(Upcoming Talks)

• Contested Meanings of Migration Facilitation
• UC Berkeley
• German Historical Institute
• 11.15.2021

• A Matter of Life & Death: Necropatriotism & Diaspora Engagement during COVID-19
• American Political Science Association
• Annual Conference
• 09.30.2021

• Visuality and the Creation of Liminal Spaces of Participation (Co-Leader)
• American Political Science Association
• Middle East and North Africa Politics Section Virtual Workshop
• 07/08.2021

(Past Talks)

• Keynote Address: Sovereign Power, Necropolitics, and the Limits of the Human
• University of Coimbra, Portugal
• Ancient Necropolitics Conference
• 06.23.2021

• Reimagining Borders: Art, Activism, and the Politics of Commemoration
• Harvard University
• Immigration Initiative
• 03.31.2021

• Transnational Afterlives: Burial, Repatriation, and the Politics of Belonging among Muslims in Germany
• Middle East Studies Association
• Annual Conference
• 10.08.2020

• Transnational Lives, Transnational Deaths: Mourning as a Migrant
• American Political Science Association
• Annual Conference
• 09.10.2020

• A Crisis Within a Crisis: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality During a Pandemic
• The Collective for Radical Death Studies
• Virtual Event
• 06.16.2020

• Death and the Diaspora
• University of Texas, Austin
• Department of Germanic Studies
• 04.16.2020 (cancelled due to covid)

• The Cemetery of Traitors
• Middle East Studies Association
• Annual Conference
• 11.16.2019

• Adaptable Authoritarianism: Turkey, Russia, and the European Union in a Shifting Global Order
• Univsity of Pennsylvania
• Lauder Institute
• 11.06.2019

• The Political Afterlives of Dead Migrants
• Brown University
• Center for Middle East Studies
• 09.27.2019

• The Biopolitics of Borders: Death, Deterrence, Resistance
• Columbia University
• Institute for Religion Culture and Public Life
• 09.12.2019

• Political Ethnography Working Group
• American Political Science Association
• Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
• 08.31.2019

• Precarious Statuses of Migrants
• University of Pennsylvania
• Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration
• 05.23.2019

• The Sensory Aesthetics of Political Ethnography
• Western Political Science Association
• Annual Conference. San Diego, CA
• 04.21.2019

• Art, History, Experience: A Panel on Displacement
• Swarthmore College
• Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary Project
• 03.28.2019

• Migration and the Necropolitics of Belonging in Europe
• Carleton University, Canada
• Centre for European Studies
• 03.01.2019

• Is Immigration Good or Bad for Democracy?
• University of Pennsylvania
• Perry World House
• 11.15.2018

• Death Out of Place: Mortuary Practices of Turkish and Kurdish Communities in Germany
• University of Arizona
• Center for Middle Eastern Studies
• 03.16.2018