Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation
Talks, Workshops & Conferences
(Selected)
Enchanted Architecture
Dec 14 2024. Museum der Kulturen Basel, Switzerland.
Relationalities and the Ethics of Viewing. With Berit Seidel
Nov 20 2024. Institut für Sozialanthropologie und Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Universität Zurich, Switzerland.
Intransigence of the Ancestral form in Matriz Africana Sacred Arts.
Nov 5 2024. Kunsthistorisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
"Kunst und Religion im Dialog" In the exhibition Brasil! Brasil! The Dawn of Modernity.
Oct 20 2024. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. Switzerland.
"Abdias do Nascimento: Ecospirituality and Art." Ecologies, Environmentalisms, and the Black Sacred Arts.
May 15 2024. Yale University, New Haven.
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.
"Decolonizing and/or Re-Appropriating the Archive?" With Michaela Schäuble .
Apr 25 2024.Lecture series "Decolonizing Anthropology
https://boasblogs.org/autor/zainabu-jallo/?blog=decolonizinganthro
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.