Conference Papers & Speeches
2018 Cambridge, British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES) Annual Conference.
Presentation: Turkish Foreign Policy towards its Eastern Black Sea Neighbours
2017 Regenstauf, 1st Corridors Young Researchers Workshop: Obstacles and Opportunities for Dialogue and Cooperation in Protracted Conflicts.
Presentation: Turkey's foreign policy towards the Black Sea and South Caucasus regions,
3-9 September.
Istanbul, Global Leadership Forum Bahcesehir University.
Presentation: The European Union and the Crisis of Democracy,
6-7 May.
2016 Washington, DC, 9th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.
Presentation: Alternative Identities and the State in Contemporary Turkey,
27-29 October.
Istanbul, Global Leadership Forum Bahcesehir University.
Presentation: Internal Crises of the European Union,
14-15 May.
2015 Montreal, European Consortium for Political Research General Conference.
Presentation: The failure of transitional justice in South Sudan,
26-29 August.
Paris, 6th European Conference on African Studies. Presentation: Seeing is believing!? Making and propagating an idea of the nation in South Sudan,
8-10 July.
2014 San Francisco, Sudanese Studies Association 33rd Annual Conference.
Presentation: Does Nationbuilding matter for State-building in South Sudan?,
23-25 May.
Mainz, Institute for Anthropology and African Studies.
Speech: Nation verzweifelt gesucht. Staats- und Nationenbildung im Südsudan,
13 May.
2013 Baltimore, 56th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association.
Presentation: Deterritorialisation and reconfigured sovereignty in South Sudan,
21-24 November.
Kampala, Nile Basin Conference ‘Authority, territory, community: dynamics of water, land tenure regimes, and state formation in Africa’.
Presentation: Land and belonging in emerging South Sudan,
14-15 October.
Halle, Conference Emerging South Sudan: negotiating statehood.
Panel Chair: ‘Post-Conflict Reconstruction’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
23-24 September.
Lisbon, 5th European Conference on African Studies.
Presentation: Making borders and identities in South Sudan,
27-29 June.
Rome, Conference Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century.
Presentation: South Sudan – an outlier in post-colonial African nation-building?,
20-22 June.
Zagreb, Conference Identities and Identifications – Politicized Uses of Collective Identities. Presentation: Nationbuilding in Nascent South Sudan – How to Remember the War,
18-20 April.
2017 Regenstauf, 1st Corridors Young Researchers Workshop: Obstacles and Opportunities for Dialogue and Cooperation in Protracted Conflicts.
Presentation: Turkey's foreign policy towards the Black Sea and South Caucasus regions,
3-9 September.
Istanbul, Global Leadership Forum Bahcesehir University.
Presentation: The European Union and the Crisis of Democracy,
6-7 May.
2016 Washington, DC, 9th Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa.
Presentation: Alternative Identities and the State in Contemporary Turkey,
27-29 October.
Istanbul, Global Leadership Forum Bahcesehir University.
Presentation: Internal Crises of the European Union,
14-15 May.
2015 Montreal, European Consortium for Political Research General Conference.
Presentation: The failure of transitional justice in South Sudan,
26-29 August.
Paris, 6th European Conference on African Studies. Presentation: Seeing is believing!? Making and propagating an idea of the nation in South Sudan,
8-10 July.
2014 San Francisco, Sudanese Studies Association 33rd Annual Conference.
Presentation: Does Nationbuilding matter for State-building in South Sudan?,
23-25 May.
Mainz, Institute for Anthropology and African Studies.
Speech: Nation verzweifelt gesucht. Staats- und Nationenbildung im Südsudan,
13 May.
2013 Baltimore, 56th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association.
Presentation: Deterritorialisation and reconfigured sovereignty in South Sudan,
21-24 November.
Kampala, Nile Basin Conference ‘Authority, territory, community: dynamics of water, land tenure regimes, and state formation in Africa’.
Presentation: Land and belonging in emerging South Sudan,
14-15 October.
Halle, Conference Emerging South Sudan: negotiating statehood.
Panel Chair: ‘Post-Conflict Reconstruction’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
23-24 September.
Lisbon, 5th European Conference on African Studies.
Presentation: Making borders and identities in South Sudan,
27-29 June.
Rome, Conference Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century.
Presentation: South Sudan – an outlier in post-colonial African nation-building?,
20-22 June.
Zagreb, Conference Identities and Identifications – Politicized Uses of Collective Identities. Presentation: Nationbuilding in Nascent South Sudan – How to Remember the War,
18-20 April.