Department of World Arts and Cultures / Dance, University of California Los Angeles, 2 March 2023.
Talk: ‘Awkward Archives. Ethnographic drafts for a modern curriculum’, with Margareta von Oswald, Lynhan Balatbat-Helbock, Erica Lehrer. Thinking Through the Museum (TTTM) network, Montréal. Online, 13 February 2023.
Input. ‘Dis-Othering Diversity‘. Book presentation and book launch Doing Differences in Museum and Heritage. A Berlin Ethnography (Ed. Sharon Macdonald, 2022), Institut für Europäische Ethnologie, Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 23. January 2023. (online)
2022
Exhibition and opening programme. The Pregnant Oyster - Doubts on Universalism (with Camille de Toledo, Emeka Ogboh, Adania Shibli, Filipa César, Sana Na N'Hada, Markus Messling, Franck Hofmann, Olga Schubert, Kelly Krugman, Sagal Farah). Conceived with Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann, and co-presented with Franck Hofmann, Minor Universality ERC Project, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, 30 June - 4 July 2022. LINK.
Artistic atelier (L’incertitude et Universalisme), conceived with the Minor Universality Team, especially Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann in collaboration with Aicha Filali. Centre des Arts Vivants de Radès, Tunis, Tunisia, 15-20 March 2022.
Talk. Bastard art. Thinking postmigrant and postheimat theatre. AgorAkademi Seminar “Cité séparé – the figure of Migrant in Europe”, organised by Prof Nilüfer Göle, EHESS, Paris. 20. Mai 2022.
Talk. 'Der Fremde Blick. Roberto Ciulli und das Theater an der Ruhr', Presentation, Theatermuseum Düsseldorf. 11 May 2022.
Talk. 'Minor Curating. Art and Anthropology after the World Museum'. Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society, Cambridge University, UK. 5 May 2022.
Talk. ‘What has theatre ever done for us? A bastard theatre against nation’. Talk at the Queen Mary University of London Colloquium QUORUM, London. 4 May 2022.
Presentation 'Minor Curating. Art and Anthropology After the World Museum‘, Forschungskolloquium Markus Messling, Lehrstuhl für Romanische Kulturwissenschaften und Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Universität des Saarlandes, 5 January 2022.
2021
Symposium, seminar, and book presentation: ‘Across Anthropology’ (with Margareta von Oswald, Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, Friedrich Bose, Beatrice von Bismarck), in cooperation with the MA-course Cultures of the Curatorial of the Leipzig HGB and the Grassi Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig, Germany. Online, 18 and 19 October 2021. LINK and VIDEO
Summer School Workshop and panel: ‘Repair, Restitution, Resocialisation’ (with sociologist Angelica Pesarini), Summer School at Villa Vigoni, “Restituzioni, riparazioni, reparation – Verso una nuova società globale?”, organised by Mario Laarmann, Carla Seemann, Laura Vordermayer, part of the Excellence Lab collaboration initiated by Markus Messling and Christiane Solte-Gresser , Italy. 9-13 September 2021. LINK
Moderation: ‘Decolonising theatre studies’ (panel with Azdadeh Sharifi), Gängeviertel Hamburg, Germany, 27 August 2021.
Lab contribution: ‘Curatorial Fieldwork’ at summer symposium of the Berlin Multimodal Anthropology Laboratory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 22-23 July 2021.
Open Studio Panel. ‘Minor Universality Residencies’. Opening remarks to the residency presentation of the ERC Minor Universality project conceived with Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann in cooperation with the HKW, Goethe Institute Athens, Athens/Greece, 24-27 June 2021. LINK
Film presentation and conversation: 'Statues also die' – Conversation with Ariella Azoulay. Financed by Henrich Böll Foundation. Screened in cinema 8 1/2 series organised by Mario Laarmann, Saarbrücken, Germany. 14 June 2021. LINK
Workshop presentation: 'Minor Universality Residencies', conceived with Markus Messling and Franck Hofmann. Launch of the residency programme with artists Adania Shibli, Filipa César, and SAVVY Contemporary. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 3 June 2021. LINK.
Workshop presentation. ‘Minor Curating. Anthropology and Art after the World Museum’, Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. 27 May 2021.
Presentation. Mercator lecture ‘Minor Curating. Anthropology and Art after the World Museum’. Research colloquia, Gerhard Mercator Kolleg Weltoffenheit, Toleranz und Gemeinsinn. University Duisburg-Essen, Germany. 12 May 2021. (online due to COVID-19). LINK.
Panel: Taking Responsibility for Colonial Heritage in Europe? Perspectives from Organisational Ethnographies. Convened together with Sharon Macdonald and Margareta von Oswald. Discussant: Henrietta Lidchi (National Museum of World Cultures, The Netherlands). Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA). St Andrews, Scotland. 30 March 2021. Online due to Covid-19. [LINK]
Online presentation: Museums and Choreographies of Difficult Heritage, book chapter presentation at book launch organised by Susanne Franco. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. 29 March 2021.
Presentation: “Phantom Palaces and Humboldtian Horizontalities” (with Professor Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Birmingham, UK). Book launch of De-Centring the City (UCL Press, 2020), edited and organised by Michal Murawski (UCL) and Jonathan Bach (New School). (online due to COVID-19). 26 March 2021.
Reading group presentation: 'Dis-Othering Diversity'. Presentation and discussion with reading circle hosted by Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov at Higher School of Economics, Moscow/Russia. 11 January 2021.
2020
Radio conversation: 'Museums as Crime Scenes II' with curator Natasha Ginwala, artist Folakunle Oshun, and sociologist Maria Berrios. Hosted and broadcast by cashmere radio berlin 88.4 and funded by the Goethe Institut as part of their series Latitude on Air. Link to the podcast available online. Berlin/Germany, 20 November 2020 (LINK).
Conversation (as organiser): ‘How do we come together in a world that isolates us?’ On Infrastructures, Commoning, and Para-Institutions’. Conversation with Prof Nora Sternfeld (HfbK, Hamburg) and Elena Agudio (SAVVY Contemporary) as part of the POSTHEIMAT Festival Encounter #5 hosted at TIER – The Institute of Endotic Research, Neukölln, Berlin/Germany. 30 October 2020. [LINK]
Discussant/presenter: Book panel on David Berliner’s Losing Our Culture (Rutgers), with Adeline Masquier and David Berliner. Glasgow Anthropology Network. 16 October 2020. [online due to COVID-19]. (LINK)
Symposium (co-convenor): ‘Tracing Fractures. Across Listening, Movement, Restitution, and Repair’. Symposium, with performances, sound pieces, and artworks commissioned for the day and organised on invitation by Manifesta Biennale 13 and the gallery of the institute of foreign cultural relations, Berlin. Marseille/France, 12 September 2020. [LINK]
Conference (co-organiser): ‘Concreteness and Universality in the Cultural and Social Sciences'. International Conference conceived with the Minor Universality Team at Villa Vigoni, German-Italian Study Centre for the European Dialogue. Funded by the European Research Council, Lago di Como, Italy. 2-6 September. [LINK]
Discussant/response to panel: ‘Re-conceptualizing colonial Heritage Through the Arts and Curating’ at Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), 5th Biennale Conference, University College London/UK, 20-24 August 2020. [online due to COVID-19]
Conference presentation: ‘DisOthering Diversity. Curating as institutional troubling’, in roundtable by Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH). Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), 5th Biennale Conference, University College London/UK, 20-24 August 2020. [online due to COVID-19)
Conference presentation: ‘Theatre, Chance, and the Ethnographic Encounter with the Exceptional’. Paper accepted in panel convened by Thomas Fillitz and Helena Wulff. European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Lisbon/Portugal. 20-25 July 2020. [online due to COVID-19]
Radio Conversation: “Museums as Crime Scenes”, Moderation and introduction to discussion with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung and Ariella Azoulay as part of the Goethe-Institut Festival Latitude on Air curated by Karina Griffiths and Elena Agudio, ACUD STUDIO and reboot.fm radio. Broadcast live on 88.4 fm Berlin, and hosted online. 6 June 2020. [LINK]
Panel discussion (as co-organiser): ‘(En)countering the future: Chances and Difficulties of Intersectional Artistic Work in Cultural Institutions’, moderated panel with Kenda Hmeidan, Elena Agudio, and Emre Erkan during the 4th Post-Heimat Network (*Bundeskulturstiftung des Bundes) Encounter, Maxim Gorki Theatre/Berlin. 6 March 2020.
Workshop moderation: ‘Aesthetics and Cultural Participation’. Evens Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels/Belgium. 11 February 2020.
Workshop conversation: ‘A digital museum of restitution’. Conversation with artist Emeka Ogboh. Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 22 January 2020.
Research colloquium: ‘Curating trouble: Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Art’. Public lecture in the lecture series Kunst Afrikas convened by Prof Tobias Wendl. Institute of Art History, Free Universität Berlin, Germany. 21 January 2020.
2019
Congress panel: ‘The post-anthropological: Convergences across museums, colonial legacies, and the curatorial’ (with Margareta von Oswald), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (Canada). 20-24 November 2019.
