Selected Presentations
Recurrent Dependency? Heritage, Memory, and "Energy Speculation"
Memory Studies Association Conference, Prague, 17 July 2025.
Vital Wetland Heritage: Reimagining Unruly Things in the Hydrocene.
Invited presentation, Heritage practices beyond the human Workshop, Inherit, Berlin, 5–6 December 2024.
Picking Apart the Archive – Vital Heritage between the Nation-State, Global Developmentalism, and Recurrent Violence in the Sardinian Wetlands
EASA 2024, Barcelona, 23–26 July 2024.
Tracing Collections and Evoking Textural Memories of (Forced) Migration in Europe
Memory Studies Association Conference, Lima, Peru, 18–20 July 2024.
The Mouse, the Mountain and the Basket - Dissonant Stories between Heritage & Environmental Futures
Storytelling for Environmental Futures Conference, Center for Environmental Humanities, University of Stavanger, 7–9 August 2024.
Wetland Kinship and Its Discontents
Connecting Lines – Tracing climate change and social justice, Ethnological Museum, Ljubljana, 25–26 April 2024.
Tangled Threads of Heritage and Care in Southern Europe
Winterkolloquium, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 17 January 2024.
Weaving Europe, Crafting the Museum (with Aimee Joyce and Magdalena Zych)
Invited book launch, The Network of an Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH), 30 November 2023.
Waterscapes, Heritage, and Politics of Care
Invited presentation, NICHE, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 29 November 2023.
Textiles are Never Neutral
Invited presentation, Looms and Labor Workshop, Pickle Bar, Berlin, 23 November 2023.
Weaving Knowledge In and Out of the Museum
Invited presentation, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, 11 October 2023.
Vital Heritage between Gleaning, Caring and Tracing
Invited presentation, Goldsmiths Departmental Seminar, 4 October 2023.
Woven Waterscapes Beyond Regimes of Heritage, Conservation, and Sustainability
SIEF 2023, 16th Congress, Brno, Czech Republic, 7–10 June 2023.
The Ebbs and Flows of Heritage Ecologies – Weaving Through and Against Environmental Futures
Anthropology in a Speculative World, ASA Conference, 12 April 2023.
Can the Mouse Move the Mountain?
Invited contribution to panel discussion Anthropology, Activism and Local Environmental Knowledge (with Raj Puri, Paul Powlesland, Pauline von Hellermann, and Richard Jones), Radical Anthropology Group, 14 March 2023.
Gleaners and Gatherers – Navigating Intangible Heritage and Resource Materialities in Southern and Southeastern Europe
Critical Heritage and Social Justice Workshop, UCL, London, 3 May 2022.
Curated Textiles
Invited presentation, Spirals: Art, Archives and the Curatorial, University of Cape Town, 26 November 2021.
Weaving the Learning City
Anthropology Beyond Text? Experiments, Devices and Platforms of Multimodal Ethnographic Practice Workshop,
Invited presentation, Stadtlabor for Multimodal Anthropology, Berlin, 25 November 2021.
Folk Shirts, Plastic Cups and Other Curatorial Dilemmas of Future-Proofing at the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin
ACHS Conference, London, 26–30 August 2020.
Ever-Changing and Traditional: Field Reflections on Weaving in Europe
Weaving Practices – An Exploration into the Materials, Techniques and Design of Fabrics,
Matters of Activity Excellence Cluster Workshop, Berlin, 29 October 2020.
Homemade Textiles – Negotiations in Material Culture, Value and Making
EASA Conference, Lisbon, 21–26 July 2020.
Ethnographic Research in Museum Collections
Humboldt Kolleg: Cultural Heritage at the Intersection of Humanities and Sciences, Amman, Jordan, 16–18 April 2019.
Curatorial Affects and the Contingency of Fieldwork
Royal Anthropological Institute – Art, Materiality and Representation Conference, British Museum, 1–3 June 2018.
Selected Events Organised
2025 – Hydrotraces of Social Justice in Times of Climate Crisis
Symposium, NICHE, Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy
Co-organised with Alberto Berzosa (UAM Madrid), Karolina Pauknerová (Charles University), Petr Gibas (Czech Academy of Sciences), and Sanja Horvatinčić (Institute of Art History, Zagreb) as part of TRACTS COST Action.
2025 – A Line Drawn on Water: Adventures & Exchanges at the Art–Academia Interface
Symposium, Research Pavilion, Uniarts Helsinki, Finland
Co-convened with Lee Douglas (Goldsmiths) and Otso Aavaranta (Uniarts Helsinki) as part of TRACTS COST Action.
2024/2025 – Specters and Spectrums
Seminar Series, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Winter Term)
Co-convened with Milena Bister.
2023 – WARP – Workshop on Cultural Expressions and Research in Practice
Centre for Cultural Techniques (ZfK), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Summer Term)
Convenor of workshop and seminar series.
2023 – Tracing Temporalities, Unearthing Collection Ethics
Symposium, Centre for Cultural Techniques (ZfK), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 19–20 April
Co-organised with Martin Fonck, Tomas Uson, and Tina Palaic, as part of TRACTS COST Action.
2023 – (Re)imagining Publics through Ethnographic Collections
Panel as part of Re(making) and Navigating the Publics Workshop, DFG Network on Public Anthropology, 18 November, Berlin
Co-organised with Sofia Botvinnik (Museum Europäischer Kulturen), Benjamina Efua Dadzie (University of East Anglia), and Paola Ivanov (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin).
2023 – Multimodal Anthropology and Co-producing Publics through Decolonial Flânerie
Panel as part of Re(making) and Navigating the Publics Workshop, DFG Network on Public Anthropology, 17 November, Berlin
Co-organised with Adela Taleb, Melanye Garland, and Jorge Vega.
2022 – Doing Access
Seminar Series, Institute for European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Co-convened with Alice von Bieberstein (HU).
2022 – Towards a Decolonial Anthropology of Europe: New Common Grounds and Knowledgescapes
Panel as part of EASA Conference, Belfast, 25–29 July
Co-convened with Maribel Casas-Cortes, Damani Partridge, and Regina Römhild.
2020 – Rethinking (Post)Socialist Heritage – Ambiguous Afterlives and Contested Futures
Panel as part of Association of Critical Heritage Studies Conference, London, 26–30 August.
Co-convened with Laura Demeter (Bamberg).
2020 – Knowing Historical Traces, Eliciting Possible Futures
Panel as part of EASA Conference, Lisbon, 21–26 July
Co-convened with Aimee Joyce (St Andrews) and Zahira Araguete (Geneva).
2019 – Towards the Transformation of Collections of Everyday Culture: What’s Missing?
Panel as part of Collecting and Exhibiting Europe Conference, Museum Europäischer Kulturen – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 26–28 June.
2019 – Constructing Solidarities through Historical Traces
Panel as part of IUAES Inter-Congress “World Solidarities,” Poznań, 27–31 August
Co-convened with Aimee Joyce and Zahira Araguete.
2019 – Collections of the Museum of European Cultures – Challenges of the Past and Future
Panel as part of CARMAH Research Seminar and Museum Labor, 14 December.
2017 – Ethnographic, Sensory, Visual, and Participatory Methodologies
Convened Research Seminar, University of Bristol (with Gillian Cope and Camilla Morelli).
2017 – What is the Role of Universities in the City?
Convened roundtable discussion with education scholars, human geographers, and urban innovation experts including Keri Facer, Robin Hambleton, and Cassie Earl.