Conferences
Organization of Conferences, Workshops, Panels, Roundtables, and Labs (Selektion)
2024
Workshop II (with Robert Desjarlais & Hansjörg Dilger): Life-Death-Entanglements. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg & FU Berlin.
2023
(with Thomas Stodulka, Gabriel Scheidecker & Jonas Bens). Abschiedssymposium für Prof. Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler: Anthropologie der Emotionen. FU Berlin.
2023
Workshop (with Robert Desjarlais & Olaf Zenker): The Phenomenological Moment. Phenomenological Approaches in Contemporary Anthropology. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.
2023
Workshop I (with Robert Desjarlais & Hansjörg Dilger): Life-Death-Entanglements. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg & FU Berlin.
2022
Panel (with Gabriele Weichart, Gaia Cottino & Nancy Pollock): Foodways in Motion. ESfO, Ajaccio, Corsica.
2021
Digital Lab of the Working Group Oceania: Anticipated Futures and the Good Life in the Context of New Constellations in Oceania, organized by Desirée Hetzel & Ivo Syndikus in collaboration with the Working Group Oceania, GAA, Bremen University.
2019
Roundtable of the Working Group Psychological Anthropology: The End of Interdisciplinary Negotiations? Placing Psychological Anthropology in Context. GAA, Konstanz University.
2019
Panel (with Edda Heyken & Jörg-Christian Lanca): Approaching Affective Lives through Multi-perspectivity in the Clinic and Beyond. SPA Biennial Meetings, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
2018
Conference (with Eric Hahn, Thi Minh Tam Ta & Jan Slaby): Affective Arrangements in Mental Health Care Settings, CRC 1171 Affective Societies, FU Berlin.
2017
Conference of the German Anthropological Association (as Member of the Board): Zugehörigkeiten: Affektive, moralische und ökonomische Praxen in einer vernetzten Welt, FU Berlin, and Panel on behalf of the GAA Board: Doing Anthropology Ethically. Is Formalization the ‚Solution‘? FU Berlin.
2013
Panel of the Working Group Anthropology of Foodways (with Bettina Mann & Daniel Kofahl): Kulinarisches Wissen und globales Ernährungsverhalten, GAA, Mainz University.
2011
Panel of the Working Group Anthropology of Foodways (with Bettina Mann): Kulinarische Ethnologie. GAA, University of Vienna, Austria.
2010
Panel (with Verena Keck): Transforming Concepts of Aging in the Contemporary Pacific. ESfO, St. Andrews University, Scotland.
Presentations, Chair, and Discussant (Selection)
2023
(with Robert Desjarlais). Multimodal Phenomenality: Digital Filmmaking and Walter Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900. Presentation at the Workshop Normalized Consciousness: Anthropology, Phenomenology, and Critique, organized by Michael Schnegg & Thiemo Breyer, Hamburg University.
2022
(with Max Müller). Migration, Care, and Death – A Psychological Anthropology of Contested Vietnamese Carescapes in Berlin. Presentation at the Workshop Quests for Healing & Social Justice at State Margins, organized by Hansjörg Dilger, Ben Kasstan, Claudia Liebelt, Nurit Stadler & Lea Taragin-Zeller, Hebrew University.
2021
(with Edda Willamowski). From Silent Participations to Phenomenological Go-alongs: A Psychological Anthropological Approach. Digital Presentation in the Seminar Series Kritische Psychologie der Fachschaften Psychologie und Soziologie, Konstanz University.
2021
Chair of the Panel Alternative Structures, Treatments and Actors at the Conference New Perspectives in Transcultural Psychiatry, organized by Ana Antić (ERC Starting Grant Decolonizing Madness) & Romain Tiquet (ERC Starting Grant Governing Madness). Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin.
2021
Foodways over the Lifecourse: (Re-)Engaging Environment and Sociality in a Papua New Guinea World. Presentation at the Digital Workshop: Environments & Socialities in Oceania. Practices of Transformation & Cooperation, organized by Members of the DFG-Research Project Localising Global Climate Change Policies in Vanuatu: Reception of Knowledge and Socio-cultural Transformations and Members of the Working Group Oceania, GAA, Munich University.
2021
“I know how it feels…but…”: Empathy and Diversity Affects in Vietnamese Carescapes of Berlin. Presentation at the CRC 1171 Conference: Diversity Affects | Troubling Institutions, FU Berlin.
2021
Discussant in the Online Book Talk on Silence and Sacrifice: Family Stories of Care and the Limits of Love in Vietnam (University of California Press, 2021) by Merav Shohet, organized by the Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), Amsterdam, the MPI for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen, and the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University (Asia Research Cluster and ERC Globalizing Palliative Care Project).