Conference presentation: ‘The Porosity of the Membrane: On District Curating, Contemporary Art, and Anthropology’. Part of panel: The post-anthropological: Convergences across museums, colonial legacies, and the curatorial’ (with Margareta von Oswald), American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (Canada). 20 November 2019.
Symposium (as co-organiser): ‘The trouble with art: Philistinism and Scepticism in the Anthropology of Art’, 2019 interim symposium of the Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART) Network of European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), convened with Prof Roger Sansi (Barcelona). Berlin/Germany. 20-22 September 2019.
Academy keynote: ‘The Double Presence of the Ruinous: Ancient Remains as Heritage and Failure’. Avtonomi Akadimia in Akadimia Platonos, Athens/Greece. 15 September 2019. [LINK]
Summer school keynote: ‘The Double Presence of the Ruinous: Ancient Remains as Heritage and Failure’. Ancient Theatre and the Political. Summer School organised by the Michael Cacoannis Foundation and the University of Bonn (Forum Internationale Wissenschaft), Athens/Greece, 13-19 September 2019.
Conference presentation: ‘We have never been postindustrial: On the irony of regeneration in industrial heritage’. On panel: ‘The Shadows of the Present: Generative Ambivalences Across Art, Heritage, and Materiality’ (Panel D09, convened by Dr Jonas Tinius and Dr Alice von Bieberstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth (ASA), University of East Anglia, UK. 3–6 September 2019. [LINK]
Conference panel (as co-organiser): ‘The Shadows of the Present: Generative Ambivalences Across Art, Heritage, and Materiality’ (Panel D09, convened with Dr Alice von Bieberstein, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and the Commonwealth (ASA), University of East Anglia, UK. 3–6 September 2019.
Symposium talk: ‘Political Fiction: Of Migrants, Theatre, and the Otherwise’. 23rdInternational Symposium in Phenomenology (‘L’Epreuve de l’Etranger. Translation, Migration, Resistance’), organised by Emmanuel Alloa, Delia Popa, and Shela Sheikh. Perugia/Italy. 7-13 July 2019.
Public dialogue: ‘Technoheritage and Restitution. A conversation between artist Nora Al-Badri and anthropologist Jonas Tinius’. Gallery of the Institute of Foreign Cultural Relations. Berlin/Germany. 13 June 2014. [LINK]
Conference: ‘Dis-Othering Diversity: Reflections on Anthropological Research with Artistic Surveys’, Race, Power and Culture. A critical look at Belgian cultural institutions. BOZAR, Brussels (Belgium). 22-24 May 2019.
Conference (as co-organiser): ‘Migration and Theatre: Towards a New Production Network on post-Heimat’, Inaugural Conference of the Production Network post-Heimat, funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany. 20-24 March 2019.
Opening conference input:‘Theatre & Migration: New Aesthetics and New Alliances’. Inaugural Conference of the Production Network post-Heimat funded by Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Theater an der Ruhr, Mülheim (Germany). 21 March 2018.
Public seminar (invited): ‘Aesthetics, Migration, and European identity’. PublicDemoS Network led by Prof Nilüfer Göle, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris/France, 1 March 2019. [LINK]
Panel discussion (invited): 'The Politics of Data' (transmediale Vorspiel). With artist Nora Al-Badri and CryptoParyBerlin. Volksbühne. Grüner Salon, Berlin/Germany. 1 February 2019. [LINK]
2018
Talk and roundtable (invited):‘Monde de l’art contemporain, partage du sensible, et passions identitaires en Europe et la Meditérranée’, 2eme Forum Franco-Allemand de la Méditerranée, Aix-en-Provence et Marseille, organisé par Sciences Po Aix, IMéRA Marseille, CFAP, et Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Aix-en-Provence et Marseille/France, 21-22 November 2018. [LINK]
Guest lecture, book launch, and seminar (invited): ‚Andere kuratorische Praktiken - Rethinking museums and heritage’. ‚educating, curating, managing’ (ecm) Masterlehrgang für Ausstellungstheorie & Praxis, University of Applied Arts & Workshop at Weltmuseum, Vienna/Austria. 16-17 November 2018.
Symposium (invited): ‘Ethnografie und Methode’. Doing Theory. Theaterforschung unn ästhetische Praxis. Studiobühne (Münchener Theaterwissenschaft), Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Munich/Germany, 26-27 October 2018.
Symposium presentation (invited): ‘Temporality, Ontology, and Contemporary Art’ (in conversation with curator and artist Wura Natasha-Ogunji) as part of Goethe-Institute Brazil funded symposium ‘Art beyond the horizon: rethinking the meridian of aesthetics and politics’. Sao Paulo Biennale of Contemporary Art. PIVÔ, São Paulo, Brazil. 28-29 September 2018.
Chair (invited): ‘Beast of No Nation (B.O.N.N.) - Gastropolitics and Migration Roundtable with Emeka Ogboh, Carrie Hampel, Regina Römhild’, opening of UP Symposium in the framework of the bi-annual curatorial programme Unsustainable Privileges(UP), curated by Solvej Helveg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Gallerie Wedding, Berlin-Wedding/Germany. 26-30 September 2018.
Panel (as organiser): ‘Time and Tradition: Theorising the temporalities in and of cultural production’ (convened with Prof Georgina Born), ASA 2018, University of Oxford, UK. 18-21 September 2018. [LINK]
Workshop (as organiser): ‘Anthropology, Art, and Alterity’. Two-day symposium funded by CARMAH and hosted by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in collaboration with SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/Germany, 13-14 September 2018. [LINK & FULL PROGRAMME]
Art fair talk (invited): 'Is culture something you own or something you share?' CHART (Copenhagen Art Fair - leading Nordic Art Fair) talk series organised and invited by ArtForum, Konsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen/Denmark, 3 September 2018. [LINK]
Discussant (invited): ‘Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts, Design and Literature’ (convened by Prof Helena Wulff and Prof Thomas Fillitz). Biannual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Stockholm/Sweden. 14–17 August 2018. [LINK]
Network Panel (as organiser): ‘Art and Nativism’ (Anthropology and the Arts – ANTART – Panel)’, convened with Roger Sansi (Barcelona). Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Stockholm/Sweden, 14-17 August 2018.
Conference/Humboldt Kolleg (as organiser) : “Anthropology and Performance Studies”, convened with Prof Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern) and Prof Lye Tuck-Po (Universiti Sains Malaysia). Funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Wenner Gren Foundation. Penang/Malaysia, 6-10 August 2018.
Conference (as organiser): ‘CARMAH Research Encounter #1’. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin/Germany, 6 July 2018.
Conference presentation: ‘Collections, Colonialism, and the Curatorial’ (with Larissa Förster and Margareta von Oswald). CARMAH Research Encounter #1. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin/Germany, 6 July 2018.
Discussant (invited): ‘The Humboldt Forum and Contemporary Art’ (presentation on Asian Art Museum in Humboldt Forum by director Klaas Ruitenbeck).Dismantling Neo-Empire: Asia-Pacific. two-day workshop at HKW and ICI. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin/Germany. 21 June 2018.
Conference Presentation(invited): ‘Transforming the Ethnographic: Anthropology, Museums, and Colonialism’ (with Margareta von Oswald and Larissa Förster). Exchanging Perspectives: Anthropologies, Museum Collections, and Colonial Legacies between Paris and Berlin. CARMAH & Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin/Germany. 6–8 June 2018.
Panel presentation: ‘The Culture State: German Theatre, Bildung, and Political Self-Cultivation’. Panel 065: ‘The State of the Art’ (convened by Dr Michał Murawski and Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov) at ‘Art, Materiality, and Representation’, Major Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, British Museum/SOAS, London/UK. 1-3 June 2018. [LINK]
Panel (as organiser): ‘The Future of Anthropological Representation: Contemporary Art and/in the Ethnographic Museum’. Chair and Convenor of Panel at Royal Anthropological Institute Major Conference ‘Art, Materiality, and Representation’, British Museum/SOAS, London/UK. 1-3 June 2018. [Link to CfP]
Conference (as organiser): ‘Post-Heimat: Migration, Theatre, and Diversity’, Münchener Kammerspiele, Munich/Germany. 25-27 May 2018.
Conference presentation (invited): ‘Mediating Wanderlust:: Exoticism, Exploration, and the Public Humboldt Forum’, colloque «Anthropologie et tourisme» (organised by Frédéric Keck and Rupert Stasch), Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris/France, 24-25 May 2018.
Workshop presentation (invited): ‘"In the midst of darkness, I called you" (Orpheus): Interstitial agency and postmigrant theatre in Germany’.PublicDemoS Research Group. EHESS, Paris/France. 18 May 2018.
Public discussion (as organiser): ‘Gallery reflection #5 Reflecting Reflections’ (with Alya Sebti), ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 16 May 2018.
Seminar series/Institutskolloquium (as organiser): “Conjectures and Creations: Anthropological Transformations / Transformations of Anthropology”. Co-organiser with Prof Sharon Macdonald and Prof Tahani Nadim of weekly Institutskolloquium (faculty seminar series, 17 in total) for the Centre of Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. SS 2018 (April-July 2018).
