11/2019 Cologne, Germany: "Genetic Resistance: The Arabian Horse and the Anthropologist as Unruly Companions" Sixty Minutes in Ethnography, Theory & Anthropology, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne.
09/2019 Konstanz, Germany: "What’s (in) that name debate? Reconsidered. ‘Nicht-verhandelbare Grundfeste’ der Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie auf dem Prüfstand," Roundtable-Discussion at GAA Annual Meeting "Das Ende der Aushandlungen" (29.09 - 02.10.2019), University of Konstanz.
09/2019 Cologne, Germany: "Introduction: Towards An Emancipatory Epistemology," Cologne Summer School of Interdisciplinary Anthropology (IV) Beyond Humanism: Cyborgs – Animals – Data Swarms (September 23 - 27 2019), a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne, University of Cologne.
05/2019, Cologne, Germany: "Village and Tribal Virtuality: The Rural Hinterland as Strategic Resource for Future-Making in the Eastern Nile Delta of Egypt,"GAA Conference: Rurality and Future-Making: Comparative Perspectives from Europe, the Middle East, and the Mediterranean (May 22 - 24 2019), Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne.
12/2018 Siegen, Germany: "Village and Virtuality — Digital Media(ted) Practices in the Ethnographic Field: A 21st century Community Study with the Tahawiya Bedouins in Egypt’s Eastern Delta (Sharqiya)," CRC 1187 Conference Media, Technologies, Cooperation – Rethinking Publics and Publicness in the MENA Region, University of Siegen.
09/2018 Cambridge, UK: "The Performative Constitution of the Arabian horse as Living Sculpture – An Ethnographic Dislocation of Space and Surface," Cambridge AHRC DTP Conference 2018: Space and Surface, Peterhouse, Cambridge.
07/2018 Seville, Spain: "Visiting the Turfs of the Modern Arabian Horse – Hegemonies and Politics of Arabian Horseracing in the Arab Middle East," World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies 2018, Panel: Intersection of Equine Culture and History in Europe, Middle East and North Africa, University of Seville.
07/2017 Cologne, Germany: “The Art of Breeding Arabian Horses – Between Localized Practices and Global Breeding Standards,” GSSC Annual Conference The Global South on The Move – Transforming Capitalism, Knowledge and Ecologies, Global South Studies Centers, University of Cologne.
12/2016 Beirut, Libanon: „From the Arab Bedouin Horse to the Modern Straight EgyptianTM – Discourses of Ancestry, Genealogical Purity and Bloodlines in the Global Breeding Industry of the Arabian Horse.“ Workshop: Nasab: Lineage and Genealogy in the Arab East, Orientinstitut Beirut, Libanon.
11/2016 Cologne, Germany: „The Contemporary Breeding of Arabian Horses. Or: A Transnational Gambling with Life?“ Workshop Monetary Games, Big Data and Mereological Magic Gambling, Speculation and Numerology in an Age of Uncertainty, a.r.t.e.s. Research Lab Transformations of Life, University of Cologne (organized with Dr. Mario Schmidt; conference report).
07/2016 Leipzig, Germany: ›Tribalism‹ versus ›Nation building‹ - An Account on the Applicability of Anthropological Theory in the Eastern Nile Delta Province of Sharqiya during the Parliamentary Elections in 2015.“ Symposium: Intervention als Politik und Magie - Motive und Konsequenzen, Institut für Ethnologie, University of Leipzig.
11/2014 Siegen, Germany: „Züchtung, Zirkulation & Zertifizierung arabischer Pferde. Zur Lokalität translokaler Netzwerke.“ Workshop „Medien|Praktiken der Bewegung“ des DFG-Graduiertenkollegs „Locating Media“, University of Siegen.
08/2014 Tallinn, Estland: „Straight Egyptians, Desert-bred and Asil Arabians: Purity, Nobility, Beauty and Performance.“ Konferenz „EASA 2014: Intimacy, Collaboration and Revolution“, University of Tallinn.
12/2012 Cairo, Egypt: „A Cup of Blood – The Representation of Bedouins in Syrian Television drama,“ Conference „The Arab East and the Bedouin Component“, Orient-Institut Beirut & CRC 586, American University Cairo.
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