2021
Affective Lives: A Psychological Anthropological Lens on Emotions, Age(ing) and Migration. Presentation at the Colloquium History of Emotions, organized by Prof. Dr. Ute Frevert, MPI for Human Development, Berlin.
2019
Care as Process: A Life-Course Perspective on the Ethics of Care in a Ramu River World (Papua New Guinea). Presentation at the Séminaire du CREDO: Actualité de la Recherche en Océanie, Centre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l’Océanie, Aix-Marseille Université.
2019 The Concept of Affective Lives: Understanding Aging, Care, and Belonging over the Life-course. Presentation at the SPA Biennial Meetings, Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico.
2018
Participation at the ENPA Roundtable Moving Psychological Anthropologies, EASA Conference Staying, Moving, Settling, Stockholm University.
2017 „Ich weiß, wie es sich anfühlt“. Empathie und Zugehörigkeit(en) unter vietnamesischen Sozialarbeiter:innen in Berlin. Presentation at the Conference Friedländer Gespräche V: Moving. Von den Gefühlen der Migration, Museum Friedland.
2015
(De)Valuing Nzari‘s Objects: Materiality and Female Agency in the Lower Ramu Region of Papua New Guinea. Presentation at the Symposium The Materiality of Sepik Societies 2015: New Visions, Old Problems, organized by Philippe Peltier & Markus Schindlbeck, Musée du quai Branly, Paris.
2014
Health and Body in Relation to New Configurations of Ageing and Care: A Papua New Guinea Case. Presentation at the Conference Beyond the Global Care Chain. Boundaries, Institutions and Ethics of Care, organized by Minh Nguyen & Roberta Zavoretti, MPI for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale.
2011
New Ideologies of Age in Daiden, Papua New Guinea und Shifting Place-Images, Shifting Social Lives: Bosmun Notions of a ‘Village’. Presentation at the ASAO Conference, O‘ahu, Hawai‘i.
2011
(with Bettina Ubl). Eine interdisziplinäre Theory of Mind-Studie in PNG: Methoden, Probleme, Lösungen. Presentation in the Workshop Ontogenese von Emotionen im Kulturvergleich, Cluster Languages of Emotion, FU Berlin.
2010
Bosmun Notions of Aging: Now and Then (Ramu River, Papua New Guinea). Presentation at the ESfO Conference, St. Andrews University, Scotland.
2009
(with Alexis von Poser). Mobiles and Mobility: Networking at the North Coast of New Guinea. Presentation at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Public Outreach (Selection)
- (with Edda Willamowski). Podcast: Das eine Altern gibt es nicht – wie sich unsere Gefühle zum Älterwerden verändern. Podcast Series More than a Feeling – Gefühle und Gesellschaft of the CRC 1171 Affective Societies. https://www.sfb-affective-societies.de/forschung/podcast/Episoden/Folge-9/index.html . (18 October 2021).
- Event launch of Generation[en] erzählen. Chuyện trò thế hệ: Digital Storytelling in Vietnamese Berlin (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRARfbaI52lTV8m2_YUyOMw ), Video-based format (3 short films) as result of a shared collaboration of members of VLab, Berlin-based artists, and members of the subprojects A01 and A02 of the CRC 1171 Affective Societies, https://www.sfb-affective-societies.de/en/forschung/oea-modul/digital-storytelling/index.html (04 September 2021).
- (with Hansjörg Dilger, Christina Dohrn, Dominik Mattes, Birgitt Röttger-Rössler & Olaf Zenker). Wer erhält die Mär vom Edlen Wilden? Gegen die Diskreditierung einer gesamten Disziplin. Boasblog: Kulturrelativismus und Aufklärung, https://boasblogs.org/kulturrelativismus/wer-erhaelt-die-maer-vom-edlen-wilden-gegen-die-diskreditierung-einer-gesamten-disziplin/ . (03 January 2017).
- Long-term collaborative engagement (as part of the CRC Subproject A02/D03) with the Network for Psychic Wellbeing of Vietnamese Migrants in Berlin:
- shared organization of world cafés, workshops, conferences;
- documentations, e.g., Dokumentation des 4. Fachtags Vietnamesisches Berlin: Älter werden vietnamesischer Berlinerinnen und Berliner – Erwartungen und künftige Herausforderungen, https://digital.zlb.de/viewer/metadata/15913670/0/LOG_0000/ ;
- active support of public outreach projects (e.g. “Offene Tür” by Edda Willamowski and Hang Hoang, https://www.netzwerk-vietpsygesundheit.de/de/videoreihe-offene-tuer/ . (Ongoing since 2014).