Public Discussion (as organiser): ‘Gallery reflection #4: ‘Protesting Identities’ (with Dr Azadeh Sharifi, Natasha Ginwala, Candice Breitz), ACUD Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 15 March 2018. (LINK)
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Gastvortrag in Allgemeiner und Vergleichender Theaterwissenschaft (invited): ‘‚Deep Hanging Out’: Über anthropologische Feldforschung und zeitgenössische Kunst’, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main/Germany. 23 January 2018. [LINK]
Ringvorlesung (invited): ‘Je est un autre.' Ein anthropologischer Blick auf Fiktion, Identität und Alterität in der darstellenden Kunst’, in: Ringvorlesung ‘Tiere, Maschinen und andere Menschen. Zur anthropologischen Kritik in den Künsten, Freie-Universität Berlin / Free University Berlin. 9 January 2018.
2017
Public Dialogue (invited): 'Décolonisons nos réflexions/Decolonise our reflections' (with Alya Sebti). Part of EHESS Art-Anthropology residency programme 'Concrete Mirror' by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn and Noara Quintana. La Colonie, Paris/France. 5 December 2017.
Workshop (as organiser): Ethnografisches (Be)Schreiben in den Künsten – Methodenerweiterung’, Sonderveranstaltung (Blockseminar) für Mittelbauangehörige des Instituts für Theaterwissenschaft, Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin/Germany, 26 November 2017.
Panelist (invited): ‘Sie verlassen jetzt den künstlerischen Sektor, oder: Der Trend zur Nützlichkeit / You are now leaving the artistic sector, or: On the trend towards usefulness in art’. Mit ALICE CREISCHER [Künstlerin, Berlin], MARIA-SIBYLLA LOTTER [Philosophin, Universität Bochum], MICHAEL LÜTHY [Kunsthistoriker, Universität Weimar], JONAS TINIUS [Anthropologe, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin]. Im Rahmen des UdK- Einsteinprojekts Autonomie und Funktionalisierung. ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin/Germany. 24 November 2017.
Presentation and chair (invited): ‘Anthropology, Museums, and Diversity’. Diversity. Jahrestagung des Landesverbandes der Museen Berlin e.V., organised by Diversity.Arts.Culture – Berliner Projektbüro für Diversitätsentwicklung, Landesverband der Museen Berlin, and Museumsdienst Berlin. Märkisches Museum, Berlin/Germany. 20 November 2017.
Public Discussion (as organiser): ‘Gallery reflection # 3: Art and (New) Intersectional Feminisms’ (with Prof Alanna Lockward, Prof Kathy-Ann Tan, and Federica Bueti), ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 16 November 2017. [Link to video]
Department Seminar (invited): ‘Back to the Future Heritage: On Palatial Space and Anthropological Collaboration’, Anthropology Department, University of Manchester, Manchester/UK. 13 November 2017.
Festival Moderation (invited): Chair and discussant of two panels (‘Borderlessness’ and ‘Roots and Foresight’), Nordwind Platform and Festival for Performing Arts & Music on African and Nordic Artistic Positions, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/Germany. 7-11 November 2017.
Chair and discussant (invited): Chair and discussant of opening keynote speech and panel discussions with Dr Christina Johansson (Malmö University, Sweden), Léontine Meijer-van Mensch (Jewish Museum Berlin), and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński (Vienna Academy of Fine Arts). Future Memories. Remembrance Culture(s) of Migration Society, three-day workshop in cooperation with the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (Technical University Berlin), W.M. Blumenthal Academy, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 26-28 September 2017. [Link to Video]
Chair and discussant (invited): Chair and discussant of closing panel discussion of exhibition Cabinet of the Unknown / Cabinet d’Ignorance with curators Dr. Michael Korey (Dresden) and Ece Pazarbasi (International Fellow Curator, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Istanbul/Berlin), Museum der Dinge/Museum of Things, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany. 25 September 2017.
Keynote (invited): Ethnography of the Arts: Perspectives on Theatre and Beyond’. Ethnographie der Künste, Künste der Ethnographie. Summer School at Villa Arson, jointly organised by FU Berlin and Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, 17-24 September 2017, Nice/France.
Tagung (invited): ‘Das Politische in der Kunst: Anthropologische Betrachtungen’, Sektion VIII: Kunst-Medien-Politik, geleitet von Prof Christian Grüny, ‘Die Phänomenologie und das Politische’, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phänomenologischen Forschung, Institut für Philosophie, FernUniversität in Hagen/Deutschland. 13-16 September 2017.
Workshop (invited): ‘Anthropologie in/und/mit künstlerischer Praxis: Zur Ethnografie als Methode’. Eingeladener Beitrag im Workshop Aufführungsanalyse vs. Ethnographie? Zur Transdisziplinarität von Analysemethoden in der Theaterwissenschaft, Institut für Film-, Theater- und empirischer Kulturwissenschaft (IFTeK), Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz/Germany. 13 September 2017.
Public Discussion (as organiser): Gallery reflection #2: ‘Traces, Legacies, and Futures: On Art and Colonial Temporalities’ (with Prof Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Nora Al-Badri, Silvy Chakkalakal), ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 7 September 2017.
Alumni Lecture and Workshop (invited): ’Anthropology in/and/of/with Art: Thoughts on Theatre and Contemporary Art’, Annual Summer Institute Cologne [SIC!] organised by Prof Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern) and Prof. Peter W. Marx (Cologne), Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (Schloss Wahn), Institut für Medienkultur und Theater, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne, Cologne/Germany. 5 September 2017.
Lecture (invited): ‘Parrhesia and Autopoiesis: Speaking (about) oneself as alternative political becoming’. Invited lecture at the Porphyra Club as part of the interdisciplinary exhibition project Born in the Purple by Berlin-Istanbul-based artist Viron Erol Vert, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Kommunale Galerien Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin/Germany. 17 August 2017.
Conference (as organiser): 'Otherwise. Rethinking Museums and Heritage'. Conference co-convenor and panel chair: 'Alterity'. First major conference of the Making Differences in Berlin organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMaH), Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 26-28 July 2017.
Seminar (as organiser): ‘Museum, University, and Science: Epistemic Transfers across Institutions’ (with Dr Fred von Bose, Curator Humboldt-Lab, Humboldt-Forum, Prof emer. Joachim Kallinich, PD Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz, Margareta von Oswald), faculty seminar, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 11 July 2017.
Symposium (invited): ‘Anthropology and/as the Study of Everything? A Personal Story’, The School of Everything, part of the documenta14 public programme, convened at the Parliament of Bodies, Athens/Greece. 6-7 July 2017.
Forum (invited): ‘From Art to Anthropology and back: Encounters, Exchanges, and Frictions’. 2017 Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Company of Ideas Forum, Hornby Island, British Columbia/Canada. 26-28 June 2017.
Roundtable/Forum (as organiser): 'Academic Careers in Anthropology’ Meeting: Perspectives on/from the US, UK, and Germany with Prof Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Anthropology, Rutgers, US), Prof Hansjörg Dilger (Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin), Prof Sharon Macdonald (CARMAH/IfEE, HU), Prof Jörg Niewöhner (IfEE, HU). Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 20 June 2017
Seminar (invited): ‚Anthropologisch denken/arbeiten/schreiben in/mitdurch Kunst: Ethnografische Annäherungen an Theater und kuratorische Praxis’, Vortrag im Rahmen der Seminarreihe Kunst und Wissenschaft (Prof Mieke Matzke und Prof Mathias Rebstock), Institut für Medien, Theater und populäre Kultur, Universität Hildesheim/Germany. 14 June 2017.
Symposium (invited): ‘Anthropology as/and the Study of Everything? Paradoxes, Potentials, and Pitfalls’, The School of Everything at the documenta14. Part of the aneducation public programme of documenta 14. Nachrichtenmeisterei KMMN, Kulturbahnhof of Kunsthochschule Kassel. Kassel/Germany. 11-13 June 2017.
Artist talk and book launch: 'Bare Lives' (with Solvej Ovesen, Mario Rizzi, Charlotte Bank, Ramy Al Asheq), Chaired moderation, artist talk, and book presentation for Mario Rizzi's Bare Lives exhibition as part of the annual programme Unsustainable Privileges at the Galerie Wedding, Müllerstraße, Berlin/Germany. 1 June 2017. [Link]
Seminar: 'Observing as method: some thoughts from the arts and sciences'. Faculty Seminar with Prof Jörg Niewöhner (HU Berlin) and Prof Jens Roselt (Hildesheim), Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 16 May 2017. [Link]
Series of Public Conversations: 'Urban Decolonisation and Diasporic Formations' (with Dr Noa Ha, Hyunsin Kim, and Trang Tran Thu), Opening session of 'Gallery Reflections' series for the annual programme 'Untie to Tie: On Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies' at the gallery of the Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) 2017-2018, ifa-gallery, Linienstraße Berlin/Germany. 4 May 2017. [Link]
Seminar series (SS 2017): 'Modes of Relating: Methodologies for/in a contemporary anthropology'. Introduction to weekly Institutskolloquium (faculty seminar series), co-organised with Dr Martina Klausner for the Centre of Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 18 April 2017 / SS 2017 (April-July) [Link]
Public lecture: ‘Flucht und Traum: Überlegungen zur politischen Rolle der Fiktion’ (mit Alexander Weinstock, Institut für Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität zu Köln). Dezentrale, Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr/Germany. 15 April 2017. [LINK]
Faculty Seminar (invited): ‘A contemporary anthropology of theatre: tradition, expertise, and self-cultivation'’. Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews/Scotland. 13 April 2017. [Link]
Workshop (invited): ‘Design, Urban Planning, and the Curatorial: On museum and heritage constellations in contemporary Berlin’. Design & Anthropology Workshop, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge/USA. 3-4 April 2017.
