Upcoming
2027 Title tbd. Global School of Sustainability Visitor. London School of Economics. March 9-12.
2027 “Labor’s Longue Durée: Pension Funds as Predatory Investors.” GlobeColloquium / Ethical Lives of Capitalism. University of Leipzig. February 10.
2026 Title Tbd. “Nature, Health, Value.” Centre for Anthropology of Mental Health Research in Action. SOAS, London, December 7-8.
2026 Problematic Objects of Property. Panel on “Problems and Strategies of Owning Water.” Jena November 4-6.
2026 “Anthropological Approaches to the Climate Crisis.” Radical Spotlights. Organized by Society for Economic Anthropology (AAA) and the European Anthropology of Economy Network (EASA). September 21.
Past
2026 “How to Speak for a Lagoon"?” Rights of Nature: Anthropological and Legal Perspectives. June 22. Austrian Academy of Sciences.
2026 “Wir sind der Fluss.” Gespräch zu den Rechten der Natur. Bremer Hafenmuseum. 29. April.
2026 “Wem gehört das Wasser?” Volkshochschule Beider Basel. 27. April. Vortragsreihe “Wertvolles Wasser.”
2025 “A Register of Loss.” Talk. University of Zürich. Department of Anthropology. December 2.
2025 “Do Waves have Rights? On Corporate Personhood and its Others.” Workshop “Reconsidering Legal Subjectivity In and Through the Anthropocene.” Law in the Anthropocene. Frankfurt am Main. November 27-28.
2025 “The First and the Last Bank: Climate Change, Currency, and a new Carbon Commons.” Panel Discussion of book by Gustav Peebles. University of Stockholm. October 17.
2025 “Anthropologies of the Commons.” Keynote, DGSKA (German Anthropological Association Meetings), September 29.
2025 “Capitalism´s Grotesque Life.” “Matters of Life and Death,” Leipzig University. Co-organized by the Institutes of Anthropology and African Studies. June 30.
2025 “What is a Wave? On Justice Beyond the Human.” Marine STS Group. University of Würzburg. June 26.
2025 “What is a Wave? On Justice Beyond the Human.” Ethnologisches Kolloquium, Uni Hamburg. June 24.
2025 “For a Blue Planet: Water Commons and ‘Commoning’ in the Climate Crisis.” Conversation with Andrea Pia (LSE). Commoning Dialogues. Global South Studies Centre of Cologne University. June 16.
2024 “A Vital Frontier.” Book Talk. Department of Geography. London School of Economics. November 14.
2024 “A Vital Frontier.” Book Talk. 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.” Book Talk. 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 “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: “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 “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 “The Rights of Future Generations.” Talk. Equity Perspectives on Global Ocean Law and Governance, Warburg Haus, Hamburg, Sept 7.
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. Book Discussion. Dr Alessandra Gribaldo “Unexpected Subjects” (HAU Books). Independent Social Research Foundation
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 “A Vital Politics: Water Insurgencies in Europe.” Harvard University. Department of Anthropology. February 4, 2019. 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 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 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.