Events
Upcoming events and talks
‘Risky’ Kaynartepe: A Case of Counterinsurgent Governance Through Urban Regeneration
RC21 Urban and Regional Development Conference: Ineuqalities and the City
University of Vienna
Roundtable on Mutations of Urbanism: Illiberal cities and what to do about them
RC21 Urban and Regional Development Conference: Ineuqalities and the City
University of Vienna
Matters of Risk: Infrastructures and Technologies of (In) Security and Polarization
co-organised with Ebru Kayaalp, Tessa Diphoorn, Vidushi Kaushik
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2026: Possibilities in a Polarised World
Household Finance Lab: bureaucratic governance, coercion and capital accumulation in an economically polarised world
co-organized with Ryan Davey, Jitka Kralova, Rano Turaeva, Mathias Sosnowski Krabbe, Alexandra Ciocanel, Balazs Gosztonyi, Judit Durst
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2026: Possibilities in a Polarised World
Beyond financialized lives?: Investigating Giravnoba in Tbilisi
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2026: Possibilities in a Polarised World
Past Events
Workshop on (Un)Chaining Disasters: Materials, Work, and the Everyday of Re-Configuration
The workshop invites case studies that examine supply chains, forms of work, and human experiences affected by disruptions such as wars and armed conflicts, industrial accidents, earthquakes, storms, wildfires, large-scale infrastructure failures, and other events involving material destruction and displacement.
Kobe University
Domination Through Counterinsurgent Urban Governance: The Case of “Risky” Kaynartepe
British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) 2026 Conference
SOAS, University of London
Counterinsurgent Urban Governance in Post-war Diyarbakır: Contemporary Urban Manifestations of a Colonial and Imperial Pacification Paradigm
CEUrban Research Group Seminar
Central European University, Vienna
Counterinsurgent Urban Governance in Post-war City: The case of Kaynartepe
Webinar on Kurdish Urbanisms: Urban Research from Turkey’s Internal “South East”
Class at Work on the Seismic Line
Co-authored with Ann-Christin Zuntz
Conference on Spectres of the Undercommon: Inhumanities in the Wake of the Catastrophe
American University of Cairo
Giravnoba in Georgia: Between commodification and decommodification of housing
BeNeLux Geography Conference
KU Leuven
“Collateralized lives”: Home, debt, and financialization in the Republic of Georgia
Anthropology Seminar Series for Spring 2026 (in English)
The Anthropology Research Center and the PhD Program in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ilia State University
Anthropology of Debt and Finance
Spring Term, 2026
Seminar at the Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
The Livability Apparatus. Establishing Vienna as Most Livable in the World
Monday Lectures at ifk
International Research Center for Cultural Studies University of Art and Design Linz
Workshop on Spaces and Traces of Containment: Architectures of Extractivism
Migrants and Urban Politics: Governing the Displaced and Cities, IWM
Early-Career Workshop in Urban Studies: “What’s the Urban worth? Revaluing the value of urban life”
University of Lisbon
Soziale Durchmischung: von radikalem Tool zu oberflächlichem Marker von Diversität
Tagung Stadt, Land, Wohnen: Herausforderungen und Perspektiven der regionalen Wohnungsmarktforschung
Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg
Expanded Extractivism: Regimes of Confined Labour, Containment, and the Geographies of Displacement
Anthropology Department and Keyman Centre for Turkish Studies, Northwestern University
Extractivism Expanded: Confined Labor, Regimes of Containment, and City-making
Migration, Mobilities, and Social Politics Research Cluster, University of Balsillie School of International Affairs
Shifting Ideology: When Social Inclusion Gives in to Livability in Urban Renewal Policies
Anthropology of the State Network Conference
University of Amsterdam
Extractive Hospitality: Refugee Accommodation and the Humanitarian-Development Nexus in Greece
Workshop on Extractive Borders: Profiting from Migrants’ Forced Im/Mobility
University of Bologna
Refugee Containment and the Political Economy of Aid at the EU Border
The Centre for the Study of International Migration, UCLA
Financialization, Extractivism, and the Governance of Migration
Scholars of Excellence Workshop
The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Humanitarian Fix: Crisis Capitalism and Refugee Containment in Greece
Department of Anthropology, Stanford University
New Critical Perspectives in Anthropology
Fall Term, 2025
Seminar at the Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
Risky Areas’ of Diyarbakır: The Formation of Risk and (De)securitization
5th ISA Forum of Sociology
International Sociological Association (ISA)
Limbos of Diyarbakır: Ambiguous Urban Redevelopment Processes and Counterinsurgency
5th ISA Forum of Sociology
International Sociological Association (ISA)
The Role of Law in Urban Restructuring and Counterinsurgency in the ‘Risky’ Areas of Diyarbakır.