Poster: ‘Puzzling Homes: Narrating European crisis and future heritage’ (with Tal Adler and Anna Szöke). 13th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Congress. Ways of Dwelling, Crisis – Craft – Creativity. Göttingen/Germany. 26-30 March 2016.
Congress: ‘Momentary Dwellers: Experimental art-ethnography collaborations and sensory research’, 13th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Congress. Ways of Dwelling, Crisis – Craft – Creativity. Göttingen/Germany. 26-30 March 2016.
Congress (invited): ‘FUTURE PERFECT: A Dialogue on Precarity, Mobility, and Temporality' (with Wanja van Suntum, cobratheater.cobra). Work with/out borders. Precarity and the performing arts conference, organized by Prof Katharina Pewny et al., Performing Arts & Media, Department of Art Studies, Ghent University/Belgium. 18-19 March 2017.
Keynote (invited): ‘Die Figur des Geflüchteten: Perspektiven zum nicht-dokumentarischen Theater’ (mit Alexander Weinstock, Institut für Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität zu Köln). VHS-Forum, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Köln. 21. Februar 2017.
Conference (invited): ‘Ethnography as method in theatre studies?’ Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft, Konferenz organisiert von Prof Christopher Balme, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, LMU Munich/Germany. 3-4 February 2017. (Link)
Roundtable: ‘Design, failure, and the globalization of risk’. Moderated discussion with Prof Arjun Appadurai (NYU) and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/Germany. 10 January 2017.
2016
Faculty Seminar: ‘Ethnographies of Curating/the Curatorial’ (with Margareta von Oswald, Christine Gerbich, Franka Schneider, Anna Schäffler). Faculty Seminar/Institutskolloquium, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 13 December 2016.
Seminar (invited): ‘Reviewer meets reviewed’ (with Dr Roger Sansi). Seminar at the British Museum, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London/UK. 17 November 2016.
Seminar: ‘Migration und Theater. Einige Beobachtungen zu reflexiven, künstlerischen Institutionen’ (Migration and theatre. Some observations about reflexive artistic institutions). Seminar Series (Institutskolloquium), Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. 15 November 2016.
Congress: ‘Zwischen Sozialarbeit und Kunst: Das Theaterprojekt RUHRORTER mit Geflüchteten.’ 30. Bundestagung des Bundesverbands Theaterpädagogik e.V. Eberswalde/Germany, 28.-30.10.2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Vom Informanten zum Zeitgenossen: Expertise im Kontext der künstlerischen Arbeit mit Transkulturalität und Migration am Beispiel der Feldforschung mit Theater’. Das transkulturelle Klassenzimmer: Dinge umordnen, Erfahrungen übersetzen, Bedeutungen verändern. Konferenz des Verbundprojektes “Mobile Welten. Zur Migration von Dingen in transkulturellen Gesellschaften” (BMBF), organised by Dr Sophia Prinz and Roger M. Buergel in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg/Germany. 6–7 October 2016.
Congress (invited): ‘Ethnografisches Forschen in der Kunst’. Workshop at cobratheater.cobra performing arts festival, Uferstudios, Berlin-Wedding/Berlin. 23-24 September 2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Cultivating character: detachment in theatre and German society’. Anthropology of Character conference organised by Dr Adam Reed. Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews/Scotland. 1-2 September 2016.
Conference (discussant): 'The Art of Slowing Down' (P086), at EASA 2016 (Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists), Milan, 20-23 July 2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Appropriating Universal Centrality: Containing the World in Berlin’s new Humboldt Forum’ (with Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll). ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’? New Monumentality, Neo-Modernism and Other Zombie Urban Utopias conference and exhibition hosted by the UCL SSEES FRINGE Centre, The Calvert 22 Gallery, the UCL Grand Challenges Fund and the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London/ UK, organised by Dr Michal Murawski (UCL) and Dr Jonathan Bach (New School, NYU), 10-11 June 2016.
As organiser: Seminar: ‘On Detachment and Relations’. Chaired discussion with Prof Hallvard Lillehammer (Philosophy, Birkbeck) and Dr Matei Candea (Anthropology, Cambridge) at the Centre for Research of the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge/UK. 25 April 2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Rehearsing conduct and gesture: notes on art as ethical practice’. The Ethics of Gesture conference organised by Dr Lucia Ruprecht at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge/UK. 16 April 2016. Keynote: Prof Rebecca Schneider (Brown/USA).
Conference (invited): ‘Engaging art: urban diversity, public institutions, and the ‘refugee crisis’’.Experiencing Difference and Diversity in Contemporary Germany conference organised by Prof Sharon Macdonald and Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock. Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin/Germany. 14-16 April 2016.
2015
As organiser: Workshop: Re-Theorising the Avant-Garde. Co-convened with Prof Georgina Born (Music & Anthropology, Oxford) and Dr Chris Haworth (Music, Oxford). King’s College, University of Cambridge/UK. 12 December 2015. Keynote: Prof Branden W. Joseph (Columbia, NY).
Chair: ‘From the 1990s to the Contemporary: Experiments, Laboratories, Exchanges’ (papers by Roger Sansi, Stephen Graham, Luke Skrebowski). Retheorising the Avant-garde Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 11 December 2016. King’s College, University of Cambridge/UK.
Conference (invited): ‘Observing Art: On performance, prisms, and reflexivity'. Dritter Branchentreff des Landesverband der freien darstellenden Künste. Performing Arts Programm Berlin. Aufbauhaus, Moritzplatz, Berlin. 9 October 2015. [Eng. Third Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Industry 2015 Berlin. [Click here to download talk]
Conference: 'Das Werk der Kunst: Arbeit, Kreativität und Postfordismus'. Vortrag auf der 7. Arbeitstagung 'Ästhetisierung der Arbeit – Kulturanalytische Perspektiven' der Kommission »Arbeitskulturen« in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv). Bonn, Germany. 24-26 Sept.
As organiser: Workshop: Contemporary Anthropologies of Art. Co-convened with Dr Alex Flynn (Anthropology, Durham). Department of Anthropology, University of Durham/UK. 8 September 2015. Keynote: Prof Arnd Schneider (Anthropology, Oslo).
Conference: ‘‘Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit’: Labour, Conduct, and Frames in Harun Farocki’s short-film project’. German Screen Studies Network Conference. University of Cambridge/UK, 9-11 July 2015.
As organiser: Panel: ‘Micro-Utopias: Exploring Connections in Anthropology, Relationality, and Creativity’. Co-convened with Dr Ruy Blanes (Bergen), Dr Maïté Maskens (Brussels), Dr Alex Flynn (Durham). 12th SIEF Congress. Zagreb/Croatia, 21-25 June 2015.
Conference: ‘The impossible political utopia: refugee theatre and engagement’. 12th SIEF Congress. Zagreb/Croatia, 21-25 June 2015.
Conference (invited): ‘Anthropology of Creative Institutions’, New Approaches to the Anthropology of Art. Barcelona/Spain, 10-12 June 2015.
As organiser: Conference: Creative Labour(er). Anthropological Perspectives on the Work of Art. King’s College, University of Cambridge/UK, 8 June 2015. Keynote: Prof Georgina Born (Music, Oxford).
Chair (invited): The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas. Organised by Prof Patrick Baert and Dr Marcus Morgan at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), 29 May 2015.
Lecture (invited): ‘The Work of Art: Anthropology, Labour, and Postfordism’. Emerging Scholar Lecture, Cambridge University Student Anthropology Society. Cambridge/UK, 7 May 2015.
Conference (invited): ‘(Per)forming new artistic institutions: Ensemble labour, rehearsals, and international travel at the German Theater an der Ruhr’. The Socio-aesthetic issues of the modes of organisation and creation in the performing arts. International Conference. Université Lumière-Lyon 2 & Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3/France, 1-3 April 2015
Chair (invited): The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas. Prof Patrick Baert and Dr Marcus Morgan. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities/UK, 29 May 2015.
As Organiser: Conference: ‘The Concept of Performance’. The First Cambridge Free for all on performance as an interdisciplinary concept. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. 23 April 2015.
Seminar: ‘The Work of Art’, King’s College Graduate Seminar. Cambridge/UK, 13 March 2015.
Seminar: ‘Drama(turgy) of Ideas: Institutions, Prisms, and Intellectuals', joint seminar with Prof Patrick Baert, and Dr Marcus Morgan, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, 2 March 2015.
Discussant (invited): Arbeitstreffen Cobratheater, Fundus Theatre, Hamburg, Germany, 21- 22 February 2015.
