Konferenzorganisation
2022
Panel Organizer (jointly with Lena Rose, Oxford). Title: "Hope and Transformation in a Context of Uncommoning: Battles Over Plausibility and and Credibility in Asylum Procedures in Europe". At: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Belfast 26-29 July 2022.
December 2020 - May 2021
Webinar Series in honour of Sally Engle Merry (jointly with Prof. Julie Billaud and Dr. Agathe Mora). For Allegra Lab
Oktober 2019
(jointly with Prof. Dr. Boris Holzer, Prof. Dr. Thomas Kirsch, Prof. Dr. Christian Meyer and Prof. Dr. Sven Reichardt) "Movement, Protest, Activism. Interdisciplinary Approaches to an Elusive Phenomenon". Bodenseeforum I University of Konstanz, 24-25 October 2019.
März 2019
(jointly with Yazid Ben-Hounet, EHESS, Paris). "Claiming Justice after Conflict: The Stateless, the Displaced and the Disappeared at the Margins of the State". FMSH Paris, 15 March, 2019.
November 2017
Practices of Traditionalization in Central Asia. Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz. 16-18, 2017.
September 2017
(jointly with Madeleine Reeves, Manchester University / Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz) The future of Central Asian Studies (with collective book presentations).11-13 September, 2017.
July 2017
(jointly organized with Birgit Bräuchler, Monash University, Australia) Divergent resource claims in plural ecologies. Case studies from Southeast Asia. Institute for Advanced Study, Konstanz University. July 6-8, 2017.
April 2016
(jointly with Mya Khin and Felix Girke). Title: 'Doing Fieldwork in Myanmar.' University of Yangon. Myanmar-Korea Local Knowledge Centre. Yangon, Myanmar. April 1st, 2016.
Programme of the Workshop 'Doing Fieldwork in Myanmar'
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October 2015
(jointly with Peter Finke). Title: 'Central Asia in the 21st century. Historical trajectories, contemporary challenges and everyday encounters.' Conference of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS). Zurich, Switzerland. Oct. 8-11, 2015.
Programme of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) Conference
September 2009
(jointly with Madeleine Reeves and Johan Rasanayagam). Title: ‘Rethinking the political in Central Asia.’ University of Manchester. Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Manchester, UK. Sept. 14-16, 2009.
Organization of panels
October 2015
The concept of crisis and the permanent state of exception
Panel at the German Anthropological Association (GAA), Sept 30 – Oct 3 2015, Marburg, Germany.
October 2015
Two Panels:
Getting published. Do’s and don’ts.
“What is non-traditional after all? Gender, sex, and discrimination in Central Asia”
Panel at the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) Conference October 8-11 2015 in Zurich, Switzerland.
Programme of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS) Conference
July 2014
Roundtable. "In support of Alexander Sodiqov. Researchers at risk in Central Asia" On behalf of the Centre for Anthropological Studies on Central Asia (CASCA). Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Halle, Germany. July 1, 2014.
October 2013
Panel organizer (jointly with Markus Weilenmann). Title: ‘Recht und Ethnologie – „außeruniversitär“. Neue Herausforderungen an die Rechtsethnologie.’ Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde-Tagung. Mainz, Germany. Oct. 2-5, 2013.
August 2013
Panel organizer. Title: ‘Tracing legal connections. Comparing interactional patterns between courts of elders (aksakaldar sotu) and state courts across Northern Kyrgyzstan.’ European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS). Astana, Kazakhstan. Aug. 5-6, 2013.
Summer Term 2011
Organisation of the Joint Institutes’ Colloquium of the MPI for Social Anthropology and the Institute for Social Anthropology, MLU, Halle, (jointly with Patrice Ladwig, Michaela Schäuble and Katharina Schramm): ‘Traces of the Colonial: Critical Reflections on (Post-)Colonial Theory’. Summer Term 2011.
August 2008
Panel organizer (jointly with Madeleine Reeves). Title: ‘Ethnographies of moral reasoning.’ First regional conference of the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS). Yssyk Köl, Kyrgyzstan. Aug. 4-7, 2008.