Workshop on Authoritarianism, Law, and the Remaking of Society
The Social Life of Law Academic Research Project, The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
‘Risky Areas’ of Diyarbakır: Dissemination of Counterinsurgency in Urban Restructuring
3rd Kurdish Studies Conference
London School of Economics (LSE) & University of Sheffield
Workshop on Urban space in tension between financialization and the right to the city
Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Vienna
Workshop on Urban space in tension between financialization and the right to the city
Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Vienna
Workshop on Urban space in tension between financialization and the right to the city
Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences, University of Vienna
I came as a legal, and Romania made me illegal. The production of precarity and irregularity within the Romanian migration regime
Conference on Capitalist Transformations in Central and Eastern Europe
University of Babes-Bolyai
Pluralising Ethnographies of the State and Migration Regimes
The Intensive Programme on Anthropology in the Plural
Lumière University Lyon 2
Marxist Approaches to Borders and Migrant Justice
The Law and Marxism Spring School
Centre for Law and Social Change, SOAS
Refugee Rentierism, Racialised Extractivism and the Spatio-racial Fix of Humanitarian Assistance in Times of Capitalist Crisis
Historical Materialism Conference
“Governing the displaced in cities: The rule of “emergency”, Janus Face of Mayors’ power, autocratic reconfiguration of state power
Special Session: Cities That Defy Their Nations, International Conference on Urban Affairs
New Critical Perspectives in Anthropology
Spring Term, 2025
Seminar at the Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
‘Risky Areas’ of Diyarbakır: Use of Urban Redevelopment in Urban Governance and Counterinsurgency
The 11th Meeting of East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography (EARCAG)
Changing landscapes of urban governance: the displaced and the states
Conference on Sharing insights and joining forces for rebuilding Europe’s migration society
National Library of Belgium
Financializing homes: mechanisms and practices of indebtedness in Georgia
Conference on Household Finance in an unequal world: social approaches
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Home as a financial asset: chains of indebtedness in Georgia
The Challenges of the Urban Future Platform, University of Vienna
Workshop on Continuities and Ruptures in Forced Migration: The Politics of Labor, Borders, and Representations
Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration, IWM
16th EthnoDoks workshop: Interdisciplinary approaches to ethnographic research
Central European University & University of Vienna
16th EthnoDoks workshop: Interdisciplinary approaches to ethnographic research
Central European University&University of Vienna
Workshop on Continuities and Ruptures in Forced Migration: The Politics of Labour, Power and Representations
Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration, IWM
“They came to work.” The production of vulnerability and irregularity within the Romanian migration infrastructure
Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA) Conference
Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna
Governing cities and governing the displaced: Mayors, ‘emergency rule’, and urban politics
The International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Malmö University
Participate! Co-producing citizen participation practices and democratic ideas
EASST and 4S Joint Conference
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The politics and spaces of encounters: advancing dialogues between and within the Global North and the Global South
7th Doctoral School in Comparative Urban Studies
RC21 Urban and Regional Development & International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (IJURR)
Genocide and Organised Abandonment
Talk with M. Elnaiem, Director of the Decolonial Centre
CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Conference on Debordering futures: Racial capitalism, Coloniality and Migrant Justice
University of Cambridge
Mitgestaltung von urbanen Transformationsprozessen – vom Brunnenmarkt bis zur Thaliastraße
with Cornelia Dlabaja
Talks & Walks Series: 50 years of soft urban renewal in Vienna with Sektion Stadtforschung
Austrian Association for Sociology (ÖGS)
IWM Spring Fellows’ Conference 2024
IWM
Manufacturing Ruin, Manufacturing Revitalization: Displacement and Migration in Detroit
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
In/formality as a Working Style: Urban Renewal in Vienna, Austria
CEU Graduate Conference
Central European University (CEU)
Wem hört Wien zu?: Bürger*innenbeteiligung in Stadterneuerung
Politiken des Schweigens | lecture series Disziplinen in Bewegung
Faculty Center for Transdisciplinary Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna
Provincialising Racial Capitalism: The Refugee Humanitarian-Development Fix and the Social Reproduction of ‘Surplus Populations’ in Austerity Europe
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
The Political Economy of Migration Governance: ‘Extraction, Logistification and Racial Capitalism
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Political economy of Containment industries: Confinement and (im)mobilized labor in the making of Linz
Scholars of Excellence Workshop on the “integration business”: A radical critique on migration, development and reception services
The Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
The Longue Durée of Extractivism, Confinement, and (im)mobilized Labor in City- making in Linz
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
Rethinking Migrant Inclusion in Detroit: the Role of Philanthropy
Urban Affairs Association Annual Conference
‘Risky Areas’ of Diyarbakir: Normalization of the use of counterinsurgency strategies in urban restructuring
The Challenges of the Urban Future Platform, University of Vienna
In and against the workfare/welfare state: Humanitarian Workers in Borderland Greece
Historical Materialism Conference
Governing the displaced in cities: Wars, the rule of “emergency”, and extraction
Calcutta Research Group’s 8th Annual Conference
Calcutta Research Group (CRG)
Expanded extractivism, confinement, and (im)mobilized labor in city-making
American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Conference
Situating cities as sites of investment
American Anthropological Association/Canadian Anthropology Society Annual Conference
Hijacking the Politics of Protection and the Counter-revolution of Borders in Europe’s ‘Refugee Crisis’
9th International Conference of Critical Geographers
Keywords in Refugee and Migration Studies
Europe-Asia ResearchPlatform on Forced Migration, IWM
Shifting contours of urban governance: an intriguing landscape beyond decentralization?