As organiser: Workshop: Performing Laboratories. (with Civic Matters Faculty Research Group and Wenzel Geissler), CRASSH. 19 January 2015
Workshop: ‘Behind the scenes: Cultivating Haltung in theatre’. Workshop 'Making a Scene!' With Professor W. Marx, King’s College, 12 January 2015.
As organiser: Symposium: Making a Scene! An International Symposium on an Interdisciplinary Concept, King’s College, Cambridge/UK, 12 January 2015. Keynote: Prof Peter W. Marx (Media Culture and Theatre, Cologne, Germany).
2014
As organiser: Conference: The Politics of Framing and Staging: Performance as Paradigm II. Centre for Research of the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge/UK. 8 December 2014 (with Dr Zoe Svendsen, Dr Clare Foster, Floris Schuiling). Keynote: Prof Joe Kelleher (Theatre, Roehampton).
Conference: ' State of the Art Exception – Refugee Theatre and the aesthetics of Absence'. Paper presentation at panel 'Who declares the end of emergency? Temporalities of precariousness after extreme events.' Producing Anthropology. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 3-7 December 2014. Washington, D.C./USA. 6 December 2014.
Conference Presentation (invited): '(Per)forming a theatre: when an institution is put on trial' at 'Institutionen auf Probe - Institutions on Trial'-Tagung an der Universität Hildesheim in Kooperation mit der Jungen Akademie, organisiert von Prof. Annemarie Matzke und Dr. Pirkko Husemann. Hildesheim, Deutschland. 14 - 16 November 2014.
Conference (invited): ‘(Per)forming a theatre: when an institution is put on trial. Symposium Institutionen auf Probe - Institutions on Trial', organised by Prof Annemarie Matzke and Dr Pirkko Husemann, University Hildesheim/Germany, 14-16 November 2014.
Chair: 'Creativity and Capitalism: Opponents or allies?'. Seminar with Susan Bayly (Cambridge) and Eleonora Belfiore (Warwick). Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network Seminar Series, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge/UK. 27 Oct 2014.
Conference (invited): ‘Authority, Ethics and Reflexivity: How refugee theatre engages political aesthetics'. Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe. British Academy Regional Event. University of Cambridge/UK, 19-20 September 2014.
Conference: ‘Creativity, Ethics, Patronage and the anthropologies of art’. Anthropologies of Art Panel (200) convened by Roger Sansi. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference 2014,. Talinn/Estonia. 3 August 2014.
Conference: ‘The Unethical Aesthetic. Provenance, patronage & the Gurlitt case’. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Talinn/Estonia, 2 August 2014.
As organiser: Panel: ‘Relational Patrons: Perspectives on intimate and transnational art collaborations’ (with Dr Alex Flynn). European Association of Social Anthropology Conference 2014. Talinn/Estonia, 2 August 2014.
2013
Workshop (invited): ‚Rimini Protokolls ‚Situation Rooms’: Zwischen teilnehmender Beobachtung, multiplayer gaming und Dokumentartheater’. Workshop Reihe STAGE (Games Studies und Theaterwissenschaft), #02 Protokolle. Institut für Medienkultur und Theatre, Universität zu Köln/Germany, 18 October 2013.
Congress: ‘Bastardos of all countries unite! On international theatre exchange and an aesthetics of transformation’. 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. University of Manchester/UK, 9 August 2013.
As organiser: Panel: ‘All the World’s a Stage: The Social and Political Potentialities of Theatre and Performance’ (with Dr Alex Flynn). 13th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. University of Manchester/UK, 9 August 2013.
Guest lecture (invited): ‘I am a man of this world and a brother to all: the international theatrelandscapes project of the German Theater an der Ruhr’, Performing Landscapes and Identities Colloquium, Community Engagement and the Arts (IPAD colloquia series), University of East London, 19 July 2013.
Workshop (invited): ‘Germany’s Cultural Capital: Art Patronage, Dramaturgy, and Pedagogy’. Summer Institute Cologne [sic!]. Techniques of the Imagination. Convenors: Professor Peter M. Marx and Professor Tracy C. Davis. Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Schloss Wahn, Institute for Media Culture and Theatre, University of Cologne/Germany, 13 July 2013.
Conference: ‘Artistic Critique and Patronage in Germany: Between Free and Sacred Theatre’, 7th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium: ‘Culture in Crisis’, Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group, Goldsmiths, University of London/UK, 31 May, 2013.
Conference Presentation: ‘Reperformance and Tradition’. Beyond the Ontology of the Text. Performance as Paradigm, Past and Present. Conference, Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge/UK, 16 April 2013.
Conference Presentation: ‘Dramaturgical reflexion and theatrical action: philosophy, text, and performance’. What is Performance Philosophy? Staging a new Field. Conference, University of Surrey/UK, 12 April, 2013.
As organiser: Panel: Performance as a theoretical angle of approach (with Clare Foster). What is Performance Philosophy? Staging a new Field. Conference, 13 April 2013, Surrey/UK.
Seminar Presentation: ‘Patronage and Crisis: German Theater and Cultural Politics’. German Graduate Research Seminar. University of Cambridge/UK.
Seminar Presentation: ‘Theatre is no translation workshop’: On dramaturgy and the relation between theory, practice and reperformance. HSPS Graduate Seminar Series. Sociology Department, University of Cambridge/UK.
As organiser: Workshop: Anthropology, Performance, and Theatre. English Faculty, Cambridge/UK, 2 March 2013. Keynote: Prof Annemarie Matzke (Media, Theatre, and Popular Culture, Hildesheim, Germany).
2012
Workshop Presentation: ‘Rehearsing improvisation: processes of theatrical production’, Performance workshop, Drama Graduate Seminar Series, English Faculty, University of Cambridge.
Talk and roundtable (invited):‘Monde de l’art contemporain, partage du sensible, et passions identitaires en Europe et la Meditérranée’, 2eme Forum Franco-Allemand de la Méditerranée, Aix-en-Provence et Marseille, organisé par Sciences Po Aix, IMéRA Marseille, CFAP, et Konrad Adenauer Stiftung. Aix-en-Provence et Marseille/France, 21-22 November 2018. [LINK]
Guest lecture, book launch, and seminar (invited): ‚Andere kuratorische Praktiken - Rethinking museums and heritage’. ‚educating, curating, managing’ (ecm) Masterlehrgang für Ausstellungstheorie & Praxis, University of Applied Arts & Workshop at Weltmuseum, Vienna/Austria. 16-17 November 2018.
Symposium (invited): ‘Ethnografie und Methode’. Doing Theory. Theaterforschung unn ästhetische Praxis. Studiobühne (Münchener Theaterwissenschaft), Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Munich/Germany, 26-27 October 2018.
Symposium presentation (invited): ‘Temporality, Ontology, and Contemporary Art’ (in conversation with curator and artist Wura Natasha-Ogunji) as part of Goethe-Institute Brazil funded symposium ‘Art beyond the horizon: rethinking the meridian of aesthetics and politics’. Sao Paulo Biennale of Contemporary Art. PIVÔ, São Paulo, Brazil. 28-29 September 2018.
Chair (invited): ‘Beast of No Nation (B.O.N.N.) - Gastropolitics and Migration Roundtable with Emeka Ogboh, Carrie Hampel, Regina Römhild’, opening of UP Symposium in the framework of the bi-annual curatorial programme Unsustainable Privileges(UP), curated by Solvej Helveg Ovesen and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, Gallerie Wedding, Berlin-Wedding/Germany. 26-30 September 2018.
Panel (as organiser): ‘Time and Tradition: Theorising the temporalities in and of cultural production’ (convened with Prof Georgina Born), ASA 2018, University of Oxford, UK. 18-21 September 2018. [LINK]
Workshop (as organiser): ‘Anthropology, Art, and Alterity’. Two-day symposium funded by CARMAH and hosted by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in collaboration with SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/Germany, 13-14 September 2018. [LINK & FULL PROGRAMME]
Art fair talk (invited): 'Is culture something you own or something you share?' CHART (Copenhagen Art Fair - leading Nordic Art Fair) talk series organised and invited by ArtForum, Konsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen/Denmark, 3 September 2018. [LINK]
Discussant (invited): ‘Aesthetic Encounters: The Politics of Moving and (Un)settling Visual Arts, Design and Literature’ (convened by Prof Helena Wulff and Prof Thomas Fillitz). Biannual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Stockholm/Sweden. 14–17 August 2018. [LINK]
Network Panel (as organiser): ‘Art and Nativism’ (Anthropology and the Arts – ANTART – Panel)’, convened with Roger Sansi (Barcelona). Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Stockholm/Sweden, 14-17 August 2018.
Conference/Humboldt Kolleg (as organiser) : “Anthropology and Performance Studies”, convened with Prof Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern) and Prof Lye Tuck-Po (Universiti Sains Malaysia). Funded by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and Wenner Gren Foundation. Penang/Malaysia, 6-10 August 2018.
Conference (as organiser): ‘CARMAH Research Encounter #1’. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin/Germany, 6 July 2018.
Conference presentation: ‘Collections, Colonialism, and the Curatorial’ (with Larissa Förster and Margareta von Oswald). CARMAH Research Encounter #1. Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin/Germany, 6 July 2018.
