| | | | | 2018 | Canada: Montreal | Short field research and literature study | 2016 | Morocco: Rabat/Casablanca | Short field research and literature study | 2015 | Canada: Vancouver | Short field research on Moroccan community in Vancouver | 2015 | Morocco: Rabat | Short field research and literature study | 2014 | Morocco: Diff provinces in the Southwest | Regular field research on law, science and technology in resource exploitation and on rural property and migration | 2014 | Canada: Vancouver | Short field research on Moroccan community in Vancouver | 2011 | Morocco: Provinces of Agadir, Taroudant ,Essaouira; Marrakesh | Short field research on development cooperation and argan cooperatives | 2003 | Canada: Toronto, Ontario; Montréal, Québec | One month field research on development cooperation and faith-based dispute management | 2001 – 2005 | Morocco: Provinces of Agadir, Taroudant, Essaouira and Tiznit | Regular fieldwork of several month annually in connection with the project at the MPI for Social Anthropology: ‘Natural Resource Management and Legal Pluralism in a Biosphere Reserve in Southwest Morocco’ | 2000 | Morocco: Provinces of Agadir, Taroudant, Essaouira and Tiznit | Two month field research on informal conflict settlement of religious experts | 1999 – 2000 | Different locations in Germany | Fieldwork in connection with the project: ‘Applied research on informal conflict settlement’ | 1998 | Morocco: Provinces of Agadir, Taroudant, Essaouira and Tiznit | Three month field research on the management of natural resources and agriculture, local legal arena and conflict | 1997 | Morocco: Province of Essaouira | Three month field research on the management of natural resources and agriculture, local legal arena and conflict | 1996 | Morocco: Provinces of Agadir and Taroudant | Two month field research on the management of natural resources and agriculture, local legal arena and conflict | 1993 | Tunisia: Nabeul, Tozeur, Nefzaoua | One month field research on irrigation and water rights | 1988 | Algeria: Mzab, Laghouat, El Oued | Three month field research on conflict settlement between nomadic and sedentary groups | 1987 | Algeria: Constantine | One month sojourn to study law and urban migration contexts | 1986 | Algeria: Kabylia, Tizi Ouzou | Three month field research on Kabyle local law |
Organization of Conferences, Workshops and Symposia (selection)2012
Workshop: International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP) Teaching Course, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. 2011
Conference: On Retaliation; International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP), Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg. 2011
Workshop: International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP) Teaching Course, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. 2011
Winter University and Workshop: International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP), Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Co-organized with the REMEP PhD Group), Halle. 2010
Conference: Religion in Disputes, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Co-organized with Franz and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Martin Ramstedt), Halle. 2010
Workshop: International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP); Bad Lauterberg Meeting, Revita, (Co-organized with the Halle REMEP Group), Bad Lauterberg. 2008
Workshop: International Max Planck Research School on Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment (IMPRS-REMEP) Teaching Course, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. 2006
Workshop: Paradoxical conjunctions: access to rural resources in a transnational environment , Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. 2006
Workshop: Meeting of working groups and regional sections within the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle. 2005
Conference: The Legitimate and the Supernatural: law and religion in a complex world, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Co-organized with Fernanda Pirie), Halle. 2005
Workshop: Between State, Religion, and Tradition – Re-examining the Concepts of collective and Individual Re-sponsibility in the Islamic World, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology; Danish Institute in Damascus (Co-organized with Hans Christian Korsholm Nielsen). 1999
Symposium: Neuere Entwicklungen in der Ethnologie Westafrikas, Institute for Social Anthropology and African Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Organization of Panels at Conferences (selection)2022 | Session: Decolonizing the normative power of technology and materiality in postcolonial plural legal settings
(chair and discussant) | Law and Society Association: 7th Global Meeting on Law & Society: “Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy”, Lisbon, Portugal | 2021 | Session: Legal Pluralism in Situations of Legality and Illegality (chair and discussant) | Law and Society Association Annual Conference: “Crisis, Healing, Re-Imagining”, Chicago/online, USA | 2019 | Session: Pursuit of Justice: Contemporary Theory and Practice of Legal Pluralism (chair and discussant) | Law and Society Association Annual Conference: “Dignity”, Washington, USA | 2018 | Panel: Science and Technology Studies and Legal Pluralism I and II (incl. chair) | International Conference of the Commission on Legal Pluralism in collaboration with the Faculty of Law and the Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa and the Maxwell Institute, University of Syracuse: “Citizenship, legal pluralism and governance in the age of globalization”, Ottawa, Canada | 2018 | Session: Investigating Theoretical and Normative Dimensions of Legal Pluralism (chair and discussant) | Law and Society Association Annual Conference: “Law at the Crossroads”, Toronto, Canada | 2017 | Session: Legal Pluralism, Family and Violence in Comparative Perspective (chair and discussant) | Law and Society Association Annual Conference: “Walls, Borders, and Bridges: Law and Society in an Inter-Connected World”, Mexico City, Mexico | 2015 | Panel: Legal Pluralism, Knowledge Regimes, Science, and Technology | International Conference of the Commission on Legal Pluralism in collaboration with the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay: “Normative Interfaces of Globalization and High-Tech Capitalism: Legal Pluralism and the Neo-Liberal Turn, Mumbai, India | 2013 | Panel: Legal Pluralism and transnational politics of securitization | 17th World Congress of the IUEAS: “Evolving Humanity, Emerging Worlds”, Manchester, UK | 2011 | Panel: Legal Pluralism, Science, and Technology | Conference: “Jubilee Congress of the Commission on Legal Pluralism: Living Realities of Legal Pluralism”, Cape Town, South Africa | 2008 | Workshop: Law Matters: Mapping Legal Diversity | Conference: “Experiencing Diversity and Mutuality”, European Association of Social Anthropologists, Ljubljana, Slovenia (Co-organized) | 2007 | Plenary Session: Ethnologische Forschungsperspektiven aus Halle | Conference: „Streitfragen – Zum Verhältnis von empirischer Forschung und ethnologischer Theoriebildung am Anfang des 21. Jahrhunderts“, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Halle | 2005 | Panel: Ethnologie des Vorderen Orients und Nordafrikas: Ethnologische Konfliktforschung zwischen Alltagskultur, Terror und Krieg | Conference: „Konflikte – Menschenrechte – Interventionen“, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Halle (Co-organized) | 2004 | Panel: The Interplay of Law and Religion: Between the Local and the Transnational | Conference: “Law, Plural Societies and Social Cohesion”, Commission on Folk Law and Legal Pluralism, Fredericton, Canada (Co-organized) | | | | | | |
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops, Public Talks, Invited Lectures (selection)A full list can be found here. Membership in Professional AssociationsCommission on Legal Pluralism (CLP, member of executive board since 2003)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV, member of advisory board 2005–2007)
Deutsch-Marokkanische Gesellschaft (DMG)
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Law and Society Association (LSA)
Sektion Sozialanthropologie/Entwicklungssoziologie der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (ESSA) LanguagesGerman (mother tongue)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Arabic (working knowledge)
Tashelhait (basic knowledge) |