(Co-)organization and planning committee
2025 Multispecies Methods Workshop EXPLORING INTUITIVE INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION, April 7-9, University of Liège, Belgium.
2023 International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium INTUITIVE INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION, May 8-12, University of Saskatchewan, Canada.
2014 Workshop of the BIGSAS ‘Tourism in Africa’ Workgroup CULTURAL TOURISM AND INDIGENOUS GROUPS IN AFRICA: QUESTIONS RAISED AND LESSONS LEARNED, June 2-3, University of Bayreuth Germany.
2012 Workshop of the BIGSAS ‘Tourism in Africa’ Workgroup TOURISM AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGE IN AFRICA, November 26, Universtiy of Bayreuth, Germany.
2011 EASA Africanist Network (inter-conference) PhD workshop ENGAGEMENTS, EXPERIMENTS, MULTIPLE & PERMANENT FIELDSITES: FIELDWORK IN AFRICA TODAY, March 30-31, Halle, Germany.
Panels and papers
2025 Sentience and Sapience: Animate Earth 2025 Confluence, 15 November online, Animate Earth, Dartington, Totnes, United Kingdom. Invited speaker: Panel discussion with Monica Gagliano.
2024 Nordic multispecies method conference, 9-10 December, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Paper: Inquiries into intuitive Interspecies Communication.
2024 O.Z.O.R.A. Chambok house, 26 July – 6 October, Dádpuszta, Hungary. Presentation: Intuitive Interspecies Methods and a Dialogic Multispecies Science.
2023 AfriBIAN Rolling Religion on the African Map: Beliefs, Practices and Contentions in Times of Transition AFRICAN MYTHS, SPIRITUALITIES AND FAITHS IN TIMES OF GLOBALIZATION, 23-28 October, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. Paper: Secularization and/or a global decolonized academe: In conversation with African faiths and knowledges.
2023 Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics Annual African Assembly on Linguistic Anthropology (GLOCAL AFALA) LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES, CULTURAL CLIMATES / MAZINGIRA YA LUGHA, HALI YA YEWA YA KITAMADUNI, October 18-21, Nairobi, Kenya, hosted by the SOAS Univeristy of London. Paper: Intuitive Interspecies Communication and Language Beyond the Human: Bridging Posthumanist and Indigenous Understandings in Practice.
2023 Narrating the Multispecies World STORIES IN TIMES OF CRISES, LOSS, HOPE, 3-5 August, University of Würzburg, Germany. Paper: Parrot People: A multispecies story of the conviviality of African grey parrots and people (with Prof. Ute Hörner and Prof. Mathias Antlfinger).
2023 German Anthropological Association CONTESTED KNOWLEDGE: PERSPECTIVES IN SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 25-28 July, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. Screening, presentation and discussion: Maasai Speak Back.
2023 Multispecies Ethnography and Artistic Methods (MEAM) Network Conference MULTISPECIES METHODS AND ARTISTIC METHODS, 3-4 July, University of Liège, Belgium. Paper: Parrot People (with Prof. Ute Hörner and Prof. Mathias Antlfinger).
2023 International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium INTUITIVE INTERSPECIES COMMUNICATION, 8-12 May, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Panel convener: What is IIC and IIC research. Talking circle member: Living into a multispecies culture where we are in communication with animals. Presentation: Why is it important to focus on lived experience of IIC? Paper: Issues of translation in intuitive interspecies communication (IIC): Using IIC in academic contexts
2023 Riga Pasaules Film Festival LOVE, 27-30 April, Kino Bize, Riga, Latvia. Roundtable member: Nature’s Love.
2022 AfriBIAN Rolling Religion on the African Map: Beliefs, Practices and Contentions in Times of Transition THE POLITICS OF RELION IN AFRICA, 1-4 November, University of Jos, Nigera. Screening and discussion: Mkuru’s Church: From the analysis of African practices and institutions to conversations with African theoretical understandings. Roundtable member: Religious Institutions.
2022 Multispecies Symposium Hub Webinar Series, DEMYSTIFYING THE RESEARCH PROCESS, 5 Oct, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Presentation: Introducing non-human animals as ‘respondents’ by collaborating with animal communicators.
2022 Congres DierMens Studies, organized by the centre for AnimalHuman Studies in the Netherlands, 29 Septermber, Univeristy of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Panel member: Multispecies Methodologie.