Discussant (invited): ‘The Humboldt Forum and Contemporary Art’ (presentation on Asian Art Museum in Humboldt Forum by director Klaas Ruitenbeck).Dismantling Neo-Empire: Asia-Pacific. two-day workshop at HKW and ICI. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin/Germany. 21 June 2018.
Conference Presentation(invited): ‘Transforming the Ethnographic: Anthropology, Museums, and Colonialism’ (with Margareta von Oswald and Larissa Förster). Exchanging Perspectives: Anthropologies, Museum Collections, and Colonial Legacies between Paris and Berlin. CARMAH & Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin/Germany. 6–8 June 2018.
Panel presentation: ‘The Culture State: German Theatre, Bildung, and Political Self-Cultivation’. Panel 065: ‘The State of the Art’ (convened by Dr Michał Murawski and Dr Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov) at ‘Art, Materiality, and Representation’, Major Conference of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, British Museum/SOAS, London/UK. 1-3 June 2018. [LINK]
Panel (as organiser): ‘The Future of Anthropological Representation: Contemporary Art and/in the Ethnographic Museum’. Chair and Convenor of Panel at Royal Anthropological Institute Major Conference ‘Art, Materiality, and Representation’, British Museum/SOAS, London/UK. 1-3 June 2018. [Link to CfP]
Conference (as organiser): ‘Post-Heimat: Migration, Theatre, and Diversity’, Münchener Kammerspiele, Munich/Germany. 25-27 May 2018.
Conference presentation (invited): ‘Mediating Wanderlust:: Exoticism, Exploration, and the Public Humboldt Forum’, colloque «Anthropologie et tourisme» (organised by Frédéric Keck and Rupert Stasch), Musée du Quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, Paris/France, 24-25 May 2018.
Workshop presentation (invited): ‘"In the midst of darkness, I called you" (Orpheus): Interstitial agency and postmigrant theatre in Germany’.PublicDemoS Research Group. EHESS, Paris/France. 18 May 2018.
Public discussion (as organiser): ‘Gallery reflection #5 Reflecting Reflections’ (with Alya Sebti), ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 16 May 2018.
Seminar series/Institutskolloquium (as organiser): “Conjectures and Creations: Anthropological Transformations / Transformations of Anthropology”. Co-organiser with Prof Sharon Macdonald and Prof Tahani Nadim of weekly Institutskolloquium (faculty seminar series, 17 in total) for the Centre of Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. SS 2018 (April-July 2018).
Public Discussion (as organiser): ‘Gallery reflection #4: ‘Protesting Identities’ (with Dr Azadeh Sharifi, Natasha Ginwala, Candice Breitz), ACUD Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 15 March 2018. (LINK)
Friedrich-Hölderlin-Gastvortrag in Allgemeiner und Vergleichender Theaterwissenschaft (invited): ‘‚Deep Hanging Out’: Über anthropologische Feldforschung und zeitgenössische Kunst’, Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaften, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main/Germany. 23 January 2018. [LINK]
Ringvorlesung (invited): ‘Je est un autre.' Ein anthropologischer Blick auf Fiktion, Identität und Alterität in der darstellenden Kunst’, in: Ringvorlesung ‘Tiere, Maschinen und andere Menschen. Zur anthropologischen Kritik in den Künsten, Freie-Universität Berlin / Free University Berlin. 9 January 2018.
2017
Public Dialogue (invited): 'Décolonisons nos réflexions/Decolonise our reflections' (with Alya Sebti). Part of EHESS Art-Anthropology residency programme 'Concrete Mirror' by Alex Ungprateeb Flynn and Noara Quintana. La Colonie, Paris/France. 5 December 2017.
Workshop (as organiser): Ethnografisches (Be)Schreiben in den Künsten – Methodenerweiterung’, Sonderveranstaltung (Blockseminar) für Mittelbauangehörige des Instituts für Theaterwissenschaft, Fachbereich Philosophie und Geisteswissenschaften, Freie Universität Berlin/Germany, 26 November 2017.
Panelist (invited): ‘Sie verlassen jetzt den künstlerischen Sektor, oder: Der Trend zur Nützlichkeit / You are now leaving the artistic sector, or: On the trend towards usefulness in art’. Mit ALICE CREISCHER [Künstlerin, Berlin], MARIA-SIBYLLA LOTTER [Philosophin, Universität Bochum], MICHAEL LÜTHY [Kunsthistoriker, Universität Weimar], JONAS TINIUS [Anthropologe, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin]. Im Rahmen des UdK- Einsteinprojekts Autonomie und Funktionalisierung. ACUD MACHT NEU, Berlin/Germany. 24 November 2017.
Presentation and chair (invited): ‘Anthropology, Museums, and Diversity’. Diversity. Jahrestagung des Landesverbandes der Museen Berlin e.V., organised by Diversity.Arts.Culture – Berliner Projektbüro für Diversitätsentwicklung, Landesverband der Museen Berlin, and Museumsdienst Berlin. Märkisches Museum, Berlin/Germany. 20 November 2017.
Public Discussion (as organiser): ‘Gallery reflection # 3: Art and (New) Intersectional Feminisms’ (with Prof Alanna Lockward, Prof Kathy-Ann Tan, and Federica Bueti), ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 16 November 2017. [Link to video]
Department Seminar (invited): ‘Back to the Future Heritage: On Palatial Space and Anthropological Collaboration’, Anthropology Department, University of Manchester, Manchester/UK. 13 November 2017.
Festival Moderation (invited): Chair and discussant of two panels (‘Borderlessness’ and ‘Roots and Foresight’), Nordwind Platform and Festival for Performing Arts & Music on African and Nordic Artistic Positions, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/Germany. 7-11 November 2017.
Chair and discussant (invited): Chair and discussant of opening keynote speech and panel discussions with Dr Christina Johansson (Malmö University, Sweden), Léontine Meijer-van Mensch (Jewish Museum Berlin), and Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński (Vienna Academy of Fine Arts). Future Memories. Remembrance Culture(s) of Migration Society, three-day workshop in cooperation with the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (Technical University Berlin), W.M. Blumenthal Academy, Jewish Museum Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 26-28 September 2017. [Link to Video]
Chair and discussant (invited): Chair and discussant of closing panel discussion of exhibition Cabinet of the Unknown / Cabinet d’Ignorance with curators Dr. Michael Korey (Dresden) and Ece Pazarbasi (International Fellow Curator, Kulturstiftung des Bundes, Istanbul/Berlin), Museum der Dinge/Museum of Things, Berlin-Kreuzberg, Germany. 25 September 2017.
Keynote (invited): Ethnography of the Arts: Perspectives on Theatre and Beyond’. Ethnographie der Künste, Künste der Ethnographie. Summer School at Villa Arson, jointly organised by FU Berlin and Université Paris Ouest Nanterre, 17-24 September 2017, Nice/France.
Tagung (invited): ‘Das Politische in der Kunst: Anthropologische Betrachtungen’, Sektion VIII: Kunst-Medien-Politik, geleitet von Prof Christian Grüny, ‘Die Phänomenologie und das Politische’, Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Phänomenologischen Forschung, Institut für Philosophie, FernUniversität in Hagen/Deutschland. 13-16 September 2017.
Workshop (invited): ‘Anthropologie in/und/mit künstlerischer Praxis: Zur Ethnografie als Methode’. Eingeladener Beitrag im Workshop Aufführungsanalyse vs. Ethnographie? Zur Transdisziplinarität von Analysemethoden in der Theaterwissenschaft, Institut für Film-, Theater- und empirischer Kulturwissenschaft (IFTeK), Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz/Germany. 13 September 2017.
Public Discussion (as organiser): Gallery reflection #2: ‘Traces, Legacies, and Futures: On Art and Colonial Temporalities’ (with Prof Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll, Nora Al-Badri, Silvy Chakkalakal), ifa-Galerie Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 7 September 2017.
Alumni Lecture and Workshop (invited): ’Anthropology in/and/of/with Art: Thoughts on Theatre and Contemporary Art’, Annual Summer Institute Cologne [SIC!] organised by Prof Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern) and Prof. Peter W. Marx (Cologne), Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung (Schloss Wahn), Institut für Medienkultur und Theater, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Cologne, Cologne/Germany. 5 September 2017.
Lecture (invited): ‘Parrhesia and Autopoiesis: Speaking (about) oneself as alternative political becoming’. Invited lecture at the Porphyra Club as part of the interdisciplinary exhibition project Born in the Purple by Berlin-Istanbul-based artist Viron Erol Vert, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Kommunale Galerien Berlin, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin/Germany. 17 August 2017.
Conference (as organiser): 'Otherwise. Rethinking Museums and Heritage'. Conference co-convenor and panel chair: 'Alterity'. First major conference of the Making Differences in Berlin organised by the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMaH), Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 26-28 July 2017.
Seminar (as organiser): ‘Museum, University, and Science: Epistemic Transfers across Institutions’ (with Dr Fred von Bose, Curator Humboldt-Lab, Humboldt-Forum, Prof emer. Joachim Kallinich, PD Leonore Scholze-Irrlitz, Margareta von Oswald), faculty seminar, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 11 July 2017.
