Upcoming:
  •      Keynote Address: Sovereign Power, Necropolitics, and the Limits of the Human. University of Coimbra, Portugal.                           Ancient Necropolitcs: Politicizing Death and the Dead in Ancient Greece Conference. June 22 - 25, 2021.                    
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​Selected Past Talks:
  • Reimagining Borders: Art, Activism, and the Politics of Commemoration. Harvard University. March 31, 2021. 
  • Transnational Lives, Transnational Deaths: Mourning as a Migrant. American Political Science Association Annual Conference | September 10, 2020 
  • A Crisis Within a Crisis: Exploring Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality During a Pandemic | June 16, 2020 Organized by The Collective for Radical Death Studies  (Available here)
  • ​Bodies Across Borders Workshop, University of Texas, Austin | April 16-17, 2020 (Canceled due to COVID-19)
  • The Cemetery of Traitors. Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference | November 16, 2019
  • Adaptable Authoritarianism: Turkey, Russia, and the European Union in a Shifting Global Order. Lauder Institute, University of Pennsylvania,  | November 6, 2019
  • The Political Afterlives of Dead Migrants. Center for Middle East Studies, Brown University | September 27, 2019​
  • ​​The Biopolitics of Borders: Death, Deterrence, Resistance.  Columbia University  | September 12, 2019
  • ​Political Ethnography Working Group @ American Political Science Association Conference​ | August 31, 2019
  • Precarious Statuses of Migrants. Center for the Study of Ethnicity, Race, and Immigration, University of Pennsylvania  | May 23, 2019
  • The Sensory Aesthetics of Political Ethnography.  Western Political Science Association Conference | April 21, 2019 
  • Art, History, Experience: A Panel on Displacement. Friends, Peace, and Sanctuary Project, Swarthmore College | March 28, 2019 
  • ​Death In The Diaspora: Migration and the Necropolitics of Belonging in Europe.  Carleton University | March 1, 2019
  • Is Immigration Good or Bad for Democracy? Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania | November 15, 2018 (Available here)
  • Death Out of Place: Mortuary Practices of Turkish and Kurdish Communities in Germany. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona | March 16, 2018​​​