Recent Presentations
24 February 2012
A Short Tour of the Church and Eight Possible Pathways for ICH Research
Research Planning Meeting on Intangible Cultural Heritage, ISSC-IUAES Commission on Intangible Cultural Heritage, Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinarias (CRIM), Cuernavaca (Mexico)
7 December 2011
The Best We Share: Culture, Nation, and Universalism in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena
Transnationalism and Development Research Centre, University of Bielefeld
26 October 2011
Open Skies Over Kyoto: How the Townscape Conflicts Could Be Settled
Japan Research Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
21 October 2011
Stadtkulturen in globaler Perspektive [Urban Cultures in a Global Perspective]
Conference "Heimat - Region - Stadtkultur", University of Halle-Wittenberg
15 September 2011
Common Mistakes oder was UNESCO alles nicht ist, sagt oder tut [Common Mistakes or All the Things That UNESCO isn't, doesn't say, or doesn't do]
Biannual Conference of the German Anthropological Association (DGV), University of Vienna, Workshop "Die UNESCO und ihre globale Kulturpolitik" (co-convened with Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin)
19 July 2011
Unser aller Bestes: Zur Ethnologie des UNESCO-Welterbesystems [The Best We Share: On the Anthropology of the UNESCO World Heritage System]
Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Göttingen
12 July 2011
Unser aller Bestes: Zur Ethnologie der UNESCO-Welterbearena [The Best We Share: On the Anthropology of the UNESCO World Heritage Arena]
Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Cologne
20 April 2011
Knowledge and Power in the UNESCO World Heritage System
Tenth International Congress of the Société Internationale d'Ethnologie et de Folklore, Lisbon, Panel "Making Heritage, Making Knowledge"
12 November 2010
Different But Equal: The Impact of the World Heritage Convention on the Evolution of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Society (SEG), University of Bern, Workshop "Applying the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Paradigm"
24 September 2010
Stete Tropfen: Stadtgestaltung, Bürgergruppen und "partnership" in Kyoto [Constant Dripping: Town Planning, Citizens' Groups and "Partnership" in Kyoto]
Autumn Academy of the International Research Training Group "Formenwandel der Bürgergesellschaft: Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich [Changing Forms of Civil Society: Japan and Germany Compared]", Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
26 August 2010
"UNESCO is a Special Animal": Questions of Agency in a Multilateral Institution
Biannual Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Maynooth (Ireland), Workshop "The Anthropology of International Organizations"
10 June 2010
Appropriating World Heritage: Nation, Culture, and Imagined Worlds in a Global Tournament of Value
Conference "The Anthropology of International Institutions: How ethnography contributes to understanding mechanisms of global governance", IIAC/LAIOS, Reid Hall, Paris
1 June 2010
The Best We Share: Nation, Culture, and Competitive World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage System
Werkstatt Series, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
21 April 2010
Taking Heritage Seriously: A Critical View on the Critical Heritage Perspective
Inaugural Term Lecture, Graduate School of Society and Culture in Motion, University of Halle-Wittenberg
24 March 2010
The Immaterialisation of World Heritage: On Recent Trends in UNESCO Cultural Heritage Policy
Trinational Workshop "Institutions, territoires et communautés: Perspectives sur le patrimoine culturel immatériel translocal", Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio (Italy)
2 December 2009
Appropriating World Heritage: Nation, Culture, and Imagined Worlds in a Global Tournament of Value
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Session "UNESCO and the Politics of Cultural Heritage"
12-15 November 2009
Invited Expert, Working Meeting of the DFG Priority Programme "Cultural Property", Göttingen
28 October 2009
Weite Himmel über der Kaiserstadt: Die plötzliche Kehrtwende in Kyotos Stadtplanung und ihre sozialen Ursachen [Open Skies over the Imperial City: The Sudden Turnaround in Kyoto's Townscape Policies and Its Social Causes]
East Asian Seminar, University of Zurich
6 October 2009
Utopische Lebensreform in Japan: Kommunitäre Experimente im 20. Jahrhundert [Utopian Life Reform in Japan: Communitarian Experiments in the Twentieth Century]
Autumn Academy of the International Research Training Group "Formenwandel der Bürgergesellschaft. Japan und Deutschland im Vergleich", University of Halle-Wittenberg
2 October 2009
Patina und Pesto: Zum sozialen Umgang mit dem Kulturerbe in Kyoto [Patina and Pesto: The Social Uses of Cultural Heritage in Kyoto]
Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Universität Frankfurt/M., Workshop "Ostasien: Anthropologie einer Region im Wandel" (co-convened with Susanne Brandtstädter, University of Oslo)
1 October 2009
Unser aller Kulturgut: Das UNESCO-Welterbe als globales "tournament of value" [Our Shared Cultural Heritage: UNESCO World Heritage as a Global "Tournament of Value"]
Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Universität Frankfurt/M., Workshop "Kulturgüter und konkurrierende Normen: Lokale Strategien im Umgang mit staatlichem und internationalem Recht"