Symposium (invited): ‘Anthropology and/as the Study of Everything? A Personal Story’, The School of Everything, part of the documenta14 public programme, convened at the Parliament of Bodies, Athens/Greece. 6-7 July 2017.
Forum (invited): ‘From Art to Anthropology and back: Encounters, Exchanges, and Frictions’. 2017 Jeffrey Rubinoff Sculpture Park Company of Ideas Forum, Hornby Island, British Columbia/Canada. 26-28 June 2017.
Roundtable/Forum (as organiser): 'Academic Careers in Anthropology’ Meeting: Perspectives on/from the US, UK, and Germany with Prof Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Anthropology, Rutgers, US), Prof Hansjörg Dilger (Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin), Prof Sharon Macdonald (CARMAH/IfEE, HU), Prof Jörg Niewöhner (IfEE, HU). Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 20 June 2017
Seminar (invited): ‚Anthropologisch denken/arbeiten/schreiben in/mitdurch Kunst: Ethnografische Annäherungen an Theater und kuratorische Praxis’, Vortrag im Rahmen der Seminarreihe Kunst und Wissenschaft (Prof Mieke Matzke und Prof Mathias Rebstock), Institut für Medien, Theater und populäre Kultur, Universität Hildesheim/Germany. 14 June 2017.
Symposium (invited): ‘Anthropology as/and the Study of Everything? Paradoxes, Potentials, and Pitfalls’, The School of Everything at the documenta14. Part of the aneducation public programme of documenta 14. Nachrichtenmeisterei KMMN, Kulturbahnhof of Kunsthochschule Kassel. Kassel/Germany. 11-13 June 2017.
Artist talk and book launch: 'Bare Lives' (with Solvej Ovesen, Mario Rizzi, Charlotte Bank, Ramy Al Asheq), Chaired moderation, artist talk, and book presentation for Mario Rizzi's Bare Lives exhibition as part of the annual programme Unsustainable Privileges at the Galerie Wedding, Müllerstraße, Berlin/Germany. 1 June 2017. [Link]
Seminar: 'Observing as method: some thoughts from the arts and sciences'. Faculty Seminar with Prof Jörg Niewöhner (HU Berlin) and Prof Jens Roselt (Hildesheim), Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 16 May 2017. [Link]
Series of Public Conversations: 'Urban Decolonisation and Diasporic Formations' (with Dr Noa Ha, Hyunsin Kim, and Trang Tran Thu), Opening session of 'Gallery Reflections' series for the annual programme 'Untie to Tie: On Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Societies' at the gallery of the Institute für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) 2017-2018, ifa-gallery, Linienstraße Berlin/Germany. 4 May 2017. [Link]
Seminar series (SS 2017): 'Modes of Relating: Methodologies for/in a contemporary anthropology'. Introduction to weekly Institutskolloquium (faculty seminar series), co-organised with Dr Martina Klausner for the Centre of Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage and the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Germany. 18 April 2017 / SS 2017 (April-July) [Link]
Public lecture: ‘Flucht und Traum: Überlegungen zur politischen Rolle der Fiktion’ (mit Alexander Weinstock, Institut für Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität zu Köln). Dezentrale, Ringlokschuppen, Mülheim an der Ruhr/Germany. 15 April 2017. [LINK]
Faculty Seminar (invited): ‘A contemporary anthropology of theatre: tradition, expertise, and self-cultivation'’. Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews/Scotland. 13 April 2017. [Link]
Workshop (invited): ‘Design, Urban Planning, and the Curatorial: On museum and heritage constellations in contemporary Berlin’. Design & Anthropology Workshop, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge/USA. 3-4 April 2017.
Poster: ‘Puzzling Homes: Narrating European crisis and future heritage’ (with Tal Adler and Anna Szöke). 13th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Congress. Ways of Dwelling, Crisis – Craft – Creativity. Göttingen/Germany. 26-30 March 2016.
Congress: ‘Momentary Dwellers: Experimental art-ethnography collaborations and sensory research’, 13th Congress of the International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Congress. Ways of Dwelling, Crisis – Craft – Creativity. Göttingen/Germany. 26-30 March 2016.
Congress (invited): ‘FUTURE PERFECT: A Dialogue on Precarity, Mobility, and Temporality' (with Wanja van Suntum, cobratheater.cobra). Work with/out borders. Precarity and the performing arts conference, organized by Prof Katharina Pewny et al., Performing Arts & Media, Department of Art Studies, Ghent University/Belgium. 18-19 March 2017.
Keynote (invited): ‘Die Figur des Geflüchteten: Perspektiven zum nicht-dokumentarischen Theater’ (mit Alexander Weinstock, Institut für Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Universität zu Köln). VHS-Forum, Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Köln. 21. Februar 2017.
Conference (invited): ‘Ethnography as method in theatre studies?’ Methoden der Theaterwissenschaft, Konferenz organisiert von Prof Christopher Balme, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, LMU Munich/Germany. 3-4 February 2017. (Link)
Roundtable: ‘Design, failure, and the globalization of risk’. Moderated discussion with Prof Arjun Appadurai (NYU) and Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung, SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin/Germany. 10 January 2017.
2016
Faculty Seminar: ‘Ethnographies of Curating/the Curatorial’ (with Margareta von Oswald, Christine Gerbich, Franka Schneider, Anna Schäffler). Faculty Seminar/Institutskolloquium, Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin/Germany. 13 December 2016.
Seminar (invited): ‘Reviewer meets reviewed’ (with Dr Roger Sansi). Seminar at the British Museum, organised by the Royal Anthropological Institute, London/UK. 17 November 2016.
Seminar: ‘Migration und Theater. Einige Beobachtungen zu reflexiven, künstlerischen Institutionen’ (Migration and theatre. Some observations about reflexive artistic institutions). Seminar Series (Institutskolloquium), Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. 15 November 2016.
Congress: ‘Zwischen Sozialarbeit und Kunst: Das Theaterprojekt RUHRORTER mit Geflüchteten.’ 30. Bundestagung des Bundesverbands Theaterpädagogik e.V. Eberswalde/Germany, 28.-30.10.2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Vom Informanten zum Zeitgenossen: Expertise im Kontext der künstlerischen Arbeit mit Transkulturalität und Migration am Beispiel der Feldforschung mit Theater’. Das transkulturelle Klassenzimmer: Dinge umordnen, Erfahrungen übersetzen, Bedeutungen verändern. Konferenz des Verbundprojektes “Mobile Welten. Zur Migration von Dingen in transkulturellen Gesellschaften” (BMBF), organised by Dr Sophia Prinz and Roger M. Buergel in the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg/Germany. 6–7 October 2016.
Congress (invited): ‘Ethnografisches Forschen in der Kunst’. Workshop at cobratheater.cobra performing arts festival, Uferstudios, Berlin-Wedding/Berlin. 23-24 September 2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Cultivating character: detachment in theatre and German society’. Anthropology of Character conference organised by Dr Adam Reed. Department of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews/Scotland. 1-2 September 2016.
Conference (discussant): 'The Art of Slowing Down' (P086), at EASA 2016 (Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists), Milan, 20-23 July 2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Appropriating Universal Centrality: Containing the World in Berlin’s new Humboldt Forum’ (with Dr Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll). ‘The Centre Cannot Hold’? New Monumentality, Neo-Modernism and Other Zombie Urban Utopias conference and exhibition hosted by the UCL SSEES FRINGE Centre, The Calvert 22 Gallery, the UCL Grand Challenges Fund and the UCL School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London/ UK, organised by Dr Michal Murawski (UCL) and Dr Jonathan Bach (New School, NYU), 10-11 June 2016.
As organiser: Seminar: ‘On Detachment and Relations’. Chaired discussion with Prof Hallvard Lillehammer (Philosophy, Birkbeck) and Dr Matei Candea (Anthropology, Cambridge) at the Centre for Research of the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge/UK. 25 April 2016.
Conference (invited): ‘Rehearsing conduct and gesture: notes on art as ethical practice’. The Ethics of Gesture conference organised by Dr Lucia Ruprecht at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge/UK. 16 April 2016. Keynote: Prof Rebecca Schneider (Brown/USA).
Conference (invited): ‘Engaging art: urban diversity, public institutions, and the ‘refugee crisis’’.Experiencing Difference and Diversity in Contemporary Germany conference organised by Prof Sharon Macdonald and Dr Jan-Jonathan Bock. Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt University of Berlin/Germany. 14-16 April 2016.
2015
As organiser: Workshop: Re-Theorising the Avant-Garde. Co-convened with Prof Georgina Born (Music & Anthropology, Oxford) and Dr Chris Haworth (Music, Oxford). King’s College, University of Cambridge/UK. 12 December 2015. Keynote: Prof Branden W. Joseph (Columbia, NY).
Chair: ‘From the 1990s to the Contemporary: Experiments, Laboratories, Exchanges’ (papers by Roger Sansi, Stephen Graham, Luke Skrebowski). Retheorising the Avant-garde Today: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. 11 December 2016. King’s College, University of Cambridge/UK.
