Talks | Events
September 2025
“Multiple Complicities, Ludicrous Violence. Disputing Crime in Urban Burkina Faso“, DGSKA 2025, University of Cologne.
June 2025
“Delicate Collaborations. Building (Dis)Trust in Violent Research Settings“, ECAS 2025, Charles University Prague (28.06.2025, 9:00-10:45h GMT+1).
November 2023
“Exceptional Intimacy and the Ordinary Life of Crime”, Anthropological Lecture Series, University of Bayreuth (14.11.2023, 18:30h GMT+1; Join Online!)
October 2023
“Alltagskriminalität, Strafe, und das Streben nach Zugehörigkeit in Burkina Faso: Versuch einer Konflikttypologie“, “Alternativen zum, im und durch Strafrecht” Workshop, Goethe Universität Frankfurt
July 2023
“(Non-)Visualizing Harm. Ethics and Epistemic Inequality in Media Spaces of Violent Conflict”, DGSKA 2023, Universität München
26-29 July 2022
Panel together with Rossye Alvarez “Trust and Violence in Times of Political Transformation”, EASA 2020, Queens University Belfast
12 May 2022
“‘On ne sait pas qui est qui’. Scrutinizing the Interplay of Violence and (Dis)Trust in the Sahel“, Islamist Protest, Terrorism, and (In)Security in Africa (IPTSA), Maroua University & York University (CA)
12 May 2022
“Violence in the Moral Twilight. On Vigilantism, Body Politics, and Issues of Trust in Burkina Faso“, Anthropology Colloquium, University of Göttingen
27 January 2022
“The Ghosts we Summoned. Punishment, Dis/Trust, and Belonging in the Assemblages of Violence in Burkina Faso, Africa Colloquium, Goethe-University.
16-20 June 2021
“Agency in a Moral Twilight: On the Margins of Vigilantism and Human Rights.”, MANSA Conference, Uppsala University; chair of the panel “Terror & Vigilantes in the Sahel: Seeking Refuge between Human Rights & Popular Wrongs“
7-11 June 2021
Panel together with Antje Daniel: “Utopia(n) Challenges in Africa? Grinding Practices, Ethical Controversies”, VAD Conference 2021, University of Frankfurt
8 June 2021
“Violence as a Lens. Vigilantism and the Political Status Quo in West Africa“, Anthropological Colloquium, University of Bayreuth, digital event
22-25 May 2021
“Vigilantism as a Process: Reconsidering Violence through the Politics of the Koglweogo Self-Defense Groups in Burkina Faso”, Workshop “Vigilantism Resurrected“, digital event
2 October 2020
“On Violence, Human Rights and Security in the Postcolonial State”, Everyone’s Human Rights. A Series of Debates on Human Rights in Africa and African Legal Studies Blog, University of Bayreuth, Digital Event.
21-24 July 2020
“Punishment”, EASA Virtual Conference 2020
26-27 May 2020
“‘Lords of the Bush’? Vigilantism and Blind Angles of Transformation”, MIASA Digital Conference on Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa (@MIASA_UG)
26-27 May 2020
Panel together with Osman Alhassan and Ifeanyi Onwuzuruigbo: “Resource Conflicts, Violence and Rural Transformation”, MIASA Virtual Conference “Sustainable Rural Transformation in Africa” (@MIASA_UG)
February 2020
“Event Analysis in Anthropology”, MIASA Methodological Forum, University of Accra, Legon
December 2019
“With or Without the State. Vigilantismus und Sicherheitspraktiken in moralischen Grauzonen[Vigilantism and Security in Moral Grey Zones]”, Africa Colloquium, University of Frankfurt
October 2019
“Endless Accessibility, Endless Commitment. Legitimating Extra-Legal Governance in Burkina Faso”, German Anthropological Association Conference 2019, University of Konstanz
July 2019
“Complicity and Contention in a Civil-Military Security Dialogue: The Case of Burkina Faso”, European Conference on African Studies 2019, University of Edinburgh
November 2018
“« L’idéalisme est cher »: opportunités et risques de la coopération internationale”, L’Avenir des ONG en Afrique de l’Ouest, Ouagadougou
December 2016
“Local Understandings of Poverty in Burkina Faso. A Significant
Approach for Development? “, African Studies Association 2016, Washington
September 2015
“Time and Poverty. Local Consequences of an Universal Frame of Existence”, ISCH-Conference “Time and Culture”, University of Bukarest
September 2015
“C’est fini, il est parti! A Revolution in Burkina Faso. History, Perspectives und Research Questions”, GAA-Conference „Crises“, University of Marburg