30 September 2009
Consensus Analysis Reloaded: Tracing the Diversity of Preferences and Opinions
Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde, Universität Frankfurt/M., Workshop "Conceptualising and Researching Diversity"
18 June 2009
Patina und Pesto: Zum sozialen Umgang mit dem Kulturerbe in Kyoto [Patina and Pesto: The Social Uses of Cultural Heritage in Kyoto]
Ostasiatisches Seminar, Abteilung Japanologie, Universität Wien
7 May 2009
Mord am Strand? Zur Kontroverse um den Tod des Captain James Cook [Murder on the Beach: On the Controversy about Captain James Cook's Death]
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich
21 April 2009
Weite Himmel über der Kaiserstadt: Die Kehrtwende in Kyotos Stadtplanung und ihre Ursachen [Open Skies over The Imperial City: The Turnaround in Kyoto's Townscape Policies and Its Causes]
Ostasien-Institut, Universität Düsseldorf
7 April 2009
Changing Conceptions of Authenticity in the Evolution of UNESCO World Heritage
Panel "Appropriating Authenticity: Anthropological and Archaeological Enquiries on a Shared Theme", Annual Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth (ASA), University of Bristol
21-25 March 2009
Invited Mentor, Global Network for Research Training in the Social Sciences in Modern Japanese Studies, White Rose East Centre, University of Sheffield
20 March 2009
Single vs. Dual Identities: Policing and Crossing the Institutional Boundaries between Area Studies and Disciplinary Studies
Workshop "Approaches and Methods in Area Studies", White Rose East Asia Centre, University of Sheffield
12 February 2009
Invited Respondent, Workshop "Heritage Effects: Tangible and Intangible", Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
22 January 2009
Open Skies over The Imperial City: The Miraculous Turnaround in Kyoto's Townscape Policies
Nissan Institute for Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
25 November 2008
Outside the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Heritage in Kyoto
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
24 November 2008
Outside the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Heritage in Kyoto
Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
22 November 2008
Expanding Consensus Analysis: Preferences, Opinions, and Patterns of Dissent
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, Session "Researching (Again) Culture: Formal Methods and Comparative Approaches"
27 August 2008
Evolving Pasts: The Anthropologisation of UNESCO World Heritage
Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Ljubljana, Workshop "The Anthropology of the United Nations" (co-convened with Regina Bendix)
24 June 2008
Kulturelle Vielfalt und ökonomische Strukturen: Geldgeschenke in Japan [Cultural Diversity and Economic Structures: Cash Gifts in Japan]
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Trier
11 June 2008
The Making of UNESCO World Heritage: Culture, Nation, Globalisation
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", University of Heidelberg
18 April 2008
Risk Societies before Their Time: Fire and Spatial Organisation in Urban Japan
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Duisburg
14 February 2008
Outside the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Traditions in Kyoto
Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore
24 January 2008
Outside the Glass Case: The Social Life of Urban Traditions in Kyoto
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton
12 December 2007
Keikan ronsô: Stadtbild, Tradition, Demokratie und Zivilgesellschaft in Kyoto [Keikan ronsô: Townscape, Tradition, Democracy, and Civil Society in Kyoto]
Department of Japanese Studies, University of Tübingen
6 November 2007
Kampf um Kyoto: Tradition, Demokratie und Öffentlichkeit in Japans alter Kaiserstadt [Fighting for Kyoto: Tradition, Democracy, and the Public in the Ancient Imperial Capital of Japan]
Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen
2 October 2007
Die Dynamisierung des UNESCO-Welterbes: Zur Karriere einer erfolgreichen globalen Institution [The Dynamism of UNESCO World Heritage: On the Career of a Successful Institution]
Biannual Conference of the Section for Development Sociology and Social Anthropology (ESSA) of the German Sociological Association (DSG), on the topic of "Wissen um Veränderungen: Entwicklung, Geschichte, sozialer Wandel [Knowledge about Change: Development, History, Social Dynamics]", Halle/Saale
9 May 2007
Big Changes in a Changeless City: The Sudden Turnaround in Kyoto's Townscape Policies
Department of Japanese Studies, University of Leiden
23 March 2007
Fuhen na toshi ni, ôkina henka: Kyôto ni okeru keikan ronsô no genjô [Big Changes in a Changeless City: The Current Condition of Kyoto's Townscape Conflicts]
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) Spring Workshop, Miyazaki International College, Japan
20 February 2007
Die Grenzen der Erfindung: Städtische Traditionen in Kyoto [The Limits of Invention: Urban Traditions in Kyoto]
Department of Japanese Studies, University of Marburg
26 January 2007
The Limits of Invention: Urban Traditions in Kyoto
Workshop "Tradition within and beyond the Framework of Invention", Graduate School Africa and Asia in World Reference Systems, Universität Halle-Wittenberg