Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg

Boris Wille, Mitarbeiter am Seminar für Ethnologie

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Presentations and Conferences

Presentations

June 2022
Presentation: “Atoll Engineering in the Maldives: Shifting Priorities in Crafting Archipelagic Landscapes” held at “Future Environments Workshop”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

June 2022
Seminar: “A digital workflow for ethnographic field note taking” held at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

May 2022
Presentation: “The production of resort islandness in the Maldives” held at “From ‘Thinking through Islandness’ to ‘Doing Islandness’” workshop, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

November 2021
Presentation: “Face-to-Facebook Activism and the Politics of Proximity in the Maldives” held at the “Departmental Seminar Series”, Institute for Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

October 2021
Presentation: “Crafting Archipelagic Landscapes: The Entanglements of Geo-engineering and Social Change in the Maldives” held at the “Anthropology and Conservation Conference”, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

September 2021
Presentation: “Reefscaping and the Reconfiguration of Human-Coral-Relationships in the Maldives” held at the “Conference of the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology”, University of Bremen, Germany

July 2021
Presentation: “Trans-local infrastructure and the spatiality of political protest in the Maldivian hub-city Male’” held at “26th European Conference on South Asian Studies”, University of Vienna, Austria

May 2021
Presentation: “Atoll Engineering in the Maldives: Shifting Priorities in Crafting Archipelagic Landscapes” held at “International Conference on Environmental Crises in the Indian Ocean World since 1800”, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

April 2021
Presentation: “Island Construction and the Reworking of Archipelagic Islandness in the Maldives” held at the workshop “Thinking through Islandness”, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany

January 2020
Presentation: “Littoral Engineering: First Observations in the Maldives and Prospects for Indian Ocean Studies” held at “Port City Environments in Global Asia” conference, New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

June 2019
Presentation (jointly with Katja Müller): “Coral Blocks and Binary Code: Moving Matter(s) in the Indian Ocean World” held at “1. Deutscher Südasientag” conference, at University of Bonn, Germany

August 2018
Presentation 1: “Democracy as Political Culture: Popular Politics during the 2012 Crisis in the Maldives”;Presentation 2: “Manufacturing heritage experience” held at Summer School: “The Indian Ocean World and Eurasian Connections – Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and Contemporary Connectivities of Indian Ocean History”, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg/New York University Shanghai, at Shanghai, China

April 2018
Presentation: “Defending Islam in an Islamic State: Religious-nationalist rhetoric, democratic reforms, and a controversial change of power in the Maldives” held at the “South Asian Nationalisms Compared” conference, at Lund University, Sweden

August 2017
Presentation: “Trans-regional Infrastructure and the Spatiality of Political Protest in the Maldivian Hub-city Male’” held at the “Ports and Port Cities in Indian Ocean Connections –
2017 Annual Conference of the Center for Global Asia”, New York University Shanghai, China

May 2017
Presentation (together with Katja Müller): “Materiality and Mobility: Comparative Notes on Heritagisation in the Indian Ocean World” held at the International Conference “Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World” at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

July 2016
Presentation: “Fisch: Fleisch oder Foto? Eine maledivische Streitfrage” [Fish: meat or photo? A Maldivian dispute] held in the context of Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften [long night of sciences] at Faculty of Philosophy I, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

January 2013
Presentation: “Demokratisierung auf den Malediven – Putsch, Protest, Perspektiven” [Democratisation in the Maldives – Coup d’état, protest, perspectives] held at Rotary Club Herzberg/Elster, Germany

September 2011
Presentation: “Die Produktion von ‘Stämmen’: Anthropologisch-administrative Wissenspraxis in Indien” [The production of ‘tribes’: anthropologic-administrative epistemic practice in India] given during the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde Conference, University of Vienna/Austrian Academy of Sciences, at Vienna, Austria

July 2011
Presentation „Indische Hochzeitsfotografie zwischen Illusion und Dokumentation“ [Indian marriage photography between illusion and documentation] held in the context of Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften [long night of sciences] at South-Asia-Studies-Section of Institute for Oriental Studies, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg

July 2006
Multi-media-presentation: „Indische Augenblicke“ [Indian Moments] held in the context of Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften [long night of sciences] at Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany

Conference Organisation

June 2022
Roundtable: “Revisiting taskscapes – A roundtable polylogue with Paolo Gruppuso” at Centre for Interdisciplinary Regional Studies (ZIRS), Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (Co-organised with Janine Hauer)

June 2022
Guest Lecture by Paolo Gruppuso: “The Invention of Wetlands: Reclamation, Conservation, and Future Sustainability” at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

February 2022
Online-Workshop: “Beyond the Hinterland and the Sea: A Workshop on the Indian Ocean World” at the New York University, Shanghai, China and the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (Co-organised with Duane Corpis and Vidhya Raveendranathan)

September 2021
Workshop: “Oceanic Engineering: The taming and crafting of marine environments” at the “Conference of the German Society for Social and Cultural Anthropology”, University of Bremen, Germany

June 2020
Workshop: “Oceanic Engineering: The taming of the sea and the fabrication of connectivity appliances in the Indian Ocean World”, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany (Cancelled due to Corona crisis)

28 – 30 October 2016
Fourth Conference on Bengal Related Studies for Students and Young Scholars, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (Member of Conference Committee)

25 & 26 October 2014
Third Conference on Bengal Related Studies for Students and Young Scholars, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (Member of Conference Committee)

19 & 20 September 2011
Network conference media competence Saxony-Anhalt (project co-ordinator, academic assistant, webmaster) http://www.medien-kompetenz-netzwerk.de   

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