Presentations and events
Presentations
2024
Gerechtigkeitsvorstellungen und Konzeptionen des Menschen im Anthropozän. Inwiefern ist der Mensch als Analyse- und Handlungskategorie für Gerechtigkeitsaushandlungen im Anthropozän (ir)relevant? 126. Annual Conference of the Görres Society. Regensburg, Germany (27-29 September 2024).
2024
Catholic canon lawyers’ positions on the immutability of divine law in the face of social transformations. 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists on “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology,” Barcelona, Spain (23 to 26 July 2024)
2024
Sound Installation: Hearing What Isn’t Said. Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Italy (21 June 2024).
2023
Changing the Immutable. Anthropological Approaches to Divine Agency and Legal Change in Catholic Canon Law. GAA Conference on „Contested Knowledge”, Munich, Germany (25-28 July 2023).
2023
Phenomenology of Protest. Workshop “Phenomenological Moments”, Halle (Saale), Germany (12-13 June 2023)
2023
“No Justice—No Rest!”: How Activist Conceptions of Justice Influence Categories of Collective Identification among Tea Plantation Laborers in Assam, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, India (10 March 2023).
2022
Who is the subaltern? Reconciling epistemological premises and ethical values in anthropology. Workshop “Collaborations and Contestations in Publicly Engaged Anthropologies”, Halle (Saale), Germany (12-14 January 2022).
2021
Justice At Work. GAA Conference on „Worlds – Zones – Atmospheres. Seismographies of the Anthropocene”, Bremen, Germany (27 September - 1 October 2021).
2018
The figure of the gatekeeper in the production of anthropological expertise. Annual Conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association “Knowledge (Trans)Formations in Anthropology”, Zurich, Switzerland (22-23 November 2018).
2019
The Moral Economy of Assam Tea Production. On the negotiation of justice between different interest groups for tea plantation labourers. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (25 June 2019).
2019
Why labourers (do not) rebel. Everyday protest among Assam’s tea plantation labourers. University of Zurich, Switzerland (19 March 2019).
2018
Formen des alltäglichen Widerstands von Teeplantagenarbeiter*innen in Assam (Forms of everyday resistance among tea plantation workers in Assam). University of Fribourg, Switzerland (7 November 2018).
2017
Die Politik der Gerechtigkeitsbestrebungen sozialer Bewegungen (The politics of justice aspirations in social movements). University of Fribourg, Switzerland (13 November 2017).
2016
Ideas of justice and forms of everyday protest among tea plantation labourers in Assam. Institutskolloquium Sozialanthropologie, University of Bern, Switzerland (27. September 2016).
2016
Activists vs. Anthropologists? Differences and similarities in dealing with evidence. Law and Social Sciences Research Network Conference on “Thinking with Evidence. Seeking Certainty, Making Truth”, Delhi, India (10-12 December 2016).
2016
Tea Plantation Labourers in Assam. Summer School on “The Political Anthropology of World Society: Practices of Knowledge and Regulation”, Indemini, Switzerland (24-31 August 2016).
2016
Negotiating identity, representation and justice in Assam’s tea plantations. European Conference on South Asian Studies, Warsaw, Poland (27-30 July 2016).
2016
Negotiating identity, representation and justice in Assam’s tea plantations. Winter School on “Negotiations and Assertions: Engaging with Political Realities in Contemporary South Asia”, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Guwahati, India (4-13 January 2016).
2015
Gerechtigkeits-Gefühle in den Aushandlungsprozessen über gerechte Arbeitsbedingungen in Assams Teeplantagen (Senses of justice in the negotiating fair working conditions on Assam’s tea plantations). GAA Conference on „Crises: Reconfigurations of life, power and worlds”, Marburg, Germany (30 September - 3 October 2015).
2015
Juridification of the right to development in India. Dritter Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen on „Die Versprechungen des Rechts“, Berlin, Germany (9-11 September 2015).
2015
The Right to Development. Tezpur Law College, Tezpur, India (30 March 2015).
2014
The Claim to Equality and the Right to Development in India. Young South Asian Scholars Meet Workshop on “Rethinking Inequality in South Asia”, Zurich, Switzerland (21-22 July 2014).
2013
Equality and the Right to Development in India. Summer School on “The Empirical Study of Domination: On the Political Anthropology of World Society”, Indemini, Switzerland (6-14 July 2013).
2012
Deśī logon ko samajhne kī kuncī (eng.: “The Key to Cultural Understanding”) World Hindi Day, Heidelberg University in collaboration with the Consulate General of India in Munich, Heidelberg, Germany (10 January 2012).
2011
Socio-cultural Perspectives on the Stigmatization of People with Learning Difficulties – A Case-Study of Varanasi. Working Group Medical Anthropology, Heidelberg University, Germany (09 November 2011).
Events
2024
Panel: “Law and religion in the (un)doing of current social transformations,” 18th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists on “Doing and Undoing with Anthropology,” Barcelona, Spain (23 to 26 July 2024)
2024
Workshop: Divine Agency. Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Italy (16 February 2024)
2022
Workshop: Justice in the Anthropocene. Workshop of the DGSKA-AG “Political and Legal Anthropology”, Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (5-7 October 2022)
2017
Roundtable: “Global moral economies as manifested and contested in Northeast India”, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland (10 October 2017)
2017
Panel: “Zugehörigkeiten, Gerechtigkeit und die Politik der Moral“ (Belonging, Justice, and the Politics of Morality), GAA Conference on “Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, moralische und politische Praxen in einer vernetzten Welt“, Berlin, Germany (4 to 7 October 2017), in cooperation with Julia Eckert.
2017
Workshop: Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis with ATLAS.ti, Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Bern, Switzerland (14 to 15 June 2017)
2017
Workshop & Lecture Series: Anthropology Talks with Veena Das on “Violence of and Against the Everyday”, University of Bern, Switzerland (16 to 18 May 2017)
2017
Excursion: Guided field trip for students to North India, in cooperation with Julia Eckert, Johannes Quack & Sandra Bärnreuther (8 January to 1 February 2017)
2016
Panel: “Evidence in Ethnographic Methods” Law and Social Sciences Research Network Conference on “Thinking with Evidence: Seeking Certainty, Making Truth”, Delhi, India (10 to 12 December 2016), in cooperation with Dolly Kikon.
2015
Panel: “Law and Development in India”. Dritter Kongress der deutschsprachigen Rechtssoziologie-Vereinigungen on „Die Versprechungen des Rechts“, Berlin, Germany (9 to 11 September 2015), in cooperation with Tanja Herklotz, Florian Matthey-Prakash and Maxim Bönnemann