Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Talks, Workshops & Conferences
(Selected)
L’uomo Delinquente: Repercussions of Criminal Anthropology in the Afro-Atlantic.
May 14 2024.Institute of Social Anthropology, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
"The Sacred Pilgrimage of Sodo, Haiti" Pilgern & Heilige Orte transkulturell – glokal – multireligiös
May 06 2024.Theologische Fakultät, University of BaseI.
Book Roundtable- Material Culture in Transit. In conversation with Paul Basu and George Paul Meiu.
Mar 20 2024. University of Basel, Switzerland
"Things as Hierophanies-Three Cases from Afro-Atlantic Religions". Making, Unmaking, and Remaking the Real in and Beyond Ethnography,
Mar 01 2024. Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy.
“Circulating Things: Decolonization and Restitution.” Grasping Anthropology
A conversation with Marilyn Umurungi, Elisa da Costa and Henri-Michel Yéré.
Nov 4 2023. Museum der Kulturen, Basel, Switzerland.
"The Ethnographic Interface: How Not to Study Haitian Vodou". Methods and Media of the Absent/Present. Visual Approaches to Vodun and Vodou.
Sep 14 2023. University of Zurich, Switzerland.
"Matriz Africana": Material Culture as Conduits for Diasporic Consciousness."
Jun 27 2023. Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Mainz.
"Dialectics of a Rooted Diaspora." Ritual Transformations of Consciousness. Second Annual Conference in the Black Sacred Arts.
May 17 2023. Yale University, New Haven.
Criminal Anthropology Objects in Afro-Brazilian Material Religion
Oct 5 2022. University of Basel, Switzerland.
Ageing and Diaspora." Framing Ageing: A Clinical, Cultural, and Social Dialogue
Dec 15 2020 University College Dublin.
"Transmissions of Ecological Memory through Visual Art in Bahian Candomblé." Environmental Imaginaries: Beyond Observation/Beyond Text.
Sep 30, 2020. VANDA Anthropology Days
Material Culture in Transit
Sept 3-10 2020. University of Bern, Switzerland.
Migrations
24 June-July 6. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Objetos Rituals em Transformaçao Cultural -Uma Oficina de Crítica Icônica.
June 7-8 2019. University of São Paulo, Brazil.
Techniques of Memory
Landscape, Iconoclasm, Medium and Power. Global Urban Humanities Initiative
Apr 17-18, 2019. University of California, Berkeley.
Global Traces: Art Practice, Ethnography, Contested Heritage
7-8 February 2019. University of Oslo, Norway.
Alterity Revisited- A Closer Look at Transpositions of a Traveling Concept in the Humanities.
7-8 December 2018.University of Lucern, Switzerland.
Mediatization of Culture: Constructing New Texts and Practices.
Nov. 30 - Dec 1 2018.Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Moscow, Russia.
Apr 19-20 2018. University of Bern, Switzerland.