Migration, Urban Governance, and Restructuring in the Context of Recentralizing Neoliberalism
New School for Social Research
Planning without Responsibility: ‘quality of life for all’ in Vienna without resources
Anthropology of the State Network Conference
Riga Stradiņš University
Participation in Urban Planning: A Path to Less Inequality?
ÖGS Kongress
Vienna University of Economics and Business
Pylos Shipwreck: Necropolitical Governance at the EU Border
Refugee Week Conference
University of Cambridge
How are the urban counterinsurgency strategies, developed during the urban conflict, normalized and generalized by the state?
Multimodal Research and Publishing Workshop
ZOIS, DeZIM & VISION
Colonial Afterlives of Infrastructure: From Phosphate to Asylum Processing in the Republic of Nauru
Research Seminar
Infrastructural Geographies Research Group, University of Cambridge
Thinking from the East: Geographies of Post-socialism and the Geopolitics of Knowledge
Seminar
University of Cambridge
Unruly Speech: Displacement and the politics of Transgression
Book Launch
Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge
Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium
Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration, IWM & Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility
Counterinsurgency and Spatial Subjugation through Urban Destruction and Redevelopment in Sur, Diyarbakır
Conference Turkey at 100: (Dis)Continuities and (Dis)contents
The Orient Institute & The Institute of Social and Political Sciences (ISCSP), University of Lisbon
“Arrival” Infrastructures of the Displaced from Ukraine in Vienna
Europe-Asia Research Platform on Forced Migration, IWM
Counterinsurgency and Spatial Subjugation Through Urban Destruction and Redevelopment in Sur, Diyarbakir
4th International Conference on Anthropology of Urban Conflict
The Observatory for the Anthropology of Urban Conflict
Borders, Colonialism and Migration
Study Group
Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement, University of Cambridge
Conference on Digitized Migrants
Calcutta Research Group (CRG), IWM, Migration Research Center Koç (MiReKoc)
Migration, Mobility Justice and the Right to Health in a Post-pandemic World: Lessons and Future Directions for Research, Policy, and Advocacy
Roundtable Discussion
Centre for Universal Health, Chatham House
COVID-19 Vaccines for Migrants and Refugees: Securing Equitable Access
Expert Panel Event
Centre for Universal Health, Chatham House
City Space, Migrants, Production of Vulnerability
Ethics of Solidarity, Care and Protection Youth Camp
Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group (MCRG)
The Intersection of Public Health and Migration Policies in Greece in the Context of COVID-19
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting
‘Revitalizing’ Detroit: Creating Pathways for Migrant Emplacement
International Summer School on Research Methods and Ethics in Migration Studies
Migration ResearchCentre Koç University (MiReKoc)
13th EthnoDoks workshop: What can ethnography really do?
University of Vienna
Repräsentativität in qualitativer Sozialforschung. Und was hat das mit Beteiligungsverfahren zu tun?
WIP Lecture Series
Municipal Department 25 (MA 25)
Governance Arrangements of Urban Renewal
CEU Graduate Conference
Central European University (CEU)
Soft Urban Renewal: Inclusive Governance Technique?
The European Association of Social Anthropologists 2020
University of Lisbon
Working outside of the Frame: Municipal Placemaking and Coalition Building in Detroit, USA
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Europe-Asia research platform on Forced Migration: Initiating a new research focus at IWM
IWM
Mediated negotiations for space between Viennese municipal authorities and residents of the city
Creole Intensive Program
University of Lyon
Revitalizing Warrendale: Migrant Inclusion and Neighborhood change in Detroit
Book Workshop on Uncertain Refuge: Vitality and Vulnerability in Arab Detroit
Center for Arab American Studies, University of Michigan
The Urban Geographies of Migration Control in Greece
Mediterranean Migration and Borders: Beyond the Security Nexus
Institute for Advanced Studies, Aix Marseille University
Temporality as a Technique of Governing Migration: Authoritarian and Liberal Variations from Greece’s Recent Past
Workshop on Questioning the Temporalities and Cartographies of Migration
King’s College London
Governing Migration at the Urban Frontiers of Europe: The Case of Athens
American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting