2024 “A Vital Frontier.” Department of Anthropology, Utrecht University. May 6.
2024 “Do Waves have Rights?” Department of Anthropology. University of Bergen. March 21.
2024 “A Vital Frontier.” Department of Anthropology and Institute for Environmental Humanities. University of Illinois Champaign. February 21.
2024 “A Vital Frontier.” Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. Feb 19.
2024 “Do Waves have Rights?” Talk. Anthropology. University of Bayreuth. Jan 23
2024 “A Vital Frontier.” Anthropology Colloquium Series on Climate and Environmental Change. Institut für Kulturanthropologie und Europäische Ethnologie. University of Göttingen. Jan 17.
2023 “A Vital Frontier.” Talk at “Anticipating Anthropologies.” Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. Dec 5.
2023 “Capitalism, Necropolitics, Life.” Panel. American Anthropological Association. Toronto, November 15.
2023 Berge, Flüsse, Wälder schützen - Über das Phänomen der Rechte der Natur. Bremer Informationszentrum für Menschenrechte und Natur (BIZ). Übersee Museum. Bremen, November 7.
2023 “Do Waves have Rights? From Rights of Nature to Earth Law.” Symposium, Architectures of the Global. Tilburg Law School, Netherlands. October 26.
2023 “A Vital Frontier.” At “Water Trilogies,” with Tinatin Gurgenidze and Raul Walch. Floating Berlin. October 11.
2023 “Capitalism, Necropolitics, Life.” Online Seminar Series: “The Hau of Finance.” University of Bologna. Sept. 25.
2023 “Capitalism, Necropolitics, Life.” Labor Anthropology of Environment/Human Relations. Institut für Europäische Ethnologie. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. July 6.
2023. “Toward an Anthropology of the Ocean Floor.” Inaugural Lecture. Professorship in Maritime Anthropology and Cultures of Water. University of Bremen. June 27.
2023 “Navigation.” Querblicke Ringvorlesung at the Hafen City University of Hamburg. June 19.
2023 “Do Waves have Rights? From Rights of Nature to Earth Law.” Talk. Institute for World Society Studies. Bielefeld University, June 13.
2023 “Toward an Anthropology of the Ocean Floor,” Talk at the Department of Anthropology, Sapienza Università di Roma, with ErmeNautica - Saperi in Rotta. May 15.
2023 “A Vital Frontier.” Book Talk. Bertha House. Cape Town. With the African Water Commons Collective (AWCC).
2023 “Capitalism, Necropolitics, Life,” Talk at Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Vienna, March 20.
2023 “Capitalism, Necropolitics, Life,” Talk at “Thinking Futures from Elsewhere. Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich, March 7-8.
2023 “Life as Debt and Debt to Life.” Talk. Department of Anthropology. Universität Mainz. Jan 31.
2022 “Rights of Nature.” Talk. Department of Anthropology, University of Oslo. Wednesday, Dec 14.
2022 “Life as Debt or Debt to Life? Water Insurgencies in Europe.” Senior Seminar, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Nov 4.
2022 “Rekommunalisierung durch Rückkauf: Erfolge und Fallstricke.” (Remunicipalization through Buy-Back: Successes and Pitfalls). Vergesellschaftungskonferenz: Strategien für eine demokratische Wirtschaft. Berlin, Okt 7.
2022 “The Rights of Future Generations.” Talk. Equity Perspectives on Global Ocean Law and Governance, Warburg Haus, Hamburg, Sept 7.
2022 Symposium. World Ocean Day. “How to Think Globally while Acting Locally.” Albert Ludwigs Universität, Freiburg, June 8.
2021 “Life as Debt or Debt to Life? Water Insurgencies in Europe.” Department of Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. Dec 3.
2021 Plenary Discussion, “Zones of Extractivism.” October 1st, German Anthropological Association (DGSKA).
2021 “Rights of Nature: Toward New Figures and Distributions of Rights." Workshop “Against Structural Postponement. On the Legitimacy and Possibilities of New Institutions of Sharing.” University of Berne, Switzerland. Sept 5-8.2021 “Life as Debt or Debt to Life? Time, Water, Infrastructure.” Talk at the Ethnography and Social Theory Colloquium Series, Yale University, April 26. 2021 Inaugural Jane Schneider Lecture, CUNY Graduate Center. “Life in Debt or Debt to Life? Time, Water, Infrastructure.” April 16th.
2021 Keynote. American Association of Geographers. With Gabriel Dattatreyan, Mayanthi Fernando, and Anand Pandian. April 8.
2021 Keynote. “Life in Debt or Debt to Life? Time, Water, Infrastructure.” Universität Hamburg. Conference: Title: Renewal, Endurance and Care: Spaces and Rhythms of Urban Industrial Entanglements. March 2021.