2022 3rd Annual Conference Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence MEDIALITIES, 6-9 July, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
2022 International Multispecies Methods Research Symposium SHIFTING PARADIGMS IN HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS, 24-26 May, University of Saskatchewan. Paper: Interviewing animals through animal communicators: Potentials of intuitive interspecies communication for multispecies methods.
2022 4th Biennial Conference African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) AFRICA AND THE HUMAN: OLD QUESTIONS, NEW IMGINARIES, 11-16 April, Cape Town. Panel convener: What does it mean to be African in a multispecies world? (with Harry Wels) Paper: Working with Indigenous and professional animal communicators in Africa: Intuitive interspecies communication and academic knowledge production.
2022 Narrowing the Gap beyond Tokenism: THE TRANSDISCIPLINARY SEARCH FOR INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN DECOLONISATION AND THE INTEGRATION AND DIALOGUE AMONG INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS AND EPISTEMOLOGIES, organized by The Ali Mazrui Center for Higher Education Studies, 21-23 February, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Paper: Reflections on academic implications of a Maasai concept: Osotua in the theory and practice of decolonising higher education.
2021 Visual Research Conference, organized by the Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), 11-13 November, Online. Presentation and discussion: Behind the scenes of Maasai Speak Back: Reflexive dialogues, questions and (dis)agreements in co-creation.
2021 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) Congress HERITAGES, GLOBAL INTERCONNECTIONS IN A POSSIBLE WORLD, 9-13 November, Yucatán, Mexico and online. Panel convener: Interspecies communication with non-human agents as a global heritage (with Veronica Policarpo). Paper: Intuitive human-animal communication: Indigenous and non-Indigenous animal communicators’ potentials for multispecies methods.
2021 XXIV International Conference of the Society for Human Ecology (SHE) SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND GLOBAL CHALLENGES: THE ROLE OF HUMAN ECOLOGY IN AN EVER-CHANGING WORLD, 17-23 October, Brazil and online. Paper: Working with non-human animals as ‘respondents’ by employing animal communicators: Traversing the nature/culture divide and implications for academic knowledge making. Paper: Transforming the human-nature divide: shifting out of anthropocentrism and bringing animal perspectives to the table, co-authered by M.J. Barrett, Z. Ghoreishi, V. Hinz, C. Hoessler, J. Jackson, S. Kuppenbender, M. Lovrod, A. Mathur-Balendra, K. Seel, C. Wall, V. Wijngaarden and L. Zmud. Screening, presentation and discussion: Goat Breakfast: Becoming-with God, volcanoes, livestock and trees.
2021 German Anthropological Association (GAA) Conference WORLDS. ZONES. ATMOSPHERES. SEISMOGRAPHIES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE, 27 September-October 1, Bremen, Germany and online. Participant lab: Ethnography among the Multispecies.
2021 37th Annual Q Conference of the Scientific Study of Subjectivity (ISSSS), 15-17 September, Nantes, France and online. Paper: Successfully sorting Statements with non-reading Participants: Adaptations to the Workflow when using Q Methodology.
2021 International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) Conference BREAKING THE RULES? POWER, PARTICIPATION, TRANSGRESSION, 19-24 June, Helsinki, Finland and online. Discussant film roundtable: Countering Ascriptions.
2021 Vereinigung für Afrikawissenschaften in Deutschland (VAD) Conference AFRICAN CHALLENGES, 7-11 June, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany and online. Paper: An integrated approach towards decolonisation of higher education: A perspective from Anthropology.
2021 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 7-11 April, Seattle, United States, and online. Paper: Speaking With Other Animals through Intuitive Interspecies Communication: Towards Cognitive and Interspecies Justice. Co-authored by M.J. Barrettt, V. Hinz, V. Wijngaarden and M. Lovrod.
2020 Africa Knows! AEGIS Thematic Conference IT IS TIME TO DECOLONISE MINDS, 2-4 December, Leiden University, the Netherlands and online. Paper: Experiments in using non-human animals as ‘respondents’ by working with Southern African animal communicators: Traversing the nature/culture divide and implications for academic knowledge making.
2020 Virtual Q Conference 2020, 6-13 November, ISSSS, online.
2020 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference NEW ANTHROPOLOGICAL HORIZONS IN AND BEYOND EUROPE, 20-24 July, Virtual Lisbon Conference, Portugal. Panel convener: Other species on the horizon: Transformative potentials of more-than-human methods and approaches (with Veronica Policarpo). Paper: In dialogue with research collaborators and the public: Reflexive audio-visual ethnography and dilemmas of production and dissemination.
2019 Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence Conference CONVERSATIONS AND BUILDING NETWORKS, 30-31 October, University of Bayreuth, Germany.
2018 BIGSAS Alumni Conference THE FUTURE OF AFRICAN STUDIES SCHOLARS IN AFRICA AND ABROAD, 31 October – 2 November, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Paper: Anthropological tools for decolonizing knowledge production in higher education.
2018 Exposition and discussion KING OF THE ANIMALS: WILHELM KUHNERT AND THE IMAGE OF AFRICA, 25 October, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany. Panel member: The Shaping of an Image: How present is Kuhnert’s portrayal of Africa today?
2018 CinéTrans 38th Nordic Anthropological Film Association (NAFA) International Ethnographic Film Festival and Academic Conference, 11-15 September, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Screening and discussion: Sikukuu (Celebration Day).
2018 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference STAYING, MOVING, SETTLING, 14-17 August, Stockholm, Sweden. Paper: Invisible but provoking: The camera facilitating a plunge into reflexive reality.
2018 Human-Animal Studies conference (UN)COMMON WORLDS, 7-9 August, Turku, Finland. Paper: Professional and shamanistic animal communicators: Implications of crossing the nature/culture divide in practice.
2018 ATLAS.ti User Conference BUILDING THE FUTURE OF QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS, June 20-22, Berlin, Germany. PechaKucha: Using ATLAS.ti to work with multiple languages and translations.
2017 Reframing Africa MODERNITY, CINEMA & AFRICA, 21-22 October, Johannesburg, South Africa.
2017 RIJCT FRONTIERS OF TOURISM, September 7-9, Paris, France. Presentation: Eliamani’s homestead as part of a research project. Presentation and guided tour: Maasai jewelry: European beads with African stories.
2014 Workshop of the BIGSAS ‘Tourism in Africa’ Workgroup CULTURAL TOURISM AND INDIGENOUS GROUPS IN AFRICA: QUESTIONS RAISED AND LESSONS LEARNED, June 2-3, University of Bayreuth Germany. Paper: The tourism experience from a two-sided perspective.
2013 ATLAS.ti User Conference FOSTERING DIALOG ON QUALITATIVE METHODS, September 12-14, Berlin, Germany.
2013 Q Conference 29th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF SUBJECTIVITY, September 5-7, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Paper: Q Method in Cultural Anthropology: Combining participants with different backgrounds and literacy levels.
2013 Images of Whiteness, 3rd Global conference EXPLORING CRITICAL ISSUES, July 22-24, Oxford, United Kingdom. Paper: A Tanzanian Maasai view on whites: A complex relationship between half-brothers.
2012 Workshop of the BIGSAS ‘Tourism in Africa’ Workgroup TOURISM AND SOCIO-CULTURAL CHANGE IN AFRICA, November 26, Universtiy of Bayreuth, Germany. Paper: ‘White people’ and ‘noble savages’: Images and interactions during cultural tourism encounters in Eastern Africa.
2011 Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) Tagung, WA(H)RE “KULTUR”: KULTURELLES ERBE, REVITALISIERUNG UND DIE RENAISSANCE DER IDEE VON KULTUR, September 14-17, Vienna, Austria. Paper: Cosmopolitan Savages: (Un)successful uses of culture as resource for development.
2010 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, CRISIS AND IMAGINATION, August 24-27, Maynooth, Ireland. Paper: Cosmopolitan Savages: The challenging art of selling African culture to tourists.
2010 Viva Africa, 5th International Conference on African Studies, POWER AND POWERLESSNESS IN AFRICA, May 6-7, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic. Paper: The Power behind Representations: The World Bank and African Poverty Reduction from 1970-2000.
2009 Ethnografeast IV, INTIMACIES AND KNOWLEDGES, June 25-27, Leiden, the Netherlands. Paper: ‘The lion has become a cow’: has ecotourism made Maasai into guardians of wildlife?
2008 European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Conference, EXPERIENCING DIVERSITY AND MUTUALITY, August 26-30, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2008 Bright Conference, EUROPE AS A KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY, August 14-17, Helsinki, Finland. Paper: History and power relations construct the knowledge society: Acknowledging the limits of our knowledge to make it stronger.
2007 ABV Conference, Landelijk Congres Antropologen Beroepsvereniging, TIJD VOOR ANTROPOLOGIE! VERSNELLING – JEUGD – TOEKOMST, 1-2 November, Arnhem, the Netherlands.
2007 KWS Wildlife Conference, RESEARCH IMPERATIVES FOR BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT, April 18-21, Nairobi, Kenya.
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