Conference (invited): ‘Observing Art: On performance, prisms, and reflexivity'. Dritter Branchentreff des Landesverband der freien darstellenden Künste. Performing Arts Programm Berlin. Aufbauhaus, Moritzplatz, Berlin. 9 October 2015. [Eng. Third Get-Together of the Independent Performing Arts Industry 2015 Berlin. [Click here to download talk]
Conference: 'Das Werk der Kunst: Arbeit, Kreativität und Postfordismus'. Vortrag auf der 7. Arbeitstagung 'Ästhetisierung der Arbeit – Kulturanalytische Perspektiven' der Kommission »Arbeitskulturen« in der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde (dgv). Bonn, Germany. 24-26 Sept.
As organiser: Workshop: Contemporary Anthropologies of Art. Co-convened with Dr Alex Flynn (Anthropology, Durham). Department of Anthropology, University of Durham/UK. 8 September 2015. Keynote: Prof Arnd Schneider (Anthropology, Oslo).
Conference: ‘‘Eine Einstellung zur Arbeit’: Labour, Conduct, and Frames in Harun Farocki’s short-film project’. German Screen Studies Network Conference. University of Cambridge/UK, 9-11 July 2015.
As organiser: Panel: ‘Micro-Utopias: Exploring Connections in Anthropology, Relationality, and Creativity’. Co-convened with Dr Ruy Blanes (Bergen), Dr Maïté Maskens (Brussels), Dr Alex Flynn (Durham). 12th SIEF Congress. Zagreb/Croatia, 21-25 June 2015.
Conference: ‘The impossible political utopia: refugee theatre and engagement’. 12th SIEF Congress. Zagreb/Croatia, 21-25 June 2015.
Conference (invited): ‘Anthropology of Creative Institutions’, New Approaches to the Anthropology of Art. Barcelona/Spain, 10-12 June 2015.
As organiser: Conference: Creative Labour(er). Anthropological Perspectives on the Work of Art. King’s College, University of Cambridge/UK, 8 June 2015. Keynote: Prof Georgina Born (Music, Oxford).
Chair (invited): The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas. Organised by Prof Patrick Baert and Dr Marcus Morgan at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), 29 May 2015.
Lecture (invited): ‘The Work of Art: Anthropology, Labour, and Postfordism’. Emerging Scholar Lecture, Cambridge University Student Anthropology Society. Cambridge/UK, 7 May 2015.
Conference (invited): ‘(Per)forming new artistic institutions: Ensemble labour, rehearsals, and international travel at the German Theater an der Ruhr’. The Socio-aesthetic issues of the modes of organisation and creation in the performing arts. International Conference. Université Lumière-Lyon 2 & Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3/France, 1-3 April 2015
Chair (invited): The Drama of Intellectual Life: Performativity in the Study of Ideas. Prof Patrick Baert and Dr Marcus Morgan. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities/UK, 29 May 2015.
As Organiser: Conference: ‘The Concept of Performance’. The First Cambridge Free for all on performance as an interdisciplinary concept. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. 23 April 2015.
Seminar: ‘The Work of Art’, King’s College Graduate Seminar. Cambridge/UK, 13 March 2015.
Seminar: ‘Drama(turgy) of Ideas: Institutions, Prisms, and Intellectuals', joint seminar with Prof Patrick Baert, and Dr Marcus Morgan, at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge, 2 March 2015.
Discussant (invited): Arbeitstreffen Cobratheater, Fundus Theatre, Hamburg, Germany, 21- 22 February 2015.
As organiser: Workshop: Performing Laboratories. (with Civic Matters Faculty Research Group and Wenzel Geissler), CRASSH. 19 January 2015
Workshop: ‘Behind the scenes: Cultivating Haltung in theatre’. Workshop 'Making a Scene!' With Professor W. Marx, King’s College, 12 January 2015.
As organiser: Symposium: Making a Scene! An International Symposium on an Interdisciplinary Concept, King’s College, Cambridge/UK, 12 January 2015. Keynote: Prof Peter W. Marx (Media Culture and Theatre, Cologne, Germany).
2014
As organiser: Conference: The Politics of Framing and Staging: Performance as Paradigm II. Centre for Research of the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge/UK. 8 December 2014 (with Dr Zoe Svendsen, Dr Clare Foster, Floris Schuiling). Keynote: Prof Joe Kelleher (Theatre, Roehampton).
Conference: ' State of the Art Exception – Refugee Theatre and the aesthetics of Absence'. Paper presentation at panel 'Who declares the end of emergency? Temporalities of precariousness after extreme events.' Producing Anthropology. 113th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. 3-7 December 2014. Washington, D.C./USA. 6 December 2014.
Conference Presentation (invited): '(Per)forming a theatre: when an institution is put on trial' at 'Institutionen auf Probe - Institutions on Trial'-Tagung an der Universität Hildesheim in Kooperation mit der Jungen Akademie, organisiert von Prof. Annemarie Matzke und Dr. Pirkko Husemann. Hildesheim, Deutschland. 14 - 16 November 2014.
Conference (invited): ‘(Per)forming a theatre: when an institution is put on trial. Symposium Institutionen auf Probe - Institutions on Trial', organised by Prof Annemarie Matzke and Dr Pirkko Husemann, University Hildesheim/Germany, 14-16 November 2014.
Chair: 'Creativity and Capitalism: Opponents or allies?'. Seminar with Susan Bayly (Cambridge) and Eleonora Belfiore (Warwick). Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network Seminar Series, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge/UK. 27 Oct 2014.
Conference (invited): ‘Authority, Ethics and Reflexivity: How refugee theatre engages political aesthetics'. Cambridge Conference for a Poetics of Critical Political Theatre in Europe. British Academy Regional Event. University of Cambridge/UK, 19-20 September 2014.
Conference: ‘Creativity, Ethics, Patronage and the anthropologies of art’. Anthropologies of Art Panel (200) convened by Roger Sansi. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference 2014,. Talinn/Estonia. 3 August 2014.
Conference: ‘The Unethical Aesthetic. Provenance, patronage & the Gurlitt case’. European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference. Talinn/Estonia, 2 August 2014.
As organiser: Panel: ‘Relational Patrons: Perspectives on intimate and transnational art collaborations’ (with Dr Alex Flynn). European Association of Social Anthropology Conference 2014. Talinn/Estonia, 2 August 2014.
2013
Workshop (invited): ‚Rimini Protokolls ‚Situation Rooms’: Zwischen teilnehmender Beobachtung, multiplayer gaming und Dokumentartheater’. Workshop Reihe STAGE (Games Studies und Theaterwissenschaft), #02 Protokolle. Institut für Medienkultur und Theatre, Universität zu Köln/Germany, 18 October 2013.
Congress: ‘Bastardos of all countries unite! On international theatre exchange and an aesthetics of transformation’. 17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. University of Manchester/UK, 9 August 2013.
As organiser: Panel: ‘All the World’s a Stage: The Social and Political Potentialities of Theatre and Performance’ (with Dr Alex Flynn). 13th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. University of Manchester/UK, 9 August 2013.
Guest lecture (invited): ‘I am a man of this world and a brother to all: the international theatrelandscapes project of the German Theater an der Ruhr’, Performing Landscapes and Identities Colloquium, Community Engagement and the Arts (IPAD colloquia series), University of East London, 19 July 2013.
Workshop (invited): ‘Germany’s Cultural Capital: Art Patronage, Dramaturgy, and Pedagogy’. Summer Institute Cologne [sic!]. Techniques of the Imagination. Convenors: Professor Peter M. Marx and Professor Tracy C. Davis. Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung, Schloss Wahn, Institute for Media Culture and Theatre, University of Cologne/Germany, 13 July 2013.
Conference: ‘Artistic Critique and Patronage in Germany: Between Free and Sacred Theatre’, 7th Annual Postgraduate Colloquium: ‘Culture in Crisis’, Sociology of Theatre and Performance Research Group, Goldsmiths, University of London/UK, 31 May, 2013.
Conference Presentation: ‘Reperformance and Tradition’. Beyond the Ontology of the Text. Performance as Paradigm, Past and Present. Conference, Center for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge/UK, 16 April 2013.
Conference Presentation: ‘Dramaturgical reflexion and theatrical action: philosophy, text, and performance’. What is Performance Philosophy? Staging a new Field. Conference, University of Surrey/UK, 12 April, 2013.
As organiser: Panel: Performance as a theoretical angle of approach (with Clare Foster). What is Performance Philosophy? Staging a new Field. Conference, 13 April 2013, Surrey/UK.
Seminar Presentation: ‘Patronage and Crisis: German Theater and Cultural Politics’. German Graduate Research Seminar. University of Cambridge/UK.
Seminar Presentation: ‘Theatre is no translation workshop’: On dramaturgy and the relation between theory, practice and reperformance. HSPS Graduate Seminar Series. Sociology Department, University of Cambridge/UK.
As organiser: Workshop: Anthropology, Performance, and Theatre. English Faculty, Cambridge/UK, 2 March 2013. Keynote: Prof Annemarie Matzke (Media, Theatre, and Popular Culture, Hildesheim, Germany).
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Workshop Presentation: ‘Rehearsing improvisation: processes of theatrical production’, Performance workshop, Drama Graduate Seminar Series, English Faculty, University of Cambridge.