2020 “On Infrastructures and Insurgency: The Struggle for Public Water in Europe.” Science Studies Department. University of San Diego. Jan 6.2019 “Law in the Age of Financialized Infrastructure.” New York University School of Law. Nov 5.2019 “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.” University of Oslo, Norway. August 21.2019 “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.” Berlin THESys Institute. Humboldt University. March 2019.2019 “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.” Department of Anthropology. University of Zürich. March 2019. 2019 “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.” University College London. March 5, 2019.2019 “The Migrant-Citizen Distinction.” Department of Anthropology. Leiden University. February 18. 2019 “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.” Harvard University. Department of Anthropology. February 4, 2019. 2018 Seminar (Graduate). Department of Anthropology. Princeton University. October 12, 2018. 2018 “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.” Department of Anthropology. Princeton University. October 11, 2018.2018 Seminar. Harvard University. Academy for International Studies. “Author’s Conference” (with Xenia Cherkaev: "Personal Property: Obtaining, Totalitarianism and a Planned Economy Neo-Liberated"). September 21. 2018 Master Class. Department of Anthropology. University College London. June 12.2018 Talk. Conference on “Rethinking Usufruct in the Global Economy.” University College London. June 11.2018 “Emergency Infrastructure in an Era of Dispossession.” Workshop on “Climate, Infrastructure, and Emergency Powers.” Columbia University. The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture. April 13-14. 2018 “Insurgency, Price, Sovereignty: the Struggle Against Financialized Water in Europe.” Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Simon Fraser University. February 27.2018 Seminar (on “The Moral Neoliberal”). Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Simon Fraser University. Feb 28.2018 Keynote. Conference on Urban Ethics. Munich. Ludwig Maximilian Universität. January 17-19. “Urban Water Politics, Ethics, and the Financialized City.”
2017 Plenary speaker. “Locating the Political.” Canadian Association of Social Anthropology (CASCA). May 2-7.
2017 Plenary speaker. “The Price of Austerity.” Global Institute on Culture and History. University of Warwick. Conference on “Global Inequalities.” April 17-19.
2017 Keynote. “Transfigurationen: Medizin macht Gesellschaft macht Medizin.” University of Basel, Switzerland. Feb 17.
2016 Seminar (on "The Moral Neoliberal"). Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. December 1. 2016 Franz Boas Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, Columbia University. November 30.2016 Talk. Department of Anthropology Colloquium Series. Department of Anthropology. McMaster University. October 252016 Discussant. “Precarity or Flexibility? Changing Realities of Labour in the New Europe.” Re: Work. Berlin.2016 Plenary Speaker. Alternatives to Austerity. June 9-10. London School of Economics.
2016 "Commonwealth." Workshop on “Wealth.” University of Bergen / Thessaloniki. April 28-30. 2016 “Water, Politics, and the Democratic Imagination.” Cambridge University, April 22. 2016 “Water, Politics, and the Democratic Imagination.” Saint Andrew’s Seminar Series. St. Andrew’s University. April 21. 2016 ““(Il)legality, Emergency, and the Struggle for the Commons: Water Politics in Campania.” ANSO Colloquium. The Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland. April 5.2016 ““(Il)legality, Emergency, and the Struggle for Res Publica: Water Politics in Naples.” Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Freie Universitaet Berlin. February 1.2015 ““(Il)legality, Emergency, and the Struggle for Res Publica: Water Politics in Naples.”.” University of Sussex. December 8. 2015 “(Il)legality, Emergency, and the Struggle for Res Publica: Water Politics in Naples.” Manchester University. December 7. 2015 “Rekommunalisierung und die Suche nach Demokratie.” Berliner Wasserrat (Berlin Water Council). November 26.2015 “On the Language of Commoning.” Neoliberal Frontiers: Language and Political Economy Revisited Conference. University of Chicago. March 7-9. 2014 “Water, Politics, and the Democratic Imagination. A View from Naples.” El Colegio de México and UNAM. October 9.2014 “Water, Politics, and the Democratic Imagination. A View from Naples.” Department of Anthropology. Maxwell School. Syracuse University. October 2, 2014. 2014 “The Crisis of Care and the Rise of Ethical Citizenship in Lombardy, Italy.” Institute for European Global Studies. Basel, Switzerland. April 23.2013 “Messy Europe: Whiteness and Crisis in a Postcolonial World.” Icelandic Center for Research (RANNIS). Reykjavik, October 11.2013 “Can’t we leave that to the volunteers? Changing relationships between professionals and volunteers in care and welfare.” International Expert Meeting, University of Amsterdam. September 26-27. 2013 Seminar on The Moral Neoliberal. University of Amsterdam, September 27. 2013 Seminar on The Moral Neoliberal. International University College of Turin. June 12.2012 Keynote. Symposium “Thinking Feelings, Affective Attachments, Emotional Sociologies, Aesthetic Formations.” University of Amsterdam. June 11-12.
2012 Graduate seminar. University of Zurich. April 27-28 and May 4-5. 2010 Invited Discussant. Morgan Lecture, University of Rochester, given by Lisa Rofel and Sylvia Yanagisako. October 20-21. 2010 Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory. University of Chicago. May 4.2009 Globalization and Europe Conference. Duke University Center for European Studies